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SUMMARY:JACKSON HALEY
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nBy appointment \nMy work draws inspiration from the worlds of pop culture\, folklore and weird history. When working with pop culture and folklore\, I take phrases and song lyrics and explore them through different typographic elements. Letterpress printing allows me to work directly with physical pieces of type\, which limits what I am able to design with while pushing me to explore the same few typefaces in different ways. With these limitations I create designs that give common phrases new life\, by emphasizing different words to influence how the reader perceives these phrases. When working with history\, I embrace the history of letterpress printing as a means of spreading information in the form of newspapers and headlines. Taking design inspirations from the justified text in old newspapers\, I create dense blocks of type with enough information to walk away with a knowledge of whatever topic is at hand. Letterpress printing is a process that is rife with tests and misprints. Instead of discarding these I hold on to them to create monoprints\, layering different prints on top of one another until a new print is made. These become new\, one of a kind pieces\, retaining the process of how it was made with multiple layers distorting and abstracting letterforms and images that are often easily read and understood. \nJackson Haley is a letterpress printer living and working in Massachusetts. Graduating from Montserrat College of Art in 2018 with a concentration in printmaking\, he then fell headfirst into the world of letterpress printing by interning at Hatch Show Print in Nashville\, Tennessee soon after graduation. Upon returning to Massachusetts\, he began working as a printer for letterpress shops in the Boston area\, while building up a small print studio of his own to continue making prints. He is currently the printer for Albertine Press in Cambridge\, has also printed for Goosefish Press and Smudge Ink and has taught workshops at The Brickyard Collaborative. \nhttps://daysleeperpress.carbonmade.com/
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/jackson-haley/
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SUMMARY:HERE
DESCRIPTION:Various Locations \nReception N/A \nHERE is a series of performances projected across numerous digital platforms. It is an investigation\, reaction\, and dialogue about Art on the Screen. \nHERE explores the trivium of subject\, camera\, and observer. It concerns itself with time\, in that the works are temporal and permanent; performance and document. It ponders the voyeuristic paradigm many are navigating in the age of COVID-19 where we are physically separated yet invited into each other’s homes.  Moments happen and are held in no place places. They are here\, anywhere\, everywhere\, and nowhere. \n  \nPERFORMANCES\nMonday\, June 15\n \n\nJimena Bermejo\nTabled\n2:00–6:00pm\nYOUTUBE LIVE \nTuesday\, June 16 \n\nMandy Cano Villalobos\nSanities and Solitudes: Blow (Birthday)\n7:00–7:30pm\nFACEBOOK LIVE \nWednesday\, June 17 \n \nMorehshin Allahyari\nShe Who Sees the Unknown (Aisha Qandisha)\n7:00–7:30pm\nVIMEO \nThursday\, June 18 \n\nKirk Amaral Snow\nUntitled\n7:00–7:30pm\nINSTAGRAM LIVE \nFriday\, June 19 \n\nJovan Brock\n6:30–6:40pm\nINSTAGRAM LIVE \n\nJylik Buissereth\nSurvey and Herd\n7:00–7:30pm\nINSTAGRAM LIVE \n  \nARTISTS\nJimena Bermejo\nhttps://www.jimenabermejo.com/ \nJimena Bermejo is a dancer\, choreographer\, performance artist\, and dance educator. She holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Studio for Interrelated Media and a BFA in Dance from The Boston Conservatory. Bermejo is the Director of the Dance Program at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and is currently faculty at Berklee College of Music\, and The Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \nAfter twenty years as a performer on stage in theaters striving for perfection\, Bermejo is now interested in imperfection and in breaking the separation between audience and performer. Her technique includes movement\, text\, and performance actions to interact with the audience and bring them closer and into the work. Experimenting with closeness and live feed video\, she uses her own experiences\, good and bad\, from her personal history which include issues of race\, trauma\, growing up in Mexico in a family of artists\, as a mother\, as a cat owner\, all to draw emotional content in her work and frame the performance space as a place where both the viewer and artist can feel safe to share it. \nMandy Cano Villalobos\nhttps://www.mandycano.com/ \nMandy Cano Villalobos is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects span installation\, painting\, drawing\, performance\, sculpture and video. She received her MFA from The George Washington University in Washington\, DC. and currently resides in Grand Rapids\, MI. Cano Villalobos has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally. \nHer work is informed by her life experiences and focuses on the intersection of chronological progression\, personal memory\, and the atemporality of ritual. Cano Villalobos works in a variety of genres seeking to utilize diverse approaches in order to situate her personal history and practice within a larger\, human history. Her projects are a materialization of time\, a record of her process and life. \nMorehshin Allahyari\nhttp://www.morehshin.com/ – http://shewhoseestheunknown.com/ \nMorehshin Allahyari is an artist\, activist\, writer\, and educator. She was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political\, social\, and cultural contradictions society faces every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives and struggles in the 21st century. Allahyari is the co-author of The 3D Additivist Cookbook in collaboration with writer/artist Daniel Rourke. \nAllahyari has been part of numerous exhibitions\, festivals\, and workshops around the world. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Her 3D Additivist Manifesto video is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, and recently she has been awarded major commissions by Rhizome\, New Museum\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, Liverpool Biennale\, and FACT to work on developing different components of her current project She Who Sees The Unknown. \nKirk Amaral Snow\nhttps://www.kirkamaralsnow.com/ \nKirk Amaral Snow is a Baltimore-based intermedia artist. He holds BA’s in Art History and Studio Art from the University of Rhode Island and an MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. \nHis practice investigates the relationship between the built world and performative aspects of culture. Shaped by the DIY Punk scene as much as visual art\, his work finds a middle ground between the minimalism of early Wire\, the poetic cultural critique of DC’s Revolution Summer bands\, and the post-minimal and conceptual art practices of the 60’s and 70’s. \nInfluenced by the idea of “vernacular building”\, Amaral Snow finds a similar poetics to what Rolling Stone’s Paul Nelson saw in the Ramones when he described them as “authentic American primitives”. In designing sculptural objects and performances\, this idea becomes the lifting off point to explore the