Exhibitions

From the newspaper archive to the museum wall.

Exhibitions bring Arnie's Chelsea photographs together as both historical record and works of art.

2022 · McMullen Museum of Art

Arnie Jarmak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977–89

More than eighty photographs traced the people, streets, politics, fires, and transformations Arnie witnessed in Chelsea.

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2019 · Gloucester Writers Center

The Demolition of the Fishermen's Institute

A photographic essay from Jarmak's 1974 Gloucester work was presented at the Maud / Olson Library from August 16 through 30, 2019.

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April 2015 · Chelsea City Hall

Jarmak: Photographs of Chelsea 1975–1985

Twenty-one photographs returned to the city where they were made, in an exhibition presented at Chelsea City Hall throughout April 2015. The exhibition belongs to the archive's earlier public reopening and is separate from the new City Hall presentation now in preparation.

Read the 2015 Boston Globe profile ↗

1982 · Chelsea Public Library, London

Jarmak: Photographs of Chelsea, Massachusetts

The exhibition ran from June 22 through July 6 at Old Town Hall on King's Road, carrying Jarmak's Chelsea photographs to London.

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Gallery 456 · Chelsea

Photographs of Chelsea in the 1970s and 1980s

Three poster proofs survive for an exhibition at 456 Broadway, held from July 16 through September 7. The poster does not state the year.

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In preparation · Chelsea City Hall

A new Chelsea presentation is taking shape.

Dates and program details will be shared here when they are announced.