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2021fri01octAll Day2022sun24jul(All Day) The Treasure House of Memory | Raúl de Nieves | Boston ICA

Location
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210
Time
October 1 (Friday) - July 24 (Sunday)
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Raúl de Nieves | Boston ICA art exhibition Boston Art Exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210 10/01/21-07/24/22 Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983 Michoacán Mexico) is a New
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Raúl de Nieves | Boston ICA art exhibition
Boston Art Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston MA 02210
10/01/21-07/24/22
Raúl de Nieves (b. 1983 Michoacán Mexico) is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist performer and musician whose multifaceted practice ranges from stained-glass-style narrative paintings to animated performances to densely adorned figurative sculptures encrusted with bangles beads bells sequins and other homespun materials. These opulent joyful sculptures reference traditional costumes in Mexican culture and modes of dress from drag ballroom and queer club cultures while also evoking religious processional attire and the outfits worn by circus performers. All of his works share a distinctive visual language that draws from Mexican craft traditions religious iconography mythology and folktales to explore the transformational possibilities of adornment and the mutability of sexuality and identity. For the ICA de Nieves is creating a body of interconnected works rooted in memory and exploring themes of personal transformation. The Treasure House of Memory expands the artist’s inventive adaptation of iconographic traditions inherited from the past through vibrant amalgamations of form and material rendered in an energetic and accessible visual language.
november

Location
Kayafas
450 Harrison Avenue Boston MA 02118
Time
All Day (Tuesday)
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Art Exhibition | Kayafas 450 Harrison Avenue Boston MA 02118 11/30/21-11/30/21
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Kayafas
450 Harrison Avenue
Boston MA 02118
11/30/21-11/30/21
february
2022thu17febAll Daysun24jul(All Day) I Am As I Am—A Man | Napoleon Jones-Henderson | Boston ICA
Location
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210
Time
February 17 (Thursday) - July 24 (Sunday)
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Boston Art Exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210 02/17/22-07/24/22 For more than 50 years Napoleon Jones-Henderson (b. 1943 Chicago) has created works that strive to highlight
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Boston Art Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston MA 02210
02/17/22-07/24/22
For more than 50 years Napoleon Jones-Henderson (b. 1943 Chicago) has created works that strive to highlight celebrate and empower the communities where he lives. Jones-Henderson is a longstanding founding member of the influential artist collective African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). His work translates AfriCOBRA’s aesthetic principles—to create images inspired by the lived experience and cultures of people of the African diaspora in an accessible graphic style with shining Kool-Aid colors—into woven tapestries mosaic tile works shrine-like sculptures and varied works on paper. Often focused on themes of Pan-Africanism and racial justice Jones-Henderson’s work aims to be self-affirming and reflective with an eye toward both a fraught past and a liberated future. The artist integrates forms from African ritual sculpture and Southern vernacular architecture and incorporates reverential references to jazzman Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts” musicians Sun Ra and Stevie Wonder and writer June Jordan among others. Made in close collaboration with the artist this concise survey draws together a suite of Jones-Henderson’s works in various media across a 50-year period centered around his magisterial woven textiles. Jones-Henderson has been based since 1974 in Roxbury where he has been an influential community member educator and mentor. This is his most comprehensive solo museum exhibition in Boston.
