2016 shows
Kevork Mourad and
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At GALLERY Z: Selected Works by painters Kevork Mourad and Harut Aghajanian, Thurs., Jan. 7th - Sat., Feb. 6th, 2016. Opening Reception Thursday, Jan. 21st, 5-9PM.
Gallery Z 2016 - Fifteen years - over 160 exhibits - eleven exhibits and thirty-four+ artists planned for 2016 - and a stable of around 300 artists - Gallery Z celebrates 2016 . Gallery Z, thrilled to commemorate its fifteenth anniversary this January 2016, will be featuring two international painters of Armenian heritage. World-renowned painter Kevork Mourad was born in 1970 in Syria. Of Armenian origin, he received his MFA from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts in Armenia. He has recently exhibited at Galerie Claude Lemand in Paris, and at the Art Paris Art Fair in 2015. He has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait, 2014, previously at Gallery Z, at JK Gallery, Los Angeles, the Rafia Gallery, Damascus, Syria, which represents him in the Middle East, and at the Courtyard Gallery in Dubai (2010). Five of his pieces are in the permanent collection on the 70th floor of the Bourj Khalife in Dubai. Kevork has twice had work auctioned at Christie's Dubai. He has exhibited and painted live in "Art Moment 2014", in Budapest, Hungary. The Map of Future Movements, a digital piece, was part of a touring group exhibition in Jerusalem and Ramallah, and was included in the 2010 Liverpool Biennial. Six of his pieces are in permanent residency at the Gyumri Museum in Armenia, and several more at the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Massachusetts. Group shows include the NYU Small Works Gallery in both 2005 and 2007. |
Kevork has also perfected a technique of spontaneous painting, during which he shares the stage with many world class musicians including Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, of which he is a member as a visual and teaching artist. He has co-produced and directed two plays that have toured and been performed internationally, and has created the animation for an opera by Lembit Beecher, I Have No Stories to Tell You, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia. Mourad has also designed stop-motion animation for Manuel De Falla's Master Peter's Puppet Show, which he performed with the Knights at Tanglewood in July 2015 to great acclaim. Kevork Mourad lives in New York City and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, when he is not traveling internationally.
Harut Aghajanian is an Armenian artist born in Iran in 1956. He studied at Terlemezian College art school in Yerevan from 1984 to 1987; in 2002 he was awarded a prize by the Gemmayse Development Association ( ADG). His paintings have been exhibited in the Beirut, Lebanon, art galleries Bronte and Zeina Sultan, and in Boston. Many of his works are in private collections in the United States and several European countries. This exhibit includes a selection of beautifully balanced exquisite figurative works on paper in both black and white and soft wash tones. In some, animal heads emerge tucked amongst finely drawn huddled human figures.
In addition, Gallery Z displays an ever-changing extensive and diverse selection in salon style of original Fine Art works (paintings, photographs, drawings, mixed media, glass, sculptures, assemblages, etchings, lithographs) from Gallery Z's deep stable of over 300 Fine Artists, locally, nationally and internationally renowned, along with fine ceramics and pottery, jewelry and Armenian and international handicrafts. The adjacent "Italy" room expands the vibrant local Federal Hill Italian cultural atmosphere with "Dreamy Venice", filled with luminous handmade small Murano glass gifts (paperweights, ornaments, vessels, perfume bottles) and Murano glass jewelry (pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, watches, hair clips), all personally chosen and imported from Venice by Gallery Associate Linda Kamajian in a sparkling rainbow of colors. These are set amidst Fine Art paintings and photographs related to Italy or by some of Gallery Z's established Italian-American Fine Artists.
Harut Aghajanian is an Armenian artist born in Iran in 1956. He studied at Terlemezian College art school in Yerevan from 1984 to 1987; in 2002 he was awarded a prize by the Gemmayse Development Association ( ADG). His paintings have been exhibited in the Beirut, Lebanon, art galleries Bronte and Zeina Sultan, and in Boston. Many of his works are in private collections in the United States and several European countries. This exhibit includes a selection of beautifully balanced exquisite figurative works on paper in both black and white and soft wash tones. In some, animal heads emerge tucked amongst finely drawn huddled human figures.
In addition, Gallery Z displays an ever-changing extensive and diverse selection in salon style of original Fine Art works (paintings, photographs, drawings, mixed media, glass, sculptures, assemblages, etchings, lithographs) from Gallery Z's deep stable of over 300 Fine Artists, locally, nationally and internationally renowned, along with fine ceramics and pottery, jewelry and Armenian and international handicrafts. The adjacent "Italy" room expands the vibrant local Federal Hill Italian cultural atmosphere with "Dreamy Venice", filled with luminous handmade small Murano glass gifts (paperweights, ornaments, vessels, perfume bottles) and Murano glass jewelry (pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, watches, hair clips), all personally chosen and imported from Venice by Gallery Associate Linda Kamajian in a sparkling rainbow of colors. These are set amidst Fine Art paintings and photographs related to Italy or by some of Gallery Z's established Italian-American Fine Artists.
Maggie Bouchard,
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Gallery Z since 2013, and is constantly creating new work in her studio in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Maggie currently works as a professional hair stylist.
Bill Killen creates oil paintings in extreme realism, a technique using many thin transparent layers of paint on wood or canvas. His most popular and most terrifying body of work "The Zombie Horde" will be featured at Gallery Z this month. (JUST KEEP TELLING YOURSELF.... They are just paintings.... They are just paintings...) He earned his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and continued studying drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York. Killen has exhibited throughout New York and Rhode Island, at galleries such as AS220 and the RISD Alumni Shows in Providence and the Bottle Neck Gallery in NYC.
Brian O'Malley pursues conceptual, narrative style paintings fusing landscape and figure. He states "These pictures become more real than reality when I am at work. I have to enter into them and experience the space in order to capture the 'suspension of disbelief.' In this way, movement, memory and space all coexist." He has a BFA from the University of Rhode Island, MFA from the University of Miami, and took continuing education courses at Massachusetts College of Art. Brian currently teaches at the University of Rhode Island as an adjunct professor. He has shown extensively in the New England area in numerous group shows at the Boston Center for the Arts, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, the Space at Alice and Gallery Z, among others.
