Discover the Danforth’s Past Exhibitions Since 2015

June 24 - September 17, 2023
Photograph of a gallery installation with deep purple walls. There are paintings along the perimeter walls and the central wall, with one marble abstract sculpture on a light blue pedestal.
Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition 2023
September 7-14, 2023
Photograph of a bright pink background covered in rocks. The rocks are reds, pinks, blues, and purples.
Pop-Up Exhibition
Jenna Billian: Zekher Tzadik Livrakha
June 24 - September 17, 2023
Photograph of a gallery installation with grey walls displaying a variety of artworks in mediums. They all depict various landscapes.
Summer Arts: Art in Nature

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Photograph of a museum gallery room with various paintings and photographs hanging on deep purple walls.

Visionary Boston
February 18 - June 4, 2023
Black and white photograph with a cream overlay. The photograph is of a woman with pinned back hair holding a baby in a short sleeve sweater over her shoulder. On top are writing of sizes in greens, blues, and reds, stamped dates and newspaper headlines, and a clipping of the text that went with the photograph.

Toni Pepe: An Ordinary Devotion
October 8, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Wall installation with a dotted surface revealing a fuzzy black and white photograph of a family. Cut into the installation a gold picture frames, empty, at various heights and sizes.

Lisa Rosowsky: Othering
October 8, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Photograph with a deep black surface and background. On the flat surface is an egg shaped sculpture with two drawn bunnies with a green background and butterflies around. To the right of the egg is an egg yolk with the whites surrounding, reflecting the sculpture egg.

Jane Szabo: Family Matters
October 8, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Photograph of a gallery with grey walls and light wood floor. There are various paintings hung on the walls, and two pedestals containing sculpture pieces in the center along with a bench.

Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition 2022
June 25 - September 18, 2022
Abstract landscape city scene with red sky and red space on the bottom left. There are hints of buildings to the center and right in blacks, greys, yellows, and bits of red.

March 26 - June 5, 2022

Suzanne Hodes: The Engaged Image
March 26 - June 5, 2022
Black and white photograph of rocky outdoor scene with a flow of magma like rock down the middle from the sloping up ward hill. Behind the hill just visible is the peak of a house roof.

March 26 - June 5, 2022

5 Years of Aspect Initiative
March 26 - June 5, 2022
Sculpture resting on a metal platform hanging on the wall. There are white railings cut towards the bottom with old paint rollers between the railings, wrapped in plastic with old photographs of girls printed on them.

Anne Lambert: The Way Things Go
October 9, 2021 - March 6, 2022
Photograph of a old and rusted white pan an pitcher with red rims.

Dan Dowd: Found and Gifted
October 9, 2021 - March 6, 2022
Photograph with a deep black background and a plexi house in the foreground filled with objects. This one is filled with red, blue, and white objects, confetti, a wood round pedestal, and a red hat.

Sally Brecher’s Glass Houses
October 9th, 2021 - March 6th, 2022
Lithograph of a humanoid bunny leaping in the air and colored a rusty red. The background is a smudged yellow-orange with many sketched shapes and figures, including deer, trees, Colonial fife and drum line, and houses.

From the Collection

Indigenous Voices in Contemporary Art
October 9th, 2021 - March 6th, 2022
Surreal landscape with horizontal stripped background of blues to blue-purple. Diagonally from bottom left to top right is a wide dripped marbled blob with drips pointing upwards in grey, grey blue, purple, and grey pink.

Lori Schouela: Suspended Landscapes
March 20- September 19, 2021
Small white and tan zebra stripped ram sculpture. The ram's body is globular with one star detail by its shoulder. One hoof comes out under the head on the left. The head is angled down slightly and two ram horns curl by the side of its head.

March 20 - September 19, 2021

Wonderscape
March 20 - September 19, 2021
Old photograph of three woman in front of a painted ornate backdrop. All three women are dressed as men, wearing pants, long jackets, and bowler hats with fake mustaches.

Catherine Smith: A Cabinet of Curiosities
September 19, 2020-February 28, 2021
Photograph with a mottled light grey-white sky and a statue in the foreground from the shoulders up of a woman with long hair and hand supporting her head under the chin. The statue is worn, losing details, and a leaf pattern has been imposed over her face.

Katherine Gulla: Passage
September 19, 2020 - February 28, 2021
Photograph of a gallery room with dark grey walls and tan wood floor. There are a series of tall sculptures with rusty scaffolding shapes and sporadic clumps of white, blue, and grey paper flower shapes.

Rebecca Hutchinson: Midnight Blooms
September 19, 2020 - February 28, 2021

Family Circle
January 18-August 2020
Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is a VW bus in green and white pulling up to a driveway with a woman and three kids standing looking at the van. On the right is an interior of a call on a highway from the back seat looking at a teen sitting backwards in the front seat with a cigarette in his mouth.

