By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy
April has sprouted a bunch of invigorating landscape exhibits! We feature them here, along with other alluring photographic shows and events around metro Boston and New England. As always, we present them geographically for your planning convenience and urge you to check back during the month, as we update listings regularly.
SOWA – Boston’s South End Arts District
“Arizona Desert Scape #15” ca. 1985, by Gus Kayafas, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
Gallery Kayafas – Fertile grounds at the gallery this month as glowing panoramic Arizona Landscapes by Gus Kayafas (above) and pensive black & white Beautiful Veins by Ross Kiah & Mae Whitmore (below) explore the geography, structures and confines of place while Celebrating Palm Press pays a photographic tribute to its affiliates over five decades, from represented photographers to press staff and interns alike. On view from April 5th – May 11th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception on First Friday, April 5th from 5:30 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.gallerykayafas.com/
“The Bluff House, Arlington VT” 2023, from the series Beautiful Veins by Mae Whitmore, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
Diverse Visions/ Common Bonds group show at Bromfield Gallery
Bromfield Gallery – In celebration of their diverse photographic practices and their commitment to enduring supportive critique, the N2 collaborative presents Diverse Visions/ Common Bonds, featuring coherent representations of creative imagery by its nine members: Larry Brink, Lora Brody, Bill Davison, Mark Farber, David Hiley, Carol Krauss, Helena Long, Vivian Pratt, and Maria Verrier. On view from April 3rd – April 28th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception with the artists on First Friday, April 5th from 6:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.bromfieldgallery.com/
“Milan” by Jasmine Clarke, 2017, courtesy of the artist.
Abakus Projects – Take it From Here “features artworks by photographers who use the camera as a multifaceted site of imagination, play, and self-exploration. Considering photography’s sordid relationship with the politics of representation, the selected artists collectively highlight new freedoms and visual possibilities of self-expression alive within the medium.” Co-curated by Zora Murff and Rana Young, it originally appeared at Filter Photo Festival in Chicago in 2021. Participating artists are Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Jasmine Clarke (photo), Peah Pauline Guilmoth, Alec Kaus, Tommy Kha, Lindley Warren Mickunas, and Nadiya Nacord. On view from April 5th through May 26th, 2024 with an opening reception on April 5th from 6 to 8:30pm.
For more information: https://www.abakusprojects.com/current-exhibition
From the series The Mirror by Jaina Cipriano, courtesy of the artist and Laconia Gallery, Boston.
Laconia Gallery –In her solo show “The Empty Mirror,” photographer, filmmaker and installation artist Jaina Cipriano stages fantastical self-portraits that exorcize her suffocating childhood, employing a combination of playfulness and angst to realize genuine identity. LAST CHANCE! On view through April 7th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://laconiagallery.com/exhibits/the-empty-mirror/
BOSTON PROPER
Persephone’s Graffiti by Olivia Parker (left) and Disappearing Nature by Gohar Dashti (right) in a two woman show at Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.
Robert Klein Gallery – On the gallery walls, skyscapes and insect tracks drift across Olivia Parker’s inky, exploding backyard mushrooms in a collaborative dance that channels nature’s cycles of birth and death in her series Persephone’s Graffiti. In an online gallery, these arresting graphic images converse visually and thematically with Gohar Dashti’s Disappearing Nature, a series of delicate, bucolic Polaroid landscapes that she deliberately mars to imagine environments ravaged and lost at the hands of humankind. On view through May 4th, 2024.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/olivia-parker-persephones-graffiti-at-robert-klein-gallery-boston/
For more information, go to: https://www.robertkleingallery.com/exhibitions/79-olivia-parker-persephone-s-graffiti-gohar-dashti-disappearing/overview/
Tara Sellios “Untitled #3” from the Impulses series, 2012. Photographs, inkjet prints. Edwin E. Jack Fund and Ellen Kelleran Gardner Fund, 2020. Courtesy of MFA, Boston (Installation view by Elin Spring)
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston – “Creative Spaces: The Photographer’s Studio as Inspiration” takes viewers behind the curtain in a gathering of the idea incubators and working environments of 20th and 21st century photographers who employ a range of approaches to the medium, including multiple exposures, photo collages, cyanotypes, Polaroids, and digital prints. On view through April 28th, 2024.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/creative-spaces-the-photographers-studio-as-inspiration-group-show-at-museum-of-fine-arts-boston/
For more information, go to: https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/creative-spaces-the-photographers-studio-as-inspiration
Stephen Shames, Oakland, California: Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary and first female member of the Party’s decision-making Central Committee, talks with Black Panthers from Los Angeles who came to the “Free Huey” rally in DeFremery Park (named by the Panthers Bobby Hutton Park) in West Oakland (detail), 1968. Archival pigment print. Gift of Lizbeth and George Krupp. © 2023, Stephen Shames. Courtesy of MFA, Boston.
