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 was invited to contribute to Side B: A Music Lover’s Anthology. Created by veteran and ingenue artists alike, Side B contains over 200 pages of lost lovers, rocking out, spirit guides, ghosts, and dinosaurs – it’s like an action adventure comic for the music lover in all of us. I ended up making kind of a collage-style guide to indie touring. This gem also features great artists like Jeffrey Brown (Clumsy), Brandon Graham (Multiple Warheads), Ryan Kelly (Local), Jim Mahfood (Clerks), Box Brown, Colleen Frakes, Cristy C. Road, Grant Reynolds, Joe Decie, John Isaacson, Jonathan Baylis, Liz Baillie, and Noah Van Sciver. Get it here!
