Campbell McLean: War-Birds & Adverts
2026-07-13 - 2026-10-03 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Closing Reception: Saturday, October 3rd, 12- 2 PM (at 301 Cabot Street)

“War-birds & adverts dance across my screen – like the birds of paradise.
Mechanical marvels of stolen avian secrets. Ailerons and fuselage.
Their hollow bones will be broken and poisoned by beasts created in their image.”
-Campbell McLean

Campbell McLean explores her queer-American experience by creating caricaturist paintings, objects, installations, and videos. From oil on canvas, papier-mâché to found object, McLean’s unique aesthetic approach shines through in her sporadic ‘make-due’ energy that flows seamlessly between 2D and 3D forms. The resulting works are immersive and modular series and installations that read as both specific and universalizing, personal and relatable.

In War-Birds & Adverts, the artist’s installation for the 301 Frame Gallery, McLean incorporates themes of patriotism, camp, nostalgia, and caricature as a generalized and vague criticism of the time and space we are living in now. Campbell’s use of humor and the appropriation of a thinly veiled spectacle, seek to critique a multitude of cultural and contemporary concerns, including, isolation, screen time, self-commodification, sloganeering, sex, death, war, ‘the art market’. As McLean comments, “Can I really not talk about that terrible ‘thing’ at an institutional gallery?” How are the birds doing? Didn’t you hear?! It’s all for sale! Call my gallerist! 978 495 6697.

Campbell-Lynn McLean is a Boston-based artist and a 2022 graduate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) BFA program. McLean is currently pursuing her MFA in painting at Boston University, Class of 2027. She has received numerous awards and scholarships in recognition of her works, including the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship in 2021, the George Nick Award in 2022, and the Joseph Ablow Memorial Prize in 2026. Since 2024, she has presented a solo exhibition, included in three group exhibitions, and two art fairs with LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA.

Reflections in the Long Night
2026-07-15 - 2026-09-25 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Friday, September 18, 6-8pm
Reflections in the Long Night is a group exhibition curated by Montserrat Gallery Curatorial Assistant, Madeline McGann, that explores divergent queer realities in which the participating artists materialize the complexity of finding oneself against cultural heteronormativity and the pressures of everyday life. The exhibition proposes queerness as a driving force of empowerment through play, revelation, and dérive, felt in flickers of warmth, and where time and space move differently. Representing the space(s) between points of departure and destination, the artists in the exhibition utilize their respective materials as reference points to re-orient their hopes, fears, longings, nightmares, and ultimately, reality. The process of artmaking itself activates queer discovery and perpetual becoming, and acts to reflect upon contemporary culture and environments.
The selected artists share a breadth of aesthetic and material perspectives that embrace liminal bodies as they move through various transitions, currents, and changes. The exhibition features Laicee Blackwell, Tynan Byrne, Ivy Howard, Clare Tof Miryam, Frankie Symonds, Jake Wanamaker, Henry Walls, and Echo VanBenschoten.

Four Voices in Silk
2026-08-20 - 2026-09-24 | Library Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Opening Reception: September 8, 6_8pm.
Artist Talk: September 11, noon, H101
Wearable Art Sale during both events.
Artists: Allyson Christopher, Christine Gauthier-Kelley, Sue Niemi,
Leslie Pearlman
Four Voices in Silk brings together four expert silk artists from Ten Pound Studio, Gloucester, whose vibrant, hand-painted works showcase the beauty and versatility of silk. Working directly on silk with traditional resist and dye techniques, these artists preserve the original serti steam-set methods—a rare and remarkable artistic tradition practiced by this unique collective in the United States.

Sunday at the Nut House
2026-09-08 - 2026-11-14 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception and Gallery Talk: Saturday, September 19, 3–5pm
This exhibition celebrates a brief period in the development of three artists who came together with the renowned author and children’s book illustrator, Maurice Sendak, on Sundays in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Between 2003-4, Sendak convened a small group of artists and students in live drawing sessions at his home in order to provide Sendak with an occasional break from working long hours in his studio on such projects as the illustrations and sets for the children’s opera, Brundibar.
The title of the exhibition is a reference to Sendak’s home, affectionately known as “the Nut House,” not because of the mental capacity of its inhabitants, but because squirrels constantly dropped acorns on its roof. The paintings, drawings and posters in this exhibition provide a sense of not only of what work was made during these drawing sessions but also include examples of the work created by the four artists in the years before, during and after the Nut House days.
The core group and participants in the exhibition include Maurice Sendak, artist and art historian, Jonathan Weinberg, and artists Marc McChesney and Jamison Odone.

Image: Jonathan Weinberg, Maurice Sendak Drawing, 2007. Courtesy of the Artist and the Maurice Sendak Foundation
