Providence Art Club
National Open Juried Exhibition 2020
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Foreword For 140 years, the Providence Art Club has been mounting exhibitions, and for 135 years we have been doing so in our iconic Clubhouse at 11 Thomas Street on picturesque College Hill. In the interest of public safety and due to the necessity for social distancing, our National Open Juried Exhibition 2020 could not be mounted within our historic galleries, but we made a commitment to share the work of talented artists from throughout the United States in spite of the limitations put on us by current events. We were honored to welcome Dr. Matthew Hargraves, Chief Curator of the Yale University Center for British Art, as this year’s exhibition juror. We thank Dr. Hargraves for his flexibility in the form the show took and for his passionate interest in the work of all the artists who applied. He carefully and thoughtfully assembled a body of work that represents the best of what was submitted. This year’s installment of our National Open Juried Exhibition was another incredibly popular one. With over 750 entries from all over the United States, this show remains one of the most competitive in the region. Works in a wide range of media and styles by artists from a variety of backgrounds round out the offerings in this virtual exhibition. Because we could not exhibit the show physically, we encouraged our distinguished juror to pick a larger group of work than we could usually accommodate. We were able to feature nearly 100 works. This collection is representative of the variety of interests of contemporary American artists. It also represents the excellence that artists are achieving across media. We are thrilled to share this collection of artworks with you.
In addition to this virtual catalogue, we will also be featuring works daily on our social media channels and will be sharing more information about award-winning works. We hope that you enjoy this year’s show and that you will utilize the biography pages to learn more about each artist and explore their work further. If you have questions about any of the works included or would like to inquire about their availability, I hope you will feel free to reach out to me personally via email at michael@providenceartclub.org. Thank you for your interest and for your support!
Michael Rose Gallery Manager
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List of Participating Artists Please note that names followed by an asterisk * are Art Club Members and names followed by a plus sign + represent artists who had two works accepted. Gary Aagaard Oluwatobi Adewumi+ Bob Aldrich Bliss Auburn Peter Baczek Lisa Bailey Steffani Bailey+ Wren Barger Brenda Bechtel Zea Beckwith+ Anne Beinecke Pamela Berkeley Allison Bianco+ Howard Branscomb Winifred Breines Pratisha Budhiraja Sally Caswell Kate Childs Cathy Chin Karen Clark Linzi Clary Marieken Cochius+ Michael Collins Matthew Conti Shirlee Cunningham Alison Dale* Susan Dando* Malcolm Davis Caroline Dranow+ Gretchen Dugan Kara Dunne+ Natalie Featherston Lisa French Kristie Gardiner* Ellen Gaube Ashu Gera Karin Gielen Theresa Girard* Barry Goldstein Carl Grauer Sam Green* Nelson Hammer
Lois Harada+ Sherie Harkins* Catherine Hess Sam Heydt Rosemary Hoffenberg William Horvath Amanda Hovey Sarah J. Hull Katie Hutchison Wendy Ingram* Bonnie Jaffe* Erin Karp Avery Kelly Dana Killion+ Elliot Krieger Louise Laplante+ Bob Lavoie* Catherine Lebovitz J. (Jie) Li+ Lawrence Mannato Catherine McKinnon* Lori Mehta Dora Atwater Millikin* Audrey Monahan* Zizelda Moreira+ Hannah Nahas Thu Nguyen Noah Olsen Stone Peng+ Laura Radwell Maira Reinbergs Ellen Rolli Kristine Schneider Kevin Sloan+ Alan Strassman Kristin Street Terry Van Heusen* Cindy Wilson* Carol Wontkowski Lauren Yandell Harold Zabady+
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Gary Aagaard American, B. 1949 Lives and works in Tucson, AZ Biography Seattle native Gary Aagaard enjoyed drawing at an early age… then he discovered sports. While playing football at Western Washington University, he decided to explore his early interest in art and eventually graduated in 1973 with a BA in Art (studio sculpture). After graduation, Gary worked as a plastic fabricator, burl table maker, yardman, and bookmobile driver until finally returning to art with a concentration on painting an illustration. Upon urging from Seattle illustrator/Cornish educator Dick Brown, Gary moved to Brooklyn, NY. While in NYC, his conceptual cover and interior illustrations appeared in numerous publications including The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Barron’s. Gary’s work has received recognition from American Illustration, 3x3 Magazine, Artavita, the Society of Illustrators (NYC), the Society of Publication Designers, Print, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, Art-Competition.net, and Applied Arts. His paintings have been displayed in many galleries including the Museum of American Illustration (New York, NY), Gallery-Henoch (New York, NY), the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC), Gallery 110 (Seattle, WA), Blackboard Gallery (Camarillo, CA), Cincinnati Art Club (Cincinnati, OH), Dab Art (Los Angeles, CA), Whatcom Museum (Bellingham, WA), Brownsville Museum of Art (Brownsville, TX), Contreras Gallery (Tucson, AZ), Tubac Center of the Arts (Tubac, AZ), Greg Moon Art (Taos, NM), Naples Art Association (Naples, FL) and was part of the Museum of American Illustration 2000-2001 Traveling Exhibition of 40 selected works.
Statement As a fledgling illustrator in Brooklyn during the 1980’s, Gary took on any project thrown his way. He refers to that time as his “snack or famine days”. Eventually, Gary zeroed in on editorial work and soon scored assignments at publications like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Village Voice (primarily covers). Since the early 2000’s, he has concentrated on gallery work with an editorial, satirical slant... essentially larger oil paintings with conceptual content reminiscent of his illustration years. Lampooning politicians, pundits or spiritual leaders who specialize in alternative facts, manufactured outrage, false equivalents, convoluted conspiracy theories, as well as tunnel-visioned tribalism (whew) is his form of protest and provides a satisfying outlet. Of course, visually addressing the daily insanity of politics, punditry or social upheaval requires an occasional break, which is when Gary paints relatively nonconfrontational pieces.
Links Website: https://aagaardart.com/
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Gary Aagaard Ma Nature Revisited oil on canvas 25" x 17" x 0" $2,700 Page 6 of 202
Oluwatobi Adewumi Nigerian, B. 1981 Lives and works in McNeil, AR Biography Oluwatobi Adewumi is a Contemporary Artist who focuses on the sociocultural of the subject through his multimedia drawings. His work explores his personal journey of having been born in Nigeria then moving and assimilating into American Culture in conservative Arkansas. His drawings are between realism/abstract figures and portraits layered out to make it simple for his audience by telling a story in a story. Some of his best tools are charcoal, and Acrylic paint which he can manipulate and use freely to bring the depth of the subject as he tackles the story behind each artwork.
Statement With every piece of art he produces comes a story, an opportunity to provide history, a new voice, narrative, and perspective for his audience. Oluwatobi believes in using his artistic gift as conduit to share the stories of people and places living in a different society and cultures with a new context. His creative process and work always lead to providing platform and information for movement to discuss values and cultural shifts in the new world. Every face has a story to tell, history behind it, questions, and beauty. The use of materials in Oluwatobi’s work is calculated. He often looks for avenues of the unexpected. An ironic twist to images or things you might expect or their combinations, provoke a participant to new and perhaps unexplored territories
Links Website: www.tobiadewumi.com Instagram: @otobiart
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Oluwatobi Adewumi FIERCE charcoal on paper 28” x 22” x 0.5” $4,500
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Oluwatobi Adewumi THIRD EYE charcoal on paper 28” x 22” x 0.5” $4,500
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Bob Aldrich American, B. 1955 Lives and works in Brattleboro, VT Biography Bob Aldrich was born and raised just outside Providence, Rhode Island. After graduating from Plymouth State College, New Hampshire, Bob spent many years working in social services in the Providence area until 1999 when he moved to Washington, DC. There, Bob spent several years in the scientific editing field, then in government affairs for a major food industry association. Bob moved back to New England in 2013 settling in Brattleboro, Vermont where he currently resides. He has remained active with his arts practice since his college days, though it wasn’t until moving back to New England that he began showing his work. Not a late bloomer, but late to sharing his work with others.
Statement Bob has for a long time focused primarily on abstract and automatic painting and drawing. Lately, some less abstract images have begun to infiltrate into his work, though they are in the background, less obvious than the ideas that come through that automatic, meditative process. Bob’s work is in response to many things- nature, things happening in the news, remembrances, color, the essence of a particular object, a response to the idea of motion, time. Bob feels a painting as much as he sees it. He doesn’t know how the process works exactly, but he’s grateful that he’s able to have this way to interpret what’s going on around him. Link: Website: www.robertcraigaldrich.com
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Bob Aldrich Untitled oil/oil stick on canvas 20" x 16" x 0" $800
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Bliss Auburn American, B. 1988 Lives and works in Fall River, MA Biography Bliss Auburn is a figurative artist who grew up in rural Massachusetts. She earned her MFA in Painting at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2014. Bliss Auburn describes her work as imaginative realism, utilizing both traditional and innovative drawing and oil painting techniques to achieve works that are both rooted in nature and enhanced by creative interpretations. Her paintings and drawings captivate scenes of love, war, transformation, ritual, and trial echoing the Greek and Ovidian classics, and reinvented as modern stories.
Statement Bliss Auburn’s Automne Harvest is a celebration of the continuation of life and death through the natural course, as all things are redivivus from this eternal cycle. The fall season yields the abundance of bounty which the generous Earth provides, but also marks the transition to winter where all things begin to wither and return to the land. When once revered in our ancestral memory, this natural order is now often overlooked and under-celebrated in our modern age; humans have departed from the land and have lost the knowledge of the harvest. Bliss’s work seeks to evoke the contemplation and reverence for the seasons and how we once depended on the Earth to ensure our success and even survival. May Automne Harvest serve as a reminder to not take the gifts of our land for granted as we progress further into our collective future.
Links Website: www.blissauburn.com Instagram: @bliss.auburn.art Facebook: Bliss Auburn Art
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Bliss Auburn Automne Harvest oil on panel 16" x 20" x 1.5" $500
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Peter Baczek American, B. 1945 Lives and works in Oakland, CA Biography Peter Baczek was born in Webster, Massachusetts. Growing up he developed a natural proclivity toward drawing, which has carried him through to this day. He eventually moved to the Bay Area in 1962 to formally begin taking art classes in his final year of High School. He received his BA in Art from San Jose State University in 1970. It was there that he developed an interest in Printmaking, primarily lithography. Moving to San Francisco in 1975 he began working with etching at Fort Mason Art Center where he developed a fascination with the urban landscape that surrounded him. He honed his abilities with a realistic style enabled through the aquatint process of etching on zinc and copper plates. Over the years he has been included in national and international print competitions, receiving numerous awards. He is in many permanent collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, CA), Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), The Turner Print Museum (Chico, CA), and the Library of Congress (Washington DC). He is a member of the California Society of Printmakers (San Francisco, CA), and the Boston Printmakers (Cambridge, MA).
Statement Peter’s landscapes typically capture the essence of the urban environment by utilizing the endless tonalities available in etching or lithography. It is with his pristinely rendered compositions that he depicts these vignettes through a more refined interpretation of the composition before him. His use of shadows, texture, and color establish areas of movement and light that can create a certain mood. In his work included in this exhibition, he momentarily departs the city to find some solace in rendering a quiet scene in the countryside.
Links Website: www.baczekstudio.com
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Peter Baczek Sonoma etching 9.5" x 13.75" x 0" $400
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Lisa G. Bailey American, B. 1957 Lives and works in Franklin, MA Biography Lisa G Bailey was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Her parents encouraged her interest in art and started her in classes at age nine; eventually graduating from Adrian College with a BA in Art and Interior Design. Throughout her childhood and adult life Lisa has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Lisa, since her marriage, has lived in five different states and currently resides in Franklin, Massachusetts; where she started her own business, ‘Developing Artists’ in 2000, teaching children and adults drawing and painting across multiple mediums. She is a member of a variety of organizations and holds signature membership for both the New England Watercolor Society (Boston, MA) and the Rhode Island Watercolor Society (Pawtucket, RI). Lisa has won National and International awards for her watercolor paintings. This year, she was published in the magazine Studio Visit, Volume 45.
Statement Lisa’s work explores multiple mediums but primarily watercolor. She developed a unique new original style in watercolor that she called Colorweave. Colorweave explores the physical phenomenon of volume color, the changing of color based on the volume, that only transparent fluids present. Her subject matter ranges from landscape to man-made objects expressed in an abstract way. By converting the forms she observes in reality into patterns they are interpreted by the viewer primarily as independent relationships, rather than with reference to the original source like realism. Lisa tries to develop forms that incite the viewer to make new personal associations by using their imagination. When creating new sequences she reveals an inseparable relationship between motion and color luring the viewer around the whole painting. To keep things fresh Lisa embraces change and challenges herself to attempt things she has never done before and continues to be innovative in her artwork. Lisa will continue to reach toward new territory to investigate and experiment in order to advance and refine her skills. Colorweave is a complex style in which she continues to develop, innovate, and master. Lisa’s ultimate goal is to create something unique for the viewer to enjoy while expanding their imagination.
Links Website: www.lisagbailey.com Facebook: Developing Artists Franklin
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Lisa Bailey Press On watercolor 18.75" x 12" x 0" $3,000
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Steffani Bailey Lives and works in North Hollywood, CA Biography Steffani is a California native, raised in Los Angeles. From a young age she had a love for drawing and painting, attending drawing classes at Chouinard, and later in high school, at Art Center College of Design. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute. For several years she exhibited, working with galleries and consultants in California. As life unfolded, Art took Steffani in new and unexpected directions. She studied the complex interplay of art and psychology at Loyola Marymount’s Clinical Art Therapy Program, earning her Masters Degree there, going on to work as an Art therapist with children and families in a clinical setting. A few years later an unexpected opportunity emerged to teach Art full-time, and she decided to begin a new chapter of art practice. She started working in a classroom setting, as she simultaneously earned her Single Subject Teaching Credential. After twelve years of bringing Art and the creative process to her young students Steffani decided to retire. In her retirement she found herself returning to the meditative process of artmaking. In 2019 her work was selected for the San Luis Obispo Art Museum’s “Brushstrokes” show, where she received the Award of Excellence. Her small assemblage paintings were included in 2 group shows at Site Brooklyn Gallery, in New York. In February, 2020, Amanda Donnan, Curator of The Frye Museum in Seattle, selected three of her pieces for the Annual Juried Show at Gallery 110 in Seattle, Washington. Steffani resides in Los Angeles, with her family and dogs. There she continues exploring her process, finding inspiration in the changing light and color offered in the natural environment, and especially valuing those random observations and surprise discoveries of beauty.
Statement Simply said, these pieces are translations of moments observed. Sometimes they become more architectural and about the materials on hand, but, more often than not, Steffani seeks a sense of timelessness and stillness, wanting the elements found in landscape – space, changes of light and color, texture, to be sensed. Equally integrated into her thoughts is the physical process and rhythms of arrangement. Steffani uses oils on wood panels, she works on the wall, constantly moving things, sometimes cutting the panels, saving random parts, analyzing, paring down and re-arranging compositions. Perhaps these are like reveries and quiet conversations that explore shifts of space, color, movement or stasis, and in turn, juxtapose structural reality to the illusory. When Steffani finds that something unexpected emerges, she know she’s finished.
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Steffani Bailey A Small Balance oils on wood, assemblage 18" x 11.5" x 2.5" $850
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Steffani Bailey Frame oils on wood 15" x 15" x 2.50" $1,200
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Wren E. Barger American, B. 1991 Lives and works in Easton, MA Biography Wren Barger is a Massachusetts resident and artist; is a graduate of Bridgewater State University, where she majored in photography; and is active in her local Art Co-op. Her passion for photography started at age nine, at summer camp where she was introduced to film photography and the dark room. She has exhibited her work in various venues throughout Massachusetts as well as participating in numerous art shows. Wren has received awards in several local juried shows, and has had her work accepted for publication. She works in all types of photography including film and digital, and especially enjoys using macro photography in natural environments. Her photography includes abstract, landscape, and nature, as well as work in double exposure, macro, fish eye and movement.
