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“stillness” @drydengallery , providence, ri 🔵Opening reception: June 9 from 3-5 pm On view: May 9-June 9, 2026 featuring 🔵rebecca roberts and john roy Now more than ever, we need to find ways to quiet the noise. It’s crucial to remain still as the world around us continues to fill our minds and hearts with stories of sadness and chaos. Rebecca Roberts works on paper, and John Roy’s paintings collaborate to create a visual and emotional calm that allows us to pause and enter a slower, quieter, more contemplative space. @drydengallery @john_r_roy @rebecca_a_roberts

Please join us @ drive-by projects Saturday, May 16, 3-5pm for the opening of “Unfurl” featuring Katrine Hildebrandt🧡 Drive-by Projects is pleased to present Unfurl, a solo exhibition of mixed media works by Katrine Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt’s multi-process works, seemingly fragile yet strong, could serve as metaphors for the human condition. As she folds, forages, dyes, burns, and sews, Katrine Hildebrandt creates unique works that are at once structured and fluid, disciplined and poignant. In this body of work, I am revisiting a series started three summers ago — one rooted in caregiving, in the fragile and luminous web of our relationships and lives . . . These works continue to explore the innate potential within us — the quiet force that pushes toward blooming, toward opening, toward becoming more fully conscious of ourselves and one another. –Katrine Hildebrandt For more information call or text 617.835.8255 or email [email protected]. Above: Katrine Hildebrandt Soft Focus Hand-burnt lines, naturally dyed fabric, thread and wire on naturally dyed paper 12 x 10”

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Sneak peek from today’s installation of “stillness” featuring Rebecca Roberts and John Roy at @ Dryden Gallery, Providence, RI. The exhibition is on view from May 9 - June 9, 2026. We hope you can join us for the artist reception on June 6th from 3-5 pm.🔵 If you’re in or near the fabulous city of Providence, we invite you to stop by Dryden Gallery while the show is on view. @john_r_roy @rebecca_a_roberts @drydengallery @providencepictureframe

Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️ “Mr Dobalina, Mr Bob Dobalina” 6” square Flashe, Posca pen and gouache on wood panel. 2024 Text or call for more info about Juli’s magical paintings. 617.835.8255 @julirajahandbuilt

Art Crush: Juli Raja ❤️🩷 Fatehpur Sikri “ghost town” 24x24” in square-Flashe, Posca pen, gouache on canvas stretched wood panel. 2023 @julirajahandbuilt

Art Crush: Juli Raja🩷🩷 “Horsing Around with Monkeys” multiple layered 8”, 2” and 1” squares on 14” square wood panel. Flashe, Posca pen & gouache. 2024 About Juli’s painting: The paintings presented in “Beauty Party” are an extension of New York based artist Juli Raja’s 16-year career as a textile & collections designer for the label, Juli Raja hand built. Elaborate & intricate processes play the pivotal role in the making of her textiles. The woven fabric is created on a grid, as are her paintings. The woodblocks used in her print designs are hand carved from her original drawings by highly skilled Artisans in two Indian cities-Kolkata & Jaipur. The method by which these 6 inch square woodblocks are dipped into assigned dyes, pressed onto the fabric and repeated is a precise mathematical system, resulting in a one-of-a-kind fluid print. Accuracy, placement and proportion are essential to allow your eyes to move effortlessly across the surface. Juli’s appreciation for the balance between ingenuity and tradition in her work is an expression of her love and hopes for the interconnected human-animal worlds of togetherness. The characters and locations she creates in both her paintings and woodblock printed textiles are derived from her own life experiences. For every wildlife reserve or historically significant architectural city she has explored, there is a memory she taps into to curate many of the visual components that are the building blocks of her myth-poetic, story base paintings. As with visual influences, the auditory rhythm of music is also present. Within this exhibition of paintings & textile collections, Juli invites you to associate a particular musical artist or a song with the work. See: Spotify playlist called “beauty party paintings” Hand Built History I’ve created my label, Juli Raja Hand Built, with a bit of serendipity. @julirajahandbuilt

Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️ “A cup of kindness “ 9x9” square Flashe, Posca pen and gouache on wood panel. 2025 About Juli’s truly incredible paintings: The paintings presented in “Beauty Party” are an extension of New York based artist; Juli Raja’s 16-year career as a textile & collections designer for the label, Juli Raja hand built. Elaborate & intricate processes play the pivotal role in the making of her textiles. The woven fabric is created on a grid, as are her paintings. The woodblocks used in her print designs are hand carved from her original drawings by highly skilled Artisans in two Indian cities-Kolkata & Jaipur. The method by which these 6 inch square woodblocks are dipped into assigned dyes, pressed onto the fabric and repeated is a precise mathematical system, resulting in a one-of-a-kind fluid print. Accuracy, placement and proportion are essential to allow your eyes to move effortlessly across the surface. Juli’s appreciation for the balance between ingenuity and tradition in her work is an expression of her love and hopes for the interconnected human-animal worlds of togetherness. See: Spotify playlist called “beauty party paintings” ❤️To see more of Juli’s art call or text me at 617.835.8255 @julirajahandbuilt

Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️ llama drama, 2023 Gouache on wood panel 6”X6” When I saw this painting it was love at first sight! For more info about Juli’s work call or text me at 617.835.8255 @julirajahandbuilt

Tonight from 6-8. Don’t miss! @jamesonandthompson @kathleen.ohprojects @isabelriley

Art Crush🩷 Sneha Shrestha Sneha Shrestha, also known as IMAGINE Yesterday’s lunch time talk at Harvard Museum was fantastic! Nepali (b. Kathmandu 1987) Dwarpalika (Temple Guardian) Created in Boston, 2023 Steel and brass Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Carol Rutherfurd in memory of her husband, John Rutherfurd, Jr., 2025.307 Nepali artist Sneha Shrestha infuses ancient architectural traditions with her distinctive street art style. “Dwarpalika” refers to the formidable female guardians that are placed outside temples for protection. The form of this work, however, derives from Newari ankhi jhyal (“eye windows”): ornamental wooden lattice windows found in architecture of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Their wood is replaced here with metal, evoking the brilliant shine and eventual patina of brass and gilt bronze Hindu and Buddhist icons. The lattice repeats the first letter of the Devanagari script used to write the Nepali language, क *, which for the artist carries comfort, familiarity, and memories of home. @imagine876 @harvardartmuseums #nepaleseartist

Art Crush: Isabel Riley❤️ Perfect studio visit on a snowy day. @isabelriley.artist