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SUMMARY:Here There and Everywhere: An AIM Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, May 3\, 5-7PM \nGwyn Kadish \nJames Kalajian \nGabby Morin \nDylan Silva \nKay Welch \nHere\, There\, and Everywhere is an exhibition featuring the work of fifteen graduating artists\, each with a different story to tell. These artists are not only animators\, game designers\, or toy-makers\, but storytellers\, directors\, and individuals with unique talents and direction. Every project in this exhibition has had an incredible amount of passion and hard work put into it. Though we will soon continue on our separate paths\, we have come together in this moment to celebrate our journey thus far. Before we embark on our separate ways\, we hope you will enjoy our diverse collection of work. May our stories inspire you as much as we have inspired each other.\n\nGwyn Kadish: Losing my best friend was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to go through. I wanted to create meet me under the moon  as a tribute to him\, and as a gift to my family. Quentin was incredibly important to us\, and for me\, was the only friend I ever really had. I don’t feel like I will ever be able to fully recover from his loss\, but I hope this film can help remind me that he’s always watching over me\, and waiting to visit me when I fall asleep.  \nGwyn Kadish is an animator and character designer\, known best for dreamy and romantic themes throughout her work. Her goal is to make the viewer understand the emotions that she feels\, whether it be remembering a dear friend\, or falling in love.  \nJames Kalajian: Mutate  is a project inspired by a broad form of media from anime\, comic books\, and live-action movies. Mutate is a fast-paced animation moving the viewer through with different camera angles and a wide array of shots of people becoming monsters and a hero stepping into action. \n James Kalajian is an artist who lives and breathes animation. He constantly consume animated media from shows\, shorts\, and games\, and love to talk and improve my genre knowledge with my peers. James mainly works in pre-production and post-production and enjoy working with a team and bouncing our creative energy off of each other \nGaby Morin: Sleepy Sheepy  is a short film concept starring Sheepy\, a young sheep living with her Mama. Drift in and out of dreamland with Sheepy as her bedroom morphs into many fleeting dreamscapes. The project acts as a proof of concept\,  comprised of four key art pieces and an animatic\, with soundtrack composed by Samir Chopra. Visually and thematically influenced by children’s picture books and traditional animation of the 1980s\, Sleepy Sheepy  is a charming and comfortable experience for those who can’t seem to stay asleep. \nGabby Morin is a multimedia artist & designer from southern Connecticut. She often works in sequential art forms\, including animation\, comics and picture book illustration. Typically involving themes of comfort and nostalgia\, Gabby aims to captivate viewers with her visual storytelling. When not working on creative projects\, Gabby enjoys playing video games with friends and having a good time!  gabbymorin.myportfolio.com. \nDylan Silva: Gaton is a short film about a superhero origin story that takes place on a planet identical to earth dominated by cat people. The story follows a young adult named Kicha\, stuck in a loop of failure and being forced back home to her parents. As some sort of miracle or cruel twist of fate\, an alien object sought after by an unknown alien threat crash lands in the forest of her hometown. This object revealed to be a high tech suit of combat armor named Beta requests Kicha’s aid in fending off the ruthless invaders but is met with some pushback. However\, a hero’s origin often comes with its growing pains… \nDylan Silva is a character animator and storyboard artist based in Massachusetts\, he’s always looking to try something new and gain some sort of experience or skill from things that interest him. He focuses on creating works that are similar visually and stylistically to cartoons and video games he grew up with from the late 90’s – early 2000’s.  \nKay Welch: Series One  is a collection of four original ~6” action figures packed as if they were a serialized product.  As a concept\, Series One  is a testament to childhood toys and the many stories that they have helped us create\, as well as a statement about the relationship between commercialization and art. Series One  aims to highlight the incredible amount of work that goes into creating a toy. More effort and creativity goes into toys than the average person realizes\, requiring hours of work concepting\, sculpting\, modeling\, and painting to produce just a single toy.  \nKay Welch is an animator\, 3D modeler\, and character artist. They have a passion for art and toys\, inspired by the media they were exposed to as a child. They are primarily interested in exploring how one expresses themselves and experiences complex emotions through the use of a variety of processes\, such as printmaking\, illustration\, and 3D fabrication.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/here-there-and-everywhere-2/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Activating the Surface\, One and Two
