Crossing Boundaries Past Exhibition

MEDFORD, MA - September 26, 2006 - Boundaries are often created to set limits. Although they may protect us, boundaries may also prevent us from revealing fantastic new ideas and places that are unfamiliar but well worth discovering. In our fall exhibition, "CROSSING BOUNDARIES," Pigmentia | 13FOREST Gallery explores works by eight artists who demonstrate this theme of challenging creative inhibitions.

Somerville artist Wade Aaron's brilliant paintings are composed of curvaceous gaps cut into canvas and bridged by crisscrossed threads. Medford artists Adele Travisano and Tim Barner cross stylistic boundaries as they blend their individually distinctive methods in their collaborative acrylic paintings created in Travisano's garden. Photographer Lisa Tang Liu crosses media boundaries to produce an oil painting under Travisano's tutelage. Both from Cambridge, painters Jim Jackson and Jean Segaloff each created their own series of photographic works by utilizing their own paintings as backdrops, producing finished works completely different in mood from their original paintings.

Renowned Watertown photographer Michael Seif, who has photographed with film since the 1950's, shows off his digital manipulation skills in his breathtaking series of nudes which were recently honored with a Merit Award by B&W Magazine. Sand T, artist and celebrated gallery director of artSPACE@16 in Malden, illustrates the instability and transience of our ideas of "home" and the stories about our lives through illuminated sculptures that cross geographic and linguistic boundaries to reveal the substance of transformation and interpretation.

Pigmentia | 13FOREST Gallery is also featuring nature photography by New England photographers and the top three visual arts entries selected for the online arts and cultural magazine, Malden Muse http://www.maldenmuse.com, including I'm Having the Best Time!, an oil on canvas by Corey Corcoran, a winner of the prestigious Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Award given out every year by the Boston Art Dealers Association to a Boston senior studying fine arts.

"Crossing Boundaries" can be viewed at Pigmentia | 13FOREST Gallery at 13 Forest Street, right in the heart of Medford Square, from September 15 through October 14. Gallery hours during the exhibition are Monday-Friday from 11-6 and Saturday 1-5. Gallery is closed Sunday. Gallery talks on Thursday nights 9/28 & 10/12, 6-8 p.m. For more information, please call 781-396-0092, visit us on the web at http://www.pigmentiagallery.com, or email marc@pigmentia.com.