Support Structures
Boston City Hall Mezzanine Gallery
SUPPORT STRUCTURES
Boston City Hall Mezzanine Gallery
Boston, MA
On View: Sept 1st – Oct 24th
Opening Reception + Artist Talk with Genevieve Cohen:
Thursday, September 25, 5-8:00 PM
Closing Reception + Performance
featuring MacKenzie LeTorré + Nora Stephens:
Thursday, October 23rd, 5-8:00 PM
The less we think of ourselves as objects of
someone else’s plan or power, the more we
realize we deserve comfort and joy; the more
we embrace our complexity rather than condemn
it as messy or inappropriate. And unlike success
or progress, which are judged from without by
societal measures, joy and comfort spring
from our ability to be present within ourselves.
- Cate McQuaid, writing for Ocean in a Drop
about A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests
ON VIEW: June 25 – August 21
Artist-led Tour and Performance
Tuesday, Aug 19th 6-8:00PM
Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University
515 South St, Waltham
In an era where artists grapple with creating meaningful work amid political turbulence and global fragility, Baldwin has curated something rare: a collection that doesn't merely respond to our moment but transforms it. Drawing from her own artistic sensibilities, she sought work defined by materiality, color, and above all, care.
- Adria Arch, writing for ART SPIEL about A Gathering: Gardens, Portals and Protests, curated by Olivia Baldwin for Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center
It begins with a gathering.
The 14 artists’ works in A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests center on materiality, color, and care. Set against the precarity of this moment, the exhibition celebrates acts of making and gathering that lead to a community. The artists defy tidy categorization. Within this shared space, their work reaffirms art’s capacity to hold complexity and resistance, and to act as a regenerative force: a garden, a portal, a protest.
Curated by Olivia Baldwin
CERF+ GRANT NEWS:
I’m happy to share that I’m a recipient of a CERF+ Get Ready Grant. CERF+ provides grants for craft artists to safeguard their studios, protect their practices and prepare for emergencies.
I had been witnessing water damage around the old doors of my studio for a while. My CERF+ grant provided funding to replace the studio doors and have them properly installed. Many thanks to the CERF+ organization. It’s reassuring to know that my workspace and artwork are now secure and safe.
The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) serves craft artists across the US and territories by providing education programs, advocacy, network building, and emergency relief. https://www.cerfplus.org
P L A C E H O L D E R S
Peep Projects
1400 N American St. #109
Philadelphia, PA
April 10 – May 10, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 10 | 6-9pm
Closing Reception: Thursday, May 8 | 6-9pm
Peep is pleased to present, Placeholders, a group show
curated by Shira Fields, featuring artists Katina Bitsicas,
Arnab Gan Choudhury, Kate Holcomb Hale,
and Massiel Mafes. Each artist, hailing from diverse
backgrounds explores themes of longing, grief,
displacement, and a sense of belonging in relation
to home.
Peep Projects is open Saturdays from 12-5pm
or schedule a visit
EMPATHIC ENGAGEMENTS IN THE
VISUAL ARTS
Mackenzie LeTorré, Nora Stephens and I were fortunate to have our collaboration featured in Noelle Roop's essay, Art as Empathetic Connection: Ways to Heal the Brain and Soul from Trauma.
Roop's essay on the power of art to foster empathy and connection and heal trauma is included in the book,
History, Practice and Pedagogy: Empathic Engagements in the Visual Arts
edited by Susan Barahal and Elizabeth Pugliano.
Curated by Catherine LeComte Lecce, TEND brings together artists exploring the dynamics of caregiving and familial relationships through a diverse range of mediums, including photography, textiles, sculpture and mixed-media. This exhibition invites viewers to engage with the intimate, personal and often unseen labor of caregiving, and its profound influence on how we understand family, ancestry and domesticity. TEND offers a thoughtful examination of the complexities of care, highlighting its impact on identity and connection within familial and communal spaces.
ON VIEW: Oct 22 – Dec 29
The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Boston
ACTS OF CREATION NORTH AMERICAN COMPETITION:
To celebrate the North American publication of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood author and curator, Hettie Judah, selected work by artist parents to feature on her Instagram over the course of the month of September. My soft sculpture, I'm gonna sleep like a stone falling off a cliff, was one of the 31 artworks chosen for Hettie Judah's long-list.
To Lay on Ground
and Sky
Please join artists Emily Auchincloss and Kate Holcomb Hale on Sunday, September 15 for a gathering and exhibition of fiber-based works at Larz Anderson Park in Brookline MA. For one day only their artwork will create brief encounters with/in a natural setting.
Where: Larz Anderson Park
15 Newton Street, Brookline MA
When: Sunday, Sept 15
Time: 2-5:00 pm
Rain Date: Sunday, Sept 22
Residency News:
I’m excited to share that I will be a Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) this February, 2025. I will be in residence at the Mt San Angelo location in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Amherst, Virginia. I look forward to this focused time dedicated to art making and research alongside a cohort of writers, visual artists and composers.
