BREAKING THE RULES core artist group exhibition curated by Allison Maria Rodriguez November 28 – December 23, 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, December 7, 2018, 6–8 p.m.
Participatory Art Event: Saturday, December 8, 2018, 2–4 p.m.
(this event is part of the Boston Art Dealers Association 2nd Saturday series)

Boston, MA – Fountain Street Gallery will host its annual core artist exhibition, BREAKING THE RULES, from November 28th – December 23rd.

This year’s theme asked each artist to create a work that involved the idea of breaking a personal or cultural rule. The resulting exhibition generaes a space that questions the social role of the artist in regard to establishing and/or challenging cultural norms, as well as the artist’s personal relationship to that role within their own artmaking practice.

As a figure in cultural discourse, how does the artist function to critique or envision the world differently? How do the rules set up by an artist in their personal practice enable them to succeed, and how do these same rules hold them back? As the artists in this exhibition question their own individual aesthetic and conceptual choices, BREAKING THE RULES navigates the constructed binary of public/private, personal/political, and internal/external. At this particular moment in history, when artists are called upon to make sense of the uncertain, this exhibition interrogates the ongoing complex struggle of self-identity embedded in the term “artist.”

Exhibiting artists include: Sarah Alexander, Jim Banks, Kathline Carr, Brenda Cirioni, Cheryl Clinton, Marie Craig, Mia Cross, Denise Driscoll, Sara Fine-Wilson, Tatiana Flis, Joseph Fontinha, Kay Hartung, Anita Loomis, Mary Marley, Vicki McKenna, Joel Moskowitz, Iris Osterman, Chris Plunkett, Chelsea Revelle, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Alexandra Rozenman, Rebecca Skinner, Gin Stone, Sylvia Vander Sluis, Marcia Wise, Daniel Zeese, Leslie Zelamsky and Shao Yuan Zhang

BREAKING THE RULES will run from November 28th through December 23rd. The gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 pm – 6 pm and by appointment.

Schedule of events: Opening Reception: Friday, December 7, 2018, 6–8 p.m. Participatory Art Event: Saturday, December 8, 2018, 2–4 p.m. (this event is part of the Boston Art Dealers Association 2nd Saturday series)