Colleen Herman, Flare, 2022, Acrylic, ink, gouache on canvas, 92 x 66 x 1.5 in (233.7 x 167.6 x 3.8 cm)

train show

Yura Adams, Jazmine Catasús, J.A Feng, Colleen Herman, Fiza Khatri, Cassandra Mayela, Lucy Mullican, Naomi Nakazato, Aliza Sternstein

September 23 - October 15, 2023

Great Barrington Train Station: 46 Castle St, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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“Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.”

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Olympia is pleased to present Train Show, a group exhibition taking place in the Great Barrington Train Station. The exhibition highlights the spirit of a train station – monumental, atemporal, a place for arrivals and departures and of journeys and homecomings. 

The Great Barrington Train Station was erected in 1842 and operated for 120 years. Since closing in 1971, the building became a venue for various small businesses and public groups: a restaurant, a state welfare office, a gallery, and a dance studio, to name a few. In 1981, the building underwent a comprehensive rehabilitation to bring it back to its original architectural form. Carpeting and the dropped ceiling were removed, the cubicles dismantled, and the stained glass windows were renewed that overlook still-active train tracks. 

Thus, scaffolding between here and there, then and now, is an active co-existence of travel and transformation. Huffs, steam, and clouds of smoke are all part of the history of this phenomenological space. The exhibition celebrates this state of transience, the physical environment standing as a gateway for beginnings and ends of journeys.    


 

Lucy Mullican, Going Through, 2023, Watercolor on panel, 20 x 24 x 1 in (50.8 x 61 x 2.5 cm)