Montserrat College of Art

Color & Abstraction: Students Respond to Hofmann
2019-10-24 - 2019-12-15
Gallery Hours
M-F, 9am–5pm
or by appointment
Reception: November 13th, 5–8pm
Hofmann’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.
On 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:
Joshua Bonifaz · Caddy Cicogna · Emily Davis · Jack DeBusk · Laurel Driskill · Jack Fay · Jaime Fox · Maeve Lally · Rebecca Nagle · Emily Scally · Matthew Rucki

Exhibition created in conversation with “Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction” currently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum.

This exhibition was created thanks to organization by professors Diane Ayott, Judy Brown, Tim Harney, and Masako Kamiya.

Lydia Gordon & Tim Harney: The Impact of Hofmann

Joshua Bonifaz, Play

NARRATIVE
2019-10-22 - 2020-01-18
Gallery Hours
T–F, 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: October 24th, 5–7pm
The 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.
The 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
The 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.

ANTHONY GOICOLEA: POSE
2019-09-21 - 2019-11-09 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 10am–5pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: October 3rd, 5–7pm
Pose is the first New England solo-exhibition of the internationally acclaimed artist, Anthony Goicolea.
On 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.
“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.
In 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.
Each 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.
Anthony Goicolea, The Ticket: What’s Happening in the Local Arts World, Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe
Looking for Meaning in Pose by Anthony Goicolea at Montserrat, Keith Powers, Wicked Local / Beverly Citizen

Ollie Balf: A Bright Life
2019-09-15 - 2019-11-15
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Reception: November 13th, 5–8pm
In 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.
Balf 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.
“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.”
A Bright Life features eight framed and fourteen unframed watercolors from various years, ranging from abstract to observational.
Event created in conversation with “Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction” currently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Lydia Gordon & Tim Harney: The Impact of Hofmann

ANIMATE & INANIMATE: PRODUCTS OF NATURE September 11–14, 2019
2019-09-11 - 2019-09-14
Crossing Water Container – Salem
1 Bridge Street
Salem, MA 01970
Gallery Hours
Th-Sat, 3–9pm
Reception: N/A
The 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.
The 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.
Curated by David Mshar & Lexi Palmberg

A Mirror for You
2019-09-06 - 2019-10-12
Area Gallery
460 C Harrison Ave
Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Gallery Hours
W-Sat., 12pm–6pm
Sun., 11–5pm
Reception: September 6th, 6–8:30pm
A 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.

A 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.

Adrián Fernández Milanés: Pending Memories September 3–October 12, 2019
2019-09-03 - 2019-10-12 | 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
T–F 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: September 5th, 5–8pm
A 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?

Milanés 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.

He 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.

This opportunity is made possible thanks to a partnership with A R E A Gallery, Boston, MA.

WAR DEPT
2019-08-31 - 2019-09-27 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: September 17th, 5–7pm
The 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.
Blyth 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.
Ruth 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

The War Dept. from Blyth Hazen on Vimeo.

Ashley Brown Durand: It's Ok To Feel Things
2019-08-10 - 2019-09-21 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery
Hardie Building
23 Essex Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: September 12th, 5–7pm
“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
https://shop.secretholidayco.com

PHOEBE WARNER: Parallel Reflections
2019-07-15 - 2019-08-25 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: N/A

Parallel Reflections
We are points moving, hovering, and shifting.
Sometimes our points meet
They shiver together
(For a moment)
Most points move away so quickly
We don’t give them a second thought
But when the shiver resonates for long distances,
Turn back,
Reflect.

Phoebe “Crazypants” Warner is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist. Since her graduation from Montserrat College of Art in December 2015, Warner has moved on to working as a painting mentor and assistant curator at Artists For Humanity in South Boston. When she isn’t working in the city, she spends her time hiking mountains as a way to clear her mind and give her new perspectives. In a bustling metropolis, it is hard to find moments of true quietude and self-reflection. Thus her current goal is to share the lessons, views, and insights she collects on the trails with her urban communities through immersive visual representation paired with poetic musings. “Parallel Reflections” is the first large-scale installation based on this theme.
Catch her next show “Fragility” anytime in October!
Opening October 4th at Flowering Rock Gallery
SoWA 460 C Harrison Ave 17C, Boston, MA.

