Opening Reception - Tandem

Join us on Friday, 9/18 from 6-8 pm for the opening reception of Tandem, a collaborative exhibition celebrating 20 years of 13FOREST.

This year 13FOREST Gallery has reached a milestone twentieth anniversary. In 2006 we opened our doors on Forest Street in Medford Square, and two years later moved to our current location in Arlington. Our mission has always been to magnify New England’s finest contemporary artists.

One of the most rewarding aspects of our long-running practice is the relationships we have cultivated with and between our artists. To commemorate this important year, we have curated Tandem as a collaborative exhibition to highlight these relationships and celebrate the breadth of our artists’ creativity. Artists were organized into pairs, some who had worked together before and others who had known each other only in passing, to collaborate on a piece for the show. Each group of artists has taken a unique approach to their partnership, making work that is unified thematically, stylistically or literally, as some groups chose to merge their practices into a single work. As always, we were blown away by the talent and passion of our artists, and honored that they would work on this ambitious project with us.

13FOREST would not be what it is today without the incredible artists who show with us, but we also would not have made it to this remarkable anniversary without the support and enthusiasm of our community. Tandem is a thank you to everyone who has helped us reach our twentieth year.