DESCRIPTION:A Tim Harney  Collage Projects Class featuring: \nJorielle Arlock\nChris Barensfeld\nJosue Bessiake\nStacey Clavijo\nLucas Santos\nJules Harrer\nSpencer Kall\nDomenic Karis\nAbigail Monson\nAubrey Ochman\nAlexander Pint\nTaliyah Shepard\nMorghan Schnoll\nLynn Andrews\n\n \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/activating-the-surface-one-and-two/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:An Amount of Something: A Design Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 27\, 5-7PM \n \nThea Cannon: Between Words is a project centered around the daily journals of my late great-grandfather\, Calvin Young. He had a journal for every year\, spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s. The work uses words from these journals to create poetry\, as well as compositions in which the literal handwriting is placed on photos of mundane life. What do people choose to record\, and what do we experience that is never recorded? What lies between the words of a journal? \n \nStacey Clavijo Spreading Kindness through Design: As someone who is kind and thinks about others first\, I would like others to see the benefits of spreading awareness about the importance of kindness\, as it benefits others psychologically and physically. For my senior thesis\, I am focusing on the importance of kindness by creating collage experiments that visually express examples of kindness\, such as sharing\, receiving\, listening\, giving\, and kindred. I have taken inspiration from Marijn in’ Veid’s Scrambled Heart to create my heart collages\, where the heart shape is formed uniquely\, such as being fragmented into multiple pieces\, and demonstrates a transition of how these pieces rotate differently\, and therefore\, would look scrambled. The palms of hands\, heart pieces\, and backgrounds throughout these collage experiments express the spirit of kindness. \n \nKatie DaSilva Sweet Color: My thesis is mainly based around the exploration of the Munsell Color System along with making recurring experiments with different materials that I’ve come into contact with in my daily life. From using photos of window blinds\, to using the wrappers of my favorite types of candy. \n \nMadison Gerace: It Takes A Village is an exploration into ideas of expression and self expression through my own art\, as well as others’. Exploring the ideas of property values\, community\, and participation\, proving that it takes a village to make a village. Using colorful house templates to bring those who participate into the moment. Proving you don’t have to be an artist to have fun for a couple minutes\, and that you don’t always have to think of the monetary value of something while creating it… maybe it’s worth more than money. Exploring these ideas to reconsider what art is\, what the world is\, or what the world could be. \n \nPatrick Mardy PSYOPTICAL: My thesis project is to investigate how type and imagery can work together. I intend to categorize each design language and try out a wide range of non-normative approaches. \n \nJosh Marsi Transmission 1: With any artist’s work\, even those furthest separated from language\, there’s always stories and emotion acting as their sparks of inspiration. With this\, Transmission 1 looks to show the unseen and untold stories of Josh’s latest works\, offering a selection of writings and childhood stories that served as inspiration for the instrumentals making up his newest EP. \n \nSarah Mason: In Potter’s Field\, Sarah seeks to create a dialogue about humans’ relationship with the environment and the impact of our actions on the world around us. Death is the inevitable end of life\, but it can also serve as a catalyst for new growth and transformation. Each piece represents a moment in time\, a snapshot of a living ecosystem that is directly influenced by the presence and interactions of life and death.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/an-amount-of-something/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:2023 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
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URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/2023-senior-thesis-exhibitions/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Raw - A Senior Thesis Exhibition by Mary Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 19\, 5-7PM \nArtist  Statement:      \nI explore the juxtaposition between the gruesome and beautiful; seduction and disgust. As a fan of all things horror and gore\, I want to display these qualities in a poetic and colorful way. I play with the application of paint seductively to inspire viewers to look at these works and their complexity. \nMy favorite painters are Hyman Bloom\, Jenny Saville\, and Cecily Brown. Another important inspiration is the book titled\, “Gurlesque”; through this collection of work by female poets\, editors Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenburg explore the importance of the grotesque and delicate from a feminist perspective. Greenburg writes\, “I believe in the zeitgeist: a ‘gurlesque’ aesthetic\, a feminism incorporating the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy.” My paintings respond to this challenge. \nMary Johnson is a Beverly based student artist at Montserrat College of Art.  Mary is working towards a BFA with a concentration in painting. Themes found in her paintings and mixed media works include the exploration of femininity\, the body\, relationships\, and identity.  Through her Internship\, and her employment at Robert Collins Gallery in Rockport\, she is increasingly involved with working with installation and directly with art going public.  Instagram: xxangelbaby420 \n                           \n                           \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/raw/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:In Hidden Spaces – A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Travis Lawless\nReception: Wednesday\, April 19\, 5-7pm \nGallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \nIn Hidden Spaces\, a solo exhibition by Travis Lawless\,  is an exploration of humanity’s urge for community and creation\, together. The work lives in conversation with humanity’s fascination with wall art\, and its ever evident presence in communities. Wall art has been a part of humanity farther back than our history is recorded. Lawless combines contemporary mediums such as spray paint with historic wall art imagery\, creating a conversation for this everlasting artform. This can be seen in Signature 2\, where vibrant neon colors and stencil work are utilized with traditional imagery – representing a collaboration of past wall works while embarking on the future as well. This concept of collaboration runs deeper than just time\, as Lawless’s works also shine light to works made in collaboration with their community. For centuries\, humans have collaborated in the process of artmaking upon surfaces around us\, from cave paintings\, murals\, rock carvings to modern graffiti. Re-writing the stigma typically composed around wall art\, artist Lawless hopes to bring this art form out from its tucked away spaces\, brought out to the forefront for society to see and cherish. \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/in-hidden-spaces/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Cynderwind: Nathan Felker
