Cube Spring Season is Live!
Who said Boston isn't an art destination?
This season, Cube showcases extraordinary art talent and the first-ever Boston Art Triennial. RSVP to the place to be this spring.
April 9 @ 6PM: Timothy Kadish and Ari Hauben (Fort POINT, BOSTON)
Timothy and Ari are two artists steeped in visual culture and contemporary dialogue working in two very cool spaces: the Button Factory and Midway Artist Collective, innovative projects protecting creative spaces in Boston.
Timothy Kadish: Born in Haverhill in 1981, Kadish's work focuses on negotiating stimuli from everyday happenings, which the artist refers to as “visual education.” He often employs symbols and signs inspired by atomic structures, graphic images, mathematics, biochemical formulae, and written language. He received his MFA from Boston University and is a graduate of the Diploma and 5th Year Certificate programs at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, which culminated in the Traveling Scholars award. Timothy has exhibited nationally and has been published in numerous arts-related sources. Timothy has also been recognized as an MCC Fellow in painting. His work continues to be collected by large organizations and small collectors alike.
Ari Hauben: Ari Hauben is a contemporary artist with a very unique style that he has developed through trial and error, happy accidents, and hours and hours of work in his Boston Studio. His style could be defined as blending pop and street art techniques into mixed media works. The processes he uses involve newspaper, melted crayon, epoxy, spray paint, wood stain, and layering techniques that are integrated into a variety of visual platforms. In addition to creating compelling art, Ari also wears another hat: art teacher. Known as “Mr. Hauben” to his students, Ari has taught for the past 15 years at a special education Boston Public High School designed for students who struggle with emotional and behavioral challenges. He was the Winner of the 2018 Boston Educator of the Year Award 2018 from the Boston Public Schools (BPS), the City of Boston, and the Boston Teachers Union (BTU).
APRIL 15 @ 1PM: PELLE CASS HOME STUDIO (BROOKLINE)
Pelle Cass makes composite photographs of sports and public life, often conveying the eeriness of time, a feeling of Dionysian chaos, and a sense of play.
Pelle Cass (1954) is a photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. He’s exhibited at the George Eastman House, the Albright Knox Gallery, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Metamorf Biennial for Art and Technology in Norway and has presented shows at Stux Gallery (Boston), Gallery Kayafas (Boston), and the Houston Center for Photography. His work is owned by the Fogg Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Polaroid Collection, the DeCordova Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the MFA, Houston. Cass’s photos have appeared in books such as Photoviz (Gestalten), Deleueze and the City (Edinburgh University Press), Langford’s Basic Photography (Focal Press), The Beautiful Sparkle: Optical Illusions in Art (Prestel), and magazines such as Beaux Arts (France), McSweeney’s, FOAM, GQ, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, and many others. He’s received fellowships from Yaddo, Artists Resource Trust, and the Polaroid Collection.
Pelle is represented by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
May 15 @ 1PM: Vernon Street Studios: Sophia Ainslie, Kate Conlon, and Boyang Hou (Somerville)
Vernon Street Studios is home to some of the most exciting artists working today. It’s always hard to choose who to visit, but we are excited to see new works by Sophia Ainslie and visit studio mates new to Cube and to Boston, Kate Conlon and Boyang Hou.
Sophia Ainslie is a South African American artist working between drawing and painting, between figuration and abstraction. Her work focuses on the microscopic and macroscopic, positive and negative space. She melds observation with imagination in a way that explores the relationship between movement and space. Over the last year, Sophia returned to South Africa and her residency in Ireland gave birth to new work.
Ainslie received her MFA in Boston, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 2001 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Ainslie is a recipient of the Ann and Graham Gund award, the Inaugural Hendricks Art Fund for Tufts Graduates, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Painting, and the Artist’s Resource Trust. Ainslie lectures at Northeastern University in Boston.
Sophia is represented by Gallery Naga
Kate Conlon is a multi-media artist whose work uses the language of scientific investigation to explore issues of truth, perception, and speculation. Kate Conlon’s work usually begins with an earnest attempt to figure something out and invariably ends in a mess of paradox, incongruence, and doubt. She is a founding director of Limited Time Engagement Press and a Professor of the Practice in Print at SMFA at Tufts University.
Boyang Hou (b. Xi'an, China) is an artist mainly working in painting, sculpture, and publication. Hou's works have been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Creative Center Osaka, Osaka, Japan, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
May 20 @ 6pm: Wareham Street Studios: Brooke Stewart, Chelsea Lyons Teta, and Cathy c lu (Boston)
Which comes first? Material or the work - or both. We will explore materiality in all its dimensions with artists Brooke Stewart, Chelsea Lyons Teta, and Cathy C Lu. three women on the move!
Cathy Lu (b. Miami, FL) is a ceramics based artist that manipulates traditional Chinese art imagery and presentation as a way to explore how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of American identity is central to her work.
She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her BA & BFA from Tufts University. She has participated in artist in residence programs at Root Division, Bemis Center for the Arts, Recology SF, and the Archie Bray Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at Johansson Projects, Aggregate Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery and the Chinese Culture Center SF. She was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/ Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow and a 2020 NCECA Emerging Artist. She likes hearing fruit stories.
