Art Exhibits Archive

Campfire by Julianne Martin, Joint Opening Reception Thursday, August 3, 7:00 pm, on view August 2-30, Gallery: Julianne Martin hopes her viewers will experience her paintings in a way that is similar to looking at the surface of water. From emptiness and depth rushes a true focus. She constructs her paintings on canvas with water and acrylic paint placing value in the unpredictability and purity of water as a tool and material. Ms. Martin teaches at Brookline Art Center, Arlington Center for the Arts and Boston preschools.

Within the Landscape by Janet Shalstrom, Joint Opening Reception, Thursday, August 3, 7:00 pm, on view August 2-30, Main Hall: Janet Shalstrom’s drawings reflect her origins in the countryside. An exploration of landscapes, they express the experience of looking within that landscape and finding that we can begin to see yet more worlds within one small sector of the larger world. Her media include common varieties of charcoal; compressed, vine and pencil. Ms. Shalstrom’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums along the East Coast ranging from Maine to Virginia.  

Teen Gallery and Second Floor Display Cases:

A Snapshot of Newton South Arts, second floor Teen Gallery, on view through fall 2017: This collection of student work from Newton South High School is bound by the common thread of self-portraits, both through non-traditional and traditional means. Metaphoric images stand in for the self and snapshots of everyday moments represented in still lifes highlight the building blocks of small moments that comprise our lives. Also included are works that received a Silver Key in the 2017 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards.

Thanks to Eric Blomster of Abraxis Framing Co. in Newton, who provided the frames cost-free. (Image by: A. Xiao)