PRESS
Art New England
April 2024
By Eleanor Olson
“OVERLAP is committed to showcasing work that highlights rigor in craft, creating a space for underrepresented art that features textiles, installations, and other material investigations often spilling off the wall. Their upcoming exhibition Dreams of a Common Language promises a unique interpretation of fiber arts which will continue to push the gallery into the forefront of Rhode Island’s art scene.”
Boston Art Review
April 2024
By Liz Maynard
“ Both the opening reception and artists’ talk for Taleen Batalian and Françoise McAree’s joint exhibition were effervescent, echoing the textured surfaces of their sculptural works, which range in media from textile to print to plaster to golden encaustics. The conversational tensions between the two bodies of work are supported both in theme and spirit by the aptly named gallery. OVERLAP is a welcome addition to Rhode Island’s art scene…”
Motif
April 2024
By Mara Hagen-Spath
“A small building tucked into a rainy day. The ocean hums quietly in the distance, a warm light glows steadily from the windows. On the corner of Hall and Van Zandt Ave in Newport, Overlap Gallery is a small, modernist gallery full of surprises. The artists featured in this month’s exhibit “Counterpoint” are Rhode Island-based Taleen Batalian and Francoise McAree.”
White Hot Magazine
April 2023
By D. Dominick Lombardi
“The newly and beautifully renovated OVERLAP gallery building features a number of components: The Project Space, The Annex Gallery, The Retail Gallery and Artist Studios, all offering an excellent venue for the visual arts in Newport, Rhode Island to thrive. For their inaugural exhibition, Gallery Founder Susie Matthews and Gallery Coordinator Alicia Renadette have selected the work of a longtime local artist Sue McNally to kick off this new venture.”
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Two Coats of Paint
March 2023
“Artist Sue McNally, a 2015 Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist, lives in Newport, Rhode Island, where her recent work is on view at OVERLAP, a new artist-run space in the neighborhood. OVERLAP founder Susie Matthews, who has been making and showing her artwork in Rhode Island for over 25 years, wants the space to appeal to creative thinkers who live amid a bustling tourist trade that favors seascapes over more challenging propositions.”
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Dart International Magazine
Sept 2023
By D. Dominick Lombardi
“Exquisite Variants: Maggie Nowinski and Alicia Renadette, the current exhibition at OVERLAP gallery in Newport, RI, features intricate collaged drawings, mixed media sculptures and paintings. Installed in a variety of configurations and formats, everything here suggests the peripheral representations one stores as secondary memory, the kind of imagery that might be spawned by subconscious prompts throughout the five senses.”
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Newport This Week
March 2023
By John Pantalone
“Newport’s newest art gallery opened with a splash last month in the middle of a residential neighborhood. OVERLAP, founded by Jamestown artist Susie Matthews, is on Van Zandt Avenue, not far from Broadway in a beautifully renovated building that served for decades as a glass repair business. It’s like an old neighborhood friend left town and came back with a whole new look, and it’s pretty cool.”
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Go Local Prov
February 2023
By Michael Rose
“The demand for spaces to show compelling contemporary art is ever-present. Artists need walls beyond their studios to exhibit and viewers deserve to see art in galleries, where it can be best appreciated. In Newport, local artist Susan Matthews has recently opened OVERLAP, a crisp new venue that combines gallery, shop, and studio into a singularly beautiful space. It is one of the finest new art venues Rhode Island has seen in years.”
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