Born in 1997 in Shenzhen, China, Baoying Huang lives and works in Long Island City, NY. Huang uses art as a portal to tell her story of living between two cultures: being a citizen of China, and a resident of the U.S. Living in the ongoing pandemic and the antagonism between the two nations, Huang’s paintings depict the compartmentalized environments that she lives in, and her emotional connection with domestic themes as she raises questions about the meaning of home.

Huang considers her paintings as containers of “nomad” thoughts. The aspiration of wanting to express herself through language and conversation is compromised and compressed into painting materials and visual forms. Colors in these paintings are filtered and dimmed, which points to a sense of coldness she observes in her repetitive living patterns during the pandemic– being trapped in a humanless land and only able to see the traces she left in a space. The distinction between the air-tight surface and scratchy brush marks represents the paradox between hyperrealism and a gauzy, blurred romanticism. Huang believes in the power of painting because of its open-endedness communication. She is pointing at the mundane which all human beings can perceive, and hopes the spark in the dark can eventually make a good blaze. Painting is a practice to process the melancholy that comes from the present disconnect and allergy to the past; painting is Huang’s reconciliation to the outside world and the reflection of the internal mind.

Baoying Huang

Tranquility base (Modern Ruin with Red, Blue and Yellow) &#8211; 46

Tranquility base (Modern Ruin with Red, Blue and Yellow) &#8211; 48

Tranquility base (Modern Ruin with Red, Blue and Yellow) &#8211; 47

Tranquility base (Modern Ruin with Red, Blue and Yellow) &#8211; 49

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Tranquility base (Modern Ruin with Red, Blue and Yellow) &#8211; 43

Tranquility base (Modern Ruin with Red, Blue and Yellow) &#8211; 44

Tranquility base (Modern Ruin with Red, Blue and Yellow) &#8211; 45

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Born in 1994 in Massachussets, Waltham-based Meghan Murray received her BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 2016 and her MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2022. Her representational painting practice embodies and simultaneously intervenes upon historical tradition. Murray’s oeuvre is a continued investigation into intergenerational American ideals and clichés as viewed in the mid-century family photo album. Her paintings examine her preoccupation with nostalgia as she finds inspiration in midcentury photographs that she collects. She is a recipient of the 2022 Blanche E. Colman award for New England artists and was awarded second place in the 2023 Miami University Young Painters competition by juror John Yau. Murray currently lives and works in Waltham, MA.



Meghan Murray

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Group Plans to Study the Effects of Defense Activities on Children (March 7, 1952)

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President and Family Spend Quiet Christmas in Capital (December 26, 1968)

Born in 1991 in Toronto, Canada, Shantel Miller lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.

Miller is a storyteller. As the daughter of Jamaican ministers who immigrated to Canada, she takes viewers on an intimate and spiritual journey, shedding light on representations of race, gender, and belief systems. As she documents everyday life and shares with us her ordinary surroundings, her re-imagined spaces specifically depict moments of black life. With oil paints and delicate details, she questions authority, existence, and contemplates what it means to be human. As we enter her meditative space, we find ourselves engaged in a conversation about both the beauties and the limitations of our contemporary visual culture.

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Group Plans to Study the Effects of Defense Activities on Children (March 7, 1952)

President and Family Spend Quiet Christmas in Capital (December 26, 1968)

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Plush Love

Group Plans to Study the Effects of Defense Activities on Children (March 7, 1952)

President and Family Spend Quiet Christmas in Capital (December 26, 1968)

What Have You Done?

Time to Move

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