BREEZEWAY PROJECTS
Excited to show work with Breezeway Projects, a new pop-up space in the suburbs of Boston. Their inaugural exhibition, A summer's breeze, featured artists: Adria Arch, Olivia Baldwin, Kate Holcomb Hale and Leah Piepgras.
RESHAPING ABSTRACTION
Reshaping Abstraction brings together a selection of contemporary artists that revel in the freedom of abstraction. Sculptural approaches abound, characterized by the manipulation of painted wood, plastic, paper, unstretched canvas, dyed yarn and fiber. The exhibition celebrates a spirit of vitality and the radical act it is to be joyful and buoyant against a world that has so much difficulty. By reshaping abstract painting and sculpture into new hybrids and formulations of color, shape and line, they beckon us, inviting us into a conversation with the work that engages our minds as well as our senses.
Curated by Adria Arch
Painting&
Boston University Stone Gallery
"The artwork presented in this exhibition draws from artists’ established painting practices while offering space for newly commissioned work to unfold in a large-scale installation format. Distilled into four distinct expressions of painting in the expanded field, Painting& interrogates the definition and delineation of a medium through augmentation, amendment, and expansion. It’s both something and something more.”
-Mallory Ruymann, curator
ON VIEW : January 18–March 8, 2024
EXHIBITING ARTISTS :
Cicely Carew
Kate Holcomb Hale
Soyoung L Kim
Chanel Thervil
Opening reception : Thursday, January 18th 6-8:00 pm
Closing artist panel discussion : Wednesday, March 6th 6-8:00 pm
Missives from the Care Bubble
I recently had the privilege of speaking with Cate McQuaid, art critic for The Boston Globe, about my solo exhibition "lean, STAND, COLlapse" at the Danforth Museum of Art. We chatted about loss, creating a bubble of care, receptivity and leaning into collaboration.
"The paint-mottled, inverted table with splayed legs anchors a domestic space. Other tables slouch and slump against a wall. Talking with Kate, I described the show as “receptive” a lot, and I kept leaning back and splaying my arms – needing, somehow, to reenact what I saw: Exhausted figures, soft places to fall. “Lean, STAND, Collapse” is a place I felt I could bring my stress, be accepted, and begin to relax."
-Cate McQuaid
You can watch the entire zoom interview HERE
lean, STAND, COLlapse
ABOUT
My solo exhibition, lean, STAND, COLlapse, opens October 7th at The Danforth Art Museum. The gallery will operate as stand-in for the domestic sphere as kitchen tables and fragments of home serve as vehicles to consider the invisible labor of care, grief, and the residue of families. Part of an ongoing collaboration with my soft sculptures, Nora Stephens and MacKenzie LeTorré will debut their live performance WE ALWAYS GET BACK UP in the museum on October 21st. A single-channel video of our collaboration will also be featured in the exhibition.
ON VIEW : October 7, 2023 to January 28, 2024
Opening Reception : Saturday, October 14th 6-8:00 PM
Dance Performance : Saturday, October 21st 3:00 PM *SOLD OUT
Encore Dance Performance : Saturday, January 14th 12:30 PM *SOLD OUT
Artist Talk w/Dr. Noelle Roop : Sunday, January 28th 3:00 PM
*photography by Wendell Pierre
I'm excited to share that this summer I will be attending the Jenny Family Residency in New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia. My family and I will be spending 2 weeks in July at a summer home across the road from Baie Sainte-Marie that Maine College of Art & Design alumni Barbara Rita Jenny MFA '02 donated as a unique residency inclusive of an artist's partners and families.
I'm excited to share my work has been selected for the Mother Art Prize group exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection in London, March 30 – June 25, 2023.
21 artists among 630 entries from 36 countries were selected this year by:
- Dr. Charlotte Bonham-Carter (Independent curator + writer, and Head of International Partnerships, CCW, University of the Arts London)
- Niamh Coghlan (Director, Richard Saltoun Gallery)
- Pauline de Souza (Director, Diversity Art Forum)
- Caroline Douglas (Director, Contemporary Art Society)
- Touria El Glaoui (Director of 1-54 Art Fair)
Established and curated by Procreate Project, the Mother Art Prize is the only international prize for self-identifying women and non-binary visual artists with caring responsibilities.
The selected artworks are connected by a deep urge to address intersectional socio-cultural matters. Visitors are invited to engage with works that speak of the tension between a capitalistic culture and the lived experiences of those living at the margins: those who are raised in the diasporas, those who are living in poverty and with disabilities, those playing with the notions of ‘human’, the female, the pregnant and the mother. Across a range of media, with differing styles of expression and cultural perspectives, and a touch of humor, these artists create a conversation between history, contemporary lives and the future.
