What is Outpost Gallery: Brockton?
The Outpost Gallery Project is a new collaborative forum for artists, writers, performers, and designers to generate and present work in the urban Brockton environment. The Outpost is a meeting place for artists on the frontiers of all media. Painting and film, sculpture and music, quiet writing and loud performance fight, drink, and keep warm together here.
Outpost Gallery: Brockton is a developing non-profit organization devoted to supporting and presenting contemporary art to a local and international public, in downtown Brockton. We seek to bring exposure to emerging artists with new visions yet unrecognized by the art establishment, deliver cutting edge contemporary art to the community, create unique environments for viewing and experiencing art, and attract the attention of patrons worldwide to the center of the city. Combining the individual perspectives of artists of all media, we collectively reflect the dynamic aesthetic of downtown Brockton, Massachusetts, which we consider an archetype for the diversity and complexity of the modern urban experience. The project is continually evolving in its patronage, personnel, location, and manifestation, just as the downtown constantly changes. Ultimately, Outpost strives to serve the community as a point of convergence and dissemination for all unconventional forms of communication.
Outpost was founded in August 2005 by Greg Mahoney, a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and lifelong resident of Brockton. He received his BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard in 2005 and quickly gathered a core group of Brockton artists and writers, many of whom have scattered throughout the country and beyond, to reclaim their native city’s unique artistic potential. The project has since attracted participants from far and wide.
Outpost opened with its first multimedia exhibition on November 4th, 2005. Exhibition 1 was built on the artwork, ideas, and management of twenty artists and supporters. As a result of their efforts and vision, hundreds of patrons from Brockton, Boston, Cambridge, New Bedford, Providence, and elsewhere came to downtown Brockton on Friday nights from November 4th to December 16th, 2005 to find a place of warmth, activity, and communion with the arts.
After proving our determination and ability with Exhibition 1, Outpost asked the people of Brockton for their support. On the evening of February 25th,over 90 residents of Brockton and beyond came to the gallery for a Fundraising Dinner in our totally redesigned gallery space.
To our great disappointment and frustration, our current gallery space was closed to the public due to code violations on the day before Exhibition 2 was slated to open. Originally, 27 artists from Brockton to Seattle to Singapore were to show artwork, video, performance art, and music, activating Brockton’s downtown on Saturdays from April 8th through May 6th. After an initial postponement from April 8th to June 10th, , over three months of sustained preparation, and our entrusted funds run dry, Exhibition 2 must now be postponed indefinitely. Look for photos our fully-installed, yet unseen multimedia exhibition on this site soon.
The Outpost collaborators remain committed to presenting art that engages with the landscape and culture of downtown Brockton. Our fully-volunteer team of artists and organizers would appreciate any help you can provide in continuing to establish Brockton as a fountainhead of new artistic perspectives. Despite whatever calamities may arise, we will press on.