march
2022sat05marAll Daysun24apr(All Day) Pucker | 03/05/22 - 04/24/22 | New works | Samuel Bak | Boston
Location
Pucker
240 Newbury Street 3rd floor Boston Massachusetts 02116
Time
March 5 (Saturday) - April 24 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Pucker 240 Newbury Street 3rd floor Boston Massachusetts 02116 03/05/22-04/24/22
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Pucker
240 Newbury Street 3rd floor
Boston Massachusetts 02116
03/05/22-04/24/22
Location
NAGA
67 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116
Time
March 11 (Friday) - April 30 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | NAGA 67 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116 03/11/22-04/30/22
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NAGA
67 Newbury Street
Boston MA 02116
03/11/22-04/30/22
2022fri11marAll Daysat30apr(All Day) NAGA | 03/11/22 - 04/30/22 | ALBEDO | NICOLE CHESNEY | Boston
Location
NAGA
67 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116
Time
March 11 (Friday) - April 30 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | NAGA 67 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116 03/11/22-04/30/22
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NAGA
67 Newbury Street
Boston MA 02116
03/11/22-04/30/22
Location
Steven Zevitas
450 Harrison Ave #47 Boston MA 02118
Time
March 11 (Friday) - May 15 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Steven Zevitas 450 Harrison Ave #47 Boston MA 02118 03/11/22-05/15/22 Jessica Alazraki Katie Butler Damien H. Ding Josiah Ellner Elizabeth Glaessner Austin Harris Ranee Henderson Sung Hwa Kim Joanne
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Art Exhibition |
Steven Zevitas
450 Harrison Ave #47
Boston MA 02118
03/11/22-05/15/22
Jessica Alazraki
Katie Butler
Damien H. Ding
Josiah Ellner
Elizabeth Glaessner
Austin Harris
Ranee Henderson
Sung Hwa Kim
Joanne Ji Young Kim
Lyn Liu
Lizzy Lunday
Maud Madsen
Samantha Nye
Ricardo Partida
Kate Pincus-Whitney
Noah Schneiderman
Brea Weinreb
Mikey Yates
Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present YOU HAD ME AT HELLO: New American Paintings 2022 Review. The exhibition will run from March 11 – May 15 2022 with a public opening reception on Friday April 1 from 5:30 – 8:00 pm.
You Had Me at Hello: New American Paintings 2022 Review brings together eighteen artists who have been featured in New American Paintings over the past twelve months. Hailing from throughout the United States each of the included artists brings a unique aesthetic viewpoint and offers a differentiated lens towards what it means to be a painter today.
In recent years a new generation of artists have embraced the figure in painting. While all of the featured works are representational in form there is an extraordinary range of technique and subject matter on view. This group of artists is fluent in art history and chooses to recognize and enliven it with new ways of making. In the exhibition we see artists addressing the potency of formative memories the nature of the gaze records of fleeting instances studies of intimacy (between figures and also between objects and spaces) wistful longings buoyant musings and precious feelings.
The exhibited works display a full range of human emotion — and how these emotions can collide and briefly overlap — all equal in weight and consequence. Individual pieces intersect in a dynamic grouping: table-scapes converge gazes meet and pointed fingers lead us into the ether.
Location
Beacon
524B Harrison Avenue Boston MA 02118
Time
March 18 (Friday) - May 29 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Beacon 524B Harrison Avenue Boston MA 02118 03/18/22-05/29/22
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Art Exhibition |
Beacon
524B Harrison Avenue Boston MA 02118
03/18/22-05/29/22
2022sun20marAll Daysun23oct(All Day) Eva LeWitt | Boston ICA
Location
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210
Time
March 20 (Sunday) - October 23 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210 03/20/22-10/23/22 Eva LeWitt’s vibrant handmade sculptures are fashioned from everyday commercial and industrial materials. She casts dyes and
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Art Exhibition |
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston MA 02210
03/20/22-10/23/22
Eva LeWitt’s vibrant handmade sculptures are fashioned from everyday commercial and industrial materials. She casts dyes and cuts these pliable soft and often synthetic materials before composing them in captivating arrangements of hanging geometric forms and gradations of undulating color. Her large-scale abstract artworks often recall domestic or theatrical decor such as curtains whose colors are meant to ”radiate heat” and ”generate energy” according to LeWitt. Just as curtains evoke an interplay between inside and outside—marking a boundary between public and private or alternatively revealing and concealing—LeWitt’s intuitive material arrangements play with unresolved tensions: between transparency and opacity gravity and weightlessness abstraction and decoration.
Conceived for the ICA’s Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall and structured by the particular shape of the museum’s architecture Untitled (Mesh Circles) is a monumental sculpture made of bands of colorful coated mesh fabric whose shifting linear composition creates a number of interlocking circular forms. While coated meshes have a variety of uses ranging from privacy screens to high-visibility workwear LeWitt transforms lengths of the tensile fabric into an unfolding environmental sculpture that intensifies the experience of space. As the crosshatched surface pattern and fields of color overlap and respond to ambient conditions like sunlight and circulating air a moire effect is produced: a shimmering pattern that occurs when two geometrically regular patterns are superimposed. Untitled (Mesh Circles) creates a dynamic and uplifting experience that vibrates throughout the museum’s interior.
