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camryn connolly
Camryn Connolly’s work has a dream-like quality that stems from her interest in memory as it intersects with domestic spaces. Often based on childhood memories of family environments, Connolly’s drawings play with perspective and scale to question our sense of reality. She states that her work examines “how domestic spaces can be both lived environments and theatrical stages where familiarity and strangeness intersect.”
Connolly received a BFA in paintings and printmaking from Boston University and recently received an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. She is a 2026 recipient of the George Nick Prize and previously received a grant from the Elizabeth Shields Foundation. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, Boston and Cambridge, MA, and is included in the collection of the Boston Public Library.
scout curtin
Scout Curtin’s still life paintings portray everyday objects in bold patterns and saturated colors. Her exaggerated perspectives and shadows evoke the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, for example, and the darkness outside her windows suggest a mysterious world beyond. Through the interplay of interior and exterior, Curtin calls into question what we contain, and what contains us.
Scout Curtin holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individual Study (Concentration in Critical Visual Studies) and recently earned an MFA from Boston University. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY and Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH. She has exhibited her work in galleries and institutions in New England, New York City and Los Angeles.
raquel philippe
For Raquel Philippe, memories are fluid, every-changing things. Her paintings layer color and rhythmic forms over obscured images that suggest faded memories folded into a kind of visual continuum from direct experience to distant reflection. Philippe states that “my paintings exist in the space between remembering and losing. Where the past is never fully intact, but never entirely gone.”
Philippe has exhibited her work in galleries and institutions in New York City, New York state and throughout the Greater Boston area. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC and received her MFA from Boston University this spring.