Tag: meet the artist
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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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Meet the Artist: Jamaal Eversley
Jamaal Eversley is the architect and initiator behind “Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S,” an ongoing series that features his bright and eccentric collaborations with fellow artists. Since its conception over two years ago, the series has been remarkably fruitful, transferring Eversley’s signature brand of vibrant cubist pop art into shoes, ceramics, and fabric design, while serving up delightful…
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Meet the Artist: Raleigh Strott
We at Beacon Gallery recently had the opportunity to interview the delightful Raleigh Strott, whose work is part of our current show, Mixed Messages. Strott’s work is smart and complex, drawing on retro pornography to create beautiful, geometric or organic-looking pieces of cut paper artwork that question the status quo. (And a big shout out…
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Meet the Artist: Ibrahim Ali-Salaam
From the outset of known visual art, humanity has been captivated by the task of representing the body. Though this instinct has been subverted in the last century as art has moved further and further into the realm of the abstract and conceptual, many artists continue to draw on the human form for inspiration. Few…
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Meet the Artist: Jean Sbarra Jones
A large, rippling swathe of fabric glides through the water, startling the aquatic life around it. As it twists and turns, gathers and unfurls, the movement of the water and the reflection from the sky breathe character into what was once inanimate. Suddenly, the motion stops and the fabric floats. Serene, yet unsettling, the dress…
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Meet the Artist: Fern L. Nesson
The work of Fern L. Nesson is connected by a single philosophy. Simply put, Nesson strives to capture the essence of life in her photography, embodying the moment when mass becomes energy. The breathtaking results can be seen in Beacon Gallery’s Perception Abstraction, a show featuring Nesson’s work alongside that of fellow photographer Steven Edson. She…
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Meet the Artist: Steve Edson
Steve Edson is currently showing works in Beacon Gallery’s Perception Abstraction show as well as an Artsy online exclusive entitled Fleeting Moments. Edson has been working as a photographer for over 40 years, and has honed his craft in both the fine art and documentary fields. Working in commercial architectural photography and later in fashion,…
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Malcolm Montague Davis and Bauhaus
The New York Times just printed an article on the Bauhaus Movement and some of the great architectural triumphs of the period. We at Beacon Gallery wanted to highlight the fact that some of these were actually the work of The Architect Collaborative, of which Malcolm Montague Davis was a part. He helped to build…
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Meet the Artist: Raquel Fornasaro
Another artist behind Beacon Gallery’s September show, “Be Here Now” is Raquel Fornasaro. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Fornasaro earned a BA in Advertising and Media from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PCU-SP). Fornasaro eventually moved to the United States, where she enrolled in the Fine Arts Program at the Corcoran School of…