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 19\, 5-7PM \n  \nNathan J Felker’s Cynderwind is a coming-of-age graphic novel that follows a young boy on a quest to redeem himself; originally a Dungeons and Dragons campaign\, Cynderwind eventually spun into its’ own journey of self-reflection and the fight against a cruel world where violence will only be met with violence until someone consciously changes something to end the vicious cycle. \nArtist Bio:Nathan Felker is a digital illustrator interested in high fantasy works. He pursued his education at Montserrat College of Art\, leaving with a degree in interdisciplinary works and creative writing. In the hopeful future\, Cynderwind will become a published graphic novel for people to read. \ninsta: themadman_nate_felker OR Angry_Illustrator \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/cynderwind/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:What's Mine is Yours
DESCRIPTION:Morghan Schnoll\nReception: Wednesday\, from 5-7PM \nThe work in my exhibition What’s Mine is Yours\,  captures the essence of trauma in a series of experimental mixed media works and installations. \nIn paintings\, assemblages\, collages\, and installations I am finding ways to explore the depths of the subconscious. My curiosity and desire to use symbolism in my work have led me to collect discarded\, ‘ found’ material. Picking up objects with a particular history\, one where natural trauma occurred. As well as playing with visual perspectives and juxtapositions as critical components in my work have allowed me to conjure haunting yet nostalgic imagery. \nMy artwork asks you to see something\, take a step\, and see a whole new scene. Staying open to my viewer’s imagination and interpretation has opened the possibilities of my pieces forever renewing themselves \n  \nMorghan Schnoll Artist Bio: \nMy name is Morghan Schnoll. I’m a senior attending Montserrat College of Art\, majoring in Painting with a Double Minor in Art History and Curatorial Studies. Originally from New Jersey\, I came to Massachusetts to achieve my goal of becoming a painter and am lucky to have been mentored by my teacher\, Tim Harney\, and Gallery Director\, Lynne Cooney. I had the opportunity to be the assistant curator of the “Samual Bak and the Art of Remembrance” exhibition in March 2022 and became co-curator for Montserrat Bare Galleries from 2022 through 2023. I have participated in numerous exhibitions and was given the opportunity for a solo exhibition this past October titled “Painful Pleasures.” Additionally\, having my work chosen to be displayed in the annual “Fresh Faces Exhibition” held by the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery. \nMy work expresses and reflects on my life experiences including the loss of my best friend to domestic violence during my freshman year. Using my creative abilities to my advantage has allowed me to spread awareness\, and bring traumatic topics into light. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/whats-mine-is-yours/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Midnight Matinee: Something Along the Lines of Frankenstein
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, April 19\, 5-7PM \nGabi Casella \nHannah Capra \nPonita \nZachary Fontaine \nDaniela Serratore \nCoco Haseltine \nKerrigan Upton \n‘Midnight Matinee: Something Along the Lines of Frankenstein’ brings together multi-disciplinary works from seven unique artists with differing perspectives; An accumulation of ideas realized through varying methods such as sculpture\, printmaking\, painting\, and experimentation. “Midnight Matinee…”  explores themes of expression\, gender stereotypes\, mental health\, and memory. While these artists differ\, they are united in their drive for drawing conclusions through contemporary practices.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/midnight-matinee-something-along-the-lines-of-frankenstein/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:National Library Week Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Students in Bernadette Carr’s Using Images class were tasked with creating a poster based on the official poster for National Library Week.  Artists include: Misha Huntington\, Brianna Brand\, Elliot Gale\, and Thea Cannon.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/national-library-week-exhibit/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Mutual Expansion - A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 6\, 2023 5:00 – 7:00 pm \nAudrey Permunian \nSavanah Cornell \nThe dimensions of height\, depth\, and width within which all things exist and move are questioned\, observed\, and composited–from filling space full of color and matter\, to capturing an interval of time\, devoid of color. Audrey Permunian and Savannah Cornell close in on the ideas of space and thought and how they perceive it. \nAudrey Permunian photographs their observations of the environments in which we surround ourselves in as every object\, natural or made\, mutely speaking to a sequence of actions deployed to shape\, control\, and mark the land as we shape the domain in which we live into our own. \nSavanah Cornell is presenting the series Prokaryote as a series of prints and