Contemporary paintings by Anne Neely (art department) are on exhibit in the Boston area and in San Francisco this spring.

In addition, Anne has been selected as one of 40 New England artists to be featured in New American Paintings (Open Studios Press), an annual book cataloguing exceptional contemporary painting in the region. Charlotta Kotik, curator of painting at the Brooklyn Museum, chose the artists highlighted in this year’s edition.

This spring, her work is on exhibit at To Ballinglen and Back: Boston Artists in Ireland, an exhibit at Boston’s Government Center, from May 5-June 13. In Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, the McMullen Museum of Art (Boston College), features Anne’s work in an exhibit, Eireland, now through May 19.

In her San Francisco show, Circuits/Recent Paintings, Anne says that she explores the boundaries that people impose through their perceptions of the world. The exhibit—Anne’s first on the West Coast—is open May 1-31 at the Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery.

Milton Academy invites alumni, parents and friends to the opening reception of Anne’s San Francisco exhibit on May 3.

Anne Neely has taught art at Milton Academy for almost 30 years. She won the Talbot Baker Award for Teaching Excellence in 1992 and the Thomas S. Lamont Teaching Chair in the Humanities in 1997.

Her work is included in permanent collections of major museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Anne is represented by the Alpha Gallery in Boston.