November 1 – December 20, 2025
Venetia Dale | Carly Glovinski
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Drive-by Projects is pleased to present Tendencies: Venetia Dale and Carly Glovinski. Tendencies brings together artists Venetia Dale and Carly Glovinski in an exhibition that reflects on time, care, and transformation through the lens of domestic and handmade labor.
Both artists find meaning in the everyday—through the cyclical acts of tending, making, and remaking that root us to place. Dale’s and Glovinski’s works trace the quiet rituals of home and garden, revealing how the repeated “tending to”—be it of a home, a plant, or a practice—is both a labor of care and a way to mark the passage of time, elevating acts often unseen or undervalued, and transforming habits and habitats into sites of reflection.
Venetia Dale (b. 1981) is an artist, mother and educator living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. Dale pieces together fragments of mundane objects into sculptural works. The material history of pewter – as well as the anonymous stewards who keep things clean, fixed, and loved – are translated through her work as intimacies of domestic life that remind us of the generative potential of the everyday.
Dale has participated in exhibitions at institutions including Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Villa Terrace Museum, and the Racine Art Museum, amongst other museums and galleries.
Dale was awarded the prestigious James and Audrey Foster Prize at ICA/Boston in 2023 and was 2019 Polly Starr Thayer Visiting Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Prior, she was a resident artist at the Kohler Factory in 2013 and at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2010. Dale exhibits nationally and her work is included in the permanent collections of the Metal Museum in Tennessee and John Michael Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin. Her most recent acquisition was by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2022.
Carly Glovinski makes work that explores the make-do, resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and placemaking. Rooted in observations of her surrounding environment, and a curiosity about natural and human-made systems, her work embraces a slip in perception and employs a wide range of materials. The elements of time and place are often embedded, and the rhythms of repetitive processes, either invented or borrowed, are a guide.
She received her BFA from Boston University, is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, and has had solo exhibitions at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA and Colby Museum of Art, Maine. She has been awarded residencies at Kenyon College (Ohio), Surf Point (Maine) and Canterbury Shaker Village, and grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and the Blanche Colman Trust. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has been published or reviewed in publications including, Two Coats of Paint, Colossal, New American Paintings, ArtMaze Magazine, and Hyperallergic, and is held in prominent collections such as Farnsworth Art Museum, Cleveland Clinic, and Fidelity Corporation. Carly lives and works in Southern Maine, where she tends to an ongoing living work, Wild Knoll Foundation Garden. In the summer of 2025, she completed her first large scale public work, Opelske, in the Boston Seaport.
