Distillery Gallery

SONGS FROM MEMORY opening reception is tonight 🍻7-10pm. Featuring a performance by . See you here.

‘Frankie Symonds: Gate of Heaven’ Opening reception this Saturday, July 23, 7-10pm, featuring performance by The Incontinence Project.

“Created over the last nine years, Gate Of Heaven is a body of work that tries to confront my Catholic upbringing in the 90s in Boston, ground zero for the church s*x abuse scandal, as a q***r child. Consisting primarily of paintings and sculptures, the exhibition aims to bring the viewer into a place where the wonder of childhood coexists with and is corrupted by the horrors and violence of institutional powers and systemic abuse. The work is inhabited by childhood icons, people of the cloth, law enforcement officers, and s*xual predators adrift in a bleak cesspool where hope is clung to, not as a positive gesture, but as a desperate act of survival. This is a site-specific exhibit, as the Distillery Gallery is a mere four blocks from the parish I grew up in and where the exhibit gets its name. Most of the work in the show will be available for free, as both a communist gesture and an attempt at cathartic communion.”

-Frankie Symonds

💐 Tomorrow 💐
Join us for the opening reception for Sopheak Sam’s solo exhibition, Waiting For Enlightenment. Saturday, June 11, 7-10pm.

Sam’s multidisciplinary work, comprising drawings, paintings, artist books, and video, traces cultural hybridity, q***r futurity, religious iconography, and the fabulation of a marred political history between the U.S. and Cambodia. A child refugee born in the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide, the artist’s personal entanglement with the historicization of the Khmer experience posits the exhibition as an embodied site for individual and collective searching.