Town Hall Walls – Current Exhibitions

 Town Hall Walls is a program which provides a venue for local artists to share their work with the Brookline community. The exhibitions are on display at Brookline Town Hall, 333 Washington Street in the Selectmen’s Hearing Room, on the 6^th floor, and the two public conference rooms (103 and 111) on the 1^st floor.

The artists currently on view through October 2010:

• Alvin Brass, B & W photographs
• Mimi Katz, color photographs
• Gwen Ossenfort, Photographage
• Miriam Salome, acrylic paintings

Please join us for an Artist Reception, Friday, October 15, 2010 from 5-7pm at Brookline Town Hall, 333 Washington Street, Brookline, MA.

More information on the art work and artists, in their own words:

Alvin Brass: I have been doing traditional black and white photography for more years than I care to think about. I am essentially self-taught, but have taken workshops with
John Sexton, George Tice, Ansel Adams and others hoping that their views can be
absorbed and applied. My photographs are made with black and white film and
prints are archivally printed on silver based paper. The subject matter can be
natural or man-made objects, representational or abstract as long as the final
image satisfies me.

Mimi Katz: My passion for photography began a few years ago after a friend asked me to research digital cameras for her and I was hooked. Since then I've been photographing anything and everything - when something catches my eye time seems to stand still as I work to capture that moment in the best possible way. Lately, I've noticed that I'm most attracted to simplicity - to creating as clean an image as I can. Like most    photographers the magical light between sunrise and sunset are my most favorite times. The images included in this exhibit were taken in Acadia, Provincetown and Martha's Vineyard during those times.

Gwen Ossenfort: Photographage is a composite word that mirrors the work it describes: a wedding of photography, bricolage, assemblage and garbage. Each piece becomes a framed picture constructed from darkroom or digitally printed photographs and found objects. By blurring the line between image and frame, the works become sculptural and 3-dimensional.

Miriam Salome: I love my garden and the birds that visit. The smaller garden paintings in mixed media on canvases are glimpses, moments in my garden. The larger oil paintings on canvas are of birds that I have watched in places I have visited. I always try to remember one or two birds that are common in these places. My imagined landscapes, influenced by these places, have become habitats for these birds.

Town Hall Walls is administered by the Brookline Commission for the Arts.  For more information or to submit work for consideration, please visit www.brooklinema.gov/arts or call 617-730-2135.

The Brookline Commission for the Arts is part of a grass-roots network of 329 local councils that serve every city and town in the state. The program is the largest, most decentralized one of its kind in the United States. The state legislature provides an annual appropriation to the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which then allocates funds to each local council. Decisions about which activities to support are made at the community level by a board of municipally appointed volunteers.

For more information about these projects or about the ongoing efforts of the BCA, please contact Melyssa Gleason at brooklinearts@gmail.com