Mesmerizing colors
Boston painter Jennifer Moses spent a year at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in New Mexico. Her new show at Kingston Gallery spotlights work she did there. The paintings teem with color, concentric lines, amoeba-like forms, and beams that radiate outward from the center. She populates “Spiderman’s Elbow’’ with striated puddles of colors that conjoin and wheel over the surface, bobbling over gray rays and bumping into loops. There’s a spinning quality to most of these works, a motion that never stops, but it’s not dizzying – it’s both expansive and centering.

Also up at Kingston, Rose Olson offers nuanced, luminous paintings on wood veneer, mounted on boxes that stand off the wall. Olson layers one transparent color over another. The wood grain remains visible, but showered with light. I especially like the pieces in which the color shifts are almost imperceptible, such as “Come and Go,’’ featuring broad bands of two pinks. She also uses straps of distinctively different color to contain areas of translucence – “Moving Mist’’ has thin bands of yellow and orange. But it’s the evanescent veils of hues that – like Kun’s references to the Hudson River School – evoke the sublime.

Left: Val Toukatly's Watercolors on paper; Right: Lana Wheeler's "Untitled," 2011, Sketchbook & Colin Prahl's "Behind the Duomo," 2011, Sketchbook

Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery
Nov. 30 – Dec. 21

Montserrat presents paintings, drawings and sketchbooks from students and faculty from their study abroad trip to the medieval Italian town of Viterbo in June 2011, which will be on display through Dec. 21. Montserrat encourages and supports students who want to study art abroad and believes that Montserrat becomes a stronger institution when our students bring broad and diverse educational and life experiences to class.

For more information about the program, please visit Drawing Viterbo!

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“John is as well as being a talented artist truly one of the nicest people I have ever come in contact with. John’s HALLSPACE Gallery is one of the cooler galleries to hangout in Boston.” -Charles Edward Powers

Read the review at The Boston Globe!

Upcoming Show: Gerry Perrino Syntactic Structures
Dec. 3 – Jan. 14, Opening Reception: Saturday, Dec. 3, 3-6 p.m.

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The Creative Economy Association of the North Shore in conjunction with Montserrat College of Arts and the Enterprise Center at Salem State University Present:

CEANS Fall Event at Montserrat College of Art Gallery
Monday, Nov. 14th, 5 –  7 p.m. 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA

Special Guests: Helena Fruscio, newly appointed Creative Economy Industry Director for the Commonwealth will discuss “Berkshire Creative” and her new state-wide position. Dee Schneidman, Research Manager for the New England Foundation for the Arts will provide an update on the 2011 report “New England’s Creative Economy: Nonprofit Sector Impact.”

On view at Montserrat Gallery will be Home Sweet Home, which includes site-specific installations by three New England artists: Elizabeth Alexander, Samantha Fields, and Kirsten Reynolds.

Click here to sign-up today!

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Alumna Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda ’05 and Joshua Durant announce Closing Reception for Blooming Dialogue Exhibition!

Friday, Oct. 28th, 6 – 8 p.m. at the Gallery at the Piano Factory 791 Tremont St, Boston. The exhibit was on display throughout October where they exhibited collaborations as well as their independent work. Catalina showed figurative paintings and Joshua displayed his expressive paintings of birds. 

Check out the event page here!

The opening reception for Blooming Dialogue went so well, that Catalina and Joshua have decided to host a closing reception! The Beverly Citizen, Artscope Newsletter and Metro have all featured Blooming Dialogue.

Catalina also announced that after the opening, Boston Home Decor Magazine asked if they could borrow some of their pieces for their March issue! “The space is wonderful and we are both really excited and proud of the work,” Catalina said. “Please come and join us for the opening, have a glass of wine and enjoy the art! We will also be open on Sat and Sun from noon to 5pm. The show comes down Sunday evening.”

Hear Nina Berman’s presentation this weekend as part of our FOR THE RECORD Symposium, register today.

Click here to view on Youtube: Book TV: Nina Berman “Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq”
Nina Berman talks about the photographs she took of wounded Americans who served in Iraq. Ms. Berman explains why she decided to take the photographs and describes how she found the 20 veterans who ended up in her book, “Purple Hearts.” The talk was hosted by the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum (nvvam.org), where Ms. Berman’s photographs will be displayed until April 30, 2006. Includes Q&A.

Staff member Lauri Chertok, Prof. Barbara Moody

We’ve selected 12 outstanding artists who create  2-D and 3-D collages with a wide range of approaches in scale, media, format, and content.  We are beginning to visit artists in their studios to select work for the exhibit.  Simi Berman, Sheila Boss-Concannon, Barbara Moody, Karen Watson, Laurie K. Brown, Brett Angell, Ann P. Smith, Lauri Chertok, Donna Catanzaro, Giles Laroche, Donald McIntosh, Ann McCrea. The exhibit will open on September 4 and continue through November 4.

Gallery Della-Piana
152: Rear Main Street, Rt. 1A, Wenham MA
www.gallerydellapiana.com/current_exhibit
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Opening Reception: Sunday, Sept. 11, 2 pm – 4 pm

Lillian Harden and Brian Galderisi’s works explore the subtle triumphs and failures of memory. Harden’s mixed media sculptural pieces and Galderisi’s collages and drawings are on display in the show entitled “I Think I Saw You There” at Marblehead Arts Association throughout September.

8 Hooper Street, Marblehead, Massachusetts 01945
Call us at 781.631.2608  •  www.marbleheadarts.org

Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way, Durham, NH
603.862.3713 www.unh.edu/moa/upcoming.html

Artwork, clockwise from left: Marilu Swett, “INTERIOR,” cast dyed urethane rubber; Caroline Bagenal, “House of Words,” 2010, newspaper and book; Julia Shepley, “ACCESS #1″

Open Studios Weekend Sept. 17 – 18, extended hours 11 am – 6 pm

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