VF Wolf is a painter who currently lives and works in Warwick, Rhode Island. He is employed as a night watchman at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum located in Providence, Rhode Island. VF was an officer in the Army Reserve from 2000-2007 and has traveled extensively throughout the United States and lived in both Egypt and Ireland. VF has received his Bachelors degrees in both Political Science (2000) and Art History (2007) from Rhode Island College. He has recently earned his BFA in painting (2011) from Rhode Island College. VF states" I want my art to be repulsive and attractive. I paint the ugly and disturbing, mask-like figures because I use them as metaphor to analyze the shadow that lies in every society's sub-conscious, that part of the psyche that craves violence and destruction. "
The exhibit will be held on the four new walls recently installed in Gallery Z. Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 18th from 5-9pm. All four artists will be present. Although there are no Gallery Night official events December through March, Gallery Z carries the torch by hosting a free opening reception for the current exhibit every third Thursday of the month, 12 months of the year. Gallery Z is a tax-free zone. In addition, Gallery Z displays an ever-changing extensive and diverse selection in salon style of original Fine Art works (paintings, photographs, drawings, mixed media, glass, sculptures, assemblages, etchings, lithographs) from Gallery Z's deep stable of over 300 fine artists, locally, nationally and internationally renowned, along with fine ceramics and pottery, jewelry and Armenian and international handicrafts.
The adjacent "Italy" room expands the vibrant local Federal Hill Italian cultural atmosphere with "Dreamy Venice", filled with luminous handmade small Murano glass gifts (paperweights, ornaments, vessels, perfume bottles) and Murano glass jewelry (pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, watches, hair clips), all personally chosen and imported from Venice by Gallery Associate Linda Kamajian in a sparkling rainbow of colors. These are set amidst fine frt paintings and photographs related to Italy or by some of Gallery Z's established Italian-American fine artists.
Bill Killen creates oil paintings in extreme realism, a technique using many thin transparent layers of paint on wood or canvas. His most popular and most terrifying body of work "The Zombie Horde" will be featured at Gallery Z this month. (JUST KEEP TELLING YOURSELF.... They are just paintings.... They are just paintings...) He earned his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and continued studying drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York. Killen has exhibited throughout New York and Rhode Island, at galleries such as AS220 and the RISD Alumni Shows in Providence and the Bottle Neck Gallery in NYC.
Brian O'Malley pursues conceptual, narrative style paintings fusing landscape and figure. He states "These pictures become more real than reality when I am at work. I have to enter into them and experience the space in order to capture the 'suspension of disbelief.' In this way, movement, memory and space all coexist." He has a BFA from the University of Rhode Island, MFA from the University of Miami, and took continuing education courses at Massachusetts College of Art. Brian currently teaches at the University of Rhode Island as an adjunct professor. He has shown extensively in the New England area in numerous group shows at the Boston Center for the Arts, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, the Space at Alice and Gallery Z, among others.
VF Wolf is a painter who currently lives and works in Warwick, Rhode Island. He is employed as a night watchman at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum located in Providence, Rhode Island. VF was an officer in the Army Reserve from 2000-2007 and has traveled extensively throughout the United States and lived in both Egypt and Ireland. VF has received his Bachelors degrees in both Political Science (2000) and Art History (2007) from Rhode Island College. He has recently earned his BFA in painting (2011) from Rhode Island College. VF states" I want my art to be repulsive and attractive. I paint the ugly and disturbing, mask-like figures because I use them as metaphor to analyze the shadow that lies in every society's sub-conscious, that part of the psyche that craves violence and destruction. "
The exhibit will be held on the four new walls recently installed in Gallery Z. Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 18th from 5-9pm. All four artists will be present. Although there are no Gallery Night official events December through March, Gallery Z carries the torch by hosting a free opening reception for the current exhibit every third Thursday of the month, 12 months of the year. Gallery Z is a tax-free zone. In addition, Gallery Z displays an ever-changing extensive and diverse selection in salon style of original Fine Art works (paintings, photographs, drawings, mixed media, glass, sculptures, assemblages, etchings, lithographs) from Gallery Z's deep stable of over 300 fine artists, locally, nationally and internationally renowned, along with fine ceramics and pottery, jewelry and Armenian and international handicrafts.
The adjacent "Italy" room expands the vibrant local Federal Hill Italian cultural atmosphere with "Dreamy Venice", filled with luminous handmade small Murano glass gifts (paperweights, ornaments, vessels, perfume bottles) and Murano glass jewelry (pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, watches, hair clips), all personally chosen and imported from Venice by Gallery Associate Linda Kamajian in a sparkling rainbow of colors. These are set amidst fine frt paintings and photographs related to Italy or by some of Gallery Z's established Italian-American fine artists.
Liz Kelley, Kim Ellery, Cindy Robinson and Melissa Thyden
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At GALLERY Z, March winds bring with them selected works by mixed media artists Kim Ellery, Liz Kelley, Cindy Robinson and Melissa Thyden. The exhibit runs from Thursday, March. 10th through Saturday, April 2nd, 2016, with an Opening Reception Thursday, March 17th from 5-9PM.
The newly transformed Gallery Z (Est. Jan. 2001, celebrating 15 years) is thrilled to present this third of eleven exhibits so far this year. Join us on the third Thursday of the month as we celebrate the first citywide Gallery Night Providence event of the year this March 17th with all four artists present. Kim Ellery, b.1963, a self-taught painter from East Greenwich, RI, works primarily with acrylics but includes various other mediums to create depth and texture. Using intuitive, freestyle painting techniques, Kim tells a story with each piece that expresses love, peace, joy and relationships between us and God, hoping to create a happier, brighter world through her art. Liz Kelley, b. 1987, is a Providence-based artist, working primarily with gouache and ink. She graduated with a BFA from UMass Dartmouth, after which she spent time living in Los Angeles, exhibiting at FOLD Gallery and Ye Rustic Gallery. Liz's illustrations and designs are influenced by travel and people she meets. Her custom wedding invitations were featured in the magazine "Martha Stewart Weddings" in 2015. She currently creates art in her studio in Providence and exhibits in RI. |
Cindy Robinson, b. 1956, is drawn to color and abstract expressionism. Largely self-taught, Cindy has taken courses in Barrington, Newport and Providence. She states "I find myself attracted to the discovery of color and form in abstract expressionism. I find that I have instinctively followed an abstract expressionist approach, and I have never been concerned with line." Cindy's acrylic paintings feature rich colors and texture. She works full time as an artist and has exhibited all over New England, as well as several high-end contemporary online galleries, and maintains a studio in Providence.
