OPEN DOOR GALLERY: BOSTON
EXHIBITED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CEI GALLERY
In collaboration with the Cultural Equity Incubator Gallery, Open Door has opportunities to showcases the works of emerging and established artists with disabilities and works to convene the community in conversations around disability, identity, and culture.
CURRENT EXHIBIT:
Megan Bent: "Slowly, the Sun Weaves Past Into Present"
On view October 12, 2023 - February 12, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 26, 5 - 7 pm Please follow this link to RSVP
From the Artist
This exhibition brings together two bodies of work, Latency and I Don’t Want To Paint A Silver Lining Around It, for the first time. Latency explores hidden disabilities, companionship, stigma, and the medicalized body. Printing my medical imagery reclaims my agency as a patient. I create these images with love and care, and in the process, the parts of me that are seen as deficient in the medical world are transformed into living temporal pieces of beauty. I Don’t Want To Paint A Silver Lining Around It explores my experience of being immunocompromised and high-risk in the pandemic. The subject matter highlights isolation during prolonged sheltering in place, daily walks, masking, doctor visits, medical treatment, changing warning signs at the pharmacy, and rest.
All of the images were created through chlorophyll printing which uses photosynthesis to print images onto leaves. Through this process I connect disability and nature, claiming disability as a valuable part of diversity.
LOCATION AND HOURS
The Cultural Equity Incubator, Boston, is located at:
15 Channel Center Street, Suite 103
Boston, MA 02210
Please email for more information about hours and upcoming exhibits at the Cultural Equity Incubator
ACCESS
The Cultural Equity Incubator is on the first floor of the Midway Artist Studio Building.
Please enter the building through the front door where there is a lift (dimensions: 36" by 54"). Once you reach the main floor take a left down the hallway, Studio 103 is right past the media lab, with the Incubator door on the right.
There are two gender neutral and accessible bathrooms on the first floor, nearby the Cultural Equity Incubator entrance.
Please note: there are push buttons on the doors to the bathroom but not to the Incubator itself. Incubator community members are happy to support with the door, please knock, or call, for our attention.
We care about your experience! Please contact if you have access-related questions or requests.