"The Portrait Project III"

June through October 2024

The Aplomb Project is a 501(c)3 organization that uses the transformative power of art to uplift trauma survivors, promote creative healing and present inclusive artistic opportunities.

"Challenge the Norm"

Group exhibition

Opening Apr 6, 2024 from 5-8PM

On display through May 31, 2024

With artistic methods, narrative or color application, the artists in this group exhibition are pushing the envelope as they "Challenge the Norm."

Exhibiting artists: Josh Atkinson*, Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura*, Amy Baylaurel Casey, Marc "Manix" Catino, Bréa Corcoran, Shenandoah Crook, Hannah Cole Dahar, John Diephouse*, Samuel Avery Giardina, Julie K. Gray, Kara Hunt, Alec MacLeod*, Sooltan Madsen, Barbara Morse, Aleka Artemis Munroe, Erica Nazzaro, Carrie M. Nixon, Natalie Obermaier, Maxwell Orsen, Brian Russo, Rachel Rossier Ryan, Brian Schmidt*, Darren Taylor, Bekka Teerlink, Margaret Vaughan*, Brian Wagoner, Debra Woodward
*Exhibiting in virtual reality and digital frame exclusively

Featured image by Rachel Rossier Ryan

"Radical Vulnerability"

Solo exhibition featuring paintings by Marisa Companion

Opening Feb 10, 2024 from 5-8PM

On display through Mar 31, 2024

"Source of Light"

Opening Nov 11, 2023 from 5-8PM
On display through Dec 31, 2023

VR exhibition (attend with a browser Room A or Room B or download the free app on the Oculus Quest):

Jaina Cipriano - Sweating Under Your Spotlight

Exhibiting artists: Peter Clive, Karen Abada, Courtney Aldrich, Kiley Ames, Kiley Ames, Brandin Barón, Jaina Cipriano, Bréa Corcoran, DaNice D Marshall, Chris D'Amore, John Diephouse, Caroline Gates, Victoria Guerina*, Dave Hanson, Christy Hegarty, Susan Hong-Sammons, Terri Levine, Carrie M. Nixon, Sheila Nee Booth, Marsha Newby*, Kristen Nyberg, Robert Obier*, Gila Rayberg* and Dale Tremblay

*Exhibiting in virtual reality and digital frame exclusively

Robert Sullivan: "Encontra"

Opening September 9, 2023 from 5-8PM
On display through October 28, 2023

See the vibrant solo exhibition featuring oil paintings by contemporary artist Robert Sullivan. Juried by Julie Hamel, she reflected:

"It is almost like you could lose your breath with how striking some figures are but then the viewer is simultaneously pushed and pulled with the tension of colors and shapes."

"The 2023 Portrait Project Exhibition"

Opening June 24, 2023
On display through Aug 30, 2023

For the second year, Aplomb Gallery will be displaying and presenting portraits to trauma survivors.

"Kodachrome Cowboy"

Paintings by Meghan Murray

May 13 through June 17, 2023

Meghan Murray (b. 1994, Massachusetts) 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 most recent work is a continued investigation into intergenerational American ideals and clichés as viewed in the mid-century family photo album. Her paintings have been on view at such spaces as Abigail Ogilvy (Boston), Morgan Lehman (NYC), Attleboro Art Museum, Boston University’s Sloane House, and virtually with newcube art through Future Fairs. 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 works as an administrator of the Art department at Wellesley College and maintains a studio practice in Waltham, MA.

"Figures in the Landscape"

"The Picnic" by Judy Duggan-McCormack, Image transfer on vintage cotton/cotton embroidery floss

Group Exhibition

March 4 through April 30, 2023

Emerging from, or receding into, the landscape, figures appear amidst a variety of settings in multiple mediums.

