Montserrat College of Art

Cultured Interactions
2018-06-14 - 2018-07-20 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M-Th, 10am–5pm
F, 10-1pm
Reception: June 16th, 3–5pm
Cultured Interactions, a solo exhibition of works on paper by Guhapriya Ranganathan, explores the process of physical and spiritual change and growth through continuous interactions, movement and synthesis. Ranganathan relies on scientific research as a primary source for her work. She says, “Scientific research involves stepping into the unknown without fixed or definite answers. The abstract nature of the questions and the experimentation involved in research mirrors the process of creating art and becomes a metaphor for the experience of life.” Her works are reminiscent of maps that reference neurological patterns, memory, and travel, asking us to consider how changes at the microcosmic level lead us to visually and spiritually reflect on the macrocosm.
About Guhapriya:
Born and brought up in India, Guhapriya Ranganathan (Gupi) had prior degrees in engineering and management before moving to the United States in 1995. She studied art at Simmons College, and received her MFA in painting and printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, Gupi was the Broad Artist in Residence. She has exhibited and shared her work focusing on the intersection of art and science in galleries and forums in the US, China and India. Her work is represented in public and private collections. She currently works and lives in Wayland, Massachusetts.
http://www.guhapriyaranganathan.com/
Concatenation 03, 2017

COLOR COPIES: BERMUDA - RACHEL PERRY
2018-05-07 - 2018-06-08 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: May 17th 8–9pm

Internationally renowned, multi-disciplinary artist Rachel Perry of Gloucester and Brooklyn, New York will present a free, public lecture on her work and career at the Cabot Performing Arts Center, Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 pm, followed by a reception at Montserrat College of Art Galleries, 23 Essex St., where her work will be on view. She will also present the keynote speech the following day at Montserrat’s annual commencement ceremony.

Perry will present the keynote lecture at Montserrat’s Commencement the following day and receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. She is a trustee at Montserrat College of Art and has had her work included in a group exhibition “It’s Getting Hot in Here” in the Montserrat Gallery in 2008.

“We are delighted that Rachel will honor us in this way at our annual Commencement ceremonies, and also present a lecture to the public the prior evening,” said President Steve Immerman. “Montserrat’s tradition of offering public lectures, by artists of her caliber and reputation, is our way of providing a gift to the community each spring and will hope the public will want to join us and have a chance to meet her.”

Rachel Perry was born in 1962 in Japan. Her work is held in numerous museums and private collections around the world, including the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Florida, and the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. Since 2006 Rachel Perry has been represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City where in 2018 she had her sixth solo exhibition.

Perry has been honored with four residencies at the MacDowell Colony, earning both the Cathrine Boettcher and the Kurt and Anne Stark Locher Fellowships. She has participated in several other residency programs, including Yaddo and ArtOmi, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in October of 2014, beginning an affiliation that continues today. Perry is a three-time recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for Excellence, the only artist in its history to win in three separate disciplines: Photography, Drawing, and Sculpture. A finalist for the Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2006, she participated in the inaugural exhibition at the Museum’s grand re-opening in Boston’s Seaport.

She has participated in group shows at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; The Drawing Center, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Beatriz Esguerra Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia. Her solo shows include What Do You Really Want? at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Chiral Lines and Lost in My Life at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Same Difference at Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston; and her first solo museum show, 24/7, at DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, which subsequently traveled to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Perry lectures extensively and has held many visiting artist positions at institutions around the country from New York to Alaska. Notably, she participated on a panel with Sherry Turkle and Helen Schulman at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2010, and co-presented with author Michael Chabon at the MacDowell Colony Benefit in 2014.

She has been reviewed in many national and online publications, including Art in America, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Art on Paper, Art:21, Sculpture, and Harvard Business Review, with cover stories in Boston Common and Art New England. Perrycontributed a photo-performance project to Women in Clothes, published by Penguin in 2014, a New York Times bestseller. She has twice been commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to create art for feature stories, most recently for coverage of the “Me Too” movement. In 2011, Perry created a four-page pictorial essay for the December issue of Vogue.

She holds a BA in English Literature with a minor in French from Connecticut College, and a Diploma and Fifth Year Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The lecture is free but advance registration is required for planning purposes. Register below or contact us at:
gallery@montserrat.edu

Montserrat College of Art is educating the designers, artists, entrepreneurs and problem solvers for a rapidly changing world that requires creative solutions to new challenges. At the intersection of art, design and technology, the college offers three international programs, 12 concentrations and a required internship program. Montserrat alumni are employed by some of the country’s biggest brands including Disney, Puma, Hasbro and more. Students earn the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and develop their skills for success in today’s growing creative economy. The college also offers year-round classes for youth, teens and adults through our Continuing Education Division, and has four public galleries offering year-round, free, exhibitions and lectures.
Montserrat is “Where Creativity Works.” www.montserrat.edu
RACHEL PERRY ©2017, Water at Sandys Bc-T2, 8.5 x 11 3/8 inches, archival pigment print on paper mounted to white acrylic with Coloraid chip

This event is generously sponsored by Eastern Bank

ALL SENIOR SHOW
2018-05-04 - 2018-05-18 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: May 7th, 11:30am–12:30pm
Juror’s Award Reception
Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St.
Monday, May 7, 11:30 am
The 2018 All Senior Show will be juried by Lauren O’Neal, Curator and Director of Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Commemorating a Meltdown
2018-04-30 - 2018-05-04
Gallery 95
Porter Mills Building
95 Rantoul Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
April 30, 12 – 3
May 1, 4 – 6
May 2, 5 – 8
May 3, 3 – 6
May 4, 12 – 6
Reception: May 2nd, 5–8pm
Commemorating a Meltdown features the work of Fine Arts seminar seniors Percival Barron, Meaghan Greene, Jackson Haley, Chelsea MacDowell and Lex Young.
Whether it’s through letterpress, printmaking, embroidery or digital manipulation each artist explores non-traditional subject matter in their work. With underlying themes of decomposition, physical or societal, the artists highlight subject matters that are not a mainstream focus in society.
The artists hope to create moments of contemplation and self reflection within the viewer.
In much of the work the artists have re-purposed traditional utilitarian methods which mirrors the shift of Porter Mill from an industrial building to a place of artistic creation.
Percival Barron (Painting) taps into memory and its nature through digital degradation.
Meaghan Greene (Interdisciplinary) explores ideas of preciousness and mortality through embroidery and images of dead animals.
Jackson Haley (Printmaking) utilizes traditional letterpress printmaking to explore superstitious beliefs and ideas.
Chelsea MacDowell (Printmaking) appropriates images from natural history through printmaking and drawing processes, to express her interest in the insect world and decomposition.
Lex Young (Book Arts and Creative Writing) employs an experimental approach to letterpress printing using text and image to explore the abstract and fluid nature of gender, sexuality, mental health and how and where they intersect.

ME + EVERYONE ELSE April 23–25, 2018
2018-04-23 - 2018-04-25
Porter Mills – Gallery 95
95 Rantoul Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
April 23-24
1-5pm
Reception: April 25th, 5–8pm
A Montserrat College of Art Senior Thesis Exhibition featuring Maria Patsopoulos and Shannon Walsh
Gallery 95 @ Porter Mill
95 Rantoul st, Beverly, Ma 01915
On view: April 23-27, 2018
Gallery hours: April 23-24 1-5 pm
Reception: April 25 5-8 PM
Find us on Instagram!
Maria- @wet.dollar
Shannon- @wonkyline

JODI COLELLA: BEING
2018-04-18 - 2018-06-02 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
A public art installation by Jodi Colella.
Jodi Colella works with a broad range of materials to create provocative, tactile works that often include public participation. She has exhibited at Danforth Art, Fruitlands Museum, Wheaton College, Helen Day Art Center, Museums of York, World of Threads and Textile Museum, among others. Her awards include 2016 Thailand Residency at ComPeung, 2014 China Residency at Da Wang Culture Highland, 2013 Artist-in-Residence Fruitlands Museum, Pollack-Krasner Fellowship Vermont Studio Center, and Somerville Arts Council Fellowships 2015, 2012.
Jodi has been featured in Huffpost Art & Culture, Artscope, The Boston Globe, Harvard Crimson, 500 Felt Objects, TextileArtist.org, BU Arts & Science Magazine and The Worcester Telegram. She is a member of New England Sculpture Association, Arts & Business Council of Boston, Surface Design Association, The American Craft Council, and International Sculpture Center.
She received a B.A. from Boston University and studied at Massachusetts College of Art and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She teaches fiber workshops at The Eliot School in Jamaica Plain MA, The De Cordova Museum School in Lincoln MA, at Surface Design Association National Conferences and at several private venues. Jodi has taught nationally at Society for Craft in Pittsburgh, SDA’s Confluence in Minneapolis, plus many local venues. She lives and works in Somerville, MA.
– Joyce Browne

Joo Lee Kang: CHAOS
2018-03-01 - 2018-04-14 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Joo Lee Kang received her BFA in Painting from Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea and her MFA from Tufts University – School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
She had numerous exhibitions including in Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Arko Art Center, Museum of Art at Univ. of New Hampshire, The Gallery at Penn College, Danforth Art Museum, Gallery NAGA, and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. Kang was invited as an Artist-in-Residence at Cheongju Art Studio in Korea, Willapa Bay AiR, and Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, also received SMFA Traveling Fellowship, St. Botolph Club Artist Grant, and Massachusetts Cultural Council Award.
Her upcoming exhibitions in 2018 will be at Harvard Medical School, Korea Cultural Center in Spain, and Space55 in Seoul. Currently she is showing her works at Fitchburg Art Museum and very active internationally.

