In these trying economic times, continuity often demands a hit to ones pride, or a duck from moral standards. BEG BORROW STEAL assembles the work of a variety of emerging artists who embrace theft and appropriation as key elements in their creative process.

BEG BORROW STEAL is a group show of 35 young artists, juried and curated by Aaron M. Segal, a MassART graduate. Aaron is currently the art preparator of the LaMontagne Gallery. His objective for the show was to organize a group of peers, who may at this point in their careers still have limited access to commercial galleries, and give them the opportunity to show in one of Boston’s best. In the spirit of the show, the LaMontagne Gallery has been begged borrowed and stolen while Russell LaMontagne is on vacation, hopefully he won’t mind.

Contributing Artists:
Aimee Belanger, Octavia Bennet, Brian Butler, Michelle Carter, Cydney Cnossen, Corey Corcoran, Ryan Crowley, Alexander DeMaria, Hilary Doyle, Terrence Gaidamovcio, GJYD, Jes Hughes, Vanessa Irzyk, Victoria Jacob, Alex Jacobson, Ian Jeffrey, Michelle Livingston, Melissa McGorty, Matthew Mosher, Monica Nydam, Destiny Palmer, Chloe Reison, Jeremy Roby, Rachel Salamone, Camden Segal, John Skibo, Catherine Stack, Wayne Stoke, Noelle Teague, Jena Thomas, Christopher Wawrinofsky, Alison Wilder, Brian Wilmont, Amy Yoshitsu, Michael Zachary

BEG BORROW STEAL
An Unauthorized Use of the LaMontagne Gallery

On View: August 15th – 29th
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 15th, 6 -8 PM

LaMontagne Gallery
555 East 2nd Street
South Boston, MA

I can’t tell you which one is mine, but I’ve contributed work to the “Outside the Box” fundraiser auction, to benefit the The North River Arts Society of Marshfield. All artists were given an 8″ square of gator-board to customize. The work is unlabeled, and the artists will be reviled after the bidding has closed in September. The highlight for me is that my work is being displayed alongside Steve Carell. Read the rest of this entry »

Friday, June 26
7-10pm
LAB Boston
113 Brighton Ave Allston, MA 02134

LAB Boston is proud to present “Bare Knuckle Brawlers”, the poster show for “Died Young, Stayed Pretty”. The opening of the show will be tomorrow, June 26th from 7-10pm and will feature the following artists: James Quigley, Jesse Ledoux, Jeff Kleinsmith, theMiracle5, Dan McCarthy, Nate Duval, Darren Pasemko, Tofu Squirrel, Brian Butler and other local artists.

We have worked closely with Eileen Yaghoobian, Producer/Director and Kristin Groener to showcase artwork in connection with the documentary.
www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a documentary about the underground poster culture in North America, from the ’60s psychedelic masters, like Victor Moscoso, to the gig poster crew today. The artists represented in the film “push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that?s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape,” says director Eileen Yaghoobian.

Outside of their own subculture these posterists are virtually unknown. “But within their ranks they make up an army of bare-knuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy ’70s porn stars.” They’ve created their own visual language and have created posters that are “strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful.” Yaghoobian’s film is the first (and maybe the last) of its kind.

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