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PAST Gallery Exhibitions
Our four galleries and 'DeTourism Center' host between 10-15 shows from May to November and several one-night events in the winter months. We feature an eclectic mix of national, international, regional and local artists. Because the CAC is interested in the curation of emerging contemporary art, the innovative nature of the work often makes for exciting and interesting exhibitions. The lively monthly openings are great ways for the public to meet the artists and catch a performance.
Gallery Hours: closed until May 2008
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May 13 - June 25, 2006
Benjamin Bellas: "Everything I've ever thought about myself has already been said by someone else...about themselves"
Through poetic narratives Bellas unexpectedly relocates sublime autobiographical moments of enmity, longing, and uncomfortable honesty in banal visual forms, transforming everyday objects into icons of his most intimate life experiences
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May 13 - June 25, 2006
Mark Taylor: "Semi Trucks and Windsurfing Sails "
A part of the West Oakland D.I.Y. scene, California artist Taylor uses wall paintings and cutout panels in his installation inspired by truck and sail graphics.
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May 28 - July 23, 2006
Back to Nature
bringing the outdoors in and the art outdoors
Featuring artists: Mark Andreas, William Bryan Purcell, Brian Collier, Wendy Davenport, Dennis DeHart, Danielle Dimston, Jamie Kruse & Elizabeth Ellsworth, Brad Farwell, Cayetano Ferrer, Dana Fritz, Jenny Kendler, Henry Klein, Joanne LeFrak, Kristine Burns & Colby Leider, Diane Myer, Teresa Petersen, Stacy Scibelli, Marcella Stasa, J. Patrick Walsh III, Sang-Mi Yoo
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May 21 - Oct 29, 2005
North Adams Center for Detourism
A sideways glance at the promises of cultural tourism, and a unique resource center & lounge for locals, travelers, and artists alike.
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July 1 - July 8, 2006
Jared Oder: Memorial Exhibition
Jared was an exemplary artist-in-residence whose charm and congeniality touched many around him. He brought a sense of freedom to his painting that continues to inspire his peers.
Reception : Saturday, July 1, 2006 7-9 pm
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July14 - August 13, 2006
Jody Servon: Hanging On
Reception : Friday, July 14, 2006 8:00pm
"Hanging On" is an installation that artist Jody Servon will be coming to the CAC to create. Servon's installation will involve sculptures, drawing, photography, wall painting and projected video. This multi-media experience will capture some of the pain and tribulations that can be felt through family tragedies. "The inevitable occurred sooner than expected. I wasn't surprised, but I also wasn't prepared. Everyone tells me you are never really ready when it happens. So now all I can do is hang on."
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July 14-August 5, 2006
Idle Fleet
Artists John Umphlett and Anthony Cafritts will be making a site specific installation, collaborating in a conceptual investigation of space and density, exploring what is not seen but is felt in body and experienced in mind.
Reception : Friday, July 14, 2006 7-9 pm
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August 19, 2006
The Great North Adams PushCart Sound Clash
The CAC will be hosting the first Great North Adams Push Cart Sound Clash Saturday August 19th, 2006. Build, display and compete against a myriad of local and regional teams to see who can make the preeminent light-weight sound system. Bring your mechanical know-how to bear, hone your skills as a selecta' and amaze the lovelies with your artistic acumen.
6-8p.m. Rain or Shine
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August 19-September 22, 2006
Off the Streets
Artists with parallel interests in history, social and political issues and public space come together to rebuild the Contemporary Artists Center in their vision. Chris Stain, Scout and Josh MacPhee (all from Upstate NY), RB827 (Brooklyn, NY), Billy Mode (Baltimore, MD) and the Sevenist (Chicago, IL) will create an immersive environment with their individual and collective assemblages on and with wood, metal, glass, paper and other found objects. In the spirit of graffiti and street art, the opening will include a series of outdoor walls for the public to paint and create on, as well as a giant bar-b-que.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 19, 7-9p.m.
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August 19-September 22, 2006
Ryder Cooley: 'River Apparations'
Cooley uses performance, murals, interventions and collaborations to engage viewers in a multi-sensory dialogue; she invents haunted dream worlds that echo political and cultural phenomena of past and present. Video, sound and site-specific lighting create an atmosphere of dis-reality.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 19, 7-9p.m.
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August 19-September 22, 2006
Michael Simon
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 19, 7-9p.m.
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August 19-September 22, 2006
Julia Morgan Leamon
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 19, 7-9p.m.
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PAST Gallery Events
[Artist Talks] : every Wednesday at 7:30pm, reopening May 2008
The summer weekly lecture series offers a variety of speakers from artists and curators to art historians and radical political interventionists. Come join us Wednesday evenings (June 1- Aug 31) at 7:30 pm for hors d'oeuvres, drinks and engaging post lecture discussions. Free!
