Through the Lens is the last show in the Spotlights 2009 series celebrating 15 years at the Shaw Cramer Gallery. Island photographers Karen DiMaura, Gary Mirando and Kathy Newman join Michael Beatty and Eric Jensen, each with their distinctive style. Photo silk-screened stoneware vessels complement spare images of the cranberry bog house and Lake Tashmoo. It’s about the artists personal vision.
The Tisbury School will end its traveling art exhibitions with Thomas Hart Benton, the American muralist and seasonal Vineyarder who delved into the images of heroic everyday Americans during the era of the Great Depression.
The exhibition celebrates ordinary people who made America great. Given the artist’s strong Vineyard ties, his fans sometimes speculate that the faces of individual Island personalities can be found in his murals.
Luminous defines the fourth spotlight 2009 show at Shaw Cramer Gallery from July 17 to 30. Ten artists, including Island artists Eva Gallant and Andrea Hartman, present artwork with luster and light. Collages of iridescent glass with stone, knitted wire, miniature sculptures of luminous bead-covered vessels, silk appliqued pillows, glass lanterns and a lighted tall clock of bird’s-eye maple and stainless steel combine to create a shimmering collection.
A new show at the award-winning Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, entitled Beginnings, offers a sampling of the broad range of work from the 25 regional and national artists that the gallery is representing throughout the summer and into the fall. An opening reception with refreshments and beverages will be held on Saturday, May 23 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Gallery owner Don McKillop comments that he is very pleased to be offering fresh work from Dragonfly’s familiar artists, as well as work from artists who are new to the gallery this season.
Shaw Cramer Gallery today opens Repurposed, Recycled, the latest in its spotlight exhibitions.
Furniture, paintings, metal, glass, jewelry and collage by three Island artists and seven national artists combine to present an elegant collection of work composed of repurposed and recycled materials.
Wendy Weldon has painted on her used painting sandpaper, Rose Abrahamson created a collage and paint composition, and Laurene Krasny Brown combine gouache painted paper strips that form a quilt-like pattern.
On display at the Steamship Authority’s Vineyard Haven terminal Thursday, Jan. 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. will be a special collection of works by young artists Islandwide. Their subject: Vineyard smiles. The show is meant to be a teaser for National Children’s Dental Health Month, coming up in February. Sponsored by Vineyard Smiles, an oral health initiative of Island Health Inc. and the Vineyard Health Care Access, the purpose of the show is to increase youth awareness of the importance of dental hygiene.
Alison Shaw Gallery Fine art photography of Alison Shaw. Open by chance or appointment, or Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs, 508-696-7429 or alisonshaw.com.
Current exhibit: Sail continues through July 18.
Bank of Martha’s Vineyard Open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 8:30 a.m. to noon at 517 South Road, Chilmark, 508-645-2608.
Floral arranger Mary Louise Perry and assistant arranger Wiet Bacheller will represent the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club for Art in Bloom 2009 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
They will create a flower design that interprets a work of art, one of 50 designs to be done by New England Garden Clubs in this springtime tradition.
This three-day festival showcasing flower arranging as an art form takes place from Saturday, April 25, through Monday, April 27.
Steve Lohman will unveil a new series of large scale wire sculptures this Sunday at the Old Sculpin Gallery on Dock street in Edgartown. Mr. Lohman is known locally and internationally for his playful steel and wire sculptures. Graceful and whimsical, his lyrical creations capture the subtleties of life and form with a single line. There will be an artist’s reception Sunday, July 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit will run through August 1.
