Flatrocks Gallery’s new show
“Chromatic, Exploring the Language of Color”
Artist Reception
Saturday, May 7th from 6-8pm.
Sandra Douglas’ acrylic paintings are vibrant intuitive works. She explains “Art in the highest sense is beyond explanation. It can only be felt. Therefore, any attempt to explain it on a rational level falls far short of its reality. Color as an expression of light surpasses the gross material of paint. After one develops methods of working with color, the work becomes integrated and the fun begins. The paintings start to flow and the artist becomes a channel. Whatever the springboard, the piece takes on its own persona. When light is truly created by color, an emanation of energy extends from the painting – its soul.”
Sandra received a degree in History of Art from Wellesley Collge and was the head of the Visual Arts department at Pingree School for many years. She then conducted private workshops and developed her own work. She studied with Don Stone in Rockport and with George Demetrios in Gloucester. She also studied painting, printmaking and design at Montserrat College of Art. As an abstract painter, she trained with Paul Scott and Sam Feinstein – both students of Hans Hofmann.
Nate Longcope describes his paintings as “ still frames from an abstract animation, each one with a deep meditation on form and juxtaposition. The line drawings and painted colored swaths within layers of clear resin create a depth of field that cast shadows that move as the viewer moves. These layers of color and resin are like layers of acetone in cell animation, a comic abstraction, creating form and narrative in the minds eye.” He earned his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. There he studied film, collage, and animation. Nate’s specialization in video installations, led him to working at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the PS.1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
Stephen Bates works are essentially collage, using watercolor, acrylic, paper, thin wood and wire, full of energy and movement. “I am a professional musician, and I want to bring my musical experience into my painting. Music progresses in time and an explosive event may be followed in an instant by something quiet and delicate. If I bring musical ideas into the realm of painting, those different qualities are brought together in visual form which is seen instantaneously.” Bates’ career as a clarinetist for the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra spanned from 1973 to 2009. During this time he continued to make his unique painting/sculptures and exhibited extensively in the Washington DC area. He now teaches at Ten Pound Island Studios. Stephen will perform three pieces of Igor Stravinsky for clarinet and speak about the relationship of his music and art in the gallery on Sunday May 22nd from 5-6pm.
Flatrocks Gallery, 77 Langsford St., Gloucester MA. 978-879-4683
open Thurs. – Sunday 12-5pm
Genealogy Workshop at the Manchester Historical Museum
Saturday, May 7 (10:30am-noon)
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
Come learn how to start researching your family background at this beginner workshop.
Heather Wilkinson Rojo has been doing family history research for 40 years. She started before she was old enough to drive, riding her bicycle to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, to research her family tree. She has been blogging about genealogy at the “Nutfield Genealogy” blog since 2009, and has won several awards including the Family Tree Magazine Top 40 Genealogy blogs in 2011 and 2013. She is a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Societies of Genealogists, The National Genealogical Society, The New Hampshire Historical Society, and the Mayflower Society.
Topics will include:
- Charts and Forms
- Recording Names and Data
- Julian vs. Georgian Calendar
- Primary vs. Secondary Resources
- Vital Records
- Immigration Records
- Gravestones
- Census Records
- Common Mistakes and Errors
- Other Resources (Ancestry, Family Search, etc…)
$10 members/ $15 nonmembers
Seats are very limited – preregistration required
call 978-526-7230 or email
info@manchesterhistoricalmuseum.org
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