"Telephone Relics" covered by Boston.com

The following review of my upcoming show, Telephone Relics, was taken from this website-- Boston.com's Allston Brighton news: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/allston_brighton/2012/10/photos_documenting_payphone_de.html?camp

Photos documenting payphone decline to be exhibited at Brighton library

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(Sarah Berry) Public payphones in Boston photographed on Sept. 11, 2008.

By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent

An Allston artist’s photographs documenting the decline of public payphones will be on display next month at the Faneuil Branch of the Boston Public Library in Brighton’s Oak Square.
The “Telephone Relics” exhibition by Sarah Berry “very poignantly captures the changing history of telecom, convenience, functionally and design that has resulted in streetscape artifacts that linger as if they still had a purpose,” said a statement from the newly-founded, local nonprofit Unbound Visual Arts, Inc.
“As a result of the evolution from wired and wall-mounted phones to personal and pocket-sized, most people realize that public telephones, once prominent throughout the world, have significantly declined in usage,” the statement continued. “Sarah Berry has not only noticed this 21st century historical trend but presents us with artistic visual evidence.”
The exhibition debuts Saturday, Nov. 3 during a reception and artist discussion from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., the art organization said in an announcement. The gallery will be on display through Nov. 30.

Berry received a master’s of science in arts administration at Boston University, is program manager of The Art Connection in Boston and leads photography workshops through the city’s parks department, according to the nonprofit.
Her exhibits have appeared at BU, Boston City Hall, and in galleries in Washington D.C. and Fairfax, Va.
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Photographing the Guy Mendilow Ensemble

Tonight I had the pleasure of shooting the CD release performance of the Guy Mendilow Ensemble at Harvard University. The excitement, raw skill, and soul on stage was evident to everyone. Guy was a fantastic story teller and everyone on stage was a masterful musician.

There is really not much I like better than being surrounded by live music and seeing it come alive in my camera. Enjoy the photographs and please listen to the new album:

http://www.guymendilow.com/home.html

Painting Over the Past

A pay phone removed

From a community college corridor.

Now chatter can be overheard 

As told through cellphones 

 And into nearly invisible bluetooth devices,

Taking up no more than an ear-width of space.

The pay phone hardware is 

Whitewashed 

But still here.

For the Birds

Between Branches

Harvest

Photos taken from my front porch, September 2012

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Art & Bed. Ode to Van Gogh.

A magnet I bought in 2005 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam bears this quote from the artist under an image of The Bedroom, 1888, Oil on Canvas, 72 X 90 cm.


"The best pictures are those one dreams about while smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done." 

Tonight I fought my desire to dream up art I wanted to make but didn't. Tonight I finally have an answer for Vincent...


The best nights of sleep are the ones I will forget I missed because I was up making art.

Branching out. Over time. Birch and acrylic.

August, 2010

I hiked slowly, slower than my Good companions, watching my feet. The ground was covered with moss, crunchy leaves, and white-peach and ashen bends of fallen birch bark. I gathered the bark not knowing why. The next day I waded waist deep into Lake Sunapee, lifting out tiny rafts of birch bark dimpling the water's surface.

...

September, 2011

I closed my eyes, trying to envision myself: an artist. To my surprise, there was a paintbrush in my hand instead of a camera... I was standing before a wall-sized canvas and applying thick, grand strokes of red over muted greens and yellows. Paint was dripping everywhere. Where this image came from seemed less important than where it would lead.

...

May, 2012

A perfect plant stand on the side of the road. I picked it up and began to walk away.

"Are you an artist?" a man hollered from across the street.
Jill and I exchanged a look, afraid we'd been caught steeling, and I shouted back "I am!"

He invited us into his building promising art supplies and we followed him into a windowless whitewashed storage room full of things he was done owning. It was a trove housing an armful of things I would take home.... a tackle box full of paint- acrylics in over a dozen shades, brushes (mostly unused), knives, thinner, palates, a low-end juicer. And a plant stand.

...

July, 2012

 Birch and acrylic on canvas

Detail

On the last day of August

Cobi and I moved into a beautiful rental in mid-July. Here are some pictures I took in our garden yesterday. We're all unpacked and fully enjoying the literal fruits of our landlords' work. It is a joy to live here. 

Happy September to all!

Love,

Sarah