Progress: by Lowell artist Christopher Pendergast
| Hours: | Wed-Sun 11AM-4:30PM |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Arts & Culture |
The show is a body of work in progress, and centers around the artist’s interpretation of how society handles responsibility. Pendergast explores the disjunction between American ideals over recent decades and the reality of our governance.
Growing up with exposure to the arts and with extensive travel, Pendergast’s desire to communicate his experiences and observations informed his choice to pursue the arts. He states that he “spent some time finding different means of doing that before settling on painting.” He graduated with a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
Historically, Pendergast’s art has been primarily oil painting. With this show, he offers a variety of mediums, including works on paper, paintings, and a mixed media vein that “involves burning imagery onto wood panels and then working over that in ink, resin, and paint.” Pendergast shows some pieces unframed, some in-process work, as well as completed pieces.
His artistry comes from the need to make things and his desire to communicate observations about human conditions. In Progress, he uses relics of the American dream to convey the disparity between reality and what is or was pretty. His inspiration comes from within, often driven by deep and abiding dissatisfactions. Pendergast writes “the work reflects and challenges the idea of progress in multiple forms.”
Progress shows in the Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios, 122 Western Avenue, second floor of the A-Mill, from August 29 to September 23, 2012.
There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, September 1, from 5 to 7 pm right after the artist open studios. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am to 4:30 pm. For further information about the exhibit or the gallery, visit theloadingdockgallery.com or call 978-710-8605.
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122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851 map
Phone: 978-310-8605
Take Route 495 or Route 3 to the Lowell Connector. From the Lowell Connector, take the Thorndike St. exit. After the third set of lights take the ramp on the right. At the second set of lights at the top of the ramp, turn left onto Middlesex St. Middlesex Street bears to the right just after the Boys and Girls Club, follow to first set of lights which is School Street. Turn right on School, at the crest of the hill turn right onto Western Avenue. Western Avenue Studios is the five story red brick building on the right and the 3 story building on the left (the buildings form an 'L') at the end of Western Ave.
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