“DIRT”

a 2-person exhibition by Don Eyles and Kristen Mallia

April 21–May 30

Opening Reception, Thursday, April 24, 5–7

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, from 1–5 pm, and by appointment

please email us at exhibitiondirt@gmail.com

Guests are invited to bring household kitchen food and plant scraps to the gallery, where they will be part of a collaborative on-site composting installation that will evolve over the course of the exhibition. 

“Dirt” merges each artist’s distinct approach to archiving concepts of landscape. Photographic grids, printed matter, and multimedia installation encourage the examination of home-composting rituals, meticulous recordkeeping, and documentation of a continually evolving urban/domestic landscape. “Dirt” invites viewers to contemplate themes of consumption, collection, and transformation within their own “home” sites and the way our intimate relationships with place inform our collective histories.

Don Eyles is a photographer, builder of floating objects, computer scientist, and author based in Boston, whose work inhabits the zone where art and engineering are indistinguishable.

Kristen Mallia is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist and educator exploring the evolution and accumulation of behaviors and structures over time through ritual, collection, site-specific research, and self-publishing.

Thank you to Lomi for generously donating a Lomi 2 home composting machine for this exhibition.

The Gallery at 249 A is supported by a grant from the South Boston Community Development Foundation.

 About the Gallery at 249 A

Gallery At 249 A features rotating art exhibitions and special arts events. The space is an evolving project of the 249 A Street Cooperative, one of Massachusetts’s first limited-equity live/work cooperative for artists. The building, which is home to more than 45 artists and their families, has served as a model for artists’ housing nationwide and was key in the growth of the Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC). The 249 A Street Cooperative celebrated its 30th anniversary with the opening of this gallery space in September 2014.

The Gallery at 249 A is partly supported by a South Boston Community Development Foundation grant.

Open by appointment. To schedule an appointment email: 249Agallery@gmail.com

Upcoming Gallery Shows

June 5 to June 27                     Companions · Science and the Arts  Lilly scientists and their community share their creativity outside their labs. Curated by Bebe Beard, Micheal Harrison, and Molly Schlagel. 

July 24 to September 4             Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano 

Sept 11 to Oct 19                    BUILDING-WIDE FALL GROUP SHOW