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Previous exhibits 2013 through the present

October ​through January 2020

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’Seasons Change’ was exhibited from October, 2019 through January, 2020 in rooms 111, 103, Select Board Hearing Room (6th floor) and the lobby display case, and featured the work of local artists Nora Galvin, Summer Barnes and Polina Dorosinskaya.


May through September 2019

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​‘Remembrance' featured the work of:
Milan Klic, Sculpture (stainless steel); Marcela Klicova, handbuilt stoneware; Winifred Breines, Watercolors and Francine Grossbard Aaron, Collage, in rooms 103 & 111, Select Board Hearing Room (6th floor) and the lobby display case.

February through May 2019

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June through October 2018
The featured artists were Lora Brody, "The reunion project" photographic prints (room 111 & 103), Frances Schreiber, "a conversation" watercolors (the hearing room, 6th floor), Gabby Johnson, "printed flowers' paint/etching (main lobby display case).

February through May 2018

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Spanning the Seasons

This vibrant exhibit featured the work of local artists:

Hannah Dunscombe (watercolors, pastels and pen work) in room 111.
Martin R. Anderson (found materials on board) in the 6th floor Hearing Room.
Doron Putka (oil on paper) in room 103.
Bailey O'Brien (mixed media 3D) in main lobby display case.



October 2017 through January 2018

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Art in the Autumn 

The exhibit featured the work of Ruth Ginsberg-Place (printmaker and photographer); Joseph Perkell (photographer); Mark Jacobson (photographer) and Mary Scott Dunn (painter and ceramicist) in rooms 103, 111, lobby and the 6th floor hearing room at Brookline Town Hall.

june through september 2017

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feb through june 2017

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​Aurelie Galois (drawings)
"Friday Faces"
Room 103
Gulnara Niaz (photographs)
"A Moment to Yourself"
Selectmen's Hearing Room
Memorabilia from the JFK collection of Jim Solomon (The Fireplace) in room 111 and the lobby display case

october 2016 through january 2017

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This exhibit featured the work of a selection of
​artists from Gateway Arts, in all three exhibit rooms.

June through september 2016

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An exhibit of the work of Lincoln
​School students K-5

march through june 2016

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​In Tom we Trust
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Emma Tavolieri
Mixed Media
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​Captain Tom
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Karla Weathers
Mixed Media
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​Yellow Mountain
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Michelle Yu
Ink, colors and water

november 2015 through february, 2016

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Georgiana Pagounis

Oil painting on canvas

Selectmen's Hearing Room, (6th floor)


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Roman Colosseum at Night
Fran Gardino

Color digital photograph on archival paper

​Room 103 (1st Floor)


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Jerusalem - Man on a Mission, 2013
Joseph S. Perkell


Digital photograph, printed with
​Epson archival inks


​Room 111 (1st Floor)

august through october 2015

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Roya Amigh, Back and Forth, 2014
Papers, thread, and pieces of cloth
Selectmen's Hearing Room

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Alla Lazebnik, Man on the Wall, 2014
Woodcut
Room 111
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Liz Linder and Rich Griswold, Shadow Play, 2012 
Rag paper print   
Room 103

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Bobby Corenki, Faces, 2011 
Pencil, ink, watercolor
Lobby Display Case

may through july 2015

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Caroline Bowden
Selectmen's Hearing Room





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Audra Keefe
Room 111

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Patricia Timothy
Room 103

FEBRUARY THROUGH APRIL 2015
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Diana Birkelund
Pastel
Room 111

Brookline Open Studios Artists
M A Lasek, Sue Mandelbaum-Cohen, 
Room 103

Lucy Sandler - lobby cases

Peg O'Connell
Selectmen Hearing Room



2014

Aug through oct

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JOHN BURKETT (PAINTINGS)
SELECTMEN'S HEARING ROOM

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CAROLYN LOVIT (WATERCOLORS) - ROOM 111

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BRAD HORRIGAN (PHOTOGRAPHS)
  BITTERSWEET: DYING IN THE NICARAGUAN SUGAR FIELDS - ROOM 103
These photographs were taken by Brad close to Brookline's Sister City in Nicaragua, Quezalguaque, and depicts young men who work in the sugar fields, who have been afflicted by a deadly mysterious kidney disease.

October 19-25, 2014 was proclaimed Brookline Sister City Week during which the Mayor of Quezalguaque, and other officials, visited Brookline to partake in a wide range of activities, including a forum on this Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origin.  For more information on this topic click on the following links:  
Brookline Sister City Week - scheduled events
NY Times article on deadly kidney disease



May through july

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Room 103  :  The work of 9 Brookline Studios artists: Furen Dai, Ruth Ginsberg-Place, Sarah Harrington, CJ Lori, Carolyn Lovit, Sidhartha Pani, Karen Stern, Joan Thormann and Elissa Yanover.






Selectmen's Hearing Room, 6th Floor  :  A.E. Ryan: Mixed Media on Fabriano Paper                     Room 111  : Wilma Voukydis : Portraits in Oil

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FEB THROUGH APRIL

Exhibit featured the work of Peg O'Connell, Erin Palazzolo Loparo, Craig Eastland
                       PEG O'CONNELL
      Gelatin Silver Black & White Photography
                ERIN PALAZZOLO LOPARO                                          Works on Paper
CRAIG EASTLAND
Oil on Board

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2013

february through
april

Exhibit featured the work of Sean Dunstan-Halliday, Kristen Selesnick, and Wendy Soneson.  


             SEAN DUNSTAN-HALLIDAY                                               KRISTIN SELESNICK                                                    WENDY SONESON
                      WATERCOLORS                                                                   OILS                                                                    WATERCOLORS
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may through August

Exhibit featured the work of Barry Briss, Shuk-Kuen Tse and Elissa Barr
           
                           Barry Briss                                                         Shuk-KuenTse                                                                        Elissa Barr 
                      B&W photographs                                              Mixed media sculptures                                                         Acrylic ink on paper
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august through october

Exhibit featured the work of Ed Stitt, Barnett Berliner, and Anita Jamieson.
                           ED STITT                                                               BARNETT BERLINER                                                         ANITA JAMIESON
                      WATERCOLORS                                                                   OILS                                                                    WATERCOLORS
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november through january (2014)

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Natalia Shapirovsky, 
Acrylic paintings



Jean Stringham, 
Color photographs
 
Judy Mason, 
Watercolors
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