Melissa Thyden, b. 1987, is an illustrator, painter and fashion designer who creates work with youthful, colorful energy. Melissa has taken courses from the Boston School of Fashion Design, the Worcester Art Museum and has a BFA from UMass Dartmouth. Her clothing line "Cosmic Unicornz" features hand painted shoes, denim, silkscreened T-Shirts and handmade accessories. Melissa's illustrations and paintings are inspired by 1980's cartoons, art nouveau and contemporary street art. Her studio is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
The works will be exhibited on the four new walls recently installed in Gallery Z. March, 17th 5-9pm marks the first Gallery Night event of the 2016 season, and Gallery Night's 20th anniversary. Gallery Z is a tax-free zone. In addition, Gallery Z displays an ever-changing selection of original art works (paintings, photographs, drawings, mixed media, glass, sculptures, assemblages, etchings, lithographs) from a deep stable of over 300 locally, nationally and internationally renowned fine artists, along with fine ceramics and pottery, jewelry and Armenian and international handicrafts. The adjacent "Italy" room features Dreamy Venice offering a wide variety of luminous Murano glass jewelry and glass gifts, representing the 1000 years of Venetian expertise. All items are personally chosen and imported from Venice by Gallery Associate Linda Kamajian in a rainbow of colors. Gallery Z, 259 Atwells Ave., Providence, 401-454-4844, www.galleryzprov.com; Hours: Wed. 12-6pm, Thurs- Sat 12-8pm, Sun. 12-6pm and by appointment or chance.
Melissa Thyden, b. 1987, is an illustrator, painter and fashion designer who creates work with youthful, colorful energy. Melissa has taken courses from the Boston School of Fashion Design, the Worcester Art Museum and has a BFA from UMass Dartmouth. Her clothing line "Cosmic Unicornz" features hand painted shoes, denim, silkscreened T-Shirts and handmade accessories. Melissa's illustrations and paintings are inspired by 1980's cartoons, art nouveau and contemporary street art. Her studio is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
The works will be exhibited on the four new walls recently installed in Gallery Z. March, 17th 5-9pm marks the first Gallery Night event of the 2016 season, and Gallery Night's 20th anniversary. Gallery Z is a tax-free zone. In addition, Gallery Z displays an ever-changing selection of original art works (paintings, photographs, drawings, mixed media, glass, sculptures, assemblages, etchings, lithographs) from a deep stable of over 300 locally, nationally and internationally renowned fine artists, along with fine ceramics and pottery, jewelry and Armenian and international handicrafts. The adjacent "Italy" room features Dreamy Venice offering a wide variety of luminous Murano glass jewelry and glass gifts, representing the 1000 years of Venetian expertise. All items are personally chosen and imported from Venice by Gallery Associate Linda Kamajian in a rainbow of colors. Gallery Z, 259 Atwells Ave., Providence, 401-454-4844, www.galleryzprov.com; Hours: Wed. 12-6pm, Thurs- Sat 12-8pm, Sun. 12-6pm and by appointment or chance.
Armenian Artists: 101 Years
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The newly transformed Gallery Z (Est. Jan. 2001, celebrating 15 years) is thrilled to present this new exhibit. Join us on the third Thursday of the month as we celebrate Gallery Night Providence.
April showers Gallery Z with a varied exhibit of Armenian artists. Last year at this time, our previous additional location, Studio Z, featured an extensive commemorative multimedia exhibit of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the twentieth century, not only of many works of Armenian art, archival material and historical propaganda affiches and posters, theatrical readings, poetry recitations, live music and theatre, documentary film screenings, artist talks, lectures and continuous video footage. Art works by numerous prominent Armenian and Armenian-American artists will be on exhibit at Gallery Z this year, including Emma Gregorian as the featured artist. Born and raised in Gyumri, Armenia, her paintings have been exhibited worldwide in both group and solo in a series of shows: New York, Paris, Moscow, Toronto, Boston, New Mexico, Belgium, Beirut, Iraq, Armenia and Yugoslavia. She currently lives in Sunnyside, Queens, NY. "...On her canvases, paints turn to color, a world of hope and vibration...the viewer will see from the early savage beauty of Armenia to today's sophisticated and refined world...a pubescence of color, line and rhythm." Rafael Petrosyan, Artist, 1997, New York |
Ian Mohon,
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Ian Mohon, b. 1975, paints in acrylics and oils to create his bright, dimensional works. Ian's textural and sprightly color palette moves the eye across the canvas, stimulating the viewer's vision to almost vibrate with energy and color. Originally from Houston, Texas, Ian resides in Providence, RI.
