The Lost and Found Ones
2023-03-06 - 2023-03-29 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, March 8, 5-7pm
Curated by Montserrat Galleries Curatorial Assistant, Taliyah Shepard
Michael Aghahowa
Frantz Lexy
Jameel Radcliffe
Rixy
Artist Talk: Chanel Thervil, Wednesday, March 9, 2:50-3:40 (siesta) via Zoom
Artist Talk: Frantz Lexy & Jameel Radcliffe, Tuesday, March 28, 11:00-12:00 (lunch hour), Paul Scott Library
The Lost and Found Ones celebrates the painted portrait by regional, contemporary artists who are representing their cultures in their work. By portraying their ethnic and cultural identities from their perspective, the artists create portraiture that is new and inventive. The exhibition celebrates the beautiful and personal stories that are used when representing BIPOC subjects.
In studying art history, we mostly concentrate on one narrative from a single point of view. The depictions of BIPOC subjects in art are more culturally enhanced when it comes from a BIPOC viewpoint. There were a wide range of answers to the question asked to the participating artists: “How does your background influence your paintings and art practice?” In the formation of this exhibition, it was crucial to talk about familial representation in these works and the powerful connections forged between artist and subject. When sitting down with Jameel Radcliffe (BFA ’17) it was inspiring to hear his goal of depicting the people he knows and loves in his art the ways in which he incorporates abstract elements and symbolism to tell a story. Michael Aghahowa (BFA ’16) takes the art of loved ones very seriously, as he paints himself and the women in his life with reverence and respect. When applying elements of abstraction to portraiture and in his painting, Frantz Lexy takes the approach that the two are synonymous and that representation is based on the subject’s mere existence in the world. Rixy has taken it upon herself to represent the narratives of her heritage and the spirituality of womanhood by celebrating the women that made her into the person she is today.
The world of portraiture is ever-expanding, and the skillful imagination of the participatings artists in The Lost and Found Ones, illustrates a deep commitment to creating art that reflects how they see the world. As contemporary art expands the need for representation, not only in subject matter but behind the brush, this exhibition gives a platform to these four artists who are reshaping conventions of painting and pushing the boundaries of portraiture conventions.
-Taliyah Shepard

This Too Shall Pass - A Senior Thesis Exhibition
2023-04-04 - 2023-04-08 | Library Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Thursday, April 6th, 2023, 5 – 7 pm
Helen Maguire Newman
This Too Shall Pass is a senior thesis show showcasing eleven works by artist Helen Maguire Newman. These evocative digital photographs, often combined with drawing and text, reflect the artist’s personal experiences with learning disabilities and mental health struggles. The pieces are embodied metaphors of internal struggles such as depression, anxiety and dyslexia, and share their very personal meaning of the artist’s inner struggles.
The artist’s process is very experimental and involves collaging and manipulating drawings and photographs into one cohesive piece. Many of the selected photographs represent raw moments in the artist’s life in which she struggled alone and in silence. Each of the sayings that are layered into each image represent moments of guidance and support that have been given to her by others; it is vital for the artist to pass these messages on to others who might also be struggling.

Back to the Feature: A Senior Thesis Exhibition
2023-04-05 - 2023-04-08 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Thursday, April 6, 5-7pm
Caleb Keys
Caitlyn O’Leary
Camryn Reynolds
Dillon Fitzgerald
Lanie Shine
Lesley Garcia
Back to the Feature, a fine-arts exhibition, takes viewers on an unexpected creative experience. Through their individual multimedia practices, Caleb Keys, Camryn Reynolds, Caitlyn O’Leary, Dillon Fitzgerald, Lanie Shine, and Lesley Garcia explore significant topics unearthed during their journeys’ through time. These candid reflections span from today to way back to ‘bout 300 years back…

Textured Bodies – A Senior Thesis Exhibition
2023-04-05 - 2023-04-08 | MA
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu
Reception: Thursday, April 6, 5-7pm
Kaleela Greenlee
Isabella DeLia
Textured Bodies is a visual experience of emotions, relationships, and self-discovery. Artists Isabella Delia and Kaleela Greenlee explore these ideas through methodologies of fiber and fabric works. The interpersonal reflections expressed through the work leave the viewers feeling simultaneously in awe as well as connected to these woven creatures. Textured Bodies is not only a self-discovery of personal relationships but also a connection between the artist and the viewer.

Growth: What It Takes to Heal - A Senior Thesis Exhibition
2023-04-05 - 2023-04-08 | MA
Reception: Thursday, April 6th, 5-7 PM
Morgan Covert
Anders McLaughlin
Haleigh O’Leary
Rebekah Sommer
These four artists use their varied artistic practices to process, cope with, and heal from trauma. They make tangible their internal struggles, making them external using literal and non-representational visuals and language. They convey stories about their past, present, and the forward motion that propels them through the world. Here, you can see the different ways these artists confront their trauma and continually grow.

Mutual Expansion - A Senior Thesis Exhibition
2023-04-05 - 2023-04-08 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Thursday, April 6, 2023 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Audrey Permunian
Savanah Cornell
The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move are questioned, observed, and composited–from filling space full of color and matter, to capturing an interval of time, devoid of color. Audrey Permunian and Savannah Cornell close in on the ideas of space and thought and how they perceive it.
Audrey Permunian photographs their observations of the environments in which we surround ourselves in as every object, natural or made, mutely speaking to a sequence of actions deployed to shape, control, and mark the land as we shape the domain in which we live into our own.
Savanah Cornell is presenting the series Prokaryote as a series of prints and paintings playing with organic matter and pattern while taking deep consideration how others will perceive these things. The monotypes experiment with the sporadic nature of print to create once of a kind pieces. Alongside the monotypes are paintings that have a more systematic approach while creating continues patters similar to cellular organisms. While creating these pieces the idea of movement and growth are main inspirations. The viewer is encouraged to think about these pieces and how we define a space and the idea of taking up space.

National Library Week Exhibit
2023-04-18 - 2023-04-26 | Library Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Students in Bernadette Carr’s Using Images class were tasked with creating a poster based on the official poster for National Library Week. Artists include: Misha Huntington, Brianna Brand, Elliot Gale, and Thea Cannon.

Midnight Matinee: Something Along the Lines of Frankenstein
2023-04-19 - 2023-04-22 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, April 19, 5-7PM
Gabi Casella
Hannah Capra
Ponita
Zachary Fontaine
Daniela Serratore
Coco Haseltine
Kerrigan Upton
‘Midnight Matinee: Something Along the Lines of Frankenstein’ brings together multi-disciplinary works from seven unique artists with differing perspectives; An accumulation of ideas realized through varying methods such as sculpture, printmaking, painting, and experimentation. “Midnight Matinee…” explores themes of expression, gender stereotypes, mental health, and memory. While these artists differ, they are united in their drive for drawing conclusions through contemporary practices.

What's Mine is Yours
2023-04-19 - 2023-04-22 | MA
Morghan Schnoll
Reception: Wednesday, from 5-7PM
The work in my exhibition What’s Mine is Yours, captures the essence of trauma in a series of experimental mixed media works and installations.
In paintings, assemblages, collages, and installations I am finding ways to explore the depths of the subconscious. My curiosity and desire to use symbolism in my work have led me to collect discarded, ‘ found’ material. Picking up objects with a particular history, one where natural trauma occurred. As well as playing with visual perspectives and juxtapositions as critical components in my work have allowed me to conjure haunting yet nostalgic imagery.
My artwork asks you to see something, take a step, and see a whole new scene. Staying open to my viewer’s imagination and interpretation has opened the possibilities of my pieces forever renewing themselves

Morghan Schnoll Artist Bio:
My name is Morghan Schnoll. I’m a senior attending Montserrat College of Art, majoring in Painting with a Double Minor in Art History and Curatorial Studies. Originally from New Jersey, I came to Massachusetts to achieve my goal of becoming a painter and am lucky to have been mentored by my teacher, Tim Harney, and Gallery Director, Lynne Cooney. I had the opportunity to be the assistant curator of the “Samual Bak and the Art of Remembrance” exhibition in March 2022 and became co-curator for Montserrat Bare Galleries from 2022 through 2023. I have participated in numerous exhibitions and was given the opportunity for a solo exhibition this past October titled “Painful Pleasures.” Additionally, having my work chosen to be displayed in the annual “Fresh Faces Exhibition” held by the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery.
My work expresses and reflects on my life experiences including the loss of my best friend to domestic violence during my freshman year. Using my creative abilities to my advantage has allowed me to spread awareness, and bring traumatic topics into light.

