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Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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July 2018

Dance Like No One is Whale Watching

July 28, 2018 · 8:00 pm9:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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Opening Reception for Ruth Mordecai

July 14, 2018 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Ruth Mordecai in celebration of her solo exhibition New Works on Paper, on view July 14 – August 12, 2018.

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Ruth Mordecai: New Works on Paper

July 14, 2018August 12, 2018
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.”

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June 2018

Opening Reception for Peter Lyons

June 9, 2018 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Peter Lyons in celebration of his solo exhibition On-Ramp, on view June 9 – July 8, 2018.

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Peter Lyons: On-Ramp

June 9, 2018July 8, 2018
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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May 2018

Opening Reception — Erma Wheeler: Parallels

May 5, 2018 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception in celebration of the exhibition Erma Wheeler: Parallels.

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Erma Wheeler: Parallels

May 5, 2018June 3, 2018
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

An exhibition of sumptuous, sophisticated watercolor paintings from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s by Erma Wheeler .

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March 2018

Opening Reception — Zygmund Jankowski: Spring Flowers

March 31, 2018 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception in celebration of the exhibition Zygmund Jankowski: Spring Flowers.

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Zygmund Jankowski: Spring Flowers

March 31, 2018April 29, 2018
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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January 2018

Exercises for the Quiet Eye

January 28, 2018 · 3:00 pm4:00 pm
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One event on May 18, 2019 at 3:30 pm

Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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December 2017

Book Launch and Signing Party: Cape Ann Narratives of Art in Life

December 10, 2017 · 3:00 pm5:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Book Launch reception and signing party for Martin Ray's Cape Ann Narratives of Life in Art

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October 2017

ƐDGE3: EDGE Exhibition, Phase 3

October 28, 2017December 31, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A group show featuring new paintings by Peter Lyons.

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Boston International Fine Art Show, 2017

October 19, 2017October 22, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Trident Gallery showed work by Peter Lyons, Winston Boyer, and Zygmund Jankowski in Booth 17 at the 2017 Boston International Fine Art Show.

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EDGE: The Exhibition, phase 2

October 6, 2017October 17, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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September 2017

EDGE: benefit performance

September 2, 2017 · 7:30 pm10:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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EDGE

September 2, 2017September 4, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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August 2017

A Conversation with Ed Touchette

August 27, 2017 · 4:00 pm5:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A conversation with Ed Touchette about his artistic process and recent work on the occasion of his solo exhibition New Construction.

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Opening Reception for Ed Touchette

August 19, 2017 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Ed Touchette in celebration of his exhibition New Construction.

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Ed Touchette: New Construction

August 19, 2017October 1, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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July 2017

A Conversation with Nadine Boughton

July 30, 2017 · 4:00 pm5:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A conversation with Nadine Boughton about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her solo exhibition Where I Come From.

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Opening Reception for Nadine Boughton

July 15, 2017 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Nadine Boughton in celebration of her exhibition Where I Come From, on view July 15 – August 13, 2017.

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Nadine Boughton: Where I Come From

July 15, 2017August 13, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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June 2017

A Conversation with Gabrielle Barzaghi

June 17, 2017 · 2:00 pm3:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A conversation with Gabrielle Barzaghi about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her solo exhibition Perfect World.

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Opening Reception for Gabrielle Barzaghi

June 10, 2017 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Gabrielle Barzaghi in celebration of her exhibition Perfect World.

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Gabrielle Barzaghi: Perfect World

June 10, 2017July 9, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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May 2017

A Conversation with Diane Ayott

May 13, 2017 · 2:00 pm3:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A conversation with Diane Ayott about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of the two-artist exhibition Coming Round.

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Opening Reception for Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich

May 6, 2017 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich in celebration of their exhibition Coming Round.

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Coming Round

May 6, 2017June 4, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

An exhibition of thirty exquisite mixed media paintings and collage by Diane Ayott and Suzanne Ulrich.

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April 2017

The Political Body: Closing Party and Performance

April 29, 2017 · 5:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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AD20/21 2017

April 6, 2017April 9, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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The Political Body in Art: A Panel Discussion

April 1, 2017 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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March 2017

The Political Body

March 31, 2017April 30, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An exhibition of art on the political dimensions of the body, which opens with a performance and a panel discussion.

