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March 16, 2018 by profk

Fairytales, Folktales and Fables

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This eclectic vibrant exhibit features work by over 30 artists who interpreted fairytales, folktales and fables from around the world through a variety of 2 and 3 D media, including paper sculpture, assemblage, painting, printmaking, textiles and photography.

NEW DATE! Opening Reception April 6, 6:30-8:30 pm

Wine, and light refreshments.

April 21 and 22: Special Events/Art Salons for the Fairytales exhibit include a Gallery Talk with Exhibit Artists and a Collage-Making Workshop led by artist Carol Wintle.
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September 14, 2014 by profk

Animal Art

Wonderfully diverse, thought-provoking, fun exhibit

We’re Kicking off our Tenth Season with a Roar

Please join us in celebration of:

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10% of sales will be donated to the MSPCA
to rescue abandoned and abused pets.

Sharon Whitman, Water Dance
Sharon Whitman, Water Dance

Animals — from beasts of prey to household pets — have been a staple of artistic expression since cave painting at the very dawn of humanity. Whether as totems, allegory, decoration, or simply for their “fearsome symmetry,” animals have been a presence in the works of history’s greatest masters from DaVinci’s horse studies, through Rousseau’s primitive wildlife, to Picasso’s bull fetish. Yet, the role of animals in art is often overlooked. We have terms for ‘portraits,’ ‘landscapes.’ and ’‘still lives’, but none for art with animal subjects. ‘Animal Art’ gets no respect.

Belmont Gallery of Art opens its tenth anniversary season with a long overdue appreciation of Animals in Art, featuring animal artworks in a variety of media — painting, sculpture, photography collage, fabric art — selected by jurors and veterinarians, Dr. Suzanne Kay and Dr. Dawn Binder, from Belmont’s Cushing Square Veterinary Clinic.

The menagerie is a ‘must-see” for art lovers and animal lovers of all ages. And visitors can help homeless and abused pets at the same time. Ten percent of all sales of artwork will be donated to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell to support its mission to find loving families for abandoned and mistreated pets.

Thank you to everyone who attended our opening reception (Sept. 19) and CONGRATS TO ALL of the artists displaying work!

Prizes were awarded for the following categories
Best in Show - "Chimp" by Warren Croce
Best in Show – “Chimp” by Warren Croce
Best in “Breed” – Mixed Media – “The Whale” by John Dykes
Best in “Breed” – Mixed Media –
“The Whale” by John Dykes
Best in “Breed” – Photography – “Sheep Sisters” by Ken Harvey
Best in “Breed” – Photography –
“Sheep Sisters” by Ken Harvey

 

Honorable Mentions
“Apollo the Pig” – Photograph by Rich Perry
“Apollo the Pig” – Photograph by Rich Perry
“Moonwalk” – Photograph by tSOfi Inbar
“Moonwalk” – Photograph by tSOfi Inbar
“In the Shade” – Painting by Iris Osterman
“In the Shade” – Painting by Iris Osterman

 

Exhibiting artists include many established local and regional talents and several newcomers
Terri AckermanKen HarveyIris Osterman
Eric AlmquistElaine HawkesDari Paquette
Neri AvrahamRichard HillRich Perry
Carol BerneyJanel HoutonSara Reilly
Nicole BernsteinJanet Clingerman HsiaoMarcia Schloss
Iris ChandlerKu-chan HsiaoTony Schwartz
Christine ChangKay HudginsRuth Segaloff
Lisa CohentSOfi InbarMarian Stanton
Warren CroceKwan Kew LaiLee Strasburger
Jennifer DubostWei LiDick Stroud
Norma DumontMiranda LoudDiana Tsomides
John DykesArch MacInnesGeoff Wadsworth
Eleanor ElkinCaitlyn MarshNadine Wallack
Irene FairleyJamie MaxfieldBev White
Cara FitzGibbonCarolyn MaySharon Whitman
Ottavio ForteJudy LoveJohn Williams
Terry GipsFrances McCormickTimothy Wilson
Joan GlinertAnastasia O’MelvenyJohn Wood
Virginia GreenblattJoan Onofrey
 More Artwork in the Show
Cara Fitzgibbon, Somewhere in Montana
Cara Fitzgibbon,
Somewhere in Montana
Jennifer Dubost, Callie
Jennifer Dubost, Callie
Timothy Wilson, Three Bills
Timothy Wilson, Three Bills
Joan Onofrey, The Boss
Joan Onofrey, The Boss
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March 29, 2007 by profk

