Past Exhibitions
The gallery was established in 2006, but the website did not exist prior to April of 2007.
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BOOBY TRAP: JESSICA CADKIN, LAURA MALONE, CHARLIE MILGRIM, K.C. ROSENBERG, CAITY SALAMANCA

ABBY ZHANG: An enormous breath being held

CHARLIE MILGRIM: URBAN REFUGE

EMILY SHEPARD: A LUMINOUS CURRENT

Tara Esperanza, Laura Malone, Monika Mayer: Rhythms and Reveries

BEYOND BOUNDARIES: A JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION

ANDREA GUSKIN, LEAH KORICAN, ABBY ZHANG: RE/NEW

ELIZABETH SHER: Bound, Unbound, Rebound

Art for the Winter Solstice: Gathering in Community

JILL McLENNAN: IMPRESSIONS

DALAR ALAHVERDI: BEYOND THE MASS

LINKED TO HOME

KC ROSENBERG: THE ABSTRACTS’ DILEMMA

LAURA MALONE: BODIES OF WATER,BODIES OF LIGHT

SYNTHESIS

RUTH TABANCAY: (un)NATURAL ORDER 2.0

SARA LISCH: MUSE

HOPI BRETON: GROUNDED

BOHDANNA KESALA: DECODING THREADS OF MEMORY

CHRISTINE MEURIS: HEARTH

TARA ESPERANZA

UNDERPINNINGS

Charlie Milgrim: Nests

Andrea Brewster: Field Notes

Time After Time

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Aviary

A Fragile Balance

Andrea Guskin: Unfurling

PRESENCE/ABSENCE

Monika Mayer: Flow

Leah Korican: Bramble & Bloom

Jessica Cadkin: a small body

Mine the Gap

Metamorphosis

Gift Boxes

Art for the Winter Solstice

SARA LISCH: DREAM GARDEN

ELIZABETH SHER: GOOD COFFEE, BAD NEWS

PANTEA KARIMI: EULOGY

BACKROOM GALLERY: SEPTEMBER 10-OCTOBER 21 Andrea Brewster and Charlie Milgrim

JILL MCLENNAN: NATURE’S RECKONING

RAYMOND L. HAYWOOD: SURPRISE, SURPRISE: MOTHA#@?%$!

Backroom Gallery Exhibition: July 28 – September 9, 2023

Jo Ann Biagini:Botanical Imaginary

CHRISTINE MEURIS: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

RUTH TABANCAY: (UN) NATURAL ORDER

KC ROSENBERG: SILENT REMEMBERING

JAYNE BIEHN: FOUND

TARA ESPERANZA: A BEE’S PERSPECTIVE

OPEN UP

JUSTIN TEISL: THE LIGHT TAKES US

MARY CURTIS RATCLIFF: THE MARY CURTIS RATCLIFF GROUP SHOW

ANDREA BREWSTER: ENCHANTED GARDEN

THE NATURAL OTHER curated by Ruth Tabancay

Chris Komater: THUNDERCRACK!

