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Most people find their talent for painting at an early age, I found mine last year. The first painting I ever created was in January of 2011 and I fell in love with the field instantly. When I first started I went for the representational route and even those were difficult to read so now I concentrate mostly on non-representational. Recently I have started a new challenge for my work. I strive to buy the least amount of supplies as possible and use interesting objects that I find along the way. The overall concentration of it is to not think about the brush techniques and more on how the paint wants to lay itself down. |
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Click here to see pix from Karen's current show Karen Hallion grew up in Nahant, Massachusetts where she spent many summers exploring rocky beaches and swimming in the ocean. Karen began pursuing Art as a student at Swampscott High School and after graduating in 1992 attended Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. She graduated in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Illustration. Karen taught full-time elementary school Art in Swampscott from 2003-2009. Currently, she teaches one day a week at the Hathaway School, also in Swampscott, and is enrolled in a Masters in Art Education program at Salem State College. Karen currently lives in Marblehead, with her husband Matt, their son Ryan, and their dog, Tolkien. Click here to see pix of Karen's last Gulu show. |
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Hanging on November 6th - Art opening on October 17 at 7PM! I am intrigued with the idea of reflecting the realism of modern culture, while using an Old Masters style, or a technique that was applied to painting around the 13th-17th centuries. In terms of content, my focus ranges from prostitution and the grotesque, to religion and politics, to fashion, glamour & at times, the elite. I have found that many of my artistic influences are derived from styles reminiscent of the 1940s-1960s, whether they are presented in my paintings or my overall lifestyle. For example, American actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead have greatly inspired my work, simply because of their elegance, sophistication and strong female influences in society. As a young painter, I try not to put restrictions on my ideas, as I am still developing a sense of self & regularly motivated to ascribe aspects of innovative culture into my paintings. To name a few, I am greatly influenced by the work of Raphael, Vermeer, Irena Ionesco, Shiele, Sigmar Polke, Patrick Caulfield, and René Magritte. |
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Hanging on October 18th - Art opening on October 22nd from 4-7PM! Artist Bio What is Zombie Bomb? Click here! |
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Artist Bio Richard and Greg's art opening takes place on Thursday July 14th at 7PM! Click here to read a recent Salem Patch article featuring Richard Flynn! |
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My work is organic, bold, erotic, gritty, and inspired by my mad scientist tendencies. These works are thoughts and, in essence two dimensional sculptures. They are curvy, and you’ll probably have a hard time finding a straight line. I’ve found a secret formula to create these works: get up around 5 a.m., drink coffee, turn on the music, and then I jump and dance around the room as I paint, this gets the art thoughts moving. I paint ferociously; this creates real energy within the piece. My painting style and its looseness makes watercolor an optimal medium for me. I paint very wet, this allows the colors to mix themselves on the paper, and allows little experiments/accidents to create themselves within the piece. Painting to me is a bizarre form of meditation. I have a fondness for Asian calligraphy sumi-e brushes, allowing me to create elegant lines. With my persistent interest in keeping things fresh, I paint with more non-traditional brushes like palmetto fronds, brushes made of grass, turkey basters, sticks, and lastly a collection of brushes I made from friends who volunteered some of their own hair for my artistic endeavors. With these homemade brushes I’ve been able to create some truly organic and fresh movements on the paper. I’ve explored many different artistic mediums before hunkering down with watercolor. I’ve been a semi-abstract potter, fanatical wooden archery bow maker, and played around with house paints Pollock style. I have a relatively nonconventional background for an abstract artist. I have a Masters in Conservation Biology, with my thesis studying the feeding habits of American mink (think mink coat). I’ve been a woody plant researcher, and currently I’m a full time fish biologist studying rainbow smelt (think small yummy fish). If I’m not in the studio, I’m outside learning about nature. Nature is truly abstract and offers infinite sources of inspiration for me as an artist. I had fun creating these pieces. Enjoy! |
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Artist Statement I’ve been painting for about fifteen years. Usually the images come from within; but even when using a picture or an object for inspiration, what I end up with is something I couldn’t have conceived of before beginning. The creative process itself proves most exciting for me when I take risks: proceeding more by instinct, much like an athlete does. My hope in letting my intuition lead in the creative process is that those unplanned brush-strokes will blend with the ones that are also intended, thus drawing the chaotic into something solid and contained. As an artist, this approach allows me to directly explore those strange, primitive inklings in opposition within me and presumably, us all. Once this combination of work, paint and energy concludes in breaking through, I become its viewer also, and what I find that this form of expression can do for us is to make possible a way to say or feel something significant that could only be conveyed through this language of paint and the surface it has been applied to. |