Statement What Wren loves about abstract photography is that everyone sees something different. Abstract photography allows each person viewing the work to find their own reality and meaning in what they are looking at. The challenge is to see beyond the title; to see beyond what she wants you to see; to visualize the work as you see it without any artificial boundaries.
Links Website: www.wrenbargerphotography.com Instagram: @w.b_photos
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Wren Barger Moon photography 11" x 14" x .5" $95
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Brenda L. Bechtel American, B. 1958 Lives and works in West Barnstable, MA Biography New England Artist, Brenda L Bechtel, born 1958, creates compositionally complex designs rooted in traditional realism and modern naturalism in Oil, Watercolour and Casein. The unifying concepts throughout her current body of work are mystery, exploration and discovery which focus on the architectonic landscape. These paintings are inspired by meanderings through ancient pleasure gardens and historic, grand estates. Included in the growing list; Chanticleer (Wayne, PA), Winterthur (Winterthur, DE), Nemours (Wilmington, DE), Untermyer (Yonkers, NY), Old Westbury Gardens (Old Westbury, NY), Planting Fields Arboretum (Oyster Bay, NY), Oheka Castle (Huntington, NY) and Hildene (Manchester, VT). Exhibiting extensively in National and Regional Exhibitions, Brenda holds Signature and Elected or Fellow Member designation in many professional Art venues.
Statement “From my perspective, Art is; a culmination of Life Experience, an interpretation of Space, Place, and inspired Memories expressed by the mind’s eye, tangibly created with Passion and Soul” ~ Brenda L Bechtel
Links Website: www.brendalbechtel.com Instagram: @brenda_l_bechtel Facebook: Brenda L Bechtel
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Brenda Bechtel Papyrus with Elephant Ears ~ Chanticleer oil on linen 24" x 18" x 2" $8,600
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Zea Beckwith Lives and works in Upstate New York Biography Zea Beckwith has a passion for photographing buildings that have been left for nature to overtake. Growing up in the small hamlet of Hartwick and going to school in historic Cooperstown allowed her the opportunity to embrace the elegance of old buildings and enjoy their beauty in ways that many look past. She has been lucky enough to explore buildings that have some historical significance which has granted her the opportunity to help retain a digital preservation of these sites. Zea’s photography explores the connection between people and their possessions. In a world that is plagued by the constant desire for material things it is so interesting to explore these buildings and see what is left behind when the time comes. The viewer is left with the reality check that life is only temporary and our desire for physical objects is fleeting and far less substantial than that of our emotional connections.
Statement Deserted Discoveries is an ongoing project documenting the remains of abandoned and forgotten locations around the world. Zea captures the ravages of time that have befallen these mysterious spaces. The items left discarded at these locations are just as intriguing as the buildings themselves and to capture them as they are frozen in time is a wonder to behold. Through her lens Zea documents these locations and the haunting skeletons left behind. Her photographs explore the connection between people and their possessions. Life is only temporary and our desire for physical objects is substantial yet far less meaningful than that of an emotional connection.
Links Website: www.zeabphotography.com
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Zea Beckwith Sitting Room digital photography 16" x 20" x 2" $400
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Zea Beckwith Theater digital photography 16" x 20" x 2" $400
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Anne Beinecke American, B. 1960 Lives and works in Cambridge, MA Biography Anne Beinecke was born and raised in Chicago, IL. As a child she could be found wandering the galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago writing poems about the paintings that inspired her, creating tiny books, and snapping photos of the neighborhood creatures with her beloved Brownie. Encouraged by her parents, Anne studied art at CUNY Hunter College and Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she received her BFA in painting with honors. In 2017 Anne received a Cambridge Art Association Emerging Artist Juror's Choice Award and in 2020, a CAA Members Artist of the Year Award. Anne is also an animal rights activist with a background in social work and psychology. She currently lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and cat.
Statement Anne’s work involves painting life with a holistic approach and following wherever that process leads. She is inspired by animals, dreams and relationships she observes in nature. She enjoys both abstract and representational painting but feel most at home inhabiting an unrestricted space where she can move back and forth between worlds. That space welcomes the fragmented, bestrewn and ambiguous as well as the cohesive and familiar.
Links Website: www.annebeinecke.com Instagram: @anne_beinecke
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Anne Beinecke Flowers of Linnaean Street 2 acrylic, graphite on watercolor paper 14" x 20" x 1" $1,500
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Pamela Berkeley American, B. 1948 Lives and works in Sheffield, MA Biography Pamela Berkeley was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and was raised in Yorktown, NY. While in High School, she also studied at The Art Students’ League and at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. After living in Europe, NYC, and San Francisco with her first husband, she continued her studies at Rhode Island School of Design, and supported herself and her young daughter by modeling for Life Drawing classes at The Providence Art Club. One of the first group exhibitions she was included in was The Providence Art Club Competition in 1974. She received her BFA from RISD in 1976, and that year she studied at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture and married her second husband Rackstraw Downes (divorced after 5 years). They lived and worked in NYC and in Maine. Berkeley had her first major Solo Exhibition in 1977 at the G.W. Einstein Gallery in NYC and continued to be represented there for over 20 years until Gilbert Einstein became ill and the Gallery in SOHO closed. She is represented by The Blue Mountain Gallery in NYC. Her career as a professional artist has continued for 45 years, exhibiting in any number of venues and 12 major museums. Her work is included in major private and museum collections. Berkeley has received several Grants and Awards including The National Endowment for the Arts for Painting, The New York State Council for the Arts CAPS Award for Painting, The Academy of Arts and Letters, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant, Change Inc. After the World Trade Center tragedy, Berkeley gave up her loft in SOHO and sold her New York City apartment and moved to the woods of Sheffield, MA. She maintains her home and studio there with her husband, animals and continues to paint, show and sell her work.
Statement Pamela Berkeley’s main pre-occupation in her paintings is the tension between the still life objects close to the picture plane and the distant imagery (landscape) that is farthest away. She doesn’t have “backgrounds” in her work. Foreground and what is behind, are of equal importance, painted at the same time, side by side, locked into each other. The painting “Daffodils in a Peter Hewitt Vase” is a perfect example. The flowers, some fading, are backlit by the light of early spring in the woods. (Peter Hewitt, coincidentally, who designed the vase, which was from the gift shop at the Museum of Modern Art, also graduated from RISD.) Berkeley’s paintings are done in oil on canvas or linen, and range in size from 8 inches x 8 inches to 6 feet x 8 feet. She paints from life, combinations of landscape, still life, portraits of friends and animals. She had made a series of portraits of actor and artist friends such as John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Richard Merkin, Red Grooms, Isabella Rossellini, John Lurie and others. Berkeley dressed up her subjects in various costumes and put them in odd lush environments. As tightly drawn as her work is, there are underlying influences of her love of abstract painting and, ironically yet more obviously, The Pre- Raphaelites, shown in the love of color, paint and brushwork.
Links Website: https://www.pberkeley.com/ Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/blue-mountain-gallery/artist/pamela-berkeley Gallery: https://bluemountaingallery.org/
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Pamela Berkeley Daffodils in a Peter Hewitt Vase oil on canvas 28" x 30" x 2" $4,500
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Allison Bianco American, b. 1979 Lives and works in Smithfield, RI Biography Allison Bianco received her MFA in Printmaking (2010) from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI and her BA in Studio Art (2001) from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Bianco has recently been awarded a public art commission for New York City public school 671K in Brooklyn for a new, permanent site-specific artwork. The commission is through the New York City School Construction Authority, Public Art for Public Schools program in collaboration with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art program for the collection of the New York City Department of Education. Bianco is the recipient of a Visual Arts Sea Grant from the University of Rhode Island and her work was selected for a solo exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia as part of their 88th International Competition. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The New York Public Library, NY; RISD Museum, RI; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; the University of San Diego, CA; and the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, HI; among others.
Statement Allison Bianco’s recent works use a combination of intaglio and screen print to depict landscapes diminished by massive oceans and immense skies. Through the shifting coastal landscapes, Bianco explores nostalgia and inconsistencies of memory. To create her imagery, Bianco employs two distinct methods. In the first, she researches historic images of coastal communities and couples her interpretation of the places with anachronistic objects and other-worldly shapes and color, thereby conflating the past with the present. The second approach uses current images steeped in references to the past. Gaspee Down the Line, for instance, offers a contemporary view of Scarborough Beach in Narragansett, RI. Here, the unexpected objects come from specific personal references which impose themselves in the composition, like fragments of memory.
Links Website: http://www.allisonbianco.com/ Instagram: @allisonbiancoprints
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Allison Bianco Gaspee Down the Line intaglio with chine collĂŠ, screen print 16" x 30" x 0" Private Collection
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Allison Bianco Not Too Far North intaglio, screen print 36" x 18" x 0" Private Collection
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Rick Branscomb American, B. 1948 Lives and works in Hyannis, MA, and Plaistow, NH Biography Rick Branscomb is a fine art photographer who splits his time between Plaistow, NH, and Hyannis, MA. He says he has been taking photographs for sixty years, but taking it seriously for only ten years. He has a B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. in English and taught writing at the college level for over 40 years, retiring in May of 2014 to devote himself full-time to his photography. He is a juried member of the Cape Cod Art Center and a Masters-level photographer in the Cape Cod Camera Club, and his work has appeared in exhibits in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His favorite genre is night photography and other high-contrast photography, harkening back to the chiaroscuro paintings of Caravaggio and Rembrandt and their contemporaries, in which a strong light source illuminates a part of the picture and makes that pop out of surrounding semi-darkness. Among photographers, his influences are Parisian street photographer Brassai and contemporary night photographers Richard Tatti, Lance Keimig and Tim Cooper.
Statement In all his photography, Rick looks for drama, for strong contrasts of light and dark and colors that ideally make the viewer take notice. Sometimes, of course, the life before the photographer is not obviously dramatic, so he looks for scenes and situations to create drama in the digital darkroom. Either way-finding or creating or usually some combination of both--his successful photos have a heightened sense of drama. These images are often dark and moody, sometimes with large expanses of pure black, but as photographer Jay Maisel says, “The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone. The effect of limited light causes drama by leaving most of the image dark.�
Links Website: www.rickb3photography.com/
Instagram: @rickb3photography Facebook: E Branscomb
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Rick Branscomb Three Thirteen Congress St photography 16" x 20" x 0" $250
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Winifred Breines American, B. 1942 Lives and works in Boston, MA Biography For over twenty-five years, Winifred was a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, where she lives. When she retired, Winifred changed direction completely. Almost automatically, she started to paint with watercolors, taking classes and workshops whenever and wherever she could—and still does. Winifred is possessed with the desire to visually represent, in beautiful watercolor, fruits and vegetables in bowls and on plates on kitchen tables, creating a new way of seeing beauty in domestic and familiar objects. She paints constantly. Winifred has been accepted into many art competitions, including gallery shows, and has had two one-woman shows in Boston. She is a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society and the California Watercolor Association. Please see her website for more details and images.
Statement Color, light and shadow --created by the sun outside but observed primarily indoors in the kitchen-- are magic. There is something about lighted round fruits, especially vibrant colors, such as oranges and tomatoes, combined with blues, usually found in ceramics and fabric, that, for her, represent a promise: of the pleasures of food, kitchens, meals, community, and peacefulness. Watercolors are part of that promise. Winifred paints using a transparent palette and technique.
Links Website: www.winifredbreines.com Instagram: @winifredbreines
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Winifred Breines Mustard, Lemon Squeezer, Dishtowels watercolor 7.5" x 16" x 0" $850
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Pratisha Budhiraja American, B. 1969 Lives and works in Honolulu, Hawaii
Biography Pratisha Budhiraja has traveled a westward trajectory - born in India, spent her childhood in New England and young adult years in NYC, and has lived in Honolulu since 1999. Pratisha studied art at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design while earning a degree in Biology from Brown University. She completed graduate work at Boston University’s School of Public Health and Medicine and pursued a long career in public health research. Her extensive academic and professional experience in the sciences as well as her east-west cultural lens influence her visual experiments. She uses unconventional substrates to explore seemingly unrelated disciplines and discordant emotions. Her work is two and three dimensional incorporating printmaking and painting. Pratisha has exhibited at the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Bishop Museum, and her work is in the collection of the Hawaii State Art Museum.
Statement Biographical information satisfies a curiosity but does little to enhance the moment of engagement with an artist’s work. Interpretive guides are dictatorial at worst, and at the very least they create an imposition. Works of art should not warrant librettos, because art is not a foreign language. It is a celebration of vision—arguably the greatest and most sensitive faculty we share without effort or formal education.
Links Instagram: @pratishabudhiraja Twitter: @pratisha
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Pratisha Budhiraja Dialogue printmaking - intaglio on Chinese paper 3.5’ x 3.5’ x 6" $4,000
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Sally Caswell American, B. 1941 Lives and works in Swansea, MA Biography Born in Brockton and raised in Whitman, Massachusetts, Sally Caswell knew at the age of four that art would define her life. At age 6 she began a ten-year business selling greeting cards, to earn art school tuition. At the age of 12, the Boston Post newspaper chose to publish her original drawing, “Horse”. High school scholarships, an essay award, and later Commonwealth of Massachusetts Scholarship, provided her tuition for Massachusetts College of Art, where she was graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Illustration in 1965. Her RI College MAT (equivalency) followed, and, in 1990, her MFA with Distinguished Thesis, University of MA, Dartmouth. An Art Educator, her teaching has spanned over fifty years, including Johnston High School, RISD, U. Mass Dartmouth, Community College of RI (24 years) and currently, East Side Art Center. She has lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island all of her life, except for two years in Colorado early in her marriage to the late Carl L. Hayter, father of her two sons. She is a Copley Artist of Copley Society of Art, Boston; a Life and Signature Artist, RIWS; Cape Cod Art Center Master Artist; and 19 On Paper Artist. Among her published drawings is “Luce Hall”, the frontispiece of the Centennial Edition of The Trident, 1984 Yearbook of the United States Naval War College, Newport, RI. Subsequently, the drawing was purchased for the Naval War College Museum Collection. She was awarded the Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. Her home and studio overlook a salt marsh in Swansea, MA.
Statement In the tradition of British, and American masters, J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and others, Sally Caswell paints her watercolors and oils on canvas with their techniques of transparent glazes of rich nuances and depth of color, identifying a continuity with nature. Her work in every medium reveals a strength of draftsmanship, a sense of presence and her joy of en plein air painting. She enjoys traveling widely and painting, most often in Maine, New York, California and Colorado; but also Tuscany and Azores. The marine landscape of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine are the greatest inspiration for her drawings and paintings. Her work is exhibited nationally in the United States, has been shown in both Tokyo and Saku City, Japan, and is in international private and corporate collections.
Links Website: https://www.sallycaswell.com/
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Sally Caswell Autumn Light watercolor 14" x 10" x 0" $1,500
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Kate Childs American, B. 1955 Lives and works in Massachusetts Background Kate Childs had the opportunity to be raised in a rural town in northern New Jersey. The landscape was stunningly beautiful. From a young age Kate was drawn to painting. The rolling hills and vistas were part of her art, as well as her love of nature and our beautiful planet. After college where she studied Psychology and the Sciences, Childs worked in Social Services. It took many years to pursue her art, and this came to fruition when she moved to the Boston Area. At the DeCordova Museum School she studied with printmakers, watercolorists, and painters, and developed her own personal style of work. She sold her prints in galleries, and worked for artists in their studios. From printmaking, she went on to design linoleum block prints and started working on fabrics. She took some time to study hand dying techniques on fabrics with dyes at Penland School for Crafts in North Carolina. In 2000, Kate decided to explore painting in oils. Since then, she has painted in her studio at One Cottage Street Studios in Easthampton, MA, and her work has been shown in galleries and art fairs throughout the northeast. Childs lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her husband and a cairn terrier.
