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SUMMARY:Back to the Feature: A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 6\, 5-7pm \nCaleb Keys \nCaitlyn O’Leary \nCamryn Reynolds \nDillon Fitzgerald \nLanie Shine \nLesley Garcia \nBack 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…
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/back-to-the-feature/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:This Too Shall Pass - A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 6th\, 2023\, 5 – 7 pm \nHelen Maguire Newman \nThis 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. \nThe 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. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/this-too-shall-pass/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230306
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SUMMARY:The Lost and Found Ones
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, March 8\, 5-7pm \nCurated by Montserrat Galleries Curatorial Assistant\, Taliyah Shepard \nMichael Aghahowa \nFrantz Lexy \nJameel Radcliffe \nRixy \nArtist Talk: Chanel Thervil\, Wednesday\, March 9\, 2:50-3:40 (siesta) via Zoom \nArtist Talk: Frantz Lexy & Jameel Radcliffe\, Tuesday\, March 28\, 11:00-12:00 (lunch hour)\, Paul Scott Library \nThe 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. \nIn 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. \nThe 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. \n-Taliyah Shepard
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/the-lost-and-found-ones/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230225
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SUMMARY:Fashion Beyond Frames
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm \nDates\nJanuary 27–February 24\, 2023 \nReception: Wednesday\, February 8th \nFashion Beyond Frames is an exhibition that explores outward expression. Bringing together clothing\, photography\, and footage featuring a range of styles. The exhibition presents eleven artists who step away from fashion norms and allow our community to view style through a personal lens. \nCurated by Josué Bessiake ’24  & Morghan Schnoll ’23
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/fashion-beyond-frames/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230305
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SUMMARY:Allison Maria Rodriguez - Legends Breathe
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, February 1\, 5-7pm \nArtist Talk: Thursday\, February 9\, 11:10-12:00pm (Room H201) \nAllison Maria Rodriguez (she/her) is a first-generation Cuban-American artist working predominantly in video installation. She creates immersive and experiential spaces that challenge conventional ways of seeing and understanding the world. Her work focuses extensively on climate change\, species extinction\, and the interconnectivity of human and natural worlds. Through video\, digital animation\, photography\, drawing\, performance\, and collage\, Rodriguez merges and blends mediums to create new pictorial spaces for aesthetic\, emotional\, and conceptual connection and exploration. \nLegends Breathe is an ongoing and immersive video installation that explores the power of creativity and the imagination in overcoming trauma. Based on interviews with female-identified and non-binary artists about childhood fantasies\, Legends Breathe comprises a series of video portraits that bring these fantasies to life and as part of processes of healing and survival. As an immersive installation\, Legends Breathe speaks to resilience and finding strength through a deep connection to the natural world. Each video work is populated by endangered species and threatened habitats\, conveying a link between the trauma and healing of our planet and that of the individual. \nRodriguez’s work has been exhibited internationally\, throughout the country\, and extensively in the New England region. She has created immersive installations for traditional and non-traditional spaces and venues such as the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum\, Milton Academy\, Installation Space\, Gallery 360 at Northeastern University\, Smack Mellon\, Fitchburg Art Museum\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. She has also created large-scale public art video installations commissioned by Illuminus Boston\, Boston Cyberarts\, and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority.  Her work has been supported by grants from the Boston Foundation\, The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation\, Mass Cultural Council\, the Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation among others. \nShe received her MFA from Tufts University/The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston/Medford and holds a BA in Language\, Literature and Culture from Antioch College in Ohio combined with study at Oxford University in England and Kyoto Seika University in Japan. \n \n  \nImages: \nLegends Breathe: Fairy Tales (video still) \nMulti-channel video installation \nLegends Breathe: In My Own Backyard (video still) \nMulti-channel video installation \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/allison-maria-rodriguez-legends-breathe/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Robert Moeller: A Series of Seditious Portraits with Adjacent Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, February 1\, 5-7pm \nArtist Talk: Tuesday\, February 21\, 11:10-12:00pm\, Paul Scott Library \nIn this recent series of portraits and companion landscapes\, Boston-based artist\, Robert Moeller\, responds to the incendiary events that took place in Washington\, D.C. following the 2020 Presidential election. \nOn January 6th\, 2021\, thousands of supporters of then President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building to overturn the results of the presidential election. While this unprecedented event unfolded\, President Trump is said to have remained in the White House\, watching on television as his supporters violently entered and vandalized the Capitol Building. \nA Series of Seditious Portraits with Adjacent Landscapes focuses on the individuals that participated in the January 6th insurrection. As part of an on-going\, larger project\, the work in the exhibition focuses on\, as Moeller states\, “a time where it seemed half of America was at war with science\, the rule of law\, and an unrelenting pandemic.” The portraits are not depictions of actual individuals. The portraits\, while nondescript and intentionally crude\, are abstract and fictionalized representations of the interior surfaces of an insurrection and psychic spaces filled with anger and disinformation.  The figures in Moeller’s portraits are intentionally fragmented\, half-drawn and brutal. Crushed charcoal is dragged and pushed to shape faces and limbs. Paint tugs at the figures\, pulling at them and forcing them to abruptly reconsider their shape in the world. \nThe portraits are accompanied by kinetic landscapes that propose that the narrative is ongoing and that information\, and even reality itself\, is disputed. The landscapes are footnotes that are not even remotely pastoral but rather ruinous battlescapes. They follow the portraits with snapshots of erratic emotions and conflict\, while subtle areas of green space suggest the possibility of new conversations to be had. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/robert-moeller-a-series-of-seditious-portraits-with-adjacent-landscapes/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Isaiah Hope: Dream in Blue
