Word: bershad
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Richards, a noted poet and lecturer at Tufts University, is having his first exhibit at the Gallery Bershad. Richards's companion for the show is artist Karen Boutelle, whose mixed-media wall-hangings are more visceral than Richards's pale metal sculptures. Boutelle's "Ambivalent Passages" looks like an open gash with blood pouring forward in hues of petrified amber. But her most spectacular piece, "Ambivalent Passages III," seems to defy this straight sanguine categorization. The layers of cheesecloth, beeswax, shellac, oil bar, paint and rice paper that Boutelle uses in her art are here transformed into a composition reminiscent...
...Aside from the art, Gallery Bershad is also a noteworthy concept in itself. Formed by the Bershad architecture firm last year under the direction and vision of Blaine Bershad, the gallery is unique in locale, right around the corner from the Somerville Theater. Who knew that good art was so close to home...
...work by Karen Boutelle and Peter Richards is on display through March 13 at the Gallery Bershad at 99 Dover St. in Somerville, near to the Davis Square station. Hours are Wed. through Sun., 12 to 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday...