Current Exhibits
October 3-14 Gabrielle T. Registre "Down to Earth"
Gabrielle Tsounis Registre
Statement
As an artist, I am motivated by a compelling drive to create the kind of art which is at
once spontaneous and methodical. Pursuing the urgency of art allows me to be innovative and provides me with a sense of purpose in my work. My goal is to provoke thought in the viewer, with the hope that my art can be a catalyst for positive change and increased awareness in others and in myself. My artwork is inspired by my perceptions of the world around me and influenced by my own thoughts, ideas, and visions. Travel leads me to paint the places I have visited, making travel and art interconnected. My world view alters after every journey, inspiring me to
return to my work with renewed enthusiasm and determination.
“Down To Earth”
This body of work was inspired by the Earth’s natural elements, such as the colors
textures and layers. From a birds eye view I wanted to depict Nature as Art. I am in love with Aerial views of the world while flying. My work is a reflection of my photos I have taken with me during my travels from my window seat. With various environmental issues, oil spills, and the controversy surrounding the recent pipeline plan, it has brought my attention to create these
paintings of the land. The Human Species are part of the land, and we live in a beautiful place. I wish viewers to be reminded that not only my paintings is art, but also the Natural world.
BIO:
b.1982
Gabrielle began painting commissions at age 16, and soon afterwards won first place in both the Regional Art Competition and Black History Month Art Exposition at WJCC in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Gabrielle has been exhibiting her work since 2005 in Burlington VT, has taught at an integrated arts academy, worked in after-school art programs, volunteered at Studio STK, and Burlington City Arts. She has experience as a gallery assistant at the Shelburne Craft School, and volunteered with the National Association of Women Artists, an organization into which she was accepted by jury. She is also a member of the S.P.A.C.E Gallery in Burlington, where she has shown her work. Recently she has exhibited at the Museum Of Latin American Arts in Los Angeles CA, Arts Club of Washington DC, N.A.W.A Gallery, Sylvia Wald/ Po Kim Gallery in NYC, Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington City Arts, and FOFA Arts Alive Gallery, in Burlington. Gabrielle received a Bachelor’s of Arts degree with a major in Fine Arts at Burlington College, May 2014. She has received top honors in her program, and won first place at the 2013 and 2014 Annual Big Spring Exhibition at Burlington College. She continues to show and sell her work at galleries throughout North America. Recently, She has a solo show at the James Memorial Art Center in North Dakota and a group show at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle WA.
August 1-25 "Memories Captured" by Daphne Clark
Artist Reception August 19th 7-9pm
Daphne Clark
I was born and raised in rural North Dakota only three miles from the Montana border. There is a rough beauty to this area few people get to enjoy as the population remains classified as frontier. Most of these counties have an average density of two people per square mile much because of their rough country. I believe the people who stay in this area are some of the most unique people in the world.
I want my work to capture a “snapshot in time” for the future or in some cases reinventing the past for people to remember. To that end a number of these works are of people who are characters who live in this area others are of people who were dearly loved who have passed on. Other works in this collection are from discarded old photos that no one wanted anymore or no longer remembered who the subjects were. There is a great satisfaction in capturing not only a person’s likeness but also their essence.
I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Biology in 2003 and in 2012, I enrolled at the Academy of Art University attend for a Master’s Degree in Fine Art Painting. I am approximately halfway through the program working primarily in oil and pastel.
It is a natural fit to bring together my background and love for this area, it’s people and the outdoors into my painting. There is a story in these rural areas just waiting to be told to the rest of the world and I want to be one of the people telling that story.Ar
July 1-29 Gallery I: Patricia Marquard "Tone Poems of Color", Gallery II Williston Area Visual Artists
“Currently I am an artist/art teacher residing in Minot, North Dakota. I am a commissioned artist, as well as an instructor, and art demonstrator for Minot Council of the Arts in various events during the year, and occasionally at MSU. I teach High School art at White Shield School, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
A Wisconsin native and art graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, I have won awards at art competitions in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
I paint with an Impressionistic style. My artist’s philosophy is that form is concrete, although it can be combined and rearranged. Color is relative and can be used in any way that the imagination can perceive. My realism in drawing sometimes has surrealistic overtones. My mediums are oil, watercolor and colored pencil.
In my Cathedral Series the buildings are impressionistic in that while the architecture is representational there are details that are omitted and areas that are somewhat vague. Color is definitely arbitrary. For example the interior of a sanctuary may encircle the façade of the cathedral. The next series was “Hawaiian Flowers and Trees,” some of which have been sold and are no longer part of the traveling exhibit. Occasionally I will paint a scene from my travels in the United States.
The motivation for my style is that while I am a realist in rendering, I take liberties with what I see, according to mood, interest and the flow of the picture. I sometimes enjoy color for color’s sake and that makes for arbitrary color in some of my artwork.”
Patricia Marquard