DESCRIPTION:Dream in Blue is a new installation for the 301 Frame Gallery by Montserrat alumnus\, Isaiah Hope (’22). \nMany artists go through periods of obsession with a theme that becomes the focus and embodiment of their work. For some\, it’s a creature\, an object\, a style\, a person\, or some sort of muse. For Hope\, the color blue has been a point of exploration and fixation.  He engages with how the color blue symbolizes both the ocean and the sky in the natural world and also how blue conveys human emotions. To that end\, Hope has entered his own “blue period”–a subtle nod to Picasso–as a means to develop his own style and visual language. Using a variety of acrylics and inks\, Hope creates a series of mural pieces that depict mythological beings and creatures of the sea. Through a style that dips in and out of abstraction\, he imbues these mythological beings with sense of emotion that only blue can convey.  These beings are depicted not only as emanating from the blue sea but also appear to be in a human\, dream-like state. As Hope states\, “My desire is that when an individual looks at this\, they can feel the emotion not only from the color blue but also the emotion that sea itself releases.” \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/isaiah-hope-dream-in-blue/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:  \nMontserrat College of Art presents an annual series of group thesis exhibitions by mid-year graduating seniors in the Montserrat Gallery and Carol Schlosberg Gallery. \nEach small group thesis show will include the individual work of each artist\, developed during their studies toward their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Montserrat. The shows are themed by the students’ concentrations and include illustration and art education. \n  \nSenior Thesis Exhibition – The Creature Feature \nDecember 7-10\nReception: Wednesday\, December 7\, 5-7pm\nCarol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery\nPhoenix Boardman\nTianna Pelton \n  \nArt Education: Works by their Students  \nDecember 14-17 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, December 17\, 5-7pm \nMontserrat Gallery \nMadison Wallace\nMegan Travis\nAurora Gloor\nZoë Weymouth \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibitions-2/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221211
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Montserrat College of Art presents an annual series of group thesis exhibitions by mid-year graduating seniors in the Montserrat Gallery and Carol Schlosberg Gallery. \nEach small group thesis show will include the individual work of each artist\, developed during their studies toward their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Montserrat. The shows are themed by the students’ concentrations and include illustration and art education. \n  \nSenior Thesis Exhibition – Illustration\nDecember 7-10 \nReception: Wednesday\, December 7\, 5-7pm \nCarol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery \nPhoenix Boardman\nTianna Pelton \n  \nHow to Grow an Artist: Art Education Thesis Exhibition\nDecember 12-15 \nClosing Reception and Graduation Ceremony: December 15\, 5-7pm \nMontserrat Gallery \nMadison Wallace \nZoe Weymouth \nMegan Travis \nAurora Gloor \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibition/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230225
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SUMMARY:Ray Pisano: A Lifetime of Achievement
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \n \nNovember 12\, 2022 – March 18\, 2023\nDates November 15\, 2022 – February 24\, 2023 \n  \nRay Pisano: A Lifetime of Achievement highlights a selection of drawings\, studies\, and documentation celebrating the life and work of the renowned sculptor and one of Montserrat College of Art’s Founding Faculty. \nBorn in Lynn and residing in Nahant\, Pisano has been carving and creating major stone sculptures\, friezes\, and memorials for over seven decades. He has been commissioned to create large-scale sculptures in bronze and stone since the early 1950s locally and nationally including major installations at the Forest Hills Cemetery\, the Mary Baker Eddy monument in Lynn\, and the Frederick Douglass monument in New Bedford\, among others. \nPisano\, who often makes his own tools on his own forge in his studio as integral to his studio practice\, has worked on restorations of many major historical sculptures around New England\, including restoration work for sculpture and edifices for the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, Boston University\, Harvard University\, and others. \nIn addition to creating sculpture\, Pisano has also worked as a product designer for the commercial sector. He was a product director for the housewares division of General Electric and conducted product development for Newhart Products\, specializing in precision trace masters for jet engines. As a corporate director of product development at Towle Silver\, for whom he traveled internationally introducing new technologies to the trade\, Pisano designed homeware and tableware\, and example of which is included in this exhibition. \nA decorated World War II veteran\, Pisano holds a fifth-year certificate with highest honors from the Boston Museum School\, where he joined the faculty after graduating. He has also been a faculty member at Boston University. \nHe was honored by the City of Lynn for his bronze relief sculptures of Frederick Douglas and Mary Baker Eddy\, during an event at Lynn City Hall last fall. \nAt the age of 99\, Ray still works in his Nahant studio.  Ray’s words of wisdom on his longevity are “Never finish anything.” He believes you can’t leave if you still have work to do.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/ray-pisano-a-lifetime-of-achievement/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Rixy: In Between the Bites of Cúcala
DESCRIPTION:“A Bite of Cúcala” is an excerpt of the solo exhibition “Enter the Cúcala” by the Greater Boston artist displaying the collection of the fluorescent story world ‘Cúcala’ and its survived femme characters. This bite brings in two ends of the island: The quiet line between wholesome farm living and self-sufficient solitude\, and a bimbo-like whiplash of a girls’ night out around questionable city slickers. Both scenes\, based on true situations\, provide balance to healing attached to the perspectives and battle scars that inform the next episodes of our stories.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/rixy-in-between-the-bites-of-cucala/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221120
