DownStreet Art Opens Tonight
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The collabaration between artists and art groups, Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, the city, Scarafoni Realty, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Massachusetts College of Liberal Art includes the opening of four new temporary galleries in the downtown.
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Artists and volunteers up and down Main Street were putting the final touches on gallery displays. And it's all inside — and out of any rain — members of the North Adams Artists Cooperative Gallery at 107 Main St. noted as they polished windows and cleaned up.
At 73 Main St., the last action figures were being added to Jarvis Rockwell's "Maya III," a massive stepped pyramid inspired by the ancient Hindu temples of India.
The artist's wife, Nova Rockwell, was one of those adding figures to the thousands already adorning the installation.
This third configuration of "Maya" is a little looser than earlier versions, said Rockwell, because workers seemed to be giving the figures more space. There's no particular order to the groupings, she said. "It's really a matter of their tastes."
Also opening is an exhibit at 28 Holden St. by artists working on the Sol LeWitt permanent exhibit at Mass MoCA and the interactive "Lumens" project at Gallery 51's annex at 61 Main St. ("Lumens" is offering a preview tonight; the exhibit doesn't formally open until July when the Adams portion opens.)
 Jarvis Rockwell and wife Nova Rockwell position figures on 'Maya III' at 73 Main St. on Thursday afternoon. The exhibit opens tonight at 6. |
