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(exhibit) S. African artist Paul Stopforth

Posted October 11th, 2008 by Mary
2008-10-11 00:00
2008-10-31 00:00

       

September 23rd  through  October 31st, 2008
The Sandra & Philip Gordon Gallery
Boston Arts Academy
174 Ipswich Street, Boston
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 4:00 pm


Paul Stopforth: Transformer
Paul Stopforth is well known as one of the first South African artists who bravely confronted and publicized apartheid violence. His politically confrontational work, beginning in the 1970s, was instrumental in shaping the movement known as “resistance art.”  
In the late 1980s, during the last oppressive years of apartheid, a hopeless and dispirited Stopforth left South Africa for Boston. He was convinced the system would never change.
That Stopforth was here in Boston and not in South Africa when the change came, became a significant pivotal moment in his artistic life, and in his own words “taught him critical lessons about permanence, impermanence, and the fragility of that which seems most immovable.”
It is the exploration and conversation between this permanence and transience that lives in his new exhibition of paintings, entitled “Transformer.”
Paul Stopforth taught for 10 years in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University. He has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art + Design and is currently delighted to be on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown and by the David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg and New York.
You may view a large body of his artwork, his full biography and resume at his website
 
About Boston Arts Academy
Boston Arts Academy is the city’s first and only public high school for the visual and performing arts. As a pilot school within the Boston Public Schools, BAA prepares a diverse community of aspiring artist-scholars to succeed in their college or professional careers and to become engaged members of a democratic society.