By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy
Happy New Year! We invite you to warm these winter days by fulfilling those New Year’s resolutions to visit more photography galleries and museums around Boston and New England. As always, we list our selections geographically for your planning convenience, and we encourage you to check back throughout the month for updates and additions.
BOSTON PROPER

From the Mass Avenue Project by Jeff Larason, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography

“Market Hotel” by Lynn Saville, courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Griffin Museum at Lafayette City Center – Unexpectedly quiet moments in monumental city and urban environments are a hallmark of the work of photographers Jeff Larason and Lynn Saville. Larason has explored Boston with an eye toward architectural and geometric forms that emphasizes scale and solitude. Saville’s studies of New York City blanketed by the night sky recall the psychological charge of Hopper paintings and the surrealistic bent of DeChirico. On view through March 23rd, 2025, an opening reception is planned for January 25th from 3 to 5pm.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/jeff-larason-and-lynn-saville-exhibit-solitude-in-cities-at-griffin-museum-lafayette-city-center-gallery-in-boston-ma/
For more information, go to: https://griffinmuseum.org/current-exhibitions/#satellite

“Robert Frank: Mary’s Book” installation in the Herb Ritts Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Photograph by Suzanne Révy)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA, Boston) – Renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank was born 100 years ago. To celebrate, the museum is exhibiting Robert Frank: Mary’s Book, featuring seventy-four photographs and inscriptions he created in 1949 as part of a gift scrapbook to the woman who would become his first wife, Mary Lockspeiser. These original spreads from the MFA’s collection are accompanied by photographs Frank took in Paris, on loan from the artist’s foundation. On view through June 22nd, 2025.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/robert-frank-marys-book-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-boston/
For more information, go to: https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/robert-frank-marys-book

Mary Ellen Mark, Édouard Manet & Mickalene Thomas exhibits at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – The museum is focusing on family with late photographer Mary Ellen Mark’s A Seattle Family 1983-2014, Mickalene Thomas’ outdoor installation photograph of her mother “Sandra, She’s A Beauty” and painter Édouard Manet: A Model Family, on view through January 20th, 2025, except for the Thomas mural, which will be on view through February 17th, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://www.gardnermuseum.org/fall-2024-exhibition-season

“Shosai 1 (Detail1)” by Sara Silks, courtesy of the artist and Panopticon Gallery, Boston.
Panopticon Gallery – The group show PROCESS celebrates the craft of photographic creation, featuring the work of Sara Silks (above), David Hiley, Lisa Tang Liu & J. David Tabor, Fruma Markowitz, John Savoia, and Amisha Thakkar. On view through February 6th, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://www.panopticongallery.com/process

“Japanese Stewartia and Leaves” from the series Intimate Vistas by Marc Goldring, courtesy of the artist.
Hunneman Gallery at The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University – In his solo exhibit, Intimate Vistas: Images of Tree Bark, Marc Goldring invites us to take a new view of the forms, colors and textures of both exotic and commonplace tree bark in the Arnold Arboretum’s collection. On view through February 25th, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://arboretum.harvard.edu/events-2/current-and-past-art-shows/

From the series Circumference by S. Billie Mandle, courtesy of the artist and the Boston Atheneaum.
Boston Athenaeum, Alcove Gallery – S. Billie Mandle’s quiet contemplation of Emily Dickinson’s room evokes the emotional resonances of changing light and the parallels found in the poet’s evocative works. Taking over the course of a year, the textures of the walls shimmer and transform that invites viewers into a reverie. A talk with the artist and writer Jessica Shearer is planned for January 27th, on view from January 14th through May 17th, 2025
For more information: https://bostonathenaeum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/circumference/
SOWA – South end Arts District

“Twenty-two Minute Snail Drawing with Foam, 2019/2020” photographic diptych by Daniel Ranalli, courtesy of the artist and LaMontagne Gallery, Boston.
LaMontagne Gallery – Daniel Ranalli’s delightful Snail Drawings are photographic diptychs tracing the serendipitous convergence of nature and time. A subtle and expansive riff on influence and control, Ranalli’s images are a gentle Zen suggestion for our times. This solo exhibition will be on view from Saturday, January 18th – February 22nd, 2025 with an Opening Reception on Friday, February 7th from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.lamontagnegallery.com/snail-drawings

