Silver Linings is the theme for the next community art show at Featherstone Center for the Arts, opening April 5. The Art of Flowers follows in May.
A new exhibition of paintings by Harry Seymour opens at Carol Craven Gallery with a reception for the artist on Sunday, August 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. and the public is welcome.
This will be Mr. Seymour’s second exhibition at the gallery, and he will present his most recent works of egg tempera paintings and scratchart etchings. He draws his inspiration from the beauty of the Vineyard as well as its richly diverse multicultural community.
As a landscape painter, Allen Whiting can feel the seasons. He has an eye for light and movement that can make you hear the wind howl in the dead of January at South Beach, or feel the spring sunshine bounce off the oak trees in Chilmark in April. Mr. Whiting has been painting for almost 40 years, and he knows his strengths and weaknesses.
And for him, summer is not a time to paint.
Gould Gallery
No need to be at sixes and sevens — the Wall Street World Cup sailor turned photographer, painter and gallery-owner Louisa Gould has not got the seven year itch. Rather, she’s hit lucky seven, and the grown-up gallery at 54 Main street, Vineyard Haven is celebrating with a seven-year anniversary party on Saturday, August 21, from 5 to 8 p.m.
For all Brian Kirkpatrick knows, his award-winning painting could be hanging in the living room of the White House right now. He’s not sure.
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.
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.