Peace & Solitude

Josie Lawrence

Pope John Paul II Park
Pope John Paul II Park
Still Water Mattapoisett
Still Water Mattapoisett

After receiving a BFA with a major in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Lawrence spent the next 10 years of her summer vacations from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in pursuit of graduate studies in different parts of the world. During one summer, Tom Carr, a professor at the Escola d’Arts Plastique I Disseny in Barcelona, Spain (Barcelona Oldest Art Academy) advised Lawrence, “I can see in your paintings that you like quiet and stillness.” Says Lawrence, “His statement continues to give me pause to reflect. As one of eight children from a family whose parents were born in Italy, I remember the many times I retreated to the room I shared with two sisters to draw in solitude. In fact, this past year during open studios, the wife of a fellow studio artist came up to me and commented, ‘Your art is so peaceful.'” Paintings by Josie Lawrence are held in the JFK Presidential Library and Museum as well as in private and corporate collections throughout the US, Europe and Asia. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in the US, China and Italy with awards annually from juried shows.

Pennsylvania Landscape
Pennsylvania Landscape

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January 1, 2007 by profk

New Work: Loutrell, Revett, Wunsch

Lara Loutrell, Dawn Revett, A. David Wunsch

Lara Loutrel
Etching by Lara Loutrel
Etching by Lara Loutrel

Abstractions of a mental state. The logic of factory-grey & desolation — a girl & her printing press, isolation. The mechanized clicking of thinking — these are objects & landscapes that exist, but no one has seen them. My logic — logic in general — crumbles & twists, formulates itself in black etching ink. My etchings are the outcome of my perception of existence — bleak & strange.

The prints are Abstractions of imagined landscapes, sometimes objects or cities, conveying some sort of resonance, or connection. They are usually bleak & lonely, yet heroic. I don’t consider my work to fall under one style. The look of the prints from 2002 to the present is very much a product of, & ongoing dialogue with, the techniques that I use. These arose from the technical limitations of creating a studio with non-traditional & non toxic methods. I am constantly experimenting & discovering new ways to put ink on paper.”

More information on this artist can be found at www.laraloutrel.com.

Dawn Revett

Cargo. Weighty, anonymous, masses of consumable goods. A voluminous presence that fails to fill the absence in which it is placed.

Shipping lanes. Highways. Storage yards. Gateways through which material goods in their anonymous phase leave or enter our lives; portals through space and time for Things. Solidity. Gravity. “Needs”.

Painting by Dawn Revett
Painting by Dawn Revett

I see in these portals stillborn opportunities. I see what was here, before the cargo and the promises. I see a mirage of material goods preening with seductive poise. I see what cargo cannot replace. I see the potential for change.

These sites speak to me of how anonymous consumption fragments our society within itself and divides us from the environment. Stained wood reveals an absence of nature that this ingestion of goods creates. To me it is an absence that screams. Yet these goods pass as unbranded cargo through quiet ports, sleepy highways, and placid storage fields. These places stand as silent memorials to what we have sacrificed in order to achieve the cargo we so fanatically pursue. For me these are peaceful places. Like cemeteries, or morgues. Tranquil, beautiful, and tragic.

I paint the images because for me paint best conveys the beauty that I feel in the anxious desolation of these locations. With paint I can better recreate the subtle fusion of fascination and pain that I experience when standing there. I can freeze the highway’s silent roar, and touch the solitude.”