paintings playing with organic matter and pattern while taking deep consideration how others will perceive these things. The monotypes experiment with the sporadic nature of print to create once of a kind pieces. Alongside the monotypes are paintings that have a more systematic approach while creating continues patters similar to cellular organisms. While creating these pieces the idea of movement and growth are main inspirations. The viewer is encouraged to think about these pieces and how we define a space and the idea of taking up space. \n  \n                           \n                           \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/mutual-expansion/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Growth: What It Takes to Heal - A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 6th\, 5-7 PM \nMorgan Covert \nAnders McLaughlin \nHaleigh O’Leary \nRebekah Sommer \nThese four artists use their varied artistic practices to process\, cope with\, and heal from trauma. They make tangible their internal struggles\, making them external using literal and non-representational visuals and language. They convey stories about their past\, present\, and the forward motion that propels them through the world. Here\, you can see the different ways these artists confront their trauma and continually grow. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/growth-what-it-takes-to-heal/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Textured Bodies – A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \nReception: Thursday\, April 6\, 5-7pm \nKaleela Greenlee \nIsabella DeLia \nTextured Bodies is a visual experience of emotions\, relationships\, and self-discovery.  Artists Isabella Delia and Kaleela Greenlee explore these ideas through methodologies of fiber and fabric works. The interpersonal reflections expressed through the work leave the viewers feeling simultaneously in awe as well as connected to these woven creatures. Textured Bodies is not only a self-discovery of personal relationships but also a connection between the artist and the viewer. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/textured-bodies/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Back to the Feature: A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 6\, 5-7pm \nCaleb Keys \nCaitlyn O’Leary \nCamryn Reynolds \nDillon Fitzgerald \nLanie Shine \nLesley Garcia \nBack to the Feature\, a fine-arts exhibition\, takes viewers on an unexpected creative experience. Through their individual multimedia practices\, Caleb Keys\, Camryn Reynolds\, Caitlyn O’Leary\, Dillon Fitzgerald\, Lanie Shine\, and Lesley Garcia explore significant topics unearthed during their journeys’ through time. These candid reflections span from today to way back to ‘bout 300 years back…
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/back-to-the-feature/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:This Too Shall Pass - A Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, April 6th\, 2023\, 5 – 7 pm \nHelen Maguire Newman \nThis Too Shall Pass is a senior thesis show showcasing eleven works by artist Helen Maguire Newman. These evocative digital photographs\, often combined with drawing and text\, reflect the artist’s personal experiences with learning disabilities and mental health struggles. The pieces are embodied metaphors of internal struggles such as depression\, anxiety and dyslexia\, and share their very personal meaning of the artist’s inner struggles. \nThe artist’s process is very experimental and involves collaging and manipulating drawings and photographs into one cohesive piece. Many of the selected photographs represent raw moments in the artist’s life in which she struggled alone and in silence. Each of the sayings that are layered into each image represent moments of guidance and support that have been given to her by others; it is vital for the artist to pass these messages on to others who might also be struggling. \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/this-too-shall-pass/
LOCATION:Library Gallery\, 23 Essex Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:The Lost and Found Ones
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, March 8\, 5-7pm \nCurated by Montserrat Galleries Curatorial Assistant\, Taliyah Shepard \nMichael Aghahowa \nFrantz Lexy \nJameel Radcliffe \nRixy \nArtist Talk: Chanel Thervil\, Wednesday\, March 9\, 2:50-3:40 (siesta) via Zoom \nArtist Talk: Frantz Lexy & Jameel Radcliffe\, Tuesday\, March 28\, 11:00-12:00 (lunch hour)\, Paul Scott Library \nThe Lost and Found Ones celebrates the painted portrait by regional\, contemporary artists who are representing their cultures in their work. By portraying their ethnic and cultural identities from their perspective\, the artists create portraiture that is new and inventive. The exhibition celebrates the beautiful and personal stories that are used when representing BIPOC subjects. \nIn studying art history\, we mostly concentrate on one narrative from a single point of view. The depictions of BIPOC subjects in art are more culturally enhanced when it comes from a BIPOC viewpoint. There were a wide range of answers to the question asked to the participating artists: “How does your background influence your paintings and art practice?” In the formation of this exhibition\, it was crucial to talk about familial representation in these works and the powerful connections forged between artist and subject. When sitting down with Jameel Radcliffe (BFA ’17) it was inspiring to hear his goal of depicting the people he knows and loves in his art the ways in which he incorporates abstract elements and symbolism to tell a story. Michael Aghahowa (BFA ’16) takes the art of loved ones very seriously\, as he paints himself and the women in his life with reverence and respect. When applying elements of abstraction to portraiture and in his painting\, Frantz Lexy takes the approach that the two are synonymous and that representation is based on the subject’s mere existence in the world. Rixy has taken it upon herself to represent the narratives of her heritage and the spirituality of womanhood by celebrating the women that made her into the person she is today. \nThe world of portraiture is ever-expanding\, and the skillful imagination of the participatings artists in The Lost and Found Ones\, illustrates a deep commitment to creating art that reflects how they see the world. As contemporary art expands the need for representation\, not only in subject matter but behind the brush\, this exhibition gives a platform to these four artists who are reshaping conventions of painting and pushing the boundaries of portraiture conventions. \n-Taliyah Shepard