Charlie Milgrim: ROTATIONS

P.K. Frizzell, Kathleen King, Jayne Biehn, & Mary Curtis Ratcliff

STOPPED IN MOTION: PANDEMIC ART QUILTS

Gregory James Thomas and Oscar A. Ramirez

ART FOR THE WINTER SOLSTICE

DAWLINE-JANE ONI-ESELEH: SOTTO VOCE

ELIZABETH SHER: MARK MY WORDS

PANTEA KARIMI: cube is NOT geometric

Christine Meuris & Kristina Nobleman: IN SYMMETRY

NEOCLES SERAFIMIDIS: ABEYANT LANDSCAPE

RAYMOND L. HAYWOOD: ENVy of Desire

Johanna Poethig: GLAMORGEDDON

Sara Lisch: BITE ME

Leah Virsik: COMMON THREAD

Jessica Cadkin: PLUME

Chris Komater : 16:9

RACIEL ESPERANZA: Lyrical Language / Lenguaje Lirico

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: CASTING SHADOWS

Sara Lisch: THE MIND GARDEN

Andrea Brewster and Elizabeth Sher

CHARLIE MILGRIM: Plane Shapes

JILL MCLENNAN: Migration Altered

KATHLEEN KING: An Event in the Form of Questions

BACK ROOM: April 15–May 21, 2022

Tara Esperanza: THE SUCCULENT GARDEN

Andrea Brewster: THE FRAGILE BALANCE THAT LIES BENEATH

BACK ROOM: February 25 – April 9, 2022

Johanna Poethig: HIDEOUTS, ESCAPE HATCHES AND A SUBMARINE

Holiday Salon: AFFORDABLE ART FROM OUR GALLERY ARTISTS

XX @ XV: 15th Anniversary Group Show

Chris Komater: Allegory of Inclination

Raymond L. Haywood: Love Letters and Love Notes

BACK ROOM: October 1-November 27, 2021

BACK ROOM: August 20–September 25, 2021

Charlie Milgrim: Water in Motion

Sara Lisch: Metamorphosis

Jessica Cadkin: Rupture & Rapture

Leah Virsik: to connect, to join

Neo Serafimidis: THE SHELTERING NIGHT

Brooks Fletcher: The Intimate Vessel

Collage Variations: Raymond L. Haywood, Jessica Cadkin & Kathleen King

Pantea Karimi: ARTFUL ATTACKS

Christine Meuris: VEILED

Charlie Milgrim: BETHLEHEM RESURRECTED

Johanna Poethig: TERRESTRIAL EARTH STATION

Andrea Brewster: SLENDER THREAD

P.K. Frizzell: THE LAST TREE

Jo Ann Biagini: THICKET

Kathleen King: OTHER LIVES

Leah Korican: WHOLLY HOLEY

Jill McLennan: RISING OUT OF RUINS

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: MOTION VARIATIONS

Tara Esperanza & Brooks Fletcher: INTIMATE PERSPECTIVES

Julianne Wallace Sterling: PANDEMIC MOTHERLAND

Elizabeth Sher: SURREALITY

2020 Re:Vision

Andrea Brewster: FROZEN MOMENT

Tara Esperanza: I SEE YOU

Fernando Reyes: THIS LAND

Pantea Karimi: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF MATHEMATICS

Chris Komater: Family Album

Christine Meuris: PERMUTATIONS

Leah Virsik: ABOVE AND BELOW

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: SCRAPWORKS

Andrea Brewster: CABINET OF CURIOUSITY

Christine Meuris: WORKS ON PAPER

Kathleen King: FOUND OUT

Neo Serafimidis: NEIGHBORHOOD NIGHTS

Charlie Milgrim: STREET CODE

Peter Honig: STILL

GALLERY GROUP SHOW: TRUTH / DARE / 20 / 20 CHAPTER 2: DARE

Truth/Dare/20/20 – Chapter 1: Truth

Fernando Reyes: LOOKING BACK CUTTING FORWARD

Johanna Poethig: IMPOSSIBLE MATTER

Jill McLennan: FROG BOG

Fernando Reyes: LOOKING BACK CUTTING FORWARD

Julianne Wallace Sterling: DETOURS

Elizabeth Sher: MOROCCO SEEN & UNSEEN

Sara Lisch: INTERWOVEN

RUTH TABANCAY: Geometricity 3.0

Chris Komater: Jack & Mack

NICK DONG: Mendsmith Project

Kathleen King + Kerry Vander Meer: DUET

Andrew Miguel Fuller + Jeremiah Jerkins: IT’S ALL BEEN SO NICE

Pantea Karimi – COUNTDOWN: BIRUNI – GALILEO – APOLLO

Carlo Fantin: PACKAGING

Jo Ann Biagini : MINGLEMENTS

CHARLIE MILGRIM: Accretion / Erosion

PETER HONIG: Wire Hum

Leah Virsik: YOU ARE SUPPORTED MORE THAN YOU KNOW

Neo Serafimidis: OBJECT/MEMORY (POWER)

GALLERY GROUP SHOW: SELF-PORTRAITS IN THE AGE OF SELFIES

20/20 VISION: Small Works Show

Julianne Wallace Sterling: SAN PABLO AVENUE

Jill McLennan: ENOUGH IS….