More information on this artist can be found at www.dawnrevett.com.

David Wunsch
Photograph by A. David Wunsch
Photograph by A. David Wunsch

The work that I am showing here is the product of the 40 year period 1966-2006. I have always been a photographer in black and white, and I have primarily used a view camera with which I expose 4 by 5 inch sheet film. I have printed the more recent images digitally, after scanning the negatives into my computer, while photographs that precede 2004 I have printed in my darkroom.

My favorite places to work are mill towns, the edges of cities, railroad yards, and occasionally the downtown portions of cities early in the morning when the streets are clear. I sometimes photograph pieces of machinery, and I feel that many of my photographs reflect interests I have in mathematics and engineering.”

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January 24, 2006 by profk

New Work: Solari & Wagner

Ellen Solari & Nancy Wagner

Ellen Solari
Solari
Solari

Ellen Solari is a member of the River Street Artists in Waltham and is an art teacher at the Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted School in Waltham. Her work has been displayed throughout New England for more than a decade.

I look at my work as a form of meditation. What I hope is for the viewer to stop and be present in what I have made. For me, the actual creation of a painting or drawing is a meditative practice. Drawing or painting a line forces me to concentrate. For each mark that I make I ask: ‘Does it belong?’ These latest painting are about bones. I fell in love with their subtle curves, holes and shapes.”

Nancy Wagner
Wagner
Wagner

Nancy Wagner has been the recipient of multiple Mass Arts Lottery grants. Since 1989 her work has been shown throughout the United States and in the selected collections of corporate entities including Fidelity Corporation, The Boston Company and Morgan Guaranty Trust.

I have always been interested in pattern and color — dating back to many years of sewing and working with fabric. I also formally studied weaving which was a real cornerstone in my development as an artist. However it was when I discovered the world of paint that I found a vehicle with which I could fully explore- in a fresh and immediate way- the ideas I had always been interested in. I still find myself constantly referring back to that world of textiles- grids, patterns, and textures as I work to bring together the many disparate sources of my inspiration. With each painting, I aim for a sense of purity and mystery, infused with light and depth painted layer upon layer until I reach the gem-like quality I am seeking.”

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December 6, 2005 by profk

Layers

Olga Yulikova

Since emigrating from Russia in 1989, Arlington artist Olga Yulikova has been active in the arts as a teacher as well as public and commissioned artist. Olga has taught at the Arlington Center for the Arts, Brookline Art Center, Braintree Art Center and the JCC, Brighton. Her public murals and installations have been commissioned by the cities of Cambridge, Boston and Brookline as well as in California.

All Angels Against War (oil on linen, 2003)
All Angels Against War (oil on linen, 2003)

Layers of memory, layers of meaning, layers of paint, these are the key ingredients in my paintings. They are inspired by my travels, my friends, books I read, stories I hear. They reflect my hope and longing. They are made up of all my personal history, my infatuations, secrets and hang-ups. The paint is just a safe medium I use in order to share my secrets. Some pieces are more coded (and coated) and layered than others.

All Angels Against War for example was my reaction to the beginning of the war in Iraq. I was very much against it, and was just returning from Italy where the peace Pace flags were waving everywhere in the protest against the American invasion. On that trip I visited a church in Verona with the most exquisite recently restored frescos that were once ruined during an ancient war. The crumbling images of saints and warriors were so beautiful and sad, and the entire walls were chiseled with what looked like bullet holes. Explained the helpful attendant of the museum, these were the marks made by some older weapons. These holes, these symmetrical marks were more detrimental than the time that ages frescos. I thought I had to use this effect in my antiwar paintings somehow.

My favorite artist Friedrich Hundertwasser once said that ‘the arts have at least the duty to give people hope and show them beautiful paths along which they can go.’ I sincerely hope that my work offers a window to a path I think is worth taken.”

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