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Sprinkler Factory is home to many independent artist studios and creative businesses spread throughout the former Rockwood Sprinkler Company of Worcester complex. The heart and central hub of the Sprinkler Factory is the three expansive and light filled galleries, performance space and learning center that is dedicated to the cultural enrichment of the City of Worcester and beyond. The galleries and performance space is operated by AGSF INC, a nonprofit 501(c)3 arts organization.

Our plans for the future include incorporating shared office, creative co-work space and common areas that orbit the galleries and will serve as a place to work, meet and be inspired by the ongoing series of exhibitions featuring local, national and internationally recognized artists. In 2018 we hosted hundreds of artists, musicians and performers from near and far and we welcomed thousands of guests to experience thought provoking and engaging exhibitions at our opening receptions and public gallery hours.

Please explore our 2019 exhibition and special event schedule and contact us if you have any questions.

– Team Sprinkler

april 2020

04apr(apr 4)5:00 pm26(apr 26)4:00 pmPersonal Vision (Postponed TBA)5:00 pm - 4:00 pm (26) Gallery 1 & 2Event Type :Exhibition

04apr(apr 4)5:00 pm26(apr 26)4:00 pmRon Rosenstock (Postponed TBA)Ireland: Vintage Silver Prints, 1971-20015:00 pm - 4:00 pm (26) Gallery 3Event Type :Exhibition

may 2020

02may(may 2)6:00 pm24(may 24)4:00 pmSolosartists on a mission6:00 pm - 4:00 pm (24) Gallery 1 & 2Event Type :Exhibition

june 2020

06jun7:00 pm10:00 pmLight Shots 2020A Survey exhibition by Raphaele Shirley7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Gallery 1, 2 & 3Event Type :Exhibition

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Light Shots 2020 – A Survey exhibition by Raphaele Shirley

Gallery 1, 2 & 3

Opening Reception: Saturday June 6, 7-10 pm

Spanning over 10 years of production this exhibition features prominent artworks by this versatile and prolific artist. Versed in a variety of mediums ranging from sculpture, installations and painting to performance and video, Shirley will fill the Sprinkler Factory’s 3 galleries with the full breath of her production. Light sculptures large and small will animate Gallery 1 forming a meditative and awe inspiring entrance. In the rear galleries we will be able to explore further her site-specific installations. Special performances and presentations of her collaborative projects with Shirish Korde, Karen Gottschang and Algis Kizys will be presented during the length of the exhibition.

About the artist:

Raphaele Shirley (born 1969) is a french/american visual artist working in NYC. Shirley’ employs in her work diverse mediums such as LED, laser, neon, watermist, sound, and occasional pyrotechnics, as well as more traditional materials such as wood, metal and paint. She creates sculptures and site-specific environments which play on the tension between ephemerality and permanence. Shirley explores in her work the power of direct communication of materials as the carriers of meaning, in keeping with a minimalist language developed from the 60’ onwards. Shirley specializes in outdoor installations working with raw industrial spaces, natural environments and public parks. She collaborates regularly with composers/musicians such as Shirish Korde, Algis Kizys, David Watson, Laura Ortman and Rhys Chatham to further her installations with sound compositions and live performances.

Shirley’s solo exhibitions include: 12.6 Lyrae, The Chimney, New York (2016) 0910 Light Shots, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2010); Arctic Lights, Dorfman Projects, New York (2010); Jewels of Kvinesdal, Kvinesdal, Norway (2009); Sunken City, Marc de Puechredon Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (2008); Sunken City Episode II, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY (2008); Video Art in the Age of the Internet, Chelsea Art Museum (2007).

Shirley’s work has been featured in group exhibitions including: KAI art center opening performance, Tallinn, Estonia (2019), Chance Ecologies, Queens Museum (2016); Free City, Flint Public Art Project, Flint, Michigan (2017/2013); The Luminous Surface, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA (2015); Magnetic North: Artists of the Arctic Circle, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY (2014); Sandnes 2160, Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY (2013); [PAM] Cyland Festival, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2009); Drift , National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2008); New York; Video As Urban Condition, Museum of Modern Art Linz, Linz, Austria (2007).

Selected fairs and biennials include: Context New York (2018/2017); Featured Project /Scope, New York and Miami (2005-2009); Docks Art fair/ Lyon (2009); The Dark Fair/Swiss Institute (2008); Mykonos Biennale

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(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

Gallery 1, 2 & 3

38 Harlow Street

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