JULIAN HOWLEY: BUILDING BETTER MOBS
2019-07-06 - 2019-09-13 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
Through August 17
M-Th, 10am–5pm
F, 10am–1pm
Sat, 12-5pm
Starting August 19
M-Th, 10am–5pm
Sat, 12–5pm
Reception: September 12th, 5–7pm
Building Better Mobs, a solo interactive installation exhibit by artist and printmaker Julian Howley, showcases multimedia works inspired from Massachusetts’ past coupled with current motifs of radical pessimism and mass movement. Combining his personal dystopian themes, mascots, and parody branding with similar subjects inspired by local history, such as the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, Dogtown Village, and the Great Depression.
Julian Howley’s exhibition hopes to present art that exists squarely for use by the public commons and draws and inspires from the local public history of societal collapse, collective outrage, and potential chaotic rebirth. His work looks upon the tradition of gonzo illustration and global comic pulp,
along with vintage woodcut printing and its symbolism, showing to us figures and topics that exist as uncanny mascots of frenzied entropic energy and gleeful self-destruction
https://www.julian-howley.com/

NORMAN LALIBERTE: INSIDE THE MIND OF A MAKER
2019-06-15 - 2019-08-03
Gallery Hours
Thursday–Friday, 11:30am–2:30pm
Saturday, 12:00–5:00pm
Reception: June 20th, 5–7pm
Inside the Mind of a Maker is a document and a fiction, a retrospective and interpretation, of the consciousness of the prolific artist, Norman Laliberté. The stage is set as a cartographic journey through the years and various materials used throughout Laliberté’s career. The forty-two banners displayed in the gallery range from the 1960s to the 2000s and represent his numerous explorations of form and content, from completely abstracted color studies to pictorial likenesses resembling ancient hieroglyphics. Figures, flora, fauna, gods, and ghosts dance upon the tapestries portraying tales and vignettes as complex as the great sagas of antiquity. Think of your time in the labyrinth as a hero’s quest; venture into the banners and experience the intricacies inside the mind of maker…you might be surprised at what you’ll find!
Biography:
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts of French Canadian parents, Norman Laliberté grew up in Montreal, returning to the U.S. to complete his education in Chicago. He first achieved international recognition as the design consultant for the Vatican Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair of 1964.
His 88 banners were an ingenious solution for an all-glass building with virtually no walls. Using the vibrant play of colour and light, Laliberté creates cheerful, energetic interpretations on themes of love and frolic, joy and plenty, that are highly symbolic and evocative. His abundant talents have been the subject of over 100 solo shows across America and Canada.
His work can be found in over 75 major public and corporate collections, including some of the most prestigious such as the Smithsonian Institute, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He has also been the author of over twenty books on many aspects of contemporary art. Still active, Laliberté lives and works in Nahant, Massachusetts.
Special thanks: Norman Laliberté, Laurel Laliberté, Kristian Laliberté, and Jan Saragoni
Norman Laliberté, The Ticket: What’s Happening in the Local Arts World, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
Exhibit of artist Norman Laliberte banners at Montserrat College, Beverly Patch

MIKE GRIMALDI '05
2019-05-13 - 2019-07-07 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: N/A
Mike Grimaldi ’05 – GRIMDROPS was raised in Gloucester, MA. He holds his BFA in illustration from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. and has years of experience in the creative field. He’s held a number of positions in the field including patent illustrator, graphic designer, character designer, surface designer, apparel designer and screen printer. He has a strong interest and eye in the use of illustration, hand lettering and typography in his work.
Working full time in the creative field hasn’t slowed down his freelance work under the name GRIMDROPS. He’s worked with some amazing clients on a wide variety of projects like hand lettered signs, murals, logos, package design, caricatures, portraits and show posters to name a few.

