ARTISTONIA: September 2015

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

NAC - BRENT RIDGE CLASSES - 10.06.15

Wow -
liked seeing all those nature inspired works using our landscape as summer fades to fall.
Why not revel in nature just a little bit more?
Nature is our first designer and from her we learn the most.
Nature's structure is the most elemental form of abstraction - look to the structure of nature to create.

Leaves. Twigs. Fish Tails. Snails. Shells. Rocks. Bark. Grass. Seeds. Petals. Thorns.

Use Terry Winters's works of painting looking at nature as a way to frame our looking.
Bring sketches, photos or the real things themselves to be inspired or maybe collage with, make a mark with.

Terry Winters

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Saturday, September 26, 2015

2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council Awardees in Crafts and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres @ New Art Center

Pat Shannon

Warren E. Mather, Stranger Fig, 2015

Lisa Nilsson, Praying Hands, 2012

Amy Podmore, Untitled, 2014

Opening Night

Dana Filbert, Painted Pony, 2012

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JR Artist in BOSTON

View of temporary artwork on 200 Clarendon by JR

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Provincetown Galleries in September

Julie Heller East

Sandy Deacon @ Julie Heller East

Nora Speyer, Adolescents I @ Provincetown Art Association and Art Museum

Nora Speyer, Patio IX, 1992 @ Provincetown Art Association and Art Museum

William H. Littlefield, Rape of the Sabine, 1951 @ Provincetown Art Association and Art Museum

Maurice Freedman, Flight over Turo, 1951@ Provincetown Art Association and Art Museum

Catherine McCarthy, Daddy's Home, 2015 @ Alden Gallery

Kevin Cyr @ Alden Gallery

Julie Heller East LINK

Sandy Deacon LINK

Provincetown Art Association and Art Museum LINK

Nora Speyer LINK

William H. Littlefield LINK

Mauruce Freedman LINK

Alden Gallery LINK

Catherine McCarthy LINK

Kevin Cyr LINK

Thursday, September 24, 2015

JOSH SMITH

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EVAN SMITH

Evan Smith

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MAYA LIN - Lecture @ BU School of Visual Arts

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WILLIE COLE - Aquahallic @ BU Art Galleries

Willie Cole

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

NAC - BRENT RIDGE CLASSES - 09.29.15

Greetings my newfound travelers with me into the deep dark wood of painted glory.
Welcome back fall by making a painting about the memory of what we leave: summer.
Bring some fragments of your tales and journeys under the high sun and turn them into a painting.

Here I use a local artist named Bunny Harvey, who happens to have a retrospective at the nearby Davis Museum – I highly recommend checking out if you have the chance, it just opened. Great example of representation slipping into abstraction in painting.

So be inspired and bring in a photo, or summer sketches or maybe some collected leaves and hone in on the balance (or unbalance) in your composition. Use sketches to work out a composition and play with space.