Chorus Gallery | When Art and Bicycles Come Together...

I have recently acquired a new addiction: biking.  It's not about style or going green.  I fully admit that it came as the final solution for my final problem: boredom.  Being a recent graduate and "funemployed" all of a sudden was not that fun. My bicycle not only became a distraction in itself, it also led me to find new and bigger escapades.  Now I openly pledge my love for the two-wheeled vehicle.


Of course, when I heard Open Bicycles had reopened its doors in Somerville, I was lured to visit the store.  What came in as a true surprise was to see that the store had a gallery as part of its complex, the Chorus Gallery.  


It is a rather small exhibition space, much too small for my taste.  But it's never been about quantity, its about quality, right?  Upon navigating the interwebs and doing a little research, I noticed this gallery dedicates its space to eclectic, contemporary art.  Its artists have a clear design-related background and tend to focus on the city.  Broad enough?  Well, by "the city" I mean it has an urban feeling - the themes, the subject matter, the colors, or just the vibrancy of the metropolis present in the style.


The current exhibition Momentum is dedicated to Matt W. Moore known for his vektorfunk psychodelia.  Appropriately enough, Moore transfered his kaleidoscopic geometry to four bike frames, which accompanied his canvases.  I must admit I am an not a fervent follower of his style, but there is something about this exhibition that happened to attract me... a lot.  The canvases were static but there was an undeniable sense of movement in them.  An orderly chaos.


So by the time I parted, I was stuck with these rather interesting visuals.  On my ride back I couldn't help but think how dull some bike frames appeared to me... they needed some color, some vektorfunk in their lifes.

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