From the series The Chisel & The Pencil by Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber, courtesy of the artists and Abakus Projects, Boston.
Abakus Projects – The Chisel & The Pencil features Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber’s collaborative practice investigating the role of photography in material culture. On view through January 26th, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://www.abakusprojects.com/
Greater Boston – Cambridge and Somerville

From the exhibition Joanna Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces, courtesy of the artist and the Harvard Art Museums.
Harvard Art Museums – The excess of consumer goods circulating from the United States and Europe to Africa, particularly t-shirts with English slogans or graphics worn by those that artist Joanna Choumali has met in the marketplaces in Ghana and Côte D’Ivoire are the subject of life-sized hand made quilts and embroidered portraits in Joanna Choumali: Languages of Western African Marketplaces. On view from January 25th through May 11th, 2025.
For more information: https://harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/6415/joana-choumali-languages-of-west-african-marketplaces

From the exhibition The Art of Care by Cameron Russell and Mei Tao, courtesy of the artists and Gallery 262.
Gallery 263 – As part of their Exhibition Proposal series, The Art of Care brings together writer, organizer and artist Cameron Russell with photographer Mei Tao as they explore the power of creativity in caregiving. Featuring photographs that show the interaction and intimate gestures between caregivers and those they care for during moments of art or music making are upbeat with an infectious mood, proving the power of art to heal and sustain the human soul. On view from January 9th – February 9th, 2025, there will be an Opening Reception with the artists on Thursday January 9th from 6:00 – 8:00pm and an Artist Talk and family event on Saturday, January 18th from 1:00 – 3:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://gallery263.org/exhibition/the-art-of-care/

“Baby Dolls, Kenneth and Mamie Clark” by Wendel White at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Gift of Kate Clark Harris in memory of her parents Kenneth and Mamie Clark, in cooperation with the Northside Center for Child Development, Washington, D.C.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University – In his award-winning project, Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, Wendel A. White selected and photographed objects with charged historic and spiritual impact on African Americans. Black and white baby dolls from a famed social science experiment, a midcentury voting machine, a lock of Frederick Douglass’ hair all gain resonance in White’s spare, naturally-lit images. As the 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography at the museum, White’s exhibition is accompanied by a book published by the museum in conjunction with Radius Books. On view through Sunday, April 13th, 2025.
To read our review, go to: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/wendel-white-exhibit-manifest-thirteen-colonies-at-harvard-peabody-museum-of-archaeology-and-ethnology-in-cambridge-ma/
For more information, go to: https://peabody.harvard.edu/news/wendel-white-photo-exhibition-manifest-thirteen-colonies-open-harvard%E2%80%99s-peabody-museum

“Leftovers” courtesy of The Curated Fridge
The Curated Fridge (TCF), Somerville – Photographer and Founder of The Curated Fridge, Yorgos Efthymiadis has selected images that for one reason or another were excluded from earlier iterations of this popular quarterly gathering of small prints affixed to a refrigerator. Entitled Leftovers, this will be the TCF’s 4oth show with a free, public reception on January 18th, 2025 from 3 to 5pm.
For more information: https://www.instagram.com/thecuratedfridge/
SUBURBS – Route 128 to Route 495

From the series Homeshadows by Bridget Jourgenson, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture winner Camille Farrah Lenain, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester brings Bridget Jourgenson’s study of solitude in Homeshadows and the Arnold Newman Prize winner for 2024, Camille Farrah Lenain’s Made of Smokeless Fire. HURRY! On view alongside an Member’s show called “Solstice” through January 12th, 2025.

From the series Liminal Space by Megnwen Cao, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

“Line Dry” by Keven Bennett Moore, from the series Meditations in an Emergency, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

“My Grandmother (bottom right), as a teen, with her family outside Lucca, Italy” by Matthew Finley, from the series An Impossibly Normal Life, courtesy of the artist and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Opening later this month at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester – Family values are probed through the lenses of six LGBTQ+ artists in Nuclear Family who celebrate their domestic spheres with humor and dignity. Curated by artist Katalina Simon in collaboration with the Griffin’s Executive Director Crista Dix, the exhibition will include Jess T. Dugan’s A Letter to my Daughter, Mengwen Cao’s Liminal Space (above), Yorgos Efthymiadis’ Lighthouse Keepers, Laurence Philomene’s untitled explorations of the self, Matthew Leifheit’s Queer Archives and Ann Vetter’s Love is not the Last Room.
Also on view is Kevin Bennett Moore’s Meditations in an Emergency in the Griffin Atelier Gallery and Matthew Finley’s An Impossibly Normal Life in the Griffin Gallery. All exhibitions will be on view from January 17th through March 30th 2025. A reception with the artists is planned for January 23rd from 6 to 8pm
For more information and related programming: https://griffinmuseum.org

“Frost in Wetlands to Newbury Field” by Suzanne Révy, 2021, from the series A Murmur in the Trees, courtesy of the artist and the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

“Ecologies of Restoration No.19” by DM Witman, 2023-2024, Archival pigment photograph from hand-cultured salt crystals, courtesy of the artist and Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA.

