
July 2018
Dance Like No One is Whale Watching
An immersive experience and play space created to evoke the fantasy of life as an orca whale presented by a team of nationally recognized performance artists at the conclusion of a residency at MAGMA.
Find out more »Opening Reception for Ruth Mordecai
A public reception for Ruth Mordecai in celebration of her solo exhibition New Works on Paper, on view July 14 – August 12, 2018.
Find out more »Ruth Mordecai: New Works on Paper
New works on paper by artist Ruth Mordecai responding to a myth of a letter missing from the Hebrew alphabet, which when revealed in the future “will create undreamed of words and worlds.”
Find out more »June 2018
Opening Reception for Peter Lyons
A public reception for Peter Lyons in celebration of his solo exhibition On-Ramp, on view June 9 – July 8, 2018.
Find out more »Peter Lyons: On-Ramp
An exhibition of new and recent oil paintings by Peter Lyons. The centerpiece is a triumphant scene of Mount Yōtei in Hokkaidō, Japan, which pays homage to the unities within Japanese art and culture of religious and secular life, of representation and abstraction, and of the natural and the stylized.
Find out more »May 2018
Opening Reception — Erma Wheeler: Parallels
A public reception in celebration of the exhibition Erma Wheeler: Parallels.
Find out more »Erma Wheeler: Parallels
An exhibition of sumptuous, sophisticated watercolor paintings from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s by Erma Wheeler .
Find out more »March 2018
Opening Reception — Zygmund Jankowski: Spring Flowers
A public reception in celebration of the exhibition Zygmund Jankowski: Spring Flowers.
Find out more »Zygmund Jankowski: Spring Flowers
An exhibition of studio views, still lifes, and flower paintings in watercolor and oil by Zygmund Jankowski, featuring significant paintings which have until recently been in private collections, and paintings from the artist’s estate which have not been shown before.
Find out more »January 2018
Exercises for the Quiet Eye
Museum educator Annie Storr presents “Exercises for the Quiet Eye,” an informal guided tour of the exhibition which encourages avoiding a rush to understand what one sees.
Find out more »December 2017
Book Launch and Signing Party: Cape Ann Narratives of Art in Life
Book Launch reception and signing party for Martin Ray's Cape Ann Narratives of Life in Art
Find out more »October 2017
ƐDGE3: EDGE Exhibition, Phase 3
A group show featuring new paintings by Peter Lyons.
Find out more »Boston International Fine Art Show, 2017
Trident Gallery showed work by Peter Lyons, Winston Boyer, and Zygmund Jankowski in Booth 17 at the 2017 Boston International Fine Art Show.
Find out more »EDGE: The Exhibition, phase 2
A group exhibition featuring art about the Gloucester coastline, in homage to the Cape Ann Plein Air traditions being celebrated in the 2017 Cape Ann Plein Air Festival.
Find out more »September 2017
EDGE: benefit performance
The 2nd Annual Ocean Alliance Labor Day weekend art exhibition and Fundraiser Gala in partnership with Trident Gallery and the Trident Live Art Series will be celebrating contemporary viewpoints of the sea and maritime history on location at the Ocean Alliance Headquarters, the historic Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory.
Find out more »EDGE
The 2nd Annual Ocean Alliance Labor Day weekend art exhibition and Fundraiser Gala in partnership with Trident Gallery and the Trident Live Art Series will be celebrating contemporary viewpoints of the sea and maritime history on location at the Ocean Alliance Headquarters, the historic Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory.
Find out more »August 2017
A Conversation with Ed Touchette
A conversation with Ed Touchette about his artistic process and recent work on the occasion of his solo exhibition New Construction.
Find out more »Opening Reception for Ed Touchette
A public reception for Ed Touchette in celebration of his exhibition New Construction.
Find out more »Ed Touchette: New Construction
An exhibition of new paintings on canvas and paper by Ed Touchette offering a vision of a chaotic utopia inspired by architectural wonder and poetical imagination.
Find out more »July 2017
A Conversation with Nadine Boughton
A conversation with Nadine Boughton about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her solo exhibition Where I Come From.
Find out more »Opening Reception for Nadine Boughton
A public reception for Nadine Boughton in celebration of her exhibition Where I Come From, on view July 15 – August 13, 2017.