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SUMMARY:Resplendent
DESCRIPTION:Resplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics features the work of comic and visual artists who rewrite and reimagine how gender and identity can be represented in contemporary comics. Mainstream comics have long been dominated by white\, largely male superheroes and villains. This exhibition highlights the growing body of positive\, powerful\, and diverse depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ characters and story worlds. It features regional and national practitioners who bring fresh voices and new perspectives to their medium. \nComics offer a powerful platform for LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ artists to envision themselves. Drawing conceptual and visual connections to acts of line-making\, the exhibition explores the medium of comics as a means to delineate new spaces of belonging. Lines are elemental to the act of drawing and a defining visual feature of many comic forms. Actual and symbolic lines are also drawn\, crossed\, and joined together\, presenting opportunities for self-assertion and self-identification. Such ideas are present in the writings of the cultural theorist\, Sara Ahmed\, who proposes that lines both divide things and construct spaces that we imagine we can be in. The curator and author\, Justin Hall\, uses the metaphor of the line in his anthology\, No Straight Lines\, to alert our attention to the increasing number of queer comic artists who are creating outside of the lines of popular comic genres. \nResplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics highlights a selection of the many comic artists who use words and images to explore the politics of identity and to express ideas of beauty\, joy\, and abundance. From graphic memoirs\, serialized strips\, and web comics to fantastical stories and commanding autobiographical narratives\, the exhibition brings together a wide range of themes and media that celebrate the imaginary and private lives of their creators. \nLawrence Lindell\, Breena Nuñez\, and A.K. Summers draw intimate personal stories that are powerful\, poignant\, and sometimes humorous accounts of real life. The comics and comics-inspired work of Chitra Ganesh\, Rumi Hara\, and Bishakh Som conjure sumptuous and dream-like imagery to articulate the intersections of cultural and gender identity. \nThe complexities of queer love and friendship are taken up in the comics of Paige Braddock\, Jennifer Camper\, and Jessica Campbell. Raúl the Third also explores themes of friendship through the adventures of an eclectic group of LatinX characters\, while collaborators Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s slice of life comics pay tribute to the beauty of and relationships between Black women. \nLavaughan Jenkins and Karmimadeebora McMillan\, both painters\, create comics as part of their larger creative practice and as a platform to address racial identity and systemic racism. \nAnd the work of interdisciplinary artists Edie Fake and Lilli Carré focus on transformations of the physical body. Fake’s comics are surreal explorations of non-binary bodies and sexual experiences. Carré’s animation examines the malleable female body represented throughout history. \nResplendent: Identity and Visibility in Comics is curated by Lynne Cooney\, Ph.D.\, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at Montserrat College of Art.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/resplendent/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221024
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SUMMARY:A Social Rapport
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Josué Bessiake ’24 and Morghan Schnoll ’23
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/a-social-rapport/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/kumasi-j-barnett-american-alien/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220917
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SUMMARY:Julie Peppito: Love is the Key
DESCRIPTION:Reception:  Tuesday\, September 6\, 5-7pm \n\nJulie Peppito: Love is the Key presents a series of recent and new artworks that interrogates the political and environmental impacts of our consumer-based culture. An activist and artist\, Peppito uses her artmaking to draw connections between our dependence upon cheaply made and disposable goods and its destructive effects on the planet and on human health. Peppito conveys this urgent message through the creation of subversively exquisite\, highly embellished mixed media drawings and paintings that are often heavily layered with the cast-off detritus of mass-production\, such as fabric\, buttons\, beads\, plastic toys\, and other single-use plastics.  In many of her compositions\, Peppito juxtaposes dense areas of color and found objects with delicate and detailed drawing—from the monumental mixed media work Wake Up! to smaller works on paper\, such as We are in Danger and Love is the Key. But as the title of her exhibition suggests\, Peppito’s message is not simply defeatist or alarmist. She believes that awareness\, action\, and compassion can positively change the course of our planet\, create a more equitable society\, and sustain a healthy environment. In other words\, love is indeed the key. \nIn addition to over 15 mixed media artworks\, the exhibition also includes Peppito’s collaborative and fantastical drawings with her husband\, the illustrator and graphic novelist\, Gideon Kendall. \n  \nAbout Julie Peppito \nJulie Peppito combines multiple materials in her sculptures\, installations\, collages\, and playground art. She has been an exhibiting artist in New York City for 31 years and has had nine solo exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited at The Long Island Children’s Museum\, Kentler International Drawing Space\, Art in General\, PS122\, HEREart\, Momenta\, NURTUREart\, Ethan Cohen Gallery\, and many other venues. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture and has made art for three New York Park’s Department playgrounds. \nShe holds an MFA with a concentration in sculpture from Alfred University in Alfred\, NY and she received her BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City.  You can see her playground art at J.J. Byrne Playground and James Forten Playground\, both in Brooklyn. Her work has been in The New York Times and The Daily Beast. Currently\, she has a giant “bird condo” on display at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. She was born and raised in Tulsa\, Oklahoma. She lives\, creates and teaches art in Kensington\, Brooklyn with her partner (artist\, illustrator\, graphic novelist) Gideon Kendall and their son Milo. \n  \nImage: Wake Up!\, 2018\, canvas\, trim\, thread\, acrylic paint\, wood\, found objects\, dimensional fabric paint\, and fabric. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/julie-peppito-love-is-the-key/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220925
