WENDY SHAPIRO AND RAQUEL FORNASARO
Artists Wendy Shapiro and Raquel Fornasaro met in 2018, strolling through the SoWa District in Boston, where a mutual appreciation for concept-driven work sparked an instant connection. While their visual languages differ—Shapiro working in abstraction and Fornasaro in figuration—both artists explore the fragile relationship between humans and the natural world.
This inaugural collaboration examines the impermanence of our species and the urgent need to reconsider our role within the ecosystems we inhabit. Through layered textures, movement, and mood, their work highlights the intersection of nature and human influence, inviting viewers to reflect on sustainability, impact, and interconnectedness.
Together, Fornasaro and Shapiro offer a poetic visual dialogue on resilience, environmental awareness, and the delicate balance we must strive to protect. All works in this exhibition by Shapiro + Fornasaro are created using eco-friendly acrylics, enhancing the conversation of sustainability in art.
LISA GOREN
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip to Antarctica inspired her to capture this world. Travels to Iceland and Alaska followed. Her watercolors examine this unfamiliar landscape and create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet with her representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.
Earning a place on the 2013 Arctic Circle Residency, she chronicled the journey in the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1PAO5mr).
During the Pandemic, she has been working on smaller paintings of animals in “human” spaces as well as portraits of health care workers (chosen to be in The Best Art Created by Washington Post Readers During the Pandemic by Washington Post).
In 2024, Lisa participated in two artist residencies: in Iceland (January) and France (October). Lisa heads to Nantucket and France for residencies in 2025.