THE BEAST: HERD MENTALITY
2018-02-15 - 2018-03-30
Gallery Hours
M–F, 12pm–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: Thursday, February 15th, 5-8pm. Artist’s remarks @ 6pm
The Beast: Herd Mentality
By John Preus
Montserrat is partnering with Chicago-based artist John Preus to build a large-scale beast in Montserrat Gallery that will serve as as a community art space and a multidisciplinary platform for cultural activities. This temporary sculpture/performance pavilion will be a site for a wide range of cultural programs, including concerts, performances, academic talks, poetry readings, writing sessions, conversations, and much more.
In light of the political divisiveness and tragic news that pervades our everyday lives, The Beast, in the form of a bull, will offer a free, accessible space for people to come together to find common ground, particularly across differing ideologies or viewpoints.
Community members are invited to propose programming of their own and to use the space for gatherings like meetings, reading time, yoga practice, conversations across differences, and other endeavors. To propose a program or a group visit, please email Gallery Director Michele L’Heureux at michele.lheureux@montserrat.edu and include a title and short description of the program, as well as proposed date and time.
Artist John Preus will be in the gallery from January 27 through February 14 building The Beast with the help of Montserrat staff, students, and local contractors. Feel free to stop by the gallery during business hours to meet the artist and witness the project unfolding.
Check back often for an updated list of events, photos, and ongoing news about the project.

EVENTS

We Are The Beast, a conversation series exploring the intersections of art and philosophy presented by the Beverly Philosophy Salon and moderated by co-curator Leonie Bradbury.
Session 1: The Space of Art
Montserrat Humanities faculty Kate Farrington in conversation with artist John Preus
Thursday, February 15
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (11:00 for coffee & pastry)

Session 2: The Experience of Art
Artist-Philosopher Dr. Jennifer Hall in conversation with Dr. Vidette Asher, Neuroscience Researcher, Peabody Essex Museum
Thursday, March 1
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (11:00 for coffee & pastry)
Session 3: The Materiality of Art
Artist-Philosopher Dr. Mary Anne Davis in conversation with Jen Mergel, Vice President, Programming, of the Association of Art Museum Curators
Thursday, March 22
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (11:00 for coffee & pastry)
ON.THE.SPOT.
Put a staff member on the spot and ask them ANYTHING about their career; they have one minute to answer the question. Candy Included. Organized by Career Services.
Monday, March 5
11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

An Introduction to Relaxation and Mindfulness Techniques

with Montserrat’s Director of Counseling, Janet Dauray, PhD
Learn ways to reduce stress and increase relaxation.
All welcome. No experience necessary.

Tuesday, March 27
11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.

Cocktail Conversation with poets Liz Bradfield & Colleen Michaels
Hear about the innovative ways these two poets bring poetry and art to the public in unexpected places.

Thursday, March 29
5:00-6:00 p.m.

Live stream of The Beast being built!

DAVID BUCKLEY BORDEN: SITE VISIT
2018-01-08 - 2018-02-24 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
David Buckley Borden’s installation, Site Visit, can now be viewed at the 301 Frame Gallery at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. Site Visit is a traveling installation intended to promote a cultural ecology supported by art-based interdisciplinary science-communication. The installation includes twenty-four speculative design objects ranging from “Back 40 Eco Monitors” for the suburban corporate-class compound to a “Flood Light Warning System” aimed at warning coastal citizens of approaching storm flooding.

David Buckley Borden is a Cambridge-based interdisciplinary artist and designer known for his creative practice of making ecological issues culturally relevant to the general public by means of accessible art and design. David studied landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and worked with Sasaki Associates and Ground before focusing his practice at the intersection of landscape, creativity, and cultural event. David’s work now manifests in a variety of forms, ranging from site-speciﬁc landscape installations in the woods to data-driven cartography in the gallery. David’s place-based projects highlight both pressing environmental issues and everyday phenomena and have recently earned him residencies at the Santa Fe Arts Institute, Teton Art Lab, Trifecta Hibernaculum, and MASS MoCA. David was a 2016/2017 Bullard Fellow at the Harvard Forest where he answered the question, “How can art and design foster cultural cohesion around environmental issues and help inform ecology-minded decision making?”
Free Public Program:
Aaron Ellison and David Borden
A conversation about the Hemlock Hospice project now on view at Harvard Forest
April 16, 2018
11:30-12:20 p.m.
23 Essex street, RM H201

ART WALK
2017-11-18 00:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Stroll through downtown Beverly and enjoy multiple art exhibitions, open studios, and pop-up art experiences along the way!
Visit Montserrat’s annual Art Sale, stop into local galleries and artists’ studios, and discover art in unpredictable places. Refreshments served along the way.
Have your map stamped at 5 or more stops, return it to 301 Gallery, and you could win a Montserrat zip-up hoodie and water bottle.
PDF of Map
Participating Galleries and Locations:
1A Knowlton Street
Pop-up exhibition
248 Cabot Street
Pop-up exhibition
301 Gallery
301 Cabot Street
Montserrat Art Sale hundreds of small works for sale
Art by Alyssa
110 Cabot Street
Open showroom for holiday shopping
Gallery 95 & Studios at Porter Mill
95 Rantoul Street
Open Studios & holiday market, dozens of artists
Historic Beverly
117 Cabot Street
Community art exhibit, gallery talks on the hour 12-4 pm
Mingo Gallery & Framing
284 Cabot Street
Reception 2 new exhibitions
Montserrat Galleries
23 Essex Street
Hardie Building
Two exhibitions of MA & NY painters
Paper Asylum
166 Cabot Street
Comic store with drawing space for kids of all ages
Red Fence Gallery
268 Cabot Street
Outdoor gallery on a fence
Steez Design
3 Washington Street
Design studio open house with free give-aways