Find out more »Nadine Boughton: Where I Come From
An exhibition of new collage works by Nadine Boughton: from the ongoing series Fortune and the Feminine and two new series, The Modess Women, based on a wildly successful ad campaign, and an autobiographical series, Where I Come From, which pays homage to the disappearing material vernacular photographs of family albums.
Find out more »June 2017
A Conversation with Gabrielle Barzaghi
A conversation with Gabrielle Barzaghi about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her solo exhibition Perfect World.
Find out more »Opening Reception for Gabrielle Barzaghi
A public reception for Gabrielle Barzaghi in celebration of her exhibition Perfect World.
Find out more »Gabrielle Barzaghi: Perfect World
Ten new drawings and a major new work, a cycle of 15 drawings entitled Stoning Charlotte Brontë, affirm Gabrielle Barzaghi’s power to embrace complexity with aesthetic harmony, to portray the entanglement of beauty and understanding.
Find out more »May 2017
A Conversation with Diane Ayott
A conversation with Diane Ayott about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of the two-artist exhibition Coming Round.
Find out more »Opening Reception for Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich
A public reception for Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich in celebration of their exhibition Coming Round.
Find out more »Coming Round
An exhibition of thirty exquisite mixed media paintings and collage by Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich.
Find out more »April 2017
The Political Body: Closing Party and Performance
Closing Reception for the public and the artists represented in the exhibition The Political Body, followed by a staging of Sonic Images by Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) and improvised responses by community artists.
Find out more »AD20/21 2017
Trident Gallery showed works on paper by Pamela Ellis Hawkes, Zygmund Jankowski, Ruth Mordecai, Diane Ayott, and Susan Erony at the 2016 AD20/21 art fair.
Find out more »The Political Body in Art: A Panel Discussion
A panel discussion examining the human body as vehicle for the relationships between art and politics in connection with the visual art exhibition The Political Body.
Find out more »March 2017
The Political Body
An exhibition of art on the political dimensions of the body, which opens with a performance and a panel discussion.
Find out more »January 2017
December 2016
Reception for Gordon Goetemann, Painter, 1933-2016
A public reception in celebration of the exhibition Gordon Goetemann, Painter, 1933–2016 and the Vault Room exhibition of new paintings by Eileen Mueller.
Find out more »Gordon Goetemann, Painter, 1933-2016
A selection of paintings and drawings from the estate of Gordon Goetemann (1933-2016), who painted in Gloucester for 62 years and became a figurehead of of the Rocky Neck Art Colony.
Simultaneously in the Vault Room, Trident Gallery presents four new paintings by Eileen Mueller, who in the tradition of Romano and Goetemann avidly and intelligently pursues a visual language for evolving responses to our natural environment.
Find out more »November 2016
Towers and Other Thoughts in Performance
An exploration through performance of ideas and materials informing the exhibition Towers and Other Thoughts of mixed media paintings by artist Susan Erony.
Find out more »A Conversation with Susan Erony
A conversation with Susan Erony about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her solo exhibition Towers and Other Thoughts.
Find out more »October 2016
Opening Reception for Susan Erony
A public reception for artist Susan Erony in celebration of her exhibition Towers and Other Thoughts.
Find out more »Susan Erony: Towers and Other Thoughts
An exhibition of mixed media paintings by Susan Erony having motifs of towers and human hands.
Find out more »September 2016
Reception for Zygmund Jankowski: Unscripted
A public reception in celebration of the exhibition Zygmund Jankowski: Unscripted. Friends, family, and students of Zygmund Jankowski will be present, and the guest of honor will be Myra Hall, the artist's partner and muse for over thirty years until his death in 2009.
Find out more »Zygmund Jankowski: Unscripted
Exceptional examples of Zygmund Jankowski’s landscapes, seascapes, farmscapes, jazz, florals, still lifes, self-portraits, and biplanes.
Find out more »August 2016
A Conversation with Ruth Mordecai
A conversation with Ruth Mordecai about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her exhibition Works on Paper.
Find out more »Reception for Ruth Mordecai
A public reception for Ruth Mordecai in celebration of her exhibition Works on Paper.
Find out more »Ruth Mordecai: Works on Paper
An exhibition of recent paintings on paper by Ruth Mordecai.
