My View of Life on the Dock
Thursday, August 1st – Nights on the Neck – always fun for the whole family.
Saturday, August 3rd – Stop by Khan Studio and the GMG Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., Gallery 3 for Audi Souza’s Opening Reception for her exhibit Cape Ann Views and North Shore Gardens from 6-8:00, then head over to the Beaux Arts Ball at the Center. And if that’s not enough, Chowderhouse is back at Sailor Stan’s with music by Kitt Cox’s Sunny Fishcakes Review 5-8:00pm. Chowder & Chilli ($5 Cup/$7 Bowl).
E.J. Lefavour
Always a great time on Rocky Neck. Here are some photos from July NOTN on Madfish Wharf, with Sol y Canto putting on a great performance for a rapt audience. See schedule of performers for our August 1st and September 5th Nights on the Neck below.
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August 3rd, 6-10:00 pm – Don’t miss it! The 2013 Rocky Neck Beaux Arts Ball. Dig out some old threads and make them into something new. Turn your recyclables into a trendy fashion statement. You’re not expected to look like the model here – go for something uniquely you. See you there.
E.J. Lefavour
Rocky Neck Gallery’s Summer Artists Series: Marsh as Metaphor –
New paintings by Brenda Cirioni.
Wednesday, July 24 – Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Marsh: Pool
mixed media on panel
24 x 24
$1600.
Rocky Neck Gallery is pleased to announce the fourth show of the Summer Artist Series featuring artist Brenda Cirioni and her exhibit Marsh as Metaphor. This dramatic new show opens Wednesday, July 24 and runs for three weeks until August 13. Meet Brenda Cirioni and learn about her intriguing creative process at an artist’s reception on Saturday, July 27 from 5-7 PM.
Cirioni’s paintings, consisting of mixed media on panel, are energetic, thought provoking and beautiful depictions of nature. This new series is inspired by her family home burning to the ground when she was sixteen. While touching upon utter destruction, her paintings are celebratory, bursting with color and regeneration.
In this series she explores the tension between nature and the elements. Her work is about the power of transformation within nature and within us. Cirioni paints the background composition, then draws, splatters and drips with acrylic ink and paint creating a surface rich with texture, color and movement. She enlarges on the composition with torn paper scraps, feathers, fiber and other debris. Her method of layering and juxtaposing disparate materials draws attention to the multiplicities and mysteries of nature and life.
Please join us and meet Brenda Cirioni on Saturday, July 27th from 5-7 PM for a reception. Hear her talk about her work and process around 6 PM. Delicious refreshments will be served. Rocky Neck Gallery is located on 53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester. The hours are: Sunday – Wednesday: 11 AM – 6 PM, Thursday – Saturday: 11 AM – 8 PM. Free parking is available.
Last evening was the opening reception for the East Goes West exhibit of works by Rocky Neck artists at Castle Manor Inn. All I can say is, Castle Manor knows how to put on an event with a flair. The function space looked beautiful, as did every other space in the Inn and restaurant, and the grounds are peaceful and meticulously maintained. Appetizers and champagne served by a very professional and friendly staff were delicious. Attendees were treated to tours of the exhibit and a sampling of rooms in the Inn, which are lovely and tastefully appointed.
If you have a wedding, anniversary or other function coming up, or friends, family or business associates coming to visit, you owe it to yourself to check out Castle Manor Inn. On a more regular tip – check out Sea Glass restaurant or just stop by the pub for a drink. The exhibit will be up through August, so stop by any time and check out the artwork and Castle Manor Inn.
E.J. Lefavour
It is coming up fast, the 2013 Rocky Neck Beaux Arts Ball. This year the theme is recycled, repurposed, revived. Put on your creative thinking cap and come up with a fun, unique costume (plastic bags, newspapers, empty cans or bottles, fish net, a recreated second hand outfit – like our poster model Katharine Worth created and is wearing – from Bananas, Second Glance, Madcap Style or any of our many vintage, second hand and thrift shops, etc.). Have fun with your costume, and then come and have fun at the Beaux Arts Ball at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center on Saturday, August 3rd from 6-10:00 pm.
