Celebrating 45 Years! FPAC Members Exhibition
FPAC Art Space, Boston, MA • fortpointarts.org • Through October 31, 2025
The Fort Point Arts Community (FPAC) is one of the most vital art forces in Massachusetts. In the mid 1970s, hundreds of artists moved to the largely abandoned warehouse buildings of Fort Point in the South Boston waterfront. In 1980, the neighborhood held its first Open Studios and formed FPAC as a non-profit dedicated to preserving studio space in the district. Several limited equity artist co-ops and live-work rentals have been developed since then.
This celebratory exhibition in FPAC’s spacious Sleeper Street Gallery features forty-six artists from the community. Jessica Burko’s Overreach features two reclaimed wooden drawers hung on the wall. An outstretched arm reaches from one into the other. Encaustic medium enhances the sense of mystery. The body doesn’t seem to fit into its prescribed role, always wanting more.
Bruce Rogovin and Freda Shapiro’s works share a floral focus. Rogovin’s Flowers, 2024, exquisitely painted in oil feature red dahlias in full bloom in a glossy turquoise vase. The eye journeys around the painting, discovering more with each deeper look. Shapiro’s Transition, a gouache on paper, shares a completely different mood—rounded rose-colored blossoms past their prime. The expressionistic strokes emphasize the transience of the moment, a metaphor for a basic fact of our lives.
Jungle Fever by Michael Bourque, a lively multicolored acrylic painting features various sized rectangles composed of lines of color. Within the “restrained” format, a dynamic expressive energy pops through.
Dorothea Van Camp’s Rhapsody in P+ B, in shades of lavender, blue-grey and black is a subtle expansive surreal screenprint which feels very emotive. She incorporates vector based computer drawings into the screen printing process. The gestural elements of delicate lines stretch the space of the work beyond its physical borders and excites the imagination.
Chiatura-green grey+ red by Lara Loutrel, an intaglio print, is a minimalist exploration of geometric forms highlighted with gold leaf. Inspired by the cable lines that criss-cross Chiatura, a mining town in the country of Georgia, her work is a fitting symbol in this excellent group exhibition of FPAC artists where the intersections and connections that nourish this multigenerational and cultural community are on full display.
—B. Amore
