Founders Gallery 248 Cabot Street Beverly, MA 01915 Gallery Hours Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or By Appointment: [email protected] Dates June 17–August 116 2021 Somerville-based artist, Jessica Lau, explores the relationship between personal and social identity. Taking inspiration from her experiences as a second-generation Chinese American woman, Lau transforms them into disembodied and provocative...
Reception: June 27, 2021 from 1pm – 3pm with a 1:30 ceremony and remarks by Juror Lynne Cooney “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”...
301 Frame Gallery 301 Cabot Street Beverly, MA 01915 Gallery Hours 24/7 Dates Through August 6, 2021 Beverly-based artists WILL WEYGINT and CHLOE WILWERDING interrogate the artificiality of the urban and natural landscape in their mixed-media artworks. The Landscapes Between Us brings together these two artists who engage with different yet intersecting ideas around nature and culture. Weygint creates...
Meg Nichols' newly commissioned mural for the 301 Frame Gallery celebrates the complexity of our current moment. With a seemingly simple message, Nichols conveys the hurdles we have faced and the triumphs we have accomplished. Nichols writes, "This mural is dedicated to us. Coming out of 2020, so many of us found ourselves going through...
Montserrat Galleries presents a selection of animated short films and commercials from the Los-Angeles based creative and production studio, Noble600. The exhibition showcases the craft of animation through a wide range of techniques and styles used to tell diverse stories, from Alicja Jasina’s lyrical animated short, Once Upon a Line, to innovative animated commercials produced...
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...