Also on view at MFA, Boston – “Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party” gathers twenty-seven photographs by Stephen Shames that document the efforts these women undertook at community schools, free medical clinics, voter registration sites, community nutrition programs, and elder care centers across the United States, recalling and underlining their importance to the civil rights movement. On view through June 24th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/comrade-sisters-women-of-the-black-panther-party
Allen Frame, “Kevin in polka-dotted dress, Cambridge” 1974, Gelatin silver print, Courtesy Gitterman Gallery © Allen Frame.
Tufts University Art Gallery at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) – As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston explores the relationship among community photographic practices, queer nightlife, and gay liberation in Boston. In the early 1970s, the Boston area became an important hub of gay culture, activism, and nightlife, and home to a flourishing scene of photography. Many queer artists and community members turned to photography to chronicle, elevate, and enrich their disparate experiences of nightlife. On view through April 21st, 2024.
For information about this exhibit and extensive associated programming, go to: https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/exhibitions/180-as-the-world-burns-queer-photography-and-nightlife-in-boston
“Off Playing Bridge” by Toni Pepe, rephotographed press picture, courtesy of the artist and the Boston Athenaeum.
Boston Athenaeum – Photographer Toni Pepe layers the tension between the pleasures of parenting, its enormous physical toll, and the cultural and psychological demands of “good mothering” in her solo exhibition Mothercraft. Employing discarded press images found on Ebay and at flea markets, Pepe holds them up to the light and re-photographs from the back side so that the bias-laden handwritten press notes appear as an overlay on the shadow image. With images dating from 1903 to as recently as 1997, Pepe has amassed a visual compendium of shifting 20th century motherly tropes. On view through May 7th, 2024.
To read our review of this work in an October 2022 exhibit, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/toni-pepe-an-ordinary-devotion-lisa-rosowsky-othering-jane-szabo-family-matters-at-danforth-art-in-framingham-ma/
For more information abut this exhibit, go to: https://bostonathenaeum.org/visit/exhibitions/mothercraft/
Carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Hayden, one of Boston’s leading abolitionists, photographer unknown, courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum.
Also at Boston Athenaeum – Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums examines Black abolitionists’ private lives and social activism through the perspective of a Black woman’s photograph albums from the mid-1800s. A freed slave from Kentucky, Harriet Hayden lived with her husband on Beacon Hill and became a major stop on the Underground Railroad, helping others to their freedom. Harriet’s collected albums of carte-de visite (calling cards) were a form of community building through photography, wherein the sitters controlled their own presentation. This rare collection, curated by Makeda Best, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Oakland Museum of California, and Virginia Reynolds Badgett, former Assistant Curator at the Boston Athenaeum, offers a new way to look at Boston’s history of Black society and activism, on view through June 22nd, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://bostonathenaeum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/harriet-hayden-albums/
“Mary” 2023, from the series Growing Up Traveling by Jamie Johnson, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Leica, Boston.
Leica Gallery Boston – Jamie Johnson’s “Growing Up Traveling” chronicles youthful Irish Travellers who live in caravans along the roadside and in open fields across Ireland. Her provocative and beguiling contemporary images are presented alongside John Day’s atmospheric visual diary of the palpable tension and momentary delights he witnessed in 1972 Belfast, at the height of “The Troubles.” In this paired presentation, The Travellers and The Troubles highlights the stirring emotional qualities of B&W photography as it contrasts two eras and unique artistic perspectives on Ireland. On view through April 20th, 2024.
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/jamie-johnson-the-travellers-and-john-day-the-troubles-at-leica-gallery-boston/
For more information about the exhibit, go to: https://leicagalleryboston.com/exhibitions/
“Racha” by Eva Woolridge, courtesy of the artist and Leica Gallery Boston.
