Part and Process
February 2-26, 2011
Bromfield Gallery
450 Harrison Ave
Boston MA 02118
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb 4 6-830 pm

Laurie Alpert, Adria Arch, Gayle Caruso, Betsyann Duval, Jemison Faust, Kathy Halamka, Linda Klein, Tim McDonald, Lisa Olson, Judy Riola

Part and Process includes the work of Bromfield Gallery members who build on the history of the medium and explore ideas through a variety of mixed media styles. Work included ranges between painterly and graphic, abstract and representational, sometimes playful and light and sometimes heavy with meaning.

Before the Work Begins: Tipping Point Series

June 2-26, 2010
Reception: June 4, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Bromfield Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02118
Open Wednesday-Saturday 12-5 pm
617-451-3605

Reviews

Boston Globe, 2010
“Before the Work Begins: Tipping Point Series”, Bromfield Gallery By Cate McQuaid
“Also at Bromfield, Jemison Faust veers away from her previously deeply layered painting style toward a crisp, light realism. Faust has a day job as a professional organizer. Her “Tipping Point’’ series depicts one client’s toy-strewn basement, with an astonishing array of plastic items. Chaos in the playroom, in all its cheery colors, is laden with satisfyingly dark portent.”

Boston Globe, 2010
“A Beautiful Mess” by Irene Muniz
“Jemison Faust enjoys helping people regain some control in their lives. A personal organizer for more than 20 years, she’ll sort out drawers or bring order to a kid’s playroom. She’s there for clients when they can no longer find bills or their closet becomes a forbidden zone — as she puts it, “when it has all tipped over into chaos.’’ The mess has also become an inspiration for the Newport, R.I.-based Faust, who is a painter and mixed-media artist as well. The “before’’ photos she takes to document the clutter are the starting point for the oil paintings in her collection “Before the Work Begins: Tipping Point Series,’’ on exhibit until June 26 in the South End’s Bromfield Gallery.”

Newport Art Museum 2010 Annual Show
Juror: Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Curator of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
“Faust’s traditional rendering of a domestic space is now subverted by our new disease: the insatiability of contemporary consumerism.”

ARTSMASH RI, 2009
by Bob Dilworth, Chair of University of Rhode Island’s Art Department, Art Curator for ARTSMASH RI

“Tipping Point shows an interesting progression form Faust’s earlier works. If there is a way to map cultural evolution Faust has tapped into a seismic visual narrative of growth, destruction, change, and decay in urban life. It unfolds in brawling shimmering colors of discarded objects such as storage bins, doll houses, games, miniature toy building sets, dumpsters, plastic ovens and containers; assembled in what could be a sprawling graveyard or an abandoned construction site."

"Blue trashcans tower in the foreground, while parts and pieces of broken objects occupy the middle ground and horizon. All have been claimed by time and neglect. It’s hard not to see this work as a mythical landscape of the forgotten. Overflows of ruined things cast here and there reveal signs of a doomed place; connected to history only by the destruction it has suffered which makes Faust’s vision ominous, apocalyptic, yet in some ways, still beautiful.”

Providence Journal, 2004
Bill Van Siclen
“A good place to start is the Newport Art Museum, which is hosting a small solo exhibit of works by Newport artist Jemison Faust …Faust has managed to channel a lot of energy into her compact spaces. Though small in size, her Renovation Series packs a big punch.”

Boston Herald, 2004
“Faust finds castoffs ripe for Renovation” by Joanne Silver

“When Jemison Faust looks at the snazzy black and white patchwork of her winter jacket, she can recall where all the pieces came from. For Faust all those well-worn items are just a beginning. In her art work and in her life, she delights in finding new vitality in things that already have a history."

ArtsMedia, 2002
“Strength in Numbers” by Lisa Falco

"In ‘After Closing Time #2’ Faust presents a never-ending staircase reminiscent of M.C. Esher, a subterranean ladder that leads to a light source. Though the collage is mostly finished in matte black, there are cubist patterns layered on the board. These patterns and the emerging light source are revealed where Faust has scraped away paint to bring pastel paint layers, reptilian textures and the bare wood base to the surface. These paintings are mysterious and labyrinthine, making the viewer feel that they have entered a hidden passageway and discovered life in the underground.”

Providence Journal, 1999
“Shadowy Places” by Jerry O’Brien

“Faust created a dozen pieces…that are fiercely geometrical, drawing the eye into a location well beyond the surface. Washed in tones of copper, rust, gray, black and ivory, the works suggest distant views of enormous panoramic dreamscapes, with overlapping shards of material exploded by light.”