shifting\, slippery\, and conflicted US national identity through construction-grade building materials placed in simple\, yet poetic relationships. The materials enact gestures where the temporary is made permanent\, the disposable is made monumental\, and the transient becomes fixed. \nJovan Brock\nhttps://www.instagram.com/zhayday13/ \nBrock is a Military Veteran and current student at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. He has attended rallies throughout Colorado to demand justice for George Floyd\, Breonna Taylor\, Sean Reed and others who have died at the hands of police. \nJylik Donell Buissereth \nJylik Donell Buissereth\, born and raised in New York City\, has pursued art since childhood. Attending the High School of Art and Design allowed him to explore graphic design as an artistic passion\, but he did not begin to fully flourish as an artist until declaring sculpture as his major in college. He has exhibited in several shows across campus\, namely the I/Object Show as well as The Thing Is\, both held in Montserrat’s 301 Gallery. Buissereth received his BFA at Montserrat College of Art in 2020. \nWith the clash of bright toxic colors and stimulating designs\, born from his love of graffiti and street art\, Buissereth channels all the contemporary culture and influence he absorbs into artistic expressions of the mind. A large part of what drives his practice is the pursuit of the overlooked. He seeks out the beauty in things that have been abandoned and left behind. His material choice is based around what he considers to be pillars of our society metal\, stone\, and glass. Buissereth finds excitement in taking a table\, a man-made structure or object built from these materials\, found in the trash and bringing new function to it as an automatic expression.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/here/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
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SUMMARY:Error Code H306: A+IM Thesis Showcase 2020
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nT–F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: April 23rd\, 5–8pm \nJared Aprile\nDorian Eason\nTatianna Feliciano\nEmma Gallant\nAlexander Gunther\nEmma Ingalls\nBrendan Maida\nJessica Manning\nCliff Pierre\nRose Sauriol
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/error-code-h306april-23-29-2020/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:LATE BLOOMER
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nT–F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception N/A \nLate Bloomer connects our exploration of physical and emotional placements\, through politics\, travel\, abandoned homes\, printmaking\, and allegories. \nAnnie is trying to educate an uninformed audience on Asian-US relations while also assessing her own placement and privilege as an Asian in America. Housed in an ominous black box\, the roughly 20 minute film will be a compilation of archival footage from Asian and American newcasts\, war footage\, propaganda\, films and plays\, and home movies. \nCayla has been working on a series of photographs that relate to fear and anxiety\, as well as exploring the idea of spirituality. What she is portraying is ambiguity\, a sense of mystery and/or chaos. Pairing text with her digital and film images she has created narratives in hopes to evoke questions\, concerns\, or relations to the viewer. These “anxiety inducing” photographs will be paired with self portraiture work\, a way to connect the artist to the anonymous answers of the phrases to herself\, as well as representing this theme of fear as a personal one. Along with hanging and framing photographs on the wall (around 15 prints)\, there will also be zines on display and possibly for sale. \nDenali has been working on a series of monotypes using orbs to depict herself and the way she experiences and processes emotions. She has recently been exploring the use of non-rectangular paper and placement of the orbs to create the illusions of the orbs pulling the paper in different directions. Embossment has also played a major role in her work to play with the idea of something having been or something that was. Denali plans on hanging her work salon style just above eye level to create the feeling of the orbs looking down on the viewer. \nMareson is working on a photo series focused around abandonment. Through black and white film he captures the traces of lives once lived in an abandoned homestead in Boxford\, and his own ghostly marks as he enters and changes the space. The photographs will be up on display in a recreation of the house\, and a soundscape of the building will be playing inside as well to give the viewer the feeling of being inside the building. \nDavid has been working on a series of figurative monoprints. The prints are double-edged in regards to his studio practice as well as in his use of the medium. In one regard the prints are about the growth of monoprinting in his work from a side-involvement\, to a more fully realized practice in his painting process. Aside from the technical exploration\, the monoprints are figurative in nature. The self portraits are heavily influenced by David’s state of mind throughout the semester and last year . The ideas range from experiences in trying to unlearn some of the reservations within his own practice\, to personal afflictions regarding relationships with himself and others. The struggle is more evident in the handling than the content of the prints. The prints are to be framed and hung traditionally on the walls. \nZeynep has been working on a series of paintings on glass with photographs. She is using oil paints on 12”x16” glass to create different foregrounds and backgrounds. Then specifically choosing a diverse photograph to go with the painting. She wants to bring attention to the idea of breaking realism. The story of The Allegory of the Cave by Plato\, inspired her to show the idea of how something may not seem what it is. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/late-bloomerapril-14-18-2020/
LOCATION:MA
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SUMMARY:OMEGA POINT
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: By appointment \nReception: N/A \nOur show is about tying together elements of space and color through two dimensional and three dimensional works\, in a way that plays with surfaces and patterns while bringing in our own experiences and personalities as the basis for our content. Each of us utilize overlapping elements throughout our work\, for example: the use of sculptural form within Jylik\, Jaime\, and Matthews three dimensional works\, which form connection to the elements of shape\, space\, and depth within Shannon\, Jack\, and Matthews two dimensional works. Whether it be through abstraction or figuration\, each of us hone in on the fundamental presence of the elements of art (i.e. space\, color\, abstraction\, figuration) and apply various contemporary approaches. Through this we explore the line between the real and the abstract\, during a time where this line is fleeting. \nFeaturing:\nJaime Fox\nJack Fay\nJylik Buissereth\nMatthew Rucki\nShannon Herrick\nSylvia Burger
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/omega-pointapril-2-8-2020/
LOCATION:301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Disposition of the Moment
