Urban Contours: Paintings by Donna Caselden
MAY 23 – JUNE 8, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, May 23, 5–7pm
PRIVATE PREVIEW
Friday, May 23, 4–5pm
SPECIAL EVENT
Cosmos for Cosmos Taste Test: Saturday, June 7, 3–5pm
Urban Contours: Paintings by Donna Caselden is the first exhibition showcasing the award-winning experimental artist’s new series of fictional cityscapes.
The show will include over eighteen works that highlight Caselden’s diverse techniques and mediums. Taking a stylized approach to city skylines, the artist makes urban cityscapes look like rich mosaics of form, shape, color, and contour.
View from the East, 30”x48”, oil and gold leaf on canvas.
About the Artist
Donna Caselden is an award-winning experimental artist known for her diverse painting techniques and mediums. Her style is considered contemporary, ranging from impressionistic to abstract. Caselden’s work has been positively reviewed by a number of publications including USA Today and New England Home, and has been displayed in museums, galleries, universities and private collections throughout the country, including the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. Caselden is a member of the DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum’s Corporate Art Program and has gallery representation at Gallery on Jarves/The Seal on Cape Cod, and at The Christopher Hill Gallery and Casa Design, both in Napa Valley, CA. The artist employs a studio at SoWa in the design district of Boston.
My City, 30”x40”, oil on canvas.
Geometrix, 48”x36”, mixed media on canvas.
Select Juried Exhibitions
Marking Lives Covid 19, Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 2021
The Corporate Program, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum 2021
Self Preservation, Unbound Visual Arts, Boston, MA 2021
Winter Juried Show #1 & 2, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA 2021
Cold, NAWA Online Gallery, New York, NY 2021
New Futures, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA 2020
The Big Screen, New York, NY 2020
Modern Love, Fort Points Art Community Assemblage Art Space, Boston, MA 2020
S/HE, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA 2020
Fact is Fiction’s Inspiration, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA 2019
Master Artist Level Group Show, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA 2019
A Taste of Cape Ann, Charles Fine Arts Gallery, Gloucester, MA 2019
2019 Regional Juried Show, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA
Unexpected #10, Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport, MA 2018
Natural Force, Simmons College Trustman Gallery, Boston, MA 2018
Artcetera2018, Boston, MA
World of Wearable Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA 2017
Fresh, Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA 2017
ManneqArt, Baltimore, MD 2014 and 2016
Cape Ann Museum Guest Lecturer, Gloucester, MA 2015
Celebrate Wearable Art (2013, 2015, 2017), Gloucester, MA