“Mommy, what is this?” 2018, from the series My Dear Americans by Ileana Doble Hernandez, courtesy of the artist and Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA.
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham – The museum features three photography-based artists: Ileana Doble Hernandez looks at issues around gun violence in Dear Americans, It’s Not Enough; DM Witman invokes healing and resiliency through an environmental lens in Ecologies of Restoration and our very own Suzanne Révy imparts a cadence of the seasons in her multi-panel series A Murmur in the Trees. All are on view through January 26th, 2025.
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/suzanne-revy-a-murmur-in-the-trees-and-dm-witman-ecologies-of-restoration-at-danforth-art-museum-framingham-ma/
For more information: https://danforth.framingham.edu
CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

“Ascendo (detail)” by Tara Sellios from the series Ask Now the Beasts, courtesy of the artist and the Fitchburg Art Museum
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg – Tara Sellios: Ask Now the Beasts revels in the dance between mortality and immortality through still-life images of organic material such as dried flowers, desiccated insects and animal skeletons. Artist Tara Sellios creates these divine and physical tableaux based on expressive and detailed sketches, then renders them in lush color on 8″ by 10″ film and large format prints. On view from January 18th through December 2025. An opening reception is planned for February 8th from 2 to 4pm.

“Bin Bins” by Angele Etoundi Essamba, 2008, courtesy of the artist and the Fitchburg Art Museum.
Also at Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg – In an ongoing celebration of their expanding photography collection that now includes a large selection of pictures made by African photographers, the museum has installed Africa Rising: 21st Century African Photography. It includes photographs by Oupa Nkosi (above), Zanele Muholi, Lalla Essaydi, and Wilfred Ukpong among others. Work on view grapples with themes such as environmental exploitation, the aftermath of colonialism, women’s empowerment and Afro-Futurism. On view through February 23rd, 2025.
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/africa-rising-contemporary-photographs-at-the-firtchburg-art-museum-fitchburg-ma/
For more information about both exhibits, go to: https://fitchburgartmuseum.org

From the series Ways of my Ancestors – We are Still Here by Scott Strong Hawk Foster, courtesy of the artist and the Worcester Art Museum.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester – Scott Strong Hawk Foster is a Native American photographer whose Hassanamisco Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Cherokee heritage inspire the exhibition Ways of My Ancestors – We are Still Here. Installed as part of the Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative, the show features seven portraits of prominent Nipmuc people who are indigenous to Central Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island. On view through May 11th, 2025.
For more information: https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/cmai/scott-strong-hawk-foster/

Tabula by Vaune Trachtman, from the series All That Is, courtesy of the artist.
Von Augsberg Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield – Now is Always and All That is presents Vaune Trachtman’s haunting photo gravures where she overlays contemporary pictures from archival photographs by her father and more recent work layered with personal archival material and handwriting. On view from January 13th through February 28th with an opening reception planned for Sunday, January 19th from 5 to 7:30pm. Please note, the reception has been rescheduled for Saturday, February 15th from 3 to 5pm
For more information: https://deerfield.edu/academics/von-auersperg-gallery
deMenil Gallery at Groton School, Groton – Photographers Jesse Burke (photo above) and Craig J. Barber join in “What Gorgeous Thing” at the deMenil Gallery at Groton School. On view through March 28th, 2025, there will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, January 25th from 5:30 – 7:30pm.
For information, go to: https://www.groton.org/arts/visual-art/galleries

Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable, courtesy of The Clark.
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown – Photographer Abelardo Morell is known for his Camera Obscura pictures that he has made in recent years with a tent camera which projects images onto the ground. He is also inspired by 19th century landscape painting and has wandered in the footsteps of artistic luminaries such as Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet in France and John Constable in England. Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable features work that opens a dialog between the photographer and the Clark’s strong collection of both these 19th century painters. On view through February 17th, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://www.clarkart.edu/microsites/abelardo-morell/exhibition-overview/about-the-exhibition

