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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: Jennifer Liston Munson❤️ Images from th Art Crush: Jennifer Liston Munson❤️
Images from the exhibition,
“t h e c a m e r a sees”
@K i n g s t o n Gallery, 
May 2026 
This new body of work is inspired by Susan Sontag’s writing
On Photgraphy (1977) where she presents the notion of the
camera as an instrument of knowing things—a mechanical eye that sees what the subjects cannot as a force of premonition. In 2025,
I opened a garbage bag of discarded family Ektachrome slides and sifted through the tiny transparent images from the 1960s and 70s
that were at once vaguely familiar and also largely unknown.
Seeing these images stirred complex emotions as I read the
narratives of my older sister and brother who later died by their own hands. I saw their isolation, their best days that never repeated,
their embedded unhappiness. I saw what the camera saw over
50 years ago.
These scanned images magnify the watchful eye of the camera,
not as a memory-keeper, but as a separate agent of seeing
future histories not yet understood by its subjects. My father’s Kodak Instamatic camera was a new invention that we did not fully
understand—holding images that might be developed months later. The framing is often random where the subject cedes to
the landscape as the other witness that sees only the truth.
Nature also knows.
Size plays a role in the reproductions of tiny slides that “fiddle with the scale of the world” and are “reduced, blown up, cropped,
retouched, and tricked out” (Sontag, “Image -World”). The
large-scale translucent prints are suspended in space to intersect with bodies that pass by. Very small translucent prints held in resin quietly sit on shelves recalling early glass plate negatives that allow us to step outside of the living moment converting life
into a souvenir, image into object.
@jlmunson28 
#susansontagquote 
@kingstongallery 
#familyohotos
Art Crush: Jennifer Liston Munson❤️ Image: medusa Art Crush: Jennifer Liston Munson❤️
Image: medusa sculpture #1, pigmented resin, translucent photo, plaster, 9”x4”x4”, 2026
About Jennifer’s process…
I pour my colorized resin and leave the studio for the night to return and see what happened while I was away. Bubbles and swirls form like oracles of ancient drawings held in amber and we are partners in the 
making process. 
@jlmunson28 
#sculptıre 
#ancientdrawings 
#medusa
Art Crush: Jennifer Munson ❤️ Image: the camera se Art Crush: Jennifer Munson ❤️
Image: the camera sees #12 & #13, 
2”x2”x2” each, pigmented resin, translucent photos
2026
@jlmunson28 
#sculpture 
#resin
#familyphotos
Art Crush: Jennifer Liston Munson❤️ Image: medusa Art Crush: Jennifer Liston Munson❤️
Image: medusa #3, 2026
pigmented resin, translucent photo
4 x 4 by 4 inches
About Jennifer’s work:
Jennifer Liston Munson’s interest in capturing ancient art objects through a practice of image–memory, image–making, and image–viewing connects to her identity as a museum worker looking at objects up close, looking after objects, being in their presence, and in the presence of their makers.
Her recent objects hold both the lightness of the gaze and the memory of the object in translucent weight. Translucency, like a watery pool, promotes ambiguity, a sense of mystery and complexity that allows multiple understandings of what an object, a space, or an idea can be.

The image of the object becomes an object again.
@jlmunson28 
#medusa 
#sculpture 
#contemporaryart 
#resin
Art Crush: Liz Kelley❤️ Liz can go small works on Art Crush: Liz Kelley❤️
Liz can go small works on paper and canvas and super big! 
Check out one of her many murals. This one’s in Providence, RI.
Mural in Providence, RI
The Story Behind This Wall
2023

Knead Doughnuts has been a longtime collaborator, and this mural marked another chapter in a project history built on trust. Located on Smith Street in Providence, the shop wanted their interior walls to feel just as inviting as what’s behind their pastry counter. Knowing the client and their space so well gave us the freedom to lean fully into an organic, hand-drawn style. Soft botanical linework in sage and dusty blues, layered over a warm palette of blush, olive, and lavender. The shop’s name, KNEAD, is painted bold and unmissable, so to be seen through the large storefront window, and catch the eye of anyone walking down the street.
@lizzkelley 
#kneadbakery 
#muralist
Art Crush: Liz Kelley🩷 Fast Cat No.2 (2026) Oil Pa Art Crush: Liz Kelley🩷
Fast Cat No.2 (2026)
Oil Pastel on canvas
8x10 inches
@lizzkelley 
#muralist
#painter
Art Crush: Liz Kelley🩷 Domino (2025) Acrylic on ca Art Crush: Liz Kelley🩷
Domino (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
20x16 inches
About Liz:
Liz Kelley is a Rhode Island based painter, illustrator, and muralist whose work celebrates small moments, soft gestures, and joyful color.
Liz is as joyful as her work. Really!
@lizzkelley 
#muralist 
#painter 
#providenceri
Art Crush: Liz Kelley🩷 Coffee with Jenn (2025) Acr Art Crush: Liz Kelley🩷
Coffee with Jenn (2025)
Acrylic on canvas
20x16 inches
About Liz’s fab art:
Liz Kelley is a Rhode Island based painter, illustrator, and muralist whose work celebrates small moments, soft gestures, and joyful color.

She holds a BFA in Fine Arts with a focus in Illustration, thanks in no small part to a professor who challenged her in all the best ways, and who remains one of her close friends to this day.

Since 2017, she’s been bringing her playful visual language to murals throughout New England.

Her studio pieces mix graphic shapes, loose brushwork, and bright, unexpected color. Birds, market scenes, and quiet architectural details keep showing up throughout her world, each one full of warmth and character.

Liz’s work feels approachable, modern, and joyfully handmade.
@lizzkelley 
https://www.hellolizkelley.com/
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