GalleryINSEKT

GALLERYINSEKT CLOSES
22 DECEMBER 1998.

GalleryINSEKT HISTORY

Gallery INSEKT was an alternative, experimental artspace in Boston between 1996 and 1998. In the course of a two year time span, Gallery INSEKT provided a variety of exhibitions, installations, performances, and special events with artists and performers ranging from Cambridge Massachusetts, to Athens Georgia, and all the way from Frankfurt Germany. Many of the artists that exhibited at Gallery INSEKT previously never had a solo exhibition. It was a primary intent of the gallery to provide an outlet and stage for new, promising artists, local and distant, in a city that had few such unconventional venues. Gallery INSEKT also worked in connecting, networking, and collaborating with artists and exhibition venues in other cities such as San Francisco, New York City, Providence, and Philadelphia.

In addition to exhibits and special events, Gallery INSEKT regularly held figure drawing and painting open studio sessions, Film screenings for emerging experimental filmmakers, and functioned as a meeting space for artists.

Gallery INSEKT was featured in various publications including the San Francisco alternative arts magazine, Juxtapoz (Fall 1998) The Boston Globe (Living Arts, October 18, 1998) and The Improper Bostonian. Gallery Events were also often attended and documented by The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Tab, and The Boston Herald.

(Click here to see a catalog of JPM/INSEKT Design and Promotional Propoganda.)

GalleryINSEKT EXHIBITS

Tyranny and Thoughtcrime
works by Shelah Horvitz
Nov. 7 - Dec 3, 1998.
Reception: Sat 8pm Nov 7, 1998.

MATTHEW LINTON:
TRACES: coming together, coming apart
Installation, Sound, Print, Video.
10 Oct - 31 Oct 1998
Reception Sat 10 October 1988 8pm
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CLOSING FRI 30 October 1988 7pm (free)
DEVIL'S NIGHT EVENT at 9pm
With Spoken word & Misfits cover band

AIMEE LaPORTE: PULLING TRICK
Solo Exhibiton of Paintings.
22 August - Sept 11 1998
Reception 22 August 1988 8pm
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MELTED MEN from Athens GA
With Dr. Irene Moon
Sept 12 1998, 8pm
Click for photos and writeup. (coming soon)

CYNTHIA UNDERWOOD
Solo Exhibiton of Paintings, Objects, and Installation.
25 July - Aug 19 1998
Reception 25 July 1988 8pm
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SEE THROUGH ME
A Solo Exhibition of the oil paintings of J. Patrick Cox.
27 June - July 22 1998
Reception 27 June 1988 8pm
with Celloist Alex Waterman.
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Artificial Light and Synthetic Creation
23 May - June 16 1998
Guest curated by Matthew Dilling. Four artists working with light, video projection, sculpture, and installation. Reappropriation of the common and commercial into demanding and imaginative artistic visions.
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ACHIM WOLLSCHEID
visiting from Frankfurt Germany in with a special one night sound/light installation and performance
19 May 1998
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(base) Pair Recognition
works by Margaret Wagner
21 March - 17 April 1998
Lightbox constructions using color,
light, icons and illustration in an
exploration of technology as it
relates to the individual, society, and tradition.
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Reincarnation!
18 February 1998
An installation to celebrate the re-birth, renovation,
and relocation of GalleryINSEKT.

Degenerate!
22 - 28 February 1997
An exhibit to celebrate the survival of experimental art,
with respect to the 1937 Munich show, "Entartete Kunst."

The Urgency Of Life:
8 November 1996
An exhibit of expressionist prints and paintings.

Previous Filmmakers shown at INSEKT:
April Gymiski 26.3.98
Dennis Grabowski & Cameron Keiber 28.5.98
Irene Moon 12.09.98

GALLERYINSEKT - 84 1/2 KINGSTON ST - CHINATOWN