Exhibits Archive
For over 170 years, Rocky Neck has been a beacon for artists drawn to Gloucester's working harbor, inspiring everyone from Winslow Homer to today's working creatives. Discover the history, mission, and community that make America's oldest working art colony a living legacy.
Past Exhibitions
INTER / PLAY is a group exhibition bringing together five Cape Ann-based artists to explore the dynamic relationships between solitude, nature, and the creative process.
Rephrasing, encompasses the mixed-media work of Shira Karman, Tobi Klein, Helen Tory, and Patricia Wellenkamp, who utilize the concepts of adaptation and revision.
Boundless: The Art of the Book is a dynamic exhibition exploring the rich and ever-evolving world of the book as an art form.
Living in a fraught time, the six artists in this show all explore their connections to the wider world within the parameter of their esthetic vision. Visual, creative and ideational points of contact can be seen between the artists.
2026
HandWork, curated by Jane Keddy, is an exhibition celebrating the fine art of craft, featuring six artists from varied disciplines.
GROUNDING showcases the work of Kathleen Gerdon Archer, Amanda Bittner, Paige Farrell, Jeffrey Marshall, and Vanessa Michalak
Sacred Space showcases the work of six artists, each committed to the exploration of both ordinary and extraordinary subjects they find in the world as visual creators.
Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) is opening the season with a small show made up of work done at the RNAC Monday afternoon Life Drawing sessions. Featured is work by 20 artists, in pencil, charcoal, pastels, watercolor and more.
2024
Inside-Outside-In, curated by Sallie Strand, showcases the work of five well-known regional artists who respond to their Cape Ann surroundings in unique and specific ways.
Women Talking, curated by Mary Rhinelander, showcases the work of seven artists: Miranda Aisling, Robin Colodzin, Pam Courtleigh, Cheryl Curran, Leslie Lyman, Mary Rhinelander and Marika Whitaker.
GENERATIONS is an exhibition of artists from different generations who continue the legacy of painting on Cape Ann.
2023
Deftly Askew is a search for expression and balance in using multiple pieces to create harmonious wholes.
This group of five local artists goes beyond the ordinary or the obvious and takes the viewer on a journey that will spark their imagination and curiosity.
A show by the Experimental Art Group, which embraces chance and experimentation, allowing the artist's intuition and feelings to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional means.
2022
The exhibition, VARIATIONS ON SURFACE: Four Artists Explore Landscape, proposes that our relationship to the world may be felt and expressed in a blurred vista, horizontal line and more.
Six adventurous artists celebrate their story of spirit, perseverance and vision.
Works for 40 Under 40 were selected by Lydia Gordon, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Research at the Peabody Essex Museum, from a call to North Shore artists under the age of 40.
A solo online exhibition featuring the artwork of Kat Masella.
Stop/Look is part of the 6th annual Rocky Neck Now members show from the Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC). Reflecting the lives of RNAC artists over the last year, Stop/Look is online only, but it’s so big in spirit it’s actually two shows.
2021
Exuberance: The Marvelous Art of Craft
In the Moment, Five Artists Capture & Create features the work of Paul Cary Goldberg, Olivia Parker, Rebecca Skinner, Tsar Fedorsky, and Dana Salvo
Up Close: A Series of Solo Exhibitions | Sketchbooks Martha Swanson
Martha L. Swanson served as the Artistic Director of Rocky Neck Art Colony for eight years. She remains an inspiration to us all. We are honored she is sharing this intimate glimpse of her life in art for our first solo exhibit.
2020
Works on canvas and paper installed alongside ceramic and mixed-media sculptures will invite viewers to consider their place in a larger, complex, and interconnected world.
LET GO is a group exhibition bringing together the work of painters Benjamin Herbert, Kathleen Gerdon Archer, and Janice Colby in an exploration of discovery, transformation, intuition, and experimentation.
Rhythm and Rhyme is a juried exhibition showcasing work inspired by music or musical lyrics.
Five artists whose work walk the line of abstraction and representation, and interested in sharing their process of visual investigation.
This solo show brings together oil paintings that transform observed nature into imagined scenes, cave-inspired works evoking prehistoric mark-making, and text-based paintings that turn everyday sensory journaling into visual expression.
This annual show attempts to engage a young population of artists in the history and future of RNAC. We strive to offer emerging artists an opportunity for exposure and experience working with a gallery.
This three-day exhibition features artwork by talented young junior and senior artists from Gloucester High School’s chapter of the National Art Honor Society. Presented in collaboration with Cape Ann Art Haven.
This exhibition features Amy Sudarsky's life-size paintings of women who meet the viewer’s gaze with pride, warmth, and quiet strength. View the exhibit by appointment only or during the March Music Month concert series.