past Show

13FOREST Gallery welcomes the regime change in Washington with Transition of Power, an exhibit of works that speak to political and artistic transformation. The show features artists Marc Cote, David Curcio and Rachel E. Mello.

Opening Thursday, January 15 with a reception from 6-9 pm, the show runs through February 27. An artist talk for Transition of Power is set for Thursday, February 19, from 6-8 pm.

Primarily print works, Transition of Power deals with historic and personal revolution. Cote, whose prints are part of the Harvard College and Danforth Museum collections, offers bold, rough-hewn woodcuts that address America's fight for independence.

Recently selected for the 2009 North American Print Biennial, Curcio uses a combination of printing and hand stitching to create quilt-like images that speak to colonial identity and family history.

Mello, showing now in the Rhode Island School of Design's New England Alumni Biennial 2009, employs bold silhouettes of power lines and streetscapes in an aesthetic shift from paint to print, using the same cut hardboard as both ink surface for prints and oil surface for paintings.