ARTIST STATEMENT by Ian Mohon With the sight of receding snows, spring pushes in. First a warm breeze, birds and bees herald the new life to come. Spring arrives with light, color, and scent. This series celebrates this excitement of color and vibrance for life. Taken from photos from my garden and bouquets bought for my wife over the years, the images are painted in an abstracted manner that emphasize the underlying energy that connects all life. With every glance, this series means to remind the viewer of sensations from past springs and old loves. A lighthearted life filled with light and color. Angelo Marinosci, Jr - Prof. Angelo Marinosci, Jr. (retired) a resident of Warren, RI studied at L.I.U, C.C.R.I., U.R.I., R.I.S.D., R.I.C., N.Y.U, Venice and Murano Italy. He has also worked under the influence of several well known artists in various mediums, including: Livio Seguso, (glass); Arnold Newman, (Photography); Eugene Lee, (Set Design); Gene Tonnoff, (Painting); Enrico Pinardi, (Sculpture); and others as well. He has been making art throughout his life and exhibiting throughout. ARTIST STATEMENT by Angelo Marinosci, Jr. By most standards, my education and early experiences in the arts left me predisposed to make, paint, draw, sculpt, photograph, etc., along the most traditional confines of the objective and nonobjective borderlines of art. I like being a little more playful than that and have most often to entertain myself with the making of my own work. Though my photography has been greatly influenced by the outside world and my earthly experiences, my painting has been more about my inside world, and my music has been the philosophical glue that holds it all together. I move within my aesthetic freely and it all pretty much is prompted by the same instinct to express myself. I hope you will enjoy this small collection of paintings, drawings and studies which speak to this. |
Larry Sykes - For over fifty years esteemed artist, photographer and educator Larry Sykes has depicted the world's societies in his camera. Storytelling is his artistic objective. Each cultural artifact has an inseparable identity to society; it is up to the storyteller to connect history to memory, Sykes is simultaneously a photographer, archaeologist, and material culturalist. He (b.1931) is a retired professor of art at Rhode Island College, where he developed the college's photography curriculum. He received his masters from Pratt Institute, New York, and his undergraduate degree from Morgan, where he was Director of the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center. He has taught at New York University, the College of Art in Kumasi, Ghana, and the Parsons School of Design West Africa Program. Later, Sykes served as commissioner for the Rhode Island Council of the Arts. His works have appeared in numerous books, journals and museums worldwide, including commissions for the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. "The amazing Larry Sykes, a professor to many and a mentor to most, crosses the intellectual landscape through powerful images, haunting experiences and an iron clad sense for historic perspective.... with the wisdom of a cunning shaman, the artist will take you through a personalized journey ..." Angelo Marinosci, Jr.,
Alan Metnick has been photographing in Poland for 12 years. The work has focused on the events of the Second World War, the Holocaust, the destruction of Poland's Jewish community and people, and to a lesser extent some vestiges of post WW II Communism. The work presented in this exhibit pictures Poland as a place like all other places: a photo of dancing horses in a circus, lovers on a rainy night, a musician and his accordion, windows looking inward and backward, reflecting and projecting a strange familiarity. This is work he has not shown yet. It will be included in his third book picturing Poland. His first book, "Captured in Memory", was just released and will be available at the exhibit.
ARTIST STATEMENT by Alan Metnick:
Try to imagine your day visually before you've lived it.
Try to imagine it in words. Try to write it. Then go out and live it. Taste it. Feel it. Smell it. Getting up in the morning can be the beginning of a Wondrous experience.
Alan Metnick, a Providence-based artist b. 1941 in Chicago, has been creating art for over forty years. He received a BS in History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1963 and an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 1973. He has taught photography and silk screening at numerous colleges throughout New England. His works have been exhibited in many galleries and solo shows, including the Newport Art Museum, RISD, ICA/Boston, and several exhibits in Poland, and has works in numerous museum collections throughout the U.S., among others the Metropolitan Museum of Art/New York, Library of Congress, Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts/ Houston, TX; Art Institute of Boston, High Museum of Art/Atlanta, GA, Armenian Library Museum of America/Watertown, MA. Alan's art works include photography, serigraphy, stained glass, painting and drawing. From 2012 through 2016, Alan has been "traveling, away, thinking about stuff."
Linda DiFrenna,
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GALLERY Z (established in January 2001, now celebrating 15 years) welcomes summer with a June exhibit featuring works by LINDA DIFRENNA, LARA B., HELENA STOCKAR and VIRGINIA DELGADO. The exhibit runs from Thursday, June 9th through Saturday, July 2nd, 2016, with an Opening Reception Thursday, June 16th from 5-9PM.
Linda DiFrenna (b. 1959), a local multimedia artist with degrees from Roger Williams University and the RISD, also studied in Germany. This photography exhibit includes both straight and manipulated photographs. According to Linda, "My intention as an artist is to create inspirational works of art which bring the viewer a sense of discovery that is exciting and exhilarating. I want to create images that are evocative, curious, mysterious, and unexpected... that will make the viewer pause in front of the piece and really look closely. It is important to me that my work evokes emotions that encourage dialogue...Alternative and imaginative approaches to making art produce sensations and emotions I remember experiencing as a child..." Linda's work has been exhibited throughout New England, Florida, Louisiana and New York City. She has taught at CCRI, the RISD Museum, Saint Andrew's School and Fisher College. Lara B, born (b. 1977) and raised in Beirut, attended the Toros Roslin Art Academy of Beirut and the Lebanese University of Fine Arts, graduating with honors in 2001. She immersed herself in circles of established Armenian artists and enjoyed early recognition in a number of Beirut shows, earning distinction with first prize at the National University of Fine Arts and third prize at the Artistes Association of Beirut in 2001. |
Lara B. moved to the US in 2002, and has continued to garner artistic acclaim. Within two years, her art was shown at group exhibits in New York, San Francisco and Providence, and at two solo shows in Providence and Oakland. In winter 2003 her work was selected for a magazine cover with international distribution. She resides in California, where she continues her prolific tradition.
"Capturing the moment's complexity of the human psyche is the driving force of Lara B.'s paintings. Windows and arches are prominently displayed, providing hope in the form of light and strength as stable edifices. Hues often seem dark and monotone at initial gaze, however, just as one's eyes need to accommodate upon entering into a dimly lit room, a more detailed viewing of Lara B.'s work reveals a true panorama of colors. This gradual perceptibility affords greater appreciation into the depth and complexity of Lara's paintings."
Helena Stockar (b. 1933, d. 2013) was born and grew up in Czechoslovakia, where she lived through WWII in Prague and behind the Iron Curtain, earning an industrial design degree from Prague's School of Design. Seeking political freedom and to join her husband, who had already escaped, she was eventually allowed to emigrate to the US in 1968, settling in RI. Helena infused a deep knowledge of art history into her work and an obsession with people and color. She has been featured in "Who's Who in The World", "Who's Who in in America", and "Who's Who of American Women". Her work was exhibited in major US cities, the Czech Republic and Scotland, and is in collections worldwide, including locally in Johnson and Wales University and Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence. Her work depicts people struggling against nature and man's evil, exploring the depths of complexity and the comparison between natural events and social injustices.
From the artist's statement, "When I paint, I think mainly about the light, color, and composition. My thoughts, philosophy, and message are not solely about the subject matter, but about perfecting the balance of those elements. The struggle for this perfection was crystallized prior to the creation on any individual work. It comes to me as a direct communication between you, the observer, and me, the painter." After moving to Pennsylvania in 2012, Helena died in November 2013 after a brief illness.
