Paradise City Arts Spring Show

March 21–23: Paradise City Arts hosts New England’s premier and most celebrated shows of contemporary fine and decorative arts. Their Marlborough event draws thousands of attendees of art buyers, designers, and enthusiasts seeking to connect with their 170 exceptional artists and makers from across the country. In MetroWest Boston with free parking, enjoy the special exhibition Living Color, music in the air, and two cafés.

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Hotchkiss School Tremaine Gallery

Through April 6: The Art of Joy Brown, a retrospective tracing Brown’s work, from tiny clay figures to clay-headed puppets, to small statues and wall tiles, to the monumental work found in public spaces. Hear Joy Brown speak, along with documentary filmmaker Eduardo Montes Bradley who is completing a film about Brown, Thursday, March 6, 7 p.m. Free and open to the public.

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Lamont Gallery

Through March 7: Catch the end of Jeffrey Augustine Songco: Society of 23’s Conservatory which is an immersive, site-specific installation that creates a multisensory experience. April 1–May 3: Maker Fest presents works from makers in the Phillips Exeter Academy community: students, staff and others. The selections offer both the aesthetic and practical and showcase their community’s ingenuity and imagination.

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The Mercy Gallery at The Loomis Chaffee School

The Mercy Gallery invites groundbreaking artists working in a variety of media, representing diverse endeavors and cultural + geographic perspectives to share their art with the community. Open to the public. Through January 24: Destiny Palmer: Spoken in a Language You Can’t Ignore. Opening February 6: Khae Haskell: From Rot to Ravish. Haskell constructs luminous installations that combine intricate graphic drawings of botanical life with acrylic and neon light.

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Bannister Art Gallery at Rhode Island College

Through March 21: RaMell Ross: Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body. RaMell Ross explores the meaning and mythology of the American South and of Black identity through this new exhibition of large-scale photographs and mixed-media sculptures. April 3–25: Lani Irwin & Alan Feltus—Selected Works. Curated by Professor Richard Whitten, this exhibition opens up a dialogue on sexuality and identity in contemporary figurative painting.

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3S Artspace

Through March 30: Losing Winter: Lynn Cazabon presents a unique and site-specific realization of Losing Winter, an ongoing participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and reflecting upon what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns. Opening April 4: A Hole Hanging in the Air, works by Kate Conlon. Through a meticulous process of archival research and digital modeling, Conlon recreates illusion-generating, precise reconstructions of mechanical devices from the history of cinematic visual effects as cut-paper constructions.

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the corner gallery

April 4–May 21: Travels, mixed media paintings of Tom Arsenault. Deftly merging paint and historical artifact, Arsenault creates ethereal scenes that evoke curiosity and emotion. Blending objects of art from both Eastern and Western traditions, his work seemingly transcends time and place, instead drawing the viewer into a mysterious dreamscape of rich color and surprising depth. Reception: Friday, April 4, 5:30 p.m.

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