DESCRIPTION:Reception: N/A \nEach artwork shares insights and moments from the perspective of the artist’s world whether it be a fantasy world of rabbits and scissors or a world grounded in the morality of sinners and saints. We each capture fleeting moments of inspiration into permanent fixtures of paint\, sculpture\, and the blunt photograph\, and arrange them into this collective of shared perspective.\nThe artists belong together because they share the same passion to create images that are important to their life and world. They want to capture the rules\, time and space of their environment\, and give the public a chance to be enveloped into their world. The painters share similar loves of bold color and their method of abstraction\, the sculptor and photographer share a realistic view of personal world boundaries\, and the creative inbetweeners share a sight only they can describe and see through the strange and fantastical. It is a collective of line\, color and shape that inserts you into the abode of the artists and how they arrange the moment. \nFeaturing: \nHunter Lamore\nGabrielle Gomez\nVanessa Wyman\nMelissa DiCostanzo\nSusan Drennan\nJared Adams\nMargaret Skerry\nDillian McGahey
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/disposition-of-the-momentmarch-24-28-2020/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:BREADTH: REFERENCING PHOTOGRAPHY
DESCRIPTION:Marblehead Arts Association\n8 Hooper Street\nMarblehead\, MA 01945 \nGallery Hours\nTue-Sun\, 12–5pm \nReception: March 15th\, 2–4pm \nThis exhibition explores Montserrat faculty’s unique relationship to the photographic media. As the title implies\, we aim to exhibit the breadth of the medium and its ever evolving definition; from traditional lens-based creations to computer generated. The artist-faculty of Montserrat wade the grey waters between made and taken\, representational and abstract\, staged and found\, analog and digital\, and the myriad of false dichotomies. Through this we discover that photography is no stable media bordered with dogmatic rules\, rather it is a reflection of changing technology\, a barometer for observation\, and a vehicle to explore territories of art heretofore unknown.\nEthan Berry is a producer and designer for film\, video\, and performance events\, he is a past president of the Board of Directors of the Boston Film/Video Foundation\, which was founded in 1976 in order to provide for artists an organizational support system for the creation of independent film video. \nRon DiRito‘s work is based on the time-honored traditions of documentary photography but other projects source various materials which include original and discreet imaging\, discrete and vernacular writing\, sampling\, appropriation\, printmaking\, installation\, artist’s books\, audio and video media and super 8mm film. \nJulia Buntaine Hoel is interested in what has proven to be the most complex puzzle\, the epitome of emergence\, the deepest well our sciences have examined; the brain. The instantiation of form and function united\, from the molecular to the level of Neuroscience as a discipline\, her work addresses the beliefs\, theories and findings of the biological phenomenon of consciousness \nJesse Kahn currently employs photography\, graphic design\, traditional handicrafts\, and sculptural techniques to explore Gay male sexuality and concerns over the division between public and private space\, freedom of expression\, and between personal & national security. \nGabrielle Keller is an artist and an educator. Her photographs are included in The Polaroid International Collection\, The Museum of Art at RISD\, The Fogg Art Museum\, The Center for Creative Photography\, and other corporate collections. \nJulia Buntaine Hoel\, Territory 1\, 2017. 16″ x 24″. Created from microscopy photographs\, taken by the artist\, of rhesus macaque brain slides. Printed on aluminum.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/breadth-referencing-photographymarch-14-april-28-2020/
LOCATION:MA
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SUMMARY:2020 6th Congressional High School Art Competition & Awards
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM–F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: March 21st\, 3:30–5pm \nMontserrat College of Art will host the Congressional Art Show and Competition for Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District March 14-21.  The show will be displayed in the Montserrat Gallery at 23 Essex Street. A closing reception and award ceremony with Congressman Seth Moulton will be held from 3:30-5 pm on Saturday\, March 21. All are welcome. \nThe competition is open to students\, grades 10-12\, from public and private schools as well as home-schooled students from the 6th District of Massachusetts. This marks the 26th year that Montserrat has hosted this competition. Last year’s exhibit included 115 pieces from 23 institutions of learning across the district. \nEach winner will be presented with a citation from Congressman Moulton and varying levels of scholarships to Montserrat’s Summer Pre-College Program. The grand prize winning piece will be sent to Washington\, DC where it will hang in the Capitol building for one year along with winners from other Congressional districts across the country. A ceremony to congratulate all the winners will be held in Washington\, DC in June. \nEach school in the 6th district is welcome to submit up to six piece of works by students in grades 10-12. (One submission per student.) The college will jury the work and notify the schools of the winners prior to the event. All students in the exhibition and their families are welcome to attend the closing ceremony.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2020-6th-congressional-high-school-art-competition-awardsmarch-14-21-2020/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:African Masks: From the Collection of the NCAAA
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat Community or by appointment \nReception: March 4th\, 11:30am–12:30pm \nIn a joint collaboration between the Montserrat College of Art and the National Center for Afro-American Artists\, students David Mshar ’20\, Alexis Palmberg ’21\, and Matthew Rahming ’23 teamed up with educator\, artist\, and curator Ari Montford to bring a selection of African Masks to campus. The exhibition encouraged conversations about art history\, Eurocentrism\, cultural appropriation\, cultural exchange\, and beyond. \nSpecial thanks to Dr. Barry Gaither Director\, NCAAA \n  \nCo-curator Ari Montford writes: \nHow can we define cultural appropriation as it pertains to our creative practice? This is the focus of the exhibition African Masks. \nThe works on view are from the collection of the National Center of Afro American Artists located in Boston MA.(NCAAA) As we move forward with discussions about inclusion and diversity at Montserrat we need safe spaces for identifying ways of creating a cultural language of tolerance and belonging. \nTherefore\, the work is about a way of exploring a social construct of design ethics\, to bring a clearer understanding or lens to the intersection of social ideas and programming\, impacting how we come to see the African masks on exhibit. How do these works impact and inform our creative practice?
