“Hope is a waking dream” ~Aristotle
By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy
February is dark and slippery. Politics, pavement, everything, seems perilous. And yet. For eons, art has transmitted light leaks of hope, whether by assuaging or provoking, guiding or diverting. If you crave paths to inspired perspectives on our raw and troubled times, the photography exhibits and events throughout metro Boston and New England offer a warm respite. As usual, we arrange our selections geographically for your planning convenience, and as always, encourage you to check back often, as we update regularly throughout the month.
SOWA – Boston’s South End Arts District

“Knight” 2021, by Kristen Joy Emack, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.

“Untitled (Hummingbird)” undated, by Cheryle St. Onge, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.

“Fausto Gonzalez Barrio” 1990-1998, by Jack Lueders-Booth, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
Gallery Kayafas – Three solo shows champion a diverse cross-section of unsung heroes: Kristen Joy Emack’s “Book of Saints” celebrates the stirring resilience of Cambridge, MA residents facing the challenges of gentrification; Cheryle St. Onge’s “My Mother, My Atlas” is a poignant reverie created during their role reversal in the waning years of her mother’s life; and Jack Lueders Booth’s “Inherit the Land” documents the struggles and joys of a Mexican community who live and work in the garbage dumps of Tijuana. On view through February 10th, 2024, there will be a Closing Reception with the artists on First Friday, February 2nd from 5:30 – 8:00pm.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/kristen-joy-emack-cheryle-st-onge-and-jack-lueders-booth-solo-photo-shows-at-gallery-kayafas-boston/

“Roses, Mirsini” from the series The Lighthouse Keepers by Yorgos Efthymiadis, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Kayafas, Boston.
Coming next to Gallery Kayafas – In his large solo exhibit The Lighthouse Keepers, Yorgos Efthymiadis presents salon-style arrays of images with soft, sun-kissed palettes. Each features a person and possesses ruminating dialogs between portrait and place, entries and exits, secrets and regrets. Efthymiadis regards each of his subjects as “a lighthouse keeper. Strong and resilient, fragile and tender, always there to help, guiding each other through life, and reminding me of where I belong.” Stirring and enigmatic, Efthymiadis’ image assemblages resonate with enduring connections. On view from February 16th – March 23rd, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception with the artist on First Friday, February 16th from 5:30 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.gallerykayafas.com/
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/the-lighthouse-keepers-by-yorgos-efthymiadis-at-gallery-kayafas-boston/

“Harbingers” 2022 from the series Sublime Vestiges by Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, courtesy of the artist and Anderson Yezerski Gallery, Boston.
Anderson Yezerski Gallery – Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz’s solo show “Sublime Vestiges” features her translucent photographs of the Arctic laid over pigmented, destroyed and rebuilt plaster casts, which she embellishes with oil paint glazes to express the precarious state of our shifting geography due to climate change. Her luminous pieces are a gorgeous gut-punch, on view through February 10th, 2024. There will be a Reception on First Friday, February 2nd from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://andersonyezerski.com/

“Bell Pond, Freddie and Theresa, June 20, 1983” by Stephen DiRado, courtesy of the artist and Abakus Projects, Boston.
Abakus Projects – A selection of Stephen DiRado’s exquisite, large-format B&W portraits appear in the solo exhibit, Private/Personal. Works on view span DiRado’s prolific career from 1983 to the present, featuring projects such as Bell Pond (above), Dinner Series, Classroom Series, and his radiant Beach Portraits. On view from February 2nd – March 24th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception with the artist on First Friday, February 2nd from 6:00 – 8:30pm and an artist talk on March 24th at 2pm.
For information, go to: https://www.abakusprojects.com/

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. On view from February 2nd – April 7th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception with the artist on First Friday, February 2nd from 6:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://laconiagallery.com/exhibits/the-empty-mirror/
BOSTON PROPER

Nancy Lee Katz “Elliott Erwitt” 1993. Photograph, gelatin silver print. Gift of Michael S. Sachs, 2020. Courtesy of MFA, Boston. Installation view by Elin Spring with apologies for reflections.
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

“Lynching Tree” 2013, by British filmmaker Steve McQueen during the filming of “Twelve Years A Slave,” courtesy of the artist and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – This single color photograph mounted in a lightbox depicts an old tree with thick, sprawling branches in a clearing littered with leaves and engulfed by scrawny saplings. Only the title of the image reveals that the tree was used as a gallows for enslaved Black people, their unmarked graves beneath it. The image was the focal point for the program, “Reckoning with History: Art, Landscape & Memory” in January. LAST CHANCE! The installation will be on view through February 4th, 2024.
For information about the exhibit, go to: https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/steve-mcqueen-lynching-tree

