New Art Center
61 Washington Park
Newtonville, Massachusetts
January 14 through February 24
This winter, six artists characterized by their unusual tools of the trade appear in a spectacle of craftsmanship just north of Boston’s city limits. Rubber bands, clear tape, corrugated cardboard and graph paper have been taken out of the context of the cubicle to create tapestries, clothing and performance pieces that make up the body of work that is “Office Space,” the winter show at the New Art Center.
Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, the New Art Center has been housed in an old church building in Newtonville since the late 1970s. “Office Space” stands in the main gallery where vaulted ceilings soar, stained-glass windows line the walls, and the acoustics reverberate. Other portions of the building serve as studio space for over 800 art students aged 2 through 82. But classes are not the only opportunity the New Art Center has offered to the community.