OPEN DOORS
2017-11-01 - 2017-11-09 | 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: November 7th 5–7pm
An exhibition of work created during our Study Abroad programs. The exhibition includes students from the Montserrat College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Parsons Fashion Art and Design School.
The work was created variously in Viterbo, Italy, Niigata, Japan, and Mallorca, Spain.
For more information on our Study Abroad programs, visit:
https://www.montserrat.edu/travel/
Lincoln Willians, Calo de Moro

TRANSMUTATIONS
2017-10-28 - 2018-01-20 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: November 1st, 5–8pm
Borders—whether demarcating geography, politics, identities, or ideas—are shifting more rapidly than ever before, leaving everything in a state of flux, with seemingly disparate parts coming together at every turn in new, inventive, and sometimes volatile ways. Depending on one’s vantage point, this fluidity can be uplifting, disorienting, or transformative.
Artists Esteban del Valle, Jose de Jesus Rodriguez, and Sean Downey make paintings, prints, videos, and animations that draw, in part, from cinema, political cartoons, and pop culture iconography and that engage with the topics of displacement, personal and collective memory, visual culture, and the history of art—reminding us that nothing we know is fixed and that all is open to endless interpretation.
Panel discussion with Esteban del Valle, Sean Downey, and Jose de Jesus Rodriguez, moderated by curator Michele L’Heureux Nov. 29 at 6:00 p.m., Montserrat Gallery

CHRISTOPHER ALDAY
2017-10-03 - 2017-11-11 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours 24/7
Reception October 21st 6–9pm
Christopher Alday is a California native and Minnesota based artist who primarily works with printmaking. Using repetition and the fracturing of simple shapes, he creates vast modular arrays that can take innumerable forms and dimensions. Installations like the one on view generate deceptive amounts of movement, tone, and depth with the aid of optical illusion and implied lines. The prints on display were made possible by Jerome Emerging Printmaker’s Residency 2014/2015 and Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN.

THE BLACK VEIL
2017-09-18 - 2017-11-04 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: October 21st, 6–9pm
Salem-based twins Matt and Ryan Murray along with Nathan Ernce revel in the dark and otherworldly. Their illustrations — brushed with cobwebs and punctuated by spider-legs — reveal entities, places, and creatures from regions unknown, incorporeal, and in- between. Beyond their artistic practice, they are successful entrepreneurs, owning a gallery and tattoo studio in Beverly and playing an active role in the Beverly Arts District. Curated in conjunction with the Quietus exhibition, their installation will act as a gateway into the 301 Gallery.
The Black Veil Studio

TEMPLE OF FLIES: Caitlin and Nicole Duennebier
2017-09-18 - 2017-10-16 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: September 28th, 5–8pm
Caitlin and Nicole are sibling rivals in the best way possible, and no matter how hard they try to abstain, they continue to collaborate. Caitlin trained in photography but primarily works in narrative illustration, and Nicole is a classically trained painter who creates exquisitely rendered, luscious still-lifes in the tradition of the Dutch masters. Together, their styles aren’t so much blended as they are overlaid and intertwined; simply drawn figures wade through puddles of dense oil in their fantastical and sometimes frightening vignettes.

Caitlin and Nicole Duennebier visiting artists presentation
September 28, 11:30–12:20 p.m.
Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery
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QUIETUS
2017-09-05 - 2017-10-28 | 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
T-F, 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: October 21st, 6–9pm
Curated by Nathan Lewis, Quietus is an exploration of the indescribable nature of loss, memory, and their manifestations. Rather than glorifying death or dying, this exhibition looks at how we memorialize and render tangible that which we may have lost, wish to regain, or never had. Through film, photography, sculpture, and forensic drawings, these five artists examine the ardent desire to communicate about and come to terms with the passing of a person.
The included artists span a wide range of media, backgrounds, and interests. Minnesota-based social practice artist, Jess Hirsch, creates work that begs participation from across streets, cities, cultures, and lifetimes; Sculptor, Andy Mauery of Maine, uses the reverential material of hair to comment upon extinction, gender, craft, and sacred remnants; Detective Ian Spencer of the Lincoln, MA police force is an internationally recognized forensic and reconstructive artist who returns the likeness and voices to those whom have had it unjustly taken; Shannon Taggart is a documentary photographer from New York who offers glimpses into the lives and communities of those who wish to communicate with the departed; Berlin-based artist David Zink Yi, is a multi-media creator who blends music, sculpture, and performance in an attempt to conjure hidden feelings and beings.
Visiting Artist events:
Shannon Taggart with author Peter Bebergal