AMOS LEMON BURKHART: YOU MISS 90% OF THE SHOTS YOU DON'T TAKE
2019-05-10 - 2019-09-13
Gallery Hours
M-F, 9am–5pm
By Appointment
Reception: June 15th, 2-4pm
A Retrospective
Amos Lemon Burkhart
(1998–2018)
The exhibition documents the restless exploration of techniques, ideas, and methods of the young prodigy Amos Lemon Burkhart who worked to understand and express his own turbulent interior life. The complexities of emotional lability, anxiety, and trauma, questions about love, sex and gender identity, and issues around substance use and abuse are revealed in complex, layered images.
A ceaseless observer of the quirks and oddities of the human race, Lemon’s wit, humor, and despair are all on display –
if you look closely enough.
Lemon was accepted to Montserrat’s class of 2023, but died tragically in a drug-and-alcohol-related drowning in Beverly in 2018.
Special thanks to
Dane Burkhart and Ann Lemon
www.amoslemon.org
‘The shots you don’t take’: Montserrat remembers young artist with retrospective, Salem News

JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA
2019-05-03 - 2019-06-06 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 10am–5pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: May 16th, 7–9pm
New York Times best-selling author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka offered the keynote address to the class, and Graphic Design/Book Arts instructor Jesse Kahn was selected by the students to present the faculty address. Graduating senior Emily Fox was chosen by her classsmates to give the student speech. Mayor Michael P. Cahill gave the greetings of the City of Beverly.
Student and faculty awards were also presented. On Thursday night , May 16, at 6 pm, Jarrett J. Krosoczka presented a free public lecture at The Cabot, followed by a reception and viewing of his work in Montserrat College of Art’s Hardie Building, 23 Essex St. The event was sponsored by Eastern Bank.
Krosoczka, a former Montserrat faculty member, creates books with humor, heart, and a deep respect for his young readers—qualities that have made his titles perennial favorites on the bookshelves of homes, libraries, and bookstores.
“We are delighted that former faculty member, Jarrett J. Korosczka will return to campus to talk about his work, inspirations and publishing career. His list of accolades and awards for his books and projects continues to grow and we are excited that we will be able to share his story with us and the greater Beverly community,” said Montserrat President Kurt T. Steinberg, Ed.D.. “Each year, we are so happy to host the free public lecture and a chance for the community to meet an important artist the night prior to commencement as our gift to the community.”
First published at the age of 23, Krosoczka has more than 30 published books to his credit. Titles include several picture books, his wildly popular Lunch Lady graphic novels, and the Platypus Police Squad middle-grade novels. He also recently launched a new story arc in the Jedi Academy series with Star Wars™: Jedi Academy: A New Class.
Krosoczka is a two-time winner of the Children’s Choice Book Awards Third to Fourth Grade Book of the Year and has been a finalist for the prestigious Will Eisner Comic Industry Award. He has delivered two TED Talks, which have collectively accrued more than two million views online. Krosoczka has been featured on NPR and can be heard weekly on The Book Report with JJK on SiriusXM’s Kids Place Live, a show focusing on books, authors, and reading. His Punk Farm, Lunch Lady, and Platypus Police Squad series are all currently in development for film.
Realizing that his stories can inspire young readers beyond the page, Krosoczka founded School Lunch Hero Day, a national campaign that celebrates school lunch staff, and Platypus Police Reading Squad, a program in which police officers read aloud to children in schools and libraries. A consummate advocate for arts education, Krosoczka also established the Joseph and Shirley Krosoczka Memorial Youth Scholarships, which fund art classes for underprivileged children, in his hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Krosoczka lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and children, and their pugs, Ralph and Frank.

Dependent Variables: Halle Pette + Scott Querzoli
2019-04-29 - 2019-05-03
First Baptist Church
221 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
By Appointment
Reception: May 2nd, 5–8pm
Senior Thesis Exhibition for Halle Pette + Scott Querzoli
Location: First Baptist Church in Beverly, 221 Cabot St, Beverly, MA 01915