Find out more »July 2016
Auto-Body-Graphic II
Auto-Body-Graphic II by Vincent Cacialano is a dance-media performance in collaboration with the Internet, exploring how language, media, and technology form and imprint meaning in the body and the mind. The evening's program also includes two dance films, collaborations between Cacialano and Alan McDermott, and an opening act of electronic music by My Brother Daniel (Scott D. Buchanan).
Find out more »Reception for Pamela Ellis Hawkes
A public reception for Pamela Ellis Hawkes in celebration of her exhibition Archives and Artifacts.
Find out more »Nadine Boughton featured on Lenscratch
Nadine Boughton's series of collages Fortune and the Feminine is featured on on the widely-read photography blog Lenscratch. The post contains commentary and images.
Find out more »Pamela Ellis Hawkes: Archives and Artifacts
An exhibition of photographs by Pamela Ellis Hawkes which continue the artist’s provocative explorations of the changing meanings of images in past and present cultures.
Find out more »June 2016
Painting and Photography: A Conversation with Winston Boyer
Going against the grain from the outset of his career, Winston Boyer has embraced all the visual arts as a photographer’s heritage, creative matrix and inspiration. Boyer will describe his career-long engagement with sculpture, architecture, cinema, and particularly with painting in a visual presentation
Find out more »Reception for Winston Boyer
A public reception for Winston Swift Boyer in celebration of his exhibition Ocean.
Find out more »Winston Boyer: Ocean
An exhibition of large scale photographs of ocean horizons by Winston Boyer
Find out more »May 2016
A Conversation with Nubar Alexanian
A moderated conversation with Nubar Alexanian, artist and author of the recently published limited edition large-format book of photographs Gloucester: When the Fish Came First.
Find out more »Reception for Peter Lyons
A public reception for Peter Lyons in celebration of his exhibition American Spring.
Find out more »Nadine Boughton on The Fence in Boston
Six images from Nadine Boughton’s Fortune and the Feminine series of collages have been selected for inclusion on The Fence, an outdoor photography exhibition series in Boston's SOWA district. The installation opens in conjunction with the Flash Forward Festival in Boston, featuring eight days of free international and New England photography.
Find out more »April 2016
Peter Lyons: American Spring
An exhibition of fifteen landscape paintings in oil by Peter Lyons. Six large paintings in the exhibition are major works, representing the artist at the height of his creative power and focused vision.
Find out more »Gabrielle Barzaghi at the Cape Ann Museum
Gabrielle Barzaghi’s large drawing The Stream is in the collection of the Cape Ann Museum and is now on display again on the third floor.
Find out more »AD20/21 2016
Trident Gallery showed works on paper by four represented artists at the 2016 AD20/21 art fair.
Find out more »Gabrielle Barzaghi: New Drawings at Glen Urquhart
The Glen Urquhart School in Beverly MA is showing seven drawings by Gabrielle Barzaghi from April 1 through May 13, 2016, in an exhibition entitled Gabrielle Barzaghi: Recent Drawings.
Find out more »March 2016
me is you (the space between us and them)
An installation and dance performance exploring performance as empathetic exchange.
Find out more »In the Time We Have
An exhibition of new and selected works of art reflecting themes of time, ephemerality, and maturity.
Find out more »February 2016
Nest: The Reception
A public wine and cheese reception to celebrate the exhibition Nest.
Find out more »Nest: The Performances
Part of the ongoing exhibition Nest, an evening of performance art will develop the exploration of the theme of birds’ nests and invite public participation. Cellist Kristen Miller and dancer Sarah Slifer Swift will present a new duet, Kate Tarlow Morgan will create a performance environment, and other contributors will share poetry and movement.
Find out more »January 2016
NEST
This year’s partnership with the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon explores birds’ nests as wondrous natural objects, emblems of shelter, and monuments in the cycle of life and death.
Find out more »December 2015
Reception for Diane Ayott
A reception for Diane Ayott in celebration of her exhibition Love in December.
Find out more »Diane Ayott: Love in December
An exhibition of colorful, patterned, abstract mixed media paintings by Diane Ayott.
Find out more »October 2015
Patti Sullivan: New Paintings
A series of new paintings by one of Gloucester’s great expressionist and colorist landscape artists.
Find out more »Boston International Fine Art Show, 2015
Trident Gallery showed six paintings by Peter Lyons at the 2015 Boston International Fine Art Show.
Find out more »Invisible Cities in Performance
An exploration of Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cites through performance, involving spoken text, music, visual art, projected images, and dance, produced by Gallery Director Matthew Swift, Trident Live Art Series Director Sarah Slifer Swift, and artist Ed Touchette.