Coming next to Leica Gallery Boston – Can You See Me? features three master photographers who grapple with issues of femininity, from birth to coming of age to aging and death: Eva Woolridge’s In These Hands: Black Birth-Workers’ Project, Rania Matar’s SHE, and Maggie Steber’s Madje Has Dementia. On view from April 25th – June 8th, 2024, there will be a Reception with all the artists on Friday, May 17th from 6:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5ycjkTukvz/
“Alae in the Golden Water” by Rania Matar, courtesy of the artist and Leica Gallery, Boston.
From the series “Madje Has Dementia” by Maggie Steber, courtesy of the artist and Leica Gallery, Boston.
From the series A Year Above the Gardens by John Rich, courtesy of the artist and Griffin Museum of Photography.
Griffin Museum at Lafayette City Center (LCC) Passageway – What better way to hoist yourself out of the winter doldrums than with the group exhibit Planting Roots, Growing Community, featuring projects by four photographers who focus on community gardens and family farms: Fall in the Garden by Greg Heins, Living Like Grass by Ellen Harasimowicz, A Year Above the Gardens by John Rich (above), and Community Gardens By Leann Shamash. Their photographs of shared landscapes express not only a fervent connection to the the land but a kinship with the communities that thrive there. On view through April 14th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://griffinmuseum.org/show/planting-roots_lcc/
From the series Full With The Question by Duygu Aytac, courtesy of the artist and Panopticon Gallery, Boston.
Panopticon Gallery – New gallery owners Alexa Cushing and Connor Noll juried the gallery’s annual First Look 2024. The portfolio showcase features five photographers with distinctive projects: Duygu Aytac’s “Full With The Question” (above), Jordan Douglas’ “My Father’s Things,” Lawrence Hardy’s “Zen Xan,” Denise Laurinatis’ “The Missing Photographs,” and CE Morse’s “The Farrago Series.” On view through April 30th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://www.panopticongallery.com/first-look-2024-exhibition
From the series Little Planet by Fran Gardino, courtesy of the artist and Arnold Arboretum, Boston.
Arnold Arboretum – In his solo exhibiton, Fran Gardino presents two glorious series featuring photographs created across the Aboretum over the last 10 years: Little Planet, square-format images in which panoramas are curved back on themselves to create circular images that reflect the cycles of the earth and The Many Moods of the Arboretum, a series of digital photographs that have been stitched together into panoramas to show the full breadth of the landscape. On view through June 9th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events-2/current-and-past-art-shows/
CAMBRIDGE & BROOKLINE
“Painter, Cologne” 1927 by August Sander, printed by Gunther Sander 1977, Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge – In Uniformity, discover a rare opportunity to see dozens of classic portraits from August Sander’s famous People of the Twentieth Century in conversation with Timm Rautert’s colorful contemporary Germans in Uniform in the museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Room 1120. LAST CHANCE! On view through Sunday, April 7th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://harvardartmuseums.org/visit/floor-plan/1/1120
“Boy Doll Head Masks” from the series Shehuo: Community Fire by Jhang Xiao, courtesy of the artist and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge – Photographer Zhang Xiao examines the effects of modernization on Chinese culture through the transformation of Shehuo: Community Fire, a traditional spring festival held in rural northern China that coincides with the Lunar New Year. Zhang, the 11th recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, documents the ancient festivities in 2007 and its commercialization a decade later in 2018 & 2019 with vivid and thought-provoking imagery. Accompanied by a book and additional programming, this English/ Chinese bilingual exhibit is on view through April 14th, 2024.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/zhang-xiao-shehuo-community-fire-reflects-a-changing-china-at-harvards-peabody-museum-in-cambridge-ma/
For more information about the exhibit and associated programming, go to: https://peabody.harvard.edu/shehuo-community-fire
For information about the Aperture book, go to: https://aperture.org/books/zhang-xiao-community-fire/
From the group show I wake up in your bed at Gallery 263.
Gallery 263, Cambridge – The group exhibit “I wake up in your bed” features analog photographs by Lucie March, Martha Schnee and Lena Warnke, who collaborate to explore the ways that agency and relationships shift between desire and memory. On view through April 20th, 2024, there will be an Artists’ Talk on Friday, April 12th at 6:30pm.