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/african-masks-from-the-collection-of-the-ncaaafebruary-28-march-30-2020/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:ADDRESSING PRESENCE
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm \nReception: February 28th\, 6–8pm \nMy practice\, as an interdisciplinary artist\, stems from an intense investigation of time. I imagine time visually\, as two parallel lines: the line of deep geologic time\, and the line of one human life. The lines stretch ahead and behind with no end or beginning. Deep geologic time seems incomprehensible. We don’t know for certain its origin and we don’t know where it will end. However\, a human life is equally uncertain. We are as ephemeral as a mountain range succumbing to erosion\, or a glacier filled pass at the height of summer. We appear\, linger and disappear. A vapor\, to solid\, to dispersal. Both lines of time exist inside our bodies\, parallel\, at two different scales. \n-Leah Rafaela Ceriello \nA component of this exhibition will be group re-performances and interpretations of Leah’s pieces. \nMonday\, February 24\n2:00–7:00PM – the movement of grief \nTuesday\, February 25\n2:00–7:00PM – unMaking \nWednesday\, February 26\n1:00–7:00PM – 180 minutes/erratics \nThursday\, February 27\n2:00–7:00PM – Untitled (ice) \nFriday\, February 28\n2:00–7:00PM – Untitled (stone/breath)\n6:00–8:00PM – Closing Reception \nTuesday\, March 3\nREFLECT: ADDRESSING PRESENCE\n11:30am–12:20pm\nMontserrat Gallery \nTuesday\, March 10\nReflecting Presence – P2P Discussion\n11:30am–12:20pm\n2nd Floor\, Hardie Building
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/addressing-presencefebruary-24-28-2020/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:LOST: THEME SHOW
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nT–F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReceptionL February 6th\, 5–7pm \nSubmission Deadline: January 27\, 2020\nSubmission Guidelines:  Submissions must be made around the theme of LOST. All work will need to be submitted in 248 Cabot St. Room #B208. Additionally a digital image (scan\, photograph\, etc)\, title\, medium\, will need to be sent to mcathemeshow@gmail.com.\nFormat: All work will need to be on 5”x5” cradled panels. Work created digitally or alternative surface will need to be cleanly adhered to the panel for display.\nStudents: Panels will be provided for free for current students\, while supplies last. To request a panel\, or for more information\, please contact mcathemeshow@gmail.com.\nAlumni: Panels can ordered at \nyou will be responsible for picking up work in a timely manner after the deinstall. For more information\, please contact mcathemeshow@gmail.com.\n\nartwork © Alyssa Schadhauser\n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/lost-theme-showfebruary-1-15-2020/
LOCATION:301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Bless Mazarura
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM–F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: January 30th\, 5–7pm \nBless Mazarura of Bless By Bless Couture is one of fashion’s uprising stars who has come a long way from his humble beginnings in his home-country of Zimbabwe. He moved to the USA to chase his creative dreams at the Montserrat College of Art and has since created a philanthropic movement based in fashion\, but driven by love.  \nHis first formal introduction to fashion was as a child\, observing his mother sew with love on her vintage Singer sewing machine\, while weaving her passion into the very fabric of her son’s life. Bless fell in love\, and by age 16 he had designed the first of many creations\, a sleeveless zipper vest which was the beginning of a journey into the future. \n By the year 2007 Bless knew fashion was his true calling\, and armed with the love he had in his heart\, he founded Bless By Bless Couture\, a high energy fusion of hourglass silhouettes\, zippers\, iridescent fabrics and military detail. The ready to wear collection features edgy dresses\, high-waisted skirts and sweatshirts inscribed with inspirational messages and positive affirmations. \n“My mission is to create a lifestyle of Love and Philanthropy celebrated through fashion with a message. I am more than a designer\, I am a messenger of Love.” \nIn keeping with his unwavering philanthropic mission Bless has been involved with charities ever since he created his glittering love fueled clothing line. He has designed t-shirts\, produced fashion shows and fundraisers for Susan G. Komen\, American Cancer Association\, Jimmy Fund\, Christopher’s Haven\, and more. \n The future of Bless By Bless is as least as bright as its designer’s smile\, and armed with his vision of a future energized by love and decorated by haute couture. Bless plans to continue to infuse high voltage rocker energy into luxury fashion\, and ultimately to recruit entire legions of soldiers to his ever growing BBB Army of Love. \nhttps://www.blessmaz.com/
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/bless-mazarurajanuary-24-march-14-2020/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200516
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SUMMARY:CASSANDRA LOUISE BAKER
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nBy appointment \nReception: April 9th\, 4-7pm \n  \nWe Float \nI love the water. I love the sound of it the most\, the swell and the crash\, mimic the feelings inside me. \nA body of water is a very mysterious place. To glance out into the horizon is to understand the unknowable. \nTo imagine what lies beneath its dense surface is to touch eternal darkness. \nTo gaze at how the sun flickers its light across a delicate pool is to experience warmth for a fleeting moment. \nThe water and the woods protect each other. The moon illuminates the wood’s dark shadows\, all the while highlighting the water’s glass surface in equal measure. The leaves and branches make noise to warn the sea when someone approaches its shore. The water reflects the darkest nights and clearest days\, for only the woods to see in return; a give and take. \nIt is in this sacred space our bond is internally felt. \nI’ve been there-in my dreams\, in my memory\, in my mind\, in the now. \nThis is where I go. \nThis is where I found her-floating\, free\, peaceful; Dying\, bound\, drowning. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/cassandra-louise-bakerjanuary-15-may-15-2020/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200516
