coming April 2022- News from Rockport Art Assoc. & Museum –
Rockport Art Association & Museum’s Experimental Group Opens Seventeenth Show
The Rockport Art Association & Museum’s Experimental Group opens its seventeenth group exhibition, “Unexpected No. Seventeen” at Jane Deering Gallery, 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA 01930. Works on view in the exhibition range in medium to include paintings, mixed-media, graphics, sculpture, digital art and photography. The exhibition runs from April 2 through April 30. Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday 1 to 5 pm and Sunday 1 to 4 pm or by appointment at 978.886.4582.
The Experimental Group is a creative forum, its’ main mission is to increase public awareness and to foster self-expression by bringing artists together to explore and share ideas that cultivate creative freedom. The EG is encouraged and supported by the Rockport Art Association & Museum.
If you would like more information about the exhibition, would like to schedule an interview and a walk through, or need additional promotional images please contact: Nella Lush, Experimental Group Chair, 978.886.4582 or via email at experimentalgroupraa@gmail.com
The Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M) is one of the oldest and most active art organizations in the country. The Association has a long and distinguished history that has spanned 100 years.
To generate excitement and get the ball moving, a hallmark of the annual art auction is the group show featured in the lovely Matz Gallery, a remarkable main entrance venue. Temporary shows of work by living artists are rotated monthly. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, art at the threshold greets all library visitors. What a treat to walk though an art exhibit to enter a library! The library interior has boasted major bequests via philanthropists and local big wheels since the library’s namesake benefactor, Samuel Sawyer. Books, art, library and learning were essential and inseparable to the founders.
The contemporary Annual Art Auction group shows begin as silent auctions with starting bids set low (well below retail for some of the participating artists*) ahead of a LIVE event. The idea is the bidding will rise above opening reserves so that The Friends of the Sawyer Free Library Annual Art Auction fundraiser can be a success.
*scroll down for checklist and to view the lots
Preview | Silent Auction
DEADLINES APPROACHING – There’s still time to visit, enjoy, and leave a silent bid in person
During the month of September 2021, beautiful art works by 54 artists–which they’ve so generously donated to the Art Auction–were installed in the singular Matz Gallery. Casual, emerging and established creatives are united in their support of our local library. View the art in person. Take notes. You may recognize artists, neighborhoods, a favorite motif or medium. These auctions are a great opportunity for a first time original art buyer or for a collector that helps an artist with a first time sale.
Leave a bid and/or try again when the auction moves on line October 1-5. The highest September bid will be the beginning reserve for the online auction October 1 – 5, 2021.
Immediately followed by ONLINE AUCTION: October 1-5, 2021
Signs of the times – Covid 19 precautions and greater access have spurred the LIVE auction to move online. Visit www.sawyerfreelibrary.org October 1-5, 2021
Bonus- The art is framed and ready to take home and hang after the online auction concludes.
2021 participating ARTISTS | preview lots
Support our local artists and Friends of the Sawyer Free Library
Lot #, Artist Name, Title, Minimum opening bid
Mary Rhinelander McCarl, Blue China Basket of Flowers, $100
Katherine Coakley, Half Moon Beach, $200
Ray Crane, Survivor (Paint Factory), $300
Roy McCauley, Goin’ Fishing, $100
Carole Loiacono, Gloucester Mooring, $150
Fred Kepler, The Gardener, $100
Nancy Alimansky, The Red Sail, $95
Nancy Molvig, Wash Day in Farnesse, $250
Mary Rhinelander, Eastern Point Lighthouse, $75
Isabelle K. Brown, Schooner Thomas E. Lannon, $100
Brenda Malloy, A Way Through, $50
James G. Watson, Lynx and Adventure of Pavillion Beach, $100
Jeff Weaver, Striper Fisherman, $400
Karen Fitzgerald, Breezy Day, $75
Marion Hall, Back Shore from Half Moon Beach, $100
David P. Curtis, Summer Afternoon, $150
Cynthia Asaro
Charlotte Roberts, Morning – Little River, $100
Ted Bidwell, Low Tide, $100
Joy Halsted, America the Beautiful, $300
Deanie Johnson, Autumn Marsh, $200
Sandra Herdman, Hideaway Cove, $40
Cynthia Dunaway, It’s Never Too Late, $200
Patricia McCarthy, Our Lady of Good Voyage, $100
Melissa Alibertie, Summer on the Annisquam River, $100
Dina Gomery, The Red Barn, $200
Pamela Burke, Good Harbor Sunrise, $40
Sheila Farren Billings, Safe Harbor, $100
Ann Mechen Ziergiebel, Dusk Ipswich Bay, $225
Peter Tysver, Summer Sailing, $100
Coco BeRkman, Dog Dog Dog, $80
Susan W. Daly, Pink Sky, $100
Jane Wolf, Wingaersheek Storm, $75
Patricia Doran, Sunset in Magnolia, $1000
Alyce Wherren, Sea and Shore, $95
Michael Cangemi, The Shore, $95
Susan M. Funk, Red Tractor, $150
Michael DeCosimo, Autumn Leaves, $185
Nancy Caplan, Morning Light, $195
Jerry Ackerman, The Pantry Family, $120
Linda Lea Bertrand, Pepperil Cove, $200
Shirley Hamilton, Lanes Cove Shack, $300
Anita Beloff, Becky’s Flowers, $90
Lynda Goldberg, Sunflowers in Provence, $150
Curtis Wilcox, After Life, $40
Barbara Kremer, View from Plum Cove Beach, $175
Phyllis Feld, Marsh Grasses, $100
Jeffrey Marshall, Taking Inventory (Hiltz), $100
Jessica “Jess” Semenaro, Rocks on Seaweed, $30
Olga Hayes, Rudbeckia, $75
James Formichella, Tokyo Racing, $70
Daryl Jackson, Turbine, $30
Ann Lafferty, Rip Tide, $125
Roger Martin, Dig In, $100
NOTE NEW DAYS/HOURS at Sawyer Free Library: M-W 8-6; Th 10-7; F-S 10-5
Face masks required.
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