A conversation about art, the otherworldly, and technology

October 26, 2017
6:30-8:00 p.m.
301 Gallery

Detective Ian Spencer
New England’s only FBI trained forensic artist shares experiences and techniques
November 9, 2017
6:30-8:00 p.m.
B-208, 248 Cabot St

FIGURE/GROUND
2017-08-15 - 2017-10-14 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: September 6th, 5–8pm

Contemporary figurative painting is more relevant than ever, as artists portray people engaged with the salient issues of our time—including race, sexuality, violence, migration, and privacy. What does it mean to be human as our relationship to our bodies, to nature, and to society evolves?

Eight artists working in the figurative tradition explore the body from a wide range of angles and in an array of mediums—including printmaking, painting, animation, photography, collage, sculpture, and drawing. Their work engages with the history of figurative art and also sheds light on both current and timeless notions of humanity.

Miguel Aragon · Matt Bollinger · Justin Kim · Susan Lichtman ·
Kirk Lorenzo · Azita Moradkhani · Simonette Quamina · Leslie Schomp

Leslie Schomp – Artist Lecture
October 10, 2017
6:30–7:30 p.m.
H-201
23 Essex St, Beverly, MA.

EXPLORATIONS
2017-06-16 - 2017-08-15
New England Biolabs
240 County Road
Ipswich, MA
Reception: June 17th, 5–7pm
A Montserrat College of Art Faculty Exhibition at the award-winning New England Biolabs headquarters in Ipswich, MA. The NEB have been long time supporters of Montserrat and we are thrilled to have to the opportunity collaborate on this exhibition together.
From traditional pictorial paintings to abstract digital art, the featured artists span numerous genres, themes, and subjects.
Chelsea Samms, Kayla + Zoey, Digital painting produced in collaboration with rhesus macaques, 2016
16×20″

JULIA SHEPLEY: SEQUENTIAL PRINTS
2017-06-06 - 2017-08-03 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M,T,W,F, 10am–5pm
Th, 10am–8pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: July 19th, 5–7pm
We are pleased to present Sequential Prints, a solo exhibition by Boston-based artist Julia Shepley. Shepley, an adjunct sculpture professor at Montserrat, writes that the series of woodcut collages explore themes of “migration, relocation and resettlement as a universal, physical, and personal part of human history and experience.”
Shepley grew up in Massachusetts and in Sierra Leone West Africa, studied at Boston University and maintains a studio in the Brickbottom Artist’s Building in Somerville, MA.
Shifting family and physical situations in childhood, and travel in adulthood has shaped Shepley’s interest in conveying the experience of adapting to and absorbing a multi-layered sense of place and belonging.
About this project, Shepley says:
My work references the winds and tides of human attachment and energy, by turns, dispersing, settling and accumulating as they are layered and pieced together by time.
I am inspired by the study of manmade and natural structures and by the process of working with the inherent possibilities of a variety of materials to create works of art that imply a physical journey through the layers of story, structure and space.

For more information, please visit: https://www.juliashepley.com

María Magdalena Campos - Pons
2017-05-08 - 2017-06-01 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M,T,W,F, 10am–5pm
Th, 10am–8pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: May 18th 8–9pm
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ work is autobiographical. “It encompasses a larger story. It reveals a history of survival- of a culture, a religion, and a people- from the oceanic voyage from Africa during the slave trade in the 18th century, to its aftermath in Cuba on the sugar plantations, to the present day in the United States. It is a felt history- not one of the rhetorical facts and figures told through non-spoken, fragmented narratives.” Campos-Pons’ work, although an expression of absence and loss, is a celebratory gesture toward a unique and resilient culture.
Her work is an investigation of history and memory, and their roles in the formation of identity. Born in Matanzas province in Cuba in 1959, Campos-Pons bears a familial history that is intermingled with the sugar industry’s presence in her hometown of La Vega. Her roots can be traced from America, to a Cuban homeland, to the enslaved who were traded by Spanish colonists and finally back to what is today Nigeria.
Her works have been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Japan, Norway, France, Italy, and Cuba. She was represented in the Johannesburg Biennial and has had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Campos-Pons’ powerful attachment to her cultural African heritage is one that she has never experienced directly but its presence in the rites and myths of her childhood make her a Cuban transplanted in the United States, an exile twice over.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ free artist lecture will be on Thursday, May 18 at 6:30pm at Larcom Theatre in Beverly, MA

ALL SENIOR SHOW
2017-05-05 - 2017-05-19 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Juror’s Award Reception: May 8th 11:30am
Gallery Hours
M,T,W,F, 10am–5pm
Th, 10am–8pm
Sat., 12–5pm
The 2017 All Senior Show will be juried by Andrea Dabrila, Associate Director, Gallery NAGA, Boston.

