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Inconspicuously toiling away at a former Whoopie Pie bakery in Dudley Square, artists have been making excellent use of the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research residency since the non-profit’s inception in 2000, launching projects from David Webber’s interactive sound machine constructed from old computers and "various mundane objects" to Vaughn Bell’s dewy walk-in terrarium, and from John Osorio-Buck’s exploration of the intersections between pirate radio and beekeeping to Christy Georg’s development of devices used to perform perceptual experiments. Now, the fine folks at Berwick are taking their program on the road in "BRI: AIR — Projects from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Program," which opens at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery on February 4. Not only does the exhibition showcase work that has come out of the BRI’s AIR residencies over the past three years, but the Berwick will operate out of the Mills during the exhibition’s run, building its own studio in the gallery to serve as a platform for a series of lectures, performances, and residencies. In addition to Webber, Bell, Osorio-Buck, and Georg, Carolyn Lambert and Fereshteh Toosi, Ken Linehan, Jessica Rylan, Aliza Shapiro, Amy Sharp, and Devil Music will be featured. And next Friday, the Mills Gallery will play host to the fundraiser "Big Red: Green" to benefit Boston’s fairly new on-line arts journal, Big Red & Shiny (bigredandshiny.com). The event costs $12 at the door, and it promises a raffle "of quality goods." Drop by, enjoy music by Gretchen Elise and art by Charles Giuliano, Geoff Hargadon, Heidi Marston, and Steve Aishman, and support this colorful home-town arts publication. A massive dam project on China’s legendary Yangtze River is the subject of "Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath the Lake," which opens at the Peabody Essex Museum this Saturday. The first stage of the Three Gorges Dam opened in June 2003, creating a reservoir more than 250 miles long, causing more than a million people to be moved, and submerging cities, towns, ancient temples, and burial grounds; by the time it’s completed (scheduled for 2009), the dam is expected to supply nine percent of China’s electricity. Between 2000 and 2003, Cleveland-based artist Linda Butler made repeated trips to the area, photographing the river and its people before, during, and after the dam’s construction. Her images raise questions about the interplay between natural beauty and technological progress. Poetry and politics, humor and religion all play a role in the diverse works of "Cuban Prints," which opens at Mass College of Art this Wednesday with more than 75 works by 17 contemporary Cuban artists. Exhibition curator Benigna Chilla traveled to Cuba last year and found a broad variety of exciting work united by its narrative expression of everyday life in Cuba. The landscape of New England inspires painter Anthony Petchkis, whose "American Landscape" opens at Somerville’s Art Attack on January 25. Working primarily in pastels to capture landscapes from the North Shore to Cape Cod and beyond, Petchkis expresses his individual vision through his distinctive brushwork and color sense. "BRI: AIR" is at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery, 539 Tremont Street in the South End, February 4 through March 27; call (617) 426-8835. The fundraising event "Big Red: Green" is at the Mills Gallery on January 28 from 7 to 10 p.m.; for more information, visit www.bigredandshiny.com/bigredgreen. "Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath the Lake" is at the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square in Salem, January 22 through April 24. Call (978) 745-9500. "Cuban Prints" is at the President’s Gallery, Mass College of Art, 621 Huntington Avenue in Boston, January 26 through March 11; call (617) 879-7333. "Anthony Petchkis: American Landscape" is at Art Attack, 108 Beacon Street in Somerville, January 25 through March 11; call (617) 441-3833. |
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