On View: June 12 - July 12, 2026
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 14, 5-7 pm
This exhibition began as a tribute and memorial to Felice Regan, a founding member of the Brickbottom Artist Building, an artist who used the power of printmaking to disseminate ideas from anti-war activism during the Vietnam War to the plight of our planet through endangered species education. Regan’s powerful vision points to moments in history and at the same time highlight the cyclical nature of events and ideas. We find ourselves right now dealing with the same ugliness of war on so many levels - demonization of the most vulnerable - the poor, the immigrant, the disabled. We are seeing the rewriting of history and the dialing back of steps forward our country has made concerning women’s rights, gay rights and racial equality. The issues Regan exposed in the 60’s are still with us and artists today are using powerful imagery to call attention to the gravity of these times.
Brickbottom Gallery has connected Regan’s messages from the 60’s-80’s with invited contemporary artists who are boldly showing uncomfortable visuals and ideas of this moment.
Exhibiting Artists: Linda Bond, William Evertson, Shea Justice, Ellen Shattuck Pierce, Felice Regan, Susan Schmidt.
Artwork by Felice Regan
Some of the ideas Linda Bond addresses are immigration, gun control and war. The work in this exhibition, “Unmasked-2020-2022” includes scanned articles about the pandemic, civil unrest, social injustices, police brutality, and political dysfunction that merge together to document the crises of 2020-21. In 2026 the turbulent and chaotic conditions of our nation render this project even more relevant.
William Evertson’s woodblock prints are about power. Who gets to write history? Which bodies are expendable and which are mourned? Which laws are worth breaking and who gets called a hero for breaking them? By collaging historical and contemporary sources into large scale works that move between the mythological and the political, the archival and the immediate, the prints trace the through lines of an argument that never really changed: Power and the people it fails.
By juxtaposing people and events from different time periods, Shea Justice in his mixed media works creates new timetables of American history that challenge dominant narratives about the American experience. Shea Justice is currently exhibiting at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, SAY IT LOUD, AAMARP 1977 to Now.
Ellen Shattuck Pierce is passionate about printmaking and its historical role in disseminating knowledge and its use as a medium for protest. Her work highlights such issues as Gun Control, Child Safety, and Women’s Rights.
Susan Schmidt’s series, Show of Force, starts with drawings crafted from online videos of immigrants in process of deportation. Images that started as representations of vulnerability, shifted to representing power. Monotype works as a medium to examine these power dynamics, using raw gestural, muscular expression.