Statement Childs’ landscapes are all about feeling and emotion. Her paintings are a way of communicating her subtlest nuances of experience by translating into a visual context. She draws upon remembered landscapes from the shores of Cape Cod, the rivers and valleys of Western Massachusetts and the beaches of the Caribbean, as well as her years in northern New Jersey, and incorporates them into paintings that blend form and color into an emotional experience for the viewer. Natural beauty of the earth and feelings of serenity are embedded into her paintings. For Childs, creating a painting is a meditation. Her goal is to share the beauty that exists so abundantly in this world. When viewed her paintings have been described as healing, luminous, meditative, ‘like a breath of fresh air’.
Links Website: www.katechilds.com Instagram: @katechildsfineart Facebook: Kate Childs Fine Art
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Kate Childs Moment to Moment oil on canvas 36" x 36" x 1.5" $3,000
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Cathy Chin American, B. 1945 Lives and works in Riverside, RI Biography Cathy Chin was born in Syracuse, NY. Her father was a photographer and college professor and the family lived in New Paltz and in Pittsford, NY where Cathy grew up. She was encouraged by a favorite art teacher and by an artist friend to go to art school and she was accepted at RISD. She studied there for two years as a painting major and then transferred to RIT to study illustration and printmaking. After college, (where she earned a BFA) and marriage to Ken, she moved frequently as Ken changed jobs. She has connected with fellow artists, galleries, and teaching opportunities in each location, most especially in New Hampshire, where her two daughters grew up. She is a signature member of the New England Watercolor Society and an elected member of the Art League of RI. She recently relocated to Riverside, RI where she and Ken renovated a small house on the Providence River.
Statement Cathy’s work is abstracted realism. Subject matter comes from her life as a perceptive, visual person, always looking. Her drawings and paintings are meant to be balanced and to clearly communicate an idea using gesture and blocks of color in a lively way. Links Instagram: @realandplastic
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Cathy Chin A Fox on the Deck acrylic 30" x 30" x 2" $1,200
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Karen Clark American, B. 1950 Lives and works in Portland, Oregon Biography Karen has always been interested in art, but it was Mrs. Robertson’s 7th grade art class that convinced her that she wanted to be an artist. A painting major in college, she decided to drop out to learn how to make more dimensional work – like bas relief. She soon found that making furniture was as interesting as making a painting and spent the next 4 years apprenticing with Siegfried Berdy, a master furniture maker and antique restorer, and to Robert Shimabukuro, a furniture designer and maker. Karen returned to college – this time Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, to study Industrial Design and Fine Art. She holds a BFA in Integrated Studies and an MFA in Photography and Drawing. She spent many years designing and building custom furniture, furniture for production and in exhibit design. Karen was named, with three others, on the patent for the St. John’s connecting hinge – a device used with open office dividers. She has worked for The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry as an exhibit designer, as well as ADEC, a dental equipment manufacturer, designing open operatory dental systems. Karen continued to paint throughout this time. Since 1990 Karen has been concentrating on painting while teaching college art and design classes at the Art Institute of Portland. Karen’s work has been exhibited around the US and is included in both private and public collections. Karen lives with her husband of 32 years; They have 2 grown children.
Statement Decomposition and regeneration are at the heart Karen’s work; You could say that this is a matter of life and death. We can’t have one without the other. The seedpod is tenaciously devoted to self-preservation and their forms describe unabashedly how they go about this. Decomposition and what it attracts – mostly fungi – look other worldly. Karen finds both ends of the life spectrum fascinating. Making a good likeness of these things is the first step for Karen. Then the quality of media – waxy, goopy, rough, colorful, wet, dry – creates its own sensual distraction- a kind of human natural intervention. She uses oil, encaustic, and other things such as crochet and fabric to create a variety of textures in her paintings. Karen aims to create images that peak interest in both the subject and it’s making.
Links Website: https://karenjclark.com/home.html
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Karen Clark Peony Seedpod in a Bottle oil and encaustic 17" x 17" x 2" $900
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Linzi Clary American Lives and works in Providence, RI Biography Linzi Clary is a graduate of the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH with a BFA in Painting and Illustration. Born in Massena, NY, she currently lives in Providence and works as a designer. Her work experience includes graphic design, jewelry design, painting, and illustration. She was also formerly a gallery assistant at the Providence Art Club. She currently works at (add)ventures as a digital designer specializing in design systems.
Statement The human condition is innately expressed to the world through our face. Our portraits communicate our hopes, fears, and sorrows. By utilizing both my background as a painter and career as a graphic designer I hope to further investigate the nature of human emotion through realistic representations of form juxtaposed with flat graphic shape.
Links Website: http://linziclary.com/ Instagram: @linziclary
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Linzi Clary Pegean Looks Down oil on panel 24" x 24" x 0" $500
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Marieken Cochius The Netherlands, 1968. Now dual Citizen USA / The Netherlands Lives and works in Wappingers Falls, NY Biography Marieken Cochius is a Dutch-born artist who has lived and worked in New York City since 1987, and in the Hudson Valley since 2013. Meditative, strong and intuitive work that often explores growth forms, movement and containment of energy, she is drawn to remote places where she studies nature and makes art inspired by it. Her work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. A sculptural public commission was completed in 2017 for the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY. Recent solo shows were at Matteawan Gallery in Beacon, NY, and Holland Tunnel Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is in many private collections in the US and Europe. She has participated in residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Cochius has participated in recent group exhibitions at Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY; Ely Center, New Haven, CT; Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY; LAB Space, Hillsdale, NY; Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Her work was recently featured on covers of Willard and Maple Magazine, Sun Spot Journal, and inside of: Tule Review 2020, Cold Mountain Review, Mud Season Review, Miracle Monocle, Art for a New Earth, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Esthetic Apostle, FLAR, DeLuge Journal, Alluvian Environmental Journal, Raw Art Review.
Statement Marieken Cochius is fascinated by growth-forms, root systems of plants, movements of microscopic organisms, wind movements on water, seedpods and animal architecture. In those she sees a sensitive chaos that contains and propels the origins and energies of life. She uses found, often organic materials she in her collages. Evoking the mystery and power of nature through intensely materialist and tactile forms and imagery, her work explores the porous boundary between what is seen and what is sensed, areas where perception and experience merge. ‘Elements of the Motherboard’ is an ongoing series of mixed media collages. The title refers to two concepts: the way the computer motherboard functions to allow communication between various electronic components, and to the idea of the motherboard as a simplified version of “mother earth” where the motherboard represents networks that are formed when a community of living organisms and non-living components interact within an ecosystem. In both examples, if one element isn’t working or is out of balance, the whole system breaks down. The works in the Elements of the Motherboard series contain geometric forms referencing computer chips and suggest comparisons between natural ecosystems and artificial intelligence. They also refer to the destruction of the environment, as man-made systems collapse and damage the world around them. Cochius is fascinated by the ways technology is used to store and organize information. Her work explores the relationship between human systems of knowledge and the structures of the natural world.
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Marieken Cochius Element Nr. 2 collage, charcoal, seeds, paint on paper 46.5" x 31" x 0" $2,000
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Marieken Cochius Element Nr. 4 collage with feather, paper, paint on paper 46" x 31" x 0" $2,000
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Michael Collins American, B. 1964 Lives in East Providence, RI Biography Michael Collins was born in Providence and raised in Warwick, Rhode Island. From a young age, he’s been interested in man-made objects within the landscape. While having a strong interest in architecture and people’s relationship with physical spaces, Michael followed in his mother’s footsteps into graphic design. During this time he discovered his love of photography with its ability to capture a slice in time. Eventually, he moved from graphic design to digital design becoming a web developer. With a business degree from the Community College of Rhode Island and a degree in Internet Communications from New England Tech, Michael balances business and user goals in his work. Having over 25 years in the digital design world, Michael has developed a passion for making the web a usable and accessible place for everyone. Being certified in User Experience Management he is a Consultant to agencies, businesses, and nonprofits alike. He is also an avid digital photographer.
Statement Michael’s work explores man-made objects within the landscape. These tend to be more urban environments where various design styles interact with each other and nature. There is a delicate balance between the thought that man-made objects are permanent within our lifetime and the reality of nature reclaiming what was once theirs.
Links Professional Website: https://mikreative.com Photography Website: https://michaelpcollins.com Instagram: @mikreative
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Michael Collins Bascule photography 11" x 8.5" x 1" $325
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Matt Conti American, B. 1966 Lives and plays in Boston, MA Biography Matt landed in Boston in the mid-1990’s after being born and raised in New York, and hasn’t made it back yet. Early on, he pursued an engineering and business path with formal education including a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a master of business administration degree from Columbia Business School. While pursuing a successful business career, Matt founded a popular neighborhood news website where he realized the power of photography in telling a story. Created in 2009 and still going strong today, NorthEndWaterfront.com shares neighborhood news and views for Boston's North End, waterfront and downtown communities. He also manages the site, NorthEndBoston.com, for visitors to the North End, including its famous Italian feasts. Matt's images have been published in newspapers, books and magazines including National Geographic, USA Today, The Boston Globe and Post-Gazette. He is a member of a variety of photography organizations including the Boston Camera Club. His photography is often featured by non-profit groups, especially those engaged in climate change awareness and research.
Statement Matt uses photography to capture the character of urban landscapes, architecture and street culture. Going beyond typical cityscapes, he treasures all types of city scenes, day and night. Initially, he documented the fabled streets of the historic neighborhoods in his hometown of Boston and New England. In recent years, he has expanded his portfolio by researching and visiting several U.S. and international cities to build his portfolio. In exploring the urban landscape, Matt looks for details within familiar elements of a destination. From the grand cityscapes to the intriguing nooks and crannies, he seeks the alternative ways to highlight urban features. This is often accomplished by bending time through the light trails of night photography or calming the city bustle in daytime long exposures. In addition, he uses patterns and reflections to help frame the focal points within his photographs. Link: Website: https://www.MattConti.com Page 61 of 202
Matt Conti Grand Canal Reflections archival inkjet 17" x 22" x 0" $300
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Shirlee Cunningham Biography Born infused with the spirit of Motown, Shirlee Cunningham moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981. Originally receiving a master’s degree in public policy, then training as a clinician, and ultimately becoming a psychologist, Shirlee worked with a myriad of populations ranging from the criminally insane, the developmentally disabled and more, including just plain “normal” folks. After working in a major San Francisco corporation for nearly ten years, she began to consult with major corporations and specialized in one-on-one leadership coaching with CEO’s and CFO’s in California and throughout the U.S. until she was forced to end her career due to medical disability. This disability allowed her to turn her attention to art. She is self-taught preferring to study the work of artists whose work resonates with her. Painting is literally pain and pleasure for Shirlee as the act of painting is physically painful for her. She is a member of a variety of organizations including The Salmagundi Club in New York City, The California Art Club, NOAPS, OPA and ARC.
Statement A lifetime photographing wildlife from Africa to the Antarctic has been joyful for Shirlee, but has also led her to directly observe the effects of climate change, and our role in it. Her current work focuses on painting birds in order to describe their secret world of struggle and work— building nests and raising their young. Nests are delicate structures yet built to withstand storms. But they are vulnerable, and so are we. With the same ecological motivation, she also paints florals, wildlife and the still life. The florals and still life paintings play with composition, shadow and, in the Rembrandt tulip series, vibrant color insinuating a kind of reckless joy. The first step toward preserving nature is to “see” nature and, ultimately, appreciate it. Shirlee has spent many hours studying the works of Claudio Bravo and David Ligare and is particularly drawn to Contemporary Realism. She attempts to innovate and push art forward in small ways even within the context of the traditional still life, floral or wildlife study. But, like what she sees in Bravo and Ligare, attempts a sense of order, beauty, stillness and quiet in her work.
Links Website: https://www.shirleecunningham.com/ (paintings) https://www.cunninghamfinearts.com/-/CunninghamFineArts/ (photography and paintings)
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Shirlee Cunningham Heavenward oil on panel 20" x 16" x 1� $2,500
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Alison Dale American, B. 1956 Lives and works in Rhode Island Biography Alison Dale is a late-comer to painting. She spent her 20-plus year career teaching graphic design in the Art and Music Department at Seton Hall University. During that time she always had a latent desire to paint but work and family took priority. After moving to the Netherlands she was able, over a number of years, to study the Dutch masters and to develop a passion for their style. On her return to the United States, she was able to pursue her lifelong dream of painting. Alison took her first oil painting class in New Jersey with Scott Nickerson, a highly regarded New Jersey artist and a student of Nelson Shanks. Subsequently she has explored techniques and subjects strongly influenced by the Dutch masters.
Statement Alison’s love of still life painting comes from the stability of the subject matter and the calmness of an ordinary object. In our busy, oversubscribed, lives there is something comforting to her about the quiet beauty a still life evokes. Alison is especially influenced by the Dutch Masters and in her paintings she tries to mirror their techniques with layers of underpainting starting with just tone. As the layers evolve the subjects become peacefully alive.
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Alison Dale My Kitchen oil on panel 12" x 9" x 1" $3,500
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Susan Dando Biography Susan Dando grew up in Larchmont, NY and had an interest in drawing and painting from grade school through high school. She graduated from the Ceramics School at Alfred University where extensive painting courses were offered. After that, she taught art in the public schools in Ithaca, NY. While teaching, she continued to study painting at Cornell University with Peter Kahn, Kenneth Evett, and Allan Atwell. When she moved to Essex, MA with her husband and children, she continued her studies in Rockport, MA and studied Art History at the Radcliffe Institute for 10 years with Julia Phelps. She was a contributing artist at the Cambridge Art Association and at 3 Boston Galleries, La Ruche, Gallery 52 and the Aiken Gallery, while living in NYC in the 90's. Susan did commission work, belonged to the National Arts Club and studied at the Art Student's League.
Statement This year, one of Susan's missions is to explore the urban landscape. She has just finished a large oil of the Hi Line in NYC. The first effort was sold and then another of the same subject was sold as well. She has recently concentrated on the Providence skyline and has found it to be a wonderful subject. She is interested in the abstract quality that she sees in the shapes and textures of the buildings and the tension that is created between the man-made objects and the natural elements around them. To be successful, she feels that her paintings should work upside down as in an abstract as well as upright as it was painted.
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Susan Dando Pears oil on canvas 16” x 12” $400
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Malcolm Montague Davis American, B. 1933 Lives and works in Boston, MA Biography A graduate of Harvard College and GSD (55 and 58 respectively), Malcolm Montague Davis is commercial and residential architect by trade. Davis originally made his mark with The Architectural Collaborative (TAC) working out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. While his home was always Massachusetts, Davis had the opportunity to design buildings all over the United States and the world in the mid-20th century. His professional experience included time overseeing projects in Myanmar, Rome and Greenland. Davis turned to art in retirement as a way to continue his creative journey. He has been showing art in galleries across the United States for approximately 20 years.
Artist Statement Davis’s abstract paintings are based on details of his buildings or observed natural landscapes. Many are generated from his architectural drawings, which have been surveyed to yield visually stimulating compositions. Some series result from Davis’ sculptures. In either case, a threedimensional object is reduced to two, and views are selected to show the intersection of colors and adjacent shadows. Colors are chosen to be representative of the area. The shadows are included to induce the third dimension and give depth. All of Davis’s paintings are made with the same materials: hardboard, also called Masonite, and flat interior Benjamin Moore latex paint (original colors, never mixed). The sturdiness of the support recalls the construction of the subjects. The painting is held off the wall three quarters of an inch by the wood 'strainer' on the back. This stiffens the one-eighth inch thick hardboard and supports the hanging wire. The fabrication results in a reveal and a natural shadow.
