PINE

This past weekend I had a rendezvous with one of my college besties, Ali. We met “halfway” in North Adams, MA. Mind you Ali lives in Rochester and I’m in Boston - so for the record she is twice as good a friend as I am. She drove 2/3s and I drove 1/3 of the way there.

Anyway we had a great girls’ weekend full of good eats, yoga, good coffee & pastries, art at MASS MoCA, good wine, more good eats and most appropriately finished off by  watching a “Rom-Com” and eating chocolates in bed. Perfect, right?

To kick off the weekend re-cap here’s a little peak into our visit to MASS MoCA. MASS MoCA occupies the old Sprague Electric Mill and in and of itself is a work of art, however below are a few samples of some of my favorite exhibited works of art.

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The Workers was an incredible exhibit! I have to admit a lot of times modern art is way to conceptual for me and if I’d just taken a stroll through The Workers I would have taken it at face value, felt I didn’t “get it” and moved on. However MASS MoCA does a great job with their exhibits and each gallery has detailed information about the works presented. The Workers was a compilation of many different artists and their commentary on “The Worker” in our society - both workers of the past and present. While I appreciate art, I rarely go so far as to say it was moving and thought provoking - this exhibit however was.

       

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BIG installations from Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum.

      

      

      

      

       (where’s waldo?).

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Floating neon church pews from Sanford Biggers: The Cartographer’s Conundrum.

                 

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Finally, the Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective - this exhibit just made me smile. I’m sure MoCA rents space for private events, couldn’t you just picture the best cocktail hour ever taking place in this colorful space? And if everyone wore black they would just be like silhouettes against the cheerful wall drawings.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

Don’t you think it would be just fabulous to paint your walls striped same color, just flat and glossy?!? Oh the possibilities!