“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/

“Future Passed #18” 2023 by Arne Svenson, courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.
Robert Klein Gallery – As the fight to control firearms or liberalize gun laws rages on in Congress, photographer Arne Svenson has mounted his own call to arms with his piercing ongoing series, The Future Passed. Guided by gun-violence data, Svenson locates fatal incident addresses and, via internet imagery, “photographs” the scenes, framing his view from the street, in a manner similar to real estate listings. Absent people, cars, or any signs of life, Svenson cleverly hijacks the viewer’s imagination with a terrifying sense of premonition, as he accompanies each image with a written description of the violence that has yet to occur within. On view through February 24th, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://www.robertkleingallery.com/exhibitions/77-the-future-passed-arne-svenson/

“Wheel I” 2008, with Braille inscription in 16th century German: “Wo soll ich mich hin kehren. Entlaubet ist der Walde.”
English translation: “Where shall I turn to?/ The woods are barren of leaves.” by Stephen Althouse, courtesy of Pucker Gallery, Boston.
Pucker Gallery – Stephen Althouse’s solo exhibit Objects of Uncertainty features monumental portraits of primitive tools and relics that imply “depictions of ourselves” through the implements we use. His high-resolution photographs contrast darkness and light, hard surfaces and soft cloths, to accentuate the human experience of survival in the face of “relentless uncertainty.” On view from February 3rd – March 17th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception with the artist on Saturday, February 3rd from 3:00 – 6:00pm.
For information about this exhibition and associated online gatherings and events, go to: https://www.puckergallery.com/

“Kittens, Cigarettes, and Gucci” 2018 by Jamie Johnson, courtesy of the artist and Leica Gallery 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 of 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 from February 2nd – April 20th, 2024.
There will be an Opening Reception on Friday, February 2nd from 6:00 – 8:00pm. Free and open to the public, but registration is suggested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-the-travellers-and-the-troubles-tickets-788196806867?aff=oddtdtcreator
There will be an Artist Talk and Book Signing with Jamie Johnson on Sunday, February 4th from Noon – 2:00pm. To register for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-talk-and-book-signing-with-jamie-johnson-tickets-788534878047?aff=oddtdtcreator
For more information about the exhibit, go to: https://leicagalleryboston.com/exhibitions/
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/jamie-johnson-the-travellers-and-john-day-the-troubles-at-leica-gallery-boston/

From the series Living Like Grass about Willard Farm in Still River, MA, by Ellen Harasimowicz, 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 (above), A Year Above the Gardens by John Rich, 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 Zen Xan by Lawrence Hardy, 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,” Jordan Douglas’ “My Father’s Things,” Lawrence Hardy’s “Zen Xan” (above), Denise Laurinatis’ “The Missing Photographs,” and CE Morse’s “The Farrago Series.” On view from February 15th – April 30th, 2024, there will be an Opening Reception with the artists on Thursday, February 15th from 6:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.panopticongallery.com/first-look-2024-exhibition
CAMBRIDGE and SOMERVILLE

“Days Gone By” 2021, platinum palladium print by Dana Christensen, courtesy of the artist and PRC.
Photographic Resource Center (PRC), Cambridge – In September 2023, Analog Forever Magazine published Home Sweet Home, an online group exhibition curated by PRC Creative Director, Jessica Burko. Now you can experience the sensual qualities of these prints in person. Featuring 42 photographs created with film and analog processes, it offers a glimpse into the domestic space, often focusing on the nuanced, quiet moments that transmit so beautifully with these processes. The exhibit will be on view from February 4th – March 15th, 2024, with an Opening Reception at the VanDernoot Gallery on Friday, February 9th from 6:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.prcboston.org/home-sweet-home/

“Fish Head (detail)” 1946. Gelatin silver print. Berenice Abbott Collection, MIT Museum. Gift of Ron and Carol Kurtz, courtesy of the MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.
MIT Museum, Cambridge – “So Easy To See: Berenice Abbott’s Super Sight” is the first large-scale exhibit of Abbott’s pioneering method of producing large photographs of small objects without the intervention of a photographic enlarger, a process she dubbed “Super Sight.” Positioning herself as the “friendly interpreter between science and the layman,” Abbott’s technique produced images of definition and transparency that were astonishing in their realism. On view through March 2024.
For information, go to: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/exhibitions/so-easy-to-see-berenice-abbotts-super-sigh