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/the-lost-and-found-ones/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230225
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SUMMARY:Fashion Beyond Frames
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nM-F\, 10am–5pm \nDates\nJanuary 27–February 24\, 2023 \nReception: Wednesday\, February 8th \nFashion Beyond Frames is an exhibition that explores outward expression. Bringing together clothing\, photography\, and footage featuring a range of styles. The exhibition presents eleven artists who step away from fashion norms and allow our community to view style through a personal lens. \nCurated by Josué Bessiake ’24  & Morghan Schnoll ’23
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/fashion-beyond-frames/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230305
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SUMMARY:Allison Maria Rodriguez - Legends Breathe
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, February 1\, 5-7pm \nArtist Talk: Thursday\, February 9\, 11:10-12:00pm (Room H201) \nAllison Maria Rodriguez (she/her) is a first-generation Cuban-American artist working predominantly in video installation. She creates immersive and experiential spaces that challenge conventional ways of seeing and understanding the world. Her work focuses extensively on climate change\, species extinction\, and the interconnectivity of human and natural worlds. Through video\, digital animation\, photography\, drawing\, performance\, and collage\, Rodriguez merges and blends mediums to create new pictorial spaces for aesthetic\, emotional\, and conceptual connection and exploration. \nLegends Breathe is an ongoing and immersive video installation that explores the power of creativity and the imagination in overcoming trauma. Based on interviews with female-identified and non-binary artists about childhood fantasies\, Legends Breathe comprises a series of video portraits that bring these fantasies to life and as part of processes of healing and survival. As an immersive installation\, Legends Breathe speaks to resilience and finding strength through a deep connection to the natural world. Each video work is populated by endangered species and threatened habitats\, conveying a link between the trauma and healing of our planet and that of the individual. \nRodriguez’s work has been exhibited internationally\, throughout the country\, and extensively in the New England region. She has created immersive installations for traditional and non-traditional spaces and venues such as the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum\, Milton Academy\, Installation Space\, Gallery 360 at Northeastern University\, Smack Mellon\, Fitchburg Art Museum\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. She has also created large-scale public art video installations commissioned by Illuminus Boston\, Boston Cyberarts\, and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority.  Her work has been supported by grants from the Boston Foundation\, The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation\, Mass Cultural Council\, the Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation among others. \nShe received her MFA from Tufts University/The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston/Medford and holds a BA in Language\, Literature and Culture from Antioch College in Ohio combined with study at Oxford University in England and Kyoto Seika University in Japan. \n \n  \nImages: \nLegends Breathe: Fairy Tales (video still) \nMulti-channel video installation \nLegends Breathe: In My Own Backyard (video still) \nMulti-channel video installation \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/allison-maria-rodriguez-legends-breathe/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230226
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SUMMARY:Robert Moeller: A Series of Seditious Portraits with Adjacent Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Wednesday\, February 1\, 5-7pm \nArtist Talk: Tuesday\, February 21\, 11:10-12:00pm\, Paul Scott Library \nIn this recent series of portraits and companion landscapes\, Boston-based artist\, Robert Moeller\, responds to the incendiary events that took place in Washington\, D.C. following the 2020 Presidential election. \nOn January 6th\, 2021\, thousands of supporters of then President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building to overturn the results of the presidential election. While this unprecedented event unfolded\, President Trump is said to have remained in the White House\, watching on television as his supporters violently entered and vandalized the Capitol Building. \nA Series of Seditious Portraits with Adjacent Landscapes focuses on the individuals that participated in the January 6th insurrection. As part of an on-going\, larger project\, the work in the exhibition focuses on\, as Moeller states\, “a time where it seemed half of America was at war with science\, the rule of law\, and an unrelenting pandemic.” The portraits are not depictions of actual individuals. The portraits\, while nondescript and intentionally crude\, are abstract and fictionalized representations of the interior surfaces of an insurrection and psychic spaces filled with anger and disinformation.  