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Welcome Back to the Library
While you were out and about the library was getting ready for your return.
We have:
- some new furniture
- new copy machines
- new Imacs in the classroom and in the computer lab
- New Public Services Librarian Greg Wallace
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Some new paintings from our library student worker Arlee:
http://arleewoodworth.blogspot.com/
This day turned into night (one of my last there, or was it one of the first?), 2010
oil on canvas 60x48in
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MASSART LIBRARY
SUMMER HOURS
M-Th, 8:30am – 6:30pm
F, 8:30am – 2pm
Sa + Su, Closed
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All Things Remembered
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MassArt has just purchased 2 membership passes for the Harvard Art Museums. The passes can be found at the MassArt library circulation desk. One day loans with no renews.
Harvard Art Museum
Membership Email newsletter
April 2010
For a complete listing of programs, please visit www.harvardartmuseum.org.
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Jonathan Verney
former Morton R. Godine Library
student worker
MassArt Senior, Painting Major
President’s Gallery
11th floor of tower building
9 – 5 pm
March 15th – 19th, 2010
Artist contact information: Jonathan.Verney@massart.edu
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Some Head
Artist Statement
Some Head:
The head is the seat of our soul and humanity. From this seat I create my image as guises to what a person may be.
My abstracted heads, I feel, reveal aspects of the psyche common to the human experience, certainly to myself. I work with my image because I am not copyrighted (yet), I am accessible and I have never denied myself permission to use my image. Also, I prefer to use my image because I am solely responsible for the statements I wish to make. I do not want to infuse another individual’s identity with statements clearly based on my life and experiences.
I like to work in malleable materials, and clay is my material of choice. Each head is sculpted from clay slabs pressed into plaster plates molded off of my head or cast from a slip mold. The slab techniques allow me the ability to distort scale, alter shapes, and add “accessories.” The heads are then fired to bisque and painted with acrylics. I prefer acrylics to conventional glazing because I can control the colors better and not be subject to the whims of the Kiln Gods.
The most recent heads I have created are for my Legacy Series. This series is about fathers. A father in a family is supposed to be a source of love and caring, a teacher and protector, but this was not the case for me. There are men in my life, friends, and co-workers, some of whom are fathers that treat me in a better manner than I received at home. I asked these men: “If you were to beat my head in, what object would you use?” After they chose an object of destruction they were given the opportunity to abuse one or more of my clay heads. The series plays with the juxtaposition of relationship and feelings: the respect and camaraderie I receive from these male friends compared to what was never there in my family life. The heads are made of stoneware, white and brown, and terra cotta. They are not glazed or painted. I want the image of me, the mark of the instrument, and the reaction of the material to speak of the beatings endured.
Here I have bared parts of my soul in hopes that we may share a cushion on the couch of humanity.
Who is Lugh?
Lugh has been incarnating for 5,000 years as Human. In this most recent version of the Soul expression Lugh has been studying and making art since 1989. He is a self-trained potter and found his way to Mass Art in 2000 as an undergraduate. He has been teaching a variety of classes since 1996 beginning at Mud Flat Pottery School and Studios in Somerville, MA where he taught adult classes in wheel throwing, hand building and sculpture. Most recently Lugh teaches Mold Making and Casting here at Mass Art.
So far in this life Lugh has defined his existence as: line cook, baker, sous chef, settlements clerk in a bank, librarian’s assistant, brewer of mead, a practitioner of the Majickal Arts, student, teacher and artist.
After this life is over Lugh plans on resting between physical realities offering aid and inspiration to those kind Souls that have influenced him over the centuries.
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Come view a variety of some of the best artwork in the world, featured in our vast art book collection.
Some Favorites:
Kara Walker
Lorna Simpson
Roy Decarava
Basquiat
Carrie Mae Weems
Van der Zee
David Driskell
Aaron Douglas
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Little Books Exhibit
Red Ages
1991 Bologna, Italy
Edition of 150 copies
Book closed: 3.5″ x 3.5″ (9c x 9c)
Book open: 54.25″ x 3.5″ (138c x 9c)
MassArt Library
January 2010
Please come visit the library 12th floor of Tower Building
List of Books on Display in Library Cases
Small Case
Pill Bottle Book
By Anon. Student
Mary Jane By Anon. Student
$ Novelty$
$Sale$
By Lissi Erwin, 1997
Long Case
Holding it all Together
By Tamara Oppenheimer
Different Notions of Cleanliness
By Athena Tacha
Fort Point Flora & Fauna
By Laura Davidson
Canyon-Born
By Amanda Barrow
Metamorphosis By
Nathalie MacDonald
Chart Sensation
By Michael Lewy
Relative to Hanging
By Lawrence Weiner
Red Ages
By Angela Lorenz, 1991
All of Me
By Kate Parker
Training Manual for Girls
By Tamara Oppenheimer
And So On
By Emily Martin, 1995
The Long Ride Home
By Jeremy Majewski
Bread and Water: Stories
By Eileen Myles, 1987
Primitive Man
By Amy Gerstler, 1987
November By David Trinidad, 1986
Guilty of Everything
By Herbert Huncke, 1987
Son of Andy Warhol
By Taylor Mead, 1986
Snap Shots By Marv Bondarowicz, 1976
Medium Case
Unfolding Poems
By Michele Wong Albanese, 1996
On South Cape Beach
By Janine Wong
Beyond the Museum of Fine Arts
By Stephanie Mahan Stigliano
Meditations on Leaving
By Deborah Klotz-Paris
In My Hands By Tamara Oppenheimer
Personal Effects
By Marcia Ciro I Wonder
By Ruth Ellen Baxter
Vacuum Sealed
By Teresa Shields