Mass Art Film Society

WHEN: March 29,2017 @ 8:00 pm
WHERE: Mass Art Film Screening Room 1,621 Huntington Ave Boston,MA


“I am basically a self-taught artist with little formal training, although I have attended classes/workshops at the School of Visual Arts ( New York, NY ), the Woodstock School of Art ( Woodstock, NY ), and AVA Gallery and Art Center( Lebanon, NH ).
My involvement in the visual arts began in the mid- 1970’s when I started making films under the influence of American avant-garde filmmakers like Stan Brakhage , Bruce Conner and Kenneth Anger. A chance encounter in 1974 with the works of of the late American artist Joseph Cornell was pivotal to my artistic development. His art exposed me to the magical and transformative power of collage and the found object.
Other artists who have had an effect on my aesthetics include Romare Bearden, Rene Magritte, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Wallace Berman, Louise Nevelson, Edward Kienholz, Anna Mendieta, Clarence John Lauglin, Betye Saar, Larry Jordan, Jan Svankmajer, Jess, and Max Ernst.
Venues where my work has been exhibited include the Barron Art Center ( Woodbridge, NJ ), the West End Cultural Center ( Long Branch, NJ ), the Hunterdon Art Center ( Clinton, NJ ), the Woodstock School of Art ( Woodstock, NY ), 80 Washington Square East Galleries ( New York, NY; juried small works competition ), Limner Gallery ( Hudson, NY ), and Lake of Dreams, a no longer extant cooperative artist’s gallery in Flemington, NJ, which I was a founding member of. In January 2014 I had a solo exhibit of my collage, assemblage, and film work at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH.
I continue to create and screen experimental films in the Super 8 film and digital video mediums. In recent years my films have increasingly featured elements of abstraction from nature and cutout animation. Venues where my films have been screened are the Splice This! Film Festival ( Toronto, Canada ), Cine Salon ( Hanover, NH ), Experiments In Cinema ( Albuquerque, NM ), FilmOneFest ( Atlantic Highlands, NJ ), the 8 fest ( Toronto, Canada ), the Winnepeg Underground Film Festival ( Manitoba, Canada ), the Montreal Underground Film Festival ( Montreal, Canada )and the United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival ( Rutgers University, NJ ) where, in 2003, one of my films won a grand prize in the best experimental film category. In 2014 a program of my films from 2000 to 2014 was presented at the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival ( Haverhill, MA ). I have also been a guest lecturer and presenter in the Film and Media department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.” -Rich Fedorchak