Studios Without Walls: Brookline Sculptors at Allandale Farm

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(Boston, Mass.) – Set among the fields, greenhouses, farm stand, tractors, and reapers of Allandale Farm, is the oldest continuously working farm in the Boston area. 13 Brookline Sculptors invite you to Studios Without Walls, an exhibition of outdoor installations in media ranging from steel to wood to paper.

Affiliated with Brookline Artists’ Open Studios/2003, the exhibition will be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18, 2003, noon to 5 p.m. The exhibition will include a Small Works Garden where work sold will benefit the Brookline Arts Center ArtReach Program.

Participating artists are: Muriel Angelil, Myrna Balk, Louise Farrell, Wendy Hoo, Janet Hansen Kawada, Janna Longacre, Bette Ann Libby, Peter Lipsitt, Elizabeth Michelman, Joan Schwartz, Barbara Vogelsang, Bill Wainwright., and Jim Wright.

The 13 sculptors, represented in museums and private collections in the United States and Europe, are presenting site-specific outdoor works to take advantage of the Farm’s rural setting in what remains of treasured landscape in Brookline.

Describing some of the installations:
--Rebirth and spring metaphors guide an installation with dolls, pink fabric, and a tree.(MurieAngelil)
--A fallen tree serving in previous Allandale sculptures becomes transformed and regenerated. (Louise Farrell)
--Even explores concept of fairness in world affairs: What compensation is enough to satisfy pain of Sept. 11, 2001 (Wendy Hoo)
--Brass peace cranes reflect warm glows. (Janet Hansen Kawada)
-- A path festooned with colorful shard mosaics and humorous ceramic sculpture. (Bette Ann Libby)
--On the grassy slope next to the pond a tower advances. (Peter Lipsitt)
-Between Two Rivers, a work found in a woodpile. (Elizabeth Michelman)
--Peace is every step a journey within. (Joan Schwartz)
--A Special Summer Day (Barbara Vogelsang)

Artists will be on site on both Saturday and Sunday to meet and talk informally with visitors. On Sunday there will be a guided sculpture walk at 2 pm and the John Stein jazz combo at 3:30 pm
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Information: http://people.bu.edu/joans/studiowithoutwalls.html 617/ 731-1679
Partially wheelchair accessible