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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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Beacon Bonds: Stop #1 – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Beacon Bonds: Stop #1 – Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Titian Room. Opened in 1903 by art enthusiast & collector Isabella Stewart, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston exists as a wholly unique place and experience. The building, designed by architect William T. Sears and constructed 1899-1901 when there were very few properties yet in…
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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…
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MEET THE ARTIST: CINDY LU
Cindy Lu‘s piece, entitled “Collective Landscapes”, cascades down a wall in Beacon Gallery, surrounded by other artists’ works of a shared overarching theme. In the current group exhibition, ‘Coded‘, art explores the ways in which we instill, decipher, and pass on the messages contained within that same art, both as artists and viewers. Guests of…
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MEET THE ARTIST: DAMON CAMPAGNA
Two of Damon Campagna’s works now sit in the showroom of Beacon Gallery. Standing out amongst the other works, Campagna’s works are a non-traditional introduction or reminder to the unbounded definition of art, expression, and – in line with the exhibition’s message – the wide range of “codes” and meanings embedded in different artists’ creations.…
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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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