We’re writing to let you know about our upcoming February/March 2008 exhibitions, “Anonymous: Suara Welitoff,” and, in the Mini Skirt, “A Mountain Moving a Monument: Brion Nuda Rosch," which open on February 22 and remain on view through March 29. This is the second in our new program of 5-6 week exhibitions, which we are instituting in place of our previous 4-week exhibitions.

Suara Welitoff’s films are short and hypnotic; usually lasting only two or three minutes, they compel repeated viewings, as the eye and the mind register what might be happening, what might be accidental, what might have been seen before, what has been slowed down, reversed, or otherwise altered, not to mention what it might mean. The imagery seems to bring up beauty, pleasure, hurt, help, collective movement, individual emotion, history, abstraction, or maybe all of the above. Welitoff was the recipient, in 2002, of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s coveted Maud Morgan award – most often reserved for painters, Welitoff’s painterly films were an inspired choice for this prestigious award. In her new show at Allston Skirt, “Anonymous: Suara Welitoff,” we will present an installation of three new films by this Boston-based artist, each extending the artist’s exploration of time, and our time, in the face of difficult political realities.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Allston Skirt will be hosting a series of “Friday Night Film Screenings” at the gallery during late February and March, including a retrospective of Welitoff’s films since the late 1990s. Please keep tuned to our website for program and timing details.
Welitoff’s work was recently featured in the exhibitions “War and Discontent” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Spring 2007, and “The Show’s So Nice” at Monya Rowe Gallery, Fall 2007, and her video the song that makes you cry just opened in the exhibition “Multiplex,” at Western Bridge in Seattle, January-March 2008. "Two magazines are featuring her work " UOVO/15, which is on newsstands right now, and Aspect Magazine, a Boston-based new media publication, will include her work in their fall 2008 issue

San Francisco based artist Brion Nuda Rosch brings a new body of work to our Mini Skirt in “A Mountain Moving a Monument: Brion Nuda Rosch,” the first east coast venue for the artist’s painted collages and sculpture based on psychological as well as geographical landscapes. In these works, formal and emotional issues both play a role, as do ideas about man’s place in nature, and vice verse. Looking at the human tendency toward building monuments, and also at the environment’s way of pushing back against man’s makings, Nuda Rosch creates both delicately balanced and wildly skewed possibilities for mapping our terrain. Describing Nuda Rosch’s work in the blog Saatchi Online Critic’s Choice, Adam E. Mendelsohn writes: “I like the poetic, slightly wild, and perhaps romantic tendency that I see in Rosch's work.” We think you might, too.
We hope you’ll come take a look. Please contact us for images and/or more information.


Best,
Randi & Beth
allston skirt gallery
65 thayer street (@ harrison avenue)
boston, ma 02118
617 482 3652
hours: wednesday through saturday, 11 am – 5 pm

We hope you’ll come take a look. Please contact us for images and/or more information.