GLEN SCHEFFER- Photography
September 13 - October 8, 2010
Gallery Reception: THURS, SEPT 16 - 5 pm to 8 pm
Glen Scheffer arranges and qualifies interiors and objects in order for them to leave their prescribed identity behind. Through his camera lens these subjects become fin art for us to explore and savor. He creates new personalities for libraries, rogue rock venues, and stacks of found records. His work often suggests sound or silence: the crackling and dancing of old stackd records, or the five chairs backstage, erect and hushed as if watching us watching them. Many of Scheffer's images are tense and almost comical, yet these are juxtaposed with the seriousness of a library interior and it's ominous attempt to keep the quiet. Whether amusing or contemplative, Scheffer's series are breathtaking in their grandeur and intriguing through their intamcy. It is with the combination, and along with his tenacious printing skills, that the body of work speaks...volumes.

AL WILLS - '52 Collection - Mixed Media
October 16 - November 12, 2010
Gallery Reception: THURS, OCT 21- 6 pm to 8 pm
After graduating from Thayer Academy in 1952, Dr. Arthur Wills got his undergraduate degree from Harvard and then studied medicine at B.U. In 1966, this Marshfield-based patron of the arts joined his father's long time practice, Downtown Medical Associates, where he combined his practice of medicine with a passion for art until retiring in 2004. Over the years, Al amassed an impressive collection that includes, among many others, such important Boston artists as: Gay Youse, Bruce Anderson, Jack Wofle, Jack Kramer, Marilyn Powers, Jason Berger, Iso Papo, and sculptor Lloyd Lillie. Then, in the late '80's, Al began inviting a group of artists to paint on Hupper Island, Maine where he has a summer home. That group, known collectively as the 'Hupper 5' includes contemporary artists Luke Randall, Michael Carr, Sue McNally, Manueul Rincon, and Ted Tihansky, all of whom have been widely exhibited on their own.

Join us for a sampling of these wonderful artists, and enjoy the fascinating stories they tell of one man's life-long commitment to New England art!

DOROTHY KRAUSE - Mixed Media
November 15 - December 17, 2010

Gallery Reception: THURS, OCT 21- 6 pm to 8 pm

Dorothy Simpson Krause work combines traditional and digital media in large-scale mixed media pieces, artist books and book-like objects that bridge between the two forms. A teacher as well as an artist, Krause organized "Digital Atelier: A printmaking studio for the 21st century", at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for which she received a Technology in the Arts Award. She worked with curators in a Vinalhaven Graphic Arts Foundation work-tank/think-shop, "Media for a New Millennium", and demonstrated digital printmaking at the opening of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Digital: Printmaking Now. She was Visiting Artist at the University of the Arts Borowsky Center in Philadelphia. Her work is in major museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the DeCordova Museum of Art. Krause is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art, author of Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books and co-author of Digital Art Studio.

ELLEN SCHON - Ceramics
January 6 - January 28, 2011

Gallery Reception: THURS, JAN 13, 2011- 5 pm to 7 pm

Ellen Schon is Adjunct Faculty in Fine Arts and Clay Studio Supervisor at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, where she has taught ceramics and 3-D courses since 2002. Schon received a BA from Marlboro College (Ceramics and Perceptual Psychology) and an MFA in Ceramics from Boston University's Program in Artisanry. She has exhibited in numerouse shows around the country and is a past recipient of The Artist Foundation Fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Schon has organized interdisciplinary, thematic group exhibitions in non-profit venues in the Boston area, recently co-curating: MINDmatters at Laconia Gallery, Boston, Vessel as Metaphor, and, Waterfall, a benefit show for WaterAid, both at the Nave Gallery, Somervile. Schon's interest in international artist collaboration and exchange has led her to travel extensively in Europe, participating in international artist symposia/residences in Finland, Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey.

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