Overlap

Please join us this Saturday 2-4pm as we kick off our 4th season and celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions!

OVERLAP is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions that explore intermediary spaces. “The Wall Wanted to Play Too: The Architecture of Tenderness” is a solo exhibition of new works by Boston-area artist Jai Hart, while “Slip” features a selection of works by Rhode Island-based artists Olivia Baldwin and Barbara Owen. Both shows demonstrate affinities for creating relationships between color, shape, and form, embodied through innovative approaches to materiality, depth, and arrangement.

Visit our website (link in bio) to read all about these two shows and the artists exhibiting!


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Currently on view: “Ocean Paths” 2025, acrylic on canvas, by Silvermoon Mars LaRose (Narragansett)

Silvermoon Mars LaRose, Narragansett, is the current Assistant Director of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, Rhode Island. Having grown up immersed in traditional arts, her art is inspired by the traditional stories she grew up hearing, the basket stamping designs of Southern New England tribal communities, and traditions around hair. Hair is powerful and can be a strong connector to cultural roots, as long-held traditions for the maintenance, styling, and adornment of hair are passed down generationally. She seeks to honor the culture bearers who came before her by weaving these traditions into her art.

“For millennia, Native peoples have crossed the ocean on pathways that brought them from their homelands to their relatives in other places. These pathways connected us. Colonization sought to sever these sacred connections, tainting these very routes by using them to steal and disperse generations of our loved ones. Centuries later, these pathways connect us once again, as reconnection gatherings have been binding us together across healing waters. The central design in this painting is a reimagining of a traditional basket stamp design, the curvilinear form of the waves replicating our pathway patterns. It is a homage to those who survived conquest, continually dreaming and creating, and ensuring our ability to thrive.”

This exhibition, “ Forging Freedom: Atlantic Journeys” is in collaboration with and will be on view until this Saturday, Dec 20th.

All events have been live-streamed and can be found on our Social media!