Opening Reception, Mark Chester Photography: “Loo-Loos” and “Sublime to Ridiculous”

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15, 2025

5:00 – 6:30 pm, Free and open to the public.

RSVPs appreciated.

Join us at an opening reception for TWO exciting exhibitions of Mark Chester ‘s Photography:

• Loo-Loos Restroom Gender Signs (May 8 – August 10, 2025)

This exhibition explores gender from the a theme that connects with all of us from the most fundamental of necessities – the bathroom!

​“A collection of restroom gender signs that say more than ‘men, women, ladies, or gentleman.’  They are, elegant, colorful, and corny….I photographed these signs over many years on travels through the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, France, Iceland and England.” – Mark Chester

• Mark Chester Photographs: Sublime to Ridiculous  (May 8 – August 10, 2025)

This exhibition will feature the unique and humorous vantage point of Mark Chester through a selection of photographic prints selected from a lifetime of freelance photography, beginning in 1972. Mark Chester has published photographs, featured travel and human-interest stories in newspapers nationwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, among others. Books include: Roadshow Anthropology, 2023, The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape, Photographs of New Americans, 2023, Twosomes, 2010, No in America, 1986, and Dateline America, by Charles Kuralt, 1979.