Cynderwind: Nathan Felker
2023-04-19 - 2023-04-22 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, April 19, 5-7PM

Nathan J Felker’s Cynderwind is a coming-of-age graphic novel that follows a young boy on a quest to redeem himself; originally a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, Cynderwind eventually spun into its’ own journey of self-reflection and the fight against a cruel world where violence will only be met with violence until someone consciously changes something to end the vicious cycle.
Artist Bio:Nathan Felker is a digital illustrator interested in high fantasy works. He pursued his education at Montserrat College of Art, leaving with a degree in interdisciplinary works and creative writing. In the hopeful future, Cynderwind will become a published graphic novel for people to read.
insta: themadman_nate_felker OR Angry_Illustrator

In Hidden Spaces – A Senior Thesis Exhibition
2023-04-19 - 2023-04-22 | MA
Travis Lawless
Reception: Wednesday, April 19, 5-7pm
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu
In Hidden Spaces, a solo exhibition by Travis Lawless, is an exploration of humanity’s urge for community and creation, together. The work lives in conversation with humanity’s fascination with wall art, and its ever evident presence in communities. Wall art has been a part of humanity farther back than our history is recorded. Lawless combines contemporary mediums such as spray paint with historic wall art imagery, creating a conversation for this everlasting artform. This can be seen in Signature 2, where vibrant neon colors and stencil work are utilized with traditional imagery – representing a collaboration of past wall works while embarking on the future as well. This concept of collaboration runs deeper than just time, as Lawless’s works also shine light to works made in collaboration with their community. For centuries, humans have collaborated in the process of artmaking upon surfaces around us, from cave paintings, murals, rock carvings to modern graffiti. Re-writing the stigma typically composed around wall art, artist Lawless hopes to bring this art form out from its tucked away spaces, brought out to the forefront for society to see and cherish.

Raw - A Senior Thesis Exhibition by Mary Johnson
2023-04-19 - 2023-04-22 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, April 19, 5-7PM
Artist Statement:
I explore the juxtaposition between the gruesome and beautiful; seduction and disgust. As a fan of all things horror and gore, I want to display these qualities in a poetic and colorful way. I play with the application of paint seductively to inspire viewers to look at these works and their complexity.
My favorite painters are Hyman Bloom, Jenny Saville, and Cecily Brown. Another important inspiration is the book titled, “Gurlesque”; through this collection of work by female poets, editors Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenburg explore the importance of the grotesque and delicate from a feminist perspective. Greenburg writes, “I believe in the zeitgeist: a ‘gurlesque’ aesthetic, a feminism incorporating the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy.” My paintings respond to this challenge.
Mary Johnson is a Beverly based student artist at Montserrat College of Art. Mary is working towards a BFA with a concentration in painting. Themes found in her paintings and mixed media works include the exploration of femininity, the body, relationships, and identity. Through her Internship, and her employment at Robert Collins Gallery in Rockport, she is increasingly involved with working with installation and directly with art going public. Instagram: xxangelbaby420

2023 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
2023-04-24 | MA

An Amount of Something: A Design Thesis Exhibition
2023-04-26 - 2023-04-29 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Thursday, April 27, 5-7PM

Thea Cannon: Between Words is a project centered around the daily journals of my late great-grandfather, Calvin Young. He had a journal for every year, spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s. The work uses words from these journals to create poetry, as well as compositions in which the literal handwriting is placed on photos of mundane life. What do people choose to record, and what do we experience that is never recorded? What lies between the words of a journal?

Stacey Clavijo Spreading Kindness through Design: As someone who is kind and thinks about others first, I would like others to see the benefits of spreading awareness about the importance of kindness, as it benefits others psychologically and physically. For my senior thesis, I am focusing on the importance of kindness by creating collage experiments that visually express examples of kindness, such as sharing, receiving, listening, giving, and kindred. I have taken inspiration from Marijn in’ Veid’s Scrambled Heart to create my heart collages, where the heart shape is formed uniquely, such as being fragmented into multiple pieces, and demonstrates a transition of how these pieces rotate differently, and therefore, would look scrambled. The palms of hands, heart pieces, and backgrounds throughout these collage experiments express the spirit of kindness.

