From B. Amore’s show “Following the Thread,’’ at Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, for month of November.
The artist says:
“My art has evolved from its origins in carved forms and public sculpture, to complex installations involving text, ancestral artifacts, alternative photo processes, stone, fabric, and the found object transformed. The installations and assemblages often appear to be meditations on the layered nature of existence. They are sculptural ruminations, which bridge the past and the present.
“The current series, ‘Street Calligraphies,’ incorporates found gloves that have been cold cast in bronze which still evoke the mysterious presence of the lost owner. Although the gloves always retain their original gesture, they are combined with other enigmatic elements from city streets and transformed through the artistic process into works of art. Each glove has its own unique history and nature but becomes part of the whole which creates our intertwined life on this planet.’’
And the gallery says:
“‘Following the Thread’ consists of panels that were part of her exhibit, ‘Life Line: filo della vita’ originally displayed at Ellis Island Immigration Museum in 1999-2000. The exhibit traveled in the U.S. and Italy. The families represented in the panels lived first in the North End, then in East Boston. After the exhibit, the panels will be held by the East Boston Museum and Historical Association.’’