Fall 2025 Exhibitions, Gallery Talks, and Events
All exhibitions & events are free and open to the public
Gallery Hours
Monday through Thursday: 8 am – 8 pm
Friday: 8 am – 5 pm
Open during Theatre at the Mount performances
Closed on all MA State Holidays
Recent Work by
Megan Marden & Amanda Case Millis
Exhibition: November 3 – December 6, 2025
Reception: Saturday, December 6th from 12 – 2 pm
Megan Marden Artists Statement
“I build paintings from direct observation, found images, and constructed setups. The paintings are grounded in perception but pushed by memory, revision, and a refusal to accept an easy read. As soon as I establish a sense of space, I scrape, repaint, veil, or otherwise disrupt it, then try to uncover it anew. This repeats until the image feels inevitable without being closed.
I’m not exploring narrative so much as searching for a durable visual coherence, where measured structure contends with unpredictable shifts, spatial plasticity against breathing atmosphere, and a surface alive with history.
Many of my works are modest in scale, yet they share the same visual priorities as larger pieces: to keep space legible while letting the painting remain in argument with itself.
Found photographs offer drift and accident; working from life gives pressure and accountability; constructed setups provide a scaffold to push against. The negotiation among these sources becomes more important than the sources themselves. My priorities are mark-making, patience in building, and persistence as meaning.”
Megan Marden is a Connecticut-based painter who works from life, found images, and constructed setups. Her paintings are grounded in careful observation and disrupted by memory and revision. Marden exhibits with Oxbow Gallery (Easthampton, MA), recent group exhibits at The Painting Center (New York, NY), Silvermine Galleries (New Canaan, CT), Joyce Goldstein Gallery (Chatham, NY), and Prince Street Gallery (New York, NY.) Her work has been featured in Art Spiel, Two Coats of Paint, and other publications. Marden was a Four Pillars Artist-in-Residence at the Mount Gretna School of Art in Pennsylvania. She earned both her BA and MFA degrees in Painting from Western Connecticut State University and pursued additional study in drawing and painting at the New York Studio School.
Instagram: @meganlmardenanna
Amanda Case Millis Artist Statement
“There are moments when light, or the intensity of a moment stop me — the impossible glow of the blue hour, the shifting shape of light across a curtain, the way a familiar room suddenly feels strange. My paintings are a meeting place between inner and outer worlds, where perception, memory, and feeling converge. I return to certain motifs over time, observing how light and the passage of time change both my seeing and understanding.
For several years, I painted almost entirely en plein air, responding directly to shifting weather and light. In 2022, I spent a month painting in the woods surrounding Bentlage Monastery in Germany. In my studio back home, that experience became a six-part immersive painting. The work translates time spent there into an expansive piece that mirrors walking through sun-dappled woods.
Alongside these outward-facing works, I paint more reflective interiors, often drawn from my family’s Cape house. From my bedroom window, I still see the same view I saw as a child. I feel the echo of sticky summer nights when my mother sang me lullabies. These spaces hold generations of memory alongside the changing seasons of my life.
Over the past year and a half, I’ve felt an urgency to turn inward. The window series has grown from this need to ground myself in my history. In these works, light meets structure; the frame anchors my study of how light changes over time. With a long art historical precedent, windows serve as framing devices, paintings within paintings. They make us aware of what we see and how we see it, shaping perception and inviting reflection. They connect inside and outside, past and present. They hold what is fleeting alongside what endures.
Light runs through all my work, whether it is a lit house or fallen tree at sunset. Beyond illumination, it is a presence: mysterious, animating, sometimes strange. It moves across every surface and boundary, guiding how I see and what I remember.
Painting is where my doubts and hopes meet. It is how I honor my lived experience and pay attention, even when both feel just out of reach. Holding light in my hands before it fades.”
Amanda Case Millis is a Boston-based oil painter who works largely from life and is deeply inspired by light and place. For well over a decade, her work has been recognized in exhibitions throughout the US and Australia and Europe, including a solo show in Germany in 2023. Select recent group shows include Harper’s (NYC, 2024), Vardan Gallery (LA, 2024), Millersville University (PA, 2025) and D Contemporary (London, 2023). She currently shows work with George Marshall Store Gallery in York, ME and AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, MA. Amanda has been awarded numerous residencies in the US and abroad including PLAYA, Hambidge, Monson Arts, VCCA, the Eastern Frontier Educational Foundation, Mount Gretna School of Art, Monhegan Artists Residency, Kloster Bentlage (Germany), Jentel, and Arte Ventura (Spain). In 2024 she was elected as a St. Botolph Fellow in Boston and received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in painting. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, The Provincetown Independent and the Portland Press Herald. Amanda received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a post baccalaureate from Brandeis University and a BA from Smith College. She works between her studio in Waltham, MA and seasonally in South Yarmouth, MA.
Instagram: #amandamillis