Location
Lanoue
450 Harrison Ave #31 Boston MA 02118
Time
March 26 (Saturday) - May 7 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | Lanoue 450 Harrison Ave #31 Boston MA 02118 03/26/22-05/07/22
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Art Exhibition |
Lanoue
450 Harrison Ave #31
Boston MA 02118
03/26/22-05/07/22
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115
Time
March 27 (Sunday) - July 10 (Sunday)
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Boston Art Exhibition Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115 03/27/22-07/10/22 One of Britain’s greatest artists J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) lived and worked at the peak of the
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Boston Art Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston Massachusetts 02115
03/27/22-07/10/22
One of Britain’s greatest artists J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) lived and worked at the peak of the industrial revolution when steam replaced sail machine power replaced manpower and wars political unrest and social reforms transformed society. “Turner’s Modern World” explores how this artist more than any of his contemporaries embraced these changes and developed an innovative painting style to better capture the new world. This landmark exhibition brings together more than 100 paintings watercolors drawings and sketchbooks by Turner including Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) from Tate Britain The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons October 16 1834 (1835) from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the MFA’s own Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying Typhoon Coming On) (1840). These vivid and dramatic compositions demonstrate Turner’s commitment to depicting the great events and developments of his time from technological advances to causes such as abolition and political reform.
2022sun27marAll Daysun10jul(All Day) Real Photo Postcards Pictures from a Changing Nation |
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115
Time
March 27 (Sunday) - July 10 (Sunday)
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Boston Art Exhibition Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115 03/27/22-07/10/22 In 1903 at the height of the worldwide craze for postcards the Eastman Kodak Company unveiled a new
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Boston Art Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston Massachusetts 02115
03/27/22-07/10/22
In 1903 at the height of the worldwide craze for postcards the Eastman Kodak Company unveiled a new product: the postcard camera. The device exposed a postcard-sized negative that could print directly onto a blank card capturing scenes in extraordinary detail. Portable and easy to use the camera heralded a new way of making postcards. Suddenly almost anyone could make photo postcards as a hobby or as a business. Other companies quickly followed in Kodak’s wake and soon photographic postcards joined the billions upon billions of printed cards in circulation before World War II.
Real photo postcards as such photographic cards are called today captured aspects of the world that their commercially published cousins never could. Big postcard publishers tended to play it safe issuing sets that showed celebrated sites from towns across the United States like town halls historic mills and post offices. But the photographers who walked the streets or set up temporary studios worked fast and cheap. They could take a risk on a scene that might appeal to only a few or capture a moment that would otherwise have been lost to posterity. As the Victorian formality of earlier photography fell away shop interiors construction sites train wrecks and people acting silly all began to appear on real photo postcards capturing everyday life on film like never before.
Location
Fountain Street
460C HARRISON AVENUE SUITE 2 BOSTON MA 02118
Time
March 30 (Wednesday) - April 24 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Fountain Street 460C HARRISON AVENUE SUITE 2 BOSTON MA 02118 03/30/22-04/24/22 “Outlook” presents landscapes both personal and communal. Through the intertwining of light and composition we can recognize
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Art Exhibition |
Fountain Street
460C HARRISON AVENUE SUITE 2 BOSTON MA 02118
03/30/22-04/24/22
“Outlook” presents landscapes both personal and communal. Through the intertwining of light and composition we can recognize what the familiar has to offer. The powerful color of Chris Plunkett’s oil paintings and the atmospheres of Vicki McKenna’s black and white photographic prints celebrate the commonplace. They ask you to forego the preconditioned expectations of scenic grandeur and uncover interest in the everyday.
Location
Bromfield Art
450 Harrison Ave Boston MA 02118
Time
March 30 (Wednesday) - May 1 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Bromfield Art 450 Harrison Ave Boston MA 02118 03/30/22-05/01/22
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Art Exhibition |
Bromfield Art
450 Harrison Ave
Boston MA 02118
03/30/22-05/01/22
Location
Kingston
450 Harrison Ave No. 43 | Boston MA 02118
Time
March 30 (Wednesday) - May 1 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Kingston 450 Harrison Ave No. 43 | Boston MA 02118 03/30/22-05/01/22 The world is trying to move forward and break free of the virus and fear. People are trying
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Art Exhibition |
Kingston
450 Harrison Ave No. 43 | Boston MA 02118
03/30/22-05/01/22
The world is trying to move forward and break free of the virus and fear. People are trying to regain their cheer. We have a nostalgia for the past and how we used to live. Even our democracy has been up ended. We recall when we were able to travel freely mingle and meet at a restaurant without masks and gather in groups without a care in the world. Our lived world longs for a return to another place and time or what the writer and art critic Svetlana Boym calls reflective nostalgia. As she said reflective nostalgia manifests in reconstructing our past in longing and loss and proposes to build and patch up any memory gaps sometimes in a positive and meaningful way.
I wish to rebuild that carefree past or at least the idea of that. Paintings in this show that nod to yesteryear but still live in today and bring me joy are based on two art works by the painters Dirck de Bray and Jan-Frans van Dael Dutch and Flemish painters of the 1600s and 1700s respectively. Autumn Choir (aft de Bray) was created with more vibrancy in colors and I used less florals than his original Still Life with Flowers.
2022thu31marAll Daymon05sep(All Day) Swinguerra | Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca | Boston ICA
Location
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210
Time
March 31 (Thursday) - September 5 (Monday)
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Boston Art Exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210 03/31/22-09/05/22 Collaborating since 2011 Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca create works in video photography and installation that
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Boston Art Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston MA 02210
03/31/22-09/05/22
Collaborating since 2011 Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca create works in video photography and installation that explore contemporary histories of underground dance and musical genres. Frequently made in collaboration with cinematographer Pedro Sotero these moving-image works which they refer to as “documentary musicals” often center on urban subcultures in the South Atlantic diaspora from the Franco-Indo creole musical genre maloya to frevo dancers and brega singers in Recife Brazil where the artists live and work. Constructing images together with performers their approach merges the cinematic with the fictional documentary and ethnographic to address questions of surveillance visibility and creativity in an increasingly connected postcolonial world. A recent acquisition and room-filling installation on view for the first time Swinguerra (2019) focuses on disadvantaged queer communities of color in Recife Brazil with an emphasis on transgender and nonbinary performers. The film features three contemporary dance styles—swingueira brega funk and passinho da maloca—as performed by three competitive dance groups. These mixed dance styles recall Brazil’s colonial and slave trade history where music and dance functioned as discreet methods of organizing politically under oppressive regimes. Fast-paced athletic sexy dreamlike and aggressive the dance styles like the music make Swinguerra an exhilarating and unforgettable viewing experience illustrating how dance and music offer rich sources of agency resistance and community for marginalized individuals.
Note: Swinguerra contains a brief sequence of flashing light which may not be suitable for people with visual sensitivities.
2022thu31marAll Daymon05sep(All Day) Figurative Painting Now | A Place for Me | Boston ICA
Location
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210
Time
March 31 (Thursday) - September 5 (Monday)
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Boston Art Exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210 03/31/22-09/05/22 A Place for Me celebrates a new generation of artists at the vanguard of contemporary painting. David
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Boston Art Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston MA 02210
03/31/22-09/05/22
A Place for Me celebrates a new generation of artists at the vanguard of contemporary painting. David Antonio Cruz Louis Fratino Doron Langberg Aubrey Levinthal Gisela McDaniel Arcmanoro Niles Celeste Rapone and Ambera Wellmann are propelling figurative painting’s recent revival by depicting what they love—their friends lovers and family; studio spaces and homes; and the scenes that make up their everyday. Evoking intimacy community and the personal in the power to represent oneself in painting these artists consider the politics of seeing and being seen and how the process of painting might register care tenderness fragility empathy and resilience. Colorful surprising and full of life A Place for Me is a testament to the vitality of contemporary figurative art reflecting a multitude of styles and approaches to painting through a cross-section of contemporary painting today.
About the Artists
David Antonio Cruz
Born 1974 in Philadelphia PA
David Antonio Cruz is a Boston- and New York-based painter and mixed-media performance artist whose work centers Black brown and queer bodies. Inviting friends family artists and others to be a part of his paintings has long been a part of Cruz’s process. In a new series of works chosen family the artist asks sitters to invite another person or group of people to gather with their chosen kin as a way to express the nonbiological bonds queer people form out of mutual support and love. Created during the pandemic these intimate and collaborative moments of connection expand on conventional notions of family and portraiture. With festive color palettes luminous skin tones and lush patterning Cruz’s paintings present his intersectional subjects in ways that defy conventions. His arrangements reimagine posture autonomy and rigidity to underscore the bonds and liberty of his sitters. In the artist’s words “My work is a celebration of life of being. Living in the moment and full of life. I treasure that. I had a choice to live as my authentic self or live for someone else a long time ago. I needed to live truthfully — so I chose me.”
Louis Fratino
Born 1993 in Annapolis MD
Louis Fratino is a New York-based artist whose work fuses personal memories with art historical references to explore queerness intimacy and love in gestures and scenes of everyday life. The subject matter of his work ranges from nude figures to landscapes and still lifes often drawn from his lived experiences rather than from photographs or sitters. Fratino typically begins his work from drawings that recall a particular mood or moment and then expands upon these compositions in scale form and color during the painting process. Swooping contours and bands of color endow his paintings with an angular clarity often compared to Cubist and other modernist styles while their tactile surfaces — finely scored and textured through the use of palette knives and scraping— convey a sense of touch rawness and labor. For Fratino who experiences red-green color blindness the dynamic tension in his compositions allows him to search for ways to represent the emotions and expressions of what he calls the “mysticism around painting where you can manifest something through it [whether] it’s something as simple as doing the dishes or being in love with someone or feeling close to your family.”
Doron Langberg
Born 1985 in Yokneam Moshava Israel
Doron Langberg is a New York-based painter invested in the relationship between individual lived experiences and emotional states that are universal across social categories. Touch physicality and movement are significant areas of focus in his vivid paintings which include portraits of his lovers friends family and wider social circle. Langberg typically paints from life creating small observational pieces that he translates into large-scale paintings using a wide ranges of tools and techniques. Often depicting private ordinary moments his canvases combine highly rendered portions with gestural swaths of colorful brushstrokes initiating an evocative dialogue between bodies and unrestrained sensation while challenging figurative painting’s desire for completion. “I see my work as an aspirational space where queer experiences can embody more than just what they depict” explains Langberg. “My paintings are both a real reflection of my everyday experiences and an alternate reality where queerness is allowed to be expansive and generative.”
Aubrey Levinthal
Born 1986 in Philadelphia PA
Aubrey Levinthal is a Philadelphia-based painter interested in what she calls the “uncanny in our everyday lives.” Her figurative paintings and still lifes suggest a meditative and melancholic atmosphere that offers less a portrait of her subjects which range from herself to those in her family and more an evocation of an emotional state. She frequently draws from life beginning her paintings with sketches of private mundane events such as eating breakfast at the kitchen table or lying in bed. Working slowly Levinthal builds up layers of thin semitransparent washes of paint and then scrapes them down with a razor lending her works an ethereal quality as if seen through the haze of time. Her palettes are moody drawing on cool rich colors and her figures often exaggerate their proportions introducing moments of disturbance or discomfort to heighten the moods of her subjects. “I hope my work is a real tender accounting of my particular visual life” says the artist. “The paintings can be inventive and distorted as I often work from memory and through process but I want them to carry resonance of my experience which happens to be as a painter woman and mother.”
Gisela McDaniel
Born 1995 in Bellevue NE
Gisela McDaniel is a Detroit-based artist whose work engages processes of healing for “womxn” (a term the artist uses for inclusive identities) and nonbinary people of color. Her mixed-media assemblages are created using oil paints and donated objects from her sitters which bring a palpable physicality and a tactile materiality to her portraits. McDaniel’s subjects are people she meets through friends acquaintances or social media and part of her artistic practice involves forging relationships with these individuals through conversations built on mutual trust and care. Her sitters choose how they are portrayed in the paintings which the artist installs along with audio interviews she records during the process played in this gallery from the shell on the pedestal. The paintings on view depict people from McDaniel’s immediate community in Detroit and they reflect her deeply engaged approach to figuration. “By recording the stories of these [womxn]” reflects the artist “I ensure that history hears their voices and recognizes them as having saved themselves.”