KERRY VANDER MEER: The Shape of It

RUTH TABANCAY: Stitch

PK FRIZZELL: Humpty Dumpty

Fernando Reyes: THE FIGURE PROGRESSES

Kathleen King: SO THIS

SARA LISCH: BITE ME

CARLO FANTIN: Bad Business

Nick Dong: Matter / Antimatter

ELIZABETH SHER: Icelandscapes

Chris Komater: Study for a Series, Love

Nick Dong: Matter / Antimatter

CHARLIE MILGRIM & JOHANNA POETHIG: c.a.t.a.c.l.y.s.m. i.n.c.

Johanna Poethig: Phyllotaxis and Parastichy in a Time of Love and War

Charlie Milgrim: hallucinatory participation: see art, be art

MARY CURTIS RATCLIFF | Circumference

ANDREW MIGUEL FULLER | Thin Skins

Eric Bohr: invocation

Melting Point

20/20 Vision

Fernando Reyes: Making the Cut

Terry Dunn: Garden 2

Julie Alvarado: A Nice Place to Visit

Jo Ann Biagini: Pentimento

Jill McLennan: Dwelling

ROCOCO: The Hearing

Kathleen King: Around + About

KC Rosenberg : Nearby She Calls

Ruth Tabancay: The Structure of Cloth 1.1

Carlo Fantin: synesthesia

Julianne Wallace Sterling: repose

Charlie Milgrim: Ruins

Mary Curtis Ratcliff : What Goes Around Comes Around

Eric Bohr : altar

M20 Political Pop Up Art

Chris Komater: Stavros at His Bath

Nick Dong: Spiritual Fluid

The Surface of Things

Positional Vertigo

Julianne Wallace Sterling: the digital camo

Fernando Reyes: Paper Dolls

Terry Dunn: Garden

Jill McLennan: Garage Sale

Kerry Vander Meer: Constructing the Plate

KC Rosenberg: Washed Away: The Bachelorette’s Ballad, Rather

PK Frizzell: Junkyard Dog

David Maxim: Moments

Joanna Salska: Masks and Mirrors

Ruth Tabancay: Igneous Systems

Leah Markos: gLITTER

Carlo Fantin: Mimicking Technology

Eric Bohr: Tending the Bones

Chris Komater: Sexting

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Full Circle

Kathleen King: Square Peg

Jo Ann Biagini: And Again

Charlie Milgrim: Bethlehem

Nick Dong: Cosmic Dance

Mercury 20 @ 10

Group Show: Small Works

Fernando Reyes: Dance-Dream-Drama

Terryl Dunn: under pressure

Jill McLennan: Transformation

Julianne Wallace Sterling: unmoor

Ruth Tabancay: Geometricity 2.0

Polly Frizzell: Moments of Grace

Julie Alvarado: True Adventures

Jann Nunn: Cadence & Rhythm

Chris Komater: Scylla & Charybdis

Joanna Salska: Landscapes

KC Rosenberg: Casserole Night Series 2008-2015

Carlo Fantin: U Have 2 Name Him Jesus #Annuciation

Leah Markos: Standard Indications

Peter Honig: Dark Matter

Group Show: A Common Thread OAKLAND

Manifold: Mills College Book Art and Creative Writing MFA program

Group Show: Collective Stories

Charlie Milgrim: Utility Access

Jo Ann Biagini: Into the Wild

Kerry Vander Meer: syzygy

Chris Komater: A Bouquet of Bears & A Dozen Little Roses

Jill McLennan: Industrial Resolution

Kaya Fortune: Innerboogieology

Kathleen King: Wood Vibrations

Ruth Tabancay: Geometricity

Jann Nunn: Breathing Space, New Sculptural Installations

PK Frizzell: La Sombra

Julianne Wallace Sterling: For and Against You

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Eye to Eye

Eric Bohr: frontiers

Nick Dong: Be-Longing-En-Lightening

Joanna Salska: Recent Paintings

Peter Honig: A Nervous System

Group Show: Transformation of Connectivity: Conversation, Confluence, Collaboration