ANTICS
2017-04-10 - 2017-04-29
Reception: April 12th, 5–8pm
Gallery 95
95 Rantoul Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
M,T,W,F, 10am–5pm
Th, 10am–8pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Gallery 95 presents ANTICS, a senior thesis exhibition featuring work by Francine Wright, Gianna Nguyen and Sophie Mayo. Three artists celebrate the notion that not everything is what it seems. Through painting, sculpture and photography, they challenge the manipulation of materials and alter the normalities of their mediums.
Francine Wright’s recent work titled TEXTures is a reflection of her use of paint as sculptural material. Working with acrylic paint in an impasto technique, her paintings become dimensional in texture and create a repetitive optical space. When working on this series, Wright considers herself to be having a direct conversation with the paint. The forms she creates with paint are representational of objects we use to communicate and stay connected with daily. Wright is interested in the synthetic nature of the paint representing plastic, relating to objects such as cell phones, key pads, and remote controls. Each device keeps us connected to the fast paced modern culture which craves instant satisfaction.
Gianna Nguyen is a mixed media sculptor working in a collection of fibers, handmade paper, and salvage utilitarian materials. She is interested in visually exploring the functionality of material and questioning the differences between high and low art. By repurposing humble and recognizable materials she challenges the way we value easily accessible materials versus traditional sculptural materials such as bronze, steel and wood. The textural qualities of the paper and sculptures speak to the reality of each material used. Through a variety of methods such as assemblage, dipping, and weaving, she highlights the aesthetic qualities, changing function to nonfunctional and inspiring an alternative view to everyday materials.
Sophie Mayo is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work focuses on the impermanence of time. Her long exposure photographs convey an interaction between time, space and movement. For this body of work Sophie is not interested in the formal aspects of photography, rather the emotional. Her photographs share similar qualities to that of charcoal drawings and express an underlying influence of performance.

Schema
2017-03-27 - 2017-03-31 | 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M-F, 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: Wednesday, March 29th, 5–8pm
SCHEMA is an exhibition of Senior Graphic Design work at Montserrat College of Art. SCHEMA is the culmination of nine graphic designers’ thesis work. All nine designers will be graduating this spring from Montserrat College of Art. The artists and their work include:
Alex Bonin – Augmented Storytelling is a thesis exploring how augmented reality can be used in conjunction with printed media to create an enhanced experience.
Taylor Bowen – An exploration of letterpress printing that uses simple manipulations such as masking, rotation, and layering to develop abstract compositions that obscure the original letters and bring more focus to the new forms created.
Adela Bukva – A redesign process of the first aid kit as represented through a visual analysis of 1984’s “Newspeak” language.
LiYun Chen – Combining western culture and Asian culture to design creative tea packaging.
Lauren Cox – Intertwined explores the use of typewriters as a creative medium instead of as a tool for formal communication.
Katie Dygon – Patterns for fabrics and accessories made by coding in Processing.
Britney Payton – Eat.in has emerged out of the idea that everyone has a story to tell when it’s time to cook a meal.
Chase Terranova – STRATA explores what gets passed down in families; the stories and memories of a family that make up its history, and the concept of self as a result of those things.
Elise Walsh – By studying, exploring, and extracting organic colors from our environment I’ve developed a process to learn and share with others. On display will be a full range of dyed colors on natural fabrics, as well as a visual process of how natural dyeing works.

ALSO KNOWN AS
2017-03-21 - 2017-03-24
Reception: Wednesday, March 22nd, 5–8pm
222 Cabot Gallery
222 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Friday, 3–8pm
Sometimes we forget to notice the small things, the moments that slip by in an instant. A moment may be the smallest unit of experience, but over a lifetime, they add up to make a whole. Bringing together the most recent works of Meghan Kausel, Andrew Kish, and Aubrey Mueller, AKA serves as a compilation of alternative explorations of moments in time.
AKA or ‘Also Known As’, serves its own function well, as an alias for all three artists in the show. It also recalls themes like that of an alter ego, and in certain cases unlawful activities. Metaphorically, it suggests how our pieces may function, we all steal moments in time and extrapolate something new.
Meghan Kausel can be seen transferring and solidifying ephemeral motion to permanent form in her prints. Andrew Kish addresses graffiti and graffiti culture in the third dimension, utilizing a more traditional, yet raw materialistic approach. A ‘moment in crime’ if you will, now turned permanent art object. Aubrey Mueller gives form to inadvertent action and happenstance, her work embodies elements of time and space and reframes them to form a new narrative. Elements of action and gesture are a shared language amongst these artists, and within AKA evoke alternative moments in time.

