About this Event
The Artist Panel discussion will focus on the work and studio practice of four artists featured in the Echoes of Place exhibition: Joseph Diggs, Marcy Hermansader, Heather Lenz, and Sue McNally, and will be moderated by the curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo. Light refreshments will be provided, and limited seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Landscape is personal; each of us responds to the world through our own experiences, histories, moods, perceptions, and imaginations. We may encounter landscapes directly, recall them from memory, or invent them entirely. Our responses can shift with the emotions, memories, and sensations a given vista evokes each time we see it. As artist Isamu Noguchi said, “We are a landscape of all we have seen.”
Rather than literally depicting the visible world, the four artists in this exhibition conjure echoes of places, metaphorical reverberations that blend observed landscapes with inner visions that compress location, time, and space. — Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, curator
Learn more about the exhibition here.
Credits | Above, clockwise: Joseph Diggs, Summer Sensation (detail), 2024, photo: Russ Price Photo; Marcy Hermansader, One Afternoon (detail), 2022, photo: Rachel Portesi; Heather Lenz, Night Water 4 (detail), 2026, photo: Pivot Media; Sue McNally, Water Way Out (detail), 2026, photo courtesy of the artist.
Located within the Church of the Covenant in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood, Gallery NAGA (formerly Newbury Associated Guild of Artists) was founded in 1977, when a group of artists placed their work on display in what used to be the chapel of the church. One month led to the next, and before long, an impromptu gallery was born.
Event venue & nearby stays
Gallery NAGA, 67 Newbury Street, Boston, United States
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