Katie DaSilva Sweet Color: My thesis is mainly based around the exploration of the Munsell Color System along with making recurring experiments with different materials that I’ve come into contact with in my daily life. From using photos of window blinds, to using the wrappers of my favorite types of candy.

Madison Gerace: It Takes A Village is an exploration into ideas of expression and self expression through my own art, as well as others’. Exploring the ideas of property values, community, and participation, proving that it takes a village to make a village. Using colorful house templates to bring those who participate into the moment. Proving you don’t have to be an artist to have fun for a couple minutes, and that you don’t always have to think of the monetary value of something while creating it… maybe it’s worth more than money. Exploring these ideas to reconsider what art is, what the world is, or what the world could be.

Patrick Mardy PSYOPTICAL: My thesis project is to investigate how type and imagery can work together. I intend to categorize each design language and try out a wide range of non-normative approaches.

Josh Marsi Transmission 1: With any artist’s work, even those furthest separated from language, there’s always stories and emotion acting as their sparks of inspiration. With this, Transmission 1 looks to show the unseen and untold stories of Josh’s latest works, offering a selection of writings and childhood stories that served as inspiration for the instrumentals making up his newest EP.

Sarah Mason: In Potter’s Field, Sarah seeks to create a dialogue about humans’ relationship with the environment and the impact of our actions on the world around us. Death is the inevitable end of life, but it can also serve as a catalyst for new growth and transformation. Each piece represents a moment in time, a snapshot of a living ecosystem that is directly influenced by the presence and interactions of life and death.

Activating the Surface, One and Two
2023-05-01 - 2023-05-19 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
A Tim Harney Collage Projects Class featuring:
Jorielle Arlock
Chris Barensfeld
Josue Bessiake
Stacey Clavijo
Lucas Santos
Jules Harrer
Spencer Kall
Domenic Karis
Abigail Monson
Aubrey Ochman
Alexander Pint
Taliyah Shepard
Morghan Schnoll
Lynn Andrews

Here There and Everywhere: An AIM Thesis Exhibition
2023-05-03 - 2023-05-07 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, May 3, 5-7PM
Gwyn Kadish
James Kalajian
Gabby Morin
Dylan Silva
Kay Welch
Here, There, and Everywhere is an exhibition featuring the work of fifteen graduating artists, each with a different story to tell. These artists are not only animators, game designers, or toy-makers, but storytellers, directors, and individuals with unique talents and direction. Every project in this exhibition has had an incredible amount of passion and hard work put into it. Though we will soon continue on our separate paths, we have come together in this moment to celebrate our journey thus far. Before we embark on our separate ways, we hope you will enjoy our diverse collection of work. May our stories inspire you as much as we have inspired each other.

