Samson Projects, established in March 2004, blends the elements of a commercial gallery with the experimental attitude of an alternative exhibition space. The artists they represent are Nicole Cherubini, SunTek Chung, Taylor Davis, Craig Drennen, Jeffrey Gibson and Rune Olsen. Samson Projects creates and presents programs that explore the diversity of cultures and voices that continually shape contemporary art and ideas today, introducing emerging and under-recognized artists as well as established artists. Their mission is to act as an interdisciplinary laboratory for the convergence of film, video, performance, music, design and visual art. Their goal is to bring the broadest spectrum of contemporary art along with the most exciting new artists to Boston.

Space 242 is an "alternative" to the fine art galleries throughout the city. This hotspot is truly the epicenter of Boston's emerging underground art scene. Geared to connecting emerging pop surrealists and low-brow artists with new collectors at affordable prices, this new enclave showcases artwork from many mediums including photography, illustration, painting, mixed media and sculpture. Space 242 hosts a monthly opening reception on the last Friday of every month from 6-8 pm.

From their website: Ars Libri maintains the largest stock in America of rare and out-of-print books on art. Founded in 1976, it has an international reputation as a source for scholars, collectors, artists, and everyone else with an interest in the visual arts. Ars Libri covers all periods and all fields of art history, from antiquity to the present, including architecture, archaeology, photography, and the decorative arts. In addition to reference books, we specialize in rare illustrated books of art-historical interest, from sixteenth-century architectural treatises and baroque festivities books, through classic livres d'artiste of Manet, Picasso and Matisse, and all aspects of the modern avant-garde, from dada and surrealism, futurism, and constructivism, to pop, fluxus, conceptualism, and contemporary artists books. As well as books, Ars Libri offers exhibition catalogues and art periodicals of all kinds, in all languages. We publish catalogues of our stock regularly, and are glad to send them on request, free of charge. We are also happy to receive want lists, and will notify our clients of newly arrived material which may be of interest to them. Our store in Boston is open without appointment, six days a week, and features changing displays of rare books, manuscripts, master drawings, modern prints, and other works of art.

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The Berendberg Gallery is a small, traditional galley combined with a framing store called A St Frames. Exhibits tend to be folk art oriented, and have a fun, whimsical side to them. The gallery features mixed medias such as paintings, sculptures, drawings, etc... The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11am-6pm, as well as by private appointment.

Boston Sculptors Gallery hosts two concurrent solo shows every month presenting the works of it 28 members through a two-year cycle including a group show featuring all of the members for the winter holidays. Boston Sculptors is a landmark cooperative and has served as an alternative venue for exciting, innovative solo sculpture exhibitions since 1992. It is Boston’s premier venue for sculpture, featuring exciting and varied contemporary work by Boston area artists. Gallery membership has expanded to 28 exhibiting sculptors including returning members and a stable of new members. The gallery exclusively shows sculpture in a large space which is transformed every month by two of the twenty-eight members of this group.

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