Boston’s Gallery Kayafas To Close After 21 Years
This week was a week of lasts at Gallery Kayafas in Boston. “Sitting here stuffing envelopes for the LAST exhibits,” owner Arlette Kayafas posted to social media a few days…Continue Reading →
In Bitetti’s ‘Gardening Because Murder Is Wrong,’ Plants Help Her ‘De-Stress/De-Rage’
During covid, Kathleen Bitetti’s neighbor cut down trees that had shaded her South Boston yard, so she began filling the small dirt plot behind the triple decker in which she…Continue Reading →
Pat Falco’s Elegy To A Disappearing Boston
Boston artist Pat Falco’s exhibition “A Graveyard in the Sun” at Gallery Kayafas in Boston from March 24 to April 29, 2023, is suffused with a forlorn feeling of loss–the…Continue Reading →
Mark Cooper’s ‘Bloomin’ At Gallery Kayafas
“Bloomin’ refers to new growth coming out of a harsh time,” Boston artist Mark Cooper writes of his exhibition “Bloomin'” at Gallery Kayafas in Boston from Dec. 10, 2022, to…Continue Reading →
Ellen Rich ‘Rub for Good Luck’
“This work began over two years ago as the covid warnings and the political climate became increasingly threatening,” Ellen Rich writes of her exhibition of abstract paintings “Rub for Good…Continue Reading →
Kathy Bitetti’s ‘The Sea Hates A Coward’ Collages
“These works are small scale visual odes to the power and terror of the ocean,” Boston artist Kathy Bitetti writes of her exhibition of collages “The Sea Hates a Coward”…Continue Reading →
What Photographer Bill Franson Found Along The Mason-Dixon Line
In 2015, Newbury photographer Bill Franson set out in search of the Mason-Dixon line—the the legendary boundary between America’s North and South, between the Civil War’s free and slave states.…Continue Reading →
Joseph Wheelwright Found The Fairy Tales Within Sticks And Stones And Bones
Joseph Wheelwright’s sculptures originate in myths or fairy tales—crescent moons with dreamy faces; ancient personages that seem to emerge from within boulders; magical forest-people created from uprooted trees towering nearly…Continue Reading →
Kimberly Witham’s Sweet And Somber Still-Life Photos
Kimberly Witham’s exhibition “On Beauty,” at Boston’s Gallery Kayafas from March 1 to April 6, 2019, offer lush still-life photos from 2017 and ’18. Her “On Beauty” series is sweet…Continue Reading →
Laura Chasman’s Paintings Of The Unwelcoming Architecture Of Art Galleries
“For more than 40 years I have been a painter of people, looking closely at their faces and what they reveal,” Laura Chasman writes of her current exhibition “Barely Visible”…Continue Reading →