Brooke Henderson Stewart (b. 1994, Topsfield, MA) works primarily in drawing, printmaking, and painting. Her experiences as an athlete and precarity of life as an artist inform her work. Testing the outer limits of materiality, Brooke captures humanity and engages all the senses in her work.
Brooke received her MFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Boston, MA) in 2018. Stewart's most recent solo exhibition was hosted by The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts. Recent group exhibitions have been presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA), Los Angeles Printmaking Society (Los Angeles, CA), LaMontagne Gallery (Boston, MA), Tokyo University of the Arts, Geidai (Tokyo, Japan), Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland) and Artist Proof Press (Johannesburg, South Africa), among others. Her work has been written about in The Boston Globe, New American Paintings, and Boston Art Review.
Chelsea Lyons Teta is an artist who lives and works in Boston, MA. Through the lens of painting, drawing, and collage, Teta investigates the relationships between memory and self, history and material, and the body and landscape. Her deceptively simple surfaces comprise many layers: fabrics, writings, textures, and formative memories. Teta graduated with honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2012 with a BFA in printmaking.
In addition to her studio practice, she serves as the Creative Director for Thayer Design Studio in South Boston. From rug design and branding to styling, Teta takes on a dynamic range of responsibilities, bringing her creative vision to every aspect of the firm.
June 4 @ 6pm: Cube pARTy: Featuring New American Paintings and Paul Shakespear(SoWa, Boston)
We’re heading back to SoWa for our annual pARTy. Same discovery, just upping the fun in Boston’s gallery haven. Paul Shakespear at Anderson Yezerski, New American Paintings at Steven Zevitas, LaMontagne Gallery, and more. There is something electric hearing from artists in their exhibition space.
Paul Shakespear explores the mystery and power of painting: what the simple combination of paint, canvas and wood can achieve: a mysteriously powerful compression of emotion, memory, and visual delight. Painting, like making music, is an activity beyond words, a reaching for the emotional and unconscious world. Thirty or more thin acrylic glazes are brushed, troweled, and rubbed on each painting to achieve the final surface.
Paul Shakespear lives and works in the Boston area. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was educated at Boston College, the University of Manchester, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
June 10 @1pm: Boston Art Triennial: Kate Gilbert and Evelyn Rydz (Charlestown Navy Yard)
We’ll visit Boston’s first Boston Public Art Triennial. From May to October 2025, the inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial will present 15 compelling commissions sprawled across the city. Each visionary local, national, and international artist will produce sculptures, interactive exhibits, or performance-based and community-led activities with an emphasis on East Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, ensuring equitable representation and access. The Triennial 2025’s commissioned works will be joined by additional public art experiences across the city.
Evelyn Rydz (b. 1979) works across drawing, site-responsive installations, and community projects to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and with each other. Her practice explores connections between bodies of water, personal histories, consumer cycles, and threats to natural and cultural ecosystems.
Evelyn is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, Brother Thomas Fellowship, SMFA Traveling Fellowship, U.S. Latinx Art Forum Charla Fund, and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Exhibitions include features at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Anchorage Museum, AK; USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA; Galeria Ponce Robles, Madrid, Spain; Palmer Art Museum, Penn State University, PA; and Palacio de Justicia, Matanzas, Cuba.
Evelyn has collaborated on community projects with University of Massachusetts, ICA Watershed, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, and MIT List Visual Arts Center. Rydz is a Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Virtual Tours (Acess with a Season Pass Holders):
April 23 @ 4PM: Virtual tour with BARBARA OWEN
Barbara Owen creates abstract painted objects, my work is propelled by the optical power of color. She is drawn to and work within the themes of landscape, femininity, and beauty. My intention is to evoke emotions through color and transcend the boundaries of traditional representation through abstraction.
Barbara Owen earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, and an Interdivisional BA in Sculpture and Poetry from Bennington College in Bennington, VT. Selected Solo and group exhibitions include: Chelsea Walls (NYC), Spring/Break Los Angeles (CA), Untitled Miami (FL), Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL (NC), Jamestown Art Center (RI), SVA Flatiron Gallery (NYC), Dedee Shattuck Gallery (MA), Redwood Library and Athenaeum (RI), Collar Works (Troy, NY) LabSpace (Hillsdale, NY), Bristol Art Museum (RI), Newport Art Museum (RI), UMass Dartmouth (MA) Art-in-Embassies (Papua New Guinea and Suriname). She has been awarded residencies nationwide, including Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, CA (2000), Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY (2002), and MASS MoCA/Assets for Artists, MA (2015).
She lives and works in Rhode Island and Brooklyn, New York
May 28 @ 4pm: Virtual Tour with Molly Hatch (Season Pass Holders)
In the past decade, Molly Hatch has become synonymous with contemporary ceramics, continuing her exploration of these methods and themes by applying them across an ever-evolving catalog of forms – plates, cubic vases with negative space imagery, pyramid forms that become three dimensional ceramic lenticulars. Her work has exhibited both nationally and internationally, garnering her a loyal and fervent following. Molly’s ceramic wall installations may best represent the “grey space” between fine art, contemporary design, and craft that has become de rigueur for museum collections and modern collectors.
Molly Hatch is an artist designer living and working in Florence, Massachusetts. Molly has a formal education in drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, earning her BFA in 2000. In 2008, after several ceramic residencies and apprenticeships in the United States and abroad, Molly earned her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.