Montserrat College of Art

LANDFALL
2018-10-18 - 2018-11-18 | MA
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

TEXT NOT TEXT
2018-10-08 - 2018-11-03 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: October 11th, 5–8pm
Veteran letterpress artists and alternative publishers H.R. Buechler and Aaron Cohick will exhibit their work and host a roundtable discussion at Montserrat College of Art to honor the 15-year anniversary of the letterpress studio at the college. In conjunction with their exhibition, Montserrat Assistant Professor, book artist, and book conservator Bill Hanscom will participate in a roundtable discussion with Buechler and Cohick that explores alternative publishing methodologies and philosophies, among other topics relevant to the letterpress, book arts, and publishing communities.
H.R. Buechler is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and founder of OXBLOOD Publishing. Her practice synthesizes research, writing, and physical actions mediated through print, video, and performance that examine our relationship to/with mechanization, technology, and culture. Her current work shows an acute interest in historic and contemporary communication technology/media as a means to explore/exploit the intangible, tenuous nature of language.
Buechler is a doctoral student in Information Studies at the University of California – Los Angeles. She holds an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago, and a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the 2016-2018 Victor Hammer Fellow at the Wells College Book Arts Center (Aurora, NY) and former Print Production Fellow to the Journal of Artists’ Books (JAB). Her work can be found in numerous collections in the US and internationally, including the Yale University Library, Centre Pompidou of Paris, France, and the University of Regina Library in Regina, SK, Canada.
Aaron Cohick runs The NewLights Press, an independent printer and publisher working at the intersection of experimental writing and artists’ books. Founded in 2000 in Baltimore, The NewLights Press is publishing-as-artistic practice, and is the imprint under which Cohick publishes his own work and that of other artists and writers. All of the books are printed & bound “by hand,” using a variety of techniques, ranging from the obsolete (letterpress) to the utilitarian (laser/Risograph) to the meditative (delamination). Cohick received his BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University.. He is also the Printer of The Press at Colorado College, a letterpress studio and classroom that seeks to create an interdisciplinary space in the liberal arts curriculum. Cohicks work, under both imprints, is held in public and private collections all over the world, including the Library of Congress, the British Library, the National Library of Australia, Yale University, the Letterform Archive, the Newberry Library, and the Tate Britain Library.
Events:
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11, 5-8pm
Artist Round Table: Wednesday, October 10, 6-7:30pm
Paul M. Scott Library, moderated by Montserrat Assistant Professor Bill Hanscom.
Aaron Cohick, & NOW & NOW, Flexible collagraph

TRACE MATTER
2018-10-01 - 2018-11-20 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M-F, 10am–5pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: October 11th, 5–8pm
Montserrat College of Art Galleries invites you to view the upcoming group exhibition, Trace Matter, which includes work by six artists from New England, New York, and Minnesota that captures ambiguous historical moments by exploring what’s left behind. Artists Jimena Bermejo, Kristina Estell, Meredith Morten, Scott Nedrelow, Alisha Wessler, and Jenna Pirello explore various relics and remains through photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, and performance.
Jimena Bermejo (MA) is a dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and dance educator with more than 15 years of experience creating performances that explore identity, race, and power. At Montserrat, the remnants and audio of a hidden performance will invite viewers to envision potential narratives.
Kristina Estell (MN) uses a variety of processes and materials to create sculptures that generate sensitive and dynamic material experiences. For this exhibition, a series of silicone rubber molds captures specific objects that are layered in space.
Meredith Morten (MA), created a series of embroidered doilies as an outcome of a 2016 Fulbright to Austria and Hungary. Fascinated by the burial rites of the Urnfield Culture (1300 BCE – 750 BCE), she superimposed images of broken ceramic urns with cremated remains (bone fragments) onto handmade 20th century Viennese doilies. The crisp white doilies, found in Vienna’s flea markets, are oval and circular in shape bordered by lace, reminiscent of Baroque portraiture.
Scott Nedrelow’s (NY) paintings involve a post-photographic process that uses the materials of inkjet printing. Employing an airbrush to manually spray Epson ink onto photo paper, Nedrelow’s work alludes to shadows and the idea of an afterimage.
Alisha Wessler’s (NY) work explores hybrid objects, their narrative potential and taxonomic slippage. The drawings and objects she makes occupy the indeterminate realm between reality and dream, nature and artifice.
Jenna Pirello (ME) is a process painter, instinctually responding to an unwritten dialogue between herself and her paintings. Her work explores the transition from painting to sculpture and how combined, they can interact with a space and the viewer.
Features:
Artscope Magazine – Trace Matter: Making Connections at Montserrat
Boston Globe: Cate McQuaid – Trace Matter at Montserrat