“Spode Wildcat Prowl with Rosemary Pomegranate” by JP Terlizzi, courtesy of the artist and Sohn Fine Art. Lenox, MA
Sohn Fine Art, Lenox – Creatures of Curiosity features the enchanting work of Jeff Robb, JP Terlizzi (above) and Hans Withoos. HURRY! On view through January 13th, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://www.sohnfineart.com/
ROAD TRIP!
Connecticut

Camera-less photograph by Amanda Beth Marchand, courtesy of the artist and Rick Wester Gallery, NYC.
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich – Curated by Caren Winnall, Camera-less showcases the work of Joanne Dugan, Amanda Marchand (above), Anne Arden McDonald and Liz Nielsen, artists who experiment with light, chemicals, objects and time on photo-sensitive paper in an inspiring exploration of camera-less photography. On view through March 5th, 2025, the gallery is hosting a discussion with all four artists on Sunday, January 26th at 2:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://flinngallery.com/camera-less/

Folded Cyantoype by Fritz Horstman, courtesy of the artist and the New Britain Museum of American Art.
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain – In his solo show Valleys & Blue Light, Fritz Horstman experiments with cyanotype and folded paper to create sculptures inspired by the glaciers of Svalbard, ranging in size from a few inches to six feet. On view through March 30th, 2025.

“Double Mona Lisa” by Vic Muniz, from the exhibition Extra-Ordinary, courtesy of the artist and the New Britain Museum of American Art.
Also at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain – Using unconventional materials such as peanut butter and jelly, Brazilian born artist Vic Muniz builds tableaux before photographing them in Extra-Ordinary, on view through February 23rd, 2025.
For more information about both exhibits: https://nbmaa.org
New Hampshire

“Ha’ina ‘ia mai” by Cara Romero, 2024, archival pigment print. Collection of the artist. © Cara Romero, courtesy of the Hood Museum, Hanover, NH.
Hood Museum, Hanover, NH – In the first major solo exhibition artist Cara Romero engages in themes around indigenous culture. Titled Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) the show includes over sixty large scale photographs and site specific installation curated by Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art Dr. Jami Powell. Opens on January 17th with a reception at 5pm and will be on view through August 10th 2025.
For more information: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/11/hood-museum-present-cara-romeros-first-solo-museum-exhibition-2025

“Celebrations after the last prayers of Ramadan” by Gerald Annan Forson, 1980, Accra Ghana, courtesy of the artist and the Hood Museum.
Ongoing at Hood Museum, Hanover – Off Beat: Portraiture and Politics in the Photography of Gerald Annan Forson brings the tumultuous events of late 20th-century Ghana into focus. Annan Forson’s interest in both grand spectacle and quiet, intimate moments brings his work into dialog with important forebears such as Felicia Abbas and Malick Sidibé. On view through winter of 2025.
For more information: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/explore/exhibitions/beat
Maine

“Sven and Nicole” by Barbara Peacock from the series American Bedroom, courtesy of the artist and the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME.
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland – Barbara Peacock’s epic project American Bedroom feature portraits made around the country that are an eye-opening view into our most intimate spaces and private worlds. On view through January 31st, 2025 with an artist talk and book signing planned for January 10th, 2025 from 5 to 8pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.mainemuseumofphotographicarts.org/
Vermont

“Island” by Susan Mikula, courtesy of the artist and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT.
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro – Curated by Charlie Hunter, Susan Mikula: Island presents the artist’s vision – through old Polaroid cameras and expired instant film – of the bedrock landscape on the Connecticut River where it makes a hard turn to the east at Bellows Falls. Her landscapes include the ghosts of industrial buildings, resulting in atmospheric and mysterious compositions. On view through February 9th 2025.
For more information: https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2024/06/21/susan-mikula-island/

From the series A War on Us by Adeline Praud courtesy of the artist and the Vermont Center for Photography.
Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro – French photographer Adeline Praud took a deep dive into the systems of mental health and transitional housing for those dealing with addiction in post-industrial rural areas of the United States. In A War on Us, she shines a light on both personal traumas and organizational fights against opioid use and the pharmaceutical companies that encouraged and benefited from addiction. On view through March 2nd 2025 with a planned artist talk on Sunday, January 19th from 4 to 5:30pm.
For more information, go to: https://vcphoto.org/adeline-praud-a-war-on-us/