Links Website: https://www.malcolmmontaguedavis.com
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Malcolm Montague Davis Lower Basin Series: Connector/Viaduct Latex on hardboard 35.5" x 46" x 1" $4,400
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Caro Dranow American, B. 1998 Lives and works in Connecticut, Maine, and New York Biography Caro Dranow is an emerging painter based in New England. A recent graduate of Bowdoin College, her work explores emotional impressions of Maine’s wilderness and coast. By abstractly painting Maine with color and line, she attempts to capture the larger whimsy and awe of the land. By challenging traditional conventions of landscape painting, Caro views her work as innovative and intimate interpretations of the space that inspires her. She loves to paint because of the spiritual and cathartic experience and enjoys connecting with other artists. Caro has shown at the Greenpoint Gallery in New York City and has upcoming shows this Spring in and around New England. In addition to her gallery representation, she has been an honored recipient of the Robert and Blythe Grant for the Arts in Maine as well as the Ginestrelle Art Residency in Assisi, Italy. In addition to her emerging professional practice as an artist, Caro is an ardent teacher who runs community workshops for children and adults in Brunswick, Maine. Caro aspires to attend grad school and obtain her MFA at Yale University in order to spread her passion for art and teaching.
Statement As an artist who grew up in and around the Hudson Valley, Caro has an immense appreciation and love of the natural world. From gazing at billowing clouds to splashing in its rivers, the environment of New England compels her heart. Caro looks to the spaces that surround her for inspiration and direction. However, as an artist who avidly paints the natural world, it is impossible to ignore the profound impact that climate change continues to have on the land she cherishes. Caro believes that creating depictions of our changing world is one of the most profound things we can do to save it. Art is activism, and she is proud to create complex and emotional depictions of her surroundings in order to spark larger conversations. In creating images of the sky and sea as it emotionally impacts her, Caro attempts to cultivate empathy and awareness for our relationship to the earth.
Links Website: www.carodranow.com Instagram: @caro_dranow
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Caroline Dranow Dawn at Popham oil on panel 12" x 12" x 1" $3,500
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Gretchen Geneis Dugan American, B. 1952 Lives and works in Branford, CT Biography Gretchen was born and raised in Branford, Connecticut. Family members seemed to think that she had promise in the arts and was gifted private painting lessons at the age of nine. While she performed well, she naturally veered towards detailed pencil work. High school art classes had her diligently creating time consuming images, while the rest of the class ran out when the bell rang, she was not close to finishing her work. Enrolled at the University of Connecticut with a major in biology, she took drawing, painting and ceramics classes as well. She began to take her skills seriously while raising her two children on a farm, and entered many local art competitions, won many awards and was represented by the Greene Gallery, Guilford, CT. Family responsibilities prevented her from truly pursuing her gift, until just a few years ago. Elected to the Salmagundi Club, NYC, Academic Artists Association, Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT, she has been given numerous awards in this short time. Accepted and awarded to Hudson Valley Artists national exhibition 2019, and Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 2019.
Statement Gretchen’s work is quite varied, according to what subject matter inspires her. However it is always a subject or still life that attracts her due to emotion or contrast. The relationships between things, and ofttimes the softness of the image on paper are especially important. There is a story behind every work.
Links Website: http://www.backseatstudio.com/
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Gretchen Dugan Chatfield Hollow graphite 32" x 24" x 0" $10,000
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Kara Dunne American, B. 1983 Lives and works in Providence, RI Biography Kara Dunne is a printmaker and performance artist who also dabbles in video and installation. She studied printmaking and glassblowing at Alfred University, performance at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned her master’s degree in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her creative drive is fueled by her dual background in both the visual arts and theater; the combination of the two enable her to explore the opportunities of the live, the staged and the recorded. Dunne believes art should be an active experience, not a passive event, and should be encountered in other places besides the confines of a museum or gallery. She strives to find new ways in which her work may interact with the public in their natural habitat. Her videos, performances and prints serve as a social commentary on what we forget about the past, deny in the present and dream about in the future.
Statement Persistent agitationthen pearl. Challenge the viewer. Reveal the things that are hidden. Make substance. (You can’t call it a sandwich if there’s nothing in the middle). Enough talk- look deeply. The work should speak for itself.
Links Website: https://www.karadunne.com/ Instagram: @thereallawnknome
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Natalie Featherston American, B. 1971 Lives and works in Providence, RI Biography Natalie Featherston is a contemporary realist painter specializing in trompe l’oeil- a French term meaning literally “to fool the eye”. Her work is inspired by the Dutch Masters and combined with a modern sensibility, where skill and execution of the painting pair with humor and whimsy. The Chicago Sun Times has described her paintings as, “Artful beyond just illusion and trickery, they are truly masterful still lifes made with both craft and wit.” Ms. Featherston’s paintings have received numerous awards from some of the most distinguished art organizations in the country, including the Art Renewal Center, the Salmagundi Club and the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Club. Her paintings have appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, American Art Collector, Southwest Art, and the Santa Fean Magazine to name but a few of the publications that have featured her work. Ms. Featherston is represented by fine art galleries across the country, and her paintings are sought after by notable collectors including Toni Morrison, Danielle Steele, J.J. Abrams, and Mr. Alice Cooper.
Statement Artist Natalie Featherston specializes in trompe l’oeil, French for “fool the eye”. She paints directly from life in oils, constructing detailed models for her paintings using found objects, vintage photos, paper cutouts, embroidery and beads. Natalie’s paintings give a fresh, modern interpretation of the time-honored genre of trompe l’oeil, moving far beyond simple objects hung on a wall designed to trick the viewer. Her technical prowess draws people into an invented realm of humor and whimsy, where storytelling and narrative feature prominently. That moment when the viewer realizes what they thought was real is actually a painting is why Natalie paints- to delight the viewer and share a secret just between themselves.
Links Website: http://www.nataliefeatherston.com/ Instagram: @nfeatherston_fine_art Facebook: Natalie Featherston
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Lisa French American, B. 1956 Lives and works in Hull, MA Biography Lisa French was born in Ohio but lived in Southern California for many years. As a child she demonstrated strong drawing skills and enthusiasm for art, design, and craft. She attended California State University Long Beach and her undergraduate curriculum (visual communication, printmaking, comparative literature, and human anatomy) nurtured an interdisciplinary perspective on art. She graduated with “highest distinction,� earning a BFA in Illustration with a Certificate in Biomedical Art. Lisa has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. Her graduate thesis, Reconstructing Reality: A Visual Exploration of Reactionary Racist Rationale in the Period of Reconstruction, was developed as an experimental multi-media project that incorporated painting, scenography, toy theater, stop motion animation, the literature of Joel Chandler Harris, and the history of Reconstruction. Lisa produces award-winning illustration for numerous advertising and publishing clients. She maintains a studio practice, producing work that has been included in many juried national exhibitions. Since 1994, she has also sustained a full-time tenure-track teaching career in higher education, relocating to Sarasota, Florida and finally to Boston where she now lives in the South Shore town of Hull.
Statement Lisa paints the figure and portrait from observation and she paints scenes of wildlife from imagination. She strives to capture the transient and visualize the intangible, rendering both observational and invented subjects with convincing realism. The hedgerow series, thematically linked but not a cohesive narrative, are informed by the moralizing fables of Aesop and La Fontaine and influenced by the tradition of Italian and Northern Renaissance art, particularly 17th century Dutch allegorical wildlife, floral, and still life painting. The hedgerow is a metaphorical motif suggesting the relationship of inhabitant to environment: the natural environment as a reflection of its inhabitants and the impact of the environment on its inhabitants. Iconographic flora and allegorical wildlife represent the nature of the interdependent human community: the tangle of interpersonal relationships, the complex internal landscape of emotions, and the behaviors (scapegoating, betrayal, delusion, denial, cruelty) that spring from ego-driven motivation. Lisa’s painting demonstrates a thoughtful, organized and meticulous approach, characterized by formal composition and elaborate detail. Sculptural forms, spatial relationships, and dramatic mood are defined by chromatic light and shadow. Working in small format with an indirect painting approach, she produces visual texture, sharply defined detail, and an optical mixture of impressionistic color.
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Kristie L. Gardiner American, B. 1956 Lives and Works in Newport, Rhode Island Biography Kristie was born in Lincoln, NE and was raised in Normal, IL. She came to Rhode Island from Chicago in 1982. While in Chicago, she worked as an interior designer for the architectural firms: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM,) Perkins & Will and Krusinski/ Geleck/ Foran. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kristie is LEED certified and a graduate of both URI’s Master of Energy program and Master Composter and Recycler program. She has worked as a designer/ project manager for several architectural and space planning firms and also was Project Coordinator for the Foundation of Newport and was Executive Director of the Aquidneck Island Land Trust. Currently, Gardiner is a Faculty Assistant in the Rehab Health Department at the Community College of Rhode Island. She is the mother of Allison G. Durak of Malden, MA and Sean Gardiner of Middletown, RI and lives in Newport with her husband, Glenn, who is a partner at NCA, Newport Collaborative Architects and Gary their elderly cat.
Statement Photography combines her interest in the interaction of design, people and the natural world.
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Ellen Gaube American, b. 1953 Lives and works in Deep River, Connecticut Biography Ellen Gaube was born in Scranton, PA, USA. Nature and science were always her interests as she collected fossils, flowers and pencils and paper. She pursued a BS degree in Pharmacy and worked in hospitals for the greater part of her career. Her second degree, a BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT , came on the heels of a decision to do what she really craved: make art. Ellen has lived on a variety of rural properties with her husband, children and pets and is currently surrounded by lush gardens and forest in her home in Deep River. She is a member of various local and national art societies and has exhibited her work nationally and abroad.
Statement Nature has always been Ellen’s preferred environment. Her favorite childhood toys were flowers, rocks and sticks; her favorite tools a pencil and paper. This holds true today as she collect subject matter physically and with a camera on her rural property and hikes through conservation land. She considers herself a botanical artist through her documentation of natural forms in all stages of growth and decomposition. Although her photographic images are abstracted through digital manipulation, their source is always the natural world of plants, insects, rock and water usually from her immediate environment. Ellen manipulates color and shape with digital filters that allow a great deal of "plasticity" to happen, often with results that are more robust, textured and complex than the source images. She works hard to maintain a sense of organic naturalness despite the obvious conceptual results. The images have a familiarity and yet a newness resulting from shifts in color, line and form.
Links Website: www.ellengaube.com Website: artworkarchive.com>ellen gaube>profile
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Ellen Gaube Steel Vines 1 digital photography manipulation 10" x 6" x 0" $120.00
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Ashu Gera Indian, B. 1995 Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Biography Ashu Gera is a visual artist currently based in Los Angeles. Gera has received a degree in Bachelor of Visual Arts specializing in painting and printmaking from the prestigious Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India and is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of The Arts where he has worked very closely with eminent pedagogists such as Darcy Huebler, Jessica Bronsonn, Tom Lawson amongst others. Gera has had the opportunity to showcase his works in cities like Vadodara and Ahmedabad in India and Los Angeles in the United States of America. He is currently working as a Teaching Assistant for painting at California Institute of The Arts.
Statement With his earlier body of work Gera had been trying to constantly bring forth the cause and effect relationship that we humans share with society. He started by exploring the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and with his recent body of work, he has been dealing with the notion of “Dope�, in context to the millennial culture and its negative implications on the human brain and society at large. His work investigates pornography, fast food culture, social media and binge watching as modern forms of psychological addictions.
Links Instagram: @aaashugera Facebook: Ashu Gera
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Ashu Gera Untitled oil on canvas 50" x 50" x 3" $2,000
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Karin Gielen Belgian, B. 1963 Lives and works in Newport, RI Biography Karin Gielen is a Belgian artist who was educated in Art History and studied Fine Arts and Art Photography in Antwerp. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs both in Belgium and the Netherlands. Having worked with mixed media, she now focuses on oil and acrylic on canvas. At the age of 18, Karin participated in a student exchange program and lived on Cape Cod for over a year. This is where she first came in contact with the arts and where she discovered her passion for drawing and painting. After having studied and worked in Belgium, she and her partner decided to move back to the US only half a year ago. Karin was welcomed as an artist in residence at BowlerLane Works Newport during the winter of 2020. In March, she was thrilled to have her first show in SoWa Boston. Being accepted for the PAC group exhibition gives Karin a chance to integrate in the New England art world and she is more than excited to become part of the US art community.
Statement Finding a balance between an overwhelming amount of fragmented information and the need to withdraw from it - is the core of Karin’s work. Overlapping marks are often countered by a visual void, not unlike the space in between the words of a poem. The edges of the canvas are drawing the viewer beyond the visible and into the imaginative. In her recent paintings the artist explores the tension between soothing background colors and strong impulses which always seem to break through the surface.
Links Website: www.artworkarchive.com/profile/karingielen Instagram: @karingielen_art
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Karen Gielen IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN COLD oil and acrylic on canvas 60" x 48" x 2" $5,700
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Theresa Girard American Lives and works in Narragansett, RI and Bonita Springs, FL Biography Theresa is a native of Providence, RI where she has been involved in the arts from an early age. She crafted her own education studying early 20th century artists and abstract expressionism. A color expert for a large manufacturing company, she staged and styled photo shoots, large trade productions, and program development from NY to LA. She is the founder and former art director of Access to Art, a community based fine art program. Ms. Girard is a nationally sought after facilitator of a variety of artistic “workshops for creative people.” Her painterly abstractions have been featured in several national publications including The Artist Magazine, Palette Magazine, Art Collector, Florida Design, Gulfshore Life, Elle Decor, and Architectural Digest.
Artist Statement Theresa’s new work explores a difference in mood. When approaching the canvas, she is unsure if the process will be heavily marked, textured, or quiet. Not looking to reveal or conceal, to clarify or dissolve, Theresa is searching for a presence of paint and a conflict in color, bold or perhaps subdued. It takes time to search and allow the painting to dominate the interaction. Quiet frustration seeks a need to describe a moment, a feeling…
Links Website: www.tgirard.com Instagram: @tgirardart
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Theresa Girard feeling deeper acrylic 36" x 36" x 1.5" $3,600
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Barry Goldstein American Lives and Works in Statesville, NC Biography Barry Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Lawrence, NY. His mother went to Cooper Union and was a member of the Art Student League. She taught him much art, and also encouraged him to major in engineering as being an artist would not be a satisfying career option. Barry graduated in engineering from Johns Hopkins and attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for many years as an engineer in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and North Carolina while experimenting with art. (There are several dozen patents either in his name or jointly with other individuals.) Barry lives and works in North Carolina with his wife Heidi. They have children and grandchildren scattered around the country. His office/shop/studio is in a separate building about 100 feet from the house. When not painting, Barry continues to work on websites - developing designs, managing ad campaigns, and analytical analysis. He also develops & oversees software and provides production consulting for several manufacturing firms. During the last 15 years, Barry has been designing websites using a digital software called Inkscape. Inkscape treats every object as a vector providing super high resolution. With children now independent, Barry finally had time and plunged into developing art using Inkscape on the computer. A high end digital printer that uses pigment ink (for very long life) was modified to handle special papers. A special program, separate from Inkscape, is used to control the printer. The pair generates the finest prints. A print like “Post #34” takes almost 45 minutes to create. “Post #34” is printed on 100% cotton paper with a sand texture to highlight the beach. From his engineering background, Barry’s creations are slowly created. Editing on a computer is similar to writing. One can develop something, print the product, examine it for flaws, and return to refine. This process takes months - most pieces take somewhere between 6 to 9 months until they are finished. Generally about 1 finished piece is created monthly.
Statement Barry’s love is a mix of both abstraction and realism. Abstract art is treated similar to a puzzle where each piece fits uniquely together. The hardest part of painting an abstract is the mental work of putting it together. Easily a 6 month adventure for each piece. Realism also requires paying attention to details. Every form is created using a special mouse. Then they are combined together into a group. For example each blade of grass is drawn, and bunched together to create a clump. Many realistic paintings can also be viewed as abstractions - seascapes especially provide that flexibility.
Links Website: www.ArtByBarryG.com.
