Category: Current Shows
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Beacon Bonds: Stop #2 – Fabric of a Nation @ MFA Boston
Hanging near the forefront of Beacon Gallery’s showroom is a large (approx. 140″ x 110″, to be exact) colorful, hand-stitched quilt. Composed of well over a thousand swatches of cloth sent in from individuals around the world, the still-expanding piece tells the story of many lives, whether from the past, present, or future, stitched together…
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Meet the Artist: Kamil Peters
Within Caron Tabb’s newest show, “Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport“, a series of rotating installations entitled What Now; Making Space will take place. As Tabb’s show focuses on the need to recognize privilege, accept progressive change, and actively create room within our worlds for others, What Now; Making Space consists of the artist’s removal of a symbolic piece…
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Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport: Reading #2 (November 22-December 5)
Caron Tabb’s newest show, Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport explores many subjects, from her white privilege to how all viewers can engage in social justice through art. Using not only her own works, body, mind and experience, but also gallery walls, Tabb’s feminist contemporary art as a jewish female artist leads to unique creations.…
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Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport: Reading #1 (November 8-21)
Paired with Caron Tabb’s current exhibition, “Humanity Is Not a Spectator Sport“, a selected series of readings seek to align messages and ideas formed in Tabb’s show with concepts and works of others in the real world. In “Humanity is Not a Spectator Sport”, Tabb unflinchingly invites the viewer to both experience her own struggles with…
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Meet The Artist: Caron Tabb
Caron Tabb’s newest show, Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport explores many subjects, from her white privilege to how all viewers can engage in social justice through art. Using not only her own works, body, mind and experience, but also gallery walls, Tabb’s feminist contemporary art as a jewish female artist leads to unique creations.…
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Meet The Artist: Nayana Lafond
Within Caron Tabb’s newest show, “Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport“, a series of rotating installations entitled What Now; Making Space will take place. As Tabb’s show focuses on the need to recognize privilege, accept progressive change, and actively create room within our worlds for others, What Now; Making Space consists of the artist’s removal…
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Beacon Gallery & Jewish Arts Collaborative
In deep preparation for Caron Tabb’s upcoming solo exhibition, “Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport“, Beacon Gallery has partnered with JArts (Jewish Arts Collaborative) to work together in forming a show that is highly engaging, informed, and connected. This is Beacon Gallery’s second time pairing with JArts and, although both sides (as well as the…
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MEET THE ARTIST: Mark Kelner
Mark Kelner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Washington, DC and Brooklyn. He has studied with the esteemed novelist Vasily Aksyonov during his time at George Mason University and, prior to the art world, worked alongside filmmaker Steven Spielberg coordinating the production of video testimonies of Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet…
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MEET THE ARTIST: JULIA CSEKÖ
Julia Csekö was born in Colorado, raised in Rio de Janeiro, and is now an art educator and practicing local Boston-based artist. Csekö’s resume boasts an impressively extensive background and highlights that, “her work gravitates around conversations and experiments grounded on a paradigm shift from competitive to collaborative mindset in social actions and interactions,”. One…
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MEET THE ARTIST: MICHAEL ZACHARY
Michael Zachary is a longtime Boston-based artist who has had his work shown across the country. Inspired by the technicality and manipulation of art and its mediums, with only pen and ink, Zachary creates drawings using a unique method that utilizes simple marks in four different colors to create full images. These images only come…