Looky Here

Gallery Walk
2023-06-30 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)

Julia Shirar Portrait Residency
2023-07-13 12:00 - 17:00, 2023-07-27 12:00 - 17:00
“From June 1st through July 28th 2023, from 12pm to 6pm on Thursdays, I’m inviting the people in Greenfield to sign up or stop by Looky Here to be painted. I’ll paint from life,whoever is there, in the time allotted, what I can get down on the page or canvas. The results will be a portrait painted from life, a notation of an interaction in a given time, hung on the wall as they are completed. The portraits can be of individuals or groups and very much depend on the moment at hand and what is happening in the space. Please spread the word to friends and family to encourage a wide range of participants and not just those privy to the Looky Here calendar. All participants are invited to a closing party on July 28th that will correspond with Greenfield’s first Friday gallery walk, with food and drink and where the subjects of the portraits can meet and talk or just mill about. When the exhibition closes, the portraits will be documented and reproductions given to the participants.” – Julia Shirar
email julia@juliashirar.com for a portrait appointment

Closing for Julia Shirar's Portrait Residency
2023-07-28 17:00 - 20:00 | Looky Here, 28 chapman street, greenfield, MA, 01301, United States
Join us for Final Friday in Greenfield with the closing of Julia Shirar’s Portrait Residency.

Greenfield Gallery Walk: Reception for Olivia Hamilton
2023-08-25 17:00 - 20:00

Gallery Walk: Opening for QUILT SHOW
2023-12-29 17:00 - 20:00

FINAL FRIDAY closing of QUILT SHOW
2024-01-26 17:00 - 20:00
Join us in celebrating the artists Emily Carris and Rae Heller in the closing of their quilt show during the Greenfield Arts Walk.

Greenfield Gallery Walk: Portraits by María Sparrow
2024-02-23 17:00 - 20:00
Portraits by María Sparrow
Drawing from the work of Alice Neel and Frida Kahlo in particular, these explorations of portraiture in oil investigate acts of witnessing and representation. Neel and Kahlo’s work resonates for their use of observation, expressiveness, and sensitivity to color. In this ongoing portrait series, I am similarly more interested in capturing a person’s presence than in realism. Temperature, light, and gesture are all concerns here. Also: the temporary, the fleeting, the ephemeral.

María Sparrow lives in Greenfield, MA.
María Sparrow | paintings & works (mariatsparrow.wixsite.com)
maria.t.sparrow@gmail.com

Final Friday Closing Reception for Maria Sparrow: Between You and Me
2024-03-29 17:00 - 20:00
Celebrate with Maria Sparrow!
Last chance to see her beautiful portraits at Looky Here.
5:00-8:00 pm

Final Friday: Opening Reception for Emily Gaimari's, "Inside, Outside"
2024-04-26 17:00 - 20:00
This show is NOT TO BE MISSED!
Join us from 5:00-8:00 to celebrate Emily Gaimari’s gorgeous paintings during the Greenfield Gallery Walk on April’s FINAL FRIDAY!
Since covid I know most of our lives were inside, inside, but during covid for myself I had moved from Massachusetts to Vermont. I think mindlessly passing by new visuals of barns, from the linework of the wood paneling to the quilted fields that go on and on have inspired my paintings immensely. The angles and the lines have challenged my technique in a new way. I am also inspired by the pottery that surrounds me, created by my fiance. I needed to add some other aspects to my work and wanted to combine my barns with what I see inside, day to day. With bold color and shape I have embraced what I see daily in a playful, child-like way.
Practicing my patience with fine line details, and make believe shadows add a story I want viewers to come up with. My work doesn’t always make sense, and I think that’s where it becomes playful for myself. Twisting reality in a sense.

Final Friday: Closing Reception for Emily Gaimari's "Inside, Outside"
2024-05-31 17:00 - 20:00
Last chance to see Emily Gaimari’s show, “Inside, Outside” during Greenfield’s Gallery Walk on Final Friday from 5:00-8:00!

Greenfield Arts Walk: On Our Way by Chelsea Granger with a reading from her book!
2024-06-28 17:00 - 20:00
On Our Way, New Work by Chelsea Granger
I began work for this series by looking at specific local endangered species, wanting to honor and make visible my most local neighbors who are experiencing loss of their habitat, community, place, what we all stand to lose within a rapidly changing climate. As I moved deeper into making the series, the idea of endangerment shapeshifted into more abstract ideas about what is disappearing or becoming invisible to us and what we find within that loss. I wanted to make beauty for beauty’s sake within the enormous overwhelm of what is on a precipice of disappearing. I wanted to sing a praise song with my work.
How can we live honoring what is dying? How do we lift up what we love, regardless of whether it will survive or not? In what ways can we celebrate what is fleeting and be with what is here while it is here?
How do we sing a song to the butterfly, praise the sun, and say thank you to a flower?
Where do we as people land in all of that unknown disappearing?
My practice focuses on painting as a celebration, painting as a prayer. I hope that this work brings light to what we have/what we stand to lose and the potential for us to make rituals of thanks to it all.