Virginia Delgado (b. 1969) has been photographing street scenes and cityscapes for the last fifteen years, traveling to Istanbul, Paris, Naples, Buenos Aires, London and New York, among other major cities. Exclusively shooting black and white film, she produces her own prints in her darkroom, leaving the negative edges visible to show that she works in film, and doesn't crop or manipulate her images beyond what can be done in the darkroom. She is a Bristol, RI, resident and has been a featured artist in Bristol-Warren Art Night and Providence Gallery Night.
Virginia's artist statement says, "I am first generation American and my Uruguayan parents were my first artistic influence. My father was a sculptor with a great talent for life drawing. My mother was a painter who followed the same classical school as my father. I grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, comparing Da Vinci to Michelangelo and hearing stories about Van Gogh and his ear. Art was everywhere. Every afternoon my parents would cross the George Washington Bridge and board the A train Downtown to The Art Students' League. By the time I was in College, I was also going to classes. Not because I showed any real talent in drawing, but because it would refine my eye, my father said. I would learn to see. And I did."
"Capturing the moment's complexity of the human psyche is the driving force of Lara B.'s paintings. Windows and arches are prominently displayed, providing hope in the form of light and strength as stable edifices. Hues often seem dark and monotone at initial gaze, however, just as one's eyes need to accommodate upon entering into a dimly lit room, a more detailed viewing of Lara B.'s work reveals a true panorama of colors. This gradual perceptibility affords greater appreciation into the depth and complexity of Lara's paintings."
Helena Stockar (b. 1933, d. 2013) was born and grew up in Czechoslovakia, where she lived through WWII in Prague and behind the Iron Curtain, earning an industrial design degree from Prague's School of Design. Seeking political freedom and to join her husband, who had already escaped, she was eventually allowed to emigrate to the US in 1968, settling in RI. Helena infused a deep knowledge of art history into her work and an obsession with people and color. She has been featured in "Who's Who in The World", "Who's Who in in America", and "Who's Who of American Women". Her work was exhibited in major US cities, the Czech Republic and Scotland, and is in collections worldwide, including locally in Johnson and Wales University and Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence. Her work depicts people struggling against nature and man's evil, exploring the depths of complexity and the comparison between natural events and social injustices.
From the artist's statement, "When I paint, I think mainly about the light, color, and composition. My thoughts, philosophy, and message are not solely about the subject matter, but about perfecting the balance of those elements. The struggle for this perfection was crystallized prior to the creation on any individual work. It comes to me as a direct communication between you, the observer, and me, the painter." After moving to Pennsylvania in 2012, Helena died in November 2013 after a brief illness.
Virginia Delgado (b. 1969) has been photographing street scenes and cityscapes for the last fifteen years, traveling to Istanbul, Paris, Naples, Buenos Aires, London and New York, among other major cities. Exclusively shooting black and white film, she produces her own prints in her darkroom, leaving the negative edges visible to show that she works in film, and doesn't crop or manipulate her images beyond what can be done in the darkroom. She is a Bristol, RI, resident and has been a featured artist in Bristol-Warren Art Night and Providence Gallery Night.
Virginia's artist statement says, "I am first generation American and my Uruguayan parents were my first artistic influence. My father was a sculptor with a great talent for life drawing. My mother was a painter who followed the same classical school as my father. I grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, comparing Da Vinci to Michelangelo and hearing stories about Van Gogh and his ear. Art was everywhere. Every afternoon my parents would cross the George Washington Bridge and board the A train Downtown to The Art Students' League. By the time I was in College, I was also going to classes. Not because I showed any real talent in drawing, but because it would refine my eye, my father said. I would learn to see. And I did."
Linda DiFrenna,
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Linda DiFrenna (b. 1959), a local multimedia artist with degrees from Roger Williams University and the RISD, also studied in Germany. This photography exhibit includes both straight and manipulated photographs. According to Linda, "My intention as an artist is to create inspirational works of art which bring the viewer a sense of discovery that is exciting and exhilarating. I want to create images that are evocative, curious, mysterious, and unexpected... that will make the viewer pause in front of the piece and really look closely. It is important to me that my work evokes emotions that encourage dialogue...Alternative and imaginative approaches to making art produce sensations and emotions I remember experiencing as a child..."
Linda's work has been exhibited throughout New England, Florida, Louisiana and New York City. She has taught at CCRI, the RISD Museum, Saint Andrew's School and Fisher College. Lara B, born (b. 1977) and raised in Beirut, attended the Toros Roslin Art Academy of Beirut and the Lebanese University of Fine Arts, graduating with honors in 2001. She immersed herself in circles of established Armenian artists and enjoyed early recognition in a number of Beirut shows, earning distinction with first prize at the National University of Fine Arts and third prize at the Artistes Association of Beirut in 2001. Lara B. moved to the US in 2002, and has continued to garner artistic acclaim. Within two years, her art was shown at group exhibits in New York, San Francisco and Providence, and at two solo shows in Providence and Oakland. In winter 2003 her work was selected for a magazine cover with international distribution. She resides in California, where she continues her prolific tradition. |
"Capturing the moment's complexity of the human psyche is the driving force of Lara B.'s paintings. Windows and arches are prominently displayed, providing hope in the form of light and strength as stable edifices. Hues often seem dark and monotone at initial gaze, however, just as one's eyes need to accommodate upon entering into a dimly lit room, a more detailed viewing of Lara B.'s work reveals a true panorama of colors. This gradual perceptibility affords greater appreciation into the depth and complexity of Lara's paintings."
Helena Stockar (b. 1933, d. 2013) was born and grew up in Czechoslovakia, where she lived through WWII in Prague and behind the Iron Curtain, earning an industrial design degree from Prague's School of Design. Seeking political freedom and to join her husband, who had already escaped, she was eventually allowed to emigrate to the US in 1968, settling in RI. Helena infused a deep knowledge of art history into her work and an obsession with people and color. She has been featured in "Who's Who in The World", "Who's Who in in America", and "Who's Who of American Women". Her work was exhibited in major US cities, the Czech Republic and Scotland, and is in collections worldwide, including locally in Johnson and Wales University and Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence. Her work depicts people struggling against nature and man's evil, exploring the depths of complexity and the comparison between natural events and social injustices.