Group Show: Small Works: Delectable/Collectible

Leah Markos: Pennants

Terryl Dunn: Works of Paper

Charlie Milgrim: Secret Fields

Jill McLennan: Trespass

Kerry Vander Meer: In the Grid

Joan Weiss: This Tilting World

Julie Alvarado: Urban Hunting – Squirrel Season

Ruth Tabancay: Microcosmos

Hadley Williams: Organic Abstraction

Kathleen King: Out Here

Jody Medich: Stories They Told Me

Julianne Wallace Sterling: Plural

Jann Nunn: Arc of Atlas

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Charismatic Fauna

Jo Ann Biagini: Nature in Translation

Julie Alvarado, Charlie Milgrim: Pet Peeves

Dave Meeker: Lucky

Eric Bohr: Ritual

Jody Medich, Jill McLennan: Histoire Noir

Peter Honig: Glendessary

Group Show: After the Fall

JoAnn Biagini, Margaret Chavigny, Maya Kabat: Cartographies

Kerry Vander Meer: Red in the Interlude

PK Frizzell: Evidence of Things Unseen

Jill McLennan: Glimmer in the Grit

Abstraction: Pull and Sway

Alumni Show: Transits and Returns

Eli Geiser: Spilt Milk

Eric Bohr, Jody Medich, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Kerry Vander Meer: Michigan

Paul Mueller: Along These Lines

Leah Markos: conveyance

Terryl Dunn, Jill McLennan, Mary Curtis Ratcliff: From Here to There

Charlie Milgrim: Dark Alliances

Julianne Wallace Sterling: this body

Peter Honig, PK Frizzell, Dave Meeker: Object Lessons

Eric Bohr: Variations

Terryl Dunn: Megathrust

Group Show: smARTphone

Mary V. Marsh: Just Waiting for You to Look

Jody Medich: Chairs
Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Mary Curtis Ratcliff Performance at M20

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: DIVINE, A Miscellany of Timeless Works

Dave Meeker: Landscapes

Group Show: Interlocking Terrain
Julie Alvarado, Eric Bohr, Jill McLennan: Outdoors
Maya Kabat: Infinite Expansion Inward
Jo Ann Biagini: Unbound
Julianne Wallace Sterling: New Work

Charlie Milgrim: Stealth Reverie
Kerry Vander Meer: The Space Between

Peter Honig, Mary V. Marsh: Recent Work

Jill McLennan: City Strokes

Julie Alvarado: Camp

Terryl Dunn, P.K. Frizzell, Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Mississippi Rising

Eric Bohr: Levant

Paul Mueller: Blood on the Church Hall Floor
Group Show: Mercury Rising

Group Show: Less Than Large

Julianne Wallace Sterling: Pushing Fairy Tales

Group Show: Multiples + Small Works

Kathleen King, Dave Meeker, Laura van Duren: The Gyre

Charlie Milgrim: On the Precipice

Julie Alvarado, Mary V. Marsh, Joan Weiss: Singular Sensations

Terryl Dunn: Travels and Dreams

Margaret Chavigny: Family Ties

CCA Artists: The Water Is Fine

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Encounters with Light

P.K. Frizzell: Inside Out

Eric Bohr, Maya Kabat, Jill McLennan: True Paint

Joan Weiss: Deep Roots

Peter Honig: The Fabric of Night

Group Show: Mercury Multiples: Artist’s Editions

Chela Fielding: La Fe

Dave Meeker: Beacons

Andrew Werby: Juxtamorphs

Jamie Morgan: Night & Day

Jo Ann Biagini, Margaret Chavigny, Mary V. Marsh, Julianne Sterling: Surface & Subtext