There will be no mug up this Sunday morning, but do come by Sunday afternoon from 2-5:00 pm to the Opening Reception for Marion Hall’s truly wonderful watercolor exhibit, Life is a Beach. Marion is from Manchester and is a member of both the North Shore and Rockport Art Associations. If you love well executed traditional watercolor paintings of our beautiful area, at incredibly reasonable prices, you don’t want to miss this exhibit.
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Saturday, July 13 – Friday, July 26th Manchester watercolor artist, Marion Hall, will be exhibiting her beautiful beach and seaside watercolor paintings at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., Gallery 3.
There will be an Opening Reception on Sunday, July 14th from 2-5:00pm.
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The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Presents An Exhibition entitled, “twentythirteen” Selections by Ms. Blythe Hazen, of Montserrat College of Art, on view through August 4, 2013 June 10, 2013 – Gloucester MA – Works by eighteen artists in a wide variety of media have been selected for the “twentythirteen” exhibition on view from July 11 through August 4 at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester. Hours are from 12–6 PM, Thursday through Sunday and the public is invited to a reception on Saturday, July 13 from 4-6 PM.
Juror Blyth Hazen, professor of art at Montserrat College of Art, selected the work for
“twentythirteen” from submissions to an open call for entries sent to artists from Boston to the North Shore. 18 works of art were selected from more than 130 submitted. Works on view are those by Beverly Arsem, David Barber, John Carney, Kathy Chapman, Anne Cowman, Nicole Dahlmer, Nina Fletcher, Margaret Furlong, Kim Gulino, Bob Hesse, Susan Johnson, Jane Keddy, Elynn Kroger, Katia Mason, David McCoy, Leila Namin, Lois Tarlow and Juni Van Dyke. Seven of the artists are from Gloucester, but most are new to the Cultural Center; some hail from as far away as Jamaica Plain, Newton and Worcester. Four artists will be honored with gift certificates, compliments of Blick Art Materials.
Professor Hazen was “drawn to work that articulated or played with space and the related qualities of light and scale.” She revealed in a juror’s statement, “While the works I selected for this exhibit are not particularly about seaside life, they are all in some way about how the ocean has impacted my awareness of space and place.”
She continued to observe, “I am attracted to the abstract space formed by the colors and grays in Beverly Arsem’s quilt and the macro-micro worlds of Lois Tarlow and Juni Van Dyke’s 2D compositions. I have a similar interest in Katia Mason’s paper constructions. There are atmospheric spatial plays in both Elynn Kroger’s abstract landscape and Bob Hesse created a fantastical space composited from images of real places. Lelia Namin’s woman knitting, invites a rather odd yet intriguing psychological space.”
“I selected three photographs, each with a different twist. Susan Johnson’s “Swampscott”, pops in and out of deep and flat space. Nicole Dahlmer’s photograph is of an object of unknown scale. Kathy Chapman’s “Essex Garden” is seen as if in compressed space/time. Kim Gulino and David Barber both present more humorous works that play with the notion of bodies in space. Jane Keddy’s painting of a shoreline hints of space by overlapping and downsizing distant objects but at the same time flattens space with solid color. Anne Cowman and Margaret Furlong’s simplified landscapes use color and light to make us feel the distant horizon or overpowering sky. Last but not least the sculptures of John Carney, David McCoy and Nina Fletcher, though made from very different materials cut through and carve out interesting places in actual spaces.”
The Rocky Neck Art Colony is honored to show such diverse work. Viewers will find sculpture and prints, quilts and photographs; the range of media make the show interesting in itself and well worth the trip to Rocky Neck this summer.
