Please stop in to see the 22nd Annual Francis N. Roddy Exhibition at Concord Art - 9/23-10/24 in Concord, MA. The exhibition was juried by
Sam Adams of the Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum. I have a painting included in the show.

A review of Dazzleship, an exhibit in which I have work at Umbrella Arts.

Juried by Lisa Crossman, Curator of American Art & Arts of the Americas, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College.

Concord Art Association
37 Lexington Road, Concord MA
In-Person Exhibition Dates
September 25—October 22, 2020
11am – 4pm, Wednesday – Saturday

Opening reception:
Online September 25th, 7 - 8 PM

So nice for my exhibition to be listed in the Merrimack Valley Magazine as one the Great Eight Things to do this Weekend!

Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery
Stilling Life

The Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at Essex Art Center is pleased to present Stilling Life, painting by Laura Fischman.
Laura Fischman sustains a daily painting practice. This is a radical gesture made in defiance of the "turbulent times" in which we live. This is how Laura Fischman describes her practice:
Like meditation, exercise or even brushing my teeth, painting is a vital part of my routine…both a reprieve from the chaos of the world and a source of constant challenge and learning.
Embracing imperfection, she is less interested in realism than she is in "capturing the essence, a feeling, a relationship, and the humanity in objects." This sometimes manifests in painted objects that appear to be out of focus, in the process of appearing or disappearing. These paintings are evocative, fugitive, bordering on the ephemeral. Others are more realistic, capturing plums or a jade plant cutting in deft paintings that are strikingly economical in their marks, yet rich with paint and color.
Laura Fischman is a dedicated painter who embraces the failure inherent in investigation and exploration. Her prolific practice yields a body of work that "explores the vast possibilities that exist in painting."

Please join me for my solo show:
Stilling Life
Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Sept. 6 - Dec. 12
Opening reception Sept 6, 5-7PM

Save the Date! August 10
Benefit Auction
Happy to participate in the Annual Auction Benefit at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

Thrilled to have work in Temple University Rome's Tiny Biennale

Pleased to have work juried into this benefit auction benefiting Montserrat College of Art. May 30, 2019. Artrageous!33

Thrilled to participate in Object(ive) at the Brookline Arts Center, juried by Carly Glovinski.
March 15-April 19, 2019
Reception: Friday, March 22, 6:00-8:00pm

Honored to be selected to participate in MJ1 at the Concord Art Association, juried by Gerry Bergstein and Gail Boyajian.
January 10—February 10, 2019
Opening reception:
January 10, 6-8pm

Paper Chassis
Exhibition Dates 9/8-10/13
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 3-6pm

NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIVE IX AT GALATEA FINE ART

Looking forward to participating in New England Collective IX at Galatea Fine Art
Exhibition dates: August 1-September 2, 2018.

Looking forward to participating in Secret Gardens at Nave Gallery -- Garden Party Opening May 19 3-5PM
Exhibition dates: May 4- June 17.

This Next Tenderness

Brookline Art Center
March 16-April 20, 2018
Reception: March 23, 6-8 pm
Juror: Camilo Alvarez
Red, White & Blue

A design blog write up that includes an image of my work.
stylecarrot.com/2017/11/20/artmonday-mo…

SMFA Art Sale Nov 16-19 and Montserrat Art Sale Nov 17-19 -- I have work in the both. Stop in and check out the art by many talented artists.

HallSpace Drawing Project 2017
Looking forward to being a part of this exhibition
September 2 – October 7
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 2
3-6pm

Honored to be participating in this exhibition at Gallery 263, juried by Pat Falco.Exhibiton dates 9/7-10/7. Opening reception, 9/7, 7-9PM. Handled

Looking forward to participating in this fundraiser/exhibition at Laconia Gallery (all artwork priced between $25 and $250, and 100% of proceeds from the sale of artwork will be donated to Color of Change and Planned Parenthood). Friday - Sunday, 9/1-10, 2017 - Opening reception: September 8, 6-9PM. Nasty Women Boston

The Woodfleet Project 2.0 is a pop-up art event, exhibition, and experience designed for guests of every age. Inside, this one-day only exhibition will feature two set priced small works by working artists based locally and nationally. Artists will be provided cradled wood painting panels in two sizes to make work specifically for this exhibition. The pieces will be available for purchase at two pre-set prices, with all funds shared by participating artists and Wellfleet Preservation Hall. Sunday August 20, 2017. The event is from 5 - 8pm. Exhibition preview: 11am - 3pm.
The Woodfleet Project