Gwyn Kadish: Losing my best friend was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to go through. I wanted to create meet me under the moon as a tribute to him, and as a gift to my family. Quentin was incredibly important to us, and for me, was the only friend I ever really had. I don’t feel like I will ever be able to fully recover from his loss, but I hope this film can help remind me that he’s always watching over me, and waiting to visit me when I fall asleep.
Gwyn Kadish is an animator and character designer, known best for dreamy and romantic themes throughout her work. Her goal is to make the viewer understand the emotions that she feels, whether it be remembering a dear friend, or falling in love.
James Kalajian: Mutate is a project inspired by a broad form of media from anime, comic books, and live-action movies. Mutate is a fast-paced animation moving the viewer through with different camera angles and a wide array of shots of people becoming monsters and a hero stepping into action.
James Kalajian is an artist who lives and breathes animation. He constantly consume animated media from shows, shorts, and games, and love to talk and improve my genre knowledge with my peers. James mainly works in pre-production and post-production and enjoy working with a team and bouncing our creative energy off of each other
Gaby Morin: Sleepy Sheepy is a short film concept starring Sheepy, a young sheep living with her Mama. Drift in and out of dreamland with Sheepy as her bedroom morphs into many fleeting dreamscapes. The project acts as a proof of concept, comprised of four key art pieces and an animatic, with soundtrack composed by Samir Chopra. Visually and thematically influenced by children’s picture books and traditional animation of the 1980s, Sleepy Sheepy is a charming and comfortable experience for those who can’t seem to stay asleep.
Gabby Morin is a multimedia artist & designer from southern Connecticut. She often works in sequential art forms, including animation, comics and picture book illustration. Typically involving themes of comfort and nostalgia, Gabby aims to captivate viewers with her visual storytelling. When not working on creative projects, Gabby enjoys playing video games with friends and having a good time! gabbymorin.myportfolio.com.
Dylan Silva: Gaton is a short film about a superhero origin story that takes place on a planet identical to earth dominated by cat people. The story follows a young adult named Kicha, stuck in a loop of failure and being forced back home to her parents. As some sort of miracle or cruel twist of fate, an alien object sought after by an unknown alien threat crash lands in the forest of her hometown. This object revealed to be a high tech suit of combat armor named Beta requests Kicha’s aid in fending off the ruthless invaders but is met with some pushback. However, a hero’s origin often comes with its growing pains…
Dylan Silva is a character animator and storyboard artist based in Massachusetts, he’s always looking to try something new and gain some sort of experience or skill from things that interest him. He focuses on creating works that are similar visually and stylistically to cartoons and video games he grew up with from the late 90’s – early 2000’s.
Kay Welch: Series One is a collection of four original ~6” action figures packed as if they were a serialized product. As a concept, Series One is a testament to childhood toys and the many stories that they have helped us create, as well as a statement about the relationship between commercialization and art. Series One aims to highlight the incredible amount of work that goes into creating a toy. More effort and creativity goes into toys than the average person realizes, requiring hours of work concepting, sculpting, modeling, and painting to produce just a single toy.
Kay Welch is an animator, 3D modeler, and character artist. They have a passion for art and toys, inspired by the media they were exposed to as a child. They are primarily interested in exploring how one expresses themselves and experiences complex emotions through the use of a variety of processes, such as printmaking, illustration, and 3D fabrication.

Altered Expanses
2023-05-08 - 2023-06-30 | MA
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu
Curated by Josue Bessiake
Featuring Montserrat Students:
Jorielle Arlock
Aoife Bergeron
Cicey LaBella
Aubrey Ochman
Ziggy Smith
Pyre Klein
Alex Pint

Breaching Dreams - An Illustration Senior Thesis Exhibition
2023-05-10 - 2023-05-13 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, May 10, 5-7PM

Ava Ahern
Mason Browning
Dominic Bruno
Mathilde Domeyer
Morgen Dutil
Josh Gallimore
Dylan Giunta
Annie Herron
Ty Isakson
Veronica Mills
Monique Law
Sam Park
Erin Sheehan
Natasha Silverio
Madeline Sophea
Bailey Suggs
Justine Sczepczenski
Thatcher Tremblay
Chris Walker
Emelia Washer

“Breaching Dreams” is the culmination of works which mark the first step in the careers of twenty independent illustrators. A wide range of ideas and mediums have been explored by these artists, from narrative to conceptual ideas and from individual works to small businesses, we are proud to present…

Georgina Lewis: Round the clock dream state
2023-06-05 - 2023-07-29 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Round the clock dream state presents a complex cycle of grief, rebirth, and euphoria to stage a tale of transformation. Using images and materials of the natural world the installation draws on the principles of alchemy and magic. Nighttime photographs of anemones and mugwort share the walls with other images while a chorus of paper sculptures occupies the middle ground. Certain materials recur: wood, snow, plastic, and colored gems. Pinecones transition into brilliant 3D printed versions, aided by a rose-gold disco ball with whom they share the space. The multiple narratives of the installation function as incantations and promises, evoking our complex present and a possible fabulous future.
Raised in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia, Georgina Lewis (she/her) is a Boston based artist. She received her MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and holds undergraduate degrees from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and Franklin and Marshall College. Lewis works across media crafting pieces that examine dissonance: what tensions and artifacts result when one or more things come in contact. Her work has been presented at numerous venues, including Boston University’s 808 gallery, Grapefruits Art Space, Portland, OR, Acogedor LA, the Mills Gallery, and Boston Cyberarts. She has been a resident at the Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others and is a Boston Center for the Arts Studio Resident. Georgina is a Core Member of Fountain Street Gallery in Boston.

