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ABOUT DRIVE-BY PROJECTS

What's Going On Now

WE'RE CREATING NEW CONNECTIONS

You may not have time to stop in, but there's always time to drive by!

Located at 81 Spring Street in Watertown, Massachussets, Drive-By is a small, innovative space committed to exhibiting provocative art in its storefront windows and small gallery.  Drive-by is open Thursdays from 12-4 and always by appointment - call or text 617.835.8255.

Drive-by Projects was founded by co-directors Beth Kantrowitz (bk projects) and Kathleen O'Hara (OH Projects) 10 years ago.
cO-DIRECTORS 

BETH KANTROWITZ
KATHLEEN O'HARA

Beth Kantrowitz is an independent curator and art consultant representing emerging and mid-career, contemporary artists primarily from the Northeast with 20+ years of experience with artists working in all media. View the artists she represents here.

Kathleen O'Hara is an independent curator and artist actively showing her work in museums and galleries. View her work here.
A BIT OF HISTORY 

DRIVE-BY PROJECTS

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Beth Kantrowitz and Kathleen O’Hara closed their respective galleries (allston skirt and OHT) in Boston’s South End. For the next two years they worked together on pop-up projects in found spaces including a building lobby, a clothing store, a restaurant . . . working to the mantra “good art looks good anywhere.” When they installed Honey Bunny in the storefront studio at 81 Spring Street in Watertown, they had found a new home.

Ten years have passed and Beth and Kathleen have hosted many exhibitions in their jewel box space. Their shows have ranged from Roadside Attraction with a food truck at the opening to Messages To The Fulure –  four artists who make autobiographical work about time as experienced through the grandness of nature and the intimacy of the body.

In the wake of a national crisis they have revamped their gallery space and website to include the Drive-by Store, an in-person and online mini bazaar including affordable art, small objects and unique finds, some bordering on the bizarre.

Please follow Beth and Kathleen as they continue with their mission to install what one critic described as “frisky exhibitions” in their Watertown space. 
LET'S FIND A WAY TO CONNECT

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Here's our view from the front seat...

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The GALLERY@and ON-LINE STORE focus on small exhibitions by emerging & mid-career artists. Located at 81 Spring St. in Watertown, MA.

Come to the opening of Garden Club Featuring: Wen Come to the opening of 
Garden Club
Featuring:
Wendy Edwards, Nancy Gruskin,
Stacey McCarthy, Roberta Paul
May 10 - July 26, 2025
🟠Opening Reception Saturday, May 10
2:00 - 5:00pm🟠
Flowers are blooming, the grass is greening, trees are budding, and it is finally spring in New England!  Drive-by Projects will be celebrating the return of light and growth with Garden Club, an exhibition including Wendy Edwards's lush, gestational paintings, Roberta Paul’s poignant floral still lifes, Nancy Gruskin’s monoprints of beautifully mundane objects, and Stacey McCarthy’s exuberant window installation.
Nancy Gruskin
In my paintings, I am both collector and curator. An object might grab my attention because of its shape or its color or its decorative surface. Sometimes the object is in my studio (a ceramic pot, a scrap of fabric, a collage in my sketchbook); sometimes the object is something I’ve seen in someone else’s collection (a vessel at the Met, a wallpaper sample on Pinterest, an illustration in a botanical encyclopedia). As the artist-curator, I get to decide how these objects interact and how I want to present them to viewers.  I like to think of my work as two-dimensional collections, reminiscent of museum display cases and 16th-century cabinets of curiosities. 
Image: Figure, daffodils, vase
2024
Monotype
16x20 “

Summer Gallery hours: by appointment

617.835.8255
Come to the opening of Garden Club featuring: Wen Come to the opening of 
Garden Club featuring:
Wendy Edwards, Nancy Gruskin, Stacey McCarthy, Roberta Paul
🟢Opening Reception Saturday, May 10
2:00 - 5:00pm🟢
Summer Gallery hours: by appointment
617.835.8255

Garden Club..Flowers are blooming, the grass is greening, trees are budding, and it is finally spring in New England!  Drive-by Projects will be celebrating the return of light and growth with Garden Club, an exhibition including Wendy Edwards’s lush, gestational paintings, Roberta Paul’s poignant floral still lifes, Nancy Gruskin’s monoprints of beautifully mundane objects, and Stacey McCarthy’s exuberant window piece.
Image: Roberta Paul
Bloom No.31, 2022
Gouache on panel 
16 X 22 inches
 @robertapaul61 
For more information
call or text 617.835.8255
or email info@drive-byprojects.com.
Flowers are blooming, the grass is greening, trees Flowers are blooming, the grass is greening, trees are budding, and it is finally spring in New England!  Drive-by Projects will be celebrating the return of light and growth with Garden Club, an exhibition including Wendy Edwards’s lush, gestational paintings, Roberta Paul’s poignant floral still lifes, Nancy Gruskin’s monoprints of beautifully mundane objects, and Stacey McCarthy’s exuberant window installation.
Join us on Saturday, May 10, 2025 to honor the season and view the work of four fabulous  artists.
@wendyvedwards 
@robertapaul61 
@nancygruskin 
@staceybmccarthystudio
Visit us to see: “Liberation” featuring.. Pear Visit us to see:
“Liberation” featuring..
Pearl Cowan, Amber Mustafic, John Roy

March 15 - May 3, 2025
Gallery hours: Thursdays 12 - 4pm
and by appointment
617.835.8255

“Liberation”, an exhibition of works on paper by Pearl Cowan, stitched portraits by Amber Mustafic, and paintings/drawings by John Roy.

lib·er·a·tion
/ˌlibəˈrāSH(ə)n/
The act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.

Opposite:
Confinement, slavery, subjugation, oppression
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