Exhibitions
Regional art, expertly curated.
In the Norwell Gallery
Savage Godfrey Gallery presents rotating exhibitions featuring emerging and mid-career regional artists, with shows rotating every 10–12 weeks. Each exhibition offers a considered perspective on contemporary art, inviting connection, discovery, and a deeper engagement with the work.
The gallery is located at 693 Main Street in Norwell, Massachusetts, and is open Wednesday through Friday from 10 to 4 PM, or by appointment.
Common Thread
September 25th - December 23rd, 2026
As we move into the colder months, we gravitate toward comfort and coziness. That’s what Common Thread is bringing to the Gallery this fall. Common Thread explores the art of handwork–stitching, quilting, woodworking– by three distinct artists Marcia Ballou, Mia Cross, and Laura Petrovich-Cheney. Their vibrant works evoke a sense of lightness and familiarity, coming together on the Gallery walls to create a warm, inviting space for the fall season.
The opening reception will be on Friday, October 23rd from 6-8 pm. The artists will be in attendance and the public is welcome. On Sunday, November 8th the Gallery will host an artist talk. Attendance is limited to 20 people, please contact the Gallery to reserve your spot today.
Marcia Ballou
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Marcia Ballou is a collage and stitched-fiber artist inspired by color, light, and the natural world. Through spontaneous and deliberate appliqué, she combines unexpected colors, shapes, and textures to create joyful compositions. This is the second collaboration with Ballou and the Savage Godfrey Gallery, the first was an exhibition at Boston Children's Hospital's Mini Art Museum titled PLAY in 2023. In 2025 Ballou earned two “Popular Prizes” for her mixed-media and fiber work from national exhibits at the North River Arts Society and Duxbury Art Association in 2026. Ballou is a graduate of Mills College, CA. She creates and resides in Marshfield, MA.
Mia Cross
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Lisa Daria Kennedy is a painter whose work explores memory, leisure, and the fleeting nature of everyday experiences. Drawing inspiration from found 8mm home movies, Kennedy creates narrative paintings that examine the moments people choose to preserve and those that quietly slip away. Her work invites viewers to reflect on nostalgia, family history, and the passage of time. Kennedy teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and lives in Hingham, Massachusetts, where she paints from her studio overlooking World’s End.
Laura Petrovich-Cheney
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Laura Petrovich-Cheney is a sculptor who transforms salvaged architectural wood into quilt-inspired works exploring home, memory, loss, and renewal. Drawing on her background in fashion design, she incorporates traditions of pattern making and quilt construction while preserving the weathered histories of her materials. Based in Marblehead, MA, Petrovich-Cheney has exhibited nationally. Her solo exhibition, The Shape of Repair: Patchwork in Wood, is currently on view at UNC Asheville in NC.
A Summer Social
June – September 2026
From seaside gatherings to treasured memories and fantastical sea creatures, A Summer Social showcases the work of three artists whose unique perspectives capture the spirit of summer through painting and collage. Featuring Karla Hunter, Lisa Daria Kennedy, and Amy Ross.
Karla Hunter
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Karla Hunter is a South Shore-based painter known for her vibrant depictions of everyday life, coastal living, and the moments that make a life well-lived. Working primarily in acrylic, she captures scenes filled with warmth, nostalgia, and personality—from sun-drenched tablescapes and celebratory cocktails to beloved New England shoreline views. Her distinctive compositions often extend beyond the canvas and onto hand-selected vintage frames, creating works that feel both playful and immersive. Hunter lives in Cohasset, Massachusetts, and maintains a studio at the Wright Building in Rockland.
Lisa Daria Kennedy
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Lisa Daria Kennedy is a painter whose work explores memory, leisure, and the fleeting nature of everyday experiences. Drawing inspiration from found 8mm home movies, Kennedy creates narrative paintings that examine the moments people choose to preserve and those that quietly slip away. Her work invites viewers to reflect on nostalgia, family history, and the passage of time. Kennedy teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and lives in Hingham, Massachusetts, where she paints from her studio overlooking World’s End.
Amy Ross
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Amy Ross is a collage artist celebrated for her imaginative compositions that blend vintage imagery into whimsical, surreal worlds. Using traditional cut-and-paste techniques, she creates fantastical hybrid creatures inspired by folklore, nature, and the mysteries of the sea. Her work balances humor, elegance, and storytelling, often evoking the charm of classic children's literature while embracing a distinctly contemporary perspective. Ross' artwork has been featured in publications and products including Vogue, Target's Artist in Residence collection, and numerous book and cookbook covers. She lives and works in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Holding Ground
March - May 2026
Savage Godfrey Gallery presented Holding Ground, a three-artist exhibition that explored the relationship between landscape, memory, and place through the distinct practices of Nancy Cloonan, Deborah Howard, and Ilana Manolson. Together, their work reflected a shared commitment to observing and honoring the environments that shaped both their artistic practice and perspective.