Events:
Special Performance – Jimena Bermejo: Thursday, September 27, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11 from 5-8 p.m.
Gallery Talk – Alisha Wessler: Monday, October 1, 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Gallery Talk – Scott Nedrelow: Thursday, October 11, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

TIFFANY SMITH: THANK YOU FOR THE SOUVENIR
2018-09-18 - 2018-11-08 | MA
Gallery Hours
T-F, 11:30am–2:30pm
Sat., 12–5pm
Reception: September 20th, 5-8pm
Tiffany Smith is an interdisciplinary artist from the Caribbean diaspora working in photography, video, installation, and design. Using plant matter, design and home decor elements, pattern, and costuming as cultural signifiers, Smith creates photographic portraits, site responsive installations, user engaged experiences, and assemblages focused on identity, representation, cultural ambiguity, and displacement. Visual references from an array of multi-cultural influences, derived from her upbringing between Miami, Florida, Nassau, Bahamas, and Jamaica inform constructed environments that serve to articulate cultural subjectivities that oscillate between visitor and native roles. Smith’s practice centers on what forms and defines communities of people color, in particular; how they are identified and represented, and how they endure.
Smith’s current works in progress react to a history of representation of people of color by focusing on how identity is constructed and culture is commodified. For Tropical Girls… presents photographic self portraits that question identity constructs and the psychological implications of iconography. Smith’s staged ethnographic survey of invented personas who author their own representations of a blended cultural heritage use her own experiences and recalled memories to create performative studies that empower reclamation of representation and reclaim agency in “performing the other.”
Photographs and videos from the series are presented within contextualizing multi-media installations, creating site specific environments that reference domestic space through cultural signifiers and decor elements recalled from Smith’s own memories of a fluid definition of home, and aim to construct constants within a shifting space that balances precariously between cultures. Using evocative references to plant life, natural phenomena, and tropical locales, these temporary habitats provide familiar points of entry and access to the complex narratives of the subjects depicted.
Smith received a BFA in Photography from S.C.A.D. and an MFA in Photo/Video from SVA, NY. Her work has been included in recent exhibitions at MassArt, Boston, MA, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The National Gallery of Jamaica and exhibited at Photoville, NY, Photo NOLA, New Orleans, and Spring Break Art Show, NY. She has presented public art installations in Newark Penn Station through The Gateway Project and Marcus Garvey Park during Flux Art Fair, Harlem and recent solo exhibitions at Space Create, Newburgh, NY and The Wassaic Project, and a forthcoming solo exhibition at Montserrat College of Art, Boston, MA. Tiffany Smith is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
Items available for purchase at Tiffany’s web store

Self portrait as a sunburned tourist, 2016

GARY BATZLOFF: Horizon(s)
2018-09-14 - 2018-11-11 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: N/A
I am thinking of sunsets, quietude, and that moment when you remember home. I am remembering: holding my breath and diving deep, feeling the undulations in the sand; waking at sunrise, watching orange turn to blue; sitting in a tree far from anything, waiting for foxes and the wind. I am working toward being still, but not alone. -Gary Batzloff
Gary Batzloff is an Oklahoma-based artist whose work has delved deeply into the relationship between his practice and the history of Landscape in America. Gary’s work engages and contemporizes Landscape as a medium through the use of GPS and locating technologies and the intersection of the physical form or place and the digital world. He uses the processes and visual language of 3D modeling and fabrication to achieve a current interpretation of landscape in the modern era. This body of work and research utilizes materials that are relevant to the landscape being identified including regionally indigenous woods, metals, and finishes that respond to the industrialization of the United States, and bright colors that are reminiscent of sunsets and sunrises overseeing the growth and entropy of each unique place.
Absolute Return (detail)

