A Beehive of Duality

“Ali The Greatest” watercolor by Shea Justice

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In June, Boston’s Fountain Street Gallery forged a one-person show by Shea Justice entitled “History is No Mystery.” In these works, the artist creates bridges between relevant points in history to the present, utilizing various media, newspaper clippings, collage, watercolor and drawing. There is an immediate power to these pieces, both the personal and universal experience unified. There is startling impact, both from the subject matter and the composition of the images. He allows his works a certain fluidity, realizing that each aspect of his observation is part of a whole. “A Mother’s Grief,” done in response to a series of multiple killings, somehow is not disconnected to the artist’s portrait of Muhammad Ali entitled “Ali the Greatest.” The deaths of so many vital young people represent the deaths of, potentially, the greatest gifts of a generation. In each work, the artist verydeeply honors those who came before him and made possible this moment in time; through his art, Justice showed that we have the ability to create a new road to an unshakable and just society. Sometimes the bow must be brought back to create enough momentum for an arrow to fly.