Since 2011 Mark Chester has photographed the faces of Massachusetts, documenting the smiles and hopeful eyes of newly naturalized citizens in the state’s towns and cities. A selection of these images begins the second exhibition season of the new HCA Gallery at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts.
A series of public talks led by Mark Chester and Olga Kwasniewski, one of the photographed participants, will be held at the gallery on the morning of Friday, September 16. Area school students have been invited to attend.
Mark Chester
The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape
Photographs of New Americans
September 9 – October 7
HCA Gallery, 98 Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, MA
Artist’s Talks: September 16, 9:10am, 10am, 10:50am
Reception following talks: 11:30am-1pm
Mark Chester has photographed professionally since 1972. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum, among others.
“Mark’s work connects all of us to each other,” observes HCA co-director Kris Waldman. “Massachusetts is home to many new Americans and to the children and grandchildren of past new Americans. Mark’s project enables us to spotlight individuals from many of the countries from which residents have arrived.”
For more information about this exhibition, contact Kris Waldman at 508.589.4409 or kris@hopartscenter.org.