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Artist Bio During Socialist times children with apparent talent in sculpting and painting were preselected and supported in extra-curricular activities. It was here Daniela began to deepen her drawing skills and learned to work with clay. She then started oil painting at age sixteen after being given her first set of paints, and still prefers this medium over others. As a young adult, she attended drawing classes in Munich, learning to depict the human form. Later she followed up with painting classes of the same kind at the MFA in Boston. Much of the imagery for my art reflects on memories and dreams which I weave into a geometric environment. A recurrent theme is the subject of movement as I imagine aesthetic motion like the rotation of the paddle while kayaking, the way the body moves in dance or the trees lean during a storm. The flow of motion in my paintings often results from a single intertwining line defining the space. By using naive color combinations and blending techniques I am trying to achieve vivid works of art. So just follow the line and see where it leads you…! |
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About my work Bio Opening Reception: Thursday, February 17th at, 7-8PM |
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Art Opening on January 13th at 7PM with music by DJ White Widow (rare psych/garage tracks)! About my work
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Greg DuBois was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1982. He was always interested in pushing boundaries and thinking outside the norm. He occupied his time in his younger years skateboarding and working at the local skate shop. He was always and artist, and wherever he went the hip-hop beats followed, later in life giving him the inspiration to overcome the traps of Tucson's underbelly. Through all of this, he acquired an extensive knowledge of carpentry from working with his father. Greg now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts; where the colorful, urban characters he creates reflect the experiences he has had along the way. While selling paintings and working freelance, Greg works as a plumber making functional, and sculptural, large-scale pipe installations. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration from the University of Arizona, and is an East-coast transplant who brings in some West-coast flavor. |
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After graduating from the The Rhode Island School of Design, Lauren's artwork has charmed audiences of all ages in editorial, children's, and teen markets. Her work is a soup of influences ranging from folk art, animation, street art, graffiti, pop culture, textile design, and comics. She currently teaches in the Illustration Departments at Montserrat College of Art and RISD. |
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Hold On To That Feeling It all started for Janelle in the first grade when she won 1st place in her schools art competition. She knew then that her life would be filled with paintbrushes and color! She continued her passion for art through her studies of graphic design and has been active in the field for ten plus years. Whether she is creating logos for companies, painting town murals, or painting for pleasure, Janelle has compiled quite the impressive portfolio of works. Her inspirations come from her personal experiences of love, life, loss and everything in between. Prints and commissioned pieces are available upon request. Enjoy the show! |
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Marblehead artist Jean Fogle enjoys the creative process through many media and art forms. As a painter, she explores with acrylic, oil, water color and collage to develop imagery that can be figurative or abstract. Her work as a decorative artist, under the name Pigments of the Imagination, features painted furniture and atmospheric wall treatments including murals and faux and fancy finishes. As a theatre artist, she designs costumes and set decoration for several North Shore theatre companies. |
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August 2010 Art Opening on Thursday August 12 from 7-8PM http://www.visionwalker.com Over the years I’ve managed to claw my way through the art world from comics to Tattoos and everything in between. Drawing dinosaurs on my grandmother’s living room walls evolved into sci-fi Horror comics for Heavy Metal. In the past I’ve worked for Marvel, Top Cow, Heavy Metal Magazine, Penny Farthing Press, Flesh Rot Magazine and a bunch of other Indi press comic companies. I spend half my time tattooing as a resident artist at Witch City Ink in my hometown of Salem Mass, the other half is spent working on new stories for Heavy Metal or paintings for gallery shows. |
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Over two long and hot weekends in July, Montserrat College of Art alumnus Greg Orfanos donated his time and energy to create a public art project in Lapin Park. The intent of this art project was to transform two of Salem's unsightly utility boxes into unique works of art. The city had approved the basic design of Greg's project and the Gulu paid for Greg's supplies and numerous cups of coffee. About the Art The small box features several strange and whimsical creatures. At least one is wearing a tube sock. Click the links below to see the before, during, and after pix from the project: |