“Blood Shehuo is a subgenre that incorporates elements of horror and gore. Here, Blood Shehuo performers do each other’s makeup before a show, Yanjiaan Village, Shaanxi Province” 2018, by Zhang Xiao, courtesy of the artist and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
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/

The Curated Fridge Winter 2024 Show.
The Curated Fridge, Somerville – PRC Boston Creative Director Jessica Burko curated submissions with the theme of “Storytime” for the Winter 2024 show. Her selections shimmer with mystery and adventure. The side of the fridge features work from Sirkhane Darkroom, a non-profit mobile darkroom and photo lab dedicated to teaching talented, underprivileged children from Syria, Türkiye, and Iraq how to make, develop and print photos.
The Curated Fridge Opening Party is on Saturday, February 10th from 4:00 – 6:00pm. For details and directions, go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/677846390938921
To see the show online, go to: https://www.thecuratedfridge.com/Fridge-Shows-1/Winter-2024
For information about Sirkhane Darkroom, go to: https://www.heryerdesanat.org/support-sirkhane-darkroom
Somerville Museum – “Museo Inmigrante” showcases the stories of ten immigrant families who share their experiences about their journey to the US, why they decided to leave, and what their journey was like. Photographs of the families by Iaritza Menjivar and Mario Quiroz are accompanied by interviews conducted by exhibit curators Ivan Abarca-Torres and Marta Fuertes and appear in Spanish, Portuguese and English. The ten featured families also contributed a variety of mementos and photographs from the local immigrant community have been arranged into a photo wall, as is common in many Latin American homes. On view from through March 23rd, 2024.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/museo-immigrante-at-the-somerville-museum/
For hours, directions and more information about the exhibit, go to: https://www.somervillemuseum.org/museo-inmigrante
SUBURBS

Featured Image: “Between Lovelock and Fernely, NV” by Todd Webb, 1956 (left), inkjet print courtesy of the Todd Webb Archive ©Todd Webb Archive and “U.S. 285, New Mexico” by Robert Frank, 1955 (right), gelatin silver print, MFA Houston, museum purchase funded by Jerry E. and Nanette Finger, © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover – Unbeknownst to each other, Robert Frank and Todd Webb each secured a Guggenheim Grant in the same year, 1955, to make road trips across the United States. Frank’s pictures became the landmark book, The Americans, while Webb’s remain largely unknown. Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955 was curated by Lisa Volpe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and compares and contrasts how two photographers approached the ethos and culture of the American way of life. On view from February 10th through July 31st, 2024, there will be a virtual Gallery Talk with the curator on Tuesday, February 27th at 2:00pm.
For more information:https://addison.andover.edu/exhibition/robert-frank-and-todd-webb-across-america-1955/

“Album (Sisters I), L: Nefernefruaten Nefertiti; R: Devonia Evangeline O’Grady” by Lorraine O’Grady (American, b. 1934) from the series Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/1994. Cibachrome photographs, 26 37 in. (66.04 × 93.98 cm). Edition of 8 plus 1 artist’s proof. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
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 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 from February 8th – June 2nd, 2024, there will be a free, public Opening Reception on Thursday February 8th from 5:00 – 9:00pm and a free Live-Streamed Symposium on Friday February 9th from 10:00am – 5:00pm.
For details and free registration for the opening event and/or symposium, go to: https://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/events/upcoming?field_dmcc_event_type_tid%5B%5D=5386
For more information: https://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/upcoming/node/205126

From the series Homeland Scrolls by Sandra Matthews, 2003-2007, courtesy of the artist and the Danforth Art Museum.
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham – The museum will be opening a slate of shows featuring photography for their spring season, including a solo exhibition by Sandra Matthews that will feature selections from five different projects dating back to the 1980’s. Group exhibitions will also feature photography by Scarlett Hoey and Madge Evers. On view from February 17th through June 2nd, 2024.
For more information: https://danforth.framingham.edu

President Barack Obama works at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Oct. 14, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester – In the Room Where it Happened: A Survey of Presidential Photographers shows the inner workings of those in the highest echelons of power, featuring official White House photographers Shealah Craighead, Eric Draper, Michael Evans, Sharon Farmer, David Hume Kennerly, Bob McNeely, Yoichi Okamoto, Adam Schultz, Pete Souza, David Valdez and staff photographer Joyce Boghosian. On view through March 31st, 2024.

