Laconia Gallery

A celebration of the flora, fauna, and other elements of the natural world that are threatened by climate change and by human disregard for its beautiful inhabitants. Through painting, photography and sculpture, the artists of this exhibition invite the viewers to become engaged in the important work of protecting and preserving the habitat we share with all living things. Augusta AugustssonPhilip GersteinBecky Kisabeth GibbsRuth Ginsberg-PlaceLisa GorenMarianne A. KinzerYvonne LamotheSusan LeskinJoseph LiebermanC. J. LoriRobin MacDonald-FoleyJennifer Jean OkumuraVicki Kocher ParetLisa ReindorfErin StarrDominick Anthony Takis Joanne Tarlin

Inside/outside, plant/animal, natural/supernatural, we tend to sort the world into categories of opposition. But some things just don’t fit. It’s these unsortables that engage Susan Heideman. In her combination painted/embroidered works, Heideman tries to embody objects, forms, and entities that have characteristics of opposing categories, thereby occupying neither. Defying taxonomy, things flow, hurl, creep, or ride geyser-like spouts; auras sprout and retract; molecule-like forms mineralize; rock-like things liquefy.

Cathedral Creates showcases the artwork of students from Cathedral High School, our neighbors in the South End community. Cathedral Creates highlights the hard work and art making practices from students in grades 7-12 and the school’s cherished alumni. Throughout the year students have explored various mediums, artists, and techniques, while creating meaningful work rooted in self-expression. We invite the viewer to join us in celebrating our Boston youth as they share their creative voices through art.

In 2020, a series of catastrophic wildfires devastated landscapes and communities in California. Although California is often associated in the international imagination with big cities, beautiful coastal scenes, and mountain resorts, the majority of the state consists of forests, farms, orchards, pastures, and rural small towns. The fires burned primarily in these remote inland regions. This exhibition showcases and celebrates that “other” California. For more than 18 months, the American multimedia artist Scott Ordway traveled throughout California conducting interviews with survivors and documenting the impact of fire and drought through photography and video. He combined these materials to create The End of Rain, a critically-acclaimed multidisciplinary project that weaves together music, poetry, and

Aufheben means to both destroy and preserve, to simultaneously elevate and decimate. In Emily Mogavero's ever-growing series of drypoint prints she draws intuitively on the same zinc and copper plates, cataloging her thoughts and emotions. Although each mark is eventually erased and obscured, reflections of Mogavero's drawing are preserved in the print. About the Artist Emily Mogavero is a printmaker, painter, independent curator, arts marketer, educator, and community builder. Her work addresses memory and history through abstraction and chance, forming an extended self-portrait. She received her BFA from the Sam Fox School of Design &

In "Replay" Steve Novick's sculptures emphasize simplicity of form, anthropomorphism, and a sense of humor. The work employs as-is and modified found objects; these provide a sort of social vocabulary, gleaned from material culture, that fuels meditations on consumption, visual and written language, and nature. Novick's use and subversion of certain elements of "high" Modernism—geometric shape, strong color, the "purity" of abstraction—betrays a love of the source, but introduces a questioning of its premises and an investigation of its possibilities in the present day. About the Artist Steve Novick was born in 1966 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of

Art in Residence: Laconia Residents Group Exhibition Laconia Gallery October 4, 2024 at 7pm F. J. Haydn String Quartet Op 71 No 2 Ruth Crawford String Quartet 1931 Carlos Simon Warmth from Other Suns The Arneis Quartet performs works by F. J. Haydn, Ruth Crawford, Carlos Simon, and a selection of popular arrangements as part of the annual Laconia Residents Group Exhibition and SoWa First Fridays.