Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine
Through March 30: Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography: Linda Bryan, Cathy Cone, Chris Esten, Rachel Portesi, Vaune Trachtman, Mary Zompetti; Milkweed: Louise Hamlin; A Matter of Time: Justin O’Rourke. Opening March 8: Form + Texture: A group exhibition of contemporary fiber art. April 12–27: Illumination: AVA’s Annual Benefit Exhibition.
Read moreThrough March 6: COLOURED.AESTHETICA. Solo show by Triton Mobley. Mobley is a new media artist and researcher whose interventionist works and guerrilla performances have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Mobley’s research and praxis cull together critical making methodologies across performative installations, programmable fabrications, and speculative industrial design—fashioning polemical art object assemblages that engender public reexamination.
Read moreMarch 19–April 13: Hidden Treasures 6 celebrates the creative work of Phillips Exeter Academy colleagues across media and departments. This year’s exhibition includes fiber arts, stained glass, painting, and landscape photography as well as events and programs showcasing music and literary arts. Opening reception: Thursday, March 28, 5–7 p.m.
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The Gertrude Cawein at Hammond Castle Museum exhibition will feature nearly sixty works by American artist Eric Pape (1870–1938) spanning his entire career. The catalog, most of which is on loan by Pape collector and biographer, Dr. Gregory Conn, presents a rare example of his work as a society portraitist and includes examples of Pape’s celebrity portraits created during the Great Depression not publicly displayed since his death.
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Through May 5: Framing the Domestic Sea: Photographs by Jeffery Becton evokes New England’s varied histories, the maritime world, and the impacts of climate change on coastal communities. Through April 21: Paintings by Roy Rossow picture New Bedford’s working waterfront, contemporary maritime activities, and historic celestial navigation in The Stars that Guide Us.
Read moreFrom September through June, 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 and public. Opening April 4: Traci Talasco: TIPPING POINT. Presenting a series of conceptual sculptures that use architecture as a social/political space dealing with power imbalances stemming from gender, race, and identity.
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Through March 31: Face Value: Portraits from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection. Ongoing: Maria Molteni: Soft Score. Ongoing: Pop! Color Stories from the Permanent Collection. Ongoing: The Red Dress. Opening March 30: Beau McCall: Buttons On! Opening April 13: Hand in Hand: Works from the Fleur S. Bresler Collection. Fuller Craft Museum’s wide-ranging exhibitions and outdoor sculpture showcase the finest contemporary craft in a spectacular organic modernist building and woodland setting.
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Through April 11: In the Garden, a platform for artists, poets, and performers. Within the walls of The Current, artists present a disparate array of topics through work that uses the garden as a motif, setting the stage for connection and cultivation. Artists in this exhibition use the metaphor of a garden to address climate change, decolonization, feminism, societal tensions, and our endangered environment. Artists include: Carlos Amorales, Cameron Davis, Wylie Garcia, Valerie Hammond, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Paul Anthony Smith.
Read moreMarch 13–April 20: Main Gallery: Up and Down, In and Out: Embroidery and its Kin. Second floor gallery: Hiding in Plain Sight by Amy Schachter. Third floor gallery: The Grand Assemblage by Axel Stohlberg. Visit studioplacearts.com for info on the Quick Change Gallery and SPA annex locations. Studio Place Arts is a working art center with art exhibits, artist studios, classroom, and a sculpture tour.
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Ongoing: On Her Terms: Feminine Power Embodied features New England artists who foreground the human body in their work to engage contemporary issues around women’s rights. Also on view: Ria Brodell: Butch Heroes and Portrayed by Eakins: Ella Crowell as Model and Student. Opening March 2: Africa Rising: 21st Century African Photography, including photographs by Zanele Muholi, Lalla Essaydi, and Aida Muluneh, and others.
Read moreThrough March 6 in the Montserrat Gallery: Karmimadeebora McMillan, Wondering stars…for whom it is reserved…the blackness..the darkness..forever. Through March 16 in the Carol Schlosberg Galleries: Loretta Park, About to Thaw. Opening March 27 in all galleries: Senior Thesis Exhibitions.
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Through May 5: Zach Horn: Saturdays. Opening April 28: National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts (NAWAMA) Chapter: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Opening April 28: Cassatt and Beyond: Women Printmakers. Opening May 12: DIG, Joe Caruso, Jennifer Liston Munson, Christine Palamidessi and Marsha Odabashian. Reception: Sunday, May 12, 1–4 p.m. Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage. Admission is always free.
Read moreThrough March 24: Portraits in Red: Missing & Murdered Indigenous People Painting Project, by Nayana LaFond. Reception and artist talk: Thursday, March 7, 5–7 p.m. March 16 & 17: The Umbrella Open Studios, including Kaleidoscope: Changing as We Change exhibition, on view through March 20. March 29–April 5: Artrageous Art Auction and Exhibition. Opening April 10: TAPPED IN: Moving Hearts and Minds through Art and Science, curated by Stephanie Marlin-Curiel and Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney. Reception and panel discussion: Thursday, April 11, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
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Home of American Illustration, featuring new exhibitions: Between Worlds: The Art & Design of Leo Leonni, a first-ever U.S. retrospective on the illustrator (Frederick, Cornelius, Pezzettino +) and graphic designer; and Mystery & Wonder: Highlights from the Illustration Collection. Plus Rockwell’s 323 Post Covers. New guided gallery tours by reservation. Museum Store (and online store). Save with online tickets.
