Paintings by Enos Ray will be on exhibit from now through Labor Day at Treehouse Studios in West Tisbury. All are welcome to a reception on Sunday, August 15, from 4 to 7 p.m. David Corcoran will provide music during the reception as well as present his paintings. For details, call 508-693-6645. Treehouse is at 472 State Road, opposite up-Island Cronig’s. The gallery is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Although not the last chance, it certainly is the best chance to find that certain Island treasure. This weekend the annual Labor Day Artisans Festival will take place at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury.
On Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 10 a.m. and running until 5 p.m., over 85 local artists will be showcasing their handmade wares. Consider it a two-day throw-down of creativity and craftmenship. There’s something for everybody, plus food from the Sweet Life Café.
The Louisa Gould Gallery will be holding an end of season sale from Thursday, Oct. 7 through Monday, Oct. 11.
Most of the art will be on sale from 10 to 30 per cent off. Louisa Gould will also offer her photography at a 40 per cent savings. The sale is only for inventory in the gallery; it does not apply to special orders.
The Louisa Gould Gallery is located at 54 Main street in Vineyard Haven. For more details, call 508-693-7373.
Artist and curator Laurel Tucker Duplessis will display and sell her art at the home of Vineyard Haven resident Carol White, 61 Pine street on August 18, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Laurel Tucker Duplessis was the curator of the art and artifacts division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York city, until her retirement in March 1996. She is also an artist whose primary medium is printmaking.
The John Stobart Gallery will open its new encaustic painting exhibition, The Luminous Landscape, with a reception on Thursday, Sept. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 31 North Summer street in Edgartown. The exhibit will hang until Sept. 30.
Art, music, dancing and hors d’oeuvres — what can you add to that? More art, of course. Robert Hall Parker will open a show of his recent works at the Dole barn off Rogers Path in West Tisbury on Sunday, Oct. 24, from 6 to 9 p.m. A southern-born artist who hails originally from North Carolina, Mr. Parker’s aesthetics developed from graffiti and outsider art. The work that will be shown by the artist includes character sketches and other visual devices aimed at creating a certain atmosphere in the rustic space of a barn.
Nina Gomez Gordon will be the featured artist at a a wine and cheese reception on Thursday, August 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Made Here on the Vineyard in Nevin Square in Edgartown,
Ms. Gomez-Gordon earned a bachelor of arts in fine art from Bowdoin College and studied painting and sculpture at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago and Maine College of Art. She has been a professional artist on Martha’s Vineyard for more than 16 years, specializing in plein air landscapes, abstract art, figure drawings from life and portraits by commission.
Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and along with it, the annual Friends of Family Planning Art Show Benefit. This event supports the Family Planning of Martha’s Vineyard clinic, which provides reproductive health and family planning services to our community.
The Eisenhauer Gallery’s second exhibit of the season, entitled Embody, opens Thursday, July 15, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. with libations and live music by Mike Benjamin
This collection of art encases figurative works from Kathy Jones, Justin Taylor, Jylian Gustlin, Melinda Morrison, Rebecca Kinkead and the gallery’s newest artist, Carol Bennett. The exhibit correlates the very distinctive styles of our artists through their shared thematic interpretations of “the body.”
Roberta Gross will host an opening reception today, Friday, June 11 from 4 to 6 p.m. for an exhibit of her abstract paintings at the Chilmark branch of the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard on South Road. The exhibit will run through June 18.
In her art, Ms. Gross plays with colors, textures, shapes and lines, arranging and rearranging fragments of paper she has created by stamping, burning, splattering, embossing and texturing with gels and acrylic pastes.
