Gallery Flashpoints

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Fountain Street Gallery in Boston is launching TENacious, an exhibition featuring painting, photography, and sculpture by Fountain Street alumni core artists. The exhibit celebrates and reconnects the artists who took a leap of faith and exhibited their work in the early days of Fountain Street, at its original location in an old factory building in Framingham, MA. Exhibiting artists are Lisa Barthelson, Cheryl Clinton, Susan Emmerson, Bob Evans, Nan Hass Feldman, Richard Kattman, Anita Loomis, Iris Osterman, Roy Perkinson, Tracy Spadafora, and Jeanne Williamson Ostroff. “We are grateful for their trust and their artistry; we have grown from the experience of working with each one,” said co-founder and director Marie Craig in a press statement.

The Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MoCA) recently celebrated its opening. Founded by Fall River artists Harry Gould Harvey IV and Brittni Ann Harvey, the FR MoCA is located on the ground floor of Merrow Manufacturing, an historic granite mill in Fall River. The museum began as a pop-up gallery in October 2020 as part of Fall River’s FABRIC Arts Festival. Its inaugural show, Group Exhibition #1, featured work from artists Allyson Vieira, Flannery Silva, Brittni Ann Harvey, Michael Assiff, Gregory Kalliche, Zachary John Martin, Susan Mohl Powers, Jeffrey Alan Scudder, and Faith Wilding. FR MoCa will run as a nonprofit, non-collecting museum that is free and open to the public (by appointment).

After a few months of changes, Boston-based art consultants group L’Attitude Art and Sculpture Gallery will be continuing under the name L’Attitude Art Environments. L’Attitude is transitioning from a gallery open daily, to a showroom and office available by appointment for on-site visits at its new home at 119 Braintree St. in Allston, MA, and via videoconference. The pandemic has strengthened L’Attitude’s focus on its design and collection development work with health care facilities, as well as for residential and corporate clients.

The Thomas Lynch Gallery recently opened at the Ropewalk Mall in Mattapoisett, MA. Located next to the Walrus and Captain restaurant, owner Thomas Lynch hopes to capture the attention of visitors after their meal. Paintings of New England landscapes, rock sculptures, and Lynch’s own graphic design creations adorn the walls. As an artist whose pieces have been commissioned by Providence College and Rhode Island Hospital, Lynch utilizes the gallery space for both exhibitions and his personal workshop. The gallery does not have set hours, yet Lynch aims to change that as interest grows.