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Through April 9: Sneha Shrestha: Ritual and Devotion. Nepali-born, Boston-based painter Shrestha interprets acts of ritual and devotion and what they can come to mean through themes of home, identity, and legacy.
Read moreThrough March 4: Exploding Native Inevitable, an exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art from a land we now call America. Through March 4: Brad Kahlhamer: Nomadic Studio, Maine Camp, an exhibition of many sketchbooks, accompanied by a selection of related paintings and prints. Opening April 8: Senior Thesis Exhibition 2024, work selected from thesis projects of graduating seniors majoring in Studio Art. Opening April 8: Neue Slowenische Kunst | Monumental Spectacular, an exhibition of prints and multi-media by this Slovenian art collective.
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Through March 17: Faith Ringgold: Freedom to Say What I Please—Deeply personal, celebratory of African American culture, and rooted in political activism, explore the art and storytelling of Faith Ringgold. Opening April 6: New Terrain: 21st-Century Landscape Photography—Discover how artists are using different photographic processes to explore the idea of landscape.
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March 7–April 26: RISE: Trees; Our Botanical Giants features twenty artists paying homage to the “tree” in the creative process. Artists salute to their relationship with wood materials reclaimed or formally crafted and in doing so push the conversation between man-made and nature into one of collaborative celebration. Discussion: Thursday, April 18, 5 p.m. with Shelby Perry, Wildlands Ecologist with Northeast Wilderness Trust. Free and open to the public.
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This spring ECOCA’s gallery will be filled with works that touch upon the many aspects of the environment and climate change. The Spring Heat exhibitions include solo shows by Sariah Park, Hanlyn Davies, and group exhibitions from Yvonne Short & Rebecca West, Thinking about Water, Water Women, Nua Collective and more. Opening reception: Sunday, April 14, 1–3 p.m.
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A contemporary art gallery with up to three floors of exhibition space, hosting new exhibitions every fall, winter/spring, and summer, on Burlington’s iconic Church Street Marketplace. Opening February 9: Here Now: Art and Migration, international and regional artists whose work explores concepts of borders, movement, and migration across local urban centers and global geographies; Margaret Jacobs: Kinship, steel sculptures and finely crafted jewelry, exploring the tensions and harmonies between the man-made and natural worlds. Free and open to the public.
Read moreThrough March 22: Range of Motion, Landscapes by Charles W. Goolsby. Goolsby’s landscape imagery builds on 19th century American landscape painting traditions and implies a sense of contemporary issues. April 1–19: Paper Trails: Selections from the RIC Print Trade. Since 2005, students and faculty of the Rhode Island College Printmaking Department have taken part in a print exchange. Selections curated by Sam Nehila.
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Through March 24: Contained and Unbound: Vessel paintings by Judy Bramhall; pastels by Cindy Crimmin; photographs of Norway by Ellen Harasimowicz. March 27–May 5: Chiaroscuro: Coastal watercolors by Jillian Demeri; mixed media portraiture by Cynthia Brody; acrylic landscapes and florals by Avery Schuster Bramhall. New works by represented artists. Reception: Saturday, April 6, 6–8 p.m.
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The Currier Museum features paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and photographs, including works by Monet, Picasso, O’Keeffe, Hopper, and Wyeth. The museum also owns two Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes available to view by tour (tour season runs April through December yearly). Through March 31: Toward the New: A Journey into Abstraction. Through May 27: Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Opening March 7: I live a journey of a thousand years: Raphaël Barontini. Opening April 12: Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation.
Read moreBancroft Gallery, April 4–May 18: Out of Darkness, a national show juried by Marjorie Kaye, founder and director emeritus, Galatea Fine Art. Opening reception: Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m. Opening May 30: Young Black Woman | Old White Man, curated by James Burke featuring works by James Burke and Devyn Case. Opening reception: Thursday, May 30, 6 p.m.
Read moreThrough April 25: Class of 2009 Alumni Exhibit. Artists: David Bruce ’09, Sarah Diamond ’09, Dougan Khim ’09, Jasmine Reid ’09. Opening reception: Thursday, April 25, 5:30–7 p.m. This exhibit features four graduate artists who have continued to make paintings professionally, showing work from the classical, post-modern, and contemporary traditions.
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Nestled in the heart of White River Junction, Long River Gallery features the art and craft of over eighty local artists from Vermont and New Hampshire. Through May 1: Artist Prue Merton displays her work from a selection of collages of decorated papers that suggest surprising perspectives using color and pattern. Opening reception: Friday, March 1, 5–7 p.m.
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