Boston Paints: An Overview of Contemporary Painting from the Boston Metropolis

Visiting Artists Gallery
Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915
Now through - Sunday, February 22, 2009

Reception: Wednesday, February 11, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Boston Paints is a dynamic exhibition presenting paintings by twenty-two prominent artists closely linked with the metropolitan art scene. Presented as one of two inaugural shows in the new Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Endicott College, 376 Hale Street, Beverly, the important investigation of regional activity will be on view through February 22, 2009. A reception to meet the artists is scheduled for Wednesday, February 11, 5:00 - 7:00 PM. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The exhibit and related programming are free and open to the public.

Twenty-eight original paintings in a variety of media created by twenty-two artists were selected for inclusion in Boston Paints. To identify a broad range of candidates the gallery director and curator of the exhibit, Mark Towner, Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Endicott College, contacted colleagues, directors and curators from a variety of galleries and museums and requested they each nominate several artists. From their recommendations Towner choose one of their suggestions for inclusion in Boston Paints. In this way, the survey is an inter-institutional collaboration involving fourteen arts organizations and Endicott College in which fourteen professional curators chose the artists and Dean Towner selected the individual works.

As anticipated with a varied presentation, a wide range of styles, media, sizes, and content are included in the exhibit. With the intent to display the diversity of current painting created in our region the final selection of artists is: Eric Aho, Adria Arch, Laura Schiff Bean, Gail Boyajian, Peter Brooke, Stephen Coyle, Alexander DeMaria, Scott Hadfield, Conley Harris, Ric Haynes, Bruce Herman, Santiago Hernandez, Ilana Manolson, George Nick, Patricia Jo Peacock, Katherine Porter, Rebecca Roberts, Ann Strassman, Zsuzsanna Szegedi, Sue Trent, Eric Emile Walker, and Cheryl Warrick.  

Participating arts organizations and galleries include: Alpha Gallery, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Bromfield Gallery, Chase Gallery, Copley Society of Art, Gallery NAGA, Jane Deering Gallery, Julie Chae Gallery, Kidder Smith Gallery, Lanoue Fine Art, Nielsen Gallery, and Victoria Munroe Fine Art.

Designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott, the Center for Visual and Performing Arts is a 65,000 square foot facility to including major resources that support a variety of art studies and performances as well as community programming. Included in the facility are two museum quality art galleries; painting, photography, printmaking, and woodshop studios; a black box theater and a recital hall; Macintosh computer labs; and a digital printing lab. With a wide variety of concerts, exhibitions and plays offered, the Center for the Visual and Performing Arts will attract tens of thousands of visitors annually and will be a major focal point of the North Shore cultural community.

For more information on Endicott College's presentation of Boston Paints and its related events, please contact Kathleen J. Moore, 978.232.2655 or email kmoore@endicott.edu.