The Suffolk University Gallery is the Art & Design Department’s main exhibition space. Located on the sixth floor of the Sawyer Building, the gallery presents exciting exhibits and related programs that reflect our increasingly visual and image-driven world. The gallery aims to engage the whole Suffolk community while adding to larger conversations taking place in Greater Boston's cultural arena. Exhibits of student work from all departments, as well as themed curated exhibitions, provide an important link between and for students, faculty, and visitors.
Current Exhibit
Artist/Curator/Curator/Artist
January 22 – March 8, 2024
Thursday, February 1, there will be a gallery talk with the artists in the exhibit at 5 p.m., followed by a reception at 5:30 p.m.
What is an artist curator? An artist-curator is a practicing artist who also curates shows or runs not-for-profit spaces from which they exhibit their art and that of other artists. For some artist-curators, it is the freedom to create art, control its output and have a say in how it is exhibited that appeals, for others it is a means of survival, a way of gaining exposure for the art that they and others do.i
Like musicians who produce albums or conduct orchestras, actors who write screenplays and direct movies, many visual artists also curate exhibitions in gallery or academic settings, in addition to their own art practice. The artists in this exhibit maintain both these activities, one often informing the other. The act of curating parallels the activity in the studio, i.e., an idea is expressed and manifested materially.
Participating Artists
- Andrew Witkin – Krakow Witkin Gallery
- Danielle Krcmar – Curator RSM Art Gallery, Bentley College
- Andrew Mroczek – Director Lunder Gallery, Lesley University
- Candice Smith Corby – Gallery Director Cushing-Martin Gallery, Stonehill College
- Boriana Kantcheva – Director of Visual Arts, Mosesian Center for the Arts
- John Guthrie – Director, Gallery Very
- Kathleen O’Hara – Co-director Drive By Projects
- Deborah Davidson – Director, Suffolk University Gallery
i quoted from the Tate's compilation of art terms
Suffolk University Art Gallery
Sawyer Building, 6th floor
Monday—Friday 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.