Boston-based artist Elizabeth Mooney explores the urban landscape, particularly her immediate Dorchester neighborhood where she has maintained a studio for nearly a decade, through abstraction and kinetics. Mooney’s paintings and moving sculptures are, in her words, “extremely layered, busy, and bright.” She overlays bold color, dramatic lines, and imagery evocative of her urban surrounds —...
Gallery Hours M-F, 10am–5pm Informed by archival research and her experiences, Annie Lee-Daly candidly explores race, history, and trauma by collecting and re-contextualizing found objects. She received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Montserrat College of Art in 2020. THE WAR IS NOT A BOMBER JET ANYMORE rejects Korea’s legacy as a “Forgotten War” and...
Founders Gallery 248 Cabot Street Beverly, MA 01915 Gallery Hours Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or By Appointment: [email protected] Dates September 27, 2021–January 14, 2022 Founders Gallery is pleased to present a recent and ongoing series of monotypes by Rob Roy, Professor of Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking at Montserrat College of Art. Roy prints...
We Design: People. Practice. Progress is a traveling exhibition by Design Museum Everywhere that brings together creatives from different backgrounds to examine and celebrate the range of career paths and applications, and their impact on design. The exhibition features career stories showcasing how people have forged their unique paths into different creative professions, from graffiti...
Caleb Cole: Show Me presents two related bodies of work that explore the visibility of the queer body and challenge binary constructions of gender identity. In Other People’s Clothes, an ongoing series begun in 2007, Cole uses his physical body to inhabit the lives of others. By wearing various ensembles and assuming different poses and gestures, Cole...
Gallery Hours M-F, 10am–5pm VISIBILITY calls for the acknowledgment and recognition of artists with disabilities. VISIBILITY 2021 is held at the border of two spaces: split between the physical and the digital. Emphasis is placed on this juxtaposition between the intangible nature of all digital spaces and the corporeal world. This flux is very much...
In this newly commissioned mural and series of paintings, Beckett examines his personal struggles with emotional attachment and fulfillment. Beckett proposes that oftentimes our expectations around love are entangled with more superficial desires that are influenced by media and popular culture. He states, “We grow up listening to sad RnB and movies about missed connections…We...
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. Exhibit openings will be held every Wednesday night, 5 – 7 pm, from December 1 – 18, 2021. Each small group thesis show will include the individual work of each artist, developed...
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...
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 27, 5:00-7:00 pm. Free and open to the public. Presented 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,...
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 27, 5:00-7:00 pm. Free and open to the public. Presented 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,...
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...