PHYLLIS FELD

This week Rocky Neck Gallery will feature the work of new artist member, Phyllis Feld, in both the window and the big work wall.  For the window, Feld’s painting Sumac will be shown for one week from Friday, September 14^th until Thursday evening, September 20^th.

SUMAC oil/canvas 29 x 29 framed $2000

 
In describing her inspiration for this landscape Feld says, “The strong diagonal formed by the marching sumac and the whimsical romp of the wildflowers in this landscape spoke to me."  

Rocky Neck Gallery’s big work wall space will feature two paintings showcasing Feld's talent as both a plein air and still life artist.  These two works will be exhibited for two weeks from Friday, September14^th until Thursday evening, September 27^th.

QUARTET
pastel/paper
19 x 26 framed
$800

This still life of four pears aptly titled Quartet.  (Please note this image is cropped here.)

The calm rhythm of the marsh beyond the dance of wildflowers inspired her in this oil on canvas titled Mellow Marsh.   

MELLOW MARSH
oil/canvas
20 x 24 framed
$1500

 

Phyllis Feld is artist painting landscapes plein air or working as a portrait and still life painter.  Feld has traveled to France, Italy and Cape Cod to find her landscapes. She is a graduate of Pratt's Institute's department of Interior Design.  After a rewarding career as an interior designer and raising a family, Feld began her painting studies at the Museum of Fine Arts.   She is an artist member of the North Shore Arts Association, an associate member of the Rockport Art Association and also a member of both the Newton and Concord Art Association. Feld has exhibited extensively along with receiving many awards for her paintings.

To see these paintings and more of her work stop by 53 Rocky Neck Avenue.  The gallery is open 7 days a week.

MARY RHINELANDER - FISH

FISH
mixed media: wire, found objects, and sea glass all collected on beach walks.

Our featured artist for this week's Rocky Neck Gallery window is Mary Rhinelander.  Mary constructs, by hand, her one-of-a-kind wire, found objects and seaglass fish.  Each fish is unique and very popular here at Rocky Neck Gallery.  They generally run slightly longer than one foot and range in price from $225 - $500, according to dimension and complexity.  The fish are inspired by Alexander Calder's 1944 work, aptly entitled "Fish"! 

Mary has an MFA in Printmaking from the School of Museum of Fine Arts. This might suggest that she is a printmaker. She is!  However, Mary also paints, cuts, glues, builds, sews, tears, hammers, splatters, and generally mixes up her media pretty thoroughly. Although Mary has only the greatest respect for artists who suffer and live in garrets with no heat, she has lived a relatively comfortable life and LOVES the act of creating and is passionate about color—especially yellow. 

See this Fish on view this Friday, September 7th, until September 14th - and more of Mary’s work here at the gallery - open 7 days a week. 

THE ESSENCE OF SUNLIGHT - MARY McCARL

The Essence of Sunlight
hand decorated papers on painted canvas

Mary McCarl is the featured artist on Rocky Neck Gallery's big wall.  This wall space is set up to allow the gallery's artists the opportunity to show larger work.  The wall has been a tremendous success and brings new work into the gallery every two weeks.  For this exhibit, from Friday, August 31st until Friday, September 14th, Mary is showing her largest painting to date.

The new work measures 36 x 36 inches.  This is a collage on canvas and titled The Essence of Sunlight.  The priced is $400.

Mary discusses her work as follows:  "I was expressing shifting sunlight through half-seen natural forms.  It is my largest work and my first collage on painted canvas. I hand-decorate the papers. They are all very light-weight and many are translucent—tracing paper and Japanese kozo (mulberry) paper, to allow the under-layers to show."

To see this colorful work and more of Mary's delightful paintings please stop in at 53 Rocky Neck Avenue.  We are open every day.

STEVIE BLACK - ARTICULATIONS

Rocky Neck Gallery's Summer Artist Series is pleased to announce the new show Articulations featuring a series of digital photographic collages by artist Stevie Black.  Articulations opens on Thursday, Aug. 30 and runs until Tuesday, September 18th.

Articulations is a collection of works on paper that confront our fractured sense of things, of world events, of political and social concepts, of science and art, our own human-ness.  These all-over-landscapes (from Alex Katz) are built from many photos, from many places and times of day, and serve as a metaphor for our state of inundation.  From these parts, Black is interested in building wholly new compositions (landscapes) in which the primary concern is for an aesthetic ecology, as filmmaker Stan Brakhage has called it, a sense of equilibrium in the work, where all the parts are functioning in a general system.

Black received his BFA in Photography and Film Studies from Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts).  He worked commercially as a Cibachrome color printer for galleries, museums, ad agencies and fine artists throughout much of the 80s.  Black’s work has been exhibited in many group and solo shows, including at the Port of History Museum in Philadelphia and was a prize winner in a Print Club Photography Exhibition and other groups shows.  In the 90s, he transitioned his art practice to mainly drawing, painting and installation using letterforms and visual language as his subject matter.  He was a member of Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia and had several solo and group shows there before returning to New England.

Please join us for an artist reception on Sunday, September 2^nd, from 2 -4 PM and meet Stevie Black. 

WINDOW ARTIST - FRED JILLSON

This painting, "4 Boys in a Boat" will be exhibited in Rocky Neck Gallery's window this Friday, August 24 until Friday August 31st.  Fred Jillson is the featured artist this next week.  The painting is 22 ½ x 26 ½ inches framed and is oil on masonite.  Fred experiemented using raw masonite for this painting but says that won't be done again.  And he revealed that a little license was taken in the title. He painted this on an "art weekend" while in Duxbury, MA.    The price is $375.  This painting magnificently captures those fleeting summer days of four boys hanging out in a boat on the quiet water.  To see this and more of Fred's work please stop by the gallery.

DINA GOMERY - REFLECTIONS

REFLECTIONS
oil/canvas

This week the featured artist in Rocky Neck Gallery's window is painter Dina Gomery.  This new work, titled Reflections, is oil on canvas measuring 18 x 18 inches framed.  The price is $1400.00.  This painting will be exhibited until this coming Friday.

Dina is a new member to the gallery this year.  In her still life paintings she strives to transform ordinary objects to reflect their elegance, grace or beauty. 

Growing up in Venezuela, she has studied art since a teenager.  Dina attended McGill University in Canada where she received her degree in architecture.   She currently resides in Brookline, MA, dividing her time between family, freelancing in architecture and interior design, and her art.  

Dina also paints landscapes working "plein air."  To see this painting and more of Dina's landscapes please stop by the gallery.  We are open seven days a week.

ORANGE SPOT - MICHAEL OLEKSIW



Orange Spot
archival digital photograph
$315


Rocky Neck Gallery features the work of photographer Michael Oleksiw on the big wall.  Michael's digital archival photograph is called Orange Spot.  This measures 29 x 29 inches framed and is priced at $315.00.

Michael's goal in capturing his subjects is to attract the viewer to linger over the work.   His scenes, at first glance, may seem ordinary but it is his skill in drawing attention to shapes, colors, lights, and shadows that invite the the viewer to stop, look and perhaps actually see that special element he captures in his work.

Orange Spot will be exhibited from this Thursday, August 16th, until next Thursday.  To see this and more of Michael's work stop by 53 Rocky Neck Avenue.  We are open 7 days a week.