Western Avenue Studios

Spin: Installation Process and Methodology
2022-08-24 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-08-28 12:00 - 16:00 UTC | 5th Floor Mini Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851, United States
View artifacts and look behind the scenes of creating jewelry castings from spin casting molds. This exhibit is in conjunction with Karen Christians‘ exhibition Spin showing in the Loading Dock Gallery August 31st through September 25th.

Vibrational Portfolio
2022-09-03 12:00 - 17:00 | Storage Closet Gallery, 160 Western Ave, Lowell, MA, 01851
Sylv Litz’s show, Vibrational Portfolio, represent two distinct bodies of work. In the first group
of pieces, created at MICA, Sylv created a series of wrapped pieces made from upcycled
materials. They were created in difficult personal circumstances but Sylv transformed pain
and grief into something both radiant and beautiful. These works have the intense beauty of
bright jewels, binding up deeply personal themes with a simple poetic grace.
The textured acrylic pieces started simply as a way to rediscover joy. By not taking art too
seriously, and by allowing the trained eye to emerge only when it felt like doing so, Sylv freed
their process from the formality of art school. Sylv has created a body of linked thematic
pieces combining multiple techniques. The pieces have a synthetic feel, but their healing aura
came from a purer place of cleansings, breathwork and moon water.
The weaving of ideas and imagery becomes, for Sylv, a dance in the act of making. At the
end of the dance there is release.
Curator: Antoinette Indge
Participating Artist: Sylv Litz
Covid-19 Guidelines:
– Face coverings/masks are not required but recommended since some studios and businesses may require them for admission into their space.
– Guests who are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or have been instructed to quarantine by a medical professional should not attend.
– We will have hand sanitation stations throughout the building. There is no charge for this event. This event is dog-friendly. We just ask that you keep your pup on a leash.

Visit the Storage Closet Gallery. Located in the lofts building, second floor by loft 204.
Open during open studios or by appointment.

September Summer Open Art Studios
2022-09-03 12:00 - 17:00 | Western Avenue Studios & Lofts, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851, United States
September is the perfect month to see what new artists have joined us over the Summer and what new pieces some of your favorite artists have been working on during the Summer months. So come join us for our September Summer Open Art Studios event on September 3rd, from noon until 5 pm, and welcome some of our new artists to our amazing community!
Foods truck of the day: Empanada Dada
This month the Loading Dock Gallery hosts a show titled Spin. With an artist reception from 3 pm until 5 pm.
Covid-19 Guidelines:
– Face coverings/masks are not required but recommended since some studios and businesses may require them for admission into their space.
– Guests who are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or have been instructed to quarantine by a medical professional should not attend.
– We will have hand sanitation stations throughout the building.
There is no charge for this event. This event is dog-friendly. We just ask that you keep your pup on a leash.
We will post more updates as the event gets closer, so stay tuned.

Altered Landscapes at Loading Dock Gallery
2022-08-03 12:00 - 17:30, 2022-08-01 12:00 - 17:30 | Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851, United States
Climate change. The world approaches disaster. Gillian Frazier and Susan Jaworski Stranc present their concern for our planet at Loading Dock Gallery in Altered Landscapes.
With passionate brushwork and intense hues, Gillian Frazier paints melting glaciers of the north, and fires and floods on our own continent. She hopes her paintings communicate the terrifying reality our planet is headed to. Inspired by nature’s cycles and outdoor activities, Susan Jaworski Stranc shares the same anxieties about our changing climate. In Altered Landscapes, Jaworski Stranc presents a new multi-media body of work, contrasting plein air paintings that include 3-D dioramas with her reduction linoleum prints.
Altered Landscapes runs August 1-27 at Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA.

Open noon-5:30pm, Wednesday-Saturday; noon-4pm Sundays.
Reception on Saturday, August 6, 3-5pm, as part of Western Avenue Studios’ monthly open
house, noon-5pm.
Panel discussion on Climate Change August 12, 5-7pm, at Western Avenue Studios’ classroom space.

For more info go to www.theloadingdockgallery.com.
Loading Dock Gallery is part of Loading Dock Arts, Inc., a 501c3.
