The Next 100 Years

An Installation At the Opening of Midway Studios
(Channel Center St., Boston, MA) in April 2005.

Five black-and-white photograph banners, each four by six feet, show artists at work emphasizing neither the particular artist nor the work but the process of creation in art making. They hang against a long brick wall at the entrance to the new artist studio complex. Their images evoke the continuing influence of art in Fort Point into the new century.

The project was conceived and coordinated by Lenore Tenenblatt. Don Eyles designed the banner installation. Peter Smith of Boston University's Department of Journalism led a project that culminated in one of the photo banners by a student. All three are artists with studios at 249 A Street, down the street from Midway Studios.

The photographers are from the left, Galen Mook from Boston University, and Lenore Tenenblatt, Martin Berinstein, Denise Bosco and Bruce Rogovin from the 249 A Street Cooperative. Galen's image is of a Fort Point artist welding, the sparks spraying. Lenore's image juxtaposes printing tools on a surprising scale against a sampling of an artist of the prior century, Paul Gauguin. Martin looks at the creative process thru the transparencies of liquids and glass. Denise's image is of a young artist viewed from above shown with her paint pots and sketchbook. Bruce focuses from the back of an artist intently at work on his painting in process.

We welcome the continuing presence of art practice in these beautiful old buildings.