The figures in Moeller’s portraits are intentionally fragmented\, half-drawn and brutal. Crushed charcoal is dragged and pushed to shape faces and limbs. Paint tugs at the figures\, pulling at them and forcing them to abruptly reconsider their shape in the world. \nThe portraits are accompanied by kinetic landscapes that propose that the narrative is ongoing and that information\, and even reality itself\, is disputed. The landscapes are footnotes that are not even remotely pastoral but rather ruinous battlescapes. They follow the portraits with snapshots of erratic emotions and conflict\, while subtle areas of green space suggest the possibility of new conversations to be had. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/robert-moeller-a-series-of-seditious-portraits-with-adjacent-landscapes/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230213
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SUMMARY:Isaiah Hope: Dream in Blue
DESCRIPTION:Dream in Blue is a new installation for the 301 Frame Gallery by Montserrat alumnus\, Isaiah Hope (’22). \nMany artists go through periods of obsession with a theme that becomes the focus and embodiment of their work. For some\, it’s a creature\, an object\, a style\, a person\, or some sort of muse. For Hope\, the color blue has been a point of exploration and fixation.  He engages with how the color blue symbolizes both the ocean and the sky in the natural world and also how blue conveys human emotions. To that end\, Hope has entered his own “blue period”–a subtle nod to Picasso–as a means to develop his own style and visual language. Using a variety of acrylics and inks\, Hope creates a series of mural pieces that depict mythological beings and creatures of the sea. Through a style that dips in and out of abstraction\, he imbues these mythological beings with sense of emotion that only blue can convey.  These beings are depicted not only as emanating from the blue sea but also appear to be in a human\, dream-like state. As Hope states\, “My desire is that when an individual looks at this\, they can feel the emotion not only from the color blue but also the emotion that sea itself releases.” \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/isaiah-hope-dream-in-blue/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221211
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:  \nMontserrat College of Art presents an annual series of group thesis exhibitions by mid-year graduating seniors in the Montserrat Gallery and Carol Schlosberg Gallery. \nEach small group thesis show will include the individual work of each artist\, developed during their studies toward their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Montserrat. The shows are themed by the students’ concentrations and include illustration and art education. \n  \nSenior Thesis Exhibition – The Creature Feature \nDecember 7-10\nReception: Wednesday\, December 7\, 5-7pm\nCarol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery\nPhoenix Boardman\nTianna Pelton \n  \nArt Education: Works by their Students  \nDecember 14-17 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, December 17\, 5-7pm \nMontserrat Gallery \nMadison Wallace\nMegan Travis\nAurora Gloor\nZoë Weymouth \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibitions-2/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221211
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Montserrat College of Art presents an annual series of group thesis exhibitions by mid-year graduating seniors in the Montserrat Gallery and Carol Schlosberg Gallery. \nEach small group thesis show will include the individual work of each artist\, developed during their studies toward their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Montserrat. The shows are themed by the students’ concentrations and include illustration and art education. \n  \nSenior Thesis Exhibition – Illustration\nDecember 7-10 \nReception: Wednesday\, December 7\, 5-7pm \nCarol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery \nPhoenix Boardman\nTianna Pelton \n  \nHow to Grow an Artist: Art Education Thesis Exhibition\nDecember 12-15 \nClosing Reception and Graduation Ceremony: December 15\, 5-7pm \nMontserrat Gallery \nMadison Wallace \nZoe Weymouth \nMegan Travis \nAurora Gloor \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibition/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230225
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SUMMARY:Ray Pisano: A Lifetime of Achievement
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours\nOpen to Montserrat community M-F\, 10am-5pm or by appointment: gallery@montserrat.edu \n \nNovember 12\, 2022 – March 18\, 2023\nDates November 15\, 2022 – February 24\, 2023 \n  \nRay Pisano: A Lifetime of Achievement highlights a selection of drawings\, studies\, and documentation celebrating the life and work of the renowned sculptor and one of Montserrat College of Art’s Founding Faculty. \nBorn in Lynn and residing in Nahant\, Pisano has been carving and creating major stone sculptures\, friezes\, and memorials for over seven decades. He has been commissioned to create large-scale sculptures in bronze and stone since the early 1950s locally and nationally including major installations at the Forest Hills Cemetery\, the Mary Baker Eddy monument in Lynn\, and the Frederick Douglass monument in New Bedford\, among others. \nPisano\, who often makes his own tools on his own forge in his studio as integral to his studio practice\, has worked on restorations of many major historical sculptures around New England\, including restoration work for sculpture and edifices for the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, Boston University\, Harvard University\, and others. \nIn addition to creating sculpture\, Pisano has also worked as a product designer for the commercial sector. He was a product director for the housewares division of General Electric and conducted product development for Newhart Products\, specializing in precision trace masters for jet engines. As a corporate director of product development at Towle Silver\, for whom he traveled internationally introducing new technologies to the trade\, Pisano designed homeware and tableware\, and example of which is included in this exhibition. \nA decorated World War II veteran\, Pisano holds a fifth-year certificate with highest honors from the Boston Museum School\, where he joined the faculty after graduating. He has also been a faculty member at Boston University. \nHe was honored by the City of Lynn for his bronze relief sculptures of Frederick Douglas and Mary Baker Eddy\, during an event at Lynn City Hall last fall. \nAt the age of 99\, Ray still works in his Nahant studio.  