Instar has joined together with Kristen Dodge from September Gallery to create ACT I. ACT I will be an anonymous exhibition with artists names revealed after works are purchased. Each work will be sold for $50 with all proceeds being donated to Upper Hudson Planned ParenthoodRally In The Valley will be July 21-23 in Hudson, NY.
Act 1.Rally in the Valley

Thrilled to be participating in this exhibition at the Waterworks Museum, curated by Lauren Kaufman.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 22.
Thinking About Water

Thomas Young Gallery
11/5/16–1/14/17
Opening Reception: Sunday, November 6th, 5–9PM
A Group Thing

Looking forward to participating in New England Collective VII at Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, juried by Julie Burros, Chief of Arts and Culture of the City of Boston.
Exhibition dates - August 3-28.
Opening reception - August 5, 6-8 PM.

www.smfa.edu/art-sale
Public Days—Thursday, November 19, 2015 (10 am–8 pm)—opening celebration from 5–8 pm
• Friday, November 20, 2015 (10 am–8 pm)
• Saturday, November 21, 2015 (10 am–8 pm)
• Sunday, November 22, 2015 (10 am–5 pm)

So honored to be featured in Paint Pulse Magazine due out in October.
www.paintpulsemagazine.com/

www.cambridgeart.org/2015-national-priz…
I have a painting included in this exhibition in Cambridge, MA, juried by Caitlin Doherty, Curator from the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Exhibition dates: May 15-June 25, 2015.

www.ou.edu/content/nwcbiennale.html
Honored to be selected by juror Mel Chin for inclusion in this exhibition in Norman, OK which opens on April 19, 2015 (open through June 15).

I am excited to be showing my work in a solo exhibition in the University of South Dakota Vermillion's Gallery 110, April 4-May 1, 2015

linusgallery.com/art-gallery/art-galler…
Honored to have two paintings included in the upcoming "Blue Show" at Linus Gallery online.

I will be a visiting artist at both South Dakota State in Brookings and University of South Dakota, Vermillion in March.
www.sdstate.edu/news/event-detail.cfm?c… Visiting Artist South Dakota State|

South Shore Art Center
Juried by Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, MFA, Boston
October 24–December 21, 2014
Opening Reception: October 24, 6–8 pm
Works on Paper www.ssac.org/competitions.asp

Galatea Fine Art
Opening Reception: August 1 6 - 8 PM
Exhibition Dates: August 1 - 30, 2014
Juror: Edmund Barry Gaither
New England Collective V

Please check out my profile from July 19, 2014.
365 Artsist 365 Days

July 17–August 16, 2014
Opening reception: July 17, 2014, 6-8 p.m.
Curators: Jenn Harrington and Susan Berstler
www.navegallery.org
The Nave Gallery Annex is open on Thursdays (6-8 p.m.); Fridays (6-8 p.m.); Saturdays (1-5 p.m.) and is located at 53 Chester Street, Somerville, MA

June 25 - July 23, 2014
Opening Reception June 25 7-9 PM
Juror: Marjorie Kaye, Galatea Fine Art

Thrilled to be spending the month of May in Johnson Vermont with writers and artists from around the world.

Check out my work in the most recent edition of New American Paintings!
New American Paintings Issue 111

Art sale and fundraiser to benefit the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 3–5, 2014. Opening reception April 3, 7-9 pm.

Group Exhibition at the North River Gallery, Pembroke, MA
Dec. 2013 - March 2014

Thursday, November 21–Sunday, November 24, 2013
The SMFA Annual Art Sale is rapidly approaching. Come check out my work - and the work of other faculty, students and alumni.
Hours: 10 am–8 pm Thursday–Saturday; 10 am–5 pm Sunday
Opening celebration: Thursday, November 21, 5–8 pm
http://smfa.edu/artsale

Jurors: Camilo Alvarez, Meghan Brady, Fabio Fernandez
July 27 to August 24, 2013
Opening Reception: 4-6 p.m., July 27, 2013
Gallery Hours:
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Sat,
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday
808 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215

Solo Show at McGladrey Art Gallery at Bentley University
Opening reception May 22, 5-7pm, with artist talk at 5:30pm
May 21- July 12
For gallery hours, and more information on the Bentley University Library please visit:
http://library.bentley.edu/about/hours.asp

Juried Auction
June 8, 2013
http://www.mfa.org/membership/museum-council/summer-party

May 20, 2013
Juried Auction

April 16-May 19, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston
Opening reception: Tuesday April 16, 6-8PM