[Indie Rock Nite] : every other Saturday, reopening May 2008
Come bend your ear and/or throw down your best dance moves to the sounds of todays most interesting musicians. Expect everything from the melodious and heart wrenching to the rhythmically pounding and bizarre. $5
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Jody Servon
Jody speaks about her work and upcoming show at the CAC
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Mark Mulherrin
Mark Mulherrin explains how the guitar may very well be a key to understanding the universe. His concurrent MCLA Gallery 51 exhibition, ''The Pythagoras Project' is an investigation and celebration of the Pythagorean ideal using the guitar as a motif and metaphor for ideas about culture, science, music and art history
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Wednesday, July 25, 2006 - 7:30 pm
John Umphlett and Anthony Cafritts
Umphlett and Cafritts talk about their collaboration on the CAC exhibition, Idle Fleet.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Josh MacPhee
Josh MacPhee’s is a street artist, designer, curator, and activist, and he also runs a radical art distribution project called justseeds asa way to develop and distribute t-shirts, posters, and stickers with revolutionary content, as well as collectively organizes agit-prop cultural actions with ad-hoc groups of artists under various organizational names such as "Department of Space and Land Reclamation" and “Street.Rec.”
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Ryder Cooley
Cooley speaks about her ethereal performances and how she merges them with installation projects.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 7:30 pm
59 Second Film Festival
The 59 Second Film Festival will contain 59 films of 59 seconds apiece.By our reckoning, you'll be able to resume your evening at 8:28:01. Festival organizers Irina Danilova and Hiram Levy will be on hand to introduce this collection of films from an international cadre of artists, covering every imaginable topic.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Know Your Enemy
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Wednesday, September 6, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Julia Morgan Leamon
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Joe Thompson: Founder and Executive Director of MassMoca
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Sean Riley
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 7:30 pm
CAC Artist in Residence Video Showcase:
CAC artists in residence host an open house and discuss their recent video work. Expect Installations, projections, and video monitors.
Hyunch Sung, Jason Varone, Phelan LaValle and Jocko Weyland |
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Adam Zaretsky
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Performance/Music Events -$5
(refreshments and drinks available)
Indie Rock Nites:
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Saturday, June 24, 2006 -9:30pm - 1am
Phelan: CAC Artist-in-Residence, Phelan Lavelle opens up indie rock night with a mysterious performance
Project Jenny Project Jan: Pop-infused rock is pummeled with homespun dance beats, while quieter moments reveal the bands thoughtful and tender tendencies.
Hands and Knees: Indie rock, North Hampton style.
Mouthus: Canceled |
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 -10pm - 1am
Parts and Labor : Ear-splitting dissonance and Lightning Bolt approved drums meet sweet melody and simple, anthemic rock songs. The result is both physically painful and as catchy as Zep's "Over the Hills and Far Away," but without the acoustic guitar or witchcraft.
Oneida: acoustic guitar, lute, and a small cavalry of miscellaneous stringed instruments twing and twang towards an elusive out-of-body experience, just as the brothers Bishop's shamanistic folk phrasings are at once fascinated with the rustic and earthen as well as the ephemeral and unattainable
Stay Fucked : Seriously Awesome New York City Prog-Metal duo a la Weasel Walter and the Flying Luttenbachers |
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Saturday, September 9, 2006 - 10pm - 1pm
Eystek: Specializes in the sub dermal rhythms, prickly noise, psych punk moans, and gloomy siren songs of sexy weirdo locals like Gang Gang Dance and Telepathe; but their heavy distortion is more bear hugs than cheek-kisses.
Volcano!:The drummer plays in and out of time; he plays really loud and really quiet. The electronics guy also play bass... and sometimes melodica. The guitar player switches between odd guitar sounds and rock 'n' roll riffs. He also sings some noisy frills and he sings, "blue and green bubbles," and he sings the state of the world, and he sings, "fafafafa." and when they do these things, it sounds good. They are from chicago, a cultural center in the world.
Themselves : Teamed with instru-mentalist Jel, Dose once again takes beats and rhymes into the Twilight Zone |
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 10pm - 1pm
Hospitals: The Hospitals are a three piece with drums and two guitars... Vocals ping pong in all manners like a drug holiday weekend . After completely destroying music, they created a new sound that has hooks as big as an oil well fire burning bright
Shapes & Sizes :Their music is a different story; It’s a whale with wings and a tomato that tastes like a strawberry. Shapes and Sizes wrote the melody that apexes in your brain when you were told for the first time that a tomato was really a fruit and that everything you’ve ever believed with certainty was a lie.
John Weise :A pioneer in the field of noise experimentation, John Wiese presents his viewers with a unique performance, offering everything from pure analog bedroom havoc to intense cut-up harsh noise blasts. |
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