Arcmanoro Niles
Born 1989 in Washington DC
Arcmanoro Niles is a New York-based artist known for brightly hued portraits of himself his family and friends painted from life or photographs. His distinctive use of vibrant orange or blue acrylic underpainting accentuates the chromatic dimensions of his subjects’ brown skin tones and his vivid palettes. This indirect painting process which layers paints on the canvas to build up color (as opposed to direct painting in which colors are mixed on a palette before being applied to the canvas) allows Niles to experiment and play with his materials using a paint roller to apply textures that are finished with a glossy overcoat and sealed with oil. The effect is a highly luminous surface that charges his work with eye-catching energy contending with the otherwise tender melancholic stillness in his scenes. To complete his works Niles usually adds imaginary marginal creatures he calls “seekers” who “like devils on our shoulders” reflect the subliminal urges and desires of his subjects. “At the end of the day” says Niles “I am a painter who is interested in color and stories that talk about who we are little moments that give us a glimpse into what life feels like.”
Celeste Rapone
Born 1985 in Glen Ridge NJ
Celeste Rapone is a Chicago-based abstract figurative painter known for depicting her subjects in outlandish and even humorous compositions that evoke a range of emotions from vulnerability and desire to self-indulgence and freedom. Rapone does not use preliminary studies in preparation for her paintings but rather begins with a color idea and space in mind and then works reflexively by adding removing and detailing as she goes. Her subjects (who are often women and usually reference the artist herself) appear in contorted poses within vivid environments at once quotidian and strange. To these portraits she incorporates everyday objects or personal trinkets building out her characters and their distinctive personalities. “There’s something about the idea of the women contained occupying these impossible positions anatomically but also in terms of expectations ambition defeat and self-awareness [that interests me]” shares the artist. “It is a lot of what embodies painting as a process and practice… . That notion of effort or expectation that goes into trying which tries to counter failure. But failure is always one aspect of a larger cycle in life and in painting.”
Ambera Wellman
Born 1982 in Lunenburg Nova Scotia
Ambera Wellmann is a New York-based artist who probes the human psyche personal experience and history in her striking paintings. Her recent work has focused on large-scale compositions depicting multiple figures and landscapes in churning fantastical and apocalyptic scenes at once brutal and humorous. She draws inspiration from the vast image stores of contemporary life — printed and found images Instagram photographs she shoots with her phone — adding to them studied art historical references and personal experiences. Her process often includes layering disparate subjects and compositions as she builds up her paintings using thinned paint to achieve an elastic luminosity. Her figures possess a sense of liquidity and appear in perpetual states of becoming as boundaries dissolve and bodies intermingle. Wellman’s animated style disrupts the heteronormative and Western figurative canon in favor of a distinctly feminist and queered perspective. Interested in unmooring expressions of identity the artist notes: “There’s this urge sometimes when you’re painting to answer things. I try to avoid that actually. A painting should end with a question; it helps lead you to the next one.”
april
Location
Howard Yezerski
460 Harrison Ave. ste A16 Boston MA 02118
Time
April 1 (Friday) - May 7 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | Howard Yezerski 460 Harrison Ave. ste A16 Boston MA 02118 04/01/22-05/07/22
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Art Exhibition |
Howard Yezerski
460 Harrison Ave. ste A16
Boston MA 02118
04/01/22-05/07/22
Location
Chase Young
450 Harrison Ave No. 57 Boston MA 02118
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April 1 (Friday) - May 14 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | Chase Young 450 Harrison Ave No. 57 Boston MA 02118 04/01/22-05/14/22 Skillicorn based in New York and Massachusetts has been creating luminous abstract paintings for over twenty years. He
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Art Exhibition |
Chase Young
450 Harrison Ave No. 57 Boston MA 02118
04/01/22-05/14/22
Skillicorn based in New York and Massachusetts has been creating luminous abstract paintings for over twenty years. He explores complex spatial and color relationships through the use of texture organic line and sensuous fields of color. Often mixing in elements of the physical landscape directly into the paint — sand stone dust field grasses river water bits of flora — he infuses the work with thepresence of the natural world. In mixed media works on canvas Skillicorn creates sophisticated intuitive paintings alive with surface texture lush paint of vibrant colors in bold strokes over atmospheric passages.
