Thomas was recently accepted into the graduate program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art). He has spent the past two years living in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in Boston, Massachusetts. We are excited to be exhibiting his latest work and wish him the best in Baltimore.

Speed Queens, 2012, 36″x48″, acrylic on canvas

“My recent work addresses the places I frequent. With each passing day an inhabited space becomes more difficult to see. We take familiar things for granted and ignore them. My new work is a struggle against this suppression of curiosity. I refuse to grow blind in the face of mundane surroundings. Each painting is a reconstruction, plane for plane, of a space that is vital to me due to the daily ritual of getting by. These are not sites of ideal beauty. They are lived in, functional, and given to entropy. I work and live here and these are my ambivalent representations.” – T. Dahlberg

Forest Hills, 2013, 36”x60”, acrylic on canvas

If you can’t make it to the opening on Saturday, make sure to stop by for First Thursday on May 2nd from 6-9pm or some time throughout the month. Thomas Dahlberg’s paintings will be on display through June 2nd.

Being Human

Opening Reception – April 6th – 6-9pm

Alter Ego #4, 2012 – acrylic, airbrush on canvas – 48″ x 36″

“Being Human features several of my series, such as EGOs, Tuned In and Circus Freaks, all of which deal with the many facets of humanness.  New Beginning, the most prominent series in the show correlates to the future direction of ‘Us’.  We are transforming – merging biology and technology.    Though, I imagine a divide, where some reach back to the animal and organic workings of the world.” – Shari

Shari Weschler Rubeck has had many solo exhibitions in the New England and New York area over the years, most recently at Gallery K in Nantucket, Colo Colo Gallery in New Bedford, RI and Gallery Z in Providence. She has also participated in various group shows over the years.

We are excited to be exhibiting a wide range of her works at The Hallway this month. For more information, visit the gallery or contact us by email or phone.

March’s lineup features Rob Hochschild, Melissa Mills-Dick, and Shuchi Saraswat.

Rooms Down The Hallway – March 21st 8pm

Rob Hochschild has written or reported for The Boston Globe, WBUR, and DownBeat, and has competed in the local storytelling series, Massmouth. A long career behind the mic began with a stint as news director of a country music radio station in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and also led to gigs as a baseball park announcer and voiceover actor. He earned an MFA in creative writing at Emerson College and is writing a memoir about his family, using material from research he conducted in Austria, Poland, and Ukraine.

Melissa Mills-Dick received an MFA from Bennington College and is a graduate of Hampshire College. Her writing recently appeared in Necessary Fiction. She lives in Boston with her husband and two cats, both named after dead presidents. She works in communications at Planned Parenthood.

Shuchi Saraswat received her MFA from Emerson College. She is currently working on a novel, tentatively titled The White Elephant, which is about a family curse, from Hindu mythological times, that weaves through generations of one family. She is the recipient of The 2012 Gulliver Travel Research Grant from The Speculative Literature Foundation and has received fellowships to Writers Omi at Ledig House and The Writers’ Room of Boston and scholarships to Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She currently helps manage the fiction section and hosts author readings at Brookline Booksmith and teaches fiction workshops at Grub Street, Inc.

BRAND DEAD  is a collection of works by nine artists commissioned to re-interpret contemporary logos and familiar ad campaigns. The resulting works that make up the exhibition range from the satirical playfulness of Wacky Packages and MAD Magazine advertisements, to more somber critiques of some of America’s most iconic companies such as, Budweiser, Pep Boys, Procter & Gamble and Kelloggs.

The participating artists included in BRAND DEAD are: Brian Butler, Peat Duggins, Pat Falco, Raspado Friaz (Raul Gonzalez), Ryan Hennessee, Rhonda Ratray, Jack W Schneider, Karl Stevens and Todd White…

Opening Reception:

WEDNESDAY March 6th, 6-9pm

Showing through March 31st

Sinan Hussein

Ideology and Differences

Sneak Peek Preview Party- February 2nd, 3-7pm

Opening Reception – February 7th, 6-9pm

Showing thru February 28th

Sinan Hussein graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Baghdad in 2004. He is a member of the Iraqi Plastic Artists Society and the Iraqi Artist Association. Sinan has held solo and group exhibitions in Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Amman and Turkey. His paintings can be found in various museums and private collections throughout the Middle East.

Sinan, his wife, and son moved to Worcester, Massachusetts in the summer of 2011. This is his first solo show in the United States.

In the City, buildings are placed carefully, but have the spaces between and around been handled with the same level of consideration? As filtered through the private sensibilities of Designers, these spaces can appear to communicate a disregard for the User.
Enjoy your _______. promotes a reconsideration of several underutilized spaces in Boston, where the User has become inadvertently estranged from a space designed for their ‘enjoyment’.

Using a combination of images, overlayed with text, this graphic installation illustrates the potential for dissonance between designer and product, and the resulting tepid relation with the public.

Please join us on January 3, 2013 from 6-9pm for the opening reception. Neil Piatt and Jennifer West, both Boston architects, have been working on this project for the past six months. Showing thru January 30th.

Featuring over 60 artists and 150 works of art during the month of December. Give art this holiday season…

Stop by and see work by the artists listed above, plus many more!

We are excited to exhibit a series of new graphite drawings by Katherine Vetne. This Boston-based artist has spent the past year collecting ornate spoons and intricately drawing them in great detail and to scale.

The opening reception of Thirty Spoons is on November 1st, 2012 from 6-9pm.

“I have memories of sitting in a classroom as a young girl. I remember learning about the explorers who came to America, the Pilgrims, the kings of England and Portugal. We learned about overseas trade and the first presidents. Students quickly learn that learning about history means learning about men’s history. Even at an early age, I remember wondering what my history was.

Women’s history, like many other histories, has been marked by “experts” as unimportant and uninteresting, and this decision has shaped what we know and do
not know of our past. As an adult, I have found myself still asking what my history is, and my spoon drawings are an effort to answer that question. They are an attempt to define and emphasize my history; they are a kind of drawn identity that references both my domestic heritage and notions of feminine ornamentation. My spoon drawings are historical documents drawn from observation, overwhelming in accuracy down to the very sizes and dimensions of the physical spoons.

The ideal resting place of these pieces, unlike much of contemporary art, exists in
the domestic sphere: they are meant to be hung in dim kitchens, propped on cluttered
bookshelves, and displayed amongst the imperfect artifacts of our everyday lives. They
are hand-held monuments to the way we live, eat, and sleep, and to the women that have been responsible for these things for much of time; to the place they honor: the home and my history.” -K. Vetne

Katherine Vetne received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude in 2009 at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. She has participated in various solo and group shows in New England over the past few years.

Showing thru November 30th.