Find out more »September 2015
Ed Touchette: Lessons, Barns, and Other Structures
An exhibition of paintings from an ongoing series which reveals and is an homage to influences from the artist’s earliest years as a student of art and architecture.
Find out more »August 2015
Music, Dance, and Animation in Performance
Electronic music, an animated dance film, and a duet dance performance.
Find out more »Beyond Real: Contemporary Landscapes
A group exhibition offering more than fifty paintings, drawings, photographs, and mixed media works in the genre of landscape, chosen to represent a diversity of artistic approaches.
Find out more »July 2015
Nadine Boughton: American Home
For the last twelve years, Nadine Boughton has used a digital process to compose collages of mid-century vintage materials. By placing disparate imagery into creative juxtaposition, she fashions witty, provocative narratives that engage and reveal the popular cultures and the psychologies of both the mid-century and contemporary eras. Her collages sparkle with humor, surprise, and uncategorizable blends of fantasy and the familiar, and of darkness and fun.
Find out more »June 2015
Music and Dance in Performance
Trident Gallery is pleased to present the Ipswich Moving Company, led by artistic director and choreographer Janet Craft, and the Boston-based improvisational music trio of Emilio Gonzalez, Matt Samolis, and Dei Xhrist for a Trident Live Art Series performance of modern dance and improvisational music. The Ipswich Moving Company will present four excerpts from Look, Look Again / Dance Installation (2015), and the musicians will present Space Abstraction Study #6, an improvisational piece for amplified kalimba, flute, and voice/movement. The Ipswich Moving Company is a professional modern dance company based in Ipswich MA led by Janet Taisey Craft for over…
Find out more »Gabrielle Barzaghi: When Objects Dream
An exhibition of fourteen new drawings by Gabrielle Barzaghi in which the artist’s wide-ranging, mythic imagination becomes more explicitly historical. Artifacts from the realms of play and art are freighted with human context and glow with the nearly magical aura of their material histories—these are the objects’ dreams.
Find out more »May 2015
Three New Dance Works
Trident Gallery is pleased to host this ninth Trident Live Art Series performance with three acclaimed choreographers, all professors of dance at Salem State University. Three showcases the distinct choreographic voices of Caitlin Corbett, Meghan McLyman, and James Morrow in the intimate setting of Trident Gallery. Program James Morrow brings his solo I met the soul walking along my path. The piece confronts the ways that patriarchal culture keeps men from knowing themselves. Through moments of violence and vulnerability Morrow breaks through levels of conditioning in order to find ways of expression. Meghan McLyman is…
Find out more »March 2015
X
The Trident Live Art Series presents Stephen Hastings-King’s X, a contemporary work of fiction staged as a reading with audio and visual elements. X is the story of a parasite in forty parts. It was constructed as a series of inversions. X is circular, without beginning or end. X is a situation put into motion. It would work its way into your head. Stephen Hastings-King lives by a salt marsh in Essex, Massachusetts, where he makes constraints, works with prepared piano, and writes entertainments of various kinds. His short fictions have appeared in Sleepingfish, Black Warrior Review, elimae and elsewhere.
Find out more »AD20/21 2015
Trident Gallery showed works on paper by eight represented artists at the 2015 AD20/21 art fair.
Find out more »Spring Improvisations
During Spring Improvisations, special offerings and recent work by gallery artists will be on display and may change frequently and improvisationally. Stop into the gallery regularly to see new work and tell the Director what you’d like to see next.
Find out more »January 2015
Stone Stairway Stories
A performance piece by Carl Thomsen (dance) and Julie Cleveland (digital piano), which continues Thomsen’s decades-long exploration of the interface between dance, music, and storytelling.
Find out more »The Art of Natural History
An exhibition reprising last year’s winter partnership with the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon and curated with two organizing ideas: Charles Darwin’s famous closing paragraph of On The Origin of Species, and the idea that the art in the exhibition should straddle the boundary between documentation and interpretation of the natural world.
Find out more »November 2014
Lynn Swigart: Favorites
Favorites brings together a selection of twenty-two black-and-white and five color photographs by Lynn Swigart, which are among the artist’s favorites from his distinguished career.
