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THE LONG VIEW: WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO
OCTOBER 14 - NOVEMBER 21, 2025
Thursday October 16: Gallery talk 5pm, Reception 5:30pm
Curated and organized by Deborah Davidson and Audrey Goldstein.
Many thanks to Shelley Reed for kickstarting the idea of recognizing the wonderful contribution of Boston area women artists.
These three groups of four practitioners exemplify and celebrate Boston area women artists who continue their life long practice in the studio. These exhibitions are part of an exciting moment for these artists, who continue to create and investigate.
Well-known artists like Joan Jonas, Michelle Stewart, Pat Stier, Judy Chicago, Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin, and Lynda Benglis all continue making strong and relevant work.
Some of them have achieved renown well into their 80s and beyond. Yayoi Kusama, Carmen Herrera, Betye Saar, and Cecilia Vicuña are among those who continue to produce significant bodies of work.
We join other galleries and museums in honoring and applauding these women from Boston and beyond, who have persevered and continue contributing their voices to the national conversation.
We selected the groupings based on what we feel resonated with the theme as well as the conversation that the artists and their respective works have with each other.
Curated and organized by Deborah Davidson and Audrey Goldstein.
Many thanks to Shelley Reed for kickstarting the idea of recognizing the wonderful contribution of Boston area women artists.
These three groups of four practitioners exemplify and celebrate Boston area women artists who continue their life long practice in the studio. These exhibitions are part of an exciting moment for these artists, who continue to create and investigate.
Well-known artists like Joan Jonas, Michelle Stewart, Pat Stier, Judy Chicago, Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin, and Lynda Benglis all continue making strong and relevant work.
Some of them have achieved renown well into their 80s and beyond. Yayoi Kusama, Carmen Herrera, Betye Saar, and Cecilia Vicuña are among those who continue to produce significant bodies of work.
We join other galleries and museums in honoring and applauding these women from Boston and beyond, who have persevered and continue contributing their voices to the national conversation.
We selected the groupings based on what we feel resonated with the theme as well as the conversation that the artists and their respective works have with each other.
participating artists
Ellen Rich
My approach to making work is intuitive and explorative with the goal of creating a piece that speaks with emotion to the viewer. Playing with abstract shapes and high key color, I make art that attempts to comfort.
I love working with the infinite color choices, the additive action: putting down a shape, covering it, altering it with another shape, working, re-working, obsessing, making it better (or worse), adding but rarely subtracting until it feels right. The rough edges and the unfinished, messy bits that result look a lot like real life.Maggie Stark
Maggie Stark is a sculptor, whose work with light, glass, and video explores such juxtapositions as permanence vs. transience, inside vs. outside, and motion vs. stasis.
Stark was born in Kansas City and lives in Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work throughout the region, including the Nielsen and Kayafas Galleries in Boston, Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, ME. She was an affiliate of the Boston Sculptors Gallery for nine years and has held residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass, the Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. Awards include a Cultural Fellowship to Berlin from the Goethe Institute in New York and an Artist Residency Fellowship at the Haslla Art World Museum in South Korea.
My approach to making work is intuitive and explorative with the goal of creating a piece that speaks with emotion to the viewer. Playing with abstract shapes and high key color, I make art that attempts to comfort.
I love working with the infinite color choices, the additive action: putting down a shape, covering it, altering it with another shape, working, re-working, obsessing, making it better (or worse), adding but rarely subtracting until it feels right. The rough edges and the unfinished, messy bits that result look a lot like real life.
Maggie Stark is a sculptor, whose work with light, glass, and video explores such juxtapositions as permanence vs. transience, inside vs. outside, and motion vs. stasis.
Stark was born in Kansas City and lives in Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work throughout the region, including the Nielsen and Kayafas Galleries in Boston, Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, ME. She was an affiliate of the Boston Sculptors Gallery for nine years and has held residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass, the Millay Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. Awards include a Cultural Fellowship to Berlin from the Goethe Institute in New York and an Artist Residency Fellowship at the Haslla Art World Museum in South Korea.
Julia Shepley
Julia Shepley's ever evolving iconography of marks and layered surfaces serves to visually translate her experience of light, shadow, and sound as they move through space, and is layered by time and memory. She works on sculpture, drawings, photography, and prints, simultaneously pulling the drawings into three dimensions and creating a graphic image with her wall sculpture and photography. She layers and combines materials, methods and imagery to create the illusion of movement and reassembly. Recent work includes a series of archival pigment photographic prints created with her shadow box sculptures. In her enigmatic photographic images, forms appear to be traveling through - and suspended in - pools of atmospheric illumination and vibrant color.Deborah Barlow
The material world we can see and measure--from the microscopic realm to the vast expanse of the cosmos--is but one portion of a complex multiverse. Given the latest research, we now know there is so much that lies outside the limited capacities of our visual and somatic perception.
Intimations and glimpses of other domains do occur. The quiet consideration of what is numinous and illusory leads to paintings that read like “map visions,” of what might be other domains. Working in this way, art making becomes a record of how to search, listen and respond multi-dimensionally while navigating a limitless expanse.
Julia Shepley's ever evolving iconography of marks and layered surfaces serves to visually translate her experience of light, shadow, and sound as they move through space, and is layered by time and memory. She works on sculpture, drawings, photography, and prints, simultaneously pulling the drawings into three dimensions and creating a graphic image with her wall sculpture and photography. She layers and combines materials, methods and imagery to create the illusion of movement and reassembly. Recent work includes a series of archival pigment photographic prints created with her shadow box sculptures. In her enigmatic photographic images, forms appear to be traveling through - and suspended in - pools of atmospheric illumination and vibrant color.
The material world we can see and measure--from the microscopic realm to the vast expanse of the cosmos--is but one portion of a complex multiverse. Given the latest research, we now know there is so much that lies outside the limited capacities of our visual and somatic perception.
Intimations and glimpses of other domains do occur. The quiet consideration of what is numinous and illusory leads to paintings that read like “map visions,” of what might be other domains. Working in this way, art making becomes a record of how to search, listen and respond multi-dimensionally while navigating a limitless expanse.
