FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 3, 2005

CONTACT: Laura Donaldson, Director, Mills Gallery 617-426-3186
...............Hyechung Shin, Senior Associate 617-426-1522

Mills Gallery
Boston Center for the Arts

BRI:AIR, Projects from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Program
Curator, Meg Rotzel, Exhibition Design, Ben Durrell and Matthew Christensen
Featuring Vaughn Bell, John Osorio Buck, Christy Georg, Carolyn Lambert and Fereshteh Toosi,
Ken Linehan, Jessica Rylan, Aliza Shapiro, Amy Sharp, Jonah Rapino and Devil Music

Traversing multiple genres, including installation, sound, video, performance, and design, the exhibition BRI:AIR features works resulting from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Residency Program. Over the past three years this program has supported emerging artists who need time, space, and a critical audience where an artist can perform research. Founded in 2000 by a committee of artists, the Berwick is dedicated to facilitating artistic endeavors that exist outside of a commercial economy. Exhibition curator Meg Rotzel is one of the founders and Executive Director of the Berwick.

In addition to these works, the Berwick will inhabit the Mills Gallery with it’s own mobile studio, bringing its AIR community into the BCA. The Studio:Lab will act as an ideological and physical platform for lectures, performances and 3-day residencies throughout the exhibition. The Studio:Lab changes each time a new artist takes up residence; one week an artist may be building an electronic project, the next week the walls can part to house a band, another week the audience could find themselves inside the studio walls. The Berwick, much like the Studio:Lab, transforms itself to accommodate artists and their works that live between mediums and venues, bringing studio practice directly to the public. Please go to bcaonline.org for current dates and times of all lectures and events. For further information on the Berwick, please go to www.berwickinstitute.org.

WHAT: BRI: AIR, Projects from the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research Program
WHEN: February 4 – March 27, 2005
WHERE: Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
RECEPTION: Friday, February 4, 6 – 8PM, Free
GALLERY TALK WITH CURATOR & ARTISTS: Thursday, February 10, 6:30-8PM, Free

STUDIO:LAB & LECTURE SERIES:
Feb. 13, 12-4 PM: Heather Kaplow, artist in residence, public lecture/interaction 2:00PM
Feb. 19, 1-3 PM: Ken Linehan performance and lecture
March 4-6: John Osorio-Buck and Meg Rotzel in residence with artists lecture on March 6, 2:00PM
March 12, 12-4 PM: Vaughn Bell artist in residence, public lecture/interaction 2:00PM
March 18, 8PM: Devil Music Curates an Evening of Composition
March 25-27: Amy Sharp and Morgan Schwartz in residence with artists lecture on March 27, 2:00PM
GALLERY HOURS: Wed, Thurs, Sun 12PM – 5PM, Fri and Sat 12PM – 10PM

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Editor’s Note: • Media welcome to attend.
• Interviews with curator Meg Rotzel or Mills Gallery Director Laura Donaldson encouraged.
• Additional background and photos available. Visit www.bcaonline.org.

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