Derek Lerner: 42°33'00.51" N 70°52'33.57" W
2017-03-20 - 2017-04-15 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: March 22, 2017 @ 5–7pm
Gallery Hours
M,T,W,F, 10am–5pm
Th, 10am–8pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Derek Lerner (b.1974), is an NYC-based artist whose work explores systems: their creation, control, use and experience of them. Lerner’s abstract ink on paper drawings co-mingle representations of human-made and natural systems and the tensions between those forces. From an aerial vantage point, his compositions grow, line by line, through an additive, extemporaneous process into fictional spaces that juxtapose these systems, signs, and symbols. They encompass dualities that vacillate between micro and macro scales, dark and light, creation and destruction, human-made and nature-made; functioning as metaphors for ambivalence. In 2015 New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority commissioned Lerner to create permanent public art for the Avenue X subway station on the F train, IND Culver Line in Brooklyn. He has exhibited worldwide and his work is represented by New York gallery, Robert Henry Contemporary.

KEVIN TOWNSEND
2017-02-15 - 2017-04-12 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours 24/7
Time, mark, obsession—these concepts animate my practice and are the threads that run through all facets of my work. I am obsessed with time, fascinated by its accretion in the form of memory within us, and our unequal, subjective yet simultaneous experience of its passing. Time has depth, breadth, currents and flows— it exists simultaneously as individual moments and as a large sprawling body. Time is a sea. Time surrounds us; we can find ourselves immersed within it or skimming across its unpredictable and turbulent surface. Time heals, corrodes, swells, preserves, shimmers, torments, destroys, and is always in transition— never still. Within this fluid, phenomenological model for time, obsession emerges as a tidal force, a storm of attention.
These drawings extend my ongoing research and efforts to articulate the phenomenology of obsession as a time-space born of dissonant energies— inside of which there exists an intense, palpable self-awareness, a thinning, an ulceration of the barrier between instinct and dream, sensation and cognition. I am intrigued by the ways in which the tidal gravity of a given moment can warp and distort our experience of time and the ways in which moments accumulate in us, forming the architecture of our identity.
As the duration of these works has grown the experience of making them approaches a feeling of timelessness, a feeling of occupying an opening in the present. By eliminating any intentional image making at the outset, each mark only embodies the moment of its making and exists as a record of intention and attention in time— the drawings breathe into their surroundings and the collective present, allowing time to function as the true site for the work.

SCULPTURE SHOWCASE
2017-02-14 - 2017-02-22 | 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: February 15, 2017 @ 5:00–8:00pm
Gallery Hours
M–F, 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Annual Sculpture Department showcase!

GEORGE FRARY: A BORROWED LANDSCAPE
2017-02-08 - 2017-03-09 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: February 22nd, 5–7pm
Gallery Hours
M,T,W,F, 10am–5pm
Th, 10am–8pm
Sat., 12–5pm
We are pleased to present, A Borrowed Landscape, a solo exhibition by Montserrat alumnus George Frary III ‘00. Curated by Leonie Bradbury, this exhibition showcases twenty variations of oil, acrylic, and graphite works on paper and canvas. Frary’s uniquely expressive depictions of the natural environment are not literal renditions of an actual location, but rather serve as a glimpse of both imagined and remembered topographies. As Frary explains, “This body of work explores the concept of a nostalgic landscape. Rather than depicting representational, nameable space, I am looking to construct a new space that feels both transcendent and meditative. In most cases, I start with a specific landscape and set of related memories and emotions. Then I work to disrupt that specificity, to build the ambiguity that develops through the separation of time and space.”
For many years, Frary has been painting the rolling hills and rocky cliffs that form the dramatic vistas of our region, the artist carefully and patiently adding layers upon layers of oil paint onto the stretched canvas. His efforts resulted in luminescent and dreamy paintings that capture both the region and the viewer’s imagination. Several of these paintings are on view in the gallery, by contrast, the newly created works on paper installed along side them in this exhibition are different. In response to the current political climate and social unrest, Frary felt a desperate need to disconnect from the day-to-day stresses and depression he experienced since the recent presidential election. Frary decided to focus on what he knows best: to paint, but rather than spend more time in the studio, he decided he needed to leave it behind.
As part of his new process, Frary listened to music for several hours each day and began to create acrylic works on paper in several other spaces in his life including his work bench and on the counter top at Mingo Gallery, the framing business he owns with Katherine Romansky ‘07, a fellow Montserrat alumna. The vivid abstract works – in part due to the fast drying quality of the paint and the affordability of the paper substrate– were faster, less precious and as a result felt more free. What was intended as a distraction from political realities ended up as a series of thoughtful visual meditations as Frary frequently entered a “flow” state while painting and was able to disconnect, albeit for only a few hours at a time.
The resulting works ended up not as secondary pieces, or studies, but as a significant revelation both in form and content. According to curator Leonie Bradbury, “these new works are very exciting as they show both Frary’s facility with the use of paint, but also his incredible compositional insights and acute formal decision making. Once he was able to let go of the gravitas of the oil paintings, a lively new vocabulary emerged. I feel that the newfound spontaneity and fluid energy are a tremendous gift to his practice.” Frary hopes to apply the freedom of spirit of his acrylic works to his oil paintings when he returns to the studio.
For more information about Frary’s work, please visit:
https://www.georgefrary.com/

YOU MUST PERSUADE ME: Influence Thru Illustration
2017-01-30 - 2017-02-10
Gallery Hours
M–F, 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: February 1st @ 5–8pm
An annual illustration showcase!
Current student work is shown alongside faculty, staff and alumni in a broad range of method and media.

Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture
2017-01-25 - 2017-03-17 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: February 15th, 5–8pm
Gallery Hours
M–F, 12–6pm
Sat., 12–5pm
“I don’t remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”
— Edward W. Said, Palestine (Fantagraphics, 2001)

Comics are a universal medium with a rich history in the Middle East. For close to a century, Arab artists have created comics to reflect the socio‐political events of their times. In the panels of Arab comics we find illustrations and stories that creatively engage the British occupation of Egypt, the question of Palestine, the tide of pan‐Arabism, regional folklore, totalitarian Ba’th regimes in Iraq and Syria, the hyper commercialization of the Gulf, the Lebanese Civil War, the Arab uprisings, and more. During the past century, comics also act as a pithy visual medium through which multiple iterations of imagined Arab identities have been represented for mass audiences. This exhibit brings together a diverse set of viewpoints, contexts and styles in comic art to illustrate a deep history of original production and readership in the Middle East, and question what, if anything, is distinctly Arab about the popular art form.
Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture is a traveling exhibition with a public mission to employ comics as a critical platform for learning about the rich histories and geographies of pop culture in the Middle East; and engage broad audiences in critical discussions of media stereotypes about Arabs and how they shape our world view. The exhibit was first made possible in 2015 thanks to the sponsorship of Brown University’s Middle East Studies Program and the support of the Sawwaf Arabic Comics Initiative at the American University of Beirut. Translations for the exhibit have been provided through the sponsorship of University of California Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. To highlight the diverse contributions of Arab comic makers the artwork selected for this exhibit is organized around three themes, spanning from 1920s Egypt until Lebanon today: Originals, Adaptations and Contemporary Comics.
The introduction of iconic characters and comics from Western Europe and the United States into Arabic language markets began as early as the 1940s. In the following decades, Arab publishers translated popular western comics for readers from the Maghreb to Iraq in the pages of magazines like Samir and Bissat Al-Rih. The Arabization of cultural icons like Mickey Mouse and Tintin resulted in a combination of linguistic adaptation, visual appropriation, and cultural invention. The archive of original covers and translated panels of popular comics shown here feature highlights from the vast visual world of cross‐over characters, such as Nabil Fawzi (the Lebanese Clark Kent) and Hammam (the first of many Arabic versions of Tintin). These works point to the nuanced approach as well as the hackneyed stereotypes that artists employed in the production of this hybrid visual culture.
Since the early twentieth century, artists and publishing houses in Egypt, Lebanon and later the United Arab Emirates created comics featuring original characters that gained regional popularity. By the mid‐century, original comics magazines like Samir and Sindibâd united the imaginations of young audiences throughout Arab countries and shaped how political tropes of pan‐Arabism circulated in children’s media. Storylines of serial characters like Zouzou and Zakiyya ranged from whimsical to serious, sometimes directly engaging with critical events, like the Nakba, an annual day of commemoration for Palestinians marking the displacement caused by the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. During this era, these representations of childhood did not necessarily invoke visual caricatures of Arab identity often assumed by contemporaneous efforts to “Arabize” characters from European and American comics.
Recent work by Arab comics illustrators among Lebanon’s post‐war generations has moved comics beyond the realm of childhood fantasy to engage mature audiences and themes. Since 2007, the anthology magazine Samandal has established Beirut as a new regional center for comics production. The trilingual “amphibious” comics periodical has created a platform for the latest generation of artists to establish new forms of visual expression that do not conform to, and at times explicitly challenge, any prescribed notions of an “Arab” identity. Contemporary artists, including Fouad Mezher, Lena Merhej, Omar Khouri, Zeina Bassil, and Mazen Kerbaj, are redrawing and rewriting the rules and expectations for comics about, by and for readers worldwide.
Mona Damluji and Nadim Damluji, Curators
Lena Sawyer, Assistant To The Curators
For more information, visit:
http://www.arabcomicsexhibit.org/
SPECIAL THANKS to Barbara Oberkoetter, Sa’ed Atshan, Jo‐Anne Hart, Karie Fisher, Phil Lai, Kia Davis and IO Labs, Leah Niederstadt, Elizabeth Keithline, the Wheaton College Art/Art History Department, Kaoukab Chebaro and the Mu’taz and Rada Sawwaf Arabic Comics Initiative at the American University of Beirut, ArabComics.net, Lina Ghaibeh, Fouad Mezher, Omar Khouri, the FDZ, Hatem Imam, Zeina Bassil, Jana Traboulsi, Lena Merhej, Jorj A. Mhayya, Mazen Kerbaj, Shams Al Din Al Hajjaji, Levi Thompson, Jia Ching Chen, Gina Damluji, and Namir Damluji
Lena Merhej (Lebanese, b. 1977)
Samandal
Cover, Issue #12, 2012
Pub. Samandal NGO, Lebanon
