Opening: "Echoes of Place" & Megan Magill "Instructions For Dancing"

Join us for the opening reception of a group exhibition, "Echoes of Place," and Megan Magill's Back Room show, "Instructions for Dancing."
About this Event

Landscape is personal; each of us responds to the world through our own experiences, histories, moods, perceptions, and imaginations. We may encounter landscapes directly, recall them from memory, or invent them entirely. Our responses can shift with the emotions, memories, and sensations a given vista evokes each time we see it. As artist Isamu Noguchi said, “We are a landscape of all we have seen.”

Rather than literally depicting the visible world, the four artists in this exhibition conjure echoes of places, metaphorical reverberations that blend observed landscapes with inner visions that compress location, time, and space. — Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, curator

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Credits | Above, clockwise: Joseph Diggs, Summer Sensation (detail), 2024, photo: Russ Price Photo; Marcy Hermansader, One Afternoon (detail), 2022, photo: Rachel Portesi; Heather Lenz, Night Water 4 (detail), 2026, photo: Pivot Media; Sue McNally, Water Way Out (detail), 2026, photo courtesy of the artist.

Megan Magill’s studio practice embraces drawing, printmaking, and photography as stepping stones and conspirators to her whimsical paintings. Through a process that involves found imagery, improvised methods, and a reliance on chance, her work pays homage to all that is strange and wonderful in our lives. Her work has been profiled at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, in a Create! at Art Basel, and on Artsy. She received her Master’s from Northwestern University and her MFA from Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. Magill has shown throughout the US and works out of her studio in Brooksville, Maine.

Learn more about Megan Magill here.

Below: Megan Magill, Instructions for Dancing, 2026.

Located within the Church of the Covenant in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood, Gallery NAGA (formerly Newbury Associated Guild of Artists) was founded in 1977, when a group of artists placed their work on display in what used to be the chapel of the church. One month led to the next, and before long, an impromptu gallery was born.