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January 2017

A Time for Blue

January 20, 2017March 26, 2017
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A themed exhibition of art selected by Director Matthew Swift.

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December 2016

Reception for Gordon Goetemann, Painter, 1933-2016

December 3, 2016 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception in celebration of the exhibition Gordon Goetemann, Painter, 1933–2016 and the Vault Room exhibition of new paintings by Eileen Mueller.

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Gordon Goetemann, Painter, 1933-2016

December 3, 2016December 31, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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November 2016

Towers and Other Thoughts in Performance

November 19, 2016 · 7:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An exploration through performance of ideas and materials informing the exhibition Towers and Other Thoughts of mixed media paintings by artist Susan Erony.

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A Conversation with Susan Erony

November 6, 2016 · 4:00 pm5:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A conversation with Susan Erony about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her solo exhibition Towers and Other Thoughts.

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October 2016

Opening Reception for Susan Erony

October 29, 2016 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for artist Susan Erony in celebration of her exhibition Towers and Other Thoughts.

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Susan Erony: Towers and Other Thoughts

October 29, 2016November 27, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

An exhibition of mixed media paintings by Susan Erony having motifs of towers and human hands.

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September 2016

Reception for Zygmund Jankowski: Unscripted

September 17, 2016 · 5:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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Zygmund Jankowski: Unscripted

September 10, 2016October 23, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Exceptional examples of Zygmund Jankowski’s landscapes, seascapes, farmscapes, jazz, florals, still lifes, self-portraits, and biplanes.

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August 2016

A Conversation with Ruth Mordecai

August 21, 2016 · 4:00 pm5:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A conversation with Ruth Mordecai about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her exhibition Works on Paper.

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Reception for Ruth Mordecai

August 13, 2016 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Ruth Mordecai in celebration of her exhibition Works on Paper.

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Ruth Mordecai: Works on Paper

August 6, 2016September 5, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

An exhibition of recent paintings on paper by Ruth Mordecai.

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July 2016

Auto-Body-Graphic II

July 24, 2016 · 7:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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).

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Reception for Pamela Ellis Hawkes

July 9, 2016 · 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Pamela Ellis Hawkes in celebration of her exhibition Archives and Artifacts.

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Nadine Boughton featured on Lenscratch

July 8, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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Pamela Ellis Hawkes: Archives and Artifacts

July 2, 2016July 31, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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June 2016

Painting and Photography: A Conversation with Winston Boyer

June 12, 2016 · 4:00 pm5:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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

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Reception for Winston Boyer

June 11, 2016 · 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Winston Swift Boyer in celebration of his exhibition Ocean.

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Winston Boyer: Ocean

June 4, 2016June 26, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

An exhibition of large scale photographs of ocean horizons by Winston Boyer

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May 2016

A Conversation with Nubar Alexanian

May 28, 2016 · 5:30 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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Reception for Peter Lyons

May 7, 2016 · 6:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public reception for Peter Lyons in celebration of his exhibition American Spring.

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Nadine Boughton on The Fence in Boston

May 1, 2016September 1, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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April 2016

Peter Lyons: American Spring

April 30, 2016May 30, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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Gabrielle Barzaghi at the Cape Ann Museum

April 29, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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AD20/21 2016

April 7, 2016April 10, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Trident Gallery showed works on paper by four represented artists at the 2016 AD20/21 art fair.

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Gabrielle Barzaghi: New Drawings at Glen Urquhart

April 1, 2016May 13, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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March 2016

me is you (the space between us and them)

March 19, 2016 · 7:30 pm8:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An installation and dance performance exploring performance as empathetic exchange.

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In the Time We Have

March 12, 2016April 24, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

An exhibition of new and selected works of art reflecting themes of time, ephemerality, and maturity.

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February 2016

Nest: The Reception

February 13, 2016 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A public wine and cheese reception to celebrate the exhibition Nest.

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Nest: The Performances

February 6, 2016 · 7:00 pm9:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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January 2016

NEST

January 30, 2016March 6, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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December 2015

Reception for Diane Ayott

December 12, 2015 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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A reception for Diane Ayott in celebration of her exhibition Love in December.

