Tag: news
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Meet The Beacon Gallery Team: Presley Ackeret
While there have been many opportunities to learn about Beacon Gallery’s amazing artists through our ongoing Beacon Gallery Connections blog series, we don’t often get the chance to spotlight the important individuals contributing to such work behind the scenes. The Beacon Gallery Team is a small but mighty one, and we would love to be able to…
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Beacon Gallery Connections: Amy Ford
We are pleased to introduce Artist Amy Ford. Amy is one of two Beacon Gallery artists featured in our current exhibition, Art Therapy. The show focuses on the important theme of art as therapy, for both the artist and the audience, through their unique figurative styles. Drawing upon their own inspirations and distinctive approaches, Ford’s…
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Artist Meclina Priestley Participates in Sheltered, a Group Show at UMass Dartmouth
Beacon Gallery is excited to share that artist Meclina Gomes Priestley, who is represented by the gallery is featured in a meaningful group show entitled Sheltered, at the University Art Gallery, College of Visual & Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth-Star Store Campus, which started on May 24th and runs until September 8, 2022. Priestley joins…
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International ROLLO Project & Beacon Gallery
Beacon Gallery is pleased to announce that two of its artists, Meclina and Caron Tabb, are participating in the first United States version of ROLLO, the Rolling art project. Each has contributed a piece to one of the two curated shows, and Meclina was honored to be one of the two curators. ROLLO TLV-BOS, an…
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Humanity Is Not A Spectator Sport: Reading #5 (January 3-17)
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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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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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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A Devastating Flood in SoWa – ways to support the community
While Beacon Gallery was spared any water damage, our neighborhood is now dealing with the 1-2 punch of COVID-19 and a 30-inch watermain break on April 14th. Here is a photo from Boston Fire Department so you get a sense of what it looked like: The water rushed in quite dramatically and knocked over furniture,…
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Beacon Gallery and its artists in the media
Beacon Gallery’s Caron Tabb was honored with the nod to make the Boston Museum of Fine Art’s menorah for this year’s Hannukah celebration. Hyperallergic wrote a fabulous article on the event, and on Tabb’s piece. Check it out here! Beacon Gallery’s Art Dash also got a mention in Wicked Local’s Newton Tab! For a full…