David Skillicorn’s life as a visual artist began with extensive work with video in the late 1970’s leading to an earlier career as a multiple Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker. His visual vocabulary deepened through those years while filming more than a million images across a wide spectrum of cultures and landscapes in more than forty countries. His intensive experiences filming the textures of culture color and landscape throughout the world have had a lasting impact on his visual sensibilities and inform the unique visual language he has brought to his work as an abstract painter for the past twenty years.
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LaiSun Keane
460C Harrison Ave C8ABoston MA 02118
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April 1 (Friday) - May 1 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | LaiSun Keane 460C Harrison Ave C8A Boston MA 02118 04/01/22-05/01/22 LaiSun Keane is proud to introduce Eva Lewis a 2022 Boston University MFA candidate in her first major solo show.
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Art Exhibition |
LaiSun Keane
460C Harrison Ave C8A
Boston MA 02118
04/01/22-05/01/22
LaiSun Keane is proud to introduce Eva Lewis a 2022 Boston University MFA candidate in her first major solo show. Lewis paints feminine identifying subjects in the style of figurative history paintings drawing inspiration from their formal composition and use of symbolism while depicting scenes and figures that subvert and comment on historical depictions of women.
Lewis’ intelligently executed paintings utilize soft but saturated colors exploring the use of light and color as a way to evoke emotional response in the viewer. Her familiar yet dreamy settings feature subjects drawn from her own friend group from her hometown of Dayton Ohio. The works feature women engaging in ordinary activities such as swimming and gardening creating a sense of immediacy and alluding to a narrative going on just beyond the edge of the canvas. Lewis employs formal compositional elements such as circles crowded surfaces and the bending or breaking of the body all functioning to draw the viewer into the space and create a sense of understanding between viewer and subject.
Location
M Fine Arts
460 Harrison Ave C24 Boston MA 02118
Time
april 1 (Friday) - 30 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | M Fine Arts 460 Harrison Ave C24 Boston MA 02118 04/01/22-04/30/22 M Fine Arts Galerie is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Boston artist Robert
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Art Exhibition |
M Fine Arts
460 Harrison Ave C24 Boston MA 02118
04/01/22-04/30/22
M Fine Arts Galerie is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Boston artist Robert Baart.
This recent body of work continues to emphasize the importance of nature in our lives. Regardless of location—city or countryside—the natural world we encounter has a direct effect on our health and spirit.
During the past two years of the pandemic the artist chose to walk to his studio wandering along the Muddy River from Brookline Village to the Fenway Studios on Ipswich Street a distance of about a mile and a quarter. Twice now Baart has walked through all four seasons observing numerous changes many details and much wildlife. This has informed much of the work in this new collection of paintings Land Marks.
Location
Arden
129 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116 USA
Time
april 1 (Friday) - 30 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | Arden 129 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116 USA 04/01/22-04/30/22
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Art Exhibition |
Arden
129 Newbury Street
Boston MA 02116 USA
04/01/22-04/30/22
Location
Soprafina
55 Thayer Street Boston Massachusetts 02118
Time
april 1 (Friday) - 30 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | Soprafina 55 Thayer Street Boston Massachusetts 02118 04/01/22-04/30/22
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Art Exhibition |
Soprafina
55 Thayer Street
Boston Massachusetts 02118
04/01/22-04/30/22
Location
Galerie d Orsay
33 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116
Time
april 1 (Friday) - 30 (Saturday)
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Art Exhibition | Galerie d’Orsay 33 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116 04/01/22-04/30/22
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Art Exhibition |
Galerie d’Orsay
33 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116
04/01/22-04/30/22
Location
Abigail Ogilvy
460 HARRISON AVENUE #C7 BOSTON MA 02118
Time
April 20 (Wednesday) - May 29 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Abigail Ogilvy 460 HARRISON AVENUE #C7 BOSTON MA 02118 04/20/22-05/29/22
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Art Exhibition |
Abigail Ogilvy
460 HARRISON AVENUE #C7 BOSTON MA 02118
04/20/22-05/29/22
Location
Krakow Witkin
10 Newbury Street Boston Massachusetts 02116
Time
April 23 (Saturday) - May 1 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Krakow Witkin 10 Newbury Street Boston Massachusetts 02116 04/23/22-05/01/22
