Gallery Kayafas

The weather is slowly changing and the days are getting warmer. Perennials are beginning to poke through the soil! For those of us who love "Gardening Because Murder Is Wrong" become excited that the happiness we get from planting whether in containers or garden beds, is near.

For many, gardening is a way to "de-stress/de-rage" (KB 2024) changing our moods immediately -- a positive action to eliminate a negative happening!

Please visit Kathleen Bitetti's on site installation, "Gardening Because Murder is Wrong". Sit in the garden with us and just be!

Here's the link to Greg Cook's review today in "Wonderland"

In Bitetti’s ‘Gardening Because Murder Is Wrong,’ Plants Help Her ‘De-Stress/De-Rage’ – WONDERLAND ArtApril 26, 2024 Greg Cook 0 During covid, Kathleen Bitetti’s neighbor cut down trees that had shaded her South Boston yard, so she began filling the small dirt plot behind the triple decker in which she lives with plants from local nurseries, turning her yard into a lush haven. “Gardening, whe...

A major component of who we are -- are the people we encounter throughout our life. Opening this evening, February 16 (5:30 -8) the work of two artists

Leslie Sills "Artists I Have Known"
&
Yorgos Efthymiadis "The Lighthouse Keepers.

Their work is a reflection of the individuals who have had a deep influence on them and their life.

Leslie Sills "The Interview" 2023. Oil on panel
This is the painting of Leslie's that started this exhibit. "I would like to dedicate this exhibit to the memory of one of my most engaged and loving students, Liza Oppenheim of Brookline, who I met when she was five years old, grew up to be an artist, but sadly passed on in her early forties due to a liver disease."

Yorgos Efthymiadis Set #12 "Sophia O" 2023. Pigment ink prints
"Whenever I travel back to my country, it feels like I come across a shoebox in the back of my childhood bedroom closet, full of memorabilia I didn't know were there. As soon as I open the box, an inner whisper says “I will remind you of everything.”
There is an instant rush of fond memories of the house I grew up in by the sea and of the maze-like city I moved to when I got older. But mostly, of family and friends: the people that I care for and who have always been there for me since the beginning. �The ones I take for granted"

First three exhibits of the New Year! Installed and are amazing...three extraordinary photographers!

Cheryle St. Onge "My Mother My Atlas"
Kristen Joy Emack "Book of Saints"
Jack Lueders-Booth "Inherit the Land"

"Untitled 2018-2020"
40x30" gelatin silver print ©Cheryle St. Onge

"Misty, 2021"
20x30" inkjet print ©Kristen Joy Emack

"Fausto Gonzalez Barrio, 1990-1998"
16x20" Gelatin silver print ©Jack Lueders-Booth
This image is part of the Robert Adams collection