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Kathy Soles Happening at the Edge

Hall Space Gallery in Boston

By: - Oct 16, 2026

Kathy Soles

HAPPENING AT THE EDGE
October 17 – November 21, 2026

 

 

Opening Reception
Saturday, October 17, 2026
2-5pm

 

 

HallSpace
950 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester, MA 02125
hallspace.org

 

 

HallSpace is pleased to announce an exhibition of new abstract paintings and drawings by Kathy Soles.

In Happening at the Edge, Soles continues to draw inspiration from nature, specifically areas of transition: the shore, meadows, tree line, and natural boundaries. These areas are a change of habitat for different life forms. These places can bring anxiety and calm.

The landscape is always changing, creatures cross, seasons pass, and all that is left are memories. Soles finds the essence of place through abstraction. Her abstract paintings build a different perspective on landscape as opposed to a visual recording of the scene. The paintings are a reactive, physical response.

Soles writes, “In direct response to place and memory, my work develops into a dialog between dense accumulations of paint and drawing materials and open passages evoking light, air, land, and water. The accreted marks tell their own histories with a sense of urgency and vulnerability as they collide, dissipate, and reassemble.”

Biography
Kathy Soles holds a B.A. from Emmanuel College in Boston and an M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C. She studied printmaking and painting at Maryland Institute College of Art and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Professor Emerita of painting and drawing at Emmanuel College, she lives and maintains a studio in Milton, MA.

She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions. Her exhibition venues include HallSpace, Dorchester MA; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Dartmouth College, NH; Fitchburg Art Museum, MA; Fuller Craft Museum, MA; The National Museum of Fine Arts, Vietnam; and Apothiki Arts Center, Paros, Greece. She has also been awarded artist residencies at the Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY; the Apothiki Arts Center in Paros, Greece; the Goetemann Residency, Gloucester, MA; Provincetown Compact C-Scape Residency; and Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Ireland.  


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Gallery Hours
Friday + Saturday 12-5pm 
By Appointment 
Monday - Thursday

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Exhibition Catalogues 

Jo Ann Rothschild: Alone and Together
Maggie Stark: The Light of Final Moments
Brian Littlefield: Proximal
Juls Gabs: Landscape of Future Era, Today

John Tracey: Biomorphs
Deborah Kamy Hull: Cross-Pollination

Rhoda Rosenberg: Between Two Ends
Kathy Soles: Littoral Spaces
Gerry Perrino: Fables, Foibles, & Badvertisements
Ellen Shattuck Pierce: Taking Place
William Flynn: 50 Years, 50 Drawings

Peter Thibeault: A Flaneur’s Bricolage
Adriana Prat: Topographical Visions
Black Futures: How to See in Total Darkness
Kenneth FitzGerald: Trypophilia
Joe Caruso: Makers and Shakers

Visit HallSpace.org for more information.