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In this blast
:: Luanne E Witkowski: Quiet Disruption at Kingston Gallery
:: Repetitious Insecurity at ShowUp Gallery
:: Jeremy Frey: Woven at The Bruce Museum
Sponsored By: John S. Dykes, Bromfield Gallery, Art Complex Museum, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Galatea Fine Art, Boston University, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, David Lloyd Brown, Guild of Boston Artists, and Artscope Online.
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This week we're presenting Kingston Gallery, ShowUp Gallery and The Bruce Museum.
A solo exhibition is a big deal. This week's three artists take center stage at their respective shows with work that is deeply personal as well as technically and conceptually strong. While each artist approaches their work through different lenses, each one pushes the limits of their medium and reflects on culture, heritage and personal practice.
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-Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
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Luanne E Witkowski: Quiet Disruption at Kingston Gallery
in Boston, Massachusetts through June 29
| | Luanne E Witkowski, Peace Offering VII, mixed fabricated and foraged materials on canvas, 24” x 24”, 2025. Image courtesy Kingston Gallery | | Kingston Gallery presents Luanne E Witkowski: Quiet Disruption, a show that highlights Kingston Gallery member and art educator Luanne E Witkowski's series of "peace offerings" that she describes as "visual moments of distraction to quiet the mind and soothe the heart." Witkowski's peace offerings are made from a combination of painting, printing, and construction using foraged and conventional materials. "Images on paper stand alone as constructed expressions or are joined to canvas and panel, along with lumber and driftwood, bark and foliage, to center the attention and refocus the gaze," explained Witkowski. The gallery is open Wednesday to Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. and by appointment. Kingston Gallery is located at 450 Harrison Ave, No. 43, Boston MA. For more information, please visit here. | | |
Repetitious Insecurity at ShowUp Gallery
in Boston, Massachusetts from June 6 to July 20
| | Maryam Safajoo, Seysan, the Land of the Lovers, 2024, oil on linen, 18" x 36". Image courtesy ShowUp Gallery. | | ShowUp Gallery presents Repetitious Insecurity, which showcases the work of Persian-American painter, activist and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Maryam Safajoo. According to a curatorial statement, Safajoo "creates narrative paintings illustrating the systematic persecution of the Iranian Baha’i community after the 1979 Iranian revolution ... These paintings are often the first time these painful events have taken visual form." Safajoo's process includes interviewing people involved with or near the depicted events - ensuring that every detail of her work is verified. The gallery is open Monday to Wednesday by appointment, Thursday to Saturday from 12 to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. ShowUp Gallery is located at 524B Harrison Avenue, Boston MA. For more information, please visit here. | | |
Jeremy Frey: Woven at The Bruce Museum
in Greenwich, Connecticut through September 7
| | Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, b. 1978), Watchful Spirit, 2022, Ash, porcupine quills, sweetgrass, and dye, 27 3/8" x 22 1/4" x 22 1/4". Denver Art Museum: Purchased with the Nancy Blomberg Acquisitions Fund for Native American Art, 2022.51A-B. © Jeremy Frey. Image courtesy Denver Art Museum | | The Bruce Museum presents Jeremy Frey: Woven, a show that represents the first major retrospective of seventh-generation Passamaquoddy basket maker and artist Jeremy Frey. Over two decades, Frey has used materials from the forests of Northeastern Maine to not only build "on [the] cultural foundations in his work" but also push the "creative limits of his medium, producing conceptually ambitious and meticulously crafted baskets." The show displays over 50 baskets made from "sweetgrass, cedar, spruce root, and porcupine quills, Woven also offers visitors an opportunity to reflect on the cultural agency and resilience embedded in Frey’s practice." The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Bruce Museum is located at 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT. For more information, please visit here. | | Sponsored By: John S. Dykes, Bromfield Gallery, Art Complex Museum, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Galatea Fine Art, Boston University, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, David Lloyd Brown, Guild of Boston Artists, and Artscope Online. | | |
Into the Abstract: Paintings by J.S. Dykes - The Gallery at 249 A Street, Boston, thru 7/13.
Closing Reception:
5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, July 13.
www.jsdykes.com
info@jsdykes.com
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
12 to 5 p.m.
Free Event
Art Complex Museum
189 Alden Street
Duxbury, MA
artcomplex.org
| Harvard Museums of Science & Culture | And Yet It Moves, 2016 © TRES [ilana boltvinik + rodrigo viñas]. | |
Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
The art collective TRES invites us to share their 2016 journey to document, collect, and photograph debris along the beaches of Australia, evoking archaeology, marine biology, and cartography. Thru April 6, 2026.
peabody.harvard.edu
| Lexington Arts and Crafts Society | |
April 28 – July 18
“Primordial Soup”
David Lloyd Brown
Debuting a large-scale painting series inspired by timeless images, symbols, and patterns.
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(617) 635-4445
boston.gov/cityhallgalleries
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| |  | Carla Munsat, Jongeun Gina Lee and SAND T KALLOCH at Bromfield in June | Carla Munsat: "Make a Wish," acrylic, 24" x 24", 2025 | Jongeun Gina Lee: "Shift 2," stoneware clay, ceramic glaze, metal, nylon, polyester, linen, 25" x 36", 2025 | SAND T KALLOCH: "Mind Map #2499 No.2," conté and color pencil on paper, 24" x 19", 2025 | |
From June 4 to 29, Bromfield Gallery presents "Journey" by Carla Munsat, paintings and collages that draw on dreams and literature; "Shift" by Jongeun Gina Lee, sculptures made from dry strips of clay that act as an incubation of inner strength; and "Mapping the Mindscape" by SAND T KALLOCH, monochromatic drawings that record a history of her thoughts.
The opening reception is Friday, June 6 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Bromfield Gallery
450 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA
Wed-Sun, 12-5
(617) 451-3605
info@bromfieldgallery.com
www.bromfieldgallery.com
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July 21–31, 2025
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Call for Entries
2025 New England Regional
Juried Exhibition
August 30 - September 27, 2025
Submission Deadline: July 19
The Guild’s Annual New England Regional Juried Exhibition features the best representational painting, drawing, and sculpture by regional artists who work in the realist tradition.
Awards and Cash Prizes.
For more information, please visit:
2025 New England Regional Juried Exhibition Prospectus
guildofbostonartists.org
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