Rose Olson: New Acquisitions
2023-07-17 - 2023-09-30 | MA
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu
“I have always been interested in the color of almost anything. Even iridescent nail polish on the hands and feet of women riding the subway fascinates me. But I am especially excited by color created with changing light. I try to emulate hues in the moving sky, the sea and neon lights. The colors of nature, the colors of culture and many works of art inform my paintings.”
– Rose Olson

Rose Olson is a prolific and accomplished painter and Faculty Emeritus of Montserrat College of Art. The selection of work presented here, a generous family gift to the college made in 2022, spans from Olson’s early landscapes of the 1980s and abstractions of the 1990s to her later minimalist compositions using industrial plywood and liquid acrylics. In her more recent works, Olson added numerous layers of paint to create sumptuous surfaces that enhance the natural wood grain patterns as the painting builds in luminosity. Colors change as the viewer moves or the light shifts; hard edges and added color bands heighten the works’ spatial effects. Viewed together, the works in the exhibition illustrate Olson’s singular vision and eclecticism that has evolved over nearly four decades.

Shallow Waters: Views from the Bahamas.
2023-09-05 - 2023-09-15 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
An Exhibition of works done over the summer Josue Bessiake
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Dates
September 5–15, 2023
Closing Reception and Talk on Wednesday, 11-12pm

The works displayed show the transformation in my practice from before during and after a trip to the Bahamas. While there I reflected on the difference in light, color, and the rich history experienced there. Ranging in media and procedure the work is an amalgamation of ideas processes and discoveries in one summer. After experiencing the light and air of the Bahamas I felt my eyes become open to a range of colors that are at my disposal. Much of my work is predicated on the idea of working from life to gain a sense of empathy with my subjects, creating something there that is meaningful to me which in turn can be expressed to the viewer. This trip was sparked by an interest in abstraction and to see much deeper. I sought to understand what it was that I had yet to see that made me avert from abstraction. The discover of the late artist Sam Gilliam triggered a great fascination with the idea that something could be expressed through pure color and form. The artist Michael P. Edwards studied directly with Gilliam and happened to work in the Bahamas. Through the help of Ari Montford who also aided in funding the trip, we were able to connect and I studied with him personally getting a glimpse into the mind of Gilliam as well as learning from Edwards an established artist in his own right. Many of the works are inspired by Gilliam in some way or another, the most important thing that the works explore is the marriage of differences whether it’s a difference in articulation, color, shape, material, and most importantly light, in the hopes of creating new.

Midnight Snack: An Installation by Real Fake Animals
2023-09-05 - 2023-10-28 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Midnight Snack is a surrealist, soft-sculpture installation created by the artist collective Real Fake Animals (RFA), an interstate collaborative group of artists spanning the east coast. Fueled by the yearning of artists wanting to create, emotion is evoked in the installation through the expressive nature of puppetry and props.
On one side of the 301 Frame Gallery is an installation of over two hundred puppet heads – compressed together in the form of a fleece blanket and created in a range of skin tones– stare out in a silent scream. Through a tessellated pattern, the blanket realizes the repetitious physical nature of craft in real space. In the adjacent window space, an installation of an overflowing refrigerator brimming with an abundance of food and props spilled haphazardly. Among them, a figure peeks out furtively, as though caught red-handed sneaking a late-night snack. The viewers, made an unwilling participant, take the figure aback — revealing the scene’s sense of inner conflict, hinting at hidden desires and untapped creative urges.
Real Fake Animals, a cutting-edge collective of multimedia artists, possesses an eclectic range of skills and boundless creative abilities. Their shared desire to experiment thrives within a nurturing community space, fostering a culture of inspiration and camaraderie that fuels the creative spirit among peers. Real Fake Animals include:
Colman Berube
Chloe Carleton
Hannah Daigle
Max Foster
Kili Gallagher
Coco Haseltine
Will Higgins
Angie Iacurci
Kal Klaza
Kiran Marwaha
Sam Rose
Quill Rose

