Category: Meet The Artist Series
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MEET THE ARTIST: Remi Picó
Multidisciplinary conceptual artist Remi Picó lives and works in the city of Boston. He has been practicing as an artist since 2010, but did not reach his current career in a direct or conventional means by way of traditional education. From 2005 to 2017, he studied and worked as a researcher in biology, computer science,…
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MEET THE ARTIST: LORETTA PARK
Loretta Park, a local contemporary artist, creates works that playfully engage the viewer on a 3-dimensional level. Often bright, colorful, and highly tactile in their nature, Park’s pieces utilize a wide range of materials and forms, seeking to explore the ways in which both tactile and visual elements are related and perceived by the viewer.…
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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…