Kathleen King: Tongue & Groove

P.K. Frizzell: Floodplain Series

Maya Kabat, Charlie Milgrim, Joan Weiss: Strange Nature

Laura Van Duren: Not for Sale

Mary V. Marsh: Everyone Needs a Story

Eric Bohr, Chela Fielding, Julie Alvarado: Diverse Directions

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Small Worlds…& Large

Jill Mclennan: Cycles of the City

Group Show: Mercury Rising

Maya Kabat: This Living Process

Group Show: Small Works

Julianne Sterling: The Mommy Assassins

Eric Bohr: Ember Days

Jamie Morgan, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Laura van Duren, Joan Weiss: Gallery Group Show

Charlie Milgrim: Spiral Jetsam

Margaret Chavigny, Kathleen King, Jill McLennan, Charlie Milgrim: Don’t Look Back

Group Show: Works on Paper

Dave Meeker: Plugged In, 1978-2009

Patricia Gillespie, David Meeker: Special

Group Show: Elemental

Jo Ann Biagini, Chela Fielding, Tarra Lyons, Charlie Milgrim: Swan Song

Kathleen King: The Last Waltz

Peter Honig: The Last Waltz

Eric Bohr, Margaret Chavigny, Maya Kabat, Laura van Duren: Two by Two

Tarra Lyons: New Work

Joan Weiss: Reckless Blooms

Peter Honig, Mary V. Marsh, Jamie Morgan, Anna Vaughan: Encounter

Julie Alvarado: Heads and Tails

Jo Ann Biagini: New Work
Julie Alvarado, Aaron Geman, Kathleen King, Joan Weiss: Forecast

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Wood and Water

Anna Vaughan: Wood and Water

David Seiler: eWork/Muwekma

Aaron Geman: Five to Nine Thoughts and Some Shit that Sells

Jill McLennan: Intimate Observer

Jamie Morgan: Speed and Ecstasy

Laura van Duren: Confluence

Margaret Chavigny: Confluence

Eric Bohr: Vexing History

Charlie Milgrim: Vexing History

Ce Ce Iandoli: Evidence of Love

Chela Fielding: Collections from Within

Group Show: Retrograde

Anna Vaughan: Reverie

Tarra Lyons: Reverie

Catherine Perillo: New Work

JoAnn Biagini: New Work

Mary Curtis Ratcliff: Chosen Terrain

Jamie Morgan: Chosen Terrain
Ce Ce Iandoli, Jill McLennan, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, David Seiler: Foursite
Maya Kabat: Cities and Desire
Mary V. Marsh: Everyday Readers

Kathleen King: Slipping (Into Something)

Julie Alvarado: Accordion Dreams

Ce Ce Iandoli: Lilacs in Somerville

Jill Mclennan: Cuentas de Mexico

Laura Van Duren: The Dress Form Dialogues: Meditations on Beauty

Joan Weiss: Fields of Disturbance

Chela Fielding: Misremembering You

Mary V. Marsh: Reading History: Reconstructed Books

Peter Honig: Homeland

Charlie Milgrim: Homeland
David Seiler: New Sculpture/Drawing/Painting
Judith Hoersting: Color Studies
Antonio Vigil: Invisible Cities
Maya Kabat: Invisible Cities
Group Show: Big Bang
Joan Weiss: Natural Impulse
Kathleen King: Natural Impulse
Ce Ce Iandoli: Beautiful Disasters
Peter Honig: Still Life After Death

Cathy Perillo: New Work
Mary V. Marsh: Theories
Arthur Huang: Reading, Not Reading, Coffee

Shelia Metcalf Tobin: New Works

Margaret Chavigny: New Works