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Barry Goldstein Kiawah Post #34 digital painting 25" x 17" x 1" $850
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Carl Grauer American, B. 1975 Lives and works in Poughkeepsie, NY Biography Born in rural Kansas, the youngest of four to conservative parents, Carl Grauer was raised in a town of 700 people and a graduating class of sixteen. He had a great aptitude of studies as well as art from a very young age but with a limited exposure to the arts. Following high school he left to complete his degrees in human biology and his MFA from the University of Kansas and the University of Michigan, respectively. Eventually moving to New York City he found solace in the arts and culture in abundance. Upon the sudden death of his brother in 2012, Grauer committed his life to an authentic pursuit to his passion of portraiture and art making. He spent two years in London studying figurative and portrait painting with several studios and garnered success showing work internationally, including being shortlisted for the 2015 Wells Art Contemporary Award in the UK and exhibiting with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London. Carl Grauer is a painter based in Poughkeepsie, NY in the beautiful Hudson Valley. He primarily works in oil, painting mostly portraits and figure based contemporary realistic paintings.
Statement Grauer finds people fascinating and mysterious. As a child he was very shy and found more interest in looking from afar. Mostly because he found others so interesting that he was more interested in looking than talking. He was often corrected for staring. But mostly he had an acute interest in observing body language, facial expression and features. These curiosities continue. He found the perfect career to observe with purpose as a contemporary portrait and figurative based artist working in oils. He paints subjects with the focus on mindful strokes laid with purpose and with energy. Painting figures is his greatest pleasure and through this documentarian approach he renders not only likeness but a sense of being in a specific time and place. His goal is rendering a specific style and approach that is not photo realistic but one based in a realistic approach. Shadow play is a great interest along with color and a slight bend in chroma to render form, depth and likeness. It is in this that the act of painting is a ritual and passion that extends beyond just a nice painting. Much of his influence for his practice are artists such as David Hockney, Fairfield Porter, Peter Blake and Alice Neel. An example of his portrait work is an ongoing series called “Two Hour Portraits�. In this series, Grauer paints subjects in a set amount of time. More than a practice in painting, this series is a ritual involving the mutual gaze in a set window of time. It is also an ongoing portrait of a group. A group of the population with whom Grauer has interacted; thus, as much as it is a portrait of a group, it is a portrait of him. This project began in 2012 and it continues to excite because of this element of time. It documents the subjects in specific amount of time and also his evolution as a painter.
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Carl Grauer Self Portrait with Yellow Hat oil 12" x 9" x 1.5" $2,000
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Sam Green American, B. 1987 Live and works in Providence, RI Biography Sam grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of art. He has been an artist in residence at The Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore, MD, and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Sam has spent over a decade working in Galleries and Museums, engulfing himself in all kinds of artistic communities. Sam paints often, both inside and outside. Much of Sam’s work is done Plein Air, on site, in a single session. This forces him to focus on capturing what it feels like to be there, rather than simply replicating what he sees.
Statement You can pass by the same place for two seconds every day, forever, but that experience will never amount to staring at that place same for two hours in one sitting. To fall in love, we have to interact. The heart of Sam’s process lies in my reaction to both his painting and to the landscape he is capturing. As a painter working outdoors, his environment forces him to be very blunt and abrupt. It’s impossible to fabricate anything. Each painting is always a direct documentation of not just where he was physically but how he felt at the time. His process aims to capture just that, a documentation of a place along side a diary of the experience.
Links Website: www.samgreenart.com Instagram: @samallertongreen
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Sam Green Red Mill oil on canvas 16" x 20" x .75" $900
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Nelson Hammer Biography Nelson Hammer graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture and celebrated his 50th year in the profession last summer. A career highlight was his interior landscape design of the Copley Place shopping galleries in Boston, for which he received a national design award presented to him in a White House ceremony by then First Lady Nancy Reagan. He has lived in Needham, MA since 1979 and has executed a number of landscape designs in his home town over the years, including the original Wingate Health Care center, a major addition to the North Hill Retirement Community, a modernization and expansion of Temple Beth Shalom, the Rosemary Pool and Recreation Complex, and the Memorial Park Field House. Though a landscape architect by trade, he has been interested in art since his childhood, dabbling in watercolors as a teenager and delving more deeply into oils while in college. After graduation, raising a family and earning a living placed his interest in painting on the back burner until it was rekindled in 2014, when he started producing realistic bird imagery in watercolors (50 years after he had last painted in that medium!) based on photos taken by himself, friends, family, and in several cases, professional bird photographers (with their permission). Although his design office is in Boston, he paints in his home in Needham, MA, where he lives with his wife, and is fortunate to have their son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters living only a few minutes away.
Statement Nelson’s interest in painting birds in watercolors began as a lark (pun intended). While walking though an arts and crafts store with his wife and granddaughters in 2014, he saw a Winsor & Newton watercolor starter kit and bought it on impulse. Settling on birds as a subject matter was equally impulsive, but as he painted more and more avian species, he gradually focused on attempting to represent his subjects as accurately as possible, taking pains to capture the color and delicateness of the plumage, the shape of the body, and the expressiveness of the eyes, especially the often hooded eyes of birds of prey, his favorite subjects. He also enjoys the challenge of creating the subtle variations in hue of essentially monochromatic species (i.e., Mute Swans) as they are affected by light so they seem three-dimensional. He strives for ornithological accuracy in his work, hoping that someone with even a passing interest in birds might see one of his paintings and say “Hey, that’s a Screech Owl”, presuming, of course, that it’s not his Blue-footed Booby- much less another species of owl- they are viewing.
Links Website: www.artforthebirds.com Instagram: @nelsonhammer Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-nelson-hammer Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/nelsonhammer Facebook: Nelson Hammer Art
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Nelson Hammer Red-tailed Hawk II watercolor 26.0" x 21.5" x 0" $1,500
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Lois Harada American, B. 1988 Lives and works in Providence, RI Biography Originally from Salt Lake City, Lois Harada earned her BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010. She works as a designer and press operator at DWRI Letterpress, a commercial letterpress print shop in Providence. She is on the steering committee for the SGC International printmaking conference coming to Rhode Island in April of 2021 and is the Board Chair at New Urban Arts, a nonprofit providing free, afterschool arts programming to high school age students in Providence.
Statement The SUNDIAL series of prints is from a series of work about the Lois’s paternal grandmother. She was a Japanese-American citizen interned with her family in Poston, Arizona during World War II. It was a history rarely addressed in Lois’s family—the strong desire to ‘Americanize’ after the war reinforced her reticence to talk about that time. Lois’s father didn’t learn about internment until tenth grade and didn’t learn that his own mother had been interned till mentioning that lesson at home. It was a subject that always fascinated her but that was treated with shame. These prints are drawn from a scale model that Lois created after visiting the Manzanar camp in California.
Links Website: https://www.loisharada.com/ Instagram: @loisharada
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Lois Harada Sundial I sugar lift etching 9" x 9" x 0" $250
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Sundial II-V sugar lift etching 9" x 9" x 0" $250 each or $1,250 for the full suite (unframed)
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Sherie B. Harkins American, B. 1958 Lives and Works in Providence, RI Biography Sherie Harkins spent her childhood and early adult life moving from state to state until she settled in the home of her native New England family thirty years ago. After completing her BFA in Painting, Harkins continued to make Art while applying her creative skills as a Parent, Landscape Designer and Commission Artist. Since 2007 she has balanced an active exhibition schedule with the world of public education, happily sharing her vision and love of the subject with viewers and students. Starting in a traditional high school classroom teaching Digital and Traditional Arts, in 2013 she received her MAT in Creative Arts and in 2014 she began teaching Art online in a virtual environment, allowing for more studio exploration. Harkins lives in Providence with her husband and her dog Bear.
Statement Harkins has always found restoration in the creative process and she hopes to share that with the viewer by inviting consideration of both the technique and the narrative. Her work contemplates shifting relationships and personal vulnerability. Formal aspects of visual language create space to reflect on the stories we hold and the ones we have lost.
Links Website: www.sherieharkins.com Instagram: @sherieharkins
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Sherie Harkins Poured Out oil on canvas 16" x 20" x 0" $900
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Catherine Hess American, B. 1954 Lives in Alexandria, VA and Wellfleet, MA Biography Catherine Hess has had a lifelong love of art making. She spent her early years in upstate New York and in Boston but has lived in the Washington DC area for over 30 years. After decades of visiting Wellfleet on Outer Cape Cod, in 2015 she bought a house with a studio and lives, paints and exhibits there for half the year. She studied art in undergraduate courses and nonprofit art centers. Catherine for many years worked primarily in watercolor, but in recent years has focused on oil painting and on monotype and white line woodcut prints. She is a longtime member of the Art League in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia and since 2014, has regularly been juried into monthly exhibits, and as a result, shows her work in its Gallery 75 year-round. She has exhibited in open, juried and group exhibits in the Washington, DC area and on Cape Cod, and has had several solo shows of her monotypes. In August 2020 she will have a solo show of paintings and prints in Wellfleet. On the Cape, Catherine has been a member and exhibited with local arts organizations, including the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She has participated in After Hopper and other special exhibits of the Addison Art Gallery in Orleans and some of her work is available at The Gallery for Artwork-Woodwork-Stonework in Eastham.
Statement For many years, Catherine painted almost exclusively in watercolors, enjoying their unique and fresh qualities, as well as the ease of carrying them when painting outdoors, en plein air. More recently, and with more time and the studio on the Cape, she has again taken up oil painting, still largely working en plein air, and continuing to relish in the challenge of painting the landscape of marshes, dunes, shores and the sea even as the sun, clouds, light and tides change. In her most recent work, she has made increasing use of the palette knife, creating texture that captures the feeling and movement in the scenes that attract her. She also takes photos for use as references for painting in the studio, and for creating hand pulled prints. She has begun experimenting in the studio with mixing cold wax with her oil, finding that it creates both texture and translucency. Her prints include a body of monotypes, the “painterly prints” that she paints on plexiglass with brayers before printing one image, and white line woodcuts, or “Provincetown prints”. Although primarily a landscape painter, Catherine also paints figures from life, in watercolor, ink and oil. While her style varies somewhat across mediums, Catherine’s work might be described as more impressionistic than realistic.
Links Website: www.CatherineHessArt.com Instagram: @catherinehessart
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Catherine Hess Sunny Day on the Bay oil 12" x 12" x 1.5" $400
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Sam Heydt American, B. 1986 Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Newport, RI Biography Sam Heydt (born April 20, 1986) is an American social practice and recycled media artist born/raised in New York City. Although currently residing in Vienna, Heydt has lived/worked in Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Athens, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Reykjavík and Rajasthan. Her academic career traversed Parsons School of Design, The New School, Cooper Union, University of Amsterdam, Universitdad of Buenos Aires and La Sorbonne. A published author, producer and lifelong activist, Heydt has undertaken a range of altruistic, non-profit work. She has attended artist residencies in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand; where she has documented different forms of environmental exploitation. Her art, anchored in social advocacy, attempts to give a voice to the voiceless. In her practice, she works across a spectrum of different mediafilm, video, installation, photography, sculpture, sound, merchandize, text — and employs a range of materials often reinventing or trespassing their associative use. Heydt’s vision looks beyond the ordinary. Esteemed as one of the pioneers of the recycled media movement, Heydt’s work has been shown in galleries, museums, art fairs and film festivals worldwide.
Statement The edge is closer than we think, but illusion won’t free us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate inequality. Our time is marked by mass extinction, diminishing resources, global pandemic and climate change. As the vices of the first world burden the third, the skeletons of old factories serve as caveats of growing inequality. The silent landscape a symptom of a world exploited beyond use and increasingly reduced to a bottom line. The uncertainties and inevitabilities of which are drowned out by the white noise of the media and the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates. Working across different media- film, video, installation, photography, sculpture, sound and text, Heydt presents an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one that not only appears haunted by the ghosts of the past, but built on it. Conflating time and place, her layered imagery collides, merges and disrupts logical relationships between occurrences. Combining images of destruction with portrayals of the virtues born from the American Dream, Heydt confronts the disillusionment of our time with the ecological and existential nightmare it is responsible for.
Links Website: www.samheydt.com Instagram: @samheydt Facebook: Heydt Fine Art Twitter: @samheydt
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Sam Heydt baby carriage mixed media 12" x 8" x .5" $2,000
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Rosemary Hoffenberg Lives and works in Wrentham, MA Biography Rosemary’s work is non-representational, yet is full of meaning. Using textiles as her medium, she develops a statement other own. Rosemary’s Quilts have exhibited throughout the country, and are in private collections.
Statement Rosemary’s work is a two-fold process. She dyes, paints, screen prints cotton fabric. This is her palette. Using color, lines and shapes, from her “stash”, she creates art.
Links Website: www.rosemaryhoffenberg.com
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Rosemary Hoffenberg Lavender Sprigs fiber/quilt 41" x 51" x 0" $3,000
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William L. Horvath, MD FACP American, B. 1943 Lives in Toledo, Ohio, Retired Biography Dr. Horvath is a retired (2014) hematologist-oncologist with a long-standing interest in photography as an art. It has been a pastime since his college days. Dr. Horvath has managed to meld his passion for his work with his art - hanging his photos throughout his office. Many patients and their loved ones enjoy and take comfort in that work as they embark on their cancer journey. Much of Dr. Horvath’s work has been donated to charities that serve cancer patients for their auctions or to decorate their facilities such as The Victory Center in Toledo, Ohio, and various hospitals in our region.
Statement Dr. Horvath’s photographic interests have run the gamut from landscape, architecture, floral and nature photography to his current most active interest – producing abstract images using computer manipulation. He is especially captivated by intensely colorful images resulting from his annual visits to Mexico where the brilliant sunlight enhances the color of that environment further enhanced by the artistic and fanciful adornments the Mexicans have applied to buildings, retail displays and art objects. Dr. Horvath takes pleasure in producing images that are pleasurable to him knowing he does not have to make a living from his art. But Dr. Horvath takes even greater pleasure and is truly flattered in having his art appreciated and valued by others. That is the greatest motivation to continue to produce work and improve his skills.
Links Website: https://www.williamhorvathphotography.com/ Facebook: William Horvath Photography Instagram: @williamlouishorvath
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Amanda Hovey American, B. 1992 Lives and works in Warwick, RI Biography Based in Warwick, Rhode Island, Amanda Hovey explores life through art. Using a variety of mediums such as acrylics, encaustics, collage and mixed media, she provokes emotion through color and texture. Inspired by the freedom of abstract imperfection, Amanda’s work is spontaneous and visceral. Graduating with a BA in Studio Art from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, Amanda continues to explore her passion for art while teaching at Rocky Hill Country Day School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
Statement Experimenting with color, texture and composition, Amanda’s work gives a sense of movement and depth. Layers of acrylic paint, varying rough and smooth in appearance come together with energetic etched lines. Washed out space, pops of bright color, hints of darkness and clashing emotions come together to create a sense of balance.
Links Website: https://ahovey.myportfolio.com/artwork Instagram: @six___am
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Sarah J. Hull American, B. 1979 Lives and works in Washington, DC Biography Sarah J. Hull, born in Rhode Island is a Washington, DC based artist who is a graduate of Wellesley College with a BA majoring in Architecture (pertinent, required coursework performed at M.I.T). She is active in her local art community through the District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC) and internationally through the UK based Society for Embroidered Work (S.E.W.). Currently, she is enrolled in the Royal School of Needlework’s Certificate & Diploma program. Counterpoint, her first solo nano-exhibition opened at DCAC in March 2017. Her work can be found in private collections in Washington, DC; New York, NY; Cambridge, MA; Louisville, KY; and Sioux Falls, SD.
Statement Using traditional embroidery techniques in a contemporary form, Sarah’s work explores the natural rhythmic variation that occurs in daily repetition and the repetition present in nature, science and mathematics. Using natural fibers and fundamental hand embroidery stitches, each piece takes on an organic quality that creates a dialogue between the materials, “the hand,” and the underlying grid. The underlying grid provides a foundation where basic forms and stitches are mirrored and disrupted and subject to rotational symmetries and inversions. As in a meditation practice, with repetition it is possible to observe objectively the rhythms of individual experience both personally and within the constraints of our communities. The intimacy of a single piece evokes a sense of internal contemplation while simultaneously being an integral part of a more complex and responsive experience – just as with an individual’s interaction and connections within the fabric of the community and society.
