The exhibition will feature work by each of the Dolby Chadwick Gallery artists who were paired as part of the Stay Inspired series. While the poetry pairings will not be integrated into the exhibition itself, they will appear in a gorgeous, fully illustrated hardcover coffee-table book titled Stay Inspired: Shelter in Place 2020, published on the occasion of the show. This volume presents an astounding selection of poetry. Voices included range from the thirteenth-century poet Rumi to former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to recent Nobel Prize in Literature winner Louise Glück. For each book sold through January 30, 2021, 50% of the sales price will be donated to No Kid Hungry, which has been doing important work to feed families most in need during these trying times.
EXHIBIT:
January-June, 2023
Hebrew College (New Campus) Newton, Massachusetts
If you missed it at the Museum of Fine Arts, or if you just want to revisit my 8-painting series “Eight Approaches,” it is now inaugurating the College’s new campus on Washington Street in Newton.
MUSEUM EXHIBIT:
December 15, 2022
5-10 pm
My painting series “Eight Approaches” is debuting in full at the MFA Boston! The paintings will be featured on the 15th as part of the Museum’s Chanukah celebration with JArts and CJP. (the event is included with general admission, only $5, members are free). If you read my recent essay “My Guston” you probably already have a sense of what a powerful juxtaposition it will be for my work to be hanging in the same museum just after Guston’s exhibit. I am thrilled to put these paintings in dialogue with the community and with the artists of the MFA.
Feature: ‘Eight Approaches’ weaves light, time and Jewish identity, by Penny Schwartz, Jewish Journal, December 2022.
LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS
Delighted to announce a very small edition of signed and numbered prints (only 25 available) in collaboration with Sebastian Foster and author John Seed. They teamed up to make a new set of selected artists from John’s book Disrupted Realism (if you don’t already have a copy, you should look for one of those as well!). The printing his beautiful and they are reasonably priced. “Ariel” is 11×14 inches, in a signed & numbered edition of 25.
BOOK:
For the philosophically inclined
My painting “Slower, Louder, Breathe” is featured on the cover of a brand-new book from Oxford Press. “Normativity and Agency” is edited and includes an essay by my friend, Philosopher Tamar Schapiro.
I just reread one of her essays from a few years ago. These lines will give you a sense of what I love about her writing, not to mention what I do every day in my studio: “We are in an internally unstable normative condition. Deliberation is our natural response to this instability…It is the activity, and the process, through which we humanize ourselves, over and over again.”
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
August 18 – 31, 2022
Rice Polak Gallery
430 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA
AWARD
2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Grant
I am grateful to the MCC for awarding me a 2022 painting grant!
ESSAY
A personal essay I wrote about Philip Guston. Read more>
EXHIBIT: Brooklyn
May 31, 2022-June 28, 2022
Site:Brooklyn Gallery
curated by Andi Campognone
EXHIBIT
Hebrew College Centennial Exhibition, curated by Deborah Feinstein
Sunday, April 3, 2022 | 5-7 p.m. (Exhibit runs April 3-June 14, 2022)
Opening reception featuring a live cantorial performance
Ted Cutler Atrium Hebrew College
160 Herrick Road Newton Center, MA 02459
ARTICLE
“Artists on their art” feature. Read more > | PDF>
AWARD
CJP awarded a round of grants to support Greater Boston creatives for projects that will include dance, documentary film, visual arts, and original music. The new round of grants, totaling $67,500 for nine artists and their teams, comes just six months after CJP invested $100,000 in 11 local artists. Read more >
EXHIBIT: Worcester
June 3—August 1, 2021
ArtsWorcester
44 Portland Street, Worcester, MA 01608
Curated by Beth C. McLaughlin, Artistic Director and Chief Curator at Fuller Craft Museum. The Nineteenth Biennial will be on view in the main galleries from June 3 through August 1, 2021. Free and open to the public. Masks are required indoors. No appointment necessary.
