Protected Trees Joel Janowitz
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Monday, January 30, 2017
Location:
Gallery 344 | Cambridge Arts Council
City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Cambridge MA
Cambridge Arts invites you to an artist's reception at Gallery 344 to celebrate a new body of work by Joel Janowitz!
Joel presents a poetic response to the intense street excavation and construction he has witnessed over the last several years in his Cambridge neighborhood, where the City has been conducting a sewer separation project that takes place underground but necessitates years of disturbance above ground. In the artist’s words:
“I saw both the beauty and the irony of so many trees protected by dead wood and petrol-plastics.I began to paint this strange landscape which is revealing itself as an inviting and disturbing metaphor for our flawed relationship to the environment.”
As an artist who has lived many years in Cambridge, Joel brings an unusual perspective to the complex activity that goes into engineering and sustaining our cities.
Joel's work can be viewed at Gallery 344 from Januray 23 - April 7, 2017. We hope to see you there!