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"$ome ©olor" in Downtown Crossing; new native American art in Salem
BY RANDI HOPKINS

In an attempt to bring life and commerce (are they separate?) to Boston’s downtown business district, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, working in furtherance of Mayor Menino’s Downtown Crossing Initiative, has developed "The Boston Art Windows" project, inviting curators to bring fresh art to unleased commercial storefronts and empty shop windows. "$ome ©olor," the newest Boston Art Windows project, is a group exhibition of site-specific installations created by local artists and curated by Camilo Alvarez, owner and director of Samson Projects, a contemporary art gallery in the South End. An opening reception for the multi-location exhibition takes place this Monday from 5:30 to 7 pm, with the mayor himself leading a walk-through past the various windows.

Alvarez has selected nine artists whose work addresses issues of commerce and consumption. Rachel Perry Welty looks at that icon of our daily consumer life, the price sticker, basing her work on one family’s collection of the ubiquitous little things. Kathleen Bitetti addresses issues of women and self-sufficiency in her How To Be a Princess Kit — Not All Princesses Are Waiting To Be Saved. Magda Fernandez looks at the land use by imagining the development of Mars in the image of America’s history; Linda Price-Sneddon creates a Terrarium that suggests both natural and man-made structures. Sophia Ainslie, Liz Nofziger, Cristi Rinklin, and the duo of Meg Rotzel and Jae Rhim Lee also contribute to the project.

Nine contemporary Native American artists reinterpret tradition and challenge convention in "All of My Life: Contemporary Works by Native American Artists" which opens at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem on August 6. The 10 paintings and sculptures by David Bradley, Barbara Cerno, Tammy Garcia, Dan V. Lomahaftewa, Truman Lowe, Judith Lowry, Rick Rivet, Mateo Romero, and Kathleen Wall are drawn from the museum’s esteemed collection of Native American art.

"$ome ©olor" | Downtown Crossing, 22–24 + 34 Bromfield Street, 395 Washington Street + 40 Mason Street, across from Boston Common | through October 31 | public opening August 8 from 5:30 to 7 pm | 617.918.4421 or www.cityofboston.gov/bra/baw | "All of My Life: Contemporary Works by Native American Artists" | Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem | opening August 6 | 866.745.1876 or pem.org


Issue Date: August 5 - 11, 2005
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