BARBARA TRACHTENBERG: Abstract visual artist. Painting. Collage. Narrative. Emotion. Color.

My painting, mixed media and writing pull from inner life and its contextual social issues. Residencies at MacDowell Colony and CAMAC, France. Showing in the US, Cuba and Europe.

2020

Cambridge Art Association, Mary Schein Fall Salon, 2020, Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA, September 9 – 30, 2020
At the Kathryn Schultz Gallery & Online
Cambridge Art Association, Members’ Juried Cambridge Art Association's 2020 Members Prize Show, juried by Jessica Roscio, DanforthArt, Framingham, MA. 74 artists chosen from among 210. OPENING RECEPTION: 3/13/2020
Rocky Neck Artists Colony: Finding Structure, Annual Spring Members, 2/13/202—-3/29/2020
Broken Beauty,” University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, January 7 – February 1, 2020, JUROR: Cathleen Daley, Co-Founder/Director of Room 83 Spring.
Juried by Cathleen Daley, Co-Founder/Director of Room 83 Spring.
“Reclaimed, Recycled, Reimagined,” (continued) 20 Depot Square Gallery, 3rd Floor, Peterborough, NH:. 15 found object assemblages, December, 2019—February, 2020, Pelagia Vincent, Curator (20 Depot Square, 3rd Floor, Peterborough NH.
"“Different Strokes,” Small Group Show, Lasell College Wedeman Gallery, February 4th—22nd, 2020, Lois Tarlow and Vladimir Zimakov, CURATORS
“You Can’t Teach Art,” (continued) John Murray Invitational Group Exhibition: Holzwasser Gallery, Newart Center, Newton, MA, October 24, 2019—January 25, 2020, Painting, Two Figures

2019

• MacDowell Fellows Regional Liaison for the Boston area: unanimously elected by the MacDowell Fellows Executive Committee

• Depot Square Gallery, Peterborough, NH: 15 found object assemblages, December, 2019—end February, 2020, Pelagia Vincent, Curator

• John Murray Invitational Group Exhibition: Holzwasser Gallery, Newart Center, Newton, MA, October 24, 2019—January 25, 2020, Painting, Two Figures

• Gallery B, The Mill Contemporary Art, 4 paintings,, “24 x 24”, Curator: Sorin Bica

• Mary Schein Fall Sason, 2019, Cambridge Art Association, University Place Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, painting, Immigrant Family

• Invited Small Group Annex Show May to June, Fountain Street, 5/1-6/2; Artist’s Talk

• Fountain Street Annex Small Group Show, 260 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA, Exhibition 5/1 - 6/2

• Cambridge Art Association's 2019 Members Prize Show, JUROR: Lisa Crossman, art historian and Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum. University Place Gallery, February 7 - March 23. 60 artists chosen from among 145

• Wedeman Gallery, Lasell College, Newton Art Association: JUROR: Vladimir Zimakov, Director, Assemblage, Man with the Sun in His Heart

* Newton Open Studios: Juried Winter 2019 : City Hall, Newton, painting, Immigrant Caught in the Network.

• “Spaces and Places” JUROR: Vladimir Zimakov, Wedeman Gallery Director and professor of art, Lasell College, The Spaces and places of Copicut Woods, acrylic on canvas

• Arlington Center for the Arts: “I’m New Here” (continued from 2018) “Refugee Ship” mixed media, JUROR: Boriana Kantcheva, Director, Maud Morgan Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

2018

• RED, 2018, Cambridge Art Association, JUROR: Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson, Cambridge Art Association’s Kathryn Schultz and University Place Galleries, Family Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, at Harvard University, 11/8 – 12/20
• Newton Art Association, 11/13 – 12/8, James King Bonnar Show, Lasell College-Wedeman Art Gallery, Newton, MA. (Reception: Sat 11/ 18, 2:00-4:00 p.m

• The Mill Contemporary Art, “Refugee in Landscape,” “Make America Great Again,” “Immigrant Family,” CURATOR: Sorin Bica, Reception, October 12, 2018, PO.LI.TI.CAL SEE.SAW, Project B Gallery at 2 Central Street, Building #1, Framingham, MA, October 12 Opening Reception

• Arlington Center for the Arts: “I’m New Here”: 2018—2019

• Belmont Gallery of Art, Frankenstein: Monster Misunderstood; Art Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 10/1-11/17. Painting, “Forlorn Man”

• Cambridge Art Association 2018 MEMBERS' PRIZE SHOW; "The Red Door," February 1st – March 23, 2018. JUROR: Juror Joseph Carroll, of Joseph Carroll & Sons Gallery, Of 300 entries, 43 pieces were chosen. Opening reception: Friday, 2/9/18 | 5:30-7:30pm. University Place Gallery, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

• SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY: "SEEING WOMAN": 30 PHOTOGRAPHS FOR ZEKE MAGAZINE'S "Through a Woman's Lens"

http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Barbara_Trachtenberg/2669: Retrospective on Girls and Women Internationally

https://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Barbara_Trachtenberg/4250: Cuba, from SOLO exhibition, Havana, Cuba, 2015

• February—May: SOLO EXHIBITION, Recent Paintings, Cambridge Health Associates, 335 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, http://cambridgehealthassociates.com/gallery.

• January—February: "Repurposed"—3-Person Exhibition, Wood Collage Bas-Reliefs: Interpretations of the Physical World: Newart Center, JUROR: Sarah Montross, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Artist's Talk: January 30.

• Fall, 2017 to Winter, 2018: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Illuminations Program, 2 photographs, 3 paintings; Curator, Beverly Therkelsen

• BLUE, 2017, JUROR: Vera Ingrid Grant, Annual Exhibition, JUROR: Vera Ingrid Grant, of the Hutchins Center for African American Art and Culture, Harvard University, December, 2017—January, 2018

• PORTUGAL Artist’s Residency: Hangar Center of Artistic Research Artist's Residency Lisbon, Portugal, Mixed Media Project, September

• Cambridge Art Association's 2018 Members' Prize Show: February—March, 2018, "The Red Door" acrylic on canvas, JUROR, Joseph Carroll, of Joseph Carroll & Sons Gallery. Of 300 entries, 43 pieces were chosen.

Fruit Havana

Social Documentary

September 12, 2015

I was honored by Glenn Ruga's inclusion of my photonarrative on Cuba—CUBA: Story and Community on socialdocumentary.net. A while before that, I'd begun a year of correspondence and preparation of the 20" x 30" prints and method of hanging, received my formal invitation from the Cuban Government and carried them onto the second non-stop flight from JFK after Obama's January 2015 announcement to end the US embargo. Havana friends met me at Jose Martí Airport and we mounted the show. In that same crazy week I began ethnographic interviews with four men about their experiences of growing up gay in 1980s Havana and am working on this new project for 2016.

If you get a chance, take a look at the exhibit abstract and statement to understand what I look for as a street photographer—whether in Bulgaria, Morocco, Turkey, France, Latin America and elsewhere, or just at home in Boston.

Please look at other work on socialdocumentary.net to see other photographers' superb work.
http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Barbara_Trachtenberg/2669