EXHIBIT & BOOK: San Francisco
December 10, 2020 — January 30, 2021
Dolby Chadwick Gallery
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
October 15 – November 3, 2020
Rice Polak Gallery
Over 40 artists will take you for a ride on the rapids of politics, social justice and
the effects of the pandemic on their work.
“The idea of the virtual show is to make people think, to stir things up and to peer into how the pandemic and the current political situation has affected the personal and creative lives of artists,” says director and curator, Marla Rice. With upheaval all around, how can we in the arts stay silent? A portion of the proceeds from sales will be donated to local non-profits including Lower Cape Outreach & Lower Cape
Food Pantry.
LIVE:
A 2020 virtual studio visit and interview by Laura Mandel of JArts, in which we discuss art, Kafka, time, Augustine, and my exhibit at the Rice Polak Gallery.
ARTICLE
POETRY
From a series of inspired pairings by Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Click the images for full size pdf
EXHIBIT:
Lyons Wier Gallery Online Exclusive Exhibition | @artsy
Featuring artwork by Chelsea Gibson, Mary Henderson, Joshua Meyer,
Cobi Moules, James Rieck, Cayce Zavaglia. For details:
https://www.artsy.net/show/lyons-wier-gallery-figurativism.
In our effort to conduct business as usual, Lyons Wier Gallery
can be reached via email, telephone, social media or in person by appointment.
PUBLICATION:
Twentieth-Century Literature
“A Blue Abulge” appears on the cover of the journal Twentieth-Century Literature (Vol 65, Num 4) from Duke University Press.
BOOK:
by John Seed
NOW IN ITS SECOND PRINTING! Disrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism. Schiffer Publishing, hardcover, 208 pages, 9 x 12 inches.
EXHIBIT: Philadelphia
Curated by John Seed
OPENING RECEPTION Friday, November 1st, 2019, 6-9 pm
November 1 – December 28, 2019
Stanek Gallery, 242 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 215.908.3277
The exhibition that inspired the book, Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World, returns to Stanek Gallery, featuring 33 artists from around the world, whose unique paintings have intrigued audiences and inspired generations of artists to come. Artworks featured in the book, written by John Seed and published by Schiffer publishing, will be on display together for the first time!
These highly accomplished artists, visionaries in a developing movement of great importance, explore with rawness and nuance the depths of human emotion and experience, communicating through paint the fragmentation of modern life.
FEATURE
EXHIBIT: Provincetown
September 5 – January 5, 2019
Rice Polak Gallery
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cape Cod
EXHIBIT: New York City
Lyons Wier Gallery
542 W 24th St, New York, New York
Artist Reception: Saturday, March 2nd 6–8 pm
February 26 – March 30, 2019
INTERVIEW
Interview with Aneleise Ruggles
Mosesian Center for the Arts
EXHIBIT: Boston
Mosesian Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472, 617-923-0100
Opening Reception, January 24, 2019, 5:30-7:30pm
January 24 – March 29, 2019
INTERVIEW
Interview with Ray Wiggs [30 minutes]
WOMR Radio
Also available as a podcast.
EXHIBIT
July 6 – 25, 2018
Rice Polak Gallery
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cape Cod
EXHIBIT
Charter Oak Cultural Center
Hartford, Connecticut
October 26 – November 18, 2017
Group show, Opening Reception: Thursday, October 26, 6-8 PM
EXHIBIT
Matter & Light Fine Art
Boston, Massachusetts
BOOK
The Art of Joshua Meyer 2000-2016
The 28-page catalog features art from the exhibit and a dialogue between Joshua Meyer and Ruth Weisberg. A pdf is available for download.
EXHIBIT
The Art of Joshua Meyer 2000-2016
The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA
August-December 2016 more>
EXHIBIT
“Ligaments,” on view at the Danforth Art Museum
June 19–August 21, 2016
Jessica Roscio, Curator, Danforth Art
REVIEW
Joshua Meyer’s Matter & Light debut “bristles with a push-pull energy” – The Boston Globe
