Laconia Gallery

The idea of loss and disappearance as it relates to the natural world and the climate crisis is a paradox: even as science proves the ecological threat is both intimate and universal, that very threat essentially becomes abstract. Ava Federov's art practice embraces the necessary diametric experience of nature and climate cataclysm to offer pathways of understanding, collective mourning, and conceptual adaptation and reevaluation. Through painting, performance, and installation, Federov use lyricism and abstraction to conjure the inverted pain of only realizing the vast importance of something (in this case, life on earth as we have known it) the moment it vanishes. The fragmentation of this awareness is demonstrated in the physical and implied layering in

About the Artist Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer and fimmaker exploring the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment. Her worlds communicate with our neglected inner child and are informed by explosive colors, elements of elevated play and the push/pull of light and dark. Jaina is a self taught artist with a deep love for creative problem solving. She writes and directs award winning short films that wrestle with the complicated path of healing. In 2020 she released ‘You Don’t Have to Take Orders from the Moon’, a surrealist horror film wrestling with the gravity of deep codependency. Her second short, ‘Trauma Bond’ is a dreamy, coming of age thriller that explores

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.

Every Night at Six treads softly between different modes of art making while ruminating on daily life, observing and celebrating the places, people and things that make up our lives. Christina Marcantonio explores themes of memory and childhood play through fiber sculptures and lens based work. Eileen de Rosas collects images from her walking practice, paying attention to the intimate connection between the body and landscape, and transforms them into multi-layered interactive sculptures. Together, de Rosas’ and Marcantonio’s work evokes the feeling of returning again and again, losing and finding oneself, and rediscovering perspectives in the everyday. Every Night at Six sets a time and place for the audience to step through a doorway into a

Ave Maria, Op. 41Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848-1890) Four Short Pieces, Op. 33 Songs without WordsGavotte Lullaby MarchJulius Klengel (1859-1933) Preghiere, Op. 27 No. 3Luigi Forino (1901-1936) Polonaise de Concert, Op. 14David Popper (1843-1913) OblivionAstor Piazzolla (1921-1992) Por Una CabezaCarlos Gardel (1890-1935) FragmentGeorge Gershwin (1898-1937)

Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 76 No. 4 “Sunrise”Rachel D. W. Rome asylum hill (2016)Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F major (1903) This concert launches the Arneis Quartet’s residency at the Laconia Gallery and is presented in conjunction with the “Building Visions” exhibition. Rising arpeggios mark the magical opening of Franz Joseph Haydn's String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76 No. 4, inspiring its English nickname "Sunrise". Laconia Resident Artist Rachel D. W. Rome writes that her piece for string quartet, asylum hill , is "inspired by the short lives of Susy Clemens and Sammy Rome [and] takes its form from the dynamical time scale

Explore work by Laconia resident artists! Participating artists include: Jane BraytonJohn Curuby Michael DavidGina HerronLaurie KaplowitzLiette MarcilBryan McFarlane Emily Mogavero Joan Resnikoff

Focusing on the theme of interior vs. exterior life, close quarters incorporates imagery related to interiors of homes and domestic scapes, as well as scenes from the outdoors and structures seen from the outside. Shelby Feltoon and Cameron Boyce draw connections between the insides and outsides of their living spaces as they relate to their inner and outer selves. They discuss what they reveal and conceal about their personal lives through imagery in their work. Feltoon and Boyce also discuss who they let in both physically and spiritually. Themes of strength, security, stability, sensation, and softness will be especially highlighted. About the

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.

The Landscape of Our Minds brings together a diverse group of artworks by frontline staff from ICA/Boston, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, MIT List Visual Arts Center, MIT Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, MFA, Boston, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, and Leica Gallery, Boston. Showcasing a myriad of mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, music, film, and various gallery programs, the exhibition delves into how the perception of time differs for the frontline staff, allowing the overlapped, multi-dimensional worlds of each individual to unfold in a physical setting. Looking closely at the objects that make up an art institution, artists offer zoomed-in views and private gallery observations. Stephen Holness, who works at MFA, Boston,