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SUMMARY:Lynne Harlow: Loomings
DESCRIPTION:In her installation and interdisciplinary practice\, the Providence\, Rhode Island artist\, Lynne Harlow\, transforms traditional and nontraditional spaces using modest materials and processes. Taking inspiration from the Minimalists and the Light and Space artists of the 1960 and 1970s\, Harlow uses industrially made materials\, such as tinted Plexiglass\, vinyl\, and house paint\, to create immersive and multi-sensory experiences for the viewer that are vibrant\, sometimes provocatively garish\, and also at times soft\, subtle\, and barely there. In her installation for the 301 Frame Gallery\, Harlow uses broad swaths of color and playful curtains of bright pink vinyl that dynamically and playfully interact within the narrow confines of the space. Harlow’s less is more approach is not just an homage to minimalist art traditions or created for simple visual effect. Rather\, her installations explore the dynamic physicality and the phenomenological possibilities of light and color.  Harlow states\, “I arrive at my pieces by reducing physical and visual information.  This process of reduction\, a steady taking away\, is ultimately intended to be an act of generosity.  In each piece I’m looking for the point at which these reductions allow me to give the most.” \nAbout Lynne Harlow \nLynne Harlow has exhibited her work internationally for the past 20 years. Gallery exhibitions include several solo shows at MINUS SPACE\, Brooklyn\, NY\, and Liliana Bloch Gallery\, Dallas\, TX. Museum exhibitions include the Hofstra Museum of Art in 2020 and the deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in 2013\, as well as shows at MoMA PS1\, Brattleboro Museum\, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art\, and Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca. Harlow has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation\, Chinati Foundation\, Rhode Island Foundation\, and BAU Institute\, and her work has been reviewed in publications\, such as Artforum\, The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, The Providence Journal\, and Artnet Magazine\, among others. Harlow’s work is included in public collections\, such as The Museum of Modern Art\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York Public Library\, and Hunter College (all New York\, NY); RISD Museum (Providence\, RI); and The Philips Collection (Washington\, DC). Harlow holds an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from Framingham State College. \nLynne Harlow: Loomings is presented in collaboration with bkprojects \nbkprojects\, LLC\nwww.bkartprojects.com\nwww.drive-byprojects.com \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/lynne-harlow-loomings/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220911
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SUMMARY:Complete Fabrication: E. Winslow Funaki and Holly Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \nComplete Fabrication features new work by Montserrat staff\, Winslow Funaki and Holly Kelly.  Artists\, makers\, and educators\, Funaki and Kelly create work that explores humor\, play\, and perception. In their interdisciplinary practices\, both Funaki and Kelly–who serve as the Digital Fabrication Studio Manager and the Studio Manager of the Sculpture Shops respectively–use materials as the conceptual foundation of their work. Funaki creates in-between objects that resist categorization as a reflection of her own mixed identity\, often intermixing found objects and fabrication technologies. Kelly explores ordinary and mundane objects and space\, transforming documents and presenting everyday things from a different or altered perspective. Complete Fabrication is a wordplay\, implying both visual trickery and invention as well as the physical process of making. \nE. Winslow Funaki holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design\, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2016\, and completed her MFA in Furniture Design at RISD in 2020. Her work has been exhibited in venues including Special Special in New York\, the RISD Museum and Brown University in Providence\, RI\, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan\, WI. \nHolly Kelly earned her M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2019 and her B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in 2013. Kelly has worked multiple creative jobs\, including bronze foundry\, artist studio assistant\, artist office assistant\, studio manager\, fabricator\, and art installer. All of it has influenced her studio practice and research. Kelly has shown work across the United States and received recognition from the International Sculpture Center and Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. \nTop Image (left) E. Winslow Funaki\, video Still\, 2022 (right) Holly Kelly\, untitled (detail)\, carved wood\, 2022
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/complete-fabrication-e-winslow-funaki-and-holly-kelly/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220910
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SUMMARY:Andy Li - What About Tomorrow?
DESCRIPTION:Montserrat Galleries presents the solo exhibition What About Tomorrow? A Show About Today by the Boston based artist Andy Li.  Li’s text based fabric banners and panels focus on the power of now. His work is a reflection of both the mundane and the unnoticed moments of greatness that we perceive and experience in day to day life. \nAndy Li earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Media and Performance Art with a focus in Film/Video and 3D Sculpture with a focus in Fibers and Soft Sculpture. These two mediums have provided Li with an understanding of the value of time and patience. Some days you will see him hunched over a single thread for hours on end\, and other days you will see him running back and forth with three different cameras trying to find the best light. A believer in the suggestive nature of positivity\, Li encourages those around him to keep failing in order to keep getting better. Always trying to adapt and evolve\, his work and his personal attitude is the visual exploration of the saying\, “You can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs.” \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/andy-li-what-about-tomorrow/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220911
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SUMMARY:Works from the Montserrat Archives