STEPHEN ST. FRANCIS DECKY
2019-04-09 - 2019-05-06 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: N/A
VIVARIUM (SDE) (2019), 3-channel animated video w/sound, 10m00s
VIVARIUM (SDE) depicts the interior of an immense outer-space terrarium designed to transport entire ecosystems from one galaxy to another. In the video, a giant blue alien peers lovingly through a portal into this environment, admiring the diversity of life-forms thriving within. While many of the creatures appear to be decidedly earthling in form, a range of extraterrestrial anthropomorphs can also be seen. Through the use of slow zooms and musical interstices that focus on individuals and small groups, the details of life inside the Vivarium – at times gauzy and euphoric, at other times hinting at some lost but very tangible world – begin to clarify.
Stephen St. Francis Decky is a multi-media artist and writer whose work has appeared in festivals, collections, and museums both nationally and internationally, including The New Britain Museum of American Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan. He has taught Animation and Digital Media classes at several schools, including Tufts University and Moore College of Art and Design. As a technical consultant and collaborator, he has worked on multi-channel video installations in Boston, New York City and Montana. Stephen received his MFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and currently lives and works in Philadelphia and Williamsport, Pa.
Visiting Artist talk:
Tuesday, April 9
11:30am–12:20pm
H-201, Hardie Building

SHAPE OF THE HEART: THOMAS RUTIGLIANO '21
2019-03-30 - 2019-04-24 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat Community or by appointment.
Reception: April 2nd, 11:30–12:30pm
Curated by: Darcie Blake ’22 & Chelsea Luiz ’19

I/OBJECT: STUDENT WORKS IN THREE-DIMENSIONS
2019-03-26 - 2019-04-05
Gallery Hours
T–TH, 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: April 2nd, 6–8pm
Professor Lillian Kology and Montserrat Galleries invites you to celebrate this exhibition of three-dimensional works created by students from all concentrations and all years.
Jurors include:
Stephen St. Francis Decky, Sculptor and video artist
Lillian Kology, Professor and artist

AVANT GARDEN: JENN JONES & LEXI PALMBERG
2019-02-11 - 2019-04-11 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat Community or by appointment.
Reception: February 11th, 11:00am–12:20pm
Starring Jenn Jones ’19 & Lexi Palmberg ’21
Curated by Darcie Blake ’22 & Chelsea Luiz ’19!

Automatic: An Exploration of Art and Authorship in an Age of Automation
2019-02-05 - 2019-03-20
Gallery Hours
T–F, 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: February 7th, 5–7pm
AUTOMATIC is an exploration of the evolving role of technology as tool, medium, and active collaborator in artistic practice. Designed and developed by Sarah Trahan and Andrew Sliwinski, this collection of work centers around a series of drawings produced by the Automatic Drawing Machine (ADM).
Inspired by Surrealist Automatism in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process – allowing the unconscious mind to guide mark making – the ADM transforms electrical activity in an artist’s brain into marks on paper. These drawings are produced while artists engage in a range of practices including painting, drawing, writing, woodworking, and computer programming – forming a type of call and response between the artist and the technology.
The system utilizes a non-invasive brain sensing technology called Electroencephalography (EEG) as well as custom software to transform raw brain activity into a graphic representation. This representation is then transferred onto paper using a modified computer-controlled plotter that uses a pen to produce the drawings shown in the gallery.
About the artists:
Sarah Trahan
Sarah Trahan is an artist and educator who is preoccupied with exploring the visual and physical structures inherent to textile construction and what happens when generative digital processes and handmade materiality intersect.
Sarah holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and spent many years as a faculty member at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. Sarah and Andrew both served as founders and managing members of OmniCorpDetroit; a collectively run hackerspace that is still operational in the city’s Eastern Market neighborhood.
Sarah is currently based in Cambridge, MA and serves as Assistant Professor and Digital Fabrication Studio Director at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.
Andrew Sliwinski
Andrew Sliwinski is a research scientist with the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the intersection between learning, creativity, and technology.
Andrew serves as co-director of Scratch—an online community and tool for kids to explore their creativity through computing which reaches over two hundred million children every year. Prior to joining MIT, Andrew co-founded the learning community DIY.org and led learning research at the Mozilla Foundation.
As a designer and engineer, Andrew has worked with various organizations during his career including Google, LEGO, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Toyota, The Aspen Institute, and Code for America. His work as a creative technologist has been displayed in The Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Carnegie Hall. His work has been profiled by Wired, The New York Times, and Fast Company.