From the artist's statement, "When I paint, I think mainly about the light, color, and composition. My thoughts, philosophy, and message are not solely about the subject matter, but about perfecting the balance of those elements. The struggle for this perfection was crystallized prior to the creation on any individual work. It comes to me as a direct communication between you, the observer, and me, the painter." After moving to Pennsylvania in 2012, Helena died in November 2013 after a brief illness.
Virginia Delgado (b. 1969) has been photographing street scenes and cityscapes for the last fifteen years, traveling to Istanbul, Paris, Naples, Buenos Aires, London and New York, among other major cities. Exclusively shooting black and white film, she produces her own prints in her darkroom, leaving the negative edges visible to show that she works in film, and doesn't crop or manipulate her images beyond what can be done in the darkroom. She is a Bristol, RI, resident and has been a featured artist in Bristol-Warren Art Night and Providence Gallery Night.
Virginia's artist statement says, "I am first generation American and my Uruguayan parents were my first artistic influence. My father was a sculptor with a great talent for life drawing. My mother was a painter who followed the same classical school as my father. I grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, comparing Da Vinci to Michelangelo and hearing stories about Van Gogh and his ear. Art was everywhere. Every afternoon my parents would cross the George Washington Bridge and board the A train Downtown to The Art Students' League. By the time I was in College, I was also going to classes. Not because I showed any real talent in drawing, but because it would refine my eye, my father said. I would learn to see. And I did."
Helena Stockar (b. 1933, d. 2013) was born and grew up in Czechoslovakia, where she lived through WWII in Prague and behind the Iron Curtain, earning an industrial design degree from Prague's School of Design. Seeking political freedom and to join her husband, who had already escaped, she was eventually allowed to emigrate to the US in 1968, settling in RI. Helena infused a deep knowledge of art history into her work and an obsession with people and color. She has been featured in "Who's Who in The World", "Who's Who in in America", and "Who's Who of American Women". Her work was exhibited in major US cities, the Czech Republic and Scotland, and is in collections worldwide, including locally in Johnson and Wales University and Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence. Her work depicts people struggling against nature and man's evil, exploring the depths of complexity and the comparison between natural events and social injustices.
From the artist's statement, "When I paint, I think mainly about the light, color, and composition. My thoughts, philosophy, and message are not solely about the subject matter, but about perfecting the balance of those elements. The struggle for this perfection was crystallized prior to the creation on any individual work. It comes to me as a direct communication between you, the observer, and me, the painter." After moving to Pennsylvania in 2012, Helena died in November 2013 after a brief illness.
Virginia Delgado (b. 1969) has been photographing street scenes and cityscapes for the last fifteen years, traveling to Istanbul, Paris, Naples, Buenos Aires, London and New York, among other major cities. Exclusively shooting black and white film, she produces her own prints in her darkroom, leaving the negative edges visible to show that she works in film, and doesn't crop or manipulate her images beyond what can be done in the darkroom. She is a Bristol, RI, resident and has been a featured artist in Bristol-Warren Art Night and Providence Gallery Night.
Virginia's artist statement says, "I am first generation American and my Uruguayan parents were my first artistic influence. My father was a sculptor with a great talent for life drawing. My mother was a painter who followed the same classical school as my father. I grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, comparing Da Vinci to Michelangelo and hearing stories about Van Gogh and his ear. Art was everywhere. Every afternoon my parents would cross the George Washington Bridge and board the A train Downtown to The Art Students' League. By the time I was in College, I was also going to classes. Not because I showed any real talent in drawing, but because it would refine my eye, my father said. I would learn to see. And I did."
Farnaz Mobayyen,
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Farnaz Mobayyen has been drawing since she was encouraged as a very young child. In her words, "I have always been passionate about the arts. This deep passion in me manifests itself into love for painting. Painting is like breathing air to me, without it, I don't feel alive. With paint, I can free my creative energy onto the canvas. When I look at colors, lines and shapes that I create, I see a portrait of my soul. Each active brush stroke shows a corner of the world inside me, the world that is energetic, bold and passionate."
Farnaz refers to herself as a spontaneous painter who usually paints from her imagination, but sometimes utilizes her surroundings, rendering her observations in an abstract style. "I like to capture the soul and the spirit of the world outside and inside me." Farnaz has a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Amy Ryan paints lush evocative landscapes, beckoning one along pathways into her landscapes as she captures nature's luminous light reflected on sky and water, trees and hills. A lifelong artist who began drawing as a child, over the years she has experimented with various drawing materials before settling on her favorite medium, painting in oils. Born in New Haven in 1962, Amy attended the Paier College of Art there. She has studied with other local artists as well as in France with sculptor Christian Champagne, and is a member of the Providence Art Club. Amy lives in Rhode Island, painting and drawing, Ewa Romaszewicz, painter of natural and urban landscapes and portraits, was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1977, and has lived in the United States since age six. She earned both a BA in Visual Art and a BS in Biochemistry at Brown University, and an MFA in painting at Indiana University, where she taught both Color Theory and Design and chemistry. She has received several academic awards, including a Fulbright grant, which allowed her to pursue her painting in Switzerland. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in, Massachusetts, Connecticut Rhode Island, Poland and Switzerland, where her work was reviewed in 2004 on the front page of the culture section of Le Nowelliste, the primary newspaper of Switzerland's Valais region. She is fluent in Polish, French and English. |
Ewa teaches in the Art Departments both at the University of Rhode Island and at the Community College of Rhode Island, along with giving painting workshops at Hope Gallery in Bristol, RI. She has also taught Two-Dimensional Design in the Continuing Education department at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Ewa's work is featured on the homepage of the Jacqueline Kimberly jewelry website, and has been used in images in the 2009 Jacqueline Kimberly Jewelry Look Book (http://www.jacquelinekimberly.com). Her paintings are in the collections of the Providence Marriott as well as United Natural Foods Incorporated.
Ruth Clegg, an award-winning artist and photographer with over 30 years of experience, works in many mediums besides photography, having had her works displayed nationally and internationally. Following extensive travel, in 1985 Ruth founded Angell Photography, specializing in children's and family portraiture and elegant events. In 2001, she expanded her studio, incorporating an art gallery exhibiting paintings, drawings, prints and photographs. Brilliantly sharp close-ups of nature in its glory, and beautifully toned scenes of RI and its landmarks are among her instantly captivating works.