DESCRIPTION:Samuel Bak\, Gelin Buteau\, Fay Chandler\, Dr. Leslie King Hammond\, and Norman Laliberte\nGallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \n \n \nThe Montserrat Teaching Collection is a vast archive of work by former faculty\, alumni\, and artworks acquired through friends and donors of Montserrat.  The collection provides opportunities for current students to gain first-hand knowledge of the varied materials\, methods\, and thematic ideas used by a wide range of artists.  The summer exhibition in the President’s Gallery presents a selection from the collection\, from newly acquired to older works. \nOn view in the President’s office are recent acquisitions by Samuel Bak and works on temporary loan by Dr. Leslie King Hammond. Dr. King Hammond and Samuel Bak\, who served as Montserrat’s 2021 Convocation Speaker and the 2022 Commencement Speaker respectively\, use their art to explore their biographies and cultural identities.  Dr. King Hammond draws upon her Caribbean ancestry\, the African American experience\, and different craft traditions to explore the anonymity of women’s labor and the intersection of African Diasporic spiritual beliefs. Samuel Bak\, a Holocaust survivor\, explores his memory of the Holocaust and its devastating aftermath to preserve Jewish life and culture in the wake of unfathomable atrocity. Both artists were presented with exhibitions in the Montserrat Galleries during the 2021-2022 academic year. \nIn the main office are a selection of works by Gelin Buteau\, Fay Chandler\, and Norman Laliberte. The Haitian born Buteau (1954-2000) creates imaginative paintings that explore aspects of Haitian life and culture. The paintings of two mermaid figures represent Mami Wata\, a water spirit originating from West Africa and whose image is commonly found in African Diasporic and Caribbean literature and art. Mami Wata is described as a strong-willed\, sensual siren and often depicted as half-human and half fish. In another untitled work\, Buteau portrays a protest or uprising against the government\, a commentary on the country’s political instability and corruption. Also on view are three small sculptures by the Boston artist and philanthropist\, Fay Chandler (1923-2015)\, illustrative of the artist’s whimsical use of everyday materials and found objects and her focus on feminist themes related to women and childhood. Complimenting the informal style of Buteau and Chandler\, is a small tapestry by the North Shore-based artist Norman Laliberte (1925-2021) from his 2019 retrospective exhibition in Montserrat Gallery. Laliberte created colorful and celebratory paintings and fabric tapestries\, often resembling ancient hieroglyphics\, which speak to a range of narratives\, from the personal to the fantastical. \nImages: \nSamuel Bak (top)\, Once a Home\, 1990\, mixed media on paper\, 12 x 16 in.\, (bottom) Emerging\, 2003\, watercolor\, 7.5 x 7.5 in.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/works-from-the-montserrat-archives/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220703
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SUMMARY:Inspired Views 2022
DESCRIPTION:Reception:  Saturday\, June 18\,  2-4pm with a 1:30 awards ceremony \nInspired Views gathers more than forty art educators from New England and beyond in celebration of their commitment and dedication to arts education. Recognizing the many working artists who inspire and mentor our young people\, Inspired Views brings art educators together and gives them an opportunity to exhibit their own artwork in the Montserrat Gallery. Art teachers from both K-12 public and independent schools\, as well as art educators working at the college level\, are represented. \nARTISTS:  Whitney Bates\, Debra Bianculli\, Megan Biddle\, Nancy Blasi\, Steven Branfman\, Jessica Bouchard\, Colleen Campbell\, Lorrinda Cerrutti\, Linda Cersosimo\, Caddy Cicogna\, Sheila Boss-Concannon\, Anthony Delmonico\, Cari Dicicco\, Helen Duncan\, Jeph Ellis\, Ellen Sullivan Farley\, Shawn Farrell\, John Favret\, Toni MacDonald-Fein\, Erin Landry Fowler\, Tara Fracalossi\, Brenda Fredericks\, Deborah Gray\, Gabriel Gomez\, Mariel Gross\, Melissa Silveira Guimaraes\, George Hancin\, Emily Harney\, Thomas Lail\, Karen Romeo-Léger\, Bob Mosier\, Jamila Musa\, Catie Nasser\, Maria Oakley\, David Oxton\, Gail Pepe\, Amanda Putnam\, Danielle Ruggiero\, Jennifer Schiebel\, Jillian Scotto\, Larry Sheinfeld\, Biddle Snyder\, Tyler Sorgman\, Sarah Steinberg\, Laura Evonne Steinman\, Emily Rensink Taylor\, Sarah Walker\, Babs Wheelden\, Neil Wilkins\, Kara Frank-Whiting\, Bates Whitney\, Yihon Zhou.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/inspired-views-2022/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220529
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SUMMARY:Project Space: New Work by Montserrat Students
DESCRIPTION:May 2 – 28\, 2022\nDuring the month of May\, Montserrat students take over the 301 Frame Gallery\, creating site-specific installations of new work.   \n  \nMay 2 – 13 \nAngelina DeDominicis & Alex Pint:  A Con(temporary) Show \n  \nMay 16 – 27 \nSaya Norton: Onkochisin – Old Visits\, New Knowledge \n  \nMay 30 – June 10 \nJosue Bessiake: Earthly Delights \n  \nJune 13 – 24 \nMorghan Schnoll: Paintings \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/project-space-new-work-by-montserrat-students/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220501
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SUMMARY:National Library Week
DESCRIPTION:National Library Week (April 3 – 9\, 2022) is a time to celebrate our nation’s libraries\, library workers’ contributions and promote library use and support. \nThe American Library Association (ALA) kicks off National Library Week with the release of its State of America’s Libraries Report\, highlighting the challenges U.S. libraries faced in the second year of the pandemic – as well as the ways they innovated to meet the needs of their communities. \nLibrary staff in every state faced an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books. ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library\, school\, and university materials and services in 2021\, resulting in more than 1\,597 individual book\nchallenges or removals. Most targeted books were by or about Black or LGBTQIA+ persons. \nMultiple Emmy-nominated and Spirit Award-winning actress\, comedian\, and legendary Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Shannon\, will help celebrate our nation’s libraries as the honorary chair of National Library Week. \nNational Library Week events\nApril: School Library Month\nMonday\, April 4\, The State of America’s Libraries Report Special Edition is released\nTuesday\, April 5\, National Library Workers Day\nWednesday\, April 6\, National Library Outreach Day\nThursday\, April 7\, Take Action for Libraries Day \nStudents enrolled in this semester’s “Using Images” class created this poster series to celebrate National Library week. \nGrace Perry\nAudrey Duclos\nDylan Maher\nBrandon Hale-Montminy\nJillian De Paolo\n  \nThe goal for this assignment was to create surrealist imagery inspired by a quote celebrating the power of libraries. Students followed the style guidelines created for this public service advertising campaign. Students incorporated the graphics and color palette provided by the American Library Association.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/national-library-week/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220512
