Making Connections

a New Members Exhibition featuring the work of
B. Amore, Julie C Baer, Maryellen Cahill, and Beth Plakidas

February 4 – March 25

B. Amore creates multi-media wall assemblages incorporating found objects, text, photos on silk, stone, bronzed gloves. The focus of her current work honors the reality of our commonly shared humanity.

Julie C Baer’s paintings reflect close attention to the biota in her natural environment, wherever she is, and the seasonal trajectory of its life cycles: budding, blooming, pollinating, fruiting, seeding, dying, renewal. 

Maryellen Cahill incorporates textiles, fiber, and beads in her mixed media art. She takes inspiration from her travels around the globe and the beautiful cultures she has been exposed to.

Beth Plakidas uses collected and handmade objects to create intimate installations. Combining formal, conceptual, and chance elements, Beth’s work balances the absurd with the beautiful.

(clockwise from top left)
Beth Plakidas, Julie C Baer, Maryellen Cahill, and B. Amore

curated by
Samantha Marder

December 3-30
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 3, 6-9 pm
Third Thursday Celebration: December 15, 6-9 pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 pm,
and by appointment

NOTE: December 3rd, the Gallery will be open from 6-9 pm
The Gallery will be closed on Saturday, December 24th 

Samantha Marder curates a show of work which reflects a broad interpretation of the neurodivergent creative process…art illustrating the outward manifestation of internal chaos, non-linear thinking, conflicted sensibilities, and unleashed absurdity.

AUGUST 28 – OCTOBER 20
EDGE – X BONNIE WOODS
WHAT TO MAKE OF ALL OF THIS? – WALTER KOPEC

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 28, 3-5 p.m.
Third Thursday Receptions, September 15 and October 20, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.,
and by appointment (tel/text 857-335-3100)

X Bonnie Woods is showing new works on folded paper in a Boston solo exhibition entitled EDGE.  Irregularly shaped paper constructions are marked by Sumi ink, reaching across walls and ceilings. The map-like images offer a geography of puzzle parts and emphasize the essence of each painting’s edge. Originating from the artist’s aerial sketches of islands, landforms, and snowforms, these works were completed in Boston and Berlin, Germany, between 2020 and the present. The artist works and resides in both cities.

What to make of all of this? It’s an open-ended question, with few, if any, concrete answers.

With a strong conceptual, graphic sensibility, Walter Kopec’s work, through minimal, appropriate materials and economical gesture, uses strategies of puzzle-making and linguistic tricks to create visual/verbal connections, each component fortifying, reflecting or complementing the other.

Using wordplay and idiomatic expressions, irony and humor as a springboard to invite immediate recognition and general accessibility, each “visual poem” challenges the viewer to consider a more layered and nuanced response, asking for consideration beyond the obvious and how carefully parsed language, leads to doublespeak, irony and innuendo, and in the worst case… hypocrisy. http://www.walterkopec.com

May 15 – June 25
Two Exhibits by Carmen Sasso:
“Connect the Dots” and “Fifty in Five”

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6-9 p.m.
Third Thursdays with Artist Talk: May 19 & June 16, 6-9 p.m.

Connect the Dots: Is a literal translation of orbs that co-join each other on a flat surface to create an image.  In adult discourse the phrase “connect the dots” can be used as a metaphor to illustrate an ability, or inability to associate one idea with another, to find the big picture or salient feature in a mass of data. Other times an orb is a sharks eye that connects to a swimming spot that floats on the sea, or artists who inspire each other over the centuries.

Fifty in Five: Is a portfolio collection of fifty paintings and drawings done with acrylic, pastel, and charcoal completed in five days while residing for one week at a Dune Shack in Truro MA., off Race Point on Cape Cod.

Group Show by Member Artists
January 28 – February 19

Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 17, 6-9 p.m.