Dog Painting 16×20 Oil

I really liked the way this one came out, sort of like a cartoon, but the paint is so smooth (unlike my typical acrylic style)

This is for inventory for the Pet Show that is coming up in a month.

Thanks for looking!

Doxie Practice 1 in Oil

 

I couldn’t just paint my triptych without practicing, so this was the first and only practice piece so I could get a grip on what I needed to do to paint this enlongated wee dog.  I just finished the triptych in oil today – it’s GREAT, I love it. Now it has to dry.  It will premiere at the Triptych show at SkG on October 3, very exctiting. It looks nothing like this one, although I love this piece too.  I am almost done painting in oil for the season (it gets to my allergies without windows open) – but have two more projects before I’m back to acrylic.

 

Thanks for looking.

SKG October Show Press Release

SYLVIA KANIA GALLERY

 

One Space.

14 Artists.

Where Culture and Community Collide.

 

TRIPTYCH: A Curatorial Experiment

 

SKG announces Curatorial Experiments. These are exhibits built around thematic questions or concepts. Our first is Triptych, which will open on October 3, 2008 and closes on November 9, 2008.  In its simplest form a triptych is a series of three objects/images that share a relationship.  Our diverse group of artists will challenge themselves by engaging in multifaceted explorations of various themes.

 

Free events for October include The First Friday Artwalk on October 3, as well as forums on Thursday, October 16 at 7pm to discuss the triptych theme.  On October 13, 14 and 15 from 11 am to 7 pm, we open our doors for private showings to colleges in the greater Portland area, including USM, University of New England, MECA and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

 

Share your thoughts, doodle or answer the question of the month on our floor to ceiling chalkboard wall. We have also added an artist resource library to our lounge.

 

And then there were 14, SKG welcomes new member Natallia Chekunova  to our group of existing artists:  Cat McKenna, Jessica Lauren Lipton, Jonathan M. Dunitz, Lori Rae Curole, Kelly Donahue, Gregor Arturo, Jen Joaquin, Linsday Torrey, Felicia Teach, Elizabeth Sherman, Vicky Lloyd, Susan Hazzard, Molly Hamilton, and Natallia Chekunova.

 

 

ART: Photography   Paintings    Installation Art   Video   Pottery  

Jewelry    Printmaking    Glass    Prints   Live Music on First Fridays

 

 

Venue: Sylvia Kania Gallery is located at 148 High Street, Portland, ME 04101

(Directly across from the Eastland Park Hotel in the State Theater Building)

Hours:  Thursdays – Saturdays 11am-7pm and Sundays 11am-3pm

 

Phone: 207-615-6019

 

For More Information: Email Jess Lauren at SKGmanager@gmail.com

Mary Brookings at Biddeford Savings Bank October – December

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Art Exhibit

 

October 1 – December 30, 2008

Art Exhibit Featuring Fine Art by Mary Brookings

 

Hosted by Biddeford Savings Bank & Lollipop Art Productions

Scarborough Branch
360 US Route 1, Scarborough, ME 04074
207- 883-3004

 

 

I am an acrylic painter with many years of professional experience in art and graphic design and in figure drawing, including teaching experience. Most of my images currently take the form of landscapes, definable as such to greater and lesser degrees. Most are unpopulated, and I try to impart to them a sense of either memory or anticipation that someone or something might inhabit them in the past or future. They have been called ‘expressionist landscapes,’ and while I’ve never been totally comfortable with labels in general, this one probably fits my work best. Acrylic paint as a medium forces immediacy and speed in execution, which fits me both in temperament and lifestyle, as I balance the dual roles of artist and mother of young children.

 

I enjoy exploring the way colors and textures of paint and the composition of forms on a two-dimensional surface interact with the human senses on a primitive level. I like to test the balance between representation and abstraction; creating fields of color and texture which form a visual space that the viewer can enter mentally and emotionally.

 

“Mary paints like a Mainer talks: exactly enough said to make her point, with nothing unnecessary or extra to blunt the effect of her truth.”              - Frank Valliere, fellow

Maine artist

 

Mary Brooking

59 Mechanic Street

Westbrook, ME 04092

207.854.5855

www.MaineBrook.com

 

 

Next Show going up at Lifeworks

Art Display Space at Lifeworks Chiropractic,

202 US Route 1, Falmouth, Maine

 

Show Dates October – December, 2008

 

 

Lifeworks Chiropractic proudly presents Freeport artist Diana Johnson. As a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Johnson has won awards for her pastel paintings.  Works have been included in New York exhibitions at the National Arts Club and at the Salmagundi Club.  She is a recipient of a Good Idea Grant awarded by the Maine Arts Commission and was represented in a recent edition of American Art Collector.  Johnson’s inspiration comes from places that elicit both a sense of rest and rejuvenation.  The more a painting seems to emit energy, as if from the paper or canvas itself, the happier she is with the results.

 

Johnson enjoys encouraging others to explore the visual arts by offering art classes at the University of Southern Maine’s Center for Continuing Education and through Freeport Community Education.  Her Bachelors degree in Art Education and her Masters degree in Education were both earned at the University of Southern Maine. 

 

Lifeworks Chiropractic is located in the Foreside Place office park and is

open to clients or by appointment by calling Lori Rae at Lollipop Art Productions 207- 415-7143.

Skg – it ain’t just a gallery!

This Sunday – An Art Talk and Dance Demo

Triptich: A Curitorial Experiment

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October is nearing and this is what we are cooking up at the Co-op.  Judging from the last two openings, this is nothing but pure fun.

Thanks for checking it out.

Sunday – wow, what a crazy weather night

I don’t know about you, but do bad sleeping with the windows shut when it’s warm out, and last night was no exception.  The monsoon that came ripping through Portland Maine was bad enough that my dog poo poo’d the idea of going out.  Of course this is followed by some whiney noises coming from the crate, but hey, we tried more than once.  My weekend has been full of Lollipop Art Management, and so far no painting.  With Rich gone I have been Stella’s main entertainment…not to mention the friends from California who spent the last two nights here.  I’m tired.  I’m hoping to work on the triptich today and of course laundry. I am 75% full for my art management spaces for 2009, Biddeford Savings Bank is booked, with some substitutes waiting for spots to open up.  Lifeworks is nearing the half-way point with some really great new talent for next year.  My focus for the next month is the trip to Connecticut, and the co-op, and of course trying to book the last 1 or two spots at Lifeworks.  My production has slowed down in the studio to work on my triptich (which really does count as three paintings, right) – so this is why it’s taking me three weeks!  Some of my new oils are ready to be shot by my infamous photographer “D” so hopefully I’ll have some new pieces on the web in the next week or so.

thanks for reading

SKG – First Friday Opening last night

I’m so proud because I’ve been a part of watching this all come together, but when I walked in to the co-op with Stella in hand at 545pm, a time when First Friday Artwalkers are normally just getting started, the place was packed from then until when I left at 730pm.  People are really wowed by the space and the Mantra of NOT JUST ANOTHER ART GALLERY screams when you see the artists that display here, it’s not traddional, it’s not conservative, it is semi-contemporaty, but even the most normal art purchaser will find something to buy here.  The scene, art walk participants sipping wine listening to smooth jazz from a live trio which included a keyboard, stand up bass, and a trumpet.  The mood was festive, and a little brown wiener dog was being passed around like a sack of potatoes to people who knew her and people who didn’t  She loves the co-op and has now attended several meetings and two openings.  Such a good Stella dog. 

Sales seem to be happening last night so that’s a good thing too.  Thanks for looking, and if you haven’t been in yet, it’s right across from the Eastland Park Hotel at 148 High Street in Portland.