Category: Meet The Artist Series
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Meet the Artist: Masha Keryan
Masha Keryan is just one of the 12 artists featured in Aja Johnson’s newest group show, CODED. The Boston-based artist was born and raised in Post-Soviet Yerevan, Armenia and Moscow, Russia. Keryan received her BFA locally, from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2016. However, she also received academic art training in her […]
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CATCH UP WITH THE ARTIST: Ibrahim Ali-SALAAM
Ibrahim Ali-Salaam is a local Boston-based contemporary artist. Inspired by the German Expressionist movement and Boston Expressionist reinterpretation, his work often focuses on the human form and ways in which its figure can be positioned and contorted. As such, Ali-Salaam’s work seeks to build an insightful commentary on the boundaries of society and culture in […]
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Catch up with the Artist: Fern L. Nesson
After 2020’s Perception Abstraction we are pleased to have Fern L. Nesson back at Beacon Gallery for her first solo show, The Mind of God. Nesson’s initial “Meet the Artist” dates from June 2020, where you can learn a bit more about her style and craft origin – feel free to check that out in addition to […]
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catch up with the artist: lori mehta
Since her last exhibition at Beacon Gallery in 2018, “Layers and Light,” Lori Mehta has continued to capture the beauty in everyday moments. Emerging from a life of living near the beach, Mehta’s imagery is categorized by the often weightless moments associated with fabric being caught in the breeze. Full of exaggerated light and shadow, […]
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Meet the artist: Guillermo Galindo
(photo credit featured image: Zen Cohen) Beacon Gallery’s exhibition Sonic Biogenesis: Genomics and Mutant Jungles is a solo exhibition by California artist Guillermo Galindo. It’s the perfect time to get to know this multi-talented artist and musician better! Galindo is originally from Mexico City, where music was his birthright. His mother played piano, and her […]
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Meet the artist: Michael McLaughlin
In creating his paintings, Michael McLaughlin applies photorealism in unexpected ways to streets, parking lots, and New England architecture. He then encloses his traditional subject matter with mixed media, and thus prompts a reconsideration of the entire scene. Inspired by the Photorealists of the 70s and 80s, McLaughlin works to astonish the viewer through an […]
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Meet the artist: sam belisle
Approaching his practice with an innate understanding of the urban landscape, Sam Belisle works to create documentary images that speak to both the realities of city life and to the history of painting. Originally from a working-class neighborhood in inner-city Columbus, Ohio, Belisle’s early exposure to fine art included lessons downtown at the Columbus College […]
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Meet the artist: Rosa Leff
Hand-cut paper serves as the medium for Rosa Leff’s blend of traditional artistry and the modern as she creates scenic and city landscapes, portraits, and even still lifes. First, Leff’s unique appeal resides in her approach to paper cutting. She captures on cut paper unremarkable scenes that are remade into exceptional works of art with […]
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Meet the artist: Howard Fineman
With an innate appetite for photography, Howard Fineman can’t help but find photo-worthy images just by living his everyday life. In this short conversation, he discusses his journey into digital photography: where he has been, where he is now, and where he plans to go. Howard’s enthusiasm for photography is palpable! What was your path […]
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Meet the Artist: Nedret Andre
With her contagious enthusiasm for painting and environmentalism, abstract artist Nedret Andre harnesses enviable energy directly onto canvas. She is somehow able to create paintings that are both abstractly seagrass, but also figurative at the same time. For Andre, color exploration is a mainstay of her paintings, and when she adds in her signature mark-making, she is […]