FATTY SPICE: TUNNEL OF SELF LOVE
2019-01-21 - 2019-03-24 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: N/A
A site-specific installation by Fatty Spice ’14!
TUNNEL OF SELF-LOVE is the offspring of the line in the Bible “your body is a temple” and John Mayer’s line “your body is a wonderland”. It is a heavy nod to the theme park river rides that traveled through a tunnel for an excuse for couples to express affection during the time when PDA was not permitted. We all know the trend of bullying ourselves, the “sad boi” vibe, meme’s about sadness and counteracting that with self-love but the counteraction is mostly in private. It’s almost a cheesy thing to love yourself and not the good cheesy like the one in the blue box. Practicing self-love shouldn’t be a secret thing and ironically is the very first step to sharing love with others. Ru Paul’s encouraging words “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” couldn’t be more true. Be your own Valentine. Send yourself a “be mine” this year.
fattyspice.com

JESS DUGAN: EVERY BREATH WE DREW
2019-01-14 - 2019-03-16 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 10am–5pm
Sat., 12–5pm
January 31st 11:20am-12:20pm
Discussion led by Diane Ayott
Montserrat Gallery 6:00-7:00pm
Jess Dugan Artist Talk
Larcom Theatre 7:00–9:00pm
Artist’s Reception
Montserrat Gallery
Jess Dugan presents, Every Breath We Drew, which explores the power of identity, desire, and connection through portraits of myself and others. Working within the framework of queer experience and from my actively constructed sense of masculinity, my portraits examine the intersection between private, individual identity and the search for intimate connection with others. I photograph people in their homes and personal spaces, using medium and large format cameras to create a deep, sustained engagement, resulting in an intimate and detailed portrait.
I combine portraits of individuals, couples, and self-portraits to investigate broader themes of identity and connection while also speaking to my personal experience. The photographs of men and masculine individuals act as a kind of mirror; they depict the type of gentle masculinity I am attracted to, and also the kind I want to embody. Similarly, the photographs of relationships speak to a drive to be seen, understood, and desired through the eyes of another person; a reflection of the self as the ultimate intimate connection.
Rather than attempting to describe a specific identity or group- the gender identity and sexual orientation of the individuals varies greatly- Every Breath We Drew asks larger questions about how identity is formed, desire is expressed, and intimate connection is sought.
Features:
Rainbow Times – Jess Dugan’s “Every Breath We Drew” Spotlighted At Montserrat Gallery
Creative Collective MA – Jess T. Dugan’s “Every Breath We Drew” at Montserrat Gallery
Greg Cook, Wonderland – Photographer Jess T. Dugan: ‘My interest In Gender And Masculinity Comes From My Own Process Of Defining Gender For Myself’
Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe – Jess Dugan: Every Breath We Drew
Special Events
January 31
11:20am-12:20pm
Discussion led by Diane Ayott
Montserrat Gallery
6:00-7:00pm
Jess Dugan Artist Talk
Larcom Theatre
7:00–9:00pm
Artist’s Reception
Montserrat Gallery
February 21, 11:30–12:20pm
Ashley Gillin ’19
P2P Presentation on Identity
Montserrat Gallery
March 7, 6:30-8:00pm
Gordon Wilkins:
An Incomplete History of Queer Portraiture in America, 1839-2019
Montserrat Gallery
Self-portrait (Boston), 2013

Sebastião Salgado
2019-01-14 - 2019-02-08 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
Open to Montserrat community or by appointment.
Reception: N/A
A special exhibition featuring a selection of prints from Sebastião Salgado’s Exodus series.
Edition on loan from Brian Pellinen, Dean of Academic Affairs.