Find out more »Dance in Dialogue
Part I: Kate Tarlow Morgan, dance and storytelling. Part II: Sarah Slifer Swift and Loren Doucette, dance and painting.
Find out more »Boston International Fine Art Show, 2014
Trident Gallery showed works by gallery artists at the Boston International Fine Art Show in 2014.
Find out more »October 2014
Eileen Mueller: Muses
An exhibition of Eileen Mueller's recent oil paintings of the landscapes and sea vistas of Cape Ann.
Find out more »September 2014
Susan Erony: Review
An exhibition of Susan Erony’s art of testimony, remembrance, and affirmation of the human capacity for good and evil, Review reintroduces collectors and the public to the artist’s disciplined and forceful body of work from 1993 to the present, and to her themes of inhumanity and displacement, the solace and refuge of art, and the interplay of innocence, knowing, and not wanting to know.
Find out more »August 2014
Auto-Body-Graphic
A dance-media performance in collaboration with the internet, by dancer and performance artist Vincent Cacialano, visiting from the UK.
Find out more »Ruth Mordecai: New Works on Paper
An exhibition of new paintings, collages, and monotypes on paper by Ruth Mordecai.
Find out more »July 2014
Harbortown 2014
An exhibition celebrating Gloucester Harbor and the area’s legacy of more than 150 years of excellence in the visual arts, displaying works of art by eighteen Cape Ann artists, including four guest artists, and introducing Gloucester artist Ed Touchette, now represented by Trident Gallery.
Find out more »May 2014
Dennis Flavin: Figures
An exhibition of figure paintings and drawings by Dennis Flavin.
Find out more »Kristen Miller and Junichi Fukuda
Cellist, singer, and composer Kristen Miller will play a set of her lush and original work, and dancer Junichi Fukuda will present his solo “Eclosion.” A performance surprise is also in store.
Find out more »Remembering Zyg
Four speakers share memories and reflections on the life and art of artist Zygmund Jankowski.
Find out more »April 2014
Zygmund Jankowski: A Celebration of Life
An exhibition of exceptional and historically important oil and watercolor paintings from the estate of Zgmund Jankowski (1925–2009).
Find out more »Antennae
Emily Beattie and Brian Knoth present an interactive dance and sound performance at Trident Gallery. Sensors detecting Emily’s movement drive the production of sounds through a system developed by Knoth. Space becomes an instrument that Emily can play, bending sound with her body. The dancer negotiates a compilation of interactive, recorded, and live sounds, exploring what it might look like to decipher noise through the body, searching for a solid signal.
Find out more »March 2014
Pale Shadows: Cameraless Images by Pamela Ellis Hawkes
Trident Gallery’s first one-artist exhibition begins on the first day of spring, 2014, with the work of innovative Rockport photographer Pamela Ellis Hawkes in both modern and early photographic media.
Find out more »All Over Again
An evening of music and dance performance heralds the return of spring and again unites the visual and performing arts, marking the beginning of “Persephone’s Return.” Multi-instrumentalist composers Nathan Cohen and Anthony Leva explore sonic geographies and genres. Dancers Olivier Besson and Chandra Cantor improvise duets with poetic intimacy, striking clarity, and dynamic surprise.
Find out more »January 2014
Then it seemed beautiful
The inaugural Trident Live Art Series performance, shown during the Stillness phase of the ambitious Winter Meditations exhibition series, featured choreography by Sarah Slifer Swift performed by her and three other dancers to Morton Feldman’s vocal composition Three Voices, a piece written for singer Joan La Barbara featuring the opening two lines from Frank O’Hara’s poem to the composer "Wind": "Who’d have thought / that snow falls." La Barbara writes, “one is suddenly propelled into the storm from the infinite stillness of intricate chords.”
Find out more »Winter Meditations
A trans-discipline, evolving, multi-media art experience—an exhibition of visual art and a coordinated series of performances evolving with the season from mid-winter into spring.
Find out more »November 2013
October 2013
Three Artists in Dialogue with the Past
An exhibition of works by three contemporary artists who engage the imagery and ideas of the mid-twentieth century and of earlier eras.
Find out more »August 2013
Home: The Inaugural Exhibition
Trident Gallery's inaugural exhibition shows the work of twelve artists representing the excellence and variety of contemporary fine art on Cape Ann. Gallery Director Dr. Matthew Swift has assembled 39 works of art that explore ideas of “home.”
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