For more information, go to: https://gallery263.org/
Bridge Gallery, Cambridge – “Unbowed. Unbroken.: Portraits of Cultural Resilience” highlights the work of the two winners of the 2024 ZEKE Awards, Natalya Saprunova and Sarah Fretwell, with a nod to the five photographers who won Honorable Mentions. On view from April 13th – May 18th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, April 13th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.bridge.photos/shows
Storytime group photography exhibit at CAA@Canal
Cambridge Art Association @Canal Gallery – Images selected by juror Sherri Nienass Littlefield for the group photography exhibit Storytime “blur the lines of past and present, reality and fiction, causing the viewer’s curiosity to fill in the wonder.” On view through May 24th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://www.cambridgeart.org/
From the series Tossed by Pelle Cass, courtesy of the artist and Praise Shadows Gallery, Brookline.
Praise Shadows Gallery, Brookline – In his debut exhibit at the gallery, Pelle Cass’ Tossed presents never-before exhibited works featuring his signature still time-lapse images that condense hours of movement and visual minutiae into a single frame. The photographs present objects in a confused levitation, sometimes defying gravity, and always in surprising acts of rising, cresting, and falling. On view from April 11th – May 17th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception with the artist on Thursday, April 11th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
An artist talk between the artist and Sarah Montross, Senior Curator at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, will take place on Saturday, April 27 at 3pm. The event takes place at the Coolidge Corner Theater; registration is required.
For more information and/or free registration, go to: https://www.praiseshadows.com/exhibitions/44-tossed-solo-exhibition-by-pelle-cass/
THE BURBS
From the series Photo Structure / Foto Estructura by Alejandro Cartagena, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
“Pulse: Replicas 1986 (Homage, Julio Sequeira)” by Muriel Hasbun, 2020, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
From the exhibition Huellas de Existence/Traces of Existence by Alejandro “Luperca” Morales, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester – The museum opens a slate of shows including the group show Huellas de Existence / Traces of Existence featuring Alejandro Cartagena’s “Photo Structure/Foto Estructura,” Muriel Hasbun’s “Pulse: New Cultural Registers / Pulso: Nuevos registros culturales,” with Alejandro “Luperca” Morales. Also on view, “Nuevas Tierras/New Lands” by Rodrigo Valenzuela and “Una Mexicana en Gringolandia” by Ileana Doble Hernandez. These artists explore the role of the Latin American ethos through documentary photography, the landscape, abstraction and the archive. On view from April 6th – June 9th, 2024. An Opening Reception with the artists is planned for April 20th from 6 to 8pm.
Feature Image: From the series Nuevas Tierras/New Lands by Rodrigo Valenzuela, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography
From the series Una mexicana en Gringolandia, bu Ileana Doble Hernandez courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography
For more information: https://griffinmuseum.org
“Atlanta, Georgia” by Walker Evans, 1936, gelatin silver print, courtesy of the Hight Museum of Art Atlanta, purchased with funds from the Atlanta Foundation and the Addison Gallery of American Art. © The Estate of the Artist.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover – The two “must see” photography exhibits this spring are A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 originally organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The second exhibit is Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955 that comes to the Addison from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Both exhibitions will be on view through July 31st, 2024.
For more information: https://addison.andover.edu
To read our review of A Long Arc: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/a-long-arc-photography-in-the-american-south-since-1845-at-addison-gallery-of-american-art-in-andover-ma/
To read our review of Robert Frank and Todd Webb: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/robert-frank-and-todd-webb-across-america-1955-at-addison-gallery-of-american-art-in-andover-ma/
Left: Rodeo, New York City, by Robert Frank, 1955–56, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Jerry E. and Nanette Finger. © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation. Right: Cowboy, Lexington, NE, by Todd Webb, 1956, printed 2023, inkjet print, courtesy of Todd Webb Archive. © Todd Webb Archive.
“Addis Neger” by Aïda Muluneh, 2019, from the Mirror of the Soul series, inkjet print, museum purchase by exchange. 2023.33.4. Peabody Essex Museum. Courtesy of the artist. © Aïda Muluneh.
