Looky Here
art center, nonprofit, gallery, thrift store for art supplies, print shop and press, and workshop space for writing and art in Greenfield, MA.
Calling all kid artists!! Our Kids Art Show is looking for submissions!
Artists aged 0-12 should bring one framed, ready-to-hang piece to Looky Here by February 15th, including their name and age, their parent or guardian’s information, and a price or not-for-sale note.
On March 6th, we will be hosting an open gallery reception and artist Q&A. The show will run through March. Please plan to pick up your piece between March 31 and April 5.
Chelsea Granger is a multidisciplinary artist. Painting, drawing, illustration, murals and tattoos are the foundations of her practice. She recently self-published a zine about death and grief titled “So Many Ways to Draw a Ghost”. After the death of her mom as well as a dear friend, she started her art as a way to sign up life, with the hope that her art can act as a doorway to create conversations about death and grief. Chelsea’s art is of the every day, inspired by the overlap of earth/spirit dimensions, and woods as church. She is interested in painting as medicine, painting as a portal, painting as a spell. Her work has been exhibited across the Northeast, and her murals exist across New England. For more than twelve years, Chelsea has collaborated with Thyme Herbal, making medicine posters and zines. Chelsea holds a bachelor’s degree in painting from UMass-Amherst and a certificate in therapeutic recreation from Gateway Community College. Her work celebrates life while honoring death and walking gently into the unknown.
August 11-September 29th, 2023
Opening Friday August 25, 5-8pm. Closing September 29th 5-8pm
Sorcerers are safe. Sorcerers are powerful. They surround me, and alongside them I can escape. As my method of self care, I have built a world to retreat to, escape into. Painting itself has become my dissociative landscape, my personal decampment, a recharging station. Through my Sorcerer paintings I explore the concept of aging women as both powerful and exquisite. By synthesizing traditional bodies with otherworldly ingredients I imagine a world where all Sorcerers and all women are untethered and off duty. Hung side by side these paintings function as individual windows into the world of the Sorcerers.
Here is a glimpse into the World of the Sorcerers:
Tuesday’s Universe of powerful Sorcerers and Majek of every kind… even the mysterious Smoity Light Rainbow Zpectroom. From deep in the Rainbowrealms, shadowy figures unveil themselves: women, hieresses, goddesses, matriarks — a Sisterhood of Dynamas cast in Laser Steel. Their voices burst through Crystaline Structures and dazzle with the sublime. Sorcerers emerge from every crevice, notch, and nodule of the Outer-Etherverse… the Tuesdayverse.
“see Here!” “look There!”
Elfen Libras: these immortal faeries enthrall — all things vibrate in the Resonance of the Sorcerers. Ethereal voices resound together in unison:
“Outside it was Tuesday!” “Outside it is Tuesday!”
Olivia Hamilton (b.1995, Boston, MA) bio:
I am a painter living and working in Queens, New York. I prefer panel over canvas, fabric over plastic, and magic over mania. I am currently working on a series of Sorcerer paintings. After receiving my BFA in Sculpture and Painting at Boston University’s School of Visual Arts I moved to New York and have worked for eight different artists from painters & sculptors to installation & performance artists. I have an avid studio practice of my own, painting for 10 hours a day. Over the years I have specialized in fabric and textile sculpture and walked the line between garment construction and fine art. I have now pivoted back to oil painting, using my traditional draftsmanship and color theory training to build my outer-etherverse, my “Tuesday-verse.”