H2O:a deep dive

June 30th - August 7th, 2022

With our exhibit “H2O: A Deep Dive”, The Rocky Neck Art Colony looks to explore how we know water through an artistic lens. We asked artists to probe the subject of water and engage viewers to think about and appreciate the importance of it in our world. 

Water / Ice / Steam — The 3 states of matter exhibited by H2O, each easily observable in our daily lives. It is in every living cell on earth, acting as the necessary transport for all vital functions. From a wider vantage point we observe the solid ice of winter yielding to the green of spring, evaporation from summer's heat returning as rainstorms and cold fall frosts. As the water flows, so follows life, its primacy reflected throughout the world's arts, religions, mythologies, sciences, and economies.

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."- Loren Eiseley.

The Juror : Katherine French has served as director of art galleries at Boston University, the Montserrat College of Art, and Catamount Arts and retired as Director Emerita from the Danforth Museum of Art.  Now an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions for the Vermont Arts Council, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Ogunquit Museum of Art, and numerous other organizations.  A recipient of awards for curatorial excellence from the New England chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, she was also named Best Curator of Locally Made Art at the Boston Art Awards.