Studio 11 will be opening its doors on Sunday June 6th for The Distillery’s annual spring open studios day. We have 8 artists participating from our studio and everyone has new work ready just for the occasion. We are all the way at the end of the open studios tour but we have the largest studio with the most art so, save plenty of time to hang out and meet everyone (or sneak in the back door and come here first (but you didn’t hear that from me)).
As usual we have a Facebook event page that you can join to help spread the word. The official press release is below. For a list of participating artists and more information, go here.
As a long-standing focal point of the arts in Boston, The Distillery continues to support a community of high-quality artists and craftspeople. Twice a year, this amazing and unassuming brick building in Southie proves to be a one-stop destination for art-seekers as dozens of studio doors open up to invite the public in. Visitors can mingle with creative types, tour the unique environments in which various forms of artwork are produced, and make purchases directly from the artists. In addition to art studios, live/work lofts, creative small businesses, and corridors which often serve as display space to studio-dwellers, The Distillery is also home to The Distillery Gallery and Proof Gallery.
Spring Open Studios at The Distillery is free and open to the public, rain or shine, noon – 6pm. Public transportation is easy, take the Red Line to Broadway and walk eastward on West Broadway (less than a mile), left onto Dorchester St, right onto E 2nd St. Ample street parking surrounds the property. Click here for more detailed directions from the Distillery Gallery website.
Studio 11 in the Distillery building (where I live and work) has a long and sometimes sordid history in the Boston art scene. Over the years it has been home to an ever changing crew of the most creative and interesting characters to ever pass through this city. With that in mind we have gathered as many Studio 11 residents (past and current) as possible to fill the Distillery Gallery with work.
There will be an opening reception April 29th, 6-9pm which is free & open to the public so come on down and enjoy some colorful company (and a free beer). If you can’t make that the show will hang until June 1st.
Read on for the official press release from curator, H. Boney and be sure to join the Facebook Event Page to help spread the word.
Opening Reception April 29th, 6-9pm
Distillery Gallery
516 East Second Street, South Boston
Given the tumultuous nature of the Distillery, Studio 11 – A Retrospective, aims to bring together a vast collection of artists who are or were, at one time or another, tenants of the raw and ready live/work space.
Expanding and sifting through a total of five floors, the studio over the past 20 years has become notorious for all-night parties that have induced neighbors to tears through late night drunken trumpet playing, unpractical games of Log, and monstrous recreations of a Van der Graaff Generator.
The artists themselves, in a declaration of the social nature of the space, have had to experience a range of situations that flutter between the normal and absurd, including themed dinner events, major floods, ping pong championships, and roommates that participate in loud, monotypic bouts of copulation, or physically decide to alter their appearance to look like that of a mountain zebra.
Recently the Studio was featured in Justin Timberlake’s MTV reality show The Phone, and in 2008 was graced with the presence of Pulitzer Prize winner poet James Tate.