Wilber Blair: A Peek Inside the Coloring Book

Founders Gallery 248 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, United States

Blair’s saturated and atmospheric paintings reflect constant change, transformation, and metamorphoses of nature and imagined two-dimensional worlds. Through spatial illusion and surface, representation and abstraction, and the material and the immaterial, Blair’s paintings are an accumulation of formal decisions used to express the complexity and mystery of sight, memory, and dreams. Wilber Blair was a...

Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy

Montserrat Gallery 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, United States

Drawing on his research and work about American symbolism, mythology, history, settler occupation, Native Nations, and ecological concerns, Jay Critchley: Democracy of the Land, Inc., FLAGrancy confronts our torrid and complicated history of what it means to be an American and how control of and access to the Land defines our personal and cultural identities....

Claudia Valenti – The Other Room

Carol Schlosberg Gallery 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, United States

Artist Reception, Tuesday, February 4, 5–7pm Claudia Valenti’s paintings, drawings, and prints use magical realism to explore memory, loss, comfort, identity, and the psychological contents of home. The Other Room sets loose real and mythic animals in a nocturnal home whose human occupants may be asleep. The animals move through liminal spaces, turning through hallways,...

Congressional Art Show

Montserrat Gallery 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, United States

The 6th District Congressional Art Show, sponsored by Congressman Seth Moulton is hosted annually at Montserrat College of Art. The exhibition and competition is open to students in grades 10–12 in public and private high schools and students being home-schooled in the Sixth Essex Massachusetts Congressional District. Up to 6 pieces may be permitted per...