Links Website: https://www.sarahjhull.com/ Instagram: @sj.hull
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Sarah Hull Ostinato.20 silk, cotton 8" x 8" x 1.5" $700
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Katie Hutchison American, B. 1965 Lives and works in Warren, RI Biography Katie has spent the majority of her life among the vernacular and historic buildings of New England enjoying its villages, landscapes, and seascapes. The essence of those structures and places inform her work. Throughout the years she found herself drawn to Rhode Island again and again – first to Newport and Jamestown to sail with her family, then back to Newport to live with her boyfriend (now husband), and on to Providence to attend RISD and to Portsmouth to get married at Green Animals Topiary Garden, and then, almost two decades later, to Warren where she and her husband live now. There she practices residential architecture and design at Katie Hutchison Studio and has authored two books with the Taunton Press – The New Small House (published in 2015) and The New Cottage (published in 2018). Ever since taking her first photography class as an elective at RISD, Katie has enjoyed framing -- through a camera’s lens -- her perspective of the New England she reveres. Katie has been an artist and community member of several arts associations all while pursuing her architecture and design career. She enjoys balancing and interweaving the artistic and the technical. Her latest such endeavor is a new podcast “Design Me a House” that she co-hosts.
Statement Katie’s fine-art photography explores place: the everyday, the detail, the moment. Recent experiments with double exposures – of two different places – have yielded juxtapositions that suggest perhaps our future world or another dreamlike world.
Links Website: https://www.katiehutchison.com/ Instagram: @khinstagram Facebook: Katie Hutchinson Studio Podcast Website: https://www.designmeahouse.com/ Podcast Instagram: @designmeahousepodcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-me-a-house/id1505096997
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Katie Hutchison Under Tow digital print on archival rag paper 15" x 11" x 0" $325
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Wendy Ingram Lives and Works in Providence, RI Biography/Statement Wendy was first inspired to make handmade paper by collecting and making the pulp from local plants. The colors and textures are intriguing. The sheets of paper are very imperfect and suggest various landscape forms and textures. Her hikes on trails and wildlife preserves in Rhode Island are a wonderful source of inspiration and ideas for collages. Sketching outdoors and exploring nature are a continual revelation. An exhibiting artist in New England and beyond, Wendy began her career in Boston in a studio at the Boston Center for the Arts first weaving tapestries, later creating artwork of handmade paper and collage. After moving to Providence in 2008, Wendy added landscape painting and pastels to her continued work with handmade paper. Several of her artworks have been placed at nonprofit community service organizations in Rhode Island through Art Connection-RI, of which she is the Co-Founder and Board Member.
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Wendy Ingram Sunset Glow handmade paper 24" x 30" x 1.5" $750
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Bonnie P. Jaffe American Lives and works in Rhode Island Biography Bonnie Jaffe is a native Rhode Islander and has lived in the state her entire life. Bonnie credits her dad, Murray Perlman, for introducing her to the excitement of photography when he gave her first Brownie camera at age 7. She later graduated to his Beseler Topcon Super D 35mm camera, and developed film and printed pictures in their basement darkroom. She was inspired early in life to capture moments of time on film. In high school, Bonnie began her formal study of photography, which continued at the Rhode Island School of Design from which she graduated in 1978, earning a BFA. Bonnie then worked as a freelance photographer and then became a commercial producer/writer for the next 15 years. Bonnie’s particular focus is on capturing people at work and at play, but enjoys all facets of the art, including street and abstract. She shares her passion for photography with her husband, Marc, a Rhode Island Obstetrician/Gynecologist. Bonnie is proud to have won many awards for her work and has been accepted as a juried artist member into many organizations, including the Providence Art Club, Wickford Art Association, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, among others. Her work has also been shown and recognized at IMAGO Gallery, South County Arts Association, Hera Gallery, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Attleboro Arts Museum, Warwick Center for the Arts, Art League of RI, RI Center for Photographic Arts, and more.
Statement Bonnie captures images from the world around her. Her photographs are rarely planned or staged. Each image speaks to her in a unique way, and she hopes her photographs spark an emotional response in the viewer.
Links Website: https://www.photojaffe.com/ (shared with Marc Jaffe) Facebook: Photojaffe (shared with Marc Jaffe)
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Erin M. Karp American, B. 1981 Lives and works in NYC Biography Erin Karp is a fine art photographer residing in NYC. Her love of photography began with a Pentax Asahi in the early 1990s & grew with her education at William Paterson University & the University of Sevilla in Spain. Her passion for printing also bloomed as she spent countless, peaceful hours in the darkroom. Though she switched to digital photography in 2009 while studying at the International Center of Photography in NYC, she treats her DSLR the same as her Pentax: she shoots manually, in natural light, & still makes her own prints. Erin’s work has been included in juried exhibitions in NYC, California, NJ, CT, & RI, including at the Salmagundi Club, Ceres Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Art, & the Providence Art Club. Having grown up the daughter of an abstract oil painter & a fashion designer, Erin inevitably developed a distinct way of seeing the world. Living & traveling throughout Europe helped to hone her photographic style & focus. Fascinated by the details in architecture and nature, she sees & shoots the world in an abstract & graphical way, often leading viewers to confuse her work for paintings. Erin’s photography brings to the viewer a unique vision of her understanding of light, shadow, & shape, an abstract study of details that often go unnoticed.
Statement Erin’s work is a meditation on calm. For her, photography is a way to slow down & breathe in her surroundings, to seek out tranquility amidst chaos, & to search for beauty in an oftentimes ugly world. Erin finds elegance in architectural details that others typically fail to notice; her work embodies momentary juxtapositions of light, shadow, shape, & color that collectively make her heart sing. Tranquilo, Sevilla, shot from the balcony off of the room where she stayed in Sevilla in 2019, depicts a peaceful scene that struck her every morning when she opened the shutters. The stillness of this image combined with the neutral color palette and the repetition & intersection of lines, brings a distinct sense of tranquility to the viewer. A world at a standstill, even if just for a moment.
Links Website: www.erinmkarp.com Email: erinmkarp@gmail.com Instagram: @KarpitecturalAbstracts
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Erin Karp Tranquilo, Sevilla photography; archival pigment print, 2/15 24" x 18" x 1.5" $1,000
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Avery Kelly American, B. 1987 Lives and works in Fort Worth, TX Biography Avery Kelly is an artist in Fort Worth, Texas whose work features animals and landscapes. Avery earned her MA and MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Tyler, a BFA in Painting from Texas Christian University, and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Redlands. In her work, Avery brings together her love of creating images with her love for the outdoors, focusing especially on animals, their perceptions, and relationships within the landscape. Learn more about Avery’s painting and printmaking at her website.
Statement Avery’s work centers on the beauty and energy of the natural world. She strives to convey a sense of joy and mystery, and portrays each animal as a distinct individual. Within each piece, she is interested in the animals' engagement with each other, the viewer, and the surrounding environment. Avery is inspired by time spent outdoors observing her subjects, as well as by reading animal stories, children’s literature, and natural history. Avery endeavors to create lively illustrations that bring the viewer into the particular moment being depicted, where they feel a connection with the imagery. In her linocuts, Avery enjoys the direct action of carving the plate, the sense of risk and the unknown in carving, using line, shape, and pattern to create rhythms across the surface and a sense of atmosphere or place. She is drawn to the strong contrast of black-and-white Pueblo pottery and hopes to convey a similar clarity of design. Avery’s work integrates abstraction with representation, contributing to a believable yet dreamlike moment. She hopes that the work will be an inspiration to others’ vision and imagination.
Links Website: www.averykellyart.com Instagram: @averykellyart1
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Avery Kelly Magpies at the Marsh linocut 9" x 15" x 0" $225
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Dana Killion American, B. 1960 Lives and works in Chicago, IL and St. Petersburg, FL Biography Dana Killion was born and raised in a small town in northern Wisconsin. Manipulating fabric became a fascination even before she knew how to sew, leading to her study fashion design. Dana earned her BS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an AAS from F.I.T. in New York, NY. A career in the fashion industry included stints in product development with national retailers, extensive overseas travel, and eventually her own label. A lifestyle reset in 2015 allowed her to explore other aspects of her creative instincts. A lifelong maker and lover of abstract art, she picked up a paintbrush and sought out instructors and workshops all around the country. Today, she lives the snowbird life, painting from Chicago and St Petersburg, FL.
Statement Dana is an abstract painter working in oil and acrylic. Inspired by color, texture, mark making, and form, her process is intuitive not planned, exploring layers, excavation, and reveal. The images display a simple complexity, striking from a distance, yet rich in detail when viewed close. Whether on canvas, panel, or paper, each piece begins with mark making--bold or subtle, often hidden, the layers build upon each other initially driven only by contrast and instinct. Responding to the painting as she works, segments are obscured, others added, new drawn marks are made, until a composition is revealed.
Links Website: www.danakillionartist.com Instagram: @dana_killion_artist Facebook: Dana Killion
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Dana Killion An Unraveled Life oil, graphite on panel 24" x 24" x 1.5" $1,200
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Elliot Krieger American, B. 1948 Lives and works in Barrington, RI Biography Elliot Krieger has been taking iPhone photographs for about 8 years. He has exhibited his photographs in a several national juried shows and in a number of galleries and museums, including an all-media national show at the Attleboro Art Museum, a members’ show at the Bristol Art Museum (honorable mention), national photography exhibitions in California at the LA Art Core and at the Marin Society of Artists, at several juried shows (including State of Photography) with the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, and in a number of regional shows in Rhode Island. He worked for many years as a writer and editor at the Providence Journal and as a communications leader at the R.I. Department of Education. He has published a book on Shakespeare’s comedies as well as numerous short stories and the novel Exiles (Soho Press, 2009).
Statement Elliot is primarily interested in images in which earth, water, air, and sometimes fire (direct sunlight) play against one another, including many photographs of the working harbor and waterfront and the inland ponds and streams near his Rhode Island home. He takes all his photographs using an iPhone, and he tries, whenever possible, to avoid cropping or altering the original image in any manner.
Links Blogs: www.elliotsreading.blogspot.com www.elliotswatching.blogspot.com Facebook: Elliot Krieger
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Elliott Krieger Early Morning - Brickyard Pond iphone photography 11" x 14" x 0" $240
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Louise Laplante American, B. 1950 Lives and works in Easthampton, MA Biography Louise Laplante was raised in Vermont and now lives in Massachusetts. Her history is heavily affected by her status as a second generation American of French-Canadian descent growing up close to the Quebec border. The easy passage from “old world” to “new world” is unique to those states abutting the “old country” and results in the blending of the old and new. Both her parents were creative, her father as a cabinetmaker and her mother as a quilter, embroiderer, and rug hooker creating a strong sense that “work” was a continuation of the tradition of making things with one’s hands. Studying art at the Art Institute of Boston, she received her BFA College of New Rochelle and Masters in Fine Arts at SUNY Albany. She lives and works in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Statement The blending of old world and new, of past and present, forms the wellspring for Louise’s work. She uses collages vintage paper on drawing paper to construct the surface for the motifs she chooses to lay on top. These images are influenced by what is printed or written on that paper. She rubs the chalk heavily into the sheet to create deep rich tones. Equally important to her image making are the formal elements of balance, tone, color and pattern. She matches the beauty in the old, foxed, stained, torn and scribbled paper with the birds, creatures and other motifs to connect the past with the present. The relationship of these motifs can be ironic, humorous, sad or thoughtful. While the words on the pages always impact her choice of a motif, she still leaves it to the viewer to decide how far into the work they want to delve, how they choose to relate the past to their present.
Links Website: https://louiselaplanteart.com/home.html
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Louis Laplante La Cage d'un fou chalk on collaged vintage book pages 37" x 45" x .1" $4,500
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Louis Laplante Crowded Sky chalk on collaged vintage Penny Magazine pages 42" x 48.5" x .1" $4,750
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Bob Lavoie American, B. 1951 Lives and works in Warwick, RI Biography Bob Lavoie is a local artist originally from Swansea, Massachusetts, he now lives in Warwick, Rhode Island. After graduating with a BFA in Graphic Design and Illustration from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Bob worked in the graphics field where he was the Art Director for Licensing and Entertainment for Hasbro in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. After leaving Hasbro in 2013 he started his own graphic design and fine art studio, spot51design. Growing up in Swansea and spending his life around Narragansett Bay has been the inspiration for his marine paintings of both commercial and pleasure boats. His eye for detail and knowledge of these endangered vessels is reflected in the highly realistic style of his work. His urban landscape work is influenced by the contemporary photorealist and love of places most of us walk by without ever noticing. Bob is a member of the Providence Art Club, Wickford Art Association and South County Art Association and has shown in galleries and won awards at art shows and galleries in the area, such as Spring Bull Gallery in Newport, RI and Voila Gallery in North Kingstown, RI, Fuller Gallery in Jamestown, RI and Gallery 65 on William in New Bedford, Ma. In 2013 his work was chosen to be on loan to Senator Whitehouse’s office in Washington DC. In 2014 the Rhode Island Council on The Arts and the RI Airport Authority chose his work for an exhibit at the Block Island Airport. His waterfront paintings were on exhibit at The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center in New Bedford, MA in 2018.
Statement Some of Bobs’ earliest memories are of doing something with a pencil, crayon, a piece of chalk or a paintbrush. He is an artist because it is the only thing he has ever wanted to do. In his life as an artist he has been a painter, illustrator and graphic designer. All of those experiences contribute to how and what he paints. Bob is inspired by the everyday things he sees. Telephone poles, electrical wires, rusted metal and old wood become the potential for a painting. The subject matter of most of Bob’s paintings are urban landscapes and the commercial fishing boats of New England. He has always been attracted to old and neglected places that most people would pass by without seeing. Bob’s earliest influences were Edward Hopper and the illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Bob’s paintings are of places and things that try to tell a story and have the viewer ask themselves what that story is.
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Catherine Lebovitz American, B. 1960 Lives and works in Providence, RI Biography Catherine Gunning Lebovitz was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia into a large extended family that included many craftspeople and artists. She remembers being fascinated by all things visual and drawing constantly as a child, including on the undersides of tables. Art and making were a daily part of life. She attended Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN where she received a BFA with a minor in Art History. Her sophomore year in college was spent in Rome, Italy where her love of the intertwined worlds of art, architecture and design blossomed. She worked as a graphic designer after college while she and her husband raised three children. She has continued her art education throughout the years, exploring watercolor, printmaking and oils. Catherine lives and works in Providence, RI with her husband.
Statement Catherine is attracted to edges, line and light, searching for elegance and poetry in the everyday. After her initial engagement with her environment, the art becomes its own statement, and she follows where the art wants to take her.
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Catherine Lebovitz Haleakala Rain monotype 8" x 11" x 1" $300
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J. (Jie) Li Lives and works in New York Biography J. (Jie) Li is an award-winning artist based in New York. She studied painting from an early age. After graduating from Parsons School of Design, J. Li worked as a Fashion designer and Consultant before returning to fine art. Since then, J. Li has exhibited internationally. She has participated in exhibitions in China, Japan, United Kingdom, Spain, and United States. Her works are in several private and public collections in China, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States, including Consulate General of Japan. J. (Jie) Li expresses love, hate, and desire in the depths of human nature by using figurative and abstract cross-expressions to discuss the meaning of life, and the positive and negative aspects of human nature, using the natural occurrences and disasters as the symbolic meanings, and bringing out the emotions and atmosphere in the paintings.