Chelsea Granger is a multidisciplinary artist. Painting, drawing, illustration, murals, and tattoos are the foundation of her practice. She recently self-published a zine about death and grief titled So Many Ways to Draw a Ghost. After the death of her mom as well as a dear friend, she started seeing her art as a way to sing up life, with the hope that her art can act as a doorway to create conversations about death and grief. Chelsea’s art is of the everyday, inspired by the overlap of earth/spirit dimensions, and woods as church. She is interested in painting as medicine, painting as a portal, painting as a spell. Her work has been exhibited across the Northeast, and her murals exist across New England.

Greenfield Arts Walk : "On Our Way" by Chelsea Granger - Closing Reception
2024-07-26 17:00 - 20:00

Greenfield Gallery Walk: Buoyant Heart Opening Reception
2024-08-30 17:00 - 20:00
Opening Reception for Buoyant Heart Gallery Show!

Gallery Closing for Buoyant Heart "Back and Forthness"
2024-10-02 19:00
Last chance to see the show and a PLAY organized by Buoyant Heart!

Greenfield Arts Walk: "when you are here" paintings by Clare Churchill Seder.
2024-10-25 17:00 - 20:00
Join us on FINAL FRIDAY to celebrate “when you are here” paintings by Clare Churchill Seder.
October 25th, 5:00-8:00pm at 28 Chapman St in Greenfield!

Closing reception for “when you are here” paintings by Clare Churchill Seder
2024-12-06 17:00 - 20:00

Salt, fat. Sweet! A body of work by Caroline James
2025-01-11 17:00 - 20:00
Salt, fat. Sweet!
A body of work by Caroline James
On view at Looky Here from 12/11-2/11

Opening Reception Saturday, 1/11 from 5:00-8:00pm!
Closing reception and artist Q&A on Saturday 2/8!

Salt, fat. Sweet! Closing Reception and Artist Talk with Caroline James
2025-02-15 17:00 - 20:00

Kids Art Show Reception 5:00-7:00
2025-02-28 17:00 - 19:00
Celebrate our Kid’s Art Show with us from 5:00-7:00!

Gallery Reception for "A World Below" work by Scout Cuomo
2025-04-25 17:00 - 20:00
Join us from 5:00-8:00 to celebrate Scout Cuomo’s show, “A World Below” on April 25th from 5:00-8:00!

"A World Below" by Scout Cuomo Closes
2025-05-30 17:00 - 18:00
Last chance to see “A World Below” by Scout Cuomo.

Gallery Opening: "Belt Course" Paintings and Prints by John Armstrong and Amy Borezo
2025-08-29 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for Final Friday Arts Walk in Greenfield!

Gallery Closing: John Armstrong Amy Borezo paintings and prints
2025-09-26 17:00 - 20:00
Looky Here will be open for Greenfield Gallery Walk September 26th 5-8pm

Tuna Coquette - A solo show by Charlotte Treiber
2025-10-24 17:00 - 20:00

2026 Looky Here Calendar Gallery Reception
2025-12-10 17:00 - 20:00
2026 Looky Here Calendar Gallery Reception at Hosmer Gallery (in Forbes Library), Northampton, featuring 12 artists!

Gallery Opening for Emily Tatro
2025-12-19 17:00 - 20:00

Looky There: photographs by Trevor Powers (Gallery Reception 6:00-8:00)
2026-04-10 18:00 - 20:00
Looky There is an exhibition of risograph-printed photographs by Trevor Powers. The images, all shot on color 35mm film, are printed as 3-4 color risograph prints. Taken in and around western Massachusetts, the photographs explore the color, pattern, and texture of both organic and manmade objects and scenes, while also examining the generative process of how analog images are created and transformed into tangible objects. Their final form is a limited-color, layered risograph print, far from the original creation: a 35mm color negative with sharp focus and an unlimited range of colors. In both stages, the artist’s eye and the creative and mechanical process are visible and ingrained in the final object.
Created over four printing sessions at Looky Here, the work in this exhibition also aims to highlight the invaluable creative asset that Looky Here is for the local community – a place where new skills are learned and creative exploration is pushed within a supportive environment centered on self-expression and collaboration.
Accompanying the series of prints is a handbound artists’ book featuring the riso prints, a free zine, and editioned prints for sale.