Shapeshifters
2023-09-11 - 2023-10-21 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, September 20, 5-7pm
Shapeshifters explores themes of change and transformation. Drawing on the fantastical, morphological, and psychological associations with shapeshifting, the participating artists seek to transgress or transcend the corporeal and psychic dimensions of the self or the collective consciousness. Themes of impermanence and fragility also permeate the work, both in terms of its content and material.
Multidisciplinary artist Anukriti explores meditative reinventions of prayer that seek to embody notions of queer spirituality. Aris Moore (Montserrat College of Art ’98) reinvents ideas of portraiture through the creation of anthropomorphic figures that represent or stand-in for a myriad of human emotions that are both endearing and complex. Boston-based artist, Rose Ranauro, creates vibrant paintings that depict contorted and mutable bodies, often through aspects of play and movement, that serve as proxies for the artist’s own body and find connections between her intuitive self and the physical body. In a new and ongoing series of drawings, Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda (Montserrat College of Art ’05) depicts varied drawings of heads of faces that emit or absorb light, reflecting a continuous state of transformation.
Anukriti works in various media, including painting, sculpture, and animation. They received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2021 from the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). Anukriti has exhibited their work locally including the Distillery Gallery and a recent solo exhibition at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery in 2022. Anukriti divides their time between Boston and New Delhi.
Aris Moore graduated with her BFA in painting and drawing from Montserrat College of Art in 1998. She previously taught visual art at Pentucket Regional Middle School in West Newbury, Massachusetts for twenty-one years. In 2012, Aris earned her MFA in painting and drawing from the Art Institute of Boston. She has exhibited throughout the United States and her work has been included in art fairs throughout Europe. Her inaugural solo exhibition was presented by Jack Hanley Gallery in NYC in 2012. Recent press includes the northeast edition of New American Paintings, Creative Block and Collage by Danielle Krysa, and Fukt Magazine. Aris lives and works in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Rosie Ranauro is a multi-disciplinary artist, working predominantly in painting and performance. She lives in Jamaica Plain, MA, and graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011 with a BFA in painting. She is currently an artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts. Ranauro has exhibited her work locally and internationally, most recently at Untitled, Miami and a 2021 solo show with Lamontagne Gallery called ‘Grow More Eyes’, which explored the resiliency of the body.
Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda was born in Malaga, but raised in the Canary Islands, Spain. She currently lives and works in Hudson, NY. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, NY and a BFA from Montserrat College of Art. Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions including; HallSpace, Boston, MA; ProtoGomez Gallery, New York, NY; A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The Panacea Museum, Bedford, U.K; Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY and The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA. Her work has been covered by publications including; The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Artscope, The Brooklyn Rail, The Brooklyn Paper and Vanity Fair Italia. She has received numerous fellowships to attend artist residencies, including; Residency 108, Germantown, NY, Jentel Arts, Sheridan, WY and Saltonstall, Ithaca, NY.
Related Events:
Artist Talk: Catalina Viejo, Wednesday, September 20, 11-12pm
Artist Talk: Rosie Ranauro, Wednesday, October 18, 11-12pm

Image: Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda. Drawings detail from the series Light Beings, 2023.

HYLOMORPHISM
2023-09-19 - 2023-10-06 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Bare Gallery
248 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Dates
September 19–October 6, 2023

