ANNUAL PROGRAM
Lot Lab
Welcoming collaboration
shaping Boston’s public space
Lot Lab is an outdoor, 24/7 experimentation zone for site-specific contemporary public art created with the Boston community. Activating underused parcels across Boston, Lot Lab provides opportunities for local and visiting artists to present multimedia installations in a community gathering space.
CURATORIAL THEME
Mending
With three large-scale art installations in 2023 reflecting a theme of “mending” by international artist Ghada Amer, Boston-area artists Sam Fields and Massiel Grullon, and a youth component led by Kyle Browne, Lot Lab created an artistically infused community gathering space along the waterfront that connects Boston to the globe.
LOT LAB 2023 ARTISTS
Meet the Lot Lab 2023 Artists
Ghada Amer
Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963, Ghada Amer currently lives and works between New York and Paris and has exhibited among others at the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, the Whitney Biennale, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Amer’s work addresses first and foremost the ambiguous, transitory nature of the paradox that arises when searching for concrete definitions of east and west, feminine and masculine, art and craft.
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Sam Fields
Sam Fields grew up in Brockton, south of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Her work is influenced by her lower-middle-class roots and expressed through her choice of materials, process, and content. Craft is a philosophy for Sam which acts as both resistance and a model for change, a tool for pushing against current structures of inequitable power.
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Massiel Grullon
Boston-based artist Massiel Grullon is an alumnus of Boston Arts Academy; Massiel created art at an early age. She was heavily involved in art projects and collaborative murals in the Boston art community. She continued to follow her passion, completing her bachelor's degree in painting and graphic design at Montserrat College of Art in 2014. Massiel is now an independent working artist doing freelancing, design/fine arts, and murals. She is also a Mentor teaching painting at Artists For Humanity in South Boston, MA.