Ilana Manolson
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When Ilana Manolson stands before a plant to paint it, she brings with her a rare double vision—that of the artist and the botanist. This layered perspective infuses her paintings with both visual poetry and scientific attentiveness, revealing the quiet complexity of the natural world. Manolson's work is rooted in the cyclical rhythms of the wetlands that surround her home in Concord, MA. Her compositions center on native plant life, tracing moments of growth and transition with a sensitivity to the larger systems these plants inhabit.
Nancy Cloonan
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Nancy Cloonan’s paintings translate the overlooked details of daily life into layered, abstract compositions that feel both familiar and elusive. She accomplishes this by pulling shape and pattern from photographs taken during daily walks throughout Plymouth County. Picket fences, asphalt patches, and reflective puddles are translated into colorful forms, combined and layered into Cloonan’s wonderfully inviting abstractions. Nancy Cloonan lives and paints in Plymouth, MA.
Deborah Howard
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Through a process of painting, wiping, and sanding, Howard builds quiet, layered landscapes that reflect the shifting light and atmosphere of Cape Cod’s marshes and tidal flats. Her restrained compositions reveal depth through subtle mark-making, where traces of underpainting and gesture remain visible beneath the surface. Deborah Howard lives and paints in Barnstable, MA.
Dreamscape
January – March 2026
Step into a world where memory, emotion, and imagination converge. Dreamscape brings together the work of Dina Brennan, Andrew Fish, and Robert S. Neuman in a vibrant exploration of color, landscape, and abstraction. Through expressive compositions that blur the boundaries between reality and dream, each artist invites viewers to experience familiar places and emotions through a new lens. From Brennan's immersive color studies inspired by the rhythms of nature, to Fish's dynamic interpretations of memory and place, to Neuman's visionary Ship to Paradise series, Dreamscape offers a visually rich journey designed to brighten the winter season and spark the imagination.
Robert S. Neuman
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Robert S. Neuman (1926–2015) was an internationally recognized painter, printmaker, educator, and writer whose prolific career spanned more than six decades. Known for his bold use of color and continual experimentation across mediums, Neuman's work explored themes ranging from mythology and literature to philosophy and the human condition. Dreamscape features works from his acclaimed Ship to Paradise series, a modern interpretation of Sebastian Brant's medieval Ship of Fools. The exhibition serves as part of the Robert S. Neuman Centennial Project, a year-long celebration honoring the artist's enduring legacy through exhibitions and special programming across New England.
Dina Brennan
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Dina Brennan is a Massachusetts-based painter whose work explores the relationship between color, emotion, and the natural world. Through daily color studies inspired by New England's changing seasons, Brennan creates expressive abstract landscapes that capture fleeting moments of light, atmosphere, and memory. Her vibrant compositions invite viewers to experience color as both a visual and emotional language. In addition to her studio practice, Brennan curates exhibitions at the Frame Center Gallery in Hanover, Massachusetts.
Andrew Fish
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Andrew Fish is a painter whose work exists at the intersection of abstraction and representation. Drawing inspiration from landscapes, memories, and personal experiences, he creates richly layered compositions where reality and imagination merge. His paintings transform familiar scenes into evocative explorations of color, movement, and emotion. Fish maintains a studio at Vernon Street Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts, teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Lesley Art + Design, and exhibits nationally and internationally.
A Quiet Wild
November 2025 – January 2026
Experience the quiet beauty of the New England coast through the eyes of three artists deeply connected to its ever-changing landscape. A Quiet Wild brings together the paintings of Morgan Dyer and Mallie Loring Pratt alongside the handblown glass sculptures of Aron Leaman in an exhibition that explores nature through abstraction, memory, and form. From Dyer's flowing compositions inspired by tides and melting ice, to Pratt's contemplative coastal landscapes that capture the subtle beauty of the off-season, to Leaman's elegant glass herons that celebrate the wonder of the natural world, each artist offers a unique perspective on our shared shoreline. Together, A Quiet Wild invites viewers to slow down, observe, and reconnect with the quiet moments and enduring rhythms of the coast.
Mallie Loring Pratt
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Mallie Loring Pratt works from observation and memory to explore the sensory and emotional experience of place. Her paintings often serve as records of change: in light, in land, and in ourselves. The works on display will be “off-season” landscapes that capture the muted beauty, subtle transitions, and overlooked moments that define the coast’s quieter months. Three of her large-scale paintings are currently on display at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s Biennial. She co-runs a studio collective in Ipswich, MA.
Morgan Dyer
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Morgan Dyer pours pools of pigment onto canvas to mimic natural forms such as puddles, moving tides, and melting ice. The resulting ribbons of intertwining pigment and texture create energetic fields of color that evoke movement and transformation. Each work prompts the viewer to reflect on the dynamic relationship between nature and abstraction. She has a painting studio and gallery on Rockport’s historic Bear Skin Neck.
Aron Leaman
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Birds are a recurring subject for Aron Leaman, serving as a symbol of home and connection to nature. His handblown glass herons draw viewers into moments of quiet wonder inspired by the colors and intricate patterns found in nature. Each bird is an artful combination of glass, stainless armature, and stone, appearing effortlessly balanced. Through material, color, and form, he invites viewers to ponder how each bird was made. He currently works in Lowell, where he founded Mill City Glass Works, a studio dedicated to innovative glass art and community workshops.