Ray’s words of wisdom on his longevity are “Never finish anything.” He believes you can’t leave if you still have work to do.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/ray-pisano-a-lifetime-of-achievement/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221203
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SUMMARY:Rixy: In Between the Bites of Cúcala
DESCRIPTION:“A Bite of Cúcala” is an excerpt of the solo exhibition “Enter the Cúcala” by the Greater Boston artist displaying the collection of the fluorescent story world ‘Cúcala’ and its survived femme characters. This bite brings in two ends of the island: The quiet line between wholesome farm living and self-sufficient solitude\, and a bimbo-like whiplash of a girls’ night out around questionable city slickers. Both scenes\, based on true situations\, provide balance to healing attached to the perspectives and battle scars that inform the next episodes of our stories.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/rixy-in-between-the-bites-of-cucala/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221120
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SUMMARY:Resplendent
DESCRIPTION:Resplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics features the work of comic and visual artists who rewrite and reimagine how gender and identity can be represented in contemporary comics. Mainstream comics have long been dominated by white\, largely male superheroes and villains. This exhibition highlights the growing body of positive\, powerful\, and diverse depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ characters and story worlds. It features regional and national practitioners who bring fresh voices and new perspectives to their medium. \nComics offer a powerful platform for LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ artists to envision themselves. Drawing conceptual and visual connections to acts of line-making\, the exhibition explores the medium of comics as a means to delineate new spaces of belonging. Lines are elemental to the act of drawing and a defining visual feature of many comic forms. Actual and symbolic lines are also drawn\, crossed\, and joined together\, presenting opportunities for self-assertion and self-identification. Such ideas are present in the writings of the cultural theorist\, Sara Ahmed\, who proposes that lines both divide things and construct spaces that we imagine we can be in. The curator and author\, Justin Hall\, uses the metaphor of the line in his anthology\, No Straight Lines\, to alert our attention to the increasing number of queer comic artists who are creating outside of the lines of popular comic genres. \nResplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics highlights a selection of the many comic artists who use words and images to explore the politics of identity and to express ideas of beauty\, joy\, and abundance. From graphic memoirs\, serialized strips\, and web comics to fantastical stories and commanding autobiographical narratives\, the exhibition brings together a wide range of themes and media that celebrate the imaginary and private lives of their creators. \nLawrence Lindell\, Breena Nuñez\, and A.K. Summers draw intimate personal stories that are powerful\, poignant\, and sometimes humorous accounts of real life. The comics and comics-inspired work of Chitra Ganesh\, Rumi Hara\, and Bishakh Som conjure sumptuous and dream-like imagery to articulate the intersections of cultural and gender identity. \nThe complexities of queer love and friendship are taken up in the comics of Paige Braddock\, Jennifer Camper\, and Jessica Campbell. Raúl the Third also explores themes of friendship through the adventures of an eclectic group of LatinX characters\, while collaborators Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s slice of life comics pay tribute to the beauty of and relationships between Black women. \nLavaughan Jenkins and Karmimadeebora McMillan\, both painters\, create comics as part of their larger creative practice and as a platform to address racial identity and systemic racism. \nAnd the work of interdisciplinary artists Edie Fake and Lilli Carré focus on transformations of the physical body. Fake’s comics are surreal explorations of non-binary bodies and sexual experiences. Carré’s animation examines the malleable female body represented throughout history. \nResplendent: Identity and Visibility in Comics is curated by Lynne Cooney\, Ph.D.\, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at Montserrat College of Art.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/resplendent/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221024
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SUMMARY:A Social Rapport
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Josué Bessiake ’24 and Morghan Schnoll ’23
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/a-social-rapport/
LOCATION:Bare Gallery\, 275 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221120
DTSTAMP:20260418T103012
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221120
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SUMMARY:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/kumasi-j-barnett-american-alien/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