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Diane Ayott: Love in December

December 5, 2015January 3, 2016
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An exhibition of colorful, patterned, abstract mixed media paintings by Diane Ayott.

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October 2015

Patti Sullivan: New Paintings

October 24, 2015November 29, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A series of new paintings by one of Gloucester’s great expressionist and colorist landscape artists.

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Boston International Fine Art Show, 2015

October 22, 2015October 25, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Trident Gallery showed six paintings by Peter Lyons at the 2015 Boston International Fine Art Show.

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Invisible Cities in Performance

October 10, 2015 · 7:00 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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September 2015

Ed Touchette: Lessons, Barns, and Other Structures

September 18, 2015October 18, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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August 2015

Music, Dance, and Animation in Performance

August 29, 2015 · 7:30 pm9:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Electronic music, an animated dance film, and a duet dance performance.

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Beyond Real: Contemporary Landscapes

August 15, 2015September 13, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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July 2015

Nadine Boughton: American Home

July 11, 2015August 9, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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June 2015

Music and Dance in Performance

June 20, 2015 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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…

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Gabrielle Barzaghi: When Objects Dream

June 5, 2015July 5, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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May 2015

Three New Dance Works

May 15, 2015 · 7:00 pm8:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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…

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March 2015

X

March 27, 2015 · 7:00 pm8:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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AD20/21 2015

March 26, 2015March 29, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Trident Gallery showed works on paper by eight represented artists at the 2015 AD20/21 art fair.

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Spring Improvisations

March 20, 2015May 31, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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January 2015

Stone Stairway Stories

January 31, 2015 · 7:30 pm9:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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The Art of Natural History

January 29, 2015March 15, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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November 2014

Lynn Swigart: Favorites

November 28, 2014January 4, 2015
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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Dance in Dialogue

November 22, 2014 · 7:30 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Part I: Kate Tarlow Morgan, dance and storytelling. Part II: Sarah Slifer Swift and Loren Doucette, dance and painting.

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Boston International Fine Art Show, 2014

November 13, 2014November 16, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Trident Gallery showed works by gallery artists at the Boston International Fine Art Show in 2014.

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October 2014

Eileen Mueller: Muses

October 10, 2014November 9, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An exhibition of Eileen Mueller's recent oil paintings of the landscapes and sea vistas of Cape Ann.

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September 2014

Susan Erony: Review

September 5, 2014October 5, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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August 2014

Auto-Body-Graphic

August 17, 2014 · 8:00 pm9:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A dance-media performance in collaboration with the internet, by dancer and performance artist Vincent Cacialano, visiting from the UK.

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Ruth Mordecai: New Works on Paper

August 1, 2014September 1, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An exhibition of new paintings, collages, and monotypes on paper by Ruth Mordecai.

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July 2014

Harbortown 2014

July 3, 2014July 27, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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May 2014

Dennis Flavin: Figures

May 30, 2014June 29, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An exhibition of figure paintings and drawings by Dennis Flavin.

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Kristen Miller and Junichi Fukuda

May 24, 2014 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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Remembering Zyg

May 10, 2014 · 6:30 pm8:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

Four speakers share memories and reflections on the life and art of artist Zygmund Jankowski.

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April 2014

Zygmund Jankowski: A Celebration of Life

April 25, 2014May 26, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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An exhibition of exceptional and historically important oil and watercolor paintings from the estate of Zgmund Jankowski (1925–2009).

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Antennae

April 6, 2014 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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March 2014

Pale Shadows: Cameraless Images by Pamela Ellis Hawkes

March 21, 2014April 20, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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All Over Again

March 9, 2014 · 5:00 pm6:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.

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January 2014

Then it seemed beautiful

January 17, 2014 · 7:30 pm8:30 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

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.”

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Winter Meditations

January 17, 2014March 16, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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.

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November 2013

Walls of Plenty

November 29, 2013January 5, 2014
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

A cornucopia of art to feed the soul.

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October 2013

Three Artists in Dialogue with the Past

October 18, 2013November 24, 2013
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States

An exhibition of works by three contemporary artists who engage the imagery and ideas of the mid-twentieth century and of earlier eras.

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August 2013

Home: The Inaugural Exhibition

August 30, 2013October 14, 2013
Matthew Swift Gallery, 189 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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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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