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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 Fridays 12pm - 4pm and 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.

Fifteen 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. 
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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.

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We’re open this Friday, May 22, 12-4 pm...come by We’re open this Friday, May 22, 12-4 pm...come by to see 
Katrine Hildebrandt’s exhibition, “Unfurl”. 🤍🩷

Drive-by Projects is pleased to present Unfurl, a solo exhibition of mixed media works by Katrine Hildebrandt. Hildebrandt’s multi-process works, seemingly fragile yet strong, could serve as metaphors for the human condition. As she folds, forages, dyes, burns, and sews, Katrine Hildebrandt creates unique works that are at once structured and fluid, disciplined and poignant.

In this body of work, I am revisiting a series started three summers ago — one rooted in caregiving, in the fragile and luminous web of our relationships and lives . . . These works continue to explore the innate potential within us — the quiet force that pushes toward blooming, toward opening, toward becoming more fully conscious of ourselves and one another.
Each piece begins as a process of layering, moving from background to foreground, folding radial symmetry into paper before submerging it in natural dyes I have foraged or cultivated myself. Time becomes a material: a brief dip yields softness and suggestion; full immersion builds density, variation, a kind of memory held in pigment.
Once dyed, I respond to what the pattern reveals. The composition is not planned but
discovered — and then made permanent through burning, a meditation on impermanence,
the way all living things are both fixed and fleeting. Fabric dyed in the same baths is sewn onto on the paper, binding the organic and the made. In the final layer, basket reed is wired to the surface, lifting the work into three dimensions, giving it breath and structure the way a stem holds a flower open toward the light.
Katrine Hildebrandt

For more information
call or text 617.835.8255
or email info@drive-byprojects.com.
Today from 3-5 join us and experience the magic th Today from 3-5 join us and experience the magic that Katrine Hildebrandt created in her exhibition, “Unfurl.”

“In this body of work, I am revisiting a series started three summers ago — one rooted in caregiving, in the fragile and luminous web of our relationships and lives . . . These works continue to explore the innate potential within us — the quiet force that pushes toward blooming, toward opening, toward becoming more fully conscious of ourselves and one another.”
–Katrine Hildebrandt
@katrinehildebrandt 
For more information
call or text 617.835.8255
or email info@drive-byprojects.com.
Please join us Saturday, May 16 from 3-5 pm to ce Please join us Saturday, May 16  from 3-5 pm to celebrate Katrine Hildebrandt’s exhibition, “Unfurl” 
The exhibition highlights mixed media works by Hildebrandt’s multi-process works, seemingly fragile yet strong, could serve as metaphors for the human condition. As she folds, forages, dyes, burns, and sews, Katrine Hildebrandt creates unique works that are at once structured and fluid, disciplined and poignant.
@katrinehildebrandt 

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