Ruth received her BFA from University of Rhode Island in 1977. She is a member of the Professional Photographers Association of Rhode Island, New England and America, and of the Providence Art Club, and teaches Digital Photography at Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, RI. Ruth is married to Bill Clegg and has two sons, Alexander and Garrett.
Ewa's work is featured on the homepage of the Jacqueline Kimberly jewelry website, and has been used in images in the 2009 Jacqueline Kimberly Jewelry Look Book (http://www.jacquelinekimberly.com). Her paintings are in the collections of the Providence Marriott as well as United Natural Foods Incorporated.
Ruth Clegg, an award-winning artist and photographer with over 30 years of experience, works in many mediums besides photography, having had her works displayed nationally and internationally. Following extensive travel, in 1985 Ruth founded Angell Photography, specializing in children's and family portraiture and elegant events. In 2001, she expanded her studio, incorporating an art gallery exhibiting paintings, drawings, prints and photographs. Brilliantly sharp close-ups of nature in its glory, and beautifully toned scenes of RI and its landmarks are among her instantly captivating works.
Ruth received her BFA from University of Rhode Island in 1977. She is a member of the Professional Photographers Association of Rhode Island, New England and America, and of the Providence Art Club, and teaches Digital Photography at Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, RI. Ruth is married to Bill Clegg and has two sons, Alexander and Garrett.
Anoush Bargamian,
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Judith Ferrara b. 1942 is a visual artist, writer and poet. Judith utilizes various mediums, including oils, acrylics, oil sticks, pastels, oil pastels, pencil, transfers and archival inks, often working in series. She will be displaying a new series of mixed media works in black and white.
Judith has had numerous exhibitions of her paintings throughout central Mass. and in RI, including solo shows and often gives poetry readings. Her poems have been published and featured in many publications. Judith holds a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire as well as three degrees in the field of education. She has extensive teaching experience and has also published educational kits. John Gaumond b. 1933 John Gaumond of Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a photographer and poet. John will be exhibiting fine art color photographs based on his travels in Italy/Sicily, France, Portugal and England. John has had photographs published in The Worcester Review, Diner, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, The River Valley Current, The Worcester Telegram and Worcester Magazine. His Flower Pots, Siena III, was selected for the 2014 Art in the City program. John's poetry has been published in Poets in the Galleries, The Connecticut River Review, Sahara, Worcester Magazine, The Longfellow Society Journal, The Leaflet, The Lancaster Times, The Issue, The Ballard Street Poetry Journal, The Worcester Telegram and The Worcester Review. He received The Jacob Knight Poetry Award in 2006. Julian Penrose b. 1961 Julian is a Providence artist, born in Brazil, who grew up in Philadelphia. He has been creating three-dimensional assemblages for many years, since college days in Claremont, California, where he studied under the influence of artist Paul Darrow. Studying Landscape Architecture in Seattle, Washington, he was influenced by drafting and design, over the years combining elements of those two disciplines to develop his style. Julian's current work is architectural in form, composed largely of found and salvaged materials - defining his work as "green", keeping materials out of the 'waste stream' by repurposing them. His art has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, solo and group. Julian is represented in Providence, RI, and Philadelphia, PA. Anoush Bargamian b. 1963 Chicago artist Anoush Bargamian was born and raised in RI. She earned three degrees, BFAs from the Mass College of Art, Boston, and the University of Illinois, Chicago, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is experimental in material and process, typically incorporating symbols and highly textured surfaces. Anoush's work has been in numerous exhibits in Chicago and Providence. |
Stephan Brigidi,
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Gallery Z will be exhibiting four dynamic artists in October:
Stephen Brigidi is a widely published Providence artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has an MFA from RI School of Design, 1976, where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Italy, MacDowell Colony, and for his photography from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Universities of Hawaii and Connecticut, Roger Williams University, the RI State Council on the Arts and the RI Committee for the Humanities. In 1991 Brigidi collaborated with the poet, Robert Bly, on Angels of Pompeii, an artist portfolio and book published by Ballantine Books, New York. Remarkable People was published in 1995 by the Sunningdale Foundation. BVT Publishing, California, published Afraid of the Dark: A Venetian Story in 2016. His newest book, The Fire of Rome, will be published in 2017. Brigidi has taught photography since 1979, at the Universities of Hawaii and Connecticut, Rhode Island College, Providence College, and for many years at RI School of Design. He currently teaches Aesthetics in the Humanities program at Roger Williams University. He resides in Bristol, RI. SIRARPI HEGHINIAN-WALZER: Sirarpi is an award-winning artist with work in collections worldwide. She will be exhibiting vibrantly colored mixed media monotypes and collages on paper. |
Her work has been in galleries throughout Europe and the U.S. She lives and works in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is an artist member of Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, and Gallery Z in Providence, serves on the boards of Cambridge Art Association and Non-Profit Net in Massachusetts, and is the principal of Consult and Design, a small-business IT consulting firm. She is the cofounder and director of Art Without Borders, an online community that champions the artists' rights. In Europe, Sirarpi worked with artists Andrej Woron, Milan Knizak, and Peter Erskine, and in the USA with Timothy Harney, Jon Imber and Ati Gropius. She was formerly an engineer at Biotroniks in Berlin, Germany, where her team designed pacemakers, and at Honeywell in Lexington, MA, where she worked on infrared imaging systems.
Sirarpi studied biomedical systems engineering at Boston University and painting and stage design at the Academy for Fine Arts "Die Etage" and Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Germany.
NILTON CARDENAS: Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Nilton immigrated to Miami, Florida, with his family as a youth and then moved to Providence. He studied journalism at the University of San Martin de Porres and Painting at the Institute Superior Jose Sabogal in Lima, Peru. He has exhibited solo and collectively in the U.S. and Spain and his paintings are in private and corporate collections. His work reflects an inward search for his native origin; his art is a spiritual rebirth, a liberating reawakening.
Nilton is a past board member of Sol Gallery, which promotes Latino Art and culture. He has taught art and painting for years to youth in Providence schools, summer camps and organizations, including PASA, Achievement First Providence Mayor Academy Elementary, Blackstone Valley Community Action Program, City Arts, Dorcas Place, YMCA, Urban League of RI, Hispanic Heritage Society Museum, RISD, Providence Safe Smart Program and the Providence School District. Nilton also works for the Providence School Department.