EXHIBITION LISTINGS
“twentythirteen”
Sculptures, Prints, Quilts, & Photographs
Exhibit runs from July 11 – August 4, 2013
Thursdays – Sundays, 12–6 PM
Meet The Artists Reception
Saturday, July 13, 2013, 4–6 PM
The Cultural Center At Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester MA 01930
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About Rocky Neck Art Colony
The crown jewel of Gloucester’s harbor community, Rocky Neck is home to mostly year-round residents and has a thriving summertime population of artists, art galleries and restaurants, and the Rocky Neck Art Colony, one of the oldest working art colonies in the United States and a 501(c)3 arts organization since 1973. Rocky Neck recently became one of the first five “Designated Massachusetts Cultural Districts” in the state of Massachusetts; this designation denotes past traditions and contemporary vibrancy along with the area’s orientation towards a local creative economy. The mission of the Rocky Neck Art Colony is to nurture excellence in the visual arts and to celebrate the artistic culture of Rocky Neck and the entire Cultural District.
Local Cape Ann buses and seasonal trolleys serve the area and the Gloucester Harbor Water Shuttle makes it easy to visit East Gloucester by water.
Judythe Evans Meagher celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of her
gallery at 37 Rocky Neck Avenue with new paintings of Rocky Neck
scenes on July 12, 13 & 14, noon to 8 pm. Opening Reception is
Friday, July 12th 4 pm to 8 pm. All are welcome.
Gigi Mederos has again agreed to host Mug Up at her beautiful space, Aquatro Gallery at 77 Rocky Neck Ave., G4. 9:30 am Sunday, July 7. Join us for a nice new tradition this year – moveable mug ups. All are welcome. Feel free to bring along something to share. Can anyone guess what I’m bringing?
E.J. Lefavour
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Not only do you have the first Night on the Neck on the 4th of July, but you also have the opening reception for Mary Bowles and Kerrie Bromberger’s Summer Garden by the Sea at Khan Studio. A night on Rocky Neck you should not miss.
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This is an intensive three-day workshop that explores traditional and contemporary approaches to drawing with chalk pastels. There will be an ongoing conversation about color (observed and expressive), formal and technical drawing concerns, and meaning and metaphor as it relates to our work. There will be demos, critiques, and lots of one-on-one attention. Participants should have basic drawing skills. If you love to draw and would like to learn how to use pastels, or would like to brush up on your pastel technique and try new things, this would be a great workshop to take. Painters will find this medium a welcome addition to their studio practice.
This Sunday’s Mug Up will be held at Alma’s Art & Antiques at 75 Rocky Neck Ave. #15 (next to the Rudder). Alma has a wonderful back patio on Smiths Cove behind her gallery, if weather cooperates so we can be outside. If not, inside her gallery is great too. Bring along something to share. 9:30am Sunday, June 30. See you there.
Don’t miss Lookie Lookie tomorrow night at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson Street – and be ready to get your groove on.
She said she wasn’t coming back this year. We didn’t believe it. So here she is, back again for another season on Rocky Neck in her new location (which is actually an old location that she was in years ago – Alma likes to move around). You can find Alma McLaughlin this year at her new Alma’s Art & Antiques location at 75 Rocky Neck Ave #15 (next to The Rudder Restaurant in the space that was previously Kathy Archer’s White Bird Gallery). Check out the ever-changing collection of beautiful art, jewelry, furnishings, knicknacks, etc. that she has. She also has a wonderful space on the patio in back available for adults and children to paint and create.
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If you came to Shell Designs’ exhibit last year, you know how amazing Mary Bowles’ and Kerrie Bromberger’s work is, and how quickly it goes. Make sure you come back this year and see what’s new at “Summer Garden by the Sea” – and come early before it is all gone. At Khan Studio, June 29th – July 12 with an opening reception on Thursday, July 4th from 5:00-7:30 during Nights on the Neck.
E.J. Lefavour
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An excellent exhibit of art by James and Eileen Patten Oliver from June 15-28th with an opening reception on Saturday, June 15th from 6:00-8:00 at Khan Studio & the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., Gallery 3. Not to be missed.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
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