Leroy      Lale Berke-Jenkins    
Naturescapes:Journeys into solitude… Please visit Lale's personal website at: Sue Carlin Bouncy Swirly Oil Paintings    Sue Carlin's paintings reflect a joyous celebration of color and movement. Her work, whether it is represented in floral, landscapes, or portraits electrifies any room within seconds. Her rhythmic strokes and intricate swirls swimming throughout her pieces have often been compared to that of Van Gogh. When asked about what inspires her to paint, a simple but honest "anything and everything" might stumble out. A love for beauty, whether it be natural or fantasy, is portrayed in any of Carlin's creations. Some subjects of study have included angels, goddesses, elephants, cats, bats, trees, gardens, still lifes and imagined paradises. Her art is truly a sensory experience that dances in your mind and heart never to be forgotten. Jane Chakravarthy Relative Illusions of Reality      Jane says: "I spend time thinking about my world, my perceptions, and my actions: My Reality. I think of other people, their thoughts, their perceptions, their realities and how we all fit together. I believe despite our fundamental commonalities, our realities are pretty relative to each individual person. It’s unlikely I can experience how another person interprets, connects or perceives and vice versa, nor can I be sure how and why another person is touched by some experiences in their lives; their association might be quite different from mine. Sometimes a persons individual message and viewpoint can be more digestiblewhen words and images touch and connect to people of a similar exposure andunderstanding. Love: Happiness: Grief: Sorrow: Despair, emotions and experiences which leave some personal imprint on the shaping and the understanding of our realities. My show is about my reality: my thoughts, my feelings and my take on the world around me, and more importantly my world within. Perhaps some pieces will connect to you, forge a dialogue with your experiences, conscious or otherwise. I cannot experience your life and you cannot experience mine, but somewhere along these pieces hopefully you will find a commonality, a dialogue, a connection." Mary C. Coelho Awakening Universe, Emerging Personhood        Jean Fournier Abstraction and Harmonious Color Combinations     Jean Says: “My entire experience has been given over to a devastating mental illness and a horrible loneliness. horrible loneliness. However, today at the advanced age of 65, by amazing luck and excruciating effort, I am emerging into the day and reality. Mercy has found me. Visual art and poetry are vehicles for satisfaction, self expression, and recognition. I write poetry all the time. In total, I have written over 200 poems. Most of my paintings are abstract. They are executed in acrylics. My art does not bring peace to me, but rather it affords me with a constantly expanding presence in our creator’s gifts to us.” Devon Govoni          I explore personality and style a great deal within my art. I believe that every piece should possess a flare that attracts people’s attention for one reason or another. I try to create works that people can easily connect to, consciously or unconsciously. When people view my artwork, I want them to interpret what they see in relation to their own lives. I believe that there is a great deal of warmth that can be taken from my work. I hope that people can find some comfort in what I offer to them through my creations. Communicating in ways outside of speaking increases the number of interpretations that a person can have about what is being relayed to them. I find it fascinating to communicate through art. My process begins with the simple intent of filling the empty space in front of me. As I progress meaning and interpretations develop. By the time I am finished with a piece, I have attached many of stories, emotions and life experiences. These components are not only derived from my personal worldviews but also from the worldviews of others that I interact with directly and indirectly day to day. Listening to others and learning from others is a main component that I incorporate into my process when creating works. As a result of this, my hope is that people can relate and connect in some way, to what they see when viewing my creations." Juleen Jones The Art of Expressionism         Juleen says: "My work represents an evolution of old and new work, using abstract expressionism as the subject of my inspiration. Expressionism has always been my favorite “ism” in the art world. Artists like Joan Mitchell, William Decooning, Hans Hoffman, Jasper Johns, Frans Kline, and of course, Jackson Pollack, were the pioneers that inspired me throughout my growing career."  K-Tron    K-tron is currently residing in Cambridge Ma working as a feature film scenic and freelancer. K-tron graduated with a BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 2003. Since that time she has been involved in all types of projects such as costume design workiing with the likes of Gwar and Kaiju Big battle. Set Design is another facet she has been highly interested in after doing work for several years at the Club Avalon building Asian temples and monster robots. Her next big endeavor is to design a giant set for the biggest club in the desert for a week at Burningman. Jess Lawrence     Jess says: "My love of art was born in the Midwest, where I grew up in a rural town in Illinois; there, I learned to escape small town life by creating art. Today, my work is inspired by nature and the city. It is my vision to show work which is fresh, soulful and which pushes the boundaries as I continue to learn. I am constantly working to improve my skills and hone my abilities to express myself through painting. As an emerging artist, I aim to surprise the viewer with the mystery and honesty of self-taught art." Wayne MacCabe      Wayne Says: "I was born in Cambridge with a pencil in my hand and have been drawing ever since. As a biologist I travel around the country a lot and spend most of my time catching wildlife and studying nature. I take my sketchpad everywhere I go. During my off-season I turn my drawings into paintings. I've been painting for over 10 years; I don't have any particular style as I choose a certain style that best fits my subject. My paintings are not something you should think too much about, but rather something to be enjoyed." Marshall Incredible Photo Paintings!        