Exhibitions

Craig Bailey is a photographer working out of the South End of Boston. His photography includes portraiture, stage performance and the places where those meet. He is currently in the process of organizing his archives in order to reassess his work and to push back against the erasure of the history of the communities to which he belongs.

I am a self-taught veteran photographer. My photographs illustrate the beauty, integrity and determination of the subjects and often, a reflection of love. Immediacy becoming history. I mine the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Frantz is a Haitian-born artist based in Boston. His vibrant and eclectic paintings are fueled by a spirit of experimentation. His work navigates the intersection of the personal, societal, and spiritual, offering a rich exploration of identity, belonging, humanity’s relationship with nature, and our evolving connection to technology. Employing a diverse range of visual mediums, Frantz examines these themes through paradoxical imagery, creating tension that invites viewers to engage with both their emotional and intellectual responses.
Frantz’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the US and is held in private collections. He has also participated in an artist residency at the Mass Moca and is a current visual arts fellow at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Emotions, like all forms of energy, cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another. How to do we hold space for overwhelming emotions within our bodies, and how do we transmit that energy out unto the world? How can we integrate into our environment without being changed by it? What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? This exhibition isn’t a scientific exposé of the laws of thermodynamics, but it’s my own interpretation of how emotional energy is transmuted through art practice. With these paintings I try to convey thermodynamics in their surfaces; making it visible through kinetic painterly gestures, scorched canvas, and distressed materials. The rendered subjects appear to activate the very substances they’re depicted on, dissolving the boundary between subject and medium. Each work is more than the sum of its parts, as its energy isn’t contained, but instead transferred to adjacent pieces, and, hopefully, to the viewer as well.