Statement Echoes of the Silence Traditional Chinese scholars like to express their feelings through beautiful depictions of nature, thus placing a significant emphasis on the innate ties between man and the environment in which he lives. Likewise, J. (Jie) Li draws upon on those connections albeit in regards to the dilapidation of our natural surroundings. Unlike the odes to beautiful nature of the past, she hopes to call attention to the current destruction of nature, perhaps in turn as a reflection of the inner decay of man.
Links Website: https://showcase.dropbox.com/s/J.-Jie-Li-Z3RMX8rP2N2LUudQIxtmN Instagram: @jjworld1994
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J. (Jie) Li ECHOES OF THE SILENCE II watercolor on Arches Paper 40" x 45" x 0" $3,800
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Lawrence E. Mannato American, B. 1951 Lives and works in Gorham, NY Biography Lawrence E. Mannato graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a MFA. He has taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, Roberts Wesleyan College, Keuka College, Finger Lakes Community College and Harper Community College. He has also taught numerous classes in plein-air painting at Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua, New York. Mannato’s exhibition record include international, national, regional, local and faculty group shows as well as several solo shows. He has been a member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society, Christians in the Visual Arts and the New York Figure Study Guild. Presently he maintains a studio and lives with his wife in Gorham, a small town in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.
Statement The title of the watercolor, Europa Metamorphose, is a reference to the myth of the seduction, abduction and subsequent rape of the daughter of the King of Tyre, Europa, by the god Zeus. It was a popular theme in European art used in paintings by Titian (The Rape of Europa), De Troy and Rembrandt (The Abduction of Europa). This painting explores the message of the myth and its contemporary significance.
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Catherine McKinnon American Lives and works in Rhode Island Biography A native Rhode Islander, Catherine McKinnon is primarily a landscape painter in oils. She derives much of her subject matter from the many scenic areas throughout her state and nearby Massachusetts. Always drawn to the marshes and wetlands, her memories and experiences of these areas now inspires the recurring themes in her paintings. She works in a primary palette and mixes the chromatic grays and neutrals the help create harmony and mood in her paintings. Catherine earned her BA in Art and Education from the University of Rhode Island and her MAT from the Rhode Island School of Design. She spent over 30 years inspiring hundreds of students with her love of art in the Pawtucket school Department. Catherine is an exhibiting artist at the Providence Art Club. She regularly participates in exhibits and workshops there and locally. She is the recipient of the Antonio Cirino Award given by the Providences art Club.
Statement Catherine McKinnon’s recent work has been about revealing all the “color� in gray. She noticed that on overcast days the flat light revealed the landscape but did not illuminate it. This observation developed into a series of paintings using the marsh and coastal areas of Rhode Island in late winter and early spring as the inspiration. At this point the light and the mood became more important than recording a particular location. Her process begins with a composition derived from oil sketches and photographs taken on site. In the studio, she develops an underpainting on oil primed linen. Catherine uses a split primary palette from which she makes the grays and neutrals. This helps to create the desired mood and harmony in the painting. As the painting progresses, she builds on the underpainting with thicker paint and more varied mark making.
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Lori Mehta American, B. 1958 Lives and works in Wellesley, MA Biography Lori Mehta began her career as a painter later in life. In her youth she studied traditional printmaking, earning a BFA from Long Island University and an MFA from the University of Kentucky. As an adult she had a successful career a graphic designer; however, once her children were born she chose to work as a full time mother. After her children had grown, she began taking workshops and painting classes, most notably with Catherine Kehoe at Mass College of Art to whom she attributes her rapid growth as a painter. Lori is an active member of several local art associations, has won almost 40 awards, both locally and nationally, and is an Artist Member at The Copley Society of Artists in Boston. It is there that she was awarded first place in an exhibition judged by Tom Callaway of American Art Review. She currently shows in galleries across the US. Lori currently lives in New England and finds much of her inspiration on the beaches of Cape Cod.
Statement Lori’s work celebrates unsung moments often seen out of the corner of our eye. She elevates the ordinary to help the viewer reconsider everyday occurrences and evoke their own relatable memories. She utilizes planar analysis drawing to simplify her images and in doing so eliminates detail to create a graphic, rarely blended painting. This method allows her to accentuate the drama of light. Her work does not define a narrative: it is on the brink of telling a story, but the completion of this story is in the hands of the viewer.
Links Website: https://www.lorimehtaart.com/ Instagram: @lorimehtaart
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Dora Atwater Millikin American, B. 1960 Lives and works in Westport, MA Biography Dora Atwater Millikin grew up in Little Compton, Rhode Island in a family that encouraged her hands-on creativity. In 1982 she graduated from Newcomb College (Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana) with a BFA Degree in Painting, Drawing, and Art History. In the Fall of 1998, she sought a more structured and academic art program and enrolled as a full-time student at the Lyme Academy, Old Lyme, Connecticut. She graduated in May of 2002 with a BFA degree in Painting. Upon graduating from the Lyme Academy, she received the John Stobart Fellowship Award encouraging the transition to a professional career in painting. Dora is an artist member and painting instructor at the Providence Art Club. She is currently painting with groups at the Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, Connecticut and her work is seen in private and corporate collections throughout Europe and the United States. She has earned Elected Artist status at many art institutions throughout New England and she continues to exhibit in National painting competitions and exhibitions. Her studio is always open by appointment..
Statement Dora’s work is about paint. It is about composition and it is about her struggle with color. She enjoys rendering potentially unpicturesque motifs and everyday objects and scenes in her life and through using flat patterns and contrasting solid planes of color, she is always searching for ways to deliver the unexpected to her viewer. She has been working on a technique that makes the viewer question: Which is more important the object or the environment in which it sits? Dora is most interested in the actual properties of paint as a material and how it can create movement on and across my picture plane. This type of painting centers on the medium of paint itself and therefore unites idea with technique. Her intent is to interlock image with paint so that paint becomes the image and vice versa. In places, her paint can take on a sense of shabby, disorderly chaos while in other places it can take on a sense of luscious richness. At any rate, the idea is to produce a certain and somewhat indefinable emotional command.
Links Website: www.wyndfieldstudio.com
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Audrey Monahan American, B. 1951 Lives and works in Providence, RI Biography Audrey Monahan is a native of Providence, RI. She studied classical ballet and jazz dance in New England and in New York and had a long career in the dance world as a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher. Upon retiring she pursued the Art of Photography. She has exhibited the last eight years throughout New England, France, Spain and Germany. She is an exhibiting artist member of the historic Providence Art Club and an exhibiting artist member of the Art League Rhode Island. She has won numerous awards for her work in the United States and in Europe. Audrey lives in Providence with her husband, Tom. They are both artists and collectors of 18th century European decorative arts.
Statement After 30 years in the dance world Audrey exchanged the stage for the camera. Photography has given her a place to utilize decades of training and experience as a dancer and choreographer. She still considers herself a choreographer, her art is still theater, but she is now accomplishing this through the lens. She sees the same challenges and opportunities through the lens as she did on stage. Both art forms are created from a fixed point of view, one is just a frozen moment. Both rely on the use of light and shadow, space and negative space, energy and movement, lines and implied lines, organization of elements, story-telling, emotions, and the elegance of the human body. Both art forms need to draw in the viewer, keep them engaged, and allow their imagination to participate in the implied story. It is theater through the eye of the camera, and a single moment of story-telling either real or imagined.
Links Website: https://www.audreymonahan.com/ Instagram: @acuriousglimpse
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Zi Moreira Brazilian, B. 1966 Lives and works in Midland, MI Biography Zizelda “Zi” Moreira was born in Brazil and grew up in a poor family of five children. As a child, Zi lacked paper to sketch the ideas that filled her head, so she drew on anything she could find (including margins of school Books), never dreaming she would one day become an artist. Moreira took her first painting class at the age of 32. Four years later, Moreira opened her own studio in Brazil and began teaching her unique style. Most of Moreira’s pieces are in acrylic, however, she also works in oil and mixed-media. In 2003, she was awarded “The People’s Choice Award” at a public exhibition in Jundiai, Brazil. In 2010, Moreira moved to the U.S. with her husband and two sons. Her first U.S. exhibition, was a year later entitled, “ Os Anjos Em Minha Vida” (The Angels in My Life). Moreira, an intense artist, utilizes a strong connection with the spiritual world to influence her artwork. According to Moreira, “I live in the physical world and yet relate to the other world I sense and experience, the essence of the spiritual world is captured in my artwork” Moreira hopes to stay in the U.S. “My heart is here now”, she said.
Statement As an artist, Zi Moreira’s vision is to create works which call for the participation of the viewer to become involved with the art. Her goal is to draw the audience into the art as ideas are expressed using different mediums along with exploring texture, color, lines, and movement. Her art is for anyone who believes in the transformation of the human being - the evolution of the human mind. She wishes to reflect deepness and extreme intensity through the world of color. Her art is about feelings expressed with no fear, no questions asked, no charges, no regrets, no measurements, no math, no science, no explanations, no need to be understood, only huge freedom of expression. Feelings of the soul are exposed through colors described by the mind in whatever form it takes. Abstract Art brings a world of thoughts and questions, both by the artist and the ones who observe it.
Links Website: www.zimoreira.com Facebook: Zi Moreira Instagram: @zimoreira_art
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Hannah Nahas Lives and works in Providence, RI Biography Mesmerized by modern escapism in forms of games such as Animal Crossing and Pokémon, Hannah is also deeply inspired by stories such as Babes in the Wood, The Wizard of Oz, and Hansel and Gretel due to their narratives surrounding liminality and the unknown. In her work, Hannah attempts to reconcile a shifting identity using themes from early storytelling, and how these stories are defined by the narrative of transition. Hannah’s work is her way to redefine these liminal narratives and forms of escapism. She is drawn to the intaglio printmaking process as it allows her limitless possibilities for experimentation, graphic qualities and decorative embellishment. She is equally allured to graphite as a drawing medium due to its reflective and soft qualities. Working with both mediums she is satisfied to juxtapose process and visual languages.
Statement A liminal space is the time between the 'what was' and the 'next.' It is a place of transition, waiting, and not knowing. In Hannah’s work, she represents liminality with an homage to early storytelling. Stories such as Babes in the Wood, The Wizard of Oz, Hansel and Gretel are defined by the narrative of transition; namely the transition of adolescence to adulthood. Hannah is fascinated about this narrative where ideas about identity intercept with ambiguity and change. Juxtaposing both realism and surrealism in her drawings and etchings to create tension between the figure and their surroundings to represent this relationship between an individual and the changes in one’s life. She works primarily in intaglio as this process is captivating in its inherent graphic qualities and its ability to be embellished. Hannah’s work continues to grow alongside these themes; expanding into representation of memories, dreams and the unknown.
Links Website: https://www.hannahnahas.com/ Instagram: @babeintheunknown
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Thu Nguyen Lives and works in Kamuela, HI Biography Thu was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Being very shy, she spent much of her childhood hiding away upstairs painting, instead of playing with other children. Thu’s first brush with success was a Best of Show prize at the 1974 children's exhibition in Saigon sponsored by UNICEF. In 1975 Saigon fell and in the resulting confusion she was separated from my parents. Thu ended up in a refugee camp near Hong Kong for a year prior to immigrating to the United States as an orphan. After one very snowy and cold winter in Pennsylvania, she went to Los Angeles to stay with some relatives. During Thu’s high school years, she earned extra money doing fashion modeling work in the garment district and upon graduation started on the pre-med program in college. During this time she fell in love with art again and changed her major to art. While in college Thu had an acting stint in Hollywood on the side (she got a part in Oliver Stone's 'Heaven and Earth' and followed with a lead role in Elizabeth Hong Yang's 'Touch Within' in China). After getting her art degree, Thu has since settled down to pursue her art career in Los Angeles, later Seattle and finally Hawaii with the big excitement being adopting her first daughter from China and her second daughter from Vietnam.
Statement This painting is part of “Amelie-An Series”. Amelie-An was born in Can Tho, South Vietnam in February 2008 under a very dim start. She was abandoned as an infant due to her medical problems which left her disfigured and mentally retarded. Thu adopted her in December pf 2008 and fell in love with Amelie-An the moment she first held Amelie-An in her arms. AmelieAn smiled at Thu and she just knew they were meant to be together. The first painting Thu did was to celebrate the transformation of Amelie-An’s appearance after her first surgery. Thu had not intended to do anymore paintings but she found herself being obsessed with capturing Amelie-Ans fleeting emotions. When Thu paints her it feels like a way to show a uniquely personal side of Amelie-An that is often hidden by her disabilities.
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Noah Olsen American, B. 1992 Lives and works in Attleboro, MA Biography Noah was born in 1992 and grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. When Noah was young he would be affixed to books of renaissance drawings, in awe of the delicate curves and hatching used to build the powerful anatomy in a Michelangelo study. Being homeschooled, Noah had the flexibility to pursue this early passion of art and began to copy any drawings he liked as well as study from life. He continued his studies through teen RISD classes and then art classes as he attained his associate degree at Bristol Community College. Noah then acquired one of the 2016 scholarships for the Academy of Realist Art Boston. He attended ARA for three years, which solidified in him a strong traditional training. His work has won the 2 nd Place Art Renewal Center Scholarship award as well as The John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship.
Statement Noah sees art as his way to intimately study the world and the people in it, always striving to record his findings through a drawing or share them through a painting. His recent work has been a series on studies on the transiency of life. He was impacted by the early passing of his mother when he was eight years old. Because of this, as well as the recent passing of his grandfather he lived with, he sees death in a different light than many people. This artwork explores how birth, life and death are all interconnected and are actually similar experiences.
Links Website: https://olsennoah.wixsite.com/portfolio/bio Instagram: @noahnro Facebook: Noah Olsen
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Stone Peng American, B. 1961 Lives and works in Grand Rapids, MI Biography Stone Peng was born in Taiwan and moved to Grand Rapids, MI 30 years ago to pursue his master’s degree. Stone Peng is a Grand Rapids, Michigan-USA based national and international award-winning photographer, including 2nd place at 14th Black and White Spider award (total 73 countries and 6418 entries), 3rd place at 13th International Color Award (total 73 countries and 6093 entries), Gold at 2019 Budapest International Foto Awards (82 countries and over 2,700 entries) and 20 more national and international awards. Stone Peng’s work has been showed over 20 different states and presented in numerous publications throughout USA. In Jan. 2019, Stone Peng published his first photography book “Zen Photography and My Dialogue”. This book has won three (3) international photography book awards during 2019. You can get this book from Amazon and Stone Peng’s web site, www.stonepeng.com. Stone Peng came from artist family. Mother is a choir member, sister is a painter and father is a musician and photographer. It is high possibility that Stone Peng’s art gene is coming from his parents. Stone Peng earned his BS from Chinese Culture University in Taipei, Taiwan and his MS from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. He is member of Grand Valery Artist Organization in Grand Rapids, MI. He lives and works in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife and daughter.
Statement Stone’s work shows the Chinese philosophy of life and the aesthetic principles "less is more" and "empty is full" in creating my images. Using primarily white tones in the background lends a simplicity and ethereal purity to a subject that gives you a calm, peaceful, infinitely deep and immeasurable feeling. The empty space offers the viewer a peaceful feeling and also gives the viewer a chance to focus on what it really takes to find balance in life and capture a little piece of our self.
Links Website: https://stonepeng.com/ Instagram: @stone_peng Facebook: Stone Peng
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Laura Radwell American, B. 1946 Lives and works in Massachusetts Background Laura Radwell, a native New Yorker, attended schools in New York, Massachusetts, and in France, studying languages, literature, and psychology. With little to no formal art training, she found her way in a variety of media including batik, sculpture, calligraphy, graphic design, and painting. In 1986 she started a marketing and branding company that she ran for almost 30 years in which she eventually (and happily) assumed the role of designer. After a long hiatus, she returned to oil painting In September 2014. At first, the work resembled landscapes executed decades earlier. But her style quickly evolved into a mode of painting informed by both the digital design work and a foray into photo abstraction. Radwell has exhibited widely in the Northeast, attended two residencies in France, and currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her husband, a professor of moral philosophy at Yale University.