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SUMMARY:ROSE OLSON
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM–F\, 9am–5pm\nOr by Appointment \nReception: April 9th\, 4-7pm \nRose Olson is a painter with Studios in Beverly and Boston’s South-End\, where she grew up. After graduating from Tufts University\, she taught at several colleges in the area including Montserrat College of Art where she joined their full-time faculty and earned the rank of Professor. She is a colorist\, continually influenced by the beauty of natural elements. \nColor has a sharpening aspect\, affecting our senses and intellect simultaneously. These paintings reflect my passion for color and its interaction with the beauty of natural elements. \nWood-grain patterns are exciting and varied since each is specific to what was once a living tree\, as unique as our fingerprints and as important as the colors I use. Both contribute to the meaning and structure of every work. Many layers of different colors applied one color layer at a time\, enhance each wood-grain pattern and increase the painting’s luminosity. The character of that wood affects the way the color is received\, so transparent colors continue being layered on until the painting starts to bloom. \nMy colors often change as the viewer moves\, or the light shifts. I am conscious of that interplay. Hard edges and color bands also enhance the spatial and color effects of each work revealing\, in a sense\, another way of seeing that world. \nCourtesy Kingston Gallery
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/rose-olsonjanuary-15-may-15-2020/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200216
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SUMMARY:The Animation Show of Shows: Twenty Years and Counting
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM–F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: January 30th\, 5–7pm \nRon Diamond’s lifetime pursuit of creating fine art animation with artist filmmakers.\nWe are proud to announce The Animation Show of Shows: Twenty Years and Counting. The exhibition is a celebration of the legacy of this long-running animation collection\, curated by ACME Filmworks founder\, Ron Diamond. \nSince 1998\, Diamond envisioned the annual Animation Show of Shows as a way to showcase the year’s best shorts\, selected from festivals around the world\, to students and industry professionals alike. In addition to the numerous institutions\, Diamond has presented the collection at major studios such as DreamWorks\, Pixar\, Disney and many others throughout the world. \nOver the twenty-years\, works from his curation have boasted 14 Academy Award® winners\, as well as 37 nominees\, and have won major prizes at Cannes\, Annecy\, Zagreb\, Ottawa\, and Berlin. The techniques range from hand-drawn\, paint on glass and stop-motion\, to the latest computer-generated imagery\, with its ability to conjure entire worlds with astonishing verisimilitude. Together these films capture\, in the words of Andrew Stanton\, director of Finding Nemo\, “all the wit\, cleverness\, integrity\, warmth and humor that humanity is capable of\,” and have a universal appeal that makes them ideal for sharing with family and friends \nMontserrat is proud to be exhibiting the 19th Collection featuring a wide diversity of directors\, artists\, and themes\, and include: \nQuentin Baillieux (France)\, Lia Bertels (Belgium)\, Pete Docter (USA)\, Jac Clinch (UK)\, Elise Simard (Canada)\, Paul Julian and Les Goldman (USA)\, Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland)\, Clémentine Frère\, Aurore Gal\, Yukiko Meignien\, Anna Mertz\, Robin Migliorelli\, Romain Salvini (France)\, Glen Keane (USA)\, Max Mörtl and Robert Löbel (Germany)\, Parallel Studio (France)\, Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Sweden)\, Alexanne Desrosiers (Canada)\, Tomer Eshed (Germany)\, Steven Woloshen (Canada)\, and David OReilly (USA) \nThe exhibition will also highlight the expanded works of ACME Filmworks directors\,\nWendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis (Canada)\nMichael Dudok de Wit (Netherlands)\nAleksandra Korejwo (USA)\nRaimund Krumme (Germany) \n  \nThe Ticket: The Animation Show of Shows\, Boston Globe\, Cate McQuaid \n‘A Heartfelt Eulogy”: Bryant’s animated film showing at Montserrat College\, Salem News\, Paul Leighton \nAn award-winning film featuring Kobe Bryant is part of an exhibition at Montserrat College of Art\, WBZ Radio/CBS Boston\, Carl Stevens
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/the-animation-show-of-shows-twenty-years-and-counting-january-11-february-15-2020/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200406
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SUMMARY:Amanda Beard Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\n24/7 \nReception: N/A \nAmanda Beard Garcia is a graphic designer\, illustrator\, and letterer based on the North Shore of Boston. She holds a BFA in Illustration from RISD. Iced coffee\, emo music\, and snail mail are her jam. When she’s not creating\, you can usually find her wandering rock concerts\, home-improving\, reciting quotes from New Girl\, and being trailed by her six year-old Corgi\, Pica. \nhttps://amandabeardgarcia.com/
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/amanda-beard-garciajanuary-10-april-5-2020/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200215
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SUMMARY:Expressions of Habit
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat Community or by appointment. \nReception: December 9th\, 11:30am–12:30pm \nEmily Davis ‘21\nHolden Willard ’21\nMadison Wallace ‘22 \nCurated by David Mshar ’20 and Lexi Palmberg ’21
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/expressions-of-habitdecember-3-2019-february-14-2020/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200116
DTSTAMP:20260419T034624
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SUMMARY:ZOIE STAR BLEAU: REMAINS
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\n24/7 \nReception: N/A \nZOIE STAR BLEAU ’20\nREMAINS\nDocumentation of live art\, performance work\, brought to life by the marks we make with our bodies. The traces of the human body show ownership of a time and place\, and makes the statement\, “I existed here”. Narrative in this piece is just as important as the physical impressions. The urge for natural colors\, textures\, and figures inspired this series of work. Large scale paintings made on photo paper with tempera\, shaving cream\, and tacky glue.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/zoie-star-bleau-remainsnovember-25-2019-january-15-2020/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191127
