AMERICAN GRAFFITI

Behind the scenes at Jack's Army and Navy Store

Once the home of Jack's Army and Navy Store, 49 Eagle Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, is starting a new life as the INSTALLATION SPACE.

"American Graffiti", featuring photographs of the 1950's era graffiti found in the store's former stockrooms, is gallery owner Anna Farrington's tribute to Jack's Army and Navy Store. The graffiti tell stories of love, pride, and aspiration. It's messages are immediately relate-able to anyone who has ever been in love, hoped for the future, or left their own marks behind. Paired with "artifacts" also found in the space during the building renovation, the photos pay homage to daily life in the North Adams of that time.

GLITCHE

An immersive installation by Sam Okerstrom-Lang (SAMO)

”Glitche” is an immersive installation inspired by the idea of a glitch, error, or unexpected malfunction in a system. It may be a positive new discovery or a disastrous ending. This interaction is delicate, mysterious, and exciting, and is the force that drives the linear journey of ”Glitche”. Using volumetric sculpture, video projection, and sound, Samo invites the viewer to submerge their senses into this experience.

“Glitche” has been installed on two previous occasions, each providing a unique site specific human interaction. The first iteration of the piece at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design was experienced as a private viewing, giving each individual the opportunity to deeply connect with the piece and themselves. The second iteration was implemented on a much larger scale for Illuminus: Nuit Blanche Boston allowing thousands of festival visitors to experience the piece en mass over the course of one evening. The INSTALLATION SPACE presentation of “Glitche” provides an opportunity to experience the artwork in a uniquely quirky and intimate setting.

Originally from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Samo is a Boston based, new media digital artist and designer. Technology serves as the tool he uses to question the boundaries of digital communication and the function of the pixel. His work creates connections between technology, the physical body, and human perception by immersing the viewer in experiences that obscure the line between nirvana and dystopia.

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escape factory

A solo exhibition by Francois-Xavier de Costerd

ESCAPE FACTORY is an installation of three video works:

The Death of Painting (In The Age of Digital Over Production), 2017, 6:15 minutes
Previously screened at the 2017 Geneva International Film Festival for the Virtual Territories fulldome installation, and during HUBweek Boston 2017 at the Swissnex dome on City Hall Plaza.

Maybe We’ll Have Another Chance, 2017, 5:13 minutes
Finalist for the Lumen prize Moving Image Award in 2017 and screened during CyFest 11at the Annenkirche Installation project in St. Petersburg, 2018.

An Ecstatic Escape (or The Extermination of The Real), 2018, 7:50 minutes
Selected as part of the 2018 Boston Biennale V and screened at Atlantic Works gallery, Boston.

For de Costerd, the questions of the human condition and the place of the artist in a capitalist society are at the heart of his practice. This body of work results from a reflection on the societal pressure of profit over human experience. The conceptual premise for this installation centers around the need for an escape from the confines of our daily existence, and the "factory" as Warhol conceived of it: a place where art workers could mass-produce images the way corporations mass-produce consumer goods.

de Costerd creates narratives by assembling found imagery, audio, and manipulated fragments of video. He duplicates and layers images, mirroring them into patterns, reflecting infinite mass-production levels, questioning sources and reality, while creating open-ended interpretations. Whether dealing with climate change, politics, entertainment, or other capitalist excesses, ultimately de Costerd’s critique of a mass-produced escape is that it can only turn the human experience into a disposable one.

François-Xavier de Costerd (Born in Lyon, France; lives and works on Boston’s North Shore) is an international artist who creates videos, photo series, installations and performances. With a background in photography and painting, both film masters and painters have influenced his work. He made the Lumen Prize Shortlist for the Moving Image Award. He has shown works at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Geneva International Film Festival, CyFest in St Petersburg, Beacons Festival in Skipton UK, The Boston Biennale, HUBweek Boston, the Museum of Science Boston, the Boston Sculptors Gallery, the Boston Convention Center, Axiom gallery, The MIT Museum, Tufts University, Atlantic Works. He has performed at First Night Boston, Boston CyberArts and Pixilerations, and at Illuminus: Nuit Blanche Boston.

antiquitackies

An installation by Tatiana Klusak & Pat Falco

ON VIEW
SEPTEMBER 27 - NOVEMBER 4

New England's Newest Antique Flea Boutique.

A pie in the pipe dream is worth two in the sky.
Nostalgic wares that will make you miss a way back when that never even was.
At Antiquitackies, you're home again.
Bargain basement prices, most things must go, just for a little while.
Come spend your money and leave feeling how you arrived.