Nilton has received recognition awards from City Hall and from state representatives, acknowledging his art work, his support and the impact that he has as a role model for the youth and people of Providence.
EVANS MOLINA: Evans is a Cuban-born artist (1976) raised in an artistic milieu of visual and performing artists. He studied historic restoration and painting in Cuba, extensively restoring urban monuments; scriptwriting and film at the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) and the Cuban Institute of Cinematography and Art (ICAIC); and visual performance art studies at Havana's National Folkloric Collective.
Evans immigrated to the U.S. in November 2004. Cuba continues to inform his creativity as he incorporates heritage, ritual, immigration, family, folklore and legend into his painting and performances. His stated artistic goal is to "bridge cultures and break down the barriers and prejudices that separate us as people. Art, for me, is potentially a form of 'social medicine." Evans is a prolific visual and performing arts educator, having taught and performed at various K-12 schools, cultural centers and community spaces. He is a co-founder of the Green Brigade Project in Cuba in 2002, a five-year long multidisciplinary initiative that assembled artists there through concerts, communal art exhibits, street performance and events such as the International Book Fair, Havana.
Evans received critical acclaim by Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, for his short film titled "Tiempo" in 2003, which also received an Honorable Mention at the Independent Film Festival, Havana, Cuba, 2004, and at the Independent Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In 2011 he was honored with a Citizen Citation for "Dedication to Cuban Culture" from Mayor Angel Taveras.
Evans Molina-Fernandez is known in RI for various accomplishments: his educational workshops in local schools and community centers; founding Gallery La Naive and as percussionist with local Latino band Santa Mamba. His art has been shown in numerous exhibits in both RI and Havana, Cuba.
Sirarpi studied biomedical systems engineering at Boston University and painting and stage design at the Academy for Fine Arts "Die Etage" and Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Germany.
NILTON CARDENAS: Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Nilton immigrated to Miami, Florida, with his family as a youth and then moved to Providence. He studied journalism at the University of San Martin de Porres and Painting at the Institute Superior Jose Sabogal in Lima, Peru. He has exhibited solo and collectively in the U.S. and Spain and his paintings are in private and corporate collections. His work reflects an inward search for his native origin; his art is a spiritual rebirth, a liberating reawakening.
Nilton is a past board member of Sol Gallery, which promotes Latino Art and culture. He has taught art and painting for years to youth in Providence schools, summer camps and organizations, including PASA, Achievement First Providence Mayor Academy Elementary, Blackstone Valley Community Action Program, City Arts, Dorcas Place, YMCA, Urban League of RI, Hispanic Heritage Society Museum, RISD, Providence Safe Smart Program and the Providence School District. Nilton also works for the Providence School Department.
Nilton has received recognition awards from City Hall and from state representatives, acknowledging his art work, his support and the impact that he has as a role model for the youth and people of Providence.
EVANS MOLINA: Evans is a Cuban-born artist (1976) raised in an artistic milieu of visual and performing artists. He studied historic restoration and painting in Cuba, extensively restoring urban monuments; scriptwriting and film at the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) and the Cuban Institute of Cinematography and Art (ICAIC); and visual performance art studies at Havana's National Folkloric Collective.
Evans immigrated to the U.S. in November 2004. Cuba continues to inform his creativity as he incorporates heritage, ritual, immigration, family, folklore and legend into his painting and performances. His stated artistic goal is to "bridge cultures and break down the barriers and prejudices that separate us as people. Art, for me, is potentially a form of 'social medicine." Evans is a prolific visual and performing arts educator, having taught and performed at various K-12 schools, cultural centers and community spaces. He is a co-founder of the Green Brigade Project in Cuba in 2002, a five-year long multidisciplinary initiative that assembled artists there through concerts, communal art exhibits, street performance and events such as the International Book Fair, Havana.
Evans received critical acclaim by Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, for his short film titled "Tiempo" in 2003, which also received an Honorable Mention at the Independent Film Festival, Havana, Cuba, 2004, and at the Independent Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In 2011 he was honored with a Citizen Citation for "Dedication to Cuban Culture" from Mayor Angel Taveras.
Evans Molina-Fernandez is known in RI for various accomplishments: his educational workshops in local schools and community centers; founding Gallery La Naive and as percussionist with local Latino band Santa Mamba. His art has been shown in numerous exhibits in both RI and Havana, Cuba.
2016 Small Picture Show
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An extensive Small Picture Show will be exhibited at Gallery Z, with the intent of providing a wide opportunity for gift-givers to purchase and give art at especially affordable prices. This salon-style group exhibition will be up from November 10th through Friday, December 23rd, 2016. Gallery Z will hold two receptions: an opening reception Thursday, November 17th, from 5 to 9PM and a second reception on December 15th from 5 to 9PM.
An eclectic abundance of art works will be selected from Gallery Z's very extensive stable of numerous local, national and internationally renowned artists. The art works will range up to fifteen inches by fifteen inches or smaller, and priced up to just $300. Visitors can choose from about 200 art works in assorted media that will be on display, consisting of paintings, sculpture, fine ceramics and pottery, photography, assemblages, little boxes, glass, mixed media and fine handmade jewelry. In addition, Gallery Z will be chock full, as always, of small inexpensive and distinctive handmade gift items to discover, so that gift-givers can find presents for everyone on their lists: handicrafts from various countries such as leather-bound journals, porcelain and wood boxes, decorative jewel-encrusted patchwork pillow covers and carved wooden masks, sterling silver jewelry from Taxco, a renowned silver mining town in Mexico; Armenian handcrafted items such as handpainted handfired bowls and red glass pomegranates in 3 sizes; along with many unusual stocking stuffers, art greeting cards and fun "art" socks with replicas of famous paintings for men and women alike. Gallery Z also offers "Dreamy Venice in the adjacent "Italy" room to complement Federal Hill's Italian cultural atmosphere. Here you will find a large selection of luminous handmade small Murano glass: gifts (paperweights, ornaments, vessels, perfume bottles) and Murano glass jewelry (pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, watches, hair clips), all personally chosen and imported from Venice by Gallery Associate Linda Kamajian in a sparkling rainbow of translucent colors. These are set amidst fine art paintings and photographs related to Italy or by some of Gallery Z's established Italian-American fine artists. |
