Roger Scores at Mug Up

Roger Gould is a FOB who has been living in Gloucester for 12 years and came to his first Mug Up this morning.  Not only did he get to meet a bunch of the GMG crew and have great coffee and low cal deviled eggs, he also scores having the opportunity to represent flanked by two lovely Rocky Neck artists. 

On his left:  Ekaterina Smirnova, a Brooklyn based artist who started painting in a russian art school in Siberia in 1991. Her style has been further developed at The Art Students League of New York, where Ekaterina has been a member since first moving to the United States in 2006. Watercolor, her main media, and etchings are often exhibited at art shows around New York and the Northeast. In the past 3 years, Ekaterina has received various awards in juried shows including from The Salmagundi Club and Allied Artists of America. Currently she getting ready for her Solo show at the Adirondack Lakes Art Center, NY and her solo show in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia. This year Ekaterina is scheduled to visit three art residencies in Gloucester, MA (where she is now for the month of June at the Goettemann Residency); Nayak, NY, and Salzburg, Austria.  Ekaterina will be having an Introductory Slide Presentation at 7:00 pm Monday, June 4 at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street.  You can check out Katerina’s work at http://www.katapostrophe.com/fineart/index.html.  Her work is exceptional and she is really lovely, so come out Monday night and welcome her to Rocky Neck. 

and on Roger’s right:  Caroline Kwas, new Rocky Neck artist on Madfish Wharf this summer at 77 Rocky Neck, G5 (where Ben McAdam and Jeff Cluett were last year).  Her gallery is Intimate Landscapes.  Caroline is a painter of photorealistic intimate landscapes that must be seen.  You can see her work at  www.carolinekwas.com, but come on down to Madfish Wharf and see it in person and welcome her to Cape Ann.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com