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SUMMARY:FOUND FAMILY - Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: November 21st\, 5–8pm \nDeanna Amoia\nJack Depril\nSean Painter\nDean Greggs\nChristopher Williams \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/found-familynovember-20-26-2019/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200119
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SUMMARY:WORRIES BASH: Caitlin & Misha
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: December 6\, 5-7pm \nWorries Bash is a participatory installation consisting of recorded worries collected from hundreds of people and presented as part of a continuous audio portrait emanating from fragile papier-mâché sculptures. Worries Bash is conceived by the artistic duo Caitlin and Misha. The pair create artworks that play with culturally relevant\, yet sometimes utopic examples of sharing communities\, livable ecologies\, and the transmutation of waste. They employ drawing\, design\, and sculptural techniques within a contemporary framework of interactive media and participatory installation. In addition to exploring ecology\, media\, and alchemy\, they create artworks that provide unique opportunities for shared experiences and group-based rejuvenation\, such as sweating\, meditating\, humming\, jumping\, and worrying together. \nAs part of this installation\, Caitlin and Misha have collected worries specifically from the Montserrat Community and will continue to collect any Gallery Visitors’ worries throughout the installation. These worries will be aggregated and included in the sculptures. \nWhen attendees tap or hit the sculpture a worry will come into focus so that it can be heard clearly before again submerging into an abstract murmur. There are many social situations where it’s unacceptable to express one’s worries\, even when they are the thoughts weighing most heavily on one’s mind. \nThis project is an opportunity to collect various types of worries and consider the emotional cycles which they represent. Worries Bash culminates with a public ceremonial destruction of the sculptures as a means to share and release worries. This pairing of worries with celebration aims to provide some insight into the complexities of the anxieties we live with. \nhttps://worries.io\nhttps://worries.io/bash\nhttps://caitlinandmisha.com/\n  \nINFINITE WORRIES BASH – 2020 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/worries-bash-caitlin-misha/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191119
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SUMMARY:A Study Abroad Exhibition - 2019
DESCRIPTION:3rd Floor Gallery\n23 Essex Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915 \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: N/A \n  \nFeaturing work from Students and Alumni from: \nMALLORCA \nNIIGATA \nVITERBO \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/study-abroad-2019/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191216
DTSTAMP:20260419T034624
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SUMMARY:Color & Abstraction: Students Respond to Hofmann
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 9am–5pm\nor by appointment \nReception: November 13th\, 5–8pm \nHofmann’s legacy is great and respected at the Montserrat College of Art. Not only were some of the founding faculty directly influenced by Hofmann\, countless other faculty members hold his teachings and methods as canonical\, and frequently incorporate them into their syllabi. \nOn view as part of Color and Abstraction current students display paintings\, drawings\, and sculptural objects that reflect or react to the tenants of Hofmann. Participating artists include: \nJoshua Bonifaz · Caddy Cicogna · Emily Davis · Jack DeBusk · Laurel Driskill · Jack Fay · Jaime Fox · Maeve Lally · Rebecca Nagle · Emily Scally · Matthew Rucki \n  \nExhibition created in conversation with “Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction” currently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum. \n \nThis exhibition was created thanks to organization by professors Diane Ayott\, Judy Brown\, Tim Harney\, and Masako Kamiya.  \n\nLydia Gordon & Tim Harney: The Impact of Hofmann\n \nJoshua Bonifaz\, Play
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/color-abstraction-students-respond-to-hofmannoctober-24-december-15-2019/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200119
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SUMMARY:NARRATIVE
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nT–F\, 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: October 24th\, 5–7pm \nThe Narrative Project challenges participants to think about the narratives that shape their self-identity\, deconstruct current political and cultural narratives\, and examine the relationship between what we know and what we believe. A narrative is a living cultural artifact\, created within the interstices between current ideas and history. Rather than creators\, a narrative has owners\, claimants and/or adherents. They may elect to change a narrative through the incorporation of new perspectives or by deliberately emphasizing or erasing certain aspects of it. Narratives are stories told to express a subjective essential truth or truths rather than to recount factual events. They may be created in opposition to other narratives and are primarily concerned with revealing what writer Patricia Hampl calls the “metaphorical truth\,” not what something is\, but rather what something is like. \nThe Narrative exhibition\, is envisioned as a sculptural space in which to highlight narrative works created by alumni from Montserrat College of Art. Featured alumni: Jackie Musto\, Joe Haley and Tj Dort\, Eben Kling\, Chelsea Sams\, Julie O’Boyle\, Lillian Kology\, Peter Mack\, Nick Criscuolo\, Michael Aghahowa \nThe exhibition will include a central gathering space for hosting the Narrative Festival’s screenings\, speakers\, panel discussions and performances. Many of the festival’s events will be student-produced.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/narrativeoctober-22-2019-january-18-2020/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191110
