Tomorrow Wednesday August 16, over 50 local visual artists will gather to show their work at Conception Art Show, a one day only art show at Laugh Boston in Boston’s Sea Point District. Founded by two artists in New York City in 2011, Conception organizes art shows in cities throughout the US and Europe that draw hundreds of guests. On a mission to foster and nurture relationships within the arts community, Conception Art Shows offer collectors a unique opportunity to purchase and network directly with the artist.
Two artists you should check out at the Conception Art Show tomorrow are Jean-Paul Alexandre and Anna Thurber.
Detail from ‘Drinking Fire,’ from Jean-Paul Alexandre’s Instagram. Used with permission.
Jean-Paul Alexandre is a visual artist based out of Lexington, MA and a rising sophomore at MassArt. Alexandre’s paintings range in style from abstract to surreal, and often combine elements of both. He tells us to expect to see new paintings that feature bursts of color exploding through figurative forms that distort any sort of reality. “The energy can be interpreted as an exchange or perhaps an imbalance between the two figures mentally or emotionally,” he explains. One of his latest works that will be at the show is an intimate portrait called “Drinking Fire.” In this painting, Alexandre tells us to expect to come face to face with a figure engulfed in flames (see detail picture above), yet “the figure is seemingly unconcerned, face melting, while consuming fire itself from a champagne glass,” perhaps a commentary on how what we consume consumes us in return. Be sure to check out his bold, colorful, and energetic work at the show.
Frozen Tulip piece from Anna Thurber’s Instagram. Used with permission.
Anna Thurber is a mixed media artist who creates compositions 24 hours a day in water that she freezes into large ice blocks (or, “ice cakes”). She grows, finds, or paints what she freezes, and in her photographs she invites us to make sense of what we see in the scenes that form in the ice, adding that “the assemblage of counter opposing forces work in these situations creating environments fresh for imagination.” This summer is Thurber’s third year ‘freezing,’ though she has been an artist her whole life. She calls freezing her most recent passion, an “accumulation of a life long romance with color and the out of doors.” Thurber will be bringing a large frozen tulip piece to the show tomorrow, so be on the look out for her beautiful work.
