Year: 2011

A ROCKY NECK LEGACY, video by Henry Ferrini
music by Bert Seager and R. Carlos Nakai

click here to see video

With funding from Preserve America, the Rocky Neck Art Colony commissioned this video — a tribute to the place that we, contemporary Rocky neck artists call home as we rest on the shoulders of the many fine artists who came before us. Click the link above or view onrockyneckartcolony.org

Click to see GMG photos of Artist’s Ball

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August 17-30: PROPRIETARY CHAOS
Photography by Laurence Kent Jones

Due to his assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, Jones has resided in Port-au-Prince for the last four years. Says Jones "Haiti has a vibrant street life. Most people have very limited resources and housing is frequently no more than shelter to sleep and eat, while the rest of the day’s activities take place on the street in the open. The small merchants settle semi-permanently into a spot on the sidewalk, a passageway, or in any open space that might be available, overrunning the public space. Poorer people have colonized the corners of the older neighborhoods and created huge informal squatter settlements. The line between planned portions of the city and the squatter settlements is obvious on the ground and shockingly clear from above. We’re seeing an urban infrastructure develop that is very different from anything in North America."

This collection of photographs taken before and after the 2010 earthquake, include journalistic street scenes and oversized panoramas of informally built hillside neighborhoods in Haiti.

RECEPTION : SAT, August 20, 5-8pm | Artist Talk : 7pm

Guest Artist
at Khan Studio

Paintings by Sinikka Nobelo, August 19-Sept 1

Tidal River, painting by Sinikka Nogelo

Opening reception: Saturday, August 20, 5-7:30pm

Khan Studio / Good Morning Gloucester Gallery
on Madfish Alley

Sinikka Nogelo, a Gloucester artist, was a familiar face on Cape Ann Television until her retirement last summer. This year she’s returned to sharing work in her first medium – paint. Sinikka uses natural elements and personal symbols in the abstract expression of surroundings, thoughts and feelings. The works she will exhibit at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery encompass a "year of re-discovery."

A graduate of Tufts University, Sinikka studied art at the Silvermine Guild in CT; the Museum School, Boston; Rockport Art Association; and Montserrat School of Art in Beverly, MA. She was a founding member of the women artists’ cooperative, Center and Main, located at that Gloucester corner until the mid-1980s. During her years on television she produced many arts specials and interviewed people working in all aspects of the arts.

Sinikka’s exhibit will run from August 19-September 1 with an opening reception on Saturday, August 20th from 5:00-7:30pm at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., G3 on Madfish Wharf in the historic Rocky Neck Art Colony.

Khan Studio, Madfish Alley | www.khanstudiointernational.com | 857-891-9054

Music at the Madfish

Thursday, August 18 – 9pm to close ~ Soul Rebel Project

Friday, August 19 – 9pm to close ~ Groove

Saturday, August 20 – 9pm to close ~ Live Dead Tribute

Sunday, August 21– 7:30pm ~ Divas on the Waterfront
Sunday, August 21– 8pm to close ~ Jack Lee and Diversity

photo from GMG of last week’s Mug-Up

Sunday, Aug 21 : First Annual GMG Deviled Egg Contest

Did you Know … That people love deviled eggs? Having made deviled eggs a bunch of weeks now for Mug Up, I have come to realize that people really love deviled eggs, and it seems everyone has their own special recipe. So during August 21st Mug Up, we will be sponsoring the First Annual Good Morning Gloucester Deviled Egg Competition. We will assemble a panel of distinguished judges, including Ed "I’ve never met a food I didn’t like" Collard and Paul "R. Duck and I love deviled eggs" Morrison. The judges’ decision will be final and the entrant with the winning deviled eggs recipe will receive a 2012 Gloucester’s Finest Kind calendar or a Good Morning Gloucester T-shirt (if there is one available in your size) and a ribbon.

If you are a deviled egg aficionado and would like to be considered for a position on the judge’s panel, please post a brief description of your deviled egg experience and credentials. Those who would like to have their special deviled eggs included in the competition and featured on the blog, just bring ’em this Sunday. This is way bigger than Topsfield Fair competition and doesn’t cost anything to enter. People who don’t like deviled eggs feel free to bring along something non-egg related to share. Not to sway the judges, but I hear Mark Ring from the fishing vessel Stanley Thomas is a possible shoein for the winning deviled egg recipe.

Khan Studio, Madfish Alley | www.khanstudiointernational.com | 857-891-9054

Conrad Eric Armstrong (September 8 to October 7)

Thursday, September 8, Introductory Slide presentation, Rocky Neck Gallery

Brain Buggy (part of the Mnemonosphere cycle), 2010, 21.7" x 29.5"
Watercolor on glue gesso on panel

Conrad Armstrong is an American artist who currently lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic, where he splits his time between teaching English, making art, and exhibiting. One of Conrad’s primary interests is the intersection between landscape and memory in human culture and history. Over the last decade, Conrad’s work has dealt with this theme in various media and from different perspectives. Landscape paintings made from memory, topographic paper sculpture, mnemonically-encoded images, landscape installation, and drawing and painting in situ are all manifestations of this interest. In addition to this theme, Conrad has also produced other bodies of work and exhibitions on other subjects including fetish objects, the role of social networks in contemporary life, the relationship between cars and alternative modes of transportation, and the potential of the classroom as a creative space. Underlying all of Conrad’s work is a sense of curiosity, playfulness, and whimsy that results in a compelling and often funny experience for the viewer. Though he is quite familiar with the North Shore, Conrad is delighted to have the opportunity to deepen his relationship with the area while developing his work at Rocky Neck in September 2011.

Sorry for the profanities but it’s not to often the Frontiero’s win anything! Mike may not consider himself  a “Frontiero” but he is. His mom, Cathy “Frontiero” Spiro Is from the “FORT.” Hope they find happiness in this crazy life. Goodluck Mike and Sam! From your Mom’s Hometown!!!

Charlee at THE BOOKSTORE

I just love reflections – they create such cool abstract lines and shapes.

E.J. Lefavour

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