Jess Barnett’s Blog

Hi all!

I will be participating in the upcoming (ahts): Boston Arts Festival, a three-day festival in Christopher Columbus Park, in September. It’s happening on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 10, 11, and 12.

Everything else you need to know about the fest is here.

Quick update!

Below are two events I’ll be participating in this year. Hope you can make it to one or both!

Sew What?!
Group exhibition and festival
Saturday, June 26, 3 to 7 p.m.
Union Square Plaza, 76 Union Square
Somerville, MA
www.fusionethosfashions.com

(ahts): The Boston Arts Festival 2010
Group exhibition
Friday, September 10 through Sunday, September 11
Noon to 6 p.m.
Christopher Columbus Park, North End, Boston, MA
Sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events

Music was played, fun was had, paintings were sold… it was a roaring success!! Thanks to all who came. If you missed it and wanted to check out the art, the paintings are still hanging through May 17. Stop by the Lilypad to see them!

Above photos by Liz Washburn

Photo by Sam Quinn

Photo by Sam Quinn

Here’s some more info about the upcoming exhibition at Lilypad. Hope you can make it!

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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain

“Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.”
– from Honesty, Billy Joel

“TMI,” a new exhibition by Jess Barnett

What constitutes honesty? Is it full disclosure, constantly and consistently, to all of those who know you? Is that even possible? Would this kind of honesty, were it possible, be ”TMI,” or too much information? In our socially networked world, it’s so easy to let a secret slip out and become public knowledge. Yet this world also makes it easy to create and nurture an image of yourself to the public that may be — and often is — far from the truth.

Abstract expressionist artist Jess Barnett (http://www.jessbarnett.com) explores these themes in her upcoming show, ”TMI,” hanging at the Lilypad in April and May 2010. She is joined on the exhibition’s opening night (Thursday, April 22, 7-10 p.m.) by performance artist/musician Adam Keller (http://www.adamkellerart.com), who will perform his piece An ArcEnabled Performance. Part ritual, part laser light show, this 20-minute performance follows an arc from the quiet hum of nighttime rainfall, through the cultivation of the performer’s inner strength, eventually reaching a fully enabled state of awareness, where anything is possible, and all choices present themselves at once. Electronic pulses and operatic vocal manipulation pour forth as the audience is bombarded with color and aural vibrations.

The Lilypad (http://www.lily-pad.net) is located in Inman Square, Cambridge, at 1353 Cambridge St.

Hi all!

I will be showing an exhibition of mostly new and very personal work. Adam Keller will be performing. I am so excited for this - cannot wait!!

Here’s the info:
Solo exhibition at Lilypad in Inman Square, Cambridge
April 2010
Opening reception: April 22, 2010, 7 to 10 p.m.
With performance by sound artist Adam Keller (http://adamkeller.net/public/)

xoxo
Jess

I will be showing one of my pieces, “I Promise (This Is the Last Time),” as a part of A Wilde Art Exhibition sponsored by Bad Habit Productions, which is showing Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband.” This piece will be hanging at Durrell Theatre in the Cambridge YWCA at 820 Massachusetts Ave. from December 3 to 13. Stop by to see it if you’re in the Central Square neighborhood!

And new photos of older paintings. Visit the “New Paintings (2009)” tab to see them!

“Afterthought” (below) is now gone! It was sold at the benefit auction for the Brattle Theatre last night (10/4/09).

Also, “Blue 2″ has been sold:

I will be participating in this year’s Brattle Theatre Fundraiser, which will be held on October 4. I am donating a piece of art (”Afterthought”) to raise money for this very important and awesome movie house in Cambridge. Please click on the following link for more info: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Cambridge-MA/Brattle-Theatre/20799510413?ref=ts.

I’ve also managed to finish another piece, despite stalling for months. Take a look: http://www.jessbarnett.com/new_work_pattern_4.php. Sorry about the poor picture - I plan to take some better ones soon.