Wells Chandler: Psychedelic Soccer Dada
2023-09-25 - 2023-11-18 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Opening in the newly renovated Montserrat Gallery is the first regional solo exhibition by the Bronx-based artist, Wells Chandler. Chandler uses vernacular and so-called “craft” materials, such as patchwork, crochet, clay, cake, and other media to build queer communities alongside and with others. Highlighting Chandler’s extensive drawing practice, Psychedelic Soccer Dada is an immersive experience featuring the artist’s iconic crocheted drawings of whimsical yarn figures and objects, patchwork bean bag chairs, drawings made in collaboration with the artist’s friends and students, as well as selections from Chandler’s extensive collection of drawings made by neurodiverse artists. In the exhibition, Chandler engages with histories of art that celebrate, rather than exclude, diversity and queerness as its dominant language.
Wells Chandler is a Bronx based artist who explores ecology, community, gender and queer iconography through the mediums of crochet, embroidery, drawing and cake. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2011 where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. From 2016-17 he was a recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Eric Mouchet (Brussels, Belgium), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago, IL), Diablo Rosso (Panama City, Panama), and Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris, France). Recent group exhibitions include International Objects (Brooklyn, NY), Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago, IL), and Helena Anrather (New York, NY). His work has been reviewed by Roxane Gay, Art Forum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, TimeOut, Modern Painters, and Two Coats of Paint. Chandler is a Soloway gallery member. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Purchase where he has taught for four years. In the Spring of 2023, Chandler was appointed the Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell.
Related Events
Unless noted, all events are free and open to the public.
Artist Talk: Monday, September 25th, 11am-12pm, H101
Artist Reception: Monday, September 25th, 5-7pm, Montserrat Gallery
*Puff the Magic Dragon Puff Paint Workshop with Wells Chandler Monday, October 2nd, 11am-12pm, Montserrat Gallery
*Sweet Lines Cake Decorating Workshop, Friday, October 20, 3-5pm, Montserrat Gallery
Punch Needle Workshop with textile artist, Haley Wood, Friday, November 3rd, 3-5pm, Montserrat Gallery
Drop Dead Fred Online Drawing Workshop with Wells Chandler, Monday, November 13th, Siesta (Zoom link to follow)
*Montserrat Students Only.

The exhibition is funded, in part, by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism.

Nightmare Gallery
2023-10-10 - 2023-11-01 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Bare Gallery
1A Knowlton Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
By Appointment: galleries@montserrat.edu
Dates
October 10–November 1, 2023

Jen Corace: Paper to Pages
2023-10-30 - 2023-12-01 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Artist Talk: Tuesday, November 7th, 11am-12pm, H101
Jen Corace is an artist and freelance illustrator who lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally from the suburbs of southern New Jersey, they eventually made her way to the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a BFA in illustration. Their career, like any freelancer, has involved many clients over the years including but not limited to Crate and Barrel, Mudpuppy, Real Simple Magazine, Harmonix and Tin House. In children’s books they have collaborated with such authors as Mac Barnett, Jane Yolen and Amy Krouse Rosenthal. They have developed bodies of work for solo and group shows in galleries from New York to Japan and are currently spending their time learning ceramic techniques wherein they apply their illustration knowledge to the surface design of the pieces they create.

Tom Radovich: Wonder Room
2023-11-03 - 2024-02-03 | MA
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu
Thomas Radovich is the former Associate Director of Admissions and an artist who works in woodcarving, painting, printmaking, and animation to explore topics of nostalgia, memory, and play. His current body of work is a series of wood carvings based off his childhood drawings.
As a child, Radovich created over a thousand figurative drawings on paper that he would transform into paper cut-out figures. He would then integrate the cut-outs into play with other action figures. His grandmother preserved these drawings in a manila folder labeled “Thomas Cut-outs.” The folder of cut-outs grew into a shoebox full of over 1,200 drawings.
Since 2017, Radovich has created carved wood sculptures based on his childhood drawings. In these whimsical wood sculptures, Radovich carefully recreates the details of the original drawings — gloss medium recreates Scotch tape that was used to repair drawings, tears in the original drawing are recreated with a box cutter, and the yellowing of the paper over time is reproduced with diluted acrylic paint.
Radovich’s installation, Wonder Room, presents several hundred of his miniature wood figures. They are displayed on thrifted and vintage shelving units, evoking the imaginative and interior space of an adolescent bedroom filled with collections and playthings.
After creating hundreds of these wood sculptures, Radovich began creating animations with them including a series of stop-motion animations retelling Dragon Ball Z, a cartoon that he has not seen in two decades, from memory.

Point of Inspiration
2023-11-09 - 2023-11-27 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Bare Gallery
1A Knowlton Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
By Appointment: galleries@montserrat.edu
Dates
November 9–27, 2023

Quête de Fil
2023-12-04 - 2023-12-14 | Library Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M-F, 8:30am–9pm