“It has been almost a generation since Sebastião Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe, has changed little in 16 years. The push and pull factors may shift, the nexus of conflict relocates from Rwanda to Syria, but the people who leave their homes tell the same tale: deprivation, hardship, and glimmers of hope, plotted along a journey of great psychological, as well as physical, toil.
Salgado spent six years with migrant peoples, visiting more than 35 countries to document displacement on the road, in camps, and in overcrowded city slums where new arrivals often end up. His project includes Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, the Hutu refugees of Rwanda, as well as the first “boat people” of Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean ea. His images feature those who know where they are going and those who are simply in flight, relieved to be alive and uninjured enough to run. The faces he meets present dignity and compassion in the most bitter of circumstances, but also the many ravaged marks of violence, hatred, and greed.
With his particular eye for detail and motion, Salgado captures the heart-stopping moments of migratory movement, as much as the mass flux. There are laden trucks, crowded boats, and camps stretched out to a clouded horizon, and then there is the small, bandaged leg; the fingerprint on a page; the interview with a border guard; the bundle and baby clutched to a mother’s breast. Insisting on the scale of the migrant phenomenon, Salgado also asserts, with characteristic humanism, the personal story within the overwhelming numbers. Against the indistinct faces of televised footage or the crowds caught beneath a newspaper headline, what we find here are portraits of individual identities, even in the abyss of a lost land, home, and, often, loved ones.
At the same time, Salgado also declares the commonality of the migrant situation as a shared, global experience. He summons his viewers not simply as spectators of the refugee and exile suffering, but as actors in the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts which contribute to the migratory phenomenon. As the boats bobbing up on the Greek and Italian coastline bring migration home to Europe like no mass movement since the Second World War, Exodus cries out not only for our heightened awareness but also for responsibility and engagement. In face of the scarred bodies, the hundreds of bare feet on hot tarmac, our imperative is not to look on in compassion, but, in Salgado’s own words, to temper our behaviors in a “new regimen of coexistence.”

Sebastião Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994 he and his wife Lélia created Amazonas Images, which exclusively handles his work. Salgado’s photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Other Americas (1986), Sahel, L’Homme en détresse (1986), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), The Children (2000), Africa(2007), and Genesis (2013).”
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Stephen LaPierre
2019-01-01 - 2019-05-17
Gallery Hours
By appointment
Reception: May 2nd, 5–7pm
Stephen LaPierre, currently the only full-time artist in residence at the historic Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester, MA, is also an artist member of the North Shore Art Association and the Rockport Art Association. Living and painting in both Oslo, Norway and Key West, Florida during the first part of the twenty-first century, the self-taught Haverhill, MA native has continued to capture the historic architecture, lanes, and waterways of Cape Ann since arriving back in Massachusetts in the spring of 2016… always working on-site, never from photographs. A long-time plein air painter, LaPierre, now 55
years old, began expanding his studio work in early 2016, with his current Clowns with Cell Phones pieces.
From 2010 through early 2016 he painted the historic architecture and current-day culture of Key West, and was honored in 2013 with a one-man show, My Key West Plein Air Novel, held in the Main Gallery of the Key West Art and Historical Society’s Custom House Museum, featuring more than sixty of the artist’s Key West pieces. A two-time recipient of Key West’s coveted Anne McKee Artists Award, LaPierre’s second one-man show in this southernmost city, Habana and Key West, was held in 2014 in the Tropic Cinema’s Gallery, featuring a selection of the artist’s earlier Cuban pieces and later Key West works. In 2018, LaPierre was honored with a one-man show at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center, featuring many of the artist’s recent Rocky Neck plein air works.
LaPierre’s Rocky Neck studio-gallery-home is located at 75 Rocky Neck Avenue, next door to The Rudder. The 2nd floor gallery is filled with over two hundred original plein air oil pieces from Newburyport to Cape Ann, Vegas to Monhegan, and Havana to Oslo. Today, he continues to expand his studio and plein air work, while also accepting architectural and portrait commissions.
Public artist talk
May 2, 11:30am–12:20pm
23 Essex Street
Beverly, MA
Room H-201
www.paintpaintpaint.org

FROM THE MIND OF A MAKER: An Art Education Thesis Exhibition
2018-12-03 - 2018-12-14 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–F, 10am–5pm
Sat, 12–5 and by appointment
Reception: December 6th, 5–8pm
An Art Education Thesis Exhibition
Presented by: Kristina King & Rebecca Wilson
Featuring work by the students of Walpole High & The Hill School in Revere

THE THINGS WE CAN'T LET GO
2018-11-29 - 2018-12-04 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: November 29th 5–7pm
A Senior thesis exhibition featuring:
Jordan Acevedo
Audrey Cook
John Nguyen
Katherine Roldan
Edward Connors

