Tag: meet the artist
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Meet the Artist: Wendy Shapiro
Along with cooler weather, September is bringing something new to Boston. Beacon Gallery’s upcoming show “Be Here Now” will feature two artists, Wendy Shapiro and Raquel Fornasaro. Before the opening, we would love for you to get to know the artists. Artist Wendy Shapiro grew up in New England and pursued her career as an…
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Meet the Artist: James C. Varnum
One of Beacon Gallery’s featured artist in “Synaesthesia: Abstract Art & Creative Writing” is James C. Varnum. Like many other artists, Varnum’s career path was not always strictly artistic. Varnum earned a M.Ed. and became a teacher, and then later went on to earning a M.S. in communication disorders and worked as a Speech Language…
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Meet the Artist: Adrienne Shishko
Another artist behind Beacon Gallery’s current show, “Synaesthesia: Abstract Art & Creative Writing” is Adrienne Shishko. Having worn many “hats” in her vocational path, including working at the buying office for Saks on Fifth Avenue, to working as a general legal counsel and director of marketing, Shishko has recently fulfilled her life-long dream, and has…
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Meet the Artist: Anya Leveille
Another one of the artists in Beacon Gallery’s current show “Synaesthesia: Abstract Art & Creative Writing” is Anya Leveille. Having been trained as a texture artist at Laguna College of Art and Design, Leveille’s abstract works are focused on how texture and color are related to specific objects or places. Leveille works on wood panel,…
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Meet the artist: Betty Canick
Another artist who is featured in Beacon Gallery’s current show, “Synaesthesia: Abstract Art & Creative Writing” is Betty Canick. Originally having been trained as a painter at the Rhode Island School of Design, Canick’s vocational trajectory changed paths. Canick went on to pursue a degree in psychoanalytic training, and then became a clinician. Like many…
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Meet the Artist: Myra Abelson
One of the five artists featured in Beacon Gallery’s current show, “Synaesthesia: Abstract Art & Creative Writing” is Myra Abelson. Although her career as a painter started later in her life, Abelson believes that the greatest gift she has given herself is the time to paint. With this precious time, Abelson has created a…
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Meet The Artist: Aja Johnson
One of the two artists featured in Beacon Gallery’s “Layers & Light” is Aja Johnson. Through her abstract works, Johnson explores vulnerability, anxiety, and dissatisfaction. Her work is quite appropriate for the gallery’s current show, as her abstract pieces showcase intricate layering. Johnson describes these layers as “murky and confusing, unfolding slowly, like an onion.”…
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Meet The Artist: Lori Mehta
Lori Mehta is one of the two artists featured in Beacon Gallery’s current show “Layers & Light”. Her representational pieces are truly spectacular and photographs hardly do them justice, as her dense brushstrokes form intricate layers only visible in the presence of her art. Using a flat brush and a palette knife, Mehta is able…
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Meet The Artist: Malcolm Montague Davis & TAC
Beacon Gallery’s current show (through March 11th) is called “Praxis: Malcolm Montague Davis” and features Davis’s extraordinary paintings and models in a one-man show dedicated to selected themes from Davis’s work. Davis’s colorful paintings and the models on which he based them are rooted in his training as an architect. He graduated from Harvard Graduate…