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem– As part of a larger exhibition, Ethiopia at the Crossroads, the museum will be showcasing the acquisition of six large photographs by contemporary Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh. PEM curator at large Lydia Peabody writes, “In bold, primary colors, Aïda Muluneh’s images revisit women’s roles in Ethiopian traditions and customs. Women painted in stark whites, vibrant reds and azure blues perform a range of tasks: clothing and food preparation as well as cultural and religious practices. These photographs express what it is to be an African woman by encapsulating gender and identity as a celebration of contemporary self-expression. As the first contemporary Ethiopian artist to have her work acquired for PEM’s collection, Muluneh raises awareness of the impact of photography in shaping cultural perceptions.” On view from April 13th through July 7th, 2024.
For more information: https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/ethiopia-at-the-crossroads
“Strange But True” 2023 by David Hilliard, courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY and The Governor’s Academy, Byfield, MA.
Wilkie Center for the Performing Arts, The Governor’s Academy, Byfield – David Hilliard’s solo exhibition Sum of My Parts features his signature multi-panel narratives spanning the last few decades. At once intimate and expansive, Hilliard’s frank yet enigmatic images capture both the imagination and the heart. On view through May 10th, 2024, Hilliard will be giving an Artist Talk on Thursday, April 11th at 1:00pm and again at 2:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.thegovernorsacademy.org/arts/events
From the series Miscegenated Family Album by Lorraine O’Grady, courtesy of the artist and the Davis Museum at Wellesley Collage.
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley – After a yearlong closure for interior HVAC repairs, the museum re-opens with Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, a retrospective solo show by the 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Wellesley College alum and conceptual artist. O’Grady’s work questions traditional ideas around gender, race and class through collage, photo installation, performance, video and text. This multimedia work subverts the “either/or” basis of western thought to investigate her philosophical notion of “both/and.” On view through June 2nd, 2024.
For more information: https://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum
From the series Family Panoramas by Sandra Matthews in Unearthing, courtesy of the artist and the Danforth Museum, Framingham.
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham – The museum presents a slate of shows featuring photography for their spring season, including a solo exhibition by Sandra Matthews that features selections from five different projects dating back to the 1980’s. Their group exhibitions feature photography by Scarlett Hoey and Madge Evers. On view through June 2nd, 2024.
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/sandra-matthews-jennifer-davis-carey-scarlett-hoey-at-danforth-art-museum-framingham-ma/
For more information: https://danforth.framingham.edu
“The Trees Bear Witness” by Jennifer Davis Carey, from Not a Story to Pass On at the Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA. (Installation photograph by Suzanne Révy)
“Cousins” by Kristen Joy Emack at Curry College.
Shelley Hook Keith Gallery, Curry College, Milton – Co-curators Alison Poor-Donahue and Jim Fitts bring Kristen Joy Emack’s Cousins to the Curry College Campus. These beguiling and nuanced images of three growing girls focus entirely on family ties and entice viewers with their unguarded intimacy while challenging prevailing narratives of Black life in America. On view through April 19th, 2024.
For more information: https://www.curry.edu/student-life/student-center/hoon-keith-quiet-study-lounge
To read our review of Cousins at Gallery Kayafas in 2021: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/shawn-bush-angle-of-draw-and-kristen-joy-emack-cousins-at-gallery-kayafas-boston/
“Katie’s Vacation Photo” by Tabitha Soren, 2018, archival inkjet print, Chapin Riley Fund at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation, 2021.94 © Tabitha Soren 2024
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester – New Terrain: 21st Century Landscape Photography brings together thirty art works that highlight a range of techniques, such as 3-D printing, weaving, collage and non-traditional materials such as rusted cans or lake water to interpret photographic expression through the landscape. Organized by curator Nancy Kathryn Burns, the exhibition showcases recently acquired works by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Dread Scott and Sarah Sense, alongside works by Meghann Riepenhoff, Alison Rossiter, Penelope Umbrico, Tabitha Soren and local artists Matthew Gamber and Yael Eban. On view from April 6th through July 7th 2024.
