Select Work from Transition of Power: 2025

About the Artists

Paul Beckingham is a contemporary realist oil painter based in New England. Beckingham's work reflects a blend of nostalgic and everyday subjects, natural and man-made, framed in dramatic light. He seeks to create beautiful compositions from overlooked sources of interest that encourage a closer look.

Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer, filmmaker and photographer whose work delves into the emotional complexities of religious and romantic entrapment. Through her immersive worlds, she invites viewers to reconnect with their neglected inner child, using explosive colors, elements of elevated play, and a dynamic interplay of light and dark to evoke deep, often unspoken emotions.

Claudio Eshun is a photography-based artist and educator at Harvard University. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Born in Ghana, Eshun lived in Italy until age 9 and was then raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. Eshun reflects on and reimagines scenes from his own history. By assembling photographs -- found, collected, and made -- Eshun explores his multiple pasts and possibilities for the future. 

Andrew Fish studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York and Middlebury College. As an artist I am interested in depicting and responding to my surroundings as a documentarian of contemporary life. This may be oversimplifying my aim, but the business of making pictures has become so ubiquitous in our culture that examining it as a trend has become one of the primary focuses of my work. 

R. Galvan is an artist based in Medford, Massachusetts. Their practice focuses on vanity and on the role systems play in shaping an understanding of memory and the self. With a special focus on queerness and Latinx subjectivity, their work manifests as image making, drawing, and critical research and writing. Galvan received a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a Masters of Fine Arts from RISD.

Eben Haines’ work emphasizes the history and process of objects, focusing on human form and the built environment. Through a process of building up and covering over his material, Haines aims to present hand, object and image simultaneously. Haines was a recipient of the 2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing as well as the 2021 James and Audrey Foster Prize from the ICA, Boston. 

Joe Keinberger grew up in the one -and-a-half horse town of Hingham, before moving to Boston to attend Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He now lives in Somerville where he paints and illustrates out of his hidden studio deep below the earth's crust. Keinberger works primarily in ink and acrylic, doing loose ink drawings on top of built-up texture of acrylic and assorted dry media. 

Asia Kepka is a multimedia artist based in Arlington, Massachusetts. Shortly after leaving her home in Poland for the United States, Kepka discovered her passion for photography and graduated from the New England School of Photography. More recently, Kepka has shifted her creative focus to sustainability-driven fashion design, which she is currently studying at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Magda León, a Guatemalan-born multidisciplinary artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, specializes in printmaking, installation and social practice art. She received her Bachelor of Arts in social work and printmaking from Rhode Island College and her Masters of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work explores her experience as a child immigrant and her bicultural upbringing, which she cariñosamente (lovingly) refers to as “De aquí y de allá (from here and there).” 

Ted Ollier was born in the Midwest, lived in the South, and now resides in the Northeast. Ollier holds degrees from the University of Texas, Texas State University and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Ollier teaches letterpress and printmaking through Reflex Letterpress. Ollier’s concerns are with data and its interaction with the consensus reality, and how that reality is affected and changed by that data.

Ellen Shattuck Pierce loves printmaking for its historical role in disseminating knowledge, use as a decorative art, and use as a medium for protest; she embraces this history to create allegorical scenes of American life in her prints. Pierce graduated from University of Massachusetts Boston with a Bachelors in Art and Women’s Studies. In 2022 she was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship.  Her work in the 2024 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London was awarded the Printmaking Today Prize.

CW Roelle has been drawing with wire since the mid ‘90s. He first took up the pliers when the pencil line felt too removed. While attending The Maryland Institute College of Art he made his first wire pieces based on figure models from life drawing classes. He now makes a variety of images from small object portraits to interweaving narratives commenting on the delightful and mundane world around us. 

Adrienne Sloane absorbs and translates current events into multifaceted and deeply felt constructions that reflect both her own moral universe as well as the ethos of the day. Having begun her career as a sculptural knitter, she remains mindful of the rich historical context of that medium. Recently while continuing to draw from a fiber toolbox, she increasingly incorporates techniques of new media to address timely yet universal issues.