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All material has been retired, rescued and repurposed. These paintings are my concerns. We share it with each other. Originally from Texas, Lucas Custer graduated from Montserrat College of Art in 2003 where he studied graphic design. Living in Salem over the past seven years has afforded him the opportunity to acquire abandoned artifacts which he gives new life in his work. |
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Art Opening takes place on Thursday June 17 at 7PM. Music by The Scott Ouellette Trio to follow. Laura Niemi Young is a new resident of Salem who has a BA in Studio Art from Clark University, and who is in the process of obtaining her MA in Art Therapy and Mental Health Counseling at Lesley University. The work presented in this show is a collection of images created toward the end of her first-year art therapy and counseling internship. When creating these paintings, Laura was thinking about the opportunities she has had to be a witness to individuals’ resilience after difficult challenges. In this series, the different paintings either balance each other, or contain their own internal polarities, which speaks to how coping often seems beautiful and contradictory. Like the performers, acrobats, captives, and explorers in these works, we all, at times, are called upon to use our abilities to simultaneously embody both grace and strength, to be intensely conscious and also amuse and surprise ourselves, and generally, to negotiate with our pain and difficulties, and transform them into a more reflective hardiness. Hopefully, these paintings capture a bit of the wonder of the little feats that people achieve against the odds everyday. |
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At birth, my parents named me Brian Donnelly. My father, who was a middle-school history teacher, taught me to read before nursery school. I found, that if I wanted to learn something, all I had to do was read about it. This was much to the detriment of my grade school teachers, who seemed to have dubious itineraries for me. This continued in a steady decline through junior-high, where the "Little Napoleon" in me fought the system by refusing to play their reindeer games. As the dark curtain of wolves and crows descended upon me in the form of bullies, detentions and curfews, I escaped into a world populated with monsters, super-heroes, and naked women. I would surface momentarily to explain my travels to people around me. As time went on I traveled to darker and more mysterious places. Places not written about directly. Places hinted at on stone walls and collective dreams. Still, to this day, I travel and surface, honing my skills of tone in order to communicate these patterns and forms that lie just below our waking life. I am now, as you see me, as I always have ever been- A Searcher For The Infinitely Elusive Truth. Love, |
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Dan Nolan is a self-taught artist based in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. A dabbler in several mediums and styles (yielding work such as his graphic novel – Business Casual Stag Devil Death Boy), Dan always returns to oil paints. While most of his time is spent on dog, baby, and grandma portrait commissions, he’s recently been channeling New England’s baseball fever, producing this series of baseball paintings. More of his work can be seen on his website, www.dannolan.com and he can be reached via email at dan@dannolan.com or phone/text at 857-719-6091. |
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Artist Statement: The images for this exhibition were constructed using a hybrid of digitally drawn insect anatomy; their intention to highlight the inter-connectivity, interdependence and infrastructure between the human and insect societal systems despite our primal fears of them. After being born and raised in the UK, I moved to North America in 2006, first living in New York, and then in Salem where I currently live and work.' |
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Karen Hallion grew up in Nahant, Massachusetts where she spent many summers exploring rocky beaches and swimming in the ocean. Karen began pursuing Art as a student at Swampscott High School and after graduating in 1992 attended Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. She graduated in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Illustration. Karen taught full-time elementary school Art in Swampscott from 2003-2009. Currently, she teaches one day a week at the Hathaway School, also in Swampscott, and is enrolled in a Masters in Art Education program at Salem State College. Karen's work has always centered around a general theme of Fantasy, with a specific focus on mermaids. She is heavily influenced by the Art Nouveau movement, and Alphonse Mucha. Lately, she has been painting mermaids on driftwood found on the beaches of north-shore Massachusetts. Karen currently lives in Marblehead, with her husband Matt, their son Ryan, and their dog, Tolkien. Click here to see pix of Karen's newest work. |
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Matthew Giuffrewww.matthewgiuffre.com Gulu Art Show: Mid-Nov – Jan 2010 |
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Greg's featured work is located here. Click here to see Judi's.
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