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.
LILIANA FOLTA
Born In Buenos Aires, Argentina. Folta is an interdisciplinary artist, Independent Curator and native plant advocate.
She has lived in multicultural environments, Puerto Rico, United States and Europe and applies these wide range of influences to her works.
Folta has presented her environmental and social-political projects in cultural platforms, such as Berlin Science Week at Humboldt University, Thaer Institute, Germany - François Schneider Foundation Contemporary Art Centre, France - Art in the Gerichtshöfen, Berlin, Germany - Group Global 3000, Sustainable Art Gallery for Berlin Art Week. Guest artist at the 1st. Biennial of the Americas, Denver - Cluj-Napoca International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramic, Museum of Art Romania - Rockefeller Center - Danforth Art Museum - Lesley University - United Nations 75: Global Conversations, among others.
Folta is a grant recipient of The Puffin Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; Mass Cultural Council; Artrepreneur and Sueños Global Grant.
