looked at the range of work on display and noted, “It looks like a group show.” See the Providence artist’s web gallery and decide for yourself: speisersculpture.com.
1969 In June Ed Baranosky PT exhibited paintings in ‘Primio Creativita’ e Fantasy Arts at Baccina 66 Gallery in Rome. In October Wings of the Sea, a solo painting exhibition, was on view at Lucsculpture Gallery in Toronto, where he lives.
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John Gallagher 68 PT
Bad Business is among the works on paper on view from January 15 through March 8 in Nancy’s solo show at Vermont Metro Gallery in Burlington. She is also one of Seven Women Painters whose work was exhibited this fall at BigTown Gallery in Rochester, VT, near where she lives in Warren, VT.
John’s paintings (johngallagher paintings.com) made over the span of nearly 20 years are on view through early January in Out of Nowhere, a solo show at the University of Maine’s Museum of Art in Bangor. His abstract works are inspired by the “pulse” of coastal Maine, where he lives.
C.C. Wolf PT/MAT and the other members of the RI artists’ group 19 on Paper exhibited earlier this fall at the Duxbury [MA] Art Complex Museum. Awarded first place in last fall’s National Watermedia Competition, C.C. was also a finalist in August in an annual competition sponsored by The Artist’s Magazine. C.C. and her husband Don Simon AE are co-presidents of the East Side Art Center in Providence.
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Deidre Scherer 67 AE Deidre continues to share her ongoing fascination with capturing the nuances of human faces—especially the elderly—in fabric and thread. Her work was on view in Elements, a summer show at the Moore Free Library’s Crowell Gallery in Newfane, VT. She also gave a talk at Azure Rising Gallery in Wolfeboro, NH, in conjunction with the Visions of Healing exhibition curated by her daughter, artist Corina Willette. Deidre is based in Williamsville, VT.
Trapping Birds 2014, a painting by RISD Professor David Frazer 70 PT , was featured on the cover of the summer issue of Art in China magazine and was one of 14 paintings included in the exhibition No Room for Form: Contemporary Paintings from American Artists, shown first at the SZ Art Center in Beijing and then at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang. Thirty of David’s paintings are being shown in a related exhibition at the soon-to-be-opened International Art Center of San Francisco. Think you recognized a favorite spot in Santa Fe in that movie you just saw? Louise (Sellner) Spencer AE has developed a pop-culture tourism app called SantaFeFilms: Movie & Book Lovers Guide to NM Locations. Now available on iTunes and Google Play, the app highlights Santa Fe sights prominent in books, movies and TV. In Did you see that?! Stories of Urban Oddities, a solo photography exhibition earlier this fall, people visiting Spruill Gallery in Atlanta got to see what Steve Steinman SC/MAT 71 (stevesteinmanfine art.com) notices when he’s walking down the street.
Judith Unger 69 SC Dafne grabbed the attention of Paulina Pobocha (assistant curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA), who selected it for the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s (BWAC) exhibit Wide Open 5. Judith’s work (judithunger.com) was also included in the summer New England Collective V juried show at Galatea Fine Art in Boston and Art In Clay II: Figuratively Speaking, a fall show at BWAC. Judith works out of her studio in St. Johnsbury, VT.
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