Tabitha Vevers at Boston's Ellen Miller Gallery
Flesh Memories, Remembered
By: Miller - Aug 30, 2025
Tabitha Vevers
Flesh Memories, Remembered
Ellen Miller Gallery
460 Harrison Ave A16
Boston, MA 02118
By appointment • 617-620-9818
ellen@ellenmillergallery.com
Opening Friday Sept 5th from 6-8 pm.
Ellen Miller Gallery opens the fall season with Tabitha Vevers: Flesh Memories, Remembered, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Please join us for the opening reception for the artist, Friday Sept 5th from 6-8 pm.
Vevers began Flesh Memories during a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 1993 and later expanded the series at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She studied the fresco technique of painting into wet plaster at the Skowhegan School of Painting + Sculpture and later, Pre-Renaissance frescoes during travels in Italy. In this series, Vevers used modeling paste, gesso, and oils in multiple translucent glazes to create richly tactile surfaces emulating frescoes. The figure is pushed right up to the picture plane, with sensuality and traces of lived experience mapped across the body—or as Vevers says, “desire, fear, joy and sorrow made flesh.”
Shown in tandem is Transient Anatomies, a companion series painted directly on goatskin vellum and mounted between two sheets of glass. This intimate body of work, conceived as a daily anatomical journal, references medieval manuscripts and underscores Vevers’ conviction that materials can deeply augment the message. Together, these series highlight Vevers’ ongoing dialogue between art history, materiality, and the human body—a dialogue that remains as vital and resonant today as when first exhibited.
Vevers has long been a vital presence in the greater Boston area art scene, first exhibiting at the Bromfield Gallery in 1987 and most recently at Gallery Kayafas. She’s had numerous solo shows in New York City with Krausaar Galleries and later Bookstein Projects, and in Provincetown with DNA Gallery, Albert Merola Gallery and now Berta Walker Gallery. She was honored with a major mid-career retrospective at the deCordova Museum and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2009, and exhibited internationally at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria and elsewhere.