LETTER OF INTENT
2018-09-10 - 2018-10-12 | 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: September 16th, 11:30am–12:20pm
Letters, as language, carry inherent meaning for us as human beings. Letter of Intent is an exhibition showcasing just a few of the multitude of ways in which artists utilize letterforms to comment on, erase, manipulate, or expand upon these ingrained associations. Across disciplines, text and letters become a medium just a flexible, variable, and poignant as paint, ink, light, and pixels.
-Curator Keely Quirk ’18.
Annie Lee-Daly
Ashley McNulty
Taylor Mortimore
n.n.newhart
Andrew Tricoche
The Bare Gallery is a student run exhibition space and art house. All of the projects are student conceptualized and realized.

FROM/TO: 2018 Alumni Exhibition
2018-07-30 - 2018-09-08 | 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Thursday
10am–2pm
Reception: September 8th, 4:00–6:00pm
Participating Montserrat Alumni: Amanda Batien (Halsdorff) ’01, Kaleigh Brann ’18, Christopher Broughton ’93, Chelsea Sams ’08, Janice Colby ’94, Paul Demakes ’11, Zachary DeWitt ’16, Isabelle Dillard ’09, Loren Doucette ’13, Kevin Duffy ’77, Stacey Durand ’02, Morgan Dyer ’13, George Frary III ’00, Connie Glore ’78, Deanna Jacome ’15, Jon Bolles ’12, Lillian Kology ’08, Erin Landry Fowler ’02, Victoria Lopez ’17, Kevin Lucey ’15, John McCormick ’74, Ricky Molander ’17, Eddie Negron ’18, Megan Pepin ’12, Scott Profenno ’93, Kristine Roan ’11, Brenda Roswess ’15, Joseph Saunders ’15, Bryant Skopek ’17, CJ Stephens ’96, Christopher Stepler ’09, Jes Thayer ’13, Daniela Thomas ’14, Dorothy Tribeman ’07, Victoria Vega ’16, Shannon Walsh ’18, and Amanda Woronecki ’12.
Morgan Dyer, Bright

WE ARE ALL HERE: Jeila Gueramian
2018-07-28 - 2018-09-29 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–Th, 12–5pm
F, 10–1pm
Reception: September 6th, 5–8pm
Jeila graduated with a BFA from Otis Parsons School of Design in 1991. After graduating, she worked in art departments and costume design. Later she moved into making custom props, focusing on plush sculptures, puppets and fantastical costumes. In 2011, Jeila refocused on her fine art with a six-month residency at The Wassaic Project, culminating in a large-scale installation. She has since done major installations at Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY; and Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY . Jeila currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.jeila.com/

HOT SUMMER DAY
2018-07-23 - 2018-09-20 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
M–Th, 12–5pm
F, 10-1pm
Reception: September 6th, 5–8pm
A joint exhibition by
Brian Butler
Chris E. O’Neill
Sarah Gay-O’Neill
Brian Butler is drawn to the road. Quite literally as a muralist who paints in the street, and figuratively as an active traveling illustrator. His inspiration ranges from concerts to roadside curiosities.
In this exhibition Brian will be exploring the medium of virtual reality for the first time. Taking ques from off-road sites he’s personally traveled and marrying them a twist of his own imagination.
Chris E. O’Neill is a Somerville, MA based artist and illustrator. He is a compulsive draw-er, hardly ever looking up from the page in front of him. He can be found lurking in cafes and bars, sketchbook open, furiously jotting down the goings-on around him. He is a keen observer of people and their weirdness. His characters are often nervous or sweaty. He is super-awkward in real life.
Chris will be exploring what happens at the sweaty and psychedelic intersection of joy, delirium, haziness, and exhaustion that comes with triple digit temperatures in summertime.
Sarah Gay-O’Neill, wanderer, observer, communicator. Her work, both large scale and small, is often inspired by fragile figures set in natural environments such as mountains and swamps.
When nature isn’t made available to her sauntering soul, she can be found drawing in cafes and bars, translating the wild unknowns of city dwelling via textures, patterns, lonely spaces, and people.
Sarah will invite her ethereal figures into the gallery space where they will escape the heat of life.
The artists will be on campus July 16–20 installing, stop by to say hello!!
Sarah Gay-O’Neill will be doing a special workshop on:
Wednesday, July 25
4:30–6:00 p.m.