Order "Mother Art Prize: 4th Edition"
A selection of my paper clay works are now available via TROVE, Deanna Evans Projects’ new platform. TROVE is an online destination for great, affordable small artworks and works on paper from the best emerging artists. TROVE evolved from many years of DEP's successful online flat file, and is a unique opportunity to collect work straight from an artist's studio.
Deanna Evans Projects
373 Broadway, E15, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013
https://www.deannaevansprojects.com/paintings-1k
enclose (kitchen cabinet), 2022
paper clay, pastel
6.5 x 7.5 x .75 inches (work)
*12 x 15 inch framed included
$650.00
store (china cabinet), 2022
paper clay, pastel
7 x 5 x 1 inches (work)
*12 x 15 inch framed included
$600.00
support (bedside table), 2022
Paper clay, pastel
7 x 9 x 2 inches (work)
*12 x 15 inch framed included
$750.00
stumble (staircase), 2023
Paper clay, pastel
7 x 10 x 2.25 inches (work)
*12 x 15 inch framed included
$800.00
T H E
B O S T O N
G L O B E
"The fourth trimester is a portal that ripples
across and beyond life like Hildebrandt-Hussey’s
concentric circles. The reverence with which these
artists treat this transitional time calls attention
to how easily our society shrugs it off, and helps
us envision better physical, soulful care."
-Cate McQuaid
IN THE FOURTH TRIMESTER
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18th
6 pm to 9 pm
The barn at 18 Mill Lane • Arlington, MA
The exhibition includes works by
Emily Auchincloss
Cicely Carew
Maya Erdelyi
Kate Holcomb Hale
Katrine Hildebrandt
Alison Judd
Crystalle Lacouture
Joetta Maue
Meghan Morris
Nadya Volicer
Eva Zasloff
Fragments of Home:
In Conversation with Kate Holcomb Hale
“Fragments of Home: In Conversation with Kate Holcomb Hale” is featured in the recent issue of Boston Art Review Issue 09: BURNOUT. Shana Dumont Garr, contemporary art curator, writer and educator, visited Kate in her home studio to discuss burnout, the invisible labor of families. grief and how the domestic sphere can inform one’s artistic viewpoint.
About Issue 09: Burnout
This issue is dedicated to exploring how burnout can act as a catalyst for collaborating and collective organizing while also acknowledging the necessity for care in moments of exhaustion. The work presented in this issue digs into the complex power dynamics inherent to labor, care work, and unseen effort. How does burnout lead to precarity for small organizations, art spaces, or even personal practices? What does a post-burnout culture look like? Purchase Issue 09 or subscribe via the link below.
SPILT MILK GALLERY
Edinburgh, Scotland
EH7 6AE United Kingdom
ON VIEW
Oct 8-29th 2022
Cartography of Care is an exhibition curated in response to the idea of an emotional atlas. It brings together the work of an international group of artist mothers working across a variety of disciplines to explore how we might map the human experience of caregiving. The exhibition considers the relationships between geographies, maps and emotions and traces the physical and interior journeys and landscapes of these artists: Artworks which explore how the experience of care can be physically mapped on the maternal body, in domestic space, in our relationships with ourselves, and in how we care for others in times of crisis.
Visit the exhibition page for more details
*above image Juliette Berkeley; Crow and Mamie, from the Life and Songs of the Crow, oil on canvas.
A LONG LINE
Gallery 263
Cambridge, MA
ON VIEW
9/8 – 10/8/22
Gallery 263 is pleased to announce A Long Line, a national group exhibition. This show is juried by Erika b Hess, painter, curator and the host of the I Like Your Work podcast. In A Long Line, the 18 featured artists present work that considers familial connections, whether the representation is genealogical or more broadly defined.
Utilizing photography, painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, textile, graphic design, printmaking, installation, and sculpture, this group of artists shares intimate contemplations of lineage. Most use objects imbued with meaning––including lottery scratch-off tickets, family photographs, and paper records––as medium or inspiration to examine familial relationships. Themes of memory, domesticity, labor, class, immigration, identity, and more are all on view in this exhibition.
FEATURED ARTISTS: Brenda Ciardiello, Catherine LeComte, Devin Howell Curry, Diana Jean Puglisi, Donna Gordon, Erik Grau, James Estrada, Jila Mannani, Kara Patrowicz, Kate Holcomb Hale, Krystle Brown, L. Fayiza Wright, Patrick Brennan, Sarah Cassani, Sarah Wondrack, Scott Lerner, Sofia Berger, Wenxin Zhao
Header Image: “Pietá-Felicitá (Danaus Plexxipus: sleepy transformation)” by Brenda Ciardiello
Cicely Carew x Kate Holcomb Hale
— Is it Wednesday Yet?
