FP3 is pleased to announce our partnership with Art New England Magazine and the Fort Point Arts Community to bring you another great exhibition at the FP3 Art Gallery.  FP3 will be hosting works by two local FPAC artists, David Moore and Jeff Smith.

Their work will be on display from October 12th through January 3rd, with an Opening Reception scheduled for Friday, October 15th from 6pm to 8pm.  Friday the 15th is also the start of the Fort Point Artist Community’s Open Studios weekend!

The FP3 Art Gallery is located at 346 Congress Street, in the lobby space of the FP3 Residences.  Gallery hours are Monday–Friday 10am – 6pm, and Saturday and Sunday 10am – 4pm.

Jeff Smith, “Radio Days,” 2009, wood and polyurethane, 33” x 71”

Jeff Smith Artist Statement:

” The work in this show represents the coalescence of techniques and ideas I have been developing throughout my journey to create a genre of my own making in a dimension somewhere between 2 and 3.

My palate comprises reclaimed materials.  The colors, patinas and often the shapes of the wood are as found.  When I make a piece, I am creating a jigsaw puzzle in reverse and without a box.  By creating sculpture from trash, I have invited the viewer to rethink what is or isn’t of value.   As Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message. Trash has been my clay since I began sculpting 20 years ago.

When making a piece I am composing a story with overlapping scenes and abstract meanings.  Much of my other sculptural work is physically interactive and kinetic.  These pieces are intellectually kinetic.

When viewed these pieces are atmospheric forays into the subconscious rather than representational.  If music, they would be instrumentals. The lyrics are what the viewer creates in his own mind. ”

David Moore, Ceide Field XXXV, 2009, oil/linen, 60” x 42”

David Moore Artist Statement:

” I have been painting about the use of line and color for more than 30 years.  These paintings are not about a verbal experience as words can only provide a threshold for your entry. Line is blurred into meaning.

My paintings have evolved from representational scenes of urban structures, cloud formations, tree textures, and water studies, to paintings of abstract monochrome grids and curvilinear structures. Saturated color, repeated linear markings, and glowing nuanced surfaces have been essential to my concept of “obsessive abstraction”.

The Ballinglen Series is inspired by travels in Ireland and a residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland.  Upon returning to the U.S. with a suitcase full of works on paper, I began a series of large oil paintings entitled “Ceide Field”. Measuring up to 60 inches and just off-square, and smaller oil studies, the paintings parallel the Irish landscape through abstract spatial loops and repeated mark-making.

Influenced by the peat bogs of the “Ceide Field” County Mayo, the coastal rock formations in Easky, County Sligo, the Slieve League cliffs of County Donegal, and the landscape of the Burren, County Clare, this work continues my exploration of the daily ritual of place, realized in paint by dramatic lines, gesture, and color. Line, color, and gesture is used to create micro/macro metaphors of topographical and biological synapses in the series of paintings entitled “Ceide Field”. “

You can also view the art in our gallery if you attend our next open house at the FP3 residences on Sunday, October 17th!