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...
Don’t Wake Mom & Dad explores the often eerie and uncomfortable recollection of childhood, nostalgia, gender expectations, and self-identity. In 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...
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. Curated...
GOLDEN GULL is an interactive exhibition involving the life surrounding Chadley Chaderson and the exquisite luxuries that revolve around living a golf-centric lifestyle. Throughout 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. These men have taken the...
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. The 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...
May 2 - 28, 2022 During the month of May, Montserrat students take over the 301 Frame Gallery, creating site-specific installations of new work. May 2 - 13 Angelina DeDominicis & Alex Pint: A Con(temporary) Show May 16 - 27 Saya Norton: Onkochisin - Old Visits, New Knowledge May 30 - June...
Reception: Saturday, June 18, 2-4pm with a 1:30 awards ceremony Inspired 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...
Samuel Bak, Gelin Buteau, Fay Chandler, Dr. Leslie King Hammond, and Norman Laliberte Gallery Hours Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: [email protected] The 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...
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...
Gallery Hours Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: [email protected] Complete 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...
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...