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beth kantrowitz

INDEPENDENT curator

I am an independent curator representing  emerging and mid-career, contemporary artists primarily from the Northeast.

INDEPENDENT CURATOR
Most people know me as the Co-Director of Drive-by Projects in Watertown, MA and previously the acclaimed Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston.  I have 20+ years of experience with artists working in all media in Boston and beyond. This gives me a unique perspective on the arts community - inspiring me to curate thought-provoking exhibitions at galleries and unusual venues.

Let's work together to find the perfect work of art for your home or office. I will put all of my resources together to define, search out and capture your 'art crushes'. Drawing on my relationships with artists, other curators and dealers, I can handle all aspects of the transaction - identify under-valued artists and emerging talent, sending images or arranging studio visits, negotiating terms and discounts – all the way to framing and professional installation. 
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Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️ “Mr Dobalina, Mr Bob Doba Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️
“Mr Dobalina, Mr Bob Dobalina” 6” square Flashe, Posca pen and gouache on wood panel. 2024
Text or call for more info about Juli’s magical paintings. 
617.835.8255
@julirajahandbuilt
Art Crush: Juli Raja ❤️🩷 Fatehpur Sikri “ghost tow Art Crush: Juli Raja ❤️🩷
Fatehpur Sikri “ghost town” 24x24” in square-Flashe, Posca pen, gouache on canvas stretched wood panel. 2023 
@julirajahandbuilt
Art Crush: Juli Raja🩷🩷 “Horsing Around with Monkey Art Crush: Juli Raja🩷🩷
“Horsing Around with Monkeys” multiple layered 8”, 2” and 1” squares on 14” square wood panel. Flashe, Posca pen & gouache. 2024
About Juli’s painting:
The paintings presented in “Beauty Party” are an extension of New York based artist Juli Raja’s 16-year career as a textile & collections designer for the label, Juli Raja
hand built. Elaborate & intricate processes play the pivotal role in the making of her
textiles. The woven fabric is created on a grid, as are her paintings. The woodblocks
used in her print designs are hand carved from her original drawings by highly skilled
Artisans in two Indian cities-Kolkata & Jaipur. The method by which these 6 inch square
woodblocks are dipped into assigned dyes, pressed onto the fabric and repeated is a
precise mathematical system, resulting in a one-of-a-kind fluid print. Accuracy,
placement and proportion are essential to allow your eyes to move effortlessly across
the surface. Juli’s appreciation for the balance between ingenuity and tradition in her
work is an expression of her love and hopes for the interconnected human-animal
worlds of togetherness. The characters and locations she creates in both her paintings
and woodblock printed textiles are derived from her own life experiences. For every
wildlife reserve or historically significant architectural city she has explored, there is a
memory she taps into to curate many of the visual components that are the building
blocks of her myth-poetic, story base paintings. As with visual influences, the auditory
rhythm of music is also present. Within this exhibition of paintings & textile collections,
Juli invites you to associate a particular musical artist or a song with the work.
See: Spotify playlist called “beauty party paintings”
Hand Built History
I’ve created my label, Juli Raja Hand Built, with a bit of serendipity. 
@julirajahandbuilt
Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️ “A cup of kindness “ 9x9 Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️
“A cup of kindness “ 
9x9” square Flashe, Posca pen and gouache on wood panel. 2025
About Juli’s truly incredible paintings:
The paintings presented in “Beauty Party” are an extension of New York based artist; Juli Raja’s 16-year career as a textile & collections designer for the label, Juli Raja hand built. Elaborate & intricate processes play the pivotal role in the making of her textiles. The woven fabric is created on a grid, as are her paintings. The woodblocks used in her print designs are hand carved from her original drawings by highly skilled Artisans in two Indian cities-Kolkata & Jaipur. The method by which these 6 inch square woodblocks are dipped into assigned dyes, pressed onto the fabric and repeated is a precise mathematical system, resulting in a one-of-a-kind fluid print. Accuracy, placement and proportion are essential to allow your eyes to move effortlessly across the surface. Juli’s appreciation for the balance between ingenuity and tradition in her work is an expression of her love and hopes for the interconnected human-animal worlds of togetherness. 

See: Spotify playlist called “beauty party paintings”
❤️To see more of Juli’s art call or text me at 617.835.8255
@julirajahandbuilt
Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️ llama drama, 2023 Gouache Art Crush: Juli Raja❤️❤️
llama drama, 2023
Gouache on wood panel
6”X6”
When I saw this painting it was love at first sight!
For more info about Juli’s work call or text me at 617.835.8255
@julirajahandbuilt
Tonight from 6-8. Don’t miss! @jamesonandthompson Tonight from 6-8.
Don’t miss!
@jamesonandthompson 
@kathleen.ohprojects 
@isabelriley
Art Crush🩷 Sneha Shrestha Sneha Shrestha, also kn Art Crush🩷 Sneha Shrestha 
Sneha Shrestha, also known as IMAGINE
Yesterday’s lunch time talk at Harvard Museum was fantastic!
Nepali (b. Kathmandu 1987)
Dwarpalika (Temple Guardian)
Created in Boston, 2023
Steel and brass
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Carol Rutherfurd in memory of her husband, John Rutherfurd, Jr.,
2025.307
Nepali artist Sneha Shrestha infuses ancient architectural traditions with her distinctive street art style. “Dwarpalika” refers to the formidable female guardians that are placed outside temples for protection. The form of this work, however, derives from Newari ankhi jhyal (“eye windows”): ornamental wooden lattice windows found in architecture of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
Their wood is replaced here with metal, evoking the brilliant shine and eventual patina of brass and gilt bronze Hindu and Buddhist icons. The lattice repeats the first letter of the Devanagari script used to write the Nepali language, क *, which for the artist carries comfort, familiarity, and memories of home. 
@imagine876 
@harvardartmuseums 
#nepaleseartist
Art Crush: Isabel Riley❤️ Perfect studio visit on Art Crush: Isabel Riley❤️
Perfect studio visit on a snowy day. 
@isabelriley.artist
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