Painting Peace: Kaz Tanahashi July 16–20, 2018
2018-07-18 - 2018-07-19 | MA
The Underground
248 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Gallery Hours
Various
Calligraphy Workshop
July 18, 10–12:30 pm
Painting Peace
July 18, 5:00–6:00 pm
Peace Seminar
July 19, 10–12:30 pm
Kazuaki Tanahashi is a world-famous calligraphy master and devoted peace activist working as an artist, writer, and peace and environmental worker. He was born in Japan in 1933 and has been active in the United States since 1977.
As a painter and calligrapher, he has been pioneering the genres of one-stroke painting. He has staged multi solo exhibitions of his brushwork worldwide and has taught innumerable workshops around the world, including at seven international calligraphy conferences. As an environmental activist, he was the founding secretary of Plutonium Free Future, and founder of No War with North Korea. His website BRUSHMIND illustrates the decades of his work on this front.
Zen Center North Shore, Montserrat College of Art, Shodokan Dojo, Atomic Cafe, Cabot St Books and the Cabot Theater are joining efforts to introduce this remarkable artist and peace activist to the Beverly community and beyond.
All events are by donation and open to anyone:

Calligraphy Workshop, Wednesday, July 18, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm, at Montserrat College of Art, followed by a painting performance by Kaz at 5:00 pm
Painting Peace, Wednesday, July 18, 5:00 – 6:00 pm. A painting performance by Kaz Tanahashi, accompanied by Aikido demonstration
Peace Seminar, Thursday, July 19, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm, at Montserrat College of Art

Full Schedule of Events Available Here.
Please register here to let us know if you are coming.
Please give generously, according to your means. A portion of proceeds will benefit Kaz’s peace work around the world.
For more information, please email us at info@zencenternorthshore.org or call 781/718-5455.

RICKY MOLANDER
2018-06-15 - 2018-09-08 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: September 8, 2018, 4–6pm
A site specific installation by alumni Ricky Molander ’16. Ricky’s recent paintings are geometric explorations of the connections between Pop Art, Op Art, and Minimalism with an emphasis on perspective, illusion, and color theory. His latest mural was commissioned by the Punto Urban Art Museum in Salem, MA. In addition to maintaining a fine art practice, Ricky also works at Salem Ink Tattoo and Art Gallery where he enjoys tattooing in different styles such as Geometric and American Traditional.
Happening in conjunction with FROM/TO: 2018 Alumni Exhibition.
For more information:
https://www.rickymo.com/

KRISTINE ROAN
2018-06-15 - 2018-07-22 | 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Gallery Hours
24/7
Reception: N/A
Kristine Roan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses assemblage sculpture, collage, and video. Her process begins with, and is informed by, an extensive collection of children’s toys, decorative objects, and craft materials. Courting chance, she seeks out discoveries of objects in isolation from their mass-produced clones. This activity’s alignment with environmental concerns only became obvious as her work progressed, deepening her attraction to plastics and providing a limit to work within.
The collection primarily consists of highly artificial representations of natural forms. Plastic signifies planetary destruction and is thus more hastily banished to thrift stores and landfills than ever. These lone objects are imbued with precious care in an effort to rescue them from their classification as unsightly taboo.
Roan assembles sculptures as if they are puzzles, seeking out even the most minuscule synchronistic moments when the parts happen to fit together just so, and begin to speak as a single form. Together, this queer cast of sculptures diffuse the boundary between nature and artifice.
Shelf-Life is an ongrowing arrangement of (mostly) unmodified objects, which have been maintained in Roan’s home for several years. The title is a play on “still life” and perishability.
For more information:
http://kristineroan.com

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 | MA
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 | MA
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
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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 | MA
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) | MA
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.
