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...
Reception: Tuesday, September 6, 5-7pm Julie 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...
Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien Montserrat 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...
Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien Montserrat 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...
Curated by Josué Bessiake '24 and Morghan Schnoll '23
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...
“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...
Gallery Hours Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: [email protected] November 12, 2022 - March 18, 2023 Dates November 15, 2022 - February 24, 2023 Ray 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...
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. Each 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...
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. Each 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...
Dream in Blue is a new installation for the 301 Frame Gallery by Montserrat alumnus, Isaiah Hope (’22). Many 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,...
Reception: Wednesday, February 1, 5-7pm Artist Talk: Tuesday, February 21, 11:10-12:00pm, Paul Scott Library In 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. On January 6th, 2021, thousands of supporters of then President Donald Trump...