April 29 - May 31, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6-8 pm

Barb Cone: “New Work”

Mary Bablitch: “Spirited Geometries”

Barb Cone:
“New Work”

Mary Bablitch:
“Spirited Geometries”

Spirited Geometries, new work by Boston artist Mary Bablitch, features works on paper that explore color, spatial arrangement, and personal perspective. The exhibition will be on view at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston's SoWa Arts District from May 1 to June 1, with an opening reception on Friday, May 1 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 5 pm, or by appointment.

Bablitch's painted paper works inhabit the charged space between painting and collage, construction and composition. "My work always emerges from color, I paint flat hues onto large sheets of paper, pairing shapes and forms according to an inner logic," says the artist. Sheets are cut and assembled into layered constellations of form that assert a physical presence while remaining resolutely two-dimensional. Warm earth tones, sienna, ochre, deep burgundy — collide with cool slates and unexpected passages of acid green, creating chromatic tensions that animate the overlapping planes.

Bablitch combines found vintage materials with hand-painted colored papers. She considers the surrounding white of each composition an active foil, breathing space into the cluster and allowing the eye to register each shape. Striations and patterned surfaces interrupt solid fields, introducing rhythm and a suggestion of architectural detail. Gravity and balance are perpetual concerns: forms lean, wedge, and cantilever against one another in compositions that feel precarious yet resolved.

Her artistic lineage includes color theorist Josef Albers and Stuart Davis, whose work responded to the rhythms and colors of the urban environment, a sensibility Bablitch shares, finding nonobjective design in the textures of city life. Her years as a professional interior designer have deepened a long interest in spatial arrangement, evident throughout this current body of work in the confidence with which color, form, and negative space are orchestrated into dynamic, spirited wholes.