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SUMMARY:Golden Gull
DESCRIPTION:GOLDEN GULL is an interactive exhibition involving the life surrounding Chadley Chaderson and the exquisite luxuries that revolve around living a golf-centric lifestyle.\n\nThroughout media involving movies\, TV shows and news outlets\, golf has been a representation of a leisurely past-time and active sport; most notably\, for wealthy\, older\, white men.\n\nThese men have taken the empires of their wealth and have channeled their energy into mastering what goes into the perfect golf swing.\n\nThis lifestyle is one adapted by Chadley Chaderson. As the perfect poster boy for the rags-to-riches style American Dream\, Chaderson followed his passion for golf\, opening the Club in the 1950s. He pushed himself day after day\, eventually becoming one of the richest\, most respected gentlemen of the mid-century.\n\nToday\, The Golden Gull Golf Club remains one of the top family tourism destinations on the East Coast\, despite many gristly rumors surrounding its past…\n \nGOLDEN GULL features the work of Gabi Casella\, Zack Fontaine\, Max Foster\, Coco Haseltine\, and Sarah Mason.\n \nCurated by Alexia Avila\, Kal Orna and Sam Rose.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/golden-gull/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220409
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SUMMARY:A World of Difference
DESCRIPTION:Black art is many things\, but singular is not one of them. As Montserrat’s Black Student Union\, our curatorial lens is focused here on *DEIB and representation in artistic voice and verb\, an idea that can be traced to the groundbreaking exhibition\, Art as a Verb\, curated by Dr. Leslie King Hammond in 1988. \nCurated by students from the Black Student Union\, the exhibition seeks to embrace the intersectionality of contemporary *BIPOC artistic expression. The exhibition aspires to present to Montserrat and the public that Black artists and those of African descent have agency to make anything\, and Black art can be anything while employing all genres of art and design. \nArtists include Michael Aghahowa\, Josh Beckett\, Dr. Leslie King Hammond\, Ari Montford\, Toby Sisson alongside BSU Student Artists Josue Bessiake\, Isaiah Hope\, Marc Elie Mordan\, KD Moye\, Taliyah Shepard. Ziggy Smith\, and Venus. \n  \n* Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion and Belonging \n* Black\, Indigenous People of Color
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/a-world-of-difference/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220201
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SUMMARY:Don't Wake Mom & Dad
DESCRIPTION:Don’t Wake Mom & Dad explores the often eerie and uncomfortable recollection of childhood\, nostalgia\, gender expectations\, and self-identity. \nIn the recreation of an American nuclear family\, we use iconography often associated with mediums of vintage or analog horror to re-frame the gallery’s collection of art and advertisements. This juxtaposition of art\, memory\, childhood and horror is used to analyze how societal mechanizations shape us\, and how the assumption of a gendered binary experience gives little leeway for creativity\, empathy\, and growth. \nDon’t Wake Mom & Dad features the work of Darcie Blake\, Fernanda Diaz\, and Zack Fontaine. \nDarcie Blake is an interdisciplinary artist focusing primarily on illustration and photography. Her illustrative work draws inspiration from 90s and 00s children’s toys and media\, giving her work a sense of childlike optimism and wonder with a balance of adult themes like mental illness and cynicism. She is a resident artist of Wrong Brain\, an alternative art organization based in Dover\, NH\, and attended Montserrat from 2018 to 2019. She is also co-founder of Rock Water Film Festival and founder of an inclusive open-mic standup night. You can find more of her work on instagram @darcie.blake. \nFernanda Diaz is a multimedia artist with a primary focus on animation production. A proud Tejana who moved up north to pursue post-secondary education\, she aims to join the TV entertainment industry as a Visual Development Artist. Her obsession with internet mysteries and the paranormal combined with experiences of her perceptual limbo millennial and gen-z childhood have contributed to her style of drawing. Her artwork is heavily inspired by nostalgia and creepy cute aesthetics for all ages. \nZack Fontaine is a cross-disciplinary artist and educator from the northeast corner of Connecticut. He primarily works in sculpture and painting\, utilizing themes of childhood and the medium of toys to interrogate how they can affect the current reality of our world. He forged his unique stylistic choices and medium of work during the original COVID-19 quarantine in early 2020 while dabbling in playing board games as a method of painting or drawing. Later that year\, he dove head first into stuffed animals as a material. \nDon’t Wake Mom & Dad was curated by Alexia Avila\, Kali Orna\, and Sam Rose. \nSpecial thank you to Hannah Daigle\, Kiran Marwaha\, Max Foster\, and Will Higgins for assisting in putting up the mural.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/dont-wake-mom-dad/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220124
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Sosa - Today's Specials
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Sosa transforms the 301 Gallery into a bodega storefront with Today’s Specials\, an installation comprised of oversized hand-painted works on paper. Amidst the announcements for laundry detergent\, apple juice\, and sopa de res\, you might be surprised at what else is on sale. Pointing to questions of subversion\, gentrification\, and the shortcomings of the American Dream\, Sosa’s work reminds us to look a bit closer at the language that surrounds us. \nGabriel Sosa is a Cuban-American artist\, educator\, and linguist. He draws from legal proceedings\, personal archives\, and contemporary visual culture to explore the mutability of language\, the imperfection of memory\, and the misinterpretation of both. His work has been shown at the O\, Miami Poetry Festival\, Museo La Tertulia\, Cali\, Colombia; Tufts University Art Galleries; Centro Cultural Español\, Miami; La Fábrica de Arte Cubano\, Havana; A R E A\, Boston; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum\, San Francisco. Raised in Miami and based in Boston\, Gabriel is a lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Deputy Director of Essex Art Center in Lawrence\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/gabriel-sosa-todays-specials/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220320
