Sharon Kaitz: The Heart’s Playground” is a one-person exhibition of large-scale new paintings and works on paper by Boston-based artist Sharon Kaitz. Kaitz is known for abstract work in which she uses expressive marks and dynamic color to trace the emotions and interactions of everyday life. She often incorporates words and phrases into her canvases, drawn from sources as disparate as Russian modernist poetry and kitchen grocery lists. In this new work, Kaitz continues her exploration of experiences and relationships that are extremely basic to human existence, this time drawing on the dynamics of the playground - how we mark out our territory there using circles, scratches over scratches, hopscotch markers and more, and the spatial and psychological boundaries that evolve in that environment. In many ways, the playground becomes as an internal world as an external one, and the canvases become as much about the physical act of painting as about the world outside.
We’re celebrating the cool weather by turning our back gallery into a cozy reading room in the exhibition “My Back Pages: A Library Show!” crammed with unique books made by artists from all over the country, including Derek Aylward, Amanda Barr, Daniel Bayles, Nicola Cavicchio, Rachel Dayson, Chris Duncan, Heather Hobler-Keene, Katherine Anne Homan, Denise Kupferschmidt, Leslie Miller, Kelly Ording, Roberta Paul, Kim Pashko, Kyle Ranson, Brion Nuda Rosch, Keith Shore, Linda Price-Sneddon, Judd Vetrone, Carly Weaver, and Jessica Williams, and featuring a “Books on Tape” installation by San Francisco-based artist Kottie Paloma.