Marshall Says: "I blur the line between painting and photography. Romancing the subject with intense color and bright highlights brings out a feeling of excitement and vibrancy in the viewer. Creating images of places that look the way I feel about them is much more satisfying than making an accurate rendering." Matt Pearsal         .JPG) Matt Says: "As anyone who knows my most probably personality will tell you, I am sporadic in my endeavors and social engagements, always seem to be “going somewhere,” yet wander aimlessly through the world. I am incredibly focused, but space out frequently – often at the same time as I am delving into a problem of interest. In illustrative essence, I am like a bullet being shot through the ocean – directed and penetrating, yet subject to the ebb and flow of the meandering tides. It is through this lifestyle that I come across most of my subject matter for photography. “Random” encounters during an endorphin-fueled biking or hiking excursion along side with a slew of domestic stagings of intriguing and amusing objects characterize most of my work. Accordingly, my natural bent towards light, color, and nature is quite evident in the angles that are congruent to my aesthetic tastes. Concerning other sides of my personality, I got into mathematics starting at age 3, picked up my first instrument (clarinet) at age 8 – initiating a lifelong love for music – progressed to alto sax and guitar, while evolving in academic endeavors to the natural sciences – particularly chemistry and physics. Finally, philosophy has dominated my intellectual life through the last 5 years and has shifted my career goals from straight science to a more synthetic approach to incorporate the disciplines of “hard science” – physics, chemistry, biology – with those of the “soft sciences” – sociology and psychology – as well as treading the boundary between physical and metaphysical reality. I find that my photography feeds/informs the other areas of my intellectual and aesthetic life – inspiring my musical expression and lyrical writing, imbuing my scientific and mathematical knowledge with childlike wonder, and providing me the simple pleasures allotted from a solitary excursion into the world... I hope you enjoy and are intrigued…" Deborah M. Priestly My Healing Space: "A woman's journey from trauma to wholeness"     Whether I am painting or writing poetry, I try to use that sacred time as an opportunity to channel my feelings and thoughts into my expression. As I explained in my latest poetry book, “The Woman Has A Voice”, - I am a woman who has experienced trauma and is still healing from that challenge. Survivors of abuse, whether it be physical, sexual or emotional, often do not have a way to express their feelings or feel too shy to deal with their unresolved conflicts. I have found both painting and poetry to be excellent resources for me to reconnect with my inner self, the self that I often ignored or dissociated from when I was going through my trauma as a child.
Please feel free to enjoy the full extent of my moods expressed in these paintings. I have been told that my jagged strokes, layers and layers of paint, vivid colors are quite reminiscent of Van Gogh and Chagall. But all I can really say is that I draw from my pain and my faith in humankind. Beneath this torrid motion or angst, you may find glimpses of lighter or quieter moments. I have always struggled with coping – whether it be from abuse or from having epilepsy (temporal lobe) which are smaller seizures but the effect is that it leaves me disoriented and shaky.
I have learned over the years from my erratic past that everyone has something and that no one’s life is perfect. All I can do is cope, paint or write poetry and be mindful that I am a survivor not a victim. My art (whether it be painting or poetry) can be “impulsive”, “compulsive”, “erratic” and “passionate”. There is an endless amount of energy being aroused and represented. My subjects of study have included: mermaids, unicorns, angels, sunflowers, naked goddesses of Sappho, hysterical cats, swimming dogs, epileptic mailmen, landscapes–(Austria & Cambridge) —or whatever pops into my imagination at a given moment in time. Robert M. Sarly Inner Landscapes           Robert began painting at MIT in the 1960's under the influence of Gyorgy Kepes. He has been actively working in acrylic since 2002, and currently has work hanging in Boston, Wellesley, Waltham, Needham, Newton, and Provincetown MA, and also in Vermont, New York, New Mexico, and California. His philosophy of art is to represent the "inner landscape" of the human experience, and not to try to replicate external reality, which the camera does more accurately. Robert's canvas becomes a conversation between the artist and the observer, and between the conscious and unconscious minds, where deeper meanings sometimes appear but only over time. Also the colors of each canvas palette enter into dialogue in the ways they meet and merge, swirl and blend. Colors express their own nature and co-create the canvas image. No two compositions are ever exactly the same, and when the parts all come together the canvas sings its own song of life's joy that we each recognize as our own. The purpose of the work is to hear this song being sung from within the canvas. Robert is Senior Vice President for Wealth management at Smith Barney in Waltham MA. He is on the Board of the Andover Newton Theological School, and teaches Dialogue as a Spiritual practice at the adult learning center of Miriam's Well in Saugerties NY. He lives with his wife, Jane, in Wellesley MA. His two sons, Benjamin and Alexander, live and work in the New York City area. Adele Travisano        Adele Travisano, of Medford Art Center Inc., received an MFA from Pratt Institute, where she studied painting with George McNeil who, in turn, was a student of Hans Hofmann. Therefore, she is a direct product of the 20th century New York school of abstract expressionism. Her work has appeared in galleries and museums in New England, New York, and New Jersey, including Acme Fine Art Gallery on Newbury St. in Boston, the Cherry Stone Gallery in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and the William Benton Museum in Storrs, Connecticut. In addition to one-woman shows, she has exhibited her paintings in group shows which included works by Hans Hofmann, George McNeil, Robert Motherwell, Berenice Abbott, Edwin Dickinson, Red Grooms, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Beauchamp, Wil Barnet, Jack Tworkov, and Tobi Kahn, among others. Her work may be found in collections nationwide, including those of Graham Gund and the Bank of America. She is represented by 13FOREST Gallery in Arlington, Massachusetts. |
