#FirstFriday: 7 June 2013

This First Friday, the ICA Boston hosts a special event to kick off the summer featuring artist-designed mini golf greens by Maria Molteni and Pat Falco, as well as a new Pop-Up Oyster Bar. Stick around for tours of their current exhibitions as well as a sign-painting demonstration inspired by the work on view in Barry McGee.

Or you could head to the South End and over to the Boston Center for the Arts' Mills Gallery to see Anna Von Mertens' recent work GOLD! AND OTHER FALLEN EMPIRES, open until 9pm. The SOWA District art galleries (450 Harrison Street in the South End) will be open from 5-8pm. SOWA galleries and artists’ studios are FREE and open to the public of all ages.

Some of the Big Red & Shiny team will be out on the town tonight. Look out for the #FirstFriday hashtag. Say hello!

Here's a run-down of what you can find tonight at the SOWA Galleries:

Adelson Galleries Boston
Tyson Andree, Sam Earle, Esther Garcia Eder, Jason Gluskin, Tristan Govignon, Ian Hughes, Kencaid, Carmen Sasso, Jeff Smith, Mark Steel in Ten Artists: Group Exhibition

Boston Sculptors Gallery
Margaret Swan Layers of Time; Andy Zimmermann DAY

Bromfield Gallery
Lesley Cohen Visible Trace; Jemison Faust: The Before Part of What I Do

Carroll & Sons
Cobi Moules Playing with Myself, Again; Robin Dash In Plain Air; Damien Hoar de Galvan Something Could Happen At Any Moment

Chase Young Gallery
Elise Wagner Opposing Cartographies

Galatea Fine Art
Dorothy Amore Pilla; Francis Domec; Kathleen Hendrick

Anthony Greaney
Paul Pescador 6, 7 or 9

Gallery Kayafas
Caleb Charland Backscatter; Maggie Stark Stilltime
Read our review of these two shows written by BR&S Photography Contributor Robyn Day.

Khaki Gallery
Wally Gilbert Black & White

Kingston Gallery
Sharon Pierce Clearly ; Jeanne Griffin Impression; Joan Baldwin The Marshes

Laconia Gallery
Tracey Adams, Binnie Birstein, David A. Clark, Linda Cordner, Milisa Galazzi, Jane Guthridge, Lynette Haggard, Howard Hersh, Deborah Kapoor, Joanne Mattera, Catherine Nash, Nancy Natale, Lisa Pressman, Lynda Ray, Marybeth Rothman, Toby Sisson, Gregory Wright in The Elephant in the Room

Miller Yezerski Gallery
Ariel Freiberg Blazoning Arms

Samsøn
Nicole Cherubini, Mark Cooper, Craig Drennen, Jeffrey Gibson, Gabriel Martinez, Rune Olsen, Todd Pavlisko, Suzannah Sinclair, Matt Rich, Steve Locke & Summer Wheat Group Exhibition; sübSamsøn: Susan Metrican

Soprafina Gallery
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition

Vessels Gallery
Dorina Molnàr Seeds from impermanence

Steven Zevitas Gallery
Astrid Bowlby, Jacob El Hanani, David X. Levine, Julie Miller, James Siena in Marking Time

: Damien Hoar de Galvan Installation shot, on view at Carroll and Sons Gallery. Image courtesy of the artist and Carroll and Sons Gallery.

: David X Levine Charles Stevenson Wright, 2009, colored pencil and collage, 24 x 20″ On view at Steven Zevitas Gallery. Image courtesy Steven Zevitas Gallery and the artist.