DTSTAMP:20260419T034624
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SUMMARY:ANTHONY GOICOLEA: POSE
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM–F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: October 3rd\, 5–7pm \nPose is the first New England solo-exhibition of the internationally acclaimed artist\, Anthony Goicolea. \nOn display is four connected and contrasting examples of Goicolea’s ideations. The gallery is bisected and the work is presented as two halves of the same mind. One must experience a section with the afterimage of the other heavy on their conscious. The gallery forces contemplation\, reflection\, and (false) memory; reminiscent of a dream. His work is not intentionally or overtly political. It is a visceral reaction to changing dialogues around ethnicity\, sexuality and religion. Growing up as a Cuban\, Catholic\, gay boy in the Deep South in the early 70’s\, heightened his awareness of social constructs and the changing nature of identity politics—a theme that continually informs his work. \n“Anonymous Self-Portraits” eschews traditional portraiture and renders identity through coded body language\, gesture and performance. Figures simultaneously reveal and conceal themselves as they push against the architectural boundaries of their vestments. \nIn a series of “Shadow Projection Portraits” Goicolea similarly investigates portraiture\, identity\, beauty and the grotesque in a suite of drawings/paintings on mylar film presented as videographic images with black bars framing the top and bottom. The letterbox format references the transference of wide format film to standard width video. The fact that these portraits are rendered as photo-like film-stills in graphite and acrylic further conflates the mediums of film\, photography\, and painting. \nEach portrait is an amalgamation of different facial features cobbled together from semi androgynous men and woman and have strong ties to the artist’s early composited self-portrait work. Borrowing the most visually compelling and striking characteristics from different portrait subjects\, Goicolea repeats traditionally beautiful features in duplicate or triplicate until they morph or dissolve into hauntingly abstracted and deformed renderings of engineered faces. Traditional portraiture encourages the viewer to hone in on specific characteristics to identify a specific individual. These portraits rebuke that instinct. It is almost impossible for the eye to rest on any one specific recognizable feature for too long before it dissolves into the next layer of dislocated eyes\, nose or mouth. \nAnthony Goicolea\, The Ticket: What’s Happening in the Local Arts World\, Cate McQuaid\, The Boston Globe \nLooking for Meaning in Pose by Anthony Goicolea at Montserrat\, Keith Powers\, Wicked Local / Beverly Citizen  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/anthony-goicolea-poseseptember-21-november-9-2019/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTSTAMP:20260419T034624
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SUMMARY:Ollie Balf: A Bright Life
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm \nReception: November 13th\, 5–8pm \nIn the late 1940s after graduating college\, Balf would go on to live in New York and studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. While in those years artists from New York flocked to the coasts of Massachusetts\, instead of following Hofmann to Provincetown\, Balf landed in Rockport\, MA\, spending his first summer there in 1947. Balf was among the founding faculty of Montserrat which was officially open for enrollment in 1970. \nBalf fell in love with water-coloring on Cape Ann\, a medium he’d never been formally taught but later declared his favorite. In between visits to Old Garden Beach and East Gloucester’s Hawthorne Inn Jazz Club\, he knocked out three paintings a day. \n“Watercolor is full of surprises\,” he once wrote. “Colors are always different when wet\, and unpredictable when dry. Accidents are part of the process and you handle the accidents differently each time they occur\, so you never know what the final result will be.” \nA Bright Life features eight framed and fourteen unframed watercolors from various years\, ranging from abstract to observational. \nEvent created in conversation with “Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction” currently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum. \n \nLydia Gordon & Tim Harney: The Impact of Hofmann
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/ollie-balf-a-bright-lifeseptember-15-december-15-2019/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190915
DTSTAMP:20260419T034624
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SUMMARY:ANIMATE & INANIMATE: PRODUCTS OF NATURE September 11–14\, 2019
DESCRIPTION:Crossing Water Container – Salem\n1 Bridge Street\nSalem\, MA 01970 \nGallery Hours\nTh-Sat\, 3–9pm \nReception: N/A \nThe question “What came first the chicken or the egg?” has been asked and debated by philosophers for over 2000 years\, essentially looking for an answer as to where everything began. In doing so\, this question drew a stark line between science and belief. The egg represents evolution\, or the “descent with modification”. Studies of Charles Darwin have shown that species change over time and evolve constantly\, meaning a bird similar to a chicken laid an egg that hatched to reveal the chicken we are familiar with now. The chicken represents God’s creation of man\, in reference to the biblical tale of  Adam & Eve. Christianity relies heavily on text that supports the idea of a god-created mankind\, circling back toAdam and Eve. \nThe installation will play devil’s advocate and play up both sides of this question. Due to personal biases\, the installation will not be able to dismiss a more heavily scientific influence\, dealing with the themes of extinction\, evolution\, domestication\, and humanity\, clashing with religion.  \nCurated by David Mshar & Lexi Palmberg
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/animate-inanimate-products-of-natureseptember-11-14-2019/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:A Mirror for You
