Cove Gallery
A spacious waterfront gallery featuring independently curated exhibitions by RNAC members. Each show offers a unique artistic vision, showcasing the diverse talents of Rocky Neck's creative community. The Gallery is open from May to October
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37 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930
Gallery Hours:
Thursday–Saturday: 12–7 pm
Sunday–Monday: 12–5 pm
Free admission
Current + Upcoming Exhibitions
Works on canvas and paper installed alongside ceramic and mixed-media sculptures will invite viewers to consider their place in a larger, complex, and interconnected world.
Discover the magic when individual objects, no matter how similar or different, are joined into an entirely new work.
Cove Gallery offers RNAC members a unique opportunity to independently curate and host their own exhibitions throughout the season. Each year, the gallery presents five distinct shows, running from late spring through early fall. Located on the Smith Cove waterfront in America's oldest working art colony, this sun-filled space welcomes visitors to experience intimate, artist-driven presentations.
The gallery space is generously provided by Mark Goetemann in honor of his parents, Gordon and Judith Goetemann, continuing their legacy of supporting Rocky Neck's artistic community.
The Goetemann family's commitment to nurturing artists extends through the Goetemann Artist Residency, established by Gordon in 2005.
About Cove Gallery
Past Exhibitions at Cove Gallery
LET GO is a group exhibition bringing together the work of painters Benjamin Herbert, Kathleen Gerdon Archer, and Janice Colby in an exploration of discovery, transformation, intuition, and experimentation.
Five artists whose work walk the line of abstraction and representation, and interested in sharing their process of visual investigation.
This solo show brings together oil paintings that transform observed nature into imagined scenes, cave-inspired works evoking prehistoric mark-making, and text-based paintings that turn everyday sensory journaling into visual expression.
This three-day exhibition features artwork by talented young junior and senior artists from Gloucester High School’s chapter of the National Art Honor Society. Presented in collaboration with Cape Ann Art Haven.
INTER / PLAY is a group exhibition bringing together five Cape Ann-based artists to explore the dynamic relationships between solitude, nature, and the creative process.
Rephrasing, encompasses the mixed-media work of Shira Karman, Tobi Klein, Helen Tory, and Patricia Wellenkamp, who utilize the concepts of adaptation and revision.
Living in a fraught time, the six artists in this show all explore their connections to the wider world within the parameter of their esthetic vision. Visual, creative and ideational points of contact can be seen between the artists.
HandWork, curated by Jane Keddy, is an exhibition celebrating the fine art of craft, featuring six artists from varied disciplines.
GROUNDING showcases the work of Kathleen Gerdon Archer, Amanda Bittner, Paige Farrell, Jeffrey Marshall, and Vanessa Michalak
Sacred Space showcases the work of six artists, each committed to the exploration of both ordinary and extraordinary subjects they find in the world as visual creators.
Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) is opening the season with a small show made up of work done at the RNAC Monday afternoon Life Drawing sessions. Featured is work by 20 artists, in pencil, charcoal, pastels, watercolor and more.
Inside-Outside-In, curated by Sallie Strand, showcases the work of five well-known regional artists who respond to their Cape Ann surroundings in unique and specific ways.
Women Talking, curated by Mary Rhinelander, showcases the work of seven artists: Miranda Aisling, Robin Colodzin, Pam Courtleigh, Cheryl Curran, Leslie Lyman, Mary Rhinelander and Marika Whitaker.
GENERATIONS is an exhibition of artists from different generations who continue the legacy of painting on Cape Ann.
Deftly Askew is a search for expression and balance in using multiple pieces to create harmonious wholes.
This group of five local artists goes beyond the ordinary or the obvious and takes the viewer on a journey that will spark their imagination and curiosity.
A show by the Experimental Art Group, which embraces chance and experimentation, allowing the artist's intuition and feelings to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional means.
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