Exhibiting Artists: Karen Abada, Cynthia Arieta, Brandin Barón*, Thalia Berard*, Diane Bronstein, Terri Brooks, Brooke Carlson*, Joan Cox*, Perry deVick*, John Diephouse*, Judy Duggan-McCormack, Alicia Sampson Ethridge*, Gay Freeborn, Hannah Gebhart*, Greg Gorman, Jackie Hanson, Julee Holcombe, Carson Jackson & EmilyBarrera (image featured), Caroline Jennings, Samantha Jensen, Amanda Kidd-Kestler, Lori Leckliter, Campbell McLean*, Joseph A. Miller*, Richard Mothes, Erica Nazzaro, Claudia Noel Nerreau, Jenny Newberry*, Jonathan Pinto, John P. Potter*, Jason Rafferty*, Melissa Richard, Marcia Santore*, Johanna Schulman, William Stewart, our thomas, Von Dickens Ulsa*, Jill Van Hoogenstyn*, Zoë Walker and Charlie Wemyss, Jr.

*Exhibiting in virtual reality and digital frame exclusively

"Little Known Interiors of America"

Solo Exhibition featuring Julie Serrano

Jan 7-Feb 26, 2023

"As an artist and professional psychotherapist I have always been vitally interested in each persons “inner workings”; their very personal being which is generally not known to the public and occasionally unknown to themselves. I am also sometimes distracted while in conversation with someone as I’m entranced by their physical presence. I always wonder if it mirrors their inner presence.

This series of paintings began by asking personal friends, who are somewhat unusual, to sit for their portraits while I painted them. As I crafted their physical bodies I became more vitally interested in who they really are. Indeed, through my act of painting them, they revealed their inner selves to me. It was a very sympatico evolution from outer to inner self. The series later evolved to painting friends of friends.

The name of this series, “Little Known Interiors of America” embodies who each person is. It was later that I realized the series also reflects their physical space or a space they identify with!"

"Each Other"

Group Exhibition

On view by appointment Nov 12 - Jan 5, 2023

Exhibiting artists:

Camille Andersen, Brandin Barón, Hannah Cole Dahar, John Diephouse*, Mark A. Dierker, Melissa Dovey*, Mera Foster, Gay Freeborn, Greg Gorman, Christy Hegarty, Lee Kilpatrick, Erica Nazzaro, Claudia Noel Nerreau*, Tina Riedel*, Britt Snyder*, Vanessa R Thompson, Rachel Trusty, Sharon Solly-Weinberg, Daryl Zang*, and Cynthia Zeman.

*Exhibiting in virtual reality and digital frame exclusively

Virtual Reality Tour/Talks

"The Daughter Paintings"

Solo exhibition by Julie Harman Dovan

Sep 10 through Oct 30, 2022

Contemporary artist Julie Harman Dovan of New York City explores relationships to her daughters through expressive small scale portraits. She uses them as inspiration because she knows time is of the essence, and wants to capture the very moments when they are young and innocent. Painting them gives her a chance to shed light on a rare interlude in the frenzied rush of the mother-daughter relationship. The process also mirrors her own maturation from girlhood into womanhood.

"The Portrait Project"

June 25 - Aug 19

Danielle Festa exhibits tribute hyper-realistic paintings that highlight strength in subjects who have experienced trauma, loss or pain.

This is the first annual exhibition.

"Retrospective"

May 21-27, 4-7 PM

Opening May 21, 2022

18-year-old student from Montenegro, Andrija Zeković, exhibits in his first solo show, “Retrospective”. His vibrant and expressive paintings are inspired by his home country. A portion of the proceeds are going to CARE, an organization helping Ukrainian civilians during this difficult time.

"The Eyes Have It"

Mar 19 - May 19, 2022

Opening Mar 26, 6-9 PM

Artists from New England to California, New York to Ontario come together in a group exhibition with an emphasis on eyes that will be on display in Dover, NH and in the meta verse at Art Gate International 2022. The in-person show features 17 artists with one piece each while the VR exhibition features over 30 works by 20 artists.

Exhibiting Artists

Alaiya Aguilar, Emily Barrera, Kim Chase, Kara Daviau, Aurore Dinwoodie, Sally Dion, Seth Hamor, Glenda Hydler, Becca Lane, Cecilia Martinez*, Lesley Morgan, Barbara Morse, Erica Nazzaro, Jennifer Schmitt*, Heather Stearns, Vanessa R Thompson, Doug Vaughan, Nettie Vaughan, Robin Venturelli and Maria Zhalnina*.

*VR exclusively