Liz Albert: Family Fictions
January 11-April 5, 2020
Painting done with wide palette marks of a light skinned woman with short curly black hair reclining on a couch. The couch is ornate with rounded back, wood outlines, and quilted floral pattern cloth. The girl is wearing a pink-red short dress with her eyes closed and her legs are fading into the cloth of the couch.

Dressed
August 31-December 29, 2019
Woodblock print with wide black outlines done in choppy horizontal segments on top of bright pink, green, yellow, and blue colors. All prints are segments of comic strips. Two word bubbles are visible stating 'Good-Bye!' and 'Good to Go!'.

Prints from Campus: Selections from Faculty Teaching in New England
October 26-December 15, 2019
Zoomed in photograph of a hot rod car with red and yellow flames licking a black car body. The focus is on the silver jet plane hood ornament.

Populuxe
July 30-October 20, 2019
Two prints with a black background and blobs of white with tiny rectangular dots throughout like skyscraper windows at night from far away.

Lois Tarlow

Material Vocabulary
April 14 – July 28, 2019
Photograph of a piece of chocolate frosted cake with white and red blob decorations, all wrapped in saran wrap on a patterned paper plate.

Armchair Travel: Work by Emily Belz, Rachel Loischild, and S. Billie Mandle
April 14 – July 14, 2019
Landscape painting with green lawn next to a highway with five small houses behind a miniature golf course.

Landed: Selections from the Permanent Collection
April 14 – July 14
Drawing of black and white lines in a swirling tangled messy ball.

Unconventional Drawing
January – March 2018
Painting done in vertical wide stripes of a yellow hat with a red feather in the black band around the hand and a wide yellow brim. The background is black with stripes of green and the ground is a bright green. There are hints of orange in a few blocks across the canvas.

Endicott College, Beverly, MA

Color and Line: Expressive Traditions in Boston
January 30, 2017 – March 16, 2017
Painting of a close up of a woman's profile. She has pale skin, a high collared white shirt, and her hair is pulled up in a bun under a hat. She has her eyes closed and a calm expression on her face. The background is a solid warm beige.

Figuration in American Art
August – December 2017
Photograph of a one story pink building with red roof overhangs. The background is sloping green hills, and a deep blue-purple sky with a sunset just visible in the lower right with bright yellow and white clouds.

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

Found in Collection
December 8, 2016 – January 1, 2017 and March 9, 2017 – March 26, 2017
Collage with various Rennaisance paintings along the bottom third, the upper two thirds contain two bulls headbutting, blue and yellow spray paint graffiti behind them, and three groupings of pink roses surrounded in white and blue outlines. In the center crossing both these scenes is a light skinned woman, seated with hands between her knees, wearing a red and white ornate strapless swimsuit. Her head is up and back slightly, laughing.

Danforth Art Annual: 2016 Juried Exhibition
June 19 – August 21, 2016
Photograph of bright flowers at the center surrounded by dull leaves, all are dirty and old.

Beautiful Decay
March 6 – June 5, 2016
Drawing of geometric shapes. Across the bottom are pointed triangles in green and overlapping each other. The background is jagged vertical stripes of black and white.

Edward Hagedorn

Edward Hagedorn: Volcanoes, Riots, Wrecks & Nudes
March 16 – May 15, 2016
flight school

Lita Judge: Flight School
March 6 – May 15, 2016
Realistic painting of a man and woman seated at a table. They are depicted from center face down, the man on the left wearing a grey dress shirt, black slacks, and black shoes while the woman on the right is wearing a green dress with bright red high heels.

The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior
Dec. 9, 2015 – March 6, 2016
Photograph of a blue globe of the Earth on the right with about half of it off the scene, and surrounded by shredded paper

The Whole World for Your Children
Oct. 14, 2015 – Feb. 28, 2016
Photograph collage with a framed black and white photo of a woman with a bob haircut that has a bullet hole near the center right. To the right of this is fabric in pink and yellow with a yellow lace running down the center.

Dear Dearest Mother: Leslie Starobin’s Wartime Still Life Montages
October 4, 2015 – January 3, 2016
Abstract painting of a landscape with blue sky, orange land, simplistic buildings in bright colors, yellow mountains on the far right, and hairy trees in the foreground.

From My Window: Jason Berger At Home Abroad
Sep. 9 – Nov. 29, 2015
Photograph of a pink-cream blouse, close up focusing on the arm. The short sleeve and armpit are all ragged and shredded. The background is pitch black.

New England Photography Biennial
Sep. 9 – Dec. 6, 2015
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