MARISA GILBERT: IT FEELS LIKE A SUNDAY
2018-11-23 - 2019-01-07 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: N/A
It feels like a Sunday is a site-specific installation that explores the spaces we consider to be ‘private’ and those that are ‘public.’ The routines of daily life often generate ideas for new work; whether it’s going grocery shopping, participating in normal conversation, or cleaning my apartment. In this work, individual pieces are reminisce of to-do lists, grocery bags, and other recognizable imagery that start to take the form of large blankets, tapestries, and other fibrous objects found in the home. I continue to explore processes found in fiber arts as it is highly personal and a way for me to connect to my own familial lineage and history through material. Through the use of these objects, displayed in this window-front space, private and public come together to become a day of window shopping or a peek into someone’s home.
https://www.marisagilbertart.com/

LANDFALL
2018-10-18 - 2018-11-18
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
Gallery Hours
Th–Sun, 12-4pm
Reception: October 20th, 4–6pm
An exhibition in collaboration with the Montserrat College of Art and the Rocky Neck Artist Colony, LANDFALL is a contemporary survey of affect and effect relating to the contentious environments we occupy. The artists, comprised of Montserrat faculty and staff, span a wide range of media, backgrounds, and interests.
Mary Bucci McCoy has developed a materially resonant non-objective language of painting, influenced by her training in ceramic sculpture, to situate her painting practice in the interconnectedness of humanity and the earth. She has exhibited at venues including Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX, which represents her; boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany; The Curator Gallery, Chelsea, NY; CG2 Gallery, Nashville, TN; Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA; the Artists Foundation, Boston, MA; and Salem State University, Salem, MA.
Allison Cekala’s work is largely rooted in landscape and investigates the ways in which humans move, shape, and transform their surroundings, integrating her interests ecology, geology, and deep time. Her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Cary Center for Ecosystem Studies, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
Francois DeCosterd is an international artist who creates videos, photo series, installations, and performances. Moving across multiple disciplines to produce large scale pieces such as multi-channel video installations, he uses various digital tools to build experiential works. He has shown works at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Geneva International Film Festival, CyFest in St Petersburg, among others.
Mea Duke is a multimedia artist whose work implicates our political and economic relationships with the global shipping industry and environmental impact of maritime operations. She grounds her interdisciplinary practice within the negotiation and navigation of unregulated spaces and the inherent need to harness natural powers.
Katherine Mitchell DiRico investigates relationships of power, authority, and networks. She has mounted solo exhibitions at 57delle in Boston, MA; and the Porcelynne Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Her work has been featured at international venues including the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and Stockwell Studios, London, England. National exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Grossman Gallery at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Massachusetts Campus Compact Conference on Civic Engagement.
Hugo Pellinen’s creative projects take images and ideas out of traditional contexts and ask audiences to make new meanings. His recent explorations include: The Type Liberation Project (letterpress projects from reclaimed type), The Essex Natural History and Typing Club (projects involving text and natural material), La Mora (stories from the heteroglossia of New Mexico). Hugo facilitates a workspace that creates opportunities for artists involved with The Velvet Pelican Projects, The Two Hugos Writers’ Group, and Olfactory Press to share, rhizomatically, inspirations and ideas.

Reticulate (Divergent)
2018-10-15 - 2018-11-30 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Open to students, faculty, and staff; public by appointment
Reception: October 18th, 11:00am–12:30pm
A Bare Gallery exhibition, Reticulate (Divergent), artists Dennis Collins ’19 and Cameron Hurley ’19 come together for an exhibition of work that explores composition across the mediums of collage and photography.
Dennis’s collages are generated purely from a progression of responses to color, shape and material while Cameron’s black and white, aerial photographs come from an observed perspective incorporating a strong sense of detail and texture. Although there is a disconnect in process and medium, the work displays a shared awareness of compositional elements: large divisions in the picture plane, line, and a marriage of material/textural differences.
The exhibition is curated by Dennis Collins ’19 and Cameron Hurley ’19 in collaboration with Keely Quirk ’18 and Darcie Blake ’22.
Cam Hurley