Geraldo Rivera and the press cover President Clinton in China by Jeffrey Aaronson, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Also at the Griffin Museum, Jeffrey Aaronson: The President and the Press features pictures made of the press following the staging, itinerary and structure of an overseas trip to China by then President Bill Clinton. On view through March 31st, 2024.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/white-house-photos-of-presidents-at-griffin-museum-of-photography-ma-in-the-room-where-it-happened-a-survey-of-presidential-photography/
For more information, go to: https://griffinmuseum.org
Barrington Center for the Arts at Gordon College, Wenham – Four photographers explore the idea of place in ‘the There, there” from distinctive and captivating perspectives: Nubar Alexanian’s sweeping B&W panoramas of Gloucester express an Armenian-American’s tribute to his adopted home; Bill Franson’s B&W images explore the towns bordering the Mason-Dixon Line and the socioeconomic implications of this politically-drawn separation; David Herwaldt’s photographs riff on his nomadic life as a long-haul trucker; and Jean Schnell (photo) honors the light and calm imbedded within the silent traditions of Quaker Meetinghouses. On view through March 2nd, 2024.
For more information, go to: https://www.gordon.edu/gallery

A crew member stands on the crosstrees of the schooner Lettie G. Howard during a Mayor’s Cup schooner race. The Howard, the Adventure, and the Roseway are three Essex built schooners, September 1, 1997. Photograph by Josh Reynolds. Gloucester Daily Times Collection of the Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Gloucester, MA. Gift of The North of Boston Media Group, 2021
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester – It has been said that newspapers are the first draft of history, and their archives can function like a time capsule of regional stories. The Gloucester Daily Times has covered the Cape Ann region for over a century and the paper’s owner, North of Boston Media Group, has donated their photography archive to the museum. To celebrate this recent acquisition, they are presenting Above the Fold: Photographers of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1973 to 2005, on view through March 17th, 2024.
For more information: https://www.capeannmuseum.org/exhibitions/above-fold-photographers-gloucester-daily-times-1973-2005/
Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton – Lou Jones’ sweeping panAFRICAproject’s mission is to create a contemporary visual portrait of modern Africa. Jones writes of photography and this project: “Photography can transcend time and distance. It goes beyond censorhip, frontiers, borders, and removes the blinders of xenophobia. Photography so easily interprets complex things, ideas, and concepts. Photography is the next best thing to being there.” On view through February 22nd, 2024.
For more information: https://www.milton.edu/arts/nesto-gallery/

“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 will present Africa Rising: 21st Century African Photography. The exhibit includes photographs by Zanele Muholi, Lalla Essaydi, and Aida Muluneh, 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 from February 24th, 2024 through February 23rd, 2025. An opening reception is planned for March 2nd from 2 to 4pm.
For more information, go to: https://fitchburgartmuseum.org/africa-rising-21st-century-african-photography/

From the series Zoomorphics by Shelby Meyerhoff, courtesy of the artist and the Wallace L. Anderson Gallery at Bridgewater State.
Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State, Bridgewater – Zoomorphics, Shelby Meyerhoff’s solo exhibit of extraordinary self-portraits, explores human connections with flora and fauna of the natural world. Her vibrant embodiments underline both our bonds and frailty with eye-popping vivacity. On view through February 21st, 2024.
For more information, go to: http://www.bsuarts.com/MeyerhoffS.htm

“WTF!” by Jeffrey C. Becton, courtesy of the artist and New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA.
New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA – 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 reminiscent 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/
ROAD TRIP!
Rhode Island

“Behind the Lens: 2024, Documents from the 21st Century, courtesy of the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts.
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence- In the next installment of the annual curated “Behind the Lens” series featuring six women photographers and timed around Women’s history month, RIPCA presents ongoing projects by Sage Brousseau, Lana Z Caplan, Tresha Glenister, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Marcy Juran and Susan Keiser. Beginning with an Opening Reception on Friday February 15th, 2024 from 5:00 – 8:00pm, the exhibit will be on view through March 15th, 2024.
For more information: https://www.riphotocenter.org/behind-the-lens-2024-documents-from-the-21st-century/
New Hampshire

Kwame Brathwaite, Changing Times, 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
Maine

“Blue Light” by Dorothea Eiben, courtesy of the artist and Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME.
Cove Street Arts, Portland – Curator Bruce Brown introduces seven photographers to Portland audiences with Portland Debuts II, featuring Kathryn Anne, Dorothea Eiben, Rachel McKenney Coleman, Larry Smukler, Sarah Hood Salomon, Lauren Swartzbaugh and John Wiecha. On view through March 9th, 2024.
For more information: https://www.covestreetarts.com/exhibitions-1/portlanddebutsii