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    Open Door Gallery

    Visit the Open Door Gallery and Win a Free MFA Boston Ticket for Two

    Posted Monday June 17 2013 at 10:07 pm

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    We have free MFA Boston passes for the next ten visitors to VSA Massachusetts.  Come see "Sri Lanka: Pinhole Photography and Portraits" by Liz Doles at the Open Door Gallery and win a free ticket for two to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

    The Open Door Gallery is open 10am - 4pm Monday through Friday.

    Tickets expire June 30, 2013.

    Hurry in, these passes won't last long!



    Liz Doles' Open Door Gallery Exhibit in Artscope

    Posted Thursday June 06 2013 at 11:12 pm

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    Artscope magazine covered Fulbright artist, photographer and teacher, Liz Doles' exhibit "Sri Lanka: Pinhole Photographs and Portraits" at the Open Door Gallery in their recent email blast which reaches over 6,000 subscribers.  The email blast is additional bi-weekly coverage to complement the bi-monthly magazine.



    Liz Doles - Sri Lanka Pinhole Photography and Portraits April 22 - July 19, 2013

    Posted Sunday April 21 2013 at 4:53 pm

    Liz Dales - Sri Lanka Pinhole Photography - Slave Island Arcade Colombo

    The Open Door Gallery presents an intimate view of contemporary Sri Lanka photography by Fulbright Artist and Teacher Liz Doles.

    Liz Doles - Sri Lanka Pinhole Photography and Portraits.  April 22 - July 19, 2013.
    Opening Reception: April 25 2013, 4pm to 7pm.  Artist Talk at 6pm.

    Artist's Statement

    I traveled to Sri Lanka in 2011 on a Fulbright grant to capture the long lived and often overlooked architectural heritage of this corner of South Asia.  While traversing the country in buses, trains and trishaws, I was beguiled not only with the monuments and the myths of the powerful, but with more humble dwellings, shacks, shops and above all, with the countenance of the ordinary and the unsung.

    Sri Lanka is a tiny country that looms large on the international scene.  For the past eighteen months, I have been living and photographing in the country formerly called Ceylon.  This exhibit embodies my vision of a nation poised at the edge of transformation from a land torn by horrific internecine strife into South Asia’s next miracle.

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