DTSTAMP:20260418T234323
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SUMMARY:Re-Viewing the Past
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, January 27\, 5:00-7:00 pm. Free and open to the public. \nPresented in conjunction with the exhibition\, Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance\, the group exhibition\, Re-Viewing the Past\, highlights the work of artists who explore ideas of history and memory as part of processes of re-writing or re-imagining. Creating in diverse media\, including painting\, printmaking\, animation\, and the graphic novel\, participating artists consider their connection to history — whether personal or collective — as it resonates with or is interpreted through the present moment and current socio-political and cultural issues.  Artists include Paul Emmanuel\, Maya Erdelyi\, Dell M. Hamilton\, Dave Ortega\, and Jordan Seaberry. \nThe exhibition continues in the Paul M. Scott Library Gallery. \nBorn in Zambia and currently living in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, Paul Emmanuel employs various media to reveal layered visions concerned with his identity living in the post-apartheid nation. Over the last decade\, Emmanuel has conceived and implemented the large-scale and ongoing Lost Men project\, a series of site-sensitive elegiac counter-memorials installed\, to date\, in public spaces in South Africa\, Mozambique\, and France.  The Lost Men\, was launched at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in Grahamstown\, South Africa. In 2007\, Phase 2 of this project took place in Maputo\, Mozambique. In July 2014 The Lost Men France was installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme\, Northern France. \nMaya Erdelyi is an award-winning animator and artist. She creates intricate hand-made animations and collages inspired by imaginary worlds\, music\, memories\, and the unconscious. Her animations explore a hybrid approach to cut-paper stop-motion\, puppetry\, hand-drawn\, digital animation\, and installation. Her work has been shown in national and international film festivals\, galleries\, museums\, and DIY venues. She is a recipient of a 2020 City of Boston Artist Fellowship Award\, a 2019 Yaddo Residency\, a 2018 WGBH Launchpad Residency\, a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship Award\, and the 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Film. \nDell M. Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and independent curator. Born in Spanish Harlem with ancestral roots in Belize\, Honduras\, and the Caribbean\, her practice wrestles with the social and geopolitical constructions of memory\, gender\, race\, language\, and history through the mediums of photography\, video\, drawing\, installation & performance. Dell’s work\, artist talks\, solo performances\, scholarly lectures\, and collaborative performances have been presented to a wide variety of audiences nationally and internationally. Dell is a 2021 recipient of a James and Audrey Foster Prize\, the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston. \nDave Ortega has been self-publishing comics and zines since 2010. For the past 8 years\, he has self-published over 6 issues\, the story of the early life of his grandmother: Días de Consuelo. In March 2022\, Días de Consuelo will be collected and published as a graphic novel by Radiator Comics. In 2013\, his comic Hacienda won the Comics Composition Competition\, awarded by Comics Workbook. In 2015\, he was invited by the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston to design an immersive educational experience around comics in their Art Lab space. He has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston and Lesley University\, and has been awarded grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Collective Futures Fund. \n Jordan Seaberry practice bridges the painting studio with community organizing and advocacy. His large-scale\, narrative paintings address family histories\, systemic injustice\, social and political change. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago\, Jordan first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design. Alongside his art\, he built a career as a grassroots organizer\, helping to fight and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones\, including Probation Reform\, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill\, and laying the groundwork for the “Ban the Box” movement in Rhode Island.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/re-viewing-the-past/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220320
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SUMMARY:Re-Viewing the Past – Library
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, January 27\, 5:00-7:00 pm. Free and open to the public. \nPresented in conjunction with the exhibition\, Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance\, the group exhibition\, Re-Viewing the Past\, highlights the work of artists who explore ideas of history and memory as part of processes of re-writing or re-imagining. Creating in diverse media\, including painting\, printmaking\, animation\, and the graphic novel\, participating artists consider their connection to history — whether personal or collective — as it resonates with or is interpreted through the present moment and current socio-political and cultural issues.  Artists include Paul Emmanuel\, Maya Erdelyi\, Dell M. Hamilton\, Dave Ortega\, and Jordan Seaberry. \nThe exhibition continues in the the Carol Schlosberg Gallery. \nBorn in Zambia and currently living in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, Paul Emmanuel employs various media to reveal layered visions concerned with his identity living in the post-apartheid nation. Over the last decade\, Emmanuel has conceived and implemented the large-scale and ongoing Lost Men project\, a series of site-sensitive elegiac counter-memorials installed\, to date\, in public spaces in South Africa\, Mozambique\, and France.  The Lost Men\, was launched at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in Grahamstown\, South Africa. In 2007\, Phase 2 of this project took place in Maputo\, Mozambique. In July 2014 The Lost Men France was installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme\, Northern France. \nMaya Erdelyi is an award-winning animator and artist. She creates intricate hand-made animations and collages inspired by imaginary worlds\, music\, memories\, and the unconscious. Her animations explore a hybrid approach to cut-paper stop-motion\, puppetry\, hand-drawn\, digital animation\, and installation. Her work has been shown in national and international film festivals\, galleries\, museums\, and DIY venues. She is a recipient of a 2020 City of Boston Artist Fellowship Award\, a 2019 Yaddo Residency\, a 2018 WGBH Launchpad Residency\, a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship Award\, and the 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Film. \nDell M. Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and independent curator. Born in Spanish Harlem with ancestral roots in Belize\, Honduras\, and the Caribbean\, her practice wrestles with the social and geopolitical constructions of memory\, gender\, race\, language\, and history through the mediums of photography\, video\, drawing\, installation & performance. Dell’s work\, artist talks\, solo performances\, scholarly lectures\, and collaborative performances have been presented to a wide variety of audiences nationally and internationally. Dell is a 2021 recipient of a James and Audrey Foster Prize\, the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston. \nDave Ortega has been self-publishing comics and zines since 2010. For the past 8 years\, he has self-published over 6 issues\, the story of the early life of his grandmother: Días de Consuelo. In March 2022\, Días de Consuelo will be collected and published as a graphic novel by Radiator Comics. In 2013\, his comic Hacienda won the Comics Composition Competition\, awarded by Comics Workbook. In 2015\, he was invited by the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston to design an immersive educational experience around comics in their Art Lab space. He has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston and Lesley University\, and has been awarded grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Collective Futures Fund. \n Jordan Seaberry practice bridges the painting studio with community organizing and advocacy. His large-scale\, narrative paintings address family histories\, systemic injustice\, social and political change. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago\, Jordan first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design. Alongside his art\, he built a career as a grassroots organizer\, helping to fight and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones\, including Probation Reform\, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill\, and laying the groundwork for the “Ban the Box” movement in Rhode Island. \n  \nAbove image: \nPaul Emmanuel \nLesion\, 2016 \nHand-printed\, Chine collé\, photogravure\, etching \non Hahnemühle paper
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/re-viewing-the-past-library/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Samuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance brings together more than 30 paintings and works on paper dating from the late 1980s to the present by the renowned artist and Holocaust survivor that explore ideas of history\, memory\, and trauma. Bak survived the Holocaust as a young boy and after the war\, emigrated with his mother to the newly established state of Israel where he took up the formal study of art. Over a long and prolific artistic career\, Bak has sought to make sense of the past\, cultivating a pictorial language that retrieves historical memory with the purpose of preserving Jewish life and culture in the wake of unfathomable atrocity. \nBak explores his memory of the Holocaust and its devastating aftermath not in explicit depictions of human suffering but rather through a rich vocabulary of personal\, cultural\, and religious symbols that elegiacally explore the enduring traumas of the past. Bak transforms recognizable objects\, such as teacups\, books\, candles\, and pears into metaphorical images that populate surrealistic and haunted landscapes painted in a somber palette of ochres\, reds\, and greens. In paintings where people are perceptibly absent\, these objects serve as surrogates and material witnesses to irretrievable loss and destruction. \nPainting is a catalyst for the reclamation of the past to understand the present. The exhibition posits Bak’s artmaking as an act of resilience and as a means of retaining Jewish identity and memory against historical trauma. While historically specific\, Bak’s work unequivocally resonates with broader moral and ethical issues that continue to bear upon human existence. \nSamuel Bak and the Art of Remembrance is curated by Lynne Cooney\, Director of Exhibition and Galleries with Montserrat College of Art students Aurora Gloor and Morghan Schnoll. \nThe exhibition is presented in cooperation with Pucker Gallery\, Boston and supported in part by Barbara & Jim Schaye\, Mercedes Sherrod Evans & David L. Evans\, and the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation. \nAbove Image:\nPersistence of Memory\, 1989\nMixed media on paper\n25.4. x 19.75 in.\nCourtesy Pucker Gallery\, Boston \nAbout Samuel Bak \nSamuel Bak was born on August 12\, 1933 in Vilna\, Poland at a crucial moment in modern history. From 1940 to 1944\, Vilna was under first Soviet\, then German occupation. While both he and his mother survived\, his father and four grandparents all perished at the hands of the Nazis. At the end of World War II\, he and his mother fled to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp. Here\, he was enrolled in painting lessons at the Blocherer School\, Munich. Bak’s studies continued as he immigrated to Israel\, and he later received a grant to pursue his studies in Paris. \nIn 1959\, he moved to Rome where his first exhibition of abstract paintings met with considerable success. In 1961\, he was invited to exhibit at the “Carnegie International” in Pittsburgh. And\, in 1963 two one-man exhibitions were held at the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Museums. It was after these exhibitions\, during the years 1963-1964\, that a major change in his art occurred. There was a distinct shift from abstract forms to a metaphysical figurative means of expression. Ultimately\, this transformation crystallized into his present pictorial language. \nSince 1959\, Samuel Bak has had solo exhibitions at private galleries in New York\, Boston\, London\, Paris\, Berlin\, Munich\, Tel Aviv\, Jerusalem\, Zurich\, Rome\, and other cities around the world. Numerous large retrospective exhibitions have been held in major museums\, universities\, and public institutions around the Globe. \nPublications on Samuel Bak’s work include twelve books\, most notably a 400-page monograph entitled Between Worlds\, and his touching memoir\, Painted in Words. He has also been the subject of two documentary films. \n  \nRelated Exhibition Events: \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, January 27\, 5:00-7:00 pm \nVirtual Artist Talk with Samuel Bak:  Thursday\, February 3\, 7:00 pm. REGISTER HERE \nCurator Conversations – History & Memory in the Painting of Samuel Bak: Wednesday\, February 2\, 11:05-12:00 pm\, Montserrat Gallery \nCurator Conversations – Metaphor & Symbolism in the Painting of Samuel Bak: Wednesday\, February 16\, 11:05-12:00 pm\, Montserrat Gallery
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/samuel-bak-and-the-art-of-remembrance/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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