Hudson Street Gallery

For Immediate Release

Media Contact:
Charlie Wong
gallery@hudsonstreetgallery.com
(617) 319-9205

New Art Space Opens in Boston’s Chinatown

Hudson Street Gallery Remembers and Redefines the Chinatown Experience

Boston, MA – August 25, 2008 – Hudson Street Gallery, a new urban art space in Boston’s Chinatown, announces its grand opening on September 6 in conjunction with the Asian Community Development Corporation’s Hudson Street Stories Project.

Read the rest of this entry »

The Hudson Street Gallery will be open from 1230pm to 3pm on August 24. Visitors welcome.

View Larger Map

As part of Hudson Street Gallery’s mission to support local artists, we opened our doors to the Boston Photo Mob Wednesday night to host one of their monthly meetups. The Boston Photo Mob is a collective of photographic artists and enthusiasts who share wisdom and inspiration around their common love of photography.

Once a month, a some of the mob gather at a different location to socialize and then explore the photographic opportunies of the neighborhood. Here you see a member of the mob in the Hudson Street Gallery and a photograph taken from beneath the Chinatown Gateway at the corner of the block. Hing Sing Bakery sits mistily on the left just above the photographer’s hand.

These photos were supplied by Jason Liu. Jason is a member of the Boston Photo Mob and has three works hanging at the Hudson Street Gallery.

If you have an event or seminar that you’d like to host at HSG, please send an email to gallery@hudsonstreetgallery.com.

When Reggie Wong heard that a new gallery had suddenly (and I do mean suddenly) opened on Hudson Street, he snuck away from his work managing the August Moon Festival and rushed over to greet us. Here you see Reggie proudly standing in front of a younger version of himself taken from before half of the homes on Hudson Street south of Kneeland were torn down for the expressway.

Reggie’s reaction to the gallery was similar to others we’ve seen when they hear about us. Chinatown needs something fresh, but also something that looks proudly back on our heritage our friends in the neighborhood have said. I hope HSG has helped deliver some of that medicine.

Zookeepers and Economists like photography too! Here, guests Jake and Becky admire a photograph by Jason Liu. Both of these pictures were submitted by Brian Matiash, who’s photos are also on display at the HSG.

We hope to see you all again at our Grand Opening on the 6th!

Sululabelle has posted a set of photos taken at our August Moon Opening. It also features great pictures from around Chinatown during the festival.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39215332@N00/sets/72157606790269862/

Here is a great picture of our front door and all the peole coming in and out!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39215332@N00/2771845727/in/set-72157606790269862/

Here is a picture showing the inside of the gallery!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39215332@N00/2772690138/in/set-72157606790269862/

A major congratulations and thank you to everyone who stepped up to make our August Moon Opening a success!

About mid afternoon, I said to someone “we’re doing great for people, but to really, REALLY consider this opening a success, I’d like to sell something off the wall.” Well, we did it: by the end of the day we’d sold three 8×12 prints and Brian’s giant Storrow Drive picture! My guess was we had between 50 and 60 visitors, and there were basically no dead points through the day. We even had people wandering in right at 11am while we were still setting up!

The buzz was fantastic, and I heard many gallery visitors saying they would be sure to come back for the grand opening.

I see that Lee has already posted some content on his photostream, and that David has already blogged about the event.

Thank you to all the visitors who came to our opening! Please come back and see us at our Grand Opening and spread the word to your friends!

Charlie

We got most of the photos put up tonight. About ten of us worked in parallel with the ACDC to get the gallery together for August Moon in… 36 hours. Wow. We framed and hung about 17 photos while ACDC put up their Hudson Street Stories mural in the “upper gallery.”

Here is a time lapse taken by Lee: http://flickr.com/photos/leecullivan/2768113206/

Both groups finished at about 11pm.

Before opening, we still have to sweep, frame two more pieces and hang three, get a rug for the upper gallery, and generally spruce up.

Go team!

It’s official! The Asian Community Development Coroporation (ACDC) is going to put an installation of historical Hudson Street photos and information in our gallery! Before the Central Artery was built, Hudson St. extended for many blocks south of Kneeland St. Now, with the Parcel 24 project, ACDC hopes to revive part of the Chinese community that was paved over.

ACDC tour guides will also be directing visitors to Chinatown to our gallery during the August Moon festival!

I pulled the trigger and started inviting people to our opening through Facebook. I said just the other day that if you’re not a little nervous about a project, you haven’t planned big enough, and now I’m eating my words! There is much to do in the next ten days: we have to get all our prints, put in some furnishings, and hang everything! And while we’re doing that, we have to promote the event! It’s hard to believe we started this two weeks ago.

Well, here’s to impulse art projects: Excelsior!

Click on a pic to download the high-res version

Wall 1: 9 feet (Jason)

Wall 2: 11 feet (Jason)

Wall 3: 10 feet (TBD)

Short walls: 4, 3 and 3 feet (TBD)

Wall 4: 14 feet (Brian)

Wall 5: 10 feet (left 6 feet to outlet, Brian, rest TBD)

Upper Gallery main wall, 3+2+9 feet (ACDC)

Upper Gallery back wall, 10 feet including windows, or 3+3 feet between (ACDC)