Beverly Acha
The Circular Ruins
ON VIEW
APRIL 17 – MAY 29, 2026
North Loop’s front room features new watercolors, monotypes, frescos, and glasswork by multidisciplinary artist Pallavi Sen. Sen’s rich and varied practice reflects on the interrelation of architecture, human activity, and home gardens. Shaped by both her current surroundings in Williamstown (where she is currently a professor of art at Williams College) and her upbringing in Bombay, Sen’s work explores the cultural specificity of design—of tile and brickwork patterns, textiles, furniture, and garden design.
Her wide-ranging influences include the barsati (balcony homes) of Delhi, Indian harvest festivals like Onam, and the gardening and farming knowledge she has cultivated during her time in rural Western Massachusetts. Sen considers human relationships to land and to home, combining the fantastical and quotidian with a particular focus on pattern and color. In this most recent body of work, Sen explains that she’s looking for the joy in daily artmaking.
In my mother tongue, Hindustani, ‘kalā’, means art or skill, and is used generously to describe sixty-four practices that range from the art of singing and making images to the art of preparing garlands, applying ornaments, using aromatics – even juggling. My work is guided by a love for the ways in which we live with the objects we make, and the time and attention that is used to deepen and transform the inevitable parts of one’s day.
Beverly Acha (b. 1987, Miami, FL) is a first-generation Latina currently based between Brooklyn, NY and Bennington, VT—where she is a full-time faculty member at Bennington College. Acha holds a BA from Williams College (2009), an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art (2012), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018). Acha's recent solo exhibitions include Deanna Evans Projects (New York, NY) and Emerson Dorsch (Miami, FL). Acha has been awarded artist residencies including the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, MacDowell, Fountainhead, Lighthouse Works, Wassaic Project, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. She is a recipient of awards including the Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award and the Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travel Grant. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Diacritics , and the Virginia Quarterly Review and is in the collections of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; El Espacio 23: The Collection of Jorge Perez, Miami, FL; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; and the Soho House Collection, London, UK among others.
flor con sol que pasa, tal vez? [flower with passing sun, maybe?], 2025, Pastel, 15.7 x 11.8 In
flor con sol que pasa, tal vez? [flower with passing sun, maybe?], 2025, Pastel, 15.7 x 11.8 In
flor con sol que pasa, tal vez? [flower with passing sun, maybe?], 2025, Pastel, 15.7 x 11.8 In
flor con sol que pasa, tal vez? [flower with passing sun, maybe?], 2025, Pastel, 15.7 x 11.8 In
flor con sol que pasa, tal vez? [flower with passing sun, maybe?], 2025, Pastel, 15.7 x 11.8 In
flor con sol que pasa, tal vez? [flower with passing sun, maybe?], 2025, Pastel, 15.7 x 11.8 In
flor con sol que pasa, tal vez? [flower with passing sun, maybe?], 2025, Pastel, 15.7 x 11.8 In