Cicely Carew x Kate Holcomb Hale
— LaiSun Keane Gallery
460C Harrison Ave, Boston
— May 6 -29, 2022
Opening May 6th 5-8PM
Exploring the nature of collaboration, communication and connection, artists Cicely Carew and Kate Holcomb Hale come together in LaiSun Keane Gallery’s May exhibition, Is It Wednesday Yet?. The exhibition will include new collections of each artist’s individual works, as well as works the artists created together to activate the gallery space.
The Boston-based artists each make abstracted sculptures using unusual, found and common household materials, embracing color and exalting prosaic objects and materials into a discourse on ephemerality and the desire to make the invisible visible.
Is It Wednesday Yet? will be on view May 6-29, 2022 at LaiSun Keane Gallery, 460C Harrison Ave C8A, Boston MA 02118.
Visit our exhibition page for more info and materials
Photo credit: Joyelle West
Aurelia Wrenn, The Summer's Last Watermelon, 2020
POETICS OF PROCESS: 2022 Maine College of Art + Design Alumni Triennial
ICA at Maine College of Art + Design
ON VIEW January 28 – March 12
FEATURED ARTISTS: Ellen Babcock '84, Adam Chau '10, Elijah River Dion '19, Dylan Hausthor '15, Kate Holcomb Hale MFA '07, Cade Jarvis '20, Sandra Lapage MFA '13, Addison de Lisle '11, Olivier '19, Lynn Simmons '01, Brian Smith MFA '20, Lin Snow '20, C. David Thomas '68, Evelayn Wong MFA '19, Paula Wood MFA '04, Aurelia Wrenn '20, Jay York '80
Poetics of Process brings together seventeen artists whose work often settles within a hybrid space of imaginative making and unmaking; ritual and rigour; and documenting the everyday. The exhibition proposes intimate strategies and coping mechanisms for navigating the current socio-political climate. The last two years have caused the world to pause, reflect and reimagine and the works that make up this exhibition mirror this moment through their materiality, visible labor, and conceptual underpinnings. There is something powerful in the terrain of the everyday and the deliberate ways in which meaning can be made. As the artist and educator, Manny Farber writes in his seminal 1962 essay White Elephant vs. Termite Art, “A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
Kate McNamara, Guest Juror
Kate McNamara is a curator and educator based in Providence, RI. She currently holds the position of Executive and Creative Director of My HomeCourt, a nonprofit arts organization working with contemporary artists to revitalize city parks. McNamara is also Curator-at-Large at Providence College-Galleries; administrator at Interlace Grant Fund; and is a Visiting Critic at RISD and Sotheby's Institute of Art.
Photograph by Carolyn Wachnicki, courtesy of Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D
JOYFUL | SPACES OF GATHERING
Opening November 23, 2021 and on view through January 2, 2022, this environmental site-responsive installation brings together local artists and global travelers in a celebration of reconnecting and coming together in spaces of gathering.
We invite everyone to stop by @ninezerohotelboston to experience joy, whimsy, and wonder by seeing the work of a fantastic group of artists living in and around Boston:
Image credit: Detail of Maya Erdelyi’s “Ode to LA #14,” 2021.
Collage, monoprints, silkscreen. 14 x 14 x 3.5 (inches).
ALCHEMIZED DIMENSIONS
A GROUP EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY
THE PRAISE SHADOWS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
AUGUST 12, 2021 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: 5 TO 8 PM, THURSDAY AUGUST 12
313A HARVARD STREET, BROOKLINE, MA 02446
Praise Shadows Art Gallery is pleased to present Alchemized Dimensions, the first exhibition in the Praise Shadows Mentorship Program. Organized by 2021 mentees Sahara Curry and Liana Rice, with Curatorial Advisor Leah Triplett Harrington, the artists in the group exhibition include Caleb Brown, Samantha Fields, Brian Christopher Glaser, Garrett Gould, Kate Holcomb Hale, and Sa’dia Rehman. The works include drawing, installation, sculpture, painting, and textile.
Commission for Google's
permanent collection
Cambridge, MA
"Is your body in the group?"
Mixed-media installation
Charcoal, acrylic paint, paper
and decal vinyl
6' x 23' x 4"
2021
I’m happy to share the news that last year I was commissioned by Google to create an installation for their permanent collection in Cambridge, MA. My mixed-media installation “Is your body in the group?” is installed at their recently expanded Cambridge location (opening later in 2021).
It was an amazing opportunity to grace the walls of Google alongside so many talented Boston-area artists. Many thanks to Mallory Ruymann and Natalie Lemle at art_work.s who were a dream to work with and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery for being a proponent of my work for this project.
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THE
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“Drawing from the past”
by Cate McQuaid
December 13, 2019