An opening reception is planned for Saturday evening April 6th from 7:00 – 9:00pm. For tickets: https://www.worcesterart.org/events/after-hours-new-terrain-exhibition-opening/
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/new-terrain-21st-century-landscape-photography-at-worcester-art-museum/
For more information: https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/new-terrain/
“Harold, Aquinnah, MA” by Stephen DiRado, 2013 from the exhibition The Harold Pictures courtesy of the artist and the Harold Stevens Gallery at WCUW, Worcester, MA
Harold Stevens Gallery at WCUW Radio, Worcester – The late Harold Stevens, a longtime Worcester resident, endowed an art gallery to be established at WCUW radio station. His close friend, photographer Stephen DiRado will be the director of the space, and having photographed Stevens numerous times across decades of their long friendship, presents The Harold Pictures for the inaugural exhibition on view through May 5th, 2024.
For more information: https://wcuw.org/
“Distant Echoes of Dreams” by Aïda Muluneh (Ethiopian, b. 1974), 2018, Edition of 7, archival digital print, Sinon Collection Fund, courtesy of the Fitchburg Art Museum.
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg – To celebrate their expanding photography collection that now includes a large selection of pictures made by African photographers, the museum presents Africa Rising: 21st Century African Photography. The exhibit includes photographs by Zanele Muholi, Lalla Essaydi, and Aida Muluneh (above), among others whose work grapples with themes such as environmental exploitation, the aftermath of colonialism, women’s empowerment and Afro-Futurism. On view for a full year through February 23rd, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://fitchburgartmuseum.org/africa-rising-21st-century-african-photography/
“WTF!” by Jeffrey C. Becton, courtesy of the artist and New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA.
New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford – In his solo show Framing the Domestic Sea, Jeffrey C. Becton layers his photographs to craft exciting and ominous digital collages suggestive of a calamitous coastal future. His mellifluous images are at once a reminiscence of New England’s seafaring past and gripping warning signals for the future. On view through May 5th, 2024.
For information about the exhibit and associated programming, go to: https://www.whalingmuseum.org/exhibition/framing-the-domestic-sea-photographs-by-jeffery-c-becton/
From the Tin Vision series by Walter Baron, courtesy of the artist and The Workspace Gallery, Eastham.
The Workspace Gallery at Bob Korn Imaging, Eastham – In a two man show, Walter Baron interprets an historic methodology in his Tin Vision series while Greg Delory’s Enter series (and book) transforms individual images created over time into diptychs. What do these diverse, generously-enlarged images have in common? All were originally made on an iPhone. On view through mid-May.
For more information, go to: https://bobkornimaging.com/opening-4/
From the Enter series and book by Greg Delory, courtesy of the artist and The Workspace Gallery, Eastham.
Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM), Provincetown – Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves, photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb created a pandemic logbook with Rebecca’s lyrical photographs and hand-lettered poetry in dialog with Alex’s panoramic seascapes. Their alluring contemplation of what it means to feel both deeply connected to the world and profoundly isolated from it will be on view from April 12th – May 27th, 2024. There will be a free, public Opening Reception with the artists on Friday, April 19th from 6:00 – 8:00pm.
To read our book review of “Waves,” go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/book-reviews-of-the-sea-by-barbara-bosworth-and-waves-by-alex-webb-and-rebecca-norris-webb-radius-books-2022/
For more information, go to: https://paam.org/waves-alex-webb-and-rebecca-norris-webb/
ROAD TRIP!
Maine
Paula Tognarelli as “Irene Klench” from the book Horace and Agnes: A Love Story by Asia Kepka and Lynn Dowling, courtesy of MMPA, Portland, Maine.
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland – Paula Tognarelli needs no introduction to the photographic community but this first-ever exhibition of her spectacular photography collection deserves a parade. The Paula Tognarelli Collection will be on view through May 25th, 2024, with an Opening Reception on Friday, April 12th from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
Collector’s Talks are scheduled on Friday April 19th and Friday May 17th from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information: https://www.mainemuseumofphotographicarts.org/paulatognarelli
“Eye of the Storm, Gulf of Maine” by Paula Laverty, courtesy of the artist and Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME.
Cove Street Arts, Portland – Bruce Brown curates Along the Coast featuring photographs by Lee Bowman, Gifford Ewing, Deb Dawson, Richard Hackel, Kelli LK Haines and Paula Laverty. On view through May 4th, 2024.
For more information: https://www.covestreetarts.com
Rhode Island
10th International Call for Contemporary Photography at Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI.