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SUMMARY:Julie Peppito: Love is the Key
DESCRIPTION:Reception:  Tuesday\, September 6\, 5-7pm \n\nJulie Peppito: Love is the Key presents a series of recent and new artworks that interrogates the political and environmental impacts of our consumer-based culture. An activist and artist\, Peppito uses her artmaking to draw connections between our dependence upon cheaply made and disposable goods and its destructive effects on the planet and on human health. Peppito conveys this urgent message through the creation of subversively exquisite\, highly embellished mixed media drawings and paintings that are often heavily layered with the cast-off detritus of mass-production\, such as fabric\, buttons\, beads\, plastic toys\, and other single-use plastics.  In many of her compositions\, Peppito juxtaposes dense areas of color and found objects with delicate and detailed drawing—from the monumental mixed media work Wake Up! to smaller works on paper\, such as We are in Danger and Love is the Key. But as the title of her exhibition suggests\, Peppito’s message is not simply defeatist or alarmist. She believes that awareness\, action\, and compassion can positively change the course of our planet\, create a more equitable society\, and sustain a healthy environment. In other words\, love is indeed the key. \nIn addition to over 15 mixed media artworks\, the exhibition also includes Peppito’s collaborative and fantastical drawings with her husband\, the illustrator and graphic novelist\, Gideon Kendall. \n  \nAbout Julie Peppito \nJulie Peppito combines multiple materials in her sculptures\, installations\, collages\, and playground art. She has been an exhibiting artist in New York City for 31 years and has had nine solo exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited at The Long Island Children’s Museum\, Kentler International Drawing Space\, Art in General\, PS122\, HEREart\, Momenta\, NURTUREart\, Ethan Cohen Gallery\, and many other venues. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture and has made art for three New York Park’s Department playgrounds. \nShe holds an MFA with a concentration in sculpture from Alfred University in Alfred\, NY and she received her BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City.  You can see her playground art at J.J. Byrne Playground and James Forten Playground\, both in Brooklyn. Her work has been in The New York Times and The Daily Beast. Currently\, she has a giant “bird condo” on display at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. She was born and raised in Tulsa\, Oklahoma. She lives\, creates and teaches art in Kensington\, Brooklyn with her partner (artist\, illustrator\, graphic novelist) Gideon Kendall and their son Milo. \n  \nImage: Wake Up!\, 2018\, canvas\, trim\, thread\, acrylic paint\, wood\, found objects\, dimensional fabric paint\, and fabric. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/julie-peppito-love-is-the-key/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Lynne Harlow: Loomings
DESCRIPTION:In her installation and interdisciplinary practice\, the Providence\, Rhode Island artist\, Lynne Harlow\, transforms traditional and nontraditional spaces using modest materials and processes. Taking inspiration from the Minimalists and the Light and Space artists of the 1960 and 1970s\, Harlow uses industrially made materials\, such as tinted Plexiglass\, vinyl\, and house paint\, to create immersive and multi-sensory experiences for the viewer that are vibrant\, sometimes provocatively garish\, and also at times soft\, subtle\, and barely there. In her installation for the 301 Frame Gallery\, Harlow uses broad swaths of color and playful curtains of bright pink vinyl that dynamically and playfully interact within the narrow confines of the space. Harlow’s less is more approach is not just an homage to minimalist art traditions or created for simple visual effect. Rather\, her installations explore the dynamic physicality and the phenomenological possibilities of light and color.  Harlow states\, “I arrive at my pieces by reducing physical and visual information.  This process of reduction\, a steady taking away\, is ultimately intended to be an act of generosity.  In each piece I’m looking for the point at which these reductions allow me to give the most.” \nAbout Lynne Harlow \nLynne Harlow has exhibited her work internationally for the past 20 years. Gallery exhibitions include several solo shows at MINUS SPACE\, Brooklyn\, NY\, and Liliana Bloch Gallery\, Dallas\, TX. Museum exhibitions include the Hofstra Museum of Art in 2020 and the deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in 2013\, as well as shows at MoMA PS1\, Brattleboro Museum\, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art\, and Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca. Harlow has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation\, Chinati Foundation\, Rhode Island Foundation\, and BAU Institute\, and her work has been reviewed in publications\, such as Artforum\, The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, The Providence Journal\, and Artnet Magazine\, among others. Harlow’s work is included in public collections\, such as The Museum of Modern Art\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York Public Library\, and Hunter College (all New York\, NY); RISD Museum (Providence\, RI); and The Philips Collection (Washington\, DC). Harlow holds an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from Framingham State College. \nLynne Harlow: Loomings is presented in collaboration with bkprojects \nbkprojects\, LLC\nwww.bkartprojects.com\nwww.drive-byprojects.com \n  \n 
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/lynne-harlow-loomings/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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