Maybe you have spotted these “unsolicited interventions” around town somewhere; I know I have. Here’s your chance to meet the artist behind them. The public is invited to an opening reception of the AS220 November Galleries this Saturday. The exhibitions run through November 23. Seen here is the work of Linda Ford who writes:
By creating unsolicited interventions that beckon to passersby to slow down, to pay attention, to question, I’m engaging embodied and activated participants rather than consumers. I am inserting objects onto sidewalks that people traverse everyday, to draw attention to what is happening to our shared public space and resources. Visual art is about noticing, looking in new ways, paying attention. This is an essential way in which art can open us up to creating a new world.
They did make me slow down; mission accomplished.
Project Space, 93 Mathewson Street — GORO, Recent Work by Chris Kilduff
Main Gallery, 115 Empire Street — Fabric Collages, Carol Teague Wiseman/ Inner Communications and Outer Response, Jack Ellis
Aborn Gallery, 95 Empire Street — New and Selected Works, 1968 to 2024, Don Smith
Resident Gallery, 131 Washington Street — Bodies of Water, Bodies of Land, Bodies, Linda Ford
Regular gallery hours: Thursday and Friday, 1pm to 6pm/ Saturday noon to 5pm.
Opening receptions, 5pm to 7pm, Saturday, November 2, AS220, 95 Empire Street, (directions)