DESCRIPTION:Area Gallery\n460 C Harrison Ave\nBoston\, Massachusetts 02118 \nGallery Hours\nW-Sat.\, 12pm–6pm\nSun.\, 11–5pm \nReception: September 6th\, 6–8:30pm \nA Mirror For You\, curated by Kevin Lucey\, includes work by 9 artists from Massachusetts\, Connecticut\, New York\, Texas\, and Colorado who create work that challenges our assumptions of what we consider painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and installation. Theresa Anderson\, Taylor Clough\, Susan Carr\, Mel DeWees\, Brian Galderisi\, Jamey Hart\, Joe LoVasco\, Brendan MacAllister\, and Boris Ostrerov push those boundaries in strange and thought-provoking ways. \n  \nA Mirror For you is a pink blob\, neon tube\, rainbow rug\, paint mixer\, horse filled horse. It reflects the humor\, obsertities\, and quiet moments that are often overlooked and unacknowledged. A Mirror For You may challenge you\, too\, and ask you to look within yourself to see beyond yourself. This exhibition is a mirror\, for you.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/a-mirror-for-youseptember-6-october-12-2019/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191013
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SUMMARY:Adrián Fernández Milanés: Pending Memories September 3–October 12\, 2019
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nT–F 11:30am–2:30pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: September 5th\, 5–8pm \nA solo exhibition of Havana-based multimedia artist\, Adrián Fernández Milanés. PENDING MEMORIES builds upon Milanés’ exploration of the artifice\, the spectacle of consumerism\, technological constructs (tangible and digital)\, and beyond. This iteration showcases a massive mixed-media sculpture reminiscent of an advertising billboard or the corpse of a military installation. At the foot of this altar does one gaze in awe or cower in defeat? Yet\, is it cloaked by banality of frequency in which we view the countless structures that dot our landscape and consciousness? \n\n\nMilanés studied visual arts at the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy (2004) and later at the Superior Institute of Arts (2010) in Havana. From 2010 to 2012\, he trained at The Ludwig Foundation of Cuba and New York University\, Tisch School of the Arts Special Programs\, where he also taught. \n\nHe has exhibited extensively\, from Berlin to New York\, Houston to Antwerp\, including an installation for the 2019 Havanna Biennal\, Monument to an Incomplete Man. He is working towards a 2020 solo exhibition at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam\, one of Cuba’s leading institutions.\n\n\nThis opportunity is made possible thanks to a partnership with A R E A Gallery\, Boston\, MA.\n\n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/adrian-fernandez-milanes-pending-memories-september-3-october-12-2019/
LOCATION:301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190928
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SUMMARY:WAR DEPT
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\n24/7 \nReception: September 17th\, 5–7pm \nThe War Dept. was adapted from a music theater piece by Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer that was commissioned by the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University\, as part of a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of American Civil War. The War Dept. (music and lyrics by Jim Bauer\, script by Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer) had a workshop performance at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in 2014. Blyth Hazen and Ruth Bauer collaborated on this adaptation\, transforming some of the elements of The War Dept. into a stop action video using puppets and a miniature set. \nBlyth Hazen makes things that move. Sometimes they are animations that appear to move on their own. Other times they need more assistance like a puppet\, robot\, or an automaton. She is a professor at Montserrat College of Art where she encourages her students to gesticulate and move around as much as possible.  Examples of her sculptural\, robotic and programmed animations can be seen at www.blythhazen.com.  \nRuth Bauer loves to combine images with narrative in lots of different media\, and now in a new fascination\, with puppets and stop action video. She is the co-creator\, with her husband composer Jim Bauer\, of the theater productions The Blue Flower and The War Dept. Ruth believes as strongly in nurturing young artists as in making art\, and is a faculty member and Chair of the Arts Department at Shore Country Day School in Beverly\, Massachusetts. More information about her various projects can be found at www. ruthbauer.com \n \nThe War Dept. from Blyth Hazen on Vimeo. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/war-dept-august-31-september-27-2019/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190922
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SUMMARY:Ashley Brown Durand:  It's Ok To Feel Things
DESCRIPTION:Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery\nHardie Building\n23 Essex Street\nBeverly\, MA 01915 \nGallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm\nSat.\, 12–5pm \nReception: September 12th\, 5–7pm \n“I created the very first “It’s OK” banner for myself\, because I needed the reassurance. I was working multiple jobs at the time\, and never seemed to have enough free time to bring all my ideas to fruition. I was looking at a lot of imagery from the Woman’s Suffrage Movement\, and was especially interested in the handwork involved behind the scenes. Not only were these women fighting for their (our) rights\, but they were also creating every sash worn\, every banner carried\, by hand\, one at a time. I was moved by that thought alone. The time spent stitching each letter on an object that would move people to think\, to act. I knew I wanted to work with this idea somehow (I actually intended to make affirmation quilts). Very early into this project I stumbled upon a couple other artists using affirmations in wall hangings and I began to feel defeated before I even got started\, even though their work was nothing like what I wanted to make. So I created the “It’s OK” banner to remind myself to keep moving forward. To make my own work\, my own way. That was in the summer of 2010. Nine years later\, I’ve made over 7000 affirmation banners to help remind people all over the world to keep pushing forward\, to be kind\, to be brave.” – Ashley Brown Durand \nhttps://shop.secretholidayco.com
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/ashley-brown-durand-its-ok-to-feel-thingsaugust-10-september-21-2019/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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