Upcoming

June 29 to July 29

Nadine Boughton and Fran Forman

Portfolio Showcase: Photo Collage/Photo Montage TBA

Reception for the Artists: Saturday June 30, 6-8pm  

Nadine Boughton  -  True Adventures in Better Homes

Sea Adventure by Nadine Boughton

Fran Forman  -  Alchemy of Memory, Selected Works 

Miele’s Dream by Fran Forman

 Portfolio Showcase – TBA

Nadine Boughton,
“True Adventures in Better Homes”  

With a background in psychology, Nadine Boughton is always interested in what lies beneath appearances.  When she discovered men’s adventure magazines of the 1950’s and early 1960’s at a flea market, she recognized them as rich artifacts of popular culture.  ”Seeing them as narratives from the collective psyche, I wondered how they would speak in an environment of orderly homes with sunny patios depicted in women’s magazines of the same era.”

In “True Adventures in Better Homes” these two worlds – men’s adventure magazines or “sweats” and Better Homes and Gardens - collide. Set against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, advertising, sexual repression, WWII and the Korean War, Boughton’s photocollages are filled with the tension of opposites: inner and outer spaces, wildness and domesticity, the sweat and the cool.  Rich in detail and suggestion, both funny and shocking, they become perfect metaphors for the contradictions of those times.

Bio  Nadine Boughton is a recipient of Photolucida’s “Top 50” Critical Mass 2011 competition. Her photocollages are featured in the Critical Mass exhibitions at Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR and RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA.  Her work has been exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, and in the Boston area at Carroll & Sons Gallery/Boston Drawing Project, Panopticon Gallery, Bromfield Gallery, Photographic Resource Center, Griffin Museum of Photography, Danforth Museum of Art.  Her work has also been featured on-line in Lenscratch, Plates to Pixels, Flavorwire, Aparte 20 minutos, and Urbanautica. Boughton is a 2012 IRIS lecturer at The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, where she presented Adventures in Digital Collage.

Growing up in the shadow of George Eastman’s Kodak Tower in Rochester NY, she studied photography with Garry Winogrand, and at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, and Lesley University Seminars, Cambridge, MA.  She currently lives in Gloucester, MA where she teaches photography, collage and creative writing.

Fran Forman, “The Alchemy of Memory”   In merging photography with painting, portraiture with dreamed landscapes, technologies and generations, Fran Forman’s images blur the boundaries between the real and the unreal, re-imagining worlds that, like our own, remain forever a mystery. Challenging the arbitrary divisions that relegate certain aesthetic styles to a particular point in time; she is both influenced by and honors a range of forebearers including the Pictorialists, Surrealists, Joseph Cornell, Duane Michals, Ralph Meatyard and Jerry Uelsmann.  Forman invites the viewer to look closely, to engage with her in an imaginative discourse, and to enter into a world of dreams and memory. “The visual narratives of my photo collages dissolve the boundaries of time; they connect me fantasies and dreams with the generations that have come before me and attempt to bring them back to life. Perhaps it’s my attempt to stop time.”

 Bio Fran Forman’s work  is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Griffin Museum of Photography. Recent solo and featured exhibitions include Open Shutter Fine Art Photography, Dorango, CO; Cassandra Sohn Gallery, Stockbridge MA; Panopticon Gallery, Boston MA; Thompson Gallery, Weston MA; Pine Manor College, Boston MA and New Door Creative Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

Forman has won numerous awards and prizes for her photocollages. Most recently –  in 2011, she was invited to exhibit and attend the Lishui (China) International Photo Festival and also won the second prize from the World Photography Gala Award (out of over 8000 entries) in the People and Portrait category. She was 1st place  winner  in the Fine Arts Collage sub-category for the Lucie Foundation’s International Photo Awards (IPA) in 2010 and was one of the Top 40 at the LA Center for Digital Art in 2010 and 2006.

Forman is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and an adjunct professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis. She is a recipient of grants from the Sassower, Tyre, Tavris, and Puffin Foundations and was resident artist in 2010 at the Vermont Studio Center.

Portfolio Showcase Photo Collage, Photo Montage TBA