Past Shows

Crossing Boundaries
9.15.06 - 10.14.06
Featuring Wade Aaron, Tim Barner, Jim Jackson, Lisa Tang Liu, Jean Segaloff, Michael Seif, Sand T and Adele Travisano

Boundaries are often created to set limits. Although they may protect us, boundaries may also prevent us from revealing fantastic new ideas and places that are unfamiliar but well worth discovering. In our fall exhibition, "CROSSING BOUNDARIES," Pigmentia | 13FOREST Gallery explores works by eight artists who demonstrate this theme of challenging creative inhibitions.

Somerville artist Wade Aaron's brilliant paintings are composed of curvaceous gaps cut into canvas and bridged by crisscrossed threads. Medford artists Adele Travisano and Tim Barner cross stylistic boundaries as they blend their individually distinctive methods in their collaborative acrylic paintings created in Travisano's garden. Photographer Lisa Tang Liu crosses media boundaries to produce an oil painting under Travisano's tutelage. Both from Cambridge, painters Jim Jackson and Jean Segaloff each created their own series of photographic works by utilizing their own paintings as backdrops, producing finished works completely different in mood from their original paintings.

Renowned Watertown photographer Michael Seif, who has photographed with film since the 1950's, shows off his digital manipulation skills in his breathtaking series of nudes which were recently honored with a Merit Award by B&W Magazine. Sand T, artist and celebrated gallery director of artSPACE@16 in Malden, illustrates the instability and transience of our ideas of "home" and the stories about our lives through illuminated sculptures that cross geographic and linguistic boundaries to reveal the substance of transformation and interpretation.