Portrait of the Pittsfield Artist as a Young Man

“Michael Boroniec calls himself an Art Soldier, which is fitting since he’s on the front lines of Pittsfield’s cultural revolution.  A ceramic artist and painter who graduated from Taconic High School and went to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) on full scholarship, he returned to his hometown after graduating from RISD in 2006 to teach ceramics at his alma mater. “It was an offer that was too good to be true,” he says. “When you leave college, you lose your studio, your wheel and your kiln, and my teaching job provides me with that. My being a working artist is very inspirational for my students.” Boroniec gives lie to the old notion that those who can’t do teach.

He is part of a two-person exhibition, The Things They Left Behind, with Gerit Grimm, which opens on Saturday, April 10, at Pittsfield’s Ferrin Gallery, which is one of the leading dealers in contemporary ceramics in the United States.

The exhibition is timed to coordinate with Pittsfield’s Big Read Project in which the entire city is encouraged to read Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried,  a collection of short stories about the Vietnam War, and participate in events that address the war (including an exhibition of photographs of contemporary Vietnam by Joe Wheaton in the Berkshire Museum and staged readings of the book directed by Julianne Boyd at Barrington Stage Company on April 16 & 17.)”

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Here’s the break down of what when down:

ARTIST: Jason Houston Spoke about works on display “Family of Mine” and “Food & Farm”

DINE: The Market provided locally sourced tasty eats from Clover Town Baker, Pittsfield, MA, Equinox Farms, Housantonic MA, Ioka Farms, Hancock, MA, Czajkowski Farms, Westfield, MA, Woodstock Farms, Woodstock NY, Holiday Farms, Dalton MA

DISH: MaryAnne Davis functional porcelain tableware from just over the border in Chatham, NY graced the table

WHO CAME TO DINNER?

Paul Graubard who will be having a solo showing at the galley, Stories from the Bible and Other Places,  March 13th – May 8th; Noted photographer, author and documenter of Pittsfield’s own Colonial Theatre renovations, Nicholas Whitman;  Project Art Resident Artist  Gerit Grimm on visit from Germany, the ever present paper cutter Eric Drury; Watercolorist, June Ferrin; and Performer/Farmer Billie Best of  Crazy Wife Farm.

“Art and life come together at a table. Using handmade dishes to set a table provides the opportunity to express private creativity: ephemeral and memorable. The social fabric, the relationships built one meal at a time becomes the real art and the meal has an energy of a higher order. Conversation is magic, bringing each individual at the table into a personal bond.”

Jay Elling pics coming soon!

Stay tuned for upcoming Dish & Dine @ Ferrin!

RW

The opening reception for the show is on Thursday, September 24th at 5pm until 7pm.

Features paintings, ceramics, photography and mixed media pieces by Diane Cournoyer, Julio Granda, Mario Calouri, Michael Rousseau, Peg Dotchin, Eduardo Villanes, Stefanie Weber, Sean McCusker, David Scribner and John Stritch, as well as Lichtenstein class instructors Aimee Gelinas and Jim Horsford.