Massachusetts Exhibition

Through February 23: Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass. Through February 23: Gilded Echoes: The Tiffany Influence in Josh Simpson’s Glasswork. Through February 28: Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women by Julie Lapping Rivera. Through March 30: Designing Downtown.

Through January 15: Gallery Sitka will host work by local Newport artist Jerrell Angell. Opening February 8: A group show featuring work by Barbara Groh, Kate Huntington, Marston Clough, and Rux Darie. Reception: Saturday, February 8, 2–4 p.m. This opening will also feature jewelry by New York City designer Laurenti New York.

Through its world-class collection and ongoing query What is America?, the Addison seeks to engage with the history of American art and American experience—past, present, and future. Winter exhibitions: Opening March 15: June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart. Opening February 2: Highlights from the Addison’s collection. Free and open to the public.

Through January 17, Kathryn Schultz Gallery (25R Lowell Street) + CAA @ University Place (124 Mt Auburn Street): Aura. Opening January 30: 2025 Members Prize Show. Through January 8: CAA @ Canal (650 E. Kendall Street): Patterns in Nature.

Opening January 25: Everybody’s Bolos. Opening February 1: Cicely Carew: BeLOVEd Ongoing: Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene. Ongoing: Maria Molteni: Soft Score. Ongoing: Beau McCall: Buttons On! Ongoing: Hand in Hand: Works from the Fleur S. Bresler Collection. Ongoing: Small Wonders: Beauty, Alchemy, and the Art of Enameling. Fuller Craft Museum’s wide-ranging exhibitions and outdoor sculpture showcase the finest contemporary craft in a spectacular organic modernist building and woodland setting. All are welcome, completely free of charge.

Opening January 18: Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts. Sellios is a Boston-based artist whose monumental photographs highlight the beauty of the grotesque. Opening February 1: Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of Photographs is a career retrospective exhibition featuring the work of Stephen DiRado, the leading contemporary artist and fine art photographer in Central Massachusetts. DiRado has taught photography at Clark University in Worcester since 1982, and his work has been exhibited, collected, and published internationally for over forty years.

Opening February 6. The Davis and Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. The artworks in Better on Paper hail from around the world, span diverse makers and approaches, and date to many periods. Free and open to the public.

Montserrat Gallery, January 27–March 5: Jay Critchley, Democracy of the Land, Inc.—FLAGrancy. Reception and performance: Tuesday, January 28, 6–8 p.m. Extending his decades-long critique of patriotism, democracy and corporatism, Provincetown artist Jay Critchley’s exhibition features his compelling uses of the American flag, drawing on his research and work around American symbolism, mythology, history, settler occupation, Native Nations and ecological concerns through various media. See Spotlight Review.

Opening February 2: Duxbury Art Association Winter Juried Show; Raku from the Art Complex Museum Collection. Opening February 16: Steve Branfman: Thought Translated into Form. Reception for all shows: Sunday, February 16, 1–4 p.m. Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage. Admission is always free.

Ongoing: Filtered Identity: The Art of Tigran Tsitoghdzyan. Tigran is a New York-based artist whose photo-realistic paintings merge an interest in classical and modern art with an emphasis on his own experiences as a father and an immigrant. He has exhibited widely including Art Basel Miami, Cube Art Fair in Times Square, and globally in cities such as Dubai, Singapore, Zurich, and Brussels.

January 4–25: Dark and Light, group exhibition by gallery members exploring concept of dark and light within any medium. Opening reception: Saturday, January 4, 3–6 p.m. Third Thursday reception: January 16, 6–9 p.m. February 1–22: New Members Exhibition, Duygu Aytaç, Jean M Bernstein, Jeff Briggs, Elsa Campbell, Nick Di Stefano, Daniel Gaviani, Katie Kimbrell. Opening reception: Saturday, February 1, 3–6 p.m. Third Thursday reception: February 20, 6–9 p.m.

Home of American Illustration. Ongoing: Anita Kunz: Original Sisters, Portraits of Tenacity & Courage; Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth, and Parrish from the Edison Mazda Collection. Through February 23: Norman Rockwell: Home for the Holidays. Guided tours of Rockwell’s Studio and galleries by reservation. Museum Store (and online store). Save time with online tickets. More at NRM.org.

Through January 20: Im/Perfect Modernisms: Asian Art and Identity Since 1945. Experience the range and originality of modernist styles across Asia, and learn how artists worked within this Western art-historical construct to explore cultural identity, resistance, and transformation. Through March 9: Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate. Explore more than two dozen iconic paintings traveling from Tate in London, and discover how these boundary-pushing artists used the nude to challenge preconceptions about age, race, gender, and sexuality.

Opening January 21: Michael Beatty: Fabrications, Selections from 1992 to present: Associate Professor Emeritus Michael Beatty’s retrospective exhibition celebrates his sculptural practice, which is informed by concepts from science, nature, philosophy, and mathematics.

September 11–October 20: Edge of Dreams. Patricia Ganek’s paintings radiate with an impasto style. Natasha Dikareva’s surreal sculptures are conduits to contemplation. Lyca Blume’s paintings, inspired by kintsugi (mending with gold), evoke healing the psyche through dreams. Reception: Saturday, September 21, 6–8 p.m. Opening: October 23: Belle Terre. Jonathan MacAdam’s paintings capture the tranquility of New England landscapes. Jennifer Johnston’s abstract photographs highlight elements that shape the land. Colleen Pearce’s paintings interpret geological formations and plants. Reception: Saturday, November 2, 6–8 p.m.

The Museum has a permanent collection focusing on American art, rotating exhibitions of contemporary, regional artists, and a gallery focused on the artist Meta Fuller. Through January 26: Ileana Doble Hernandez: My Dear Americans, It’s Not Enough; DM Witman: Ecologies of Restoration; Suzanne Révy: A Murmur in the Trees. Opening February 15: Tina Feingold, Tim McDonald, Kathryn Geismar, Alice Dillon, Lisa Tang Liu, Scott Foster. See website for hours.

January 9–February 21: Magic Hands. Artist: Jiha Moon. Closing reception: Thursday, February 20, 5:30–7 p.m. Melissa Dilworth Gold ’61 Visiting Artist Fund. Jiha Moon’s gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures.

Opening January 17: The Griffin Museum opens with Nuclear Family. Stories from eight LGBTQIA+ photographers in a process of self-discovery while looking at their family and community, both chosen and blood. Artists include Mengwen Cao, Jess Dugan, Yorgos Eftyhmiadis, Matthew Finley, Kevin Moore, Laurence Philomene, Matthew Liefheit and Ann Vetter.  

Through February 16: AEROSOL: Boston’s Graffiti DNA, its Origin and Evolution explores graffiti’s journey from vandalism to acknowledged art form. Curated by Jennifer Mancuso, AEROSOL follows the path of a group of kids, now grown, who got their start as graffiti writers racking paint and bombing the city’s abandoned buildings.

January 16–February 16: Members Juried 1: Painting + Sculpture (Main Gallery) and Tanja North Sport + Lee Cott (Members Gallery). Reception: Thursday, January 16, 5:30 p.m. Opening February 27: Members Juried 2: Collage, Crafts, Drawing, Graphics, Mixed Media, Photography, Printmaking (Main Gallery) and Linda Hammett Ory + Tracey Maroni (Members Gallery). Reception: Thursday, February 27, 5:30 p.m.

Through January 12: Ongoing: Steina: Playback. Opening January 30: List Projects 31: Kite. Opening February 21: Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning. The List Center galleries and programs are always free and open to the public. Visit listart.mit.edu for programming and exhibition updates along with their most up-to-date visitor information.