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.
MONIKA GERBER
Monika Gerber is a German artist who lives and works between Los Angeles and Madrid. Her extensive experience across cultures, including years spent living and working in Japan, informs a visual language shaped by calligraphy, travel, memory, and material exploration.
Gerber’s mixed-media paintings investigate the shifting relationship between matter and spirit. Through layered color, texture, expressive gesture, photography, and handmade tools, she creates immersive landscapes that move between the visible world and unseen emotional realms. Her work often evokes turbulent seas, powerful winds, and vast, mythic spaces in which nature becomes a metaphor for inner experience. These visual journeys explore rupture, grief, longing, and transformation, while also making space for wonder, resilience, and renewal. The forces within each painting suggest that change is not a fixed destination but an ongoing passage through uncertainty. By bringing material and spiritual dimensions into dialogue, Gerber invites viewers to navigate their own memories and emotions and to discover possibility within the unknown.
Visit our Archive call_made for past exhibits.
