Located at 81 Spring Street in Watertown, Massachussets, Drive-By Projects is a small, innovative space committed to exhibiting provocative art in its storefront windows and small gallery.
In the wake of the 2008 recession, Kathleen O’Hara and Beth Kantrowitz closed their respective galleries (allston skirt and OHT) in Boston’s South End. For the next two years they worked together on pop-up projects in found spaces including a building lobby, a clothing store, a restaurant . . . working to the mantra “good art looks good anywhere”. When they installed Honey Bunny in the storefront studio at 81 Spring Street in Watertown, they had found a new home.
Eleven years have passed and Beth and Kathleen have hosted many exhibitions in their jewel box space. Their shows have ranged from Roadside Attraction with a food truck at the opening, to All That Glitters is Not Gold a push-back on the then new presidency of Donald Trump.
In the wake of a national pandemic crisis they have revamped their gallery space and website to include the Drive-by Store, an on-line ever-changing market that includes a selection of work by emerging and established artists.