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Art Exhibition |
Krakow Witkin
10 Newbury Street
Boston Massachusetts 02116
04/23/22-05/01/22
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Krakow Witkin
10 Newbury Street Boston Massachusetts 02116
Time
April 23 (Saturday) - May 1 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Krakow Witkin 10 Newbury Street Boston Massachusetts 02116 04/23/22-05/01/22
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Art Exhibition |
Krakow Witkin
10 Newbury Street
Boston Massachusetts 02116
04/23/22-05/01/22
Location
Krakow Witkin
10 Newbury Street Boston Massachusetts 02116
Time
April 23 (Saturday) - May 1 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Krakow Witkin 10 Newbury Street Boston Massachusetts 02116 04/23/22-05/01/22
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Art Exhibition |
Krakow Witkin
10 Newbury Street
Boston Massachusetts 02116
04/23/22-05/01/22
Location
Boston Sculptors
240 Newbury Street 3rd floor Boston Massachusetts 02116
Time
April 30 (Saturday) - June 5 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Boston Sculptors 240 Newbury Street 3rd floor Boston Massachusetts 02116 04/30/22-06/05/22
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Art Exhibition |
Boston Sculptors
240 Newbury Street 3rd floor
Boston Massachusetts 02116
04/30/22-06/05/22
Location
Jules Place
240 Newbury Street 3rd floor Boston Massachusetts 02116
Time
April 30 (Saturday) - June 5 (Sunday)
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Art Exhibition | Jules Place 240 Newbury Street 3rd floor Boston Massachusetts 02116 04/30/22-06/05/22
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Art Exhibition |
Jules Place
240 Newbury Street 3rd floor
Boston Massachusetts 02116
04/30/22-06/05/22
may
Location
LaiSun Keane
460C Harrison Ave C8ABoston MA 02118
Time
may 6 (Friday) - 29 (Sunday)
INFO
Art Exhibition | LaiSun Keane 460C Harrison Ave C8A Boston MA 02118 05/06/22-05/29/22 LaiSun Keane is proud to introduce Eva Lewis a 2022 Boston University MFA candidate in her first major solo show.
INFO
Art Exhibition |
LaiSun Keane
460C Harrison Ave C8A
Boston MA 02118
05/06/22-05/29/22
LaiSun Keane is proud to introduce Eva Lewis a 2022 Boston University MFA candidate in her first major solo show. Lewis paints feminine identifying subjects in the style of figurative history paintings drawing inspiration from their formal composition and use of symbolism while depicting scenes and figures that subvert and comment on historical depictions of women.
Lewis’ intelligently executed paintings utilize soft but saturated colors exploring the use of light and color as a way to evoke emotional response in the viewer. Her familiar yet dreamy settings feature subjects drawn from her own friend group from her hometown of Dayton Ohio. The works feature women engaging in ordinary activities such as swimming and gardening creating a sense of immediacy and alluding to a narrative going on just beyond the edge of the canvas. Lewis employs formal compositional elements such as circles crowded surfaces and the bending or breaking of the body all functioning to draw the viewer into the space and create a sense of understanding between viewer and subject.
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2022sun14augAll Daysat31dec(All Day) The Worlds We Make | ICA Collection | Boston ICA
Location
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210
Time
August 14 (Sunday) - December 31 (Saturday)
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Boston Art Exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Drive Boston MA 02210 08/14/22-12/31/22 With every call for social change arrives the possibility to make the world anew. The Worlds We
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Boston Art Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harbor Shore Drive
Boston MA 02210
08/14/22-12/31/22
With every call for social change arrives the possibility to make the world anew. The Worlds We Make: Selections from the ICA Collection explores how artists have visualized beyond present reality to imagine dream and realize the world-otherwise. Drawn from the ICA’s permanent collection and Boston-area collections these works consider world-making in relation to broader themes such as climate and the natural environment historical narratives and speculative fictions the supernatural and the planetary. Expansive in subject and medium the exhibition includes works by artists such as Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Njideka Akunyili Crosby Jeffrey Gibson Lorraine O’Grady Matthew Ritchie and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA) among others.
Also included in The Worlds We Make is Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room LOVE IS CALLING. Note that timed tickets are required for admission to LOVE IS CALLING. Learn more
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Together the works in this exhibition celebrate the emancipatory potential of artistic imagination and invite other ways to see create and belong in the worlds we make.