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University MFA Thesis Show
Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave., Boston
April 3-12, 2013, 12-6PM
Opening and artist talk: April 6, 5-8PM
(parking available at Landmark Center)

Juried Group Show
Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
February 9-24, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7, 6-8PM

Juried by Camilo Alvarez of Sampson Projects
Opening Reception December 20, 2012 6-9PM
263 Pearl Street, Cambridge, MA
www.gallery263.com

Gallery Benoit, Boston, MA
November 30, 2012 - January 14, 2013 -- Artist Talk Dec. 7, 6PM
Friday, November 30, 2012, 5-8pm: Private Preview Reception
Friday, December 7, 2012, 5-8pm: First Friday Holiday Reception

SMFA
November 29 - December 2, 2012
www.smfa.edu

Included in group show at Mission Hill Gallery. Juried by Randi Hopkins. November 2012.

Received this prestigious award from jurors, Howard Yezerski, director and owner of the Howard Yezerski Gallery, and Michio Ihara, Sculptor.

Solo Show
Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center
Lawrence, MA
October 26-November 30
Gallery hours: M-F 10-6
Call for additional evening hours
Opening Reception October 26, 5-7 PM

From the press release:
"Laura Fischman’s paintings comprising (im)permeable operate somewhere between landscape and the figure. Fischman approaches “skin as the source material for abstraction,” and hopes to “… portray skin as space, place and topography, using it as metaphor for our own humanity and the beauty in our imperfections.” (Artist’s statement)

Covering and protecting everything inside our body, our skin also operates as a barrier to keep things outside of our body, allowing us to have the sense of touch. The largest organ in the human body, skin heals itself by forming scar tissue. “It shows the marks of a life lived – both from the inside out, and the outside in…(providing) a very thin border between the internal and external worlds.” (Artist’s statement)

Fischman’s investigation of skin is as much a psychological one as a physical and metaphorical one, as evidenced through the works’ titles: Morphology, Attack from Within, So Close to the Surface, Cria cuervos y te sacan los ojos (Spanish proverb, loosely translated to: “Raise crows and they peck out your eyes")."

September 9 - October 8, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, June 15, 6-8 PM
Boston University, 808 Commonwealth Gallery. Boston, MA 02215
Show runs: June 15- August 17th
Jurors: Gwen Strahle, Steve Locke, Steven Zevitas

May 22, 2012
Juried Auction
MFA Boston

Sampson Projects
May 3, 4, 5, 2012

March 1 - August 26, 2012
Artists Talks: May 2, 2012 6-7PM
Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

February/March 2012
SMFA, Boston, MA

March 2 & 3
6-9 PM
160 St. Alphonsus Street, 2nd Floor
Roxbury Crossing, MA

SMFA
February 2012
Juried Group Show

Opening Reception, Friday, December 9, from 5-7 pm,
Huret & Spector Gallery
6th floor of the Tufte Building, 10 Boylston Place, Boston
Exhibition dates: Dec. 9 -16, 2011 & Jan. 18 - Feb. 17, 2012
Students Learn the Art of Curating (link to article)
http://www.emerson.edu/news-events/emerson-college-today/students-learn-art-curating

December 8–11, 2011
10 am–8 pm daily
Opening reception: December 8, 5–8 pm

Group Show, Curated by Amy Flaherty, Mission Hill Gallery
Boston, MA
October 11 -23, 2011

Sampson Projects, Boston, MA
July 16, 2011
Chain Letter is a global group show wherein 10 artists have been invited to participate. Those 10 then invite 10 artists that they admire. Those 10 invite 10 more and so on. This cycle continues for 30 days. The result is an exponentially massive, artist-curated group show based entirely on admiration.

Group Show
May 1 - 31, 2011
Opening Reception: May 15, 1-5 PM
www.violencetransformed.org

Grossman Gallery & Anderson Auditorium
On view February 10 through March 3
Opening reception February 10, 5-7PM
http://www.smfa.edu/announcements

Nov. 17 -21, 2010

Group Exhibition, juried by Cheryl Brutvan
Curator of Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art

May 14 - June 23, 2010
Reception: Thursday, May 20, 6-8pm
25 Lowell St. Cambridge MA 02138
http://www.cambridgeart.org/

Grossman Gallery & Anderson Auditorium
On view February 11–March 3

The "Student Annual Exhibition" presents the largest
annual overview of current work by students of the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is based
on a competitive selection of works chosen from
approximately 200 entries by a jury of arts professionals
unaffiliated with the Museum School.
http://www.smfa.edu