Statement While the question inevitably arises “where does this work come from?,” the answer remains elusive. Radwell, struck by the mystery and beauty of nature, paints from the inside out, focusing on the atmosphere and space of imagined places. She most often approaches the canvas without a specific plan, eager to immerse herself in color and see what happens. Inevitably, her creations take the form of landscapes that are more or less abstract. Something of which she is unaware seems to take over and guide choices of color, composition, strokes, layers of evocative texture, and the quirky marks she uses to punctuate and add a sense of time and and the unexpected. Her work is an act of improvisation, the result of the intertwining of memory, emotion and imagination, a meshing together of the invisible and visible landscape, somewhere in time and space where painter and viewer can wander.
Links Website: www.lauraradwell.com Instagram: @laura_radwell_art Facebook: Laura Radwell
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Laura Radwell First Hope 2 oil on canvas 36" x 36" x 1.875" $3,500
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Maira Reinbergs Latvian-American, B. 1935 Lives and works in Attleboro, MA Biography Maira Reinbergs was born in Riga, Latvia. As a small girl she danced a lot and did piles and piles of drawings. Summers she spent in the country – at her grandfather’s. There she was given total freedom to roam the beautiful meadows, fields of rye, the apple orchard and the riverbank. Maybe that is why she became an artist – being so much by herself, immersed in the beauty of nature. During WWII, as the soviet army advanced into Latvia, her family had to flee and leave their homeland and the people they loved behind. They sought refuge in Germany, where they lived in 8 different camps for “Displaced Persons”. In 1951 the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Boston. Maira attended Massachusetts College of Art. Her life with her husband has taken her to many places. In California, while raising her daughter, she sketched eucalyptus trees. In Middleborough, MA she began her “window series” and eventually did 63. In Lake Placid, NY she was one of the finalists for the Olympic mural competition. Since 1980 she lives in Attleboro. Her paintings can be found in collections in the United States, Canada and three museums in Latvia.
Statement Maira’s paintings are explorations of color, line and texture. She strives to capture their illusiveness, subtleties and mysteries. Music influences her work deeply; lines and color variations express movement, continuity. She desires her paintings to express beauty, harmony, tranquility. “If there is purpose to her work, it is to wash away with a stroke of her brush all that is ugly, cacophonic and strident, and all that would anger the soul. She succeeds admirably.” Deforest Shelley – Lake Placid News
Links Website: www.maira-art.com DESTIG international magazine, Issue #4 – selected Top Artist 2018
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Maira Reinbergs BaroqĹŤe Passage #4 handprinted, printed muslin, acrylic on panel 44" x 16" x 1.5" $3,500
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Ellen Rolli American, B. 1954 Lives and works in Melrose, MA Biography Ellen was born and raised in the city of Revere, Ma. Her interest in art started at a very young age. Her artistic ability was encouraged and nurtured early on by family, friends and teachers. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art she majored in Art Education with a minor in Painting. Ellen has had several group and solo exhibitions through the years, including two solo exhibitions in Boston. In 2009, as a Copley Society of Art of Boston artist member, she was awarded a month long artist residency at the historic Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown. Ellen has been the recipient of many awards and her paintings are held in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad. Ellen is currently represented by the Powers Gallery of Acton, Massachusetts, Huff Harrington Fine Art of Atlanta and Art and Light Gallery of Greenville, South Carolina. She maintains a full time working Studio outside of her home, in the Cedar Park neighborhood of Melrose. Ellen is also an active committee member for the annual Melrose Open Studios Tour. Ellen lives with her husband Frank who claims to be her biggest fan.
Statement "For me, the unknowns of the process make for a journey of self-discovery and a more meaningful painting experience." - Edward Corbett As a contemporary painter, Ellen is interested in interpreting subject and emotion in an abstract, intuitive way. The process, daring paint application, color, texture, and the element of discovery inspires her. In her process, Ellen uses materials instinctively. This allows more freedom, more risk-taking. As a painting evolves, she reacts to the dialogue between them. She does not search for the literal truth of subject; she seeks an expressive, emotional reaction.
Links Website: https://www.ellenrolli.com/ Instagram: @ellenrolli Facebook: Ellen Rolli Contemporary Painter
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Ellen Rolli Vessel Crowd acrylic and mixed media 36" x 36" x 1.5" $4,000
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Kristine Schneider American, B. 1978 Lives and works in The Woodlands, TX Biography Kristine Schneider was born in Toledo, Ohio but grew up in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb of Houston. From a young age she was encouraged to explore her surroundings and pursue her artistic talent by several strong women including her mother, two sisters and numerous art educators. She has been making art professionally for 12 years. Her fascination with what it means to be human has led her to earn a BA in Anthropology from University of Houston and a master’s in Public Administration from Sam Houston State University. After a decade-long career in social services, Kristine answered the call to, “make room” in her life. She made the difficult decision to pursue her artistic career full-time. She is now enjoying an art-filled home with her husband and two teenagers back in The Woodlands, Texas.
Statement Kristine’s work explores the relationship between environment and aloneness with use of light, shadow and placement of figures. In her cityscapes, she uses the contrast of hard edges and pattern against natural elements such as sky, light, trees and clouds to mirror the relationship of human figures to inorganic structures such as buildings, overpasses, and streets. The figures feel out of place in light of this contrast, creating a feeling of unbelonging. Her works of natural scenes, often depict the opposite where trees are enveloping the figure with a feeling of welcome and mercy. Her oil paintings on canvas showcase layers of vibrant color in a dreamy compound of contemporary realism and impressionism.
Links Website: kristineschneiderart.com Instagram: @KristineSchneiderArt Facebook: Kristine Schneider Art
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Kristine Schneider Chaos Wilderness oil on canvas 24" x 20" x 1" $684
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Kevin Sloan American, B. 1958 Lives and works in Denver, CO Biography Kevin Sloan was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa. Student classes at the Des Moines Art Center nurtured his early interest in art and it was clear upon graduating high school he would continue to study art in college. He received a BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art and continued his formal education at the University of Arizona, where he received an MFA in Painting in 1984. His curiosity and love of travel has led him to live and work in a wide variety of cities across the United States including San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans, Key West, FL and Santa Fe, NM. All these locales have had a lasting impact on his practice. His work is found in numerous private and public collections worldwide including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL and the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ. Kevin lives and works in Denver, CO with his husband Mark and two labradoodles, Poppy and Otis.
Statement Sloan’s work is ongoing inquiry into whether a painting can simultaneously hold the qualities of wonder and awe amid the overlooked and mundane. This duality is reflective of our contemporary condition, one marked by dislocation and loss in the midst of the overwhelming and spectacular. Additionally, he is interested in what it means to be a painter of the natural world in a time of extraordinary change environmentally, politically and socially. Aware of all that is happening yet avoiding topical reportage and editorializing, Sloan assumes the role of a compassionate witness that allows curiosity and wonder to find a place in the work. While rooted in the tradition of representational painting, the work acknowledges the inherently tenuous and abstract quality of paint on canvas while honoring the narrative possibilities of representation and metaphor.
Links Website: http://www.kevinsloan.com Instagram: @kevinpsloan Facebook: Kevin Sloan Studio
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Kevin Sloan The Fifth Season Detail #4 acrylic on canvas 11" x 14" x 1.5" $1,800
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Kevin Sloan The Fifth Season #1 acrylic on canvas 11" x 14" x 1.5" $1,800
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Alan Strassman American, B. 1939 Lives and works in Weston, MA Biography A serious amateur for many years, photography became Alan Strassman’s second career in 2008. His work has been widely exhibited and is owned in private, corporate and museum collections. Recent exhibitions include group shows at the Attleboro Museum, Griffin Museum, Cambridge Art Association, Southeast Center for Photography and Connecticut Academy of Fine Art and solo exhibitions at The Harvard Graduate School of Education, The Newton (MA) Free Library and Galatea Fine Art (Boston). His publications include Signs of Life, an illustrated history of photography and New England Mill Towns, contemporary images from the birthplace of the industrial revolution in America. Alan has studied photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Maine Media Workshops. Also, a graduate of Princeton and the Harvard Business School, he is President Emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Chairman Emeritus of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Statement Alan Strassman applies the early 20 century aesthetics of “straight photography” and “modernist photography” to capture unmanipulated images of the real world in the 21 st century. He captures the monumentality of the ordinary, whether it is an abandoned building , an open field or everyday street life. The images pose questions rather than answers. Whatever the subject, he never compromises careful attention to line, form, composition, texture and light. The finished product must be a compelling image. Strassman composes in the camera’s viewfinder and uses the computer like a traditional dark room to adjust exposure, contrast and color balance in order to more closely approximate what the human eye can see.
Links Website: www.alanstrassmanphotos.com
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Alan Strassman Landing Strip photography 22" x 30" x 1" $450
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Kristin Schonfarber Street American, B. 1954 Lives and works in Foster, RI Biography Kristin S. Street moved through the RI public school system, graduating with honors. She went on to earn a BFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design in 1980 and an MFA in Sculpture/Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005. While promoting the work of others through curatorial work in the two galleries she established, The Krause Gallery (19842015) and The Mill Gallery (2004-2008), Kristin has maintained an active exhibition schedule in museums and galleries locally, nationally and internationally. Kristin currently lives and works in Foster, RI.
Statement Kristin’s work entitled Line and Dot was developed as an abstract interpretation of mixed materials (steel, rubber and monofilament) exploring natural, industrial and constructed elements. Observation of line, form, space and physical interaction, on both an immediate and macro scale, inform the sculptural composition, especially when in direct, interactive engagement with the audience.
Links Website: www.kristinstreet.com Instagram: @kristinsstreet
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Kristin Street Line and Dot rubber, steel, monofilament 10’ x 4’ x 5’ $4,500
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Terry Van Heusen American, B. 1949 Lives and works in Cranston, RI Biography Terry Van Heusen was born and raised in Gloversville, New York. Her father and maternal-grandfather collaborated on award winning designs for the family’s small leather goods business. Combining 2D and 3D artforms, their creative and technical craft inspired Terry’s passion for art. Terry attended Mary A. Burnham Prep School in Northampton MA and earned her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. A successful career in commercial art included illustrating, sculpting for the pewter giftware industry and forming Roberts & Van Heusen design studio with fellow illustrator Cheryl Roberts. Terry also worked at Hasbro, Inc., where she designed branding and packaging for Play-Doh® and other global toy brands. She is a member of the Providence Art Club, the Attleboro Arts Museum, Mad Dog Artist Studios and South County Art Association.
Statement Terry’s work is an ongoing exploration, combining a lifelong fascination with the figure, opulent fashion and storytelling. Working directly with models, she art directs the pose, costuming and lighting to create her narrative. Patterns, textures, the glint of a jewel – her artwork aspires to delight the eye.
Links Website: www.terryvanheusen.com
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Terry Van Heusen Star graphite pencils 17" x 20.12" x 1" $350
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Cindy Horovitz Wilson American, B. 1956 Lives and works in Wickford, RI Biography Cindy Horovitz Wilson, a resident of Wickford Rhode Island, has been making photographs with intent since 1976. She earned her BA from the University of Rhode Island in 1978, studied briefly at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and received her Master of Fine Art from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in 1984. For 20 years she was engaged in wedding photography. In 2009, after 3 years of operating an art gallery in Wickford, Cindy began teaching photography in local classes and to both local and international travel groups. Cindy continues her creative journey, observing and capturing her subjects with curiosity, authenticity and dignity. She continues to exhibit in regional and national shows, while maintaining a local presence at art festivals and with many art organizations.
Statement Cindy is drawn to rugged coastlines, reflective still waters, weather beaten vernacular architecture and vestiges in industrial decay. Her vision resonates with the feeling of a timeless presence, paying homage to the ephemeral quality of light, entropy and portals as metaphor. Discovering the unique, finding the extraordinary in the mundane, honoring the forgotten with dignity and exploring the visual story of that which is soon to change are her inspirations. Her intention in the past has been in documenting subjects. Currently, her creative process now is more about self-reflection, process, spiritual growth and metaphor. It is with this excitement that Cindy moves forward into uncharted waters on her creative journey.
Links Website: https://www.cindywilsonphoto.com/ Instagram: @chwphoto Facebook: Cindy Wilson Photograpy
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Cindy Wilson Night Light photography 20" x 26" x 0" $395
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Carol Wontkowski American, B. 1952 Lives and works in Attleboro, MA Biography A native and resident of Attleboro, Massachsetts, Carol Wontkowski’s artistic interests began as a young child. Initially finding drawing as her career choice, she set her sites on photography in her early twenties. Carol attended Rhode Island School of Photography, a technical school, and chose to work in commercial photography after graduation. Finding that she enjoyed the freedom freelance photography had to offer, she chose to do portraits, weddings and photographic art images while holding positions that encompassed photography. She is a Juried Artist Member of the Wickford Art Association, was a published finalist in an issue of Studio Visit Magazine, an award finalist in the 2020 International Color Awards and has garnered awards both nationally and internationally.
Statement Carol’s work reflects the beauty in common things. Though we live in a world marred by human influence, there is still order, design and beauty around us. It is her desire to capture the more tranquil and serene images of this world, mirroring their Designer.
Links Website: https://www.carolwontkowski.com/ Instagram: @2calori Facebook: Carol Wontkowski
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Carol Wontkowski Maybe photography 22" x 14.5" x 1" $200
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Lauren Yandell American, B. 1985 Lives and works in Pearland, TX Biography Lauren Yandell was born in Victoria, Texas and currently resides in Pearland, Texas. Lauren earned her MFA from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (2012) and two BFA degrees in Studio Art and Communication Design from Texas State University (2008). She is a Lecturer of Art and Design at the University of Houston – Clear Lake where she teaches 2D foundations courses. Inspired by the rich tradition of still life, her work features everyday objects that are found in her home environment. Lauren works with mixed media often combining charcoal and graphite with ink, spray paint and collage techniques.
Statement Inspired by the rich tradition of still life, Lauren Yandell’s work features commonplace objects that are found in her home environment. She manipulates and arranges these objects with the intention of expressing a particular idea or situation. Overtime, the objects begin to function like personal symbols as they reappear in the work to establish a theme. The formal qualities of her work are concerned with unifying simplicity and complexity within a single space. The detailed subjects are contrasted with spacious, vacant backgrounds to allow for a balance between the visual energies. Charcoal, graphite and spray paint are combined to create a grayscale palette. The absence of color simplifies the work further while creating the opportunity for greater emotional flexibility.
Links Website: https://www.laurenyandell.com/ Instagram: @lauren.yandell
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Lauren Yadell Keep Afloat graphite and charcoal on paper 30" x 22" x 0" $800
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Harold D. Zabady American, B. 1949 Lives and works in Camp Hill, PA Biography Harold Zabady started his professional art career in central Pennsylvania at a school district that concentrated on art education and was surrounded by other schools districts that viewed art as an important subject area, educating high school students and preparing them to attend the best art colleges and universities possible.
Statement Photos to Harold are important. He identifies with the art movement of photorealism, and he feels that artistic development will parallel progress in photography, optics, and computers. Photos are also useful to Harold in many ways, not least because they can lend a clarity and dependability to his own work. Nevertheless, he is not a slave to these photos since he feels free to alter perspective, color, shapes, and positions of objects and buildings, as well as combining a variety of images. Ultimately, the possibilities are endless and this is what Harold is exploring and conveying in his work.
Links Website: www.hzabady.com Instagram: @hzabady Twitter: @HaroldHzabady
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Thank you for exploring the catalogue for the Providence Art Club’s National Open Juried Exhibition 2020! If you would like to learn more about any of the works included here, or would like to inquire about purchasing any pieces included in this exhibition, please reach out to our Gallery Manager Michael Rose via email at michael@providenceartclub.org and he will be happy to assist you. Works of fine art are tax free in the State of Rhode Island. We hope you will consider joining the Club on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn, and help us to promote the work of the talented artists included in this exhibition to make sure that their work gets the recognition it deserves.
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