Corporate Art
Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern exhibits in Lembranças de Angola.
Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern, Azul, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 56 inches
Lembranças de Angola, Memories of Angola, is an exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern and Nelson Da Costa. The juxtaposition of the two series highlights the artist’s differences: war and peace, figure and landscape. Their similarities, an Angolan experience, a Portuguese heritage, and formal education cultivated a creative outlet for Ahern and Da Costa resulting in this exhibition, Lembranças de Angola, which Caturano and Company Art Gallery is pleased to host.
Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern’s paintings are driven from her memories; memories of weather, color, landscape. In 2006 Ahern traveled to Angola as a participant in the American Artists Abroad Program. Her works recall the regions bright natural light, the colors of the textiles, and the Atlantic. Ahern enjoyed the people and cultural exchange while in Angola, yet constant security kept her aware of the lingering dangers of Angola’s 30 year civil war.
As child in Angola the 30 year war left Nelson Da Costa an orphan. Da Costa was introduced to art as therapy while healing from physical and emotion trauma. Achieving a degree in art therapy, Nelson earned his Masters in painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The paintings of Da Costa’s address the memories of his lost family and armed rabbles. The details of their faces are lost overtime, what remains are silhouettes abstracted on a camouflage pattern of color. The pattern signifies a war torn Angola; the color represents Angolan culture.
Lembranças de Angola is the first time Ahern and Da Costa are exhibiting together. The exhibit, curated by Christina Godfrey, is through June 18th at the Caturano and Company Art Gallery, 80 City Square, Charlestown, MA. To visit the exhibition or receive images via email please contact Christina Godfrey. Additional images and biographical information on Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern can be found at www.sunnesavage.com.
Announcing Two Articles Highlighting the Work of Gillian Christy.
Wave Traveler, by Gillian Christy installed in Providence, RI
Gillian Christy, Wave Traveler, Stainless Steel, 18x 12 x 6 feet
The Sunne Savage Gallery is pleased to announce the completion and installation of Wave Traveler by Gillian Christy. The eighteen foot, stainless steel sculpture is installed in the public courtyard of Waterplace Residential Towers in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. As the focal point of the recently completed development, Wave Traveler is Christy’s largest free-standing sculpture and her fifth public work in Rhode Island.
The talented Providence sculptor Gillian Christy was immediately accepted by the Waterplace Art Committee for proposing a sculpture that would connect the Development with the Woonasquatucket River and Providence’s Waterfire events, as well as connect the sculpture with the Waterplace and Providence residents.
Christy comments on her sculpture, “Wave Traveler embodies my thoughts on water, waves, motion and energy. While researching wave formations, I became fascinated with visual images of sound waves. I have come to think of both water and sound waves as another type of connector. Within my public art I continuously strive to use these connectors to tell a story that enlightens the site upon which my work is placed. In addition to the wave form I clad one side of the wave with handmade, stainless steel floorboards. Familiar imagery, commonly found within the home, I consider these floorboards as connectors, connecting neighbors to one another and eventually to the community at large. Overall, the piece is a pathway leading the eye upwards to a stair and in a small way to larger thoughts of home and life within the city.”
While Wave Traveler is Christy’s first commission with the Sunne Savage Gallery, by the end of 2009 Gillian Christy and the Sunne Savage Gallery also placed four reliefs in the W Hotel Boston. This spring the Sunne Savage Gallery is exhibiting Christy’s indoor sculpture at Art & Design of the 20th & 21st century, Boston, MA. More information about the art fair can be seen at www.ad2021.com. Available interior and exterior sculpture by Gillian Christy can be seen at www.sunnesavage.com.
Christy completes commission for W Hotel Boston
Image: Gillian Christy, Forest Abstraction, 2009, powder coated steel
Gillian Christy has installed Forest Abstraction in the EWOW suite at the newly opened W Hotel Boston. The relief, which expansively covers three walls of the suite, was a collaborative effort of the artist, Gillian Christy; the designers, Bentel & Bentel; and the Sunne Savage Gallery. Fitting the W Hotel’s “virtual garden” theme, Bentel & Bentel supplied an inspirational photograph for the tree like pattern. Christy brought the designers vision to life with sculptural precision and ingenuity; skillfully completing the commission to the mass approval of the W Hotel team.
Forest Abstraction is Gillian Christy’s first commission in the Boston area. Prior to Forest Abstraction, Christy completed three large scale sculpture projects in Providence, RI, including The Return Home, 2008; Embrace, 2005-2007, and Day to Day, 2008; all of which are installed in public areas around the city. Currently Christy is completing her fourth public work in Providence, RI, entitled Wave Traveler. Christy is also beginning the design of a public work for the town of Fitchburg, MA, which is paired with a solo exhibition of Christy’s work at Fitchburg State College.
A selection of Gillian Christy’s interior sculptures and commissions can be seen at www.sunnesavage.com. Please contact Christina Neuman Godfrey for more information about Gillian Christy.
Dean Nimmer installs a 96 drawing mural in a Nashville, TN, office.
Dean Nimmer, Boston based artist, shipped the Nashville client 300 drawings of which he chose over 100 to add to his collection. Nimmer personally installed the 96 drawing mural shown above. Murals can be created in groups of 20 or more drawings, and include installation by the artist.
Nimmer has found much sucess with his 1,000 Drawing Series started in the mid ninties. Nimmer explains his work, “In a traditional sense, most of my work fits the art categories of “abstract” or “expressionist” painting. I prefer the phrase “intuition painting” because it is tied directly to the creative process itself. For me, intuition is the wellspring and inner voice that guides me though all the aesthetic decisions that go into my paintings. I prefer this blind creative exploration because I want to be surprised by the outcomes. Though my paintings are abstract images, I feel rooted in the intrinsic beauty of the natural world. Since I leave my works open to the viewer’s interpretations, I am interested in their impressions as this enriches my own artistic experience. The highest achievement I can attain however is to have my audience see something in my work that inspires them to create.”
Please contact Christina Neuman Godfrey regarding the work of Dean Nimmer.
List of selected corporate clients:
Kupferman canvas
- Adobe Systems, Waltham, MA.
- Aloft Hotel, Lexington, MA.
- Anthony Belluschi Architects, Chicago, IL.
- Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners AIA, Locust Valley, NY
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
- Caturano & Company, Charlestown, MA.
- Copia Restaurant, MA.
- Flagship Venture, Cambridge, MA.
- Fort Point Project Management, Boston, MA.
- Galleria at Erieview, Cleveland, OH.
- Hearts on Fire, Boston, MA.
- HLM Venture, Boston, MA.
- id salon, Wellesley, MA.
- Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, Boston, MA.
- Jones Lang LaSalle, Boson, MA.
- Lahey Clinin North, Peobody, MA.
- Margulies Perruzzi Architects, Boston, MA.
- Park Meadow Retail Resort, Denver, CO.
- Prezza Restaurant, Boston, MA.
- Steve Sweeney Comedy Cafe, Boston, MA.
- Waterplace Residences, Providence, RI.
- W Hotel, Boston, MA.
- Vestar Capital Partners, Boston, MA.