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence – The 10th International Call for Contemporary Photography juried by Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, features work by Hannah Altman, Olivia Barkett, Becky Behar, Daniel Brothers, Ronald Butler, Richard Cohen, James Cooper, Thomas Crawford, Francis Crisafio, Connor Cronk, Virgil DiBiase, Steven Duede, Ron Dulaney Jr., Anna Eroshenko, David Estlund, Teri Figliuzzi, Christopher Forslund, Beth Galton, Donna Garcia, Kristie Gardiner, Amy Gaskin, Alan Gaynor, Victoria Gewirz, Richard Gilles, Karen Graffeo, Katherine Gulla, James Gunderson, Jim Hill, Terra Honaker, Anne Hopkins, Michael Hower, Donald Johnson, Luke Jordan, Marky Kauffmann, Richard K Kent, Gurcharan Khanna, Margaret Lampert, David Lawlor, Rusty Leffel, Irina Levental, Joni Lohr, Ralph Mercer, Chita Middleton Taylor, David O’Daniel, Allison Plass, Keith Prue, Cynthia Rettig, Saba Sitton, Jerry Smith, Lisa Spencer, Donna St Amant, Tom Stoffregen, Matthew Temple, Carrie Usmar, Nina Weinberg Doran, Jeff Wiles, Jay Wilson, Molly Wood, Kosuke Yuki & Eric Zeigler with Aaron Ellison. On view through April 12th, 2024.
For more information: https://www.riphotocenter.org/10th-international-exhibition-karen-haas-juror/
New Hampshire
“Changing Times” by Kwame Brathwaite, 1973 (printed 2021), archival pigment print. Purchased through the Contemporary Art Fund and the Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr., Foundation Fund; 2023.1.3. © Kwame Brathwaite, courtesy of the Hood Museum of Art.
Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover – Featuring selections from the Hood Museum’s photography collection, And I’m Feeling Good: Relaxation and Resistance celebrates joy in African American life. Simultaneously, it considers the pleasures and challenges in achieving and maintaining that “good feeling” in the United States. On view through April 13th, 2024.
For information, go to: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/explore/exhibitions/and-im-feeling-good
Connecticut
“Nothing Happened Here #11” by Jeremy Dennis, 2016, courtesy of the artist and the Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield – The Landscape in Focus: Recent Acquisitions is an intimate exhibition that highlights the affecting narratives of human interference on the land, including both black and white and color works made from the 1960’s to the present day. Exhibiting artists include Adger Cowans, Jeremy Dennis, Adriana Arenas Ilian, Alen Macweeney, Bea Nettles, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Victoria Sambunaris, Larry Silver, James Welling, and Huang Yan. On view from April 5th through July 27th, 2024.
For more information: https://fairfield.edu/museum/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/landscape-in-focus/index.html
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford – The group exhibition Styling Identities: Hair’s Tangled Histories aims to tell a story about what hair means to people from all walks of life, past to present. Within the multi-media show, don’t miss Rachel Portesi’s “The Dauntless Bureau,” recovered from the ship “Dauntless” owned by the local Colt family (yes, the gun manufacturer). Portesi has adorned the bureau with seventeen, mostly photographically-based, sculptural elements dedicated to Elizabeth Colt, who lived in the Victorian Era. A photographic self-portrait by Zanele Muholi and works by many other artists create a lively, interactive exhibit, on view through August 11th, 2024.
For more information about “The Dauntless Bureau,” go to: https://mobile.wa.yourcultureconnect.com/e/styling-identities:-hair’s-tangled-histories/the-dauntless-bureau-2023
For more information about the entire exhibit and associated programming, go to: https://www.thewadsworth.org/explore/on-view/hair/
Vermont
“Are You Ok?” by Jesse Freidin, courtesy of the artist and the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro.
Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro – Jesse Freidin: Are You OK? features portraits of trans and non-binary youth throughout the country. Freidin writes, “As a queer man of trans experience, and someone raised in a family of two Holocaust survivors, this work has become a contemporary archive of the disappearance of my community and a cathartic way to say that I am (and we are) still here.” Each portrait includes the anonymous parents or caregivers whose support is vital to their survival, particularly in states that are hostile toward the trans and non-binary community. On view through April 28th, 2024.
For more information: https://vcphoto.org
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