MAKING WAVES: THE BOSTON PRINTMAKERS MEMBERS’ EXHIBIT 2025
September 21, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Venue: Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA
Opening Reception: September 21, 2025 1:00 – 4:00 pm
CATALOG OF THE EXHIBIT
PHOTO GALLERY OF THE EXHIBIT
About the Boston Printmakers Members’ Exhibit
The Boston Printmakers return to The Art Complex Museum with a vibrant members’ exhibition that highlights the diversity and vitality of contemporary printmaking. This long-standing collaboration between the two institutions reflects a shared commitment to fostering excellence in the arts and celebrating the enduring power of print.
The exhibit features 137 works of art by 137 current members – 80 works are presented physically in the gallery and 57 are showcased virtually within the gallery. The Boston Printmakers are grateful to the entire museum staff, many of whom played a key role in making this exhibit a reality.
About Making Waves
While Making Waves references the museum’s proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and its undulating, wave-like roofline, the title is an invitation to think of “making waves” in many ways. Some prints are delightfully playful and light, evoking carefree days at the beach; others are quite serene, contemplative, dream-like. Still others evoke the overwhelming force of a tsunami – intense, tumultuous, and disruptive; nearly overwhelming us, potentially destroying us, and certainly challenging us to think about the world around us, to confront the urgent issues of our time.
Waves are not just about energy moving through water – the exhibit taps into the broader idea of waves as forces that move through air and society and culture: light waves, sound waves, seismic waves, rogue waves, shock waves, tidal waves, breaking waves, political waves – even wavy hair.
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA image credit: The Art Complex Museum
The title of our upcoming Members’ Exhibit is Making Waves: The Boston Printmakers Members’ Exhibit 2025. It will be held at The Art Complex Museum in the historic town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, about 30 miles south of Boston on the Atlantic coastline.
Although the title references the museum’s proximity to the ocean and its roofline of rolling waves which is carried into the gallery space, the theme can be taken in many, many directions.