Though Boston Court is primarily known for bold and adventurous music and theatre, visual art has long been a manifestation of our mission. We seek to extend the themes of the performances into our lobby, where our rotating visual art exhibits often comment on those themes, and also explore the role of visual arts in a performing arts setting.
ART UPFRONT COORDINATOR
Artist and curator Patter Hellstrom has developed a curatorial practice grounded in dialogue, place, and cross-cultural exchange. Working across Miami, Jersey City, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, her exhibitions emphasize relationships between works of art, artists, and architectural context. Hellstrom approaches curating as an extension of studio practice—inviting adjacent connections that expand visual and conceptual experience. Her projects often bring together diverse voices, materials, and disciplines, encouraging slow looking and layered interpretation. Informed by decades of exhibiting internationally and engaging global art communities, Hellstrom’s curatorial vision centers on thoughtful cohesion, experimentation, and the creation of meaningful encounters between artists and audiences.
ArtUpfront is made possible through generous support of Z. Clark Branson.
Lea Feinstein | Krista Machovina
OTHERWORLDLY features Greater Los Angeles–based artists Lea Feinstein and Krista Machovina, whose work explores the profound expressive depths of sea life and the unseen emotional currents it mirrors. Each artist offers a distinct vision of the ocean’s otherworldly qualities, revealing subtle and dramatic shifts within ourselves, our environments, and the fragile systems that sustain them. Through shredded, sewn, and wrapped Tyvek, Feinstein constructs enigmatic creatures that appear simultaneously ancient and futuristic, inhabitants of a uniquely strange realm shaped by transformation and survival. In contrast, Machovina employs mystical pigments and layered surfaces to evoke the luminous, evolving environments that give rise to these beings. Together, their striking yet complementary approaches create a visual dialogue that bridges both material experimentation and poetic reflection. The exhibit connects personal experience with planetary awareness, inviting viewers to consider the depth, mystery, and interconnectedness of our inner lives and the vast, ever-changing world beneath the sea, as well as its enduring influence on imagination and responsibility.
Krista Machovina is a painter and mixed-media artist trained in art therapy and education. Drawing from sea, sky, vintage ephemera, and found objects, her work explores shifting boundaries and survival strategies. Meditative yet conceptual, her recent paintings abstract game-based grids into immersive, reflective environments.
East Coast–born and West Coast–based, Lea Feinstein is an artist, writer, and educator working across media. Teaching at RISD, MICA, CCA, and others, she writes widely and sculpts Tyvek through painting, folding, and dyeing. Feinstein works in Los Angeles and summers in Maine, drawing from teaching, travel, and material experimentation.
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