2016 Past Exhibits

Drawn From Within 2016

All agency exhibition to celebrate our collective talents and creativity

Birches, Bark and Beyond: Works by Marja Lianko

Reception: Thursday, November 3, 6 – 8 pm

“Birches have nearly taken over my studio,” says artist Marja Lianko, whose upcoming show at the Chandler Gallery features paintings and sculpture depicting—and, in some cases, made of—trees, bark and branches. Lianko is a fixture in the Boston art scene. She taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts for 23 years, and has shown her work at the MFA, the Fogg Museum, the DeCordova, the Rose Museum, and the Art Complex Museum. This past spring, she took first prize in the Chandler Gallery’s Small Works Salon.

Here / There: Works by Wendy Prellwitz

Reception: September 18, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

“I wanted to challenge myself to represent water in unexpected ways”, says artist Wendy Prellwitz. The paintings and monotypes in her upcoming show at the Chandler Gallery juxtapose night with day, solidity with fluidity, and the concrete with the unknowable while depicting water in abstracted textures and shades of magenta, orange and black

Earth and Fire: Work by Maud Morgan Arts Clay Faculty

Reception: Thursday, August 18, 6-8 pm

Jasmine Baetz, Nina Berinstein, Rachel Eng, Jessica Gaddis, Zachary Mickelson, Tiffany Playford

Intention and Chance: Evolving Images by Constance Jacobson, Eleanor Rubin, and Susan Schmidt

“We are all weavers of images above and below the surface,” says Eleanor Rubin, one of the three artists featured in the Chandler Gallery’s upcoming show, “Intention and Chance: Evolving Images by Constance Jacobson, Eleanor Rubin, and Susan Schmidt.” The exhibition title refers to the printmaking process—which each artist uses—and to the ways that the artist’s objectives interact with factors beyond the artist’s control. As Schmidt says, “My work is informed by chance discovery, chancing upon and taking a chance.”

From The Studios: Artwork by ABC and MMA Students

Chandler Gallery Showcases Works by Young Local Artists

These works remind adults what it means to have fun. Clay animals, wooden marble runs, and a robot who serves cups for water are the creations of students at Maud Morgan Arts and Agassiz Baldwin Afterschool. The artists, ranging in age from kindergarten through 8^th grade, offer perspectives that older artists can mimic and aspire to, but can no longer truly possess.

The Life of Photo: Exhibit by CRLS AP Photography Students

Closing reception: Thursday, May 12, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

High school is not often a picturesque time of life, but the students in Cambridge Rindge and Latin School’s first ever AP photography class have found many moments worth recording. According to instructor Debi Milligan, the analog and digital photographs feature a range of subjects including “landscape, architecture, urban landscape, portraiture, fashion, street photography, [and] still life.” The students’ work will be on display at the Chandler Gallery through May 13.

Small Works Salon 2016: Thesis / Antithesis

March 21 to April 15, 2016
Reception: Sunday, April 3, 3 – 5 pm
A juried exhibition of artwork at the Chandler Gallery

The space that separates two opposites is filled with tension, humor, and paradoxes, as evidenced by the artwork in the Chandler Gallery’s upcoming “Small Works Salon 2016: Thesis/Antithesis.” Juried by artist Gerry Bergstein, the exhibition features sculpture, paintings, photographs, and prints that fuse two contradictory ideas such as realism and fantasy, movement and stillness, or sincerity and irony. “I have always thought that art deals not only with the question ‘What is it?’” says Bergstein. “But also with the question ‘What ELSE is it?’”

Schemata: Works by Sarah Hulsey and Rhonda Smith

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 18, 6 to 8 pm
Sarah Hulsey and Rhonda Smith Chart New Territory at the Chandler Gallery are turning cartography on its head.

Beastiary: Work by Jody Colella

Reception: January 21, 2015, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

“I’ve been interested in expressing humanity in the form of reconstructed stuffed animals,” says artist Jodi Colella. Inspired by her recent residency in Shenzhen, China, and by medieval bestiaries that assign symbolic virtues (and vices) to different species, Colella transforms children’s toys to address themes of identity, loss, and consumer culture. Shana Dumont Garr, author of Colella’s upcoming catalog, likens the exhibit to “a cabinet of curiosities sprung to life.”