As founder of a downtown art gallery, John Mottern sometimes seems a bit of an alchemist.
For the first three exhibits to be shown simultaneously in his recently expanded Gallery 55, Mottern and co-owner Anet James are featuring striking and original art made from cotton, silver and an enflamed imagination.
Three very different artists opened exhibits last week, creating distinctive works that explore the boundaries of their varied materials.
In her appropriately titled "Cotton Song," Lauren S. Langevin is showing 15 textiles and quilts that combine meticulous craftsmanship with intricate designs. The lifelong Natick resident said she "uses fabric like oil paint so people don't always notice the quilting in my quilts."
As if signaling his interest in nature's hidden forces, Gedas Paskauskas named his exhibit of small and monumental oil paintings "Tides & Sky." Starting from sketches of real places, the Boston artist imbues remembered landscapes with his own feelings.
The gallery's first artist-in-residence, silversmith John Harwood shapes bars, sheets and bits of wire into delicately wrought necklaces, bracelets and earrings with sausage-sized calloused fingers. "The only way I can describe what I do is it's eclectic," said the Natick resident, who looks like he just rambled in from the OK Coral.
Langevin and Paskauskas will be showing and selling their work through Jan.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, 12. Harwood is a regular fixture in the gallery at 55 South Main St., Natick.
Preparing for Friday and Saturday receptions for the three artists, Mottern said, "Visitors will see all completely new art."
He recently more than doubled his space by expanding into an adjacent shop to add a new gallery with 11-foot-high ceilings that he calls Salon II.
"This will be our first double opening of Lauren Langevin's and Gedas (Paskauskas') work. We'll still have solo exhibits in our two separate spaces. Our mission remains the same: To build community around a place where artists and the public can gather together and see new work," he said.
Each of the three artists appears to be exploring the limits of their chosen materials.
Langevin believes her teenage passion for knitting evolved over the ensuing decades into her present fascination with creating textile art.
"I actually like the physical act of knitting. The sound of a sewing machine gets me in a rhythm. After 25 years working in the corporate world, I find this very therapeutic," she said. "I don't look at myself as a traditional quilter. I look at myself as a fabric artist."
Several of her pieces reveal dazzling complexity.
While each of the 35 squares in her "Asian Crazy Quilt" appear to be unique, Langevin said, "It's not about the pattern.Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,"
"It's about the fabric. You use the fabric as a medium. It's like painting with fabric,ceramic magic cube for the medical," she said.
After several years painting mostly realistic murals and commissions, he said he's currently striving to forge a more personal style "beyond representational" art.
He paints many of his smaller works "en plein air" focusing on composition and the play of light. As he reworks smaller scenes into monumental canvases, Paskauskas said his color palette becomes more subtle and subdued so not to overwhelm viewers.
By comparing lovely smaller landscapes like "Sakonnett" with his imposing "Ghost of Sayulita," a careful viewer can see Paskauskas progressing toward a more personally expressive style.Your source for re-usable Plastic moulds of strong latex rubber. Whether painting landscapes in Maine, Mexico or the Caribbean island of Dominica, he succeeds in creating a parallel emotional world that's likely to touch viewers.
Describing his own work, Paskauskas said, "In the end the painting is successful when it not only evokes memories of a real place but when lyrical and gestural forms reflect a more personal sentiment. By his own strict standards, he succeeds more often than not.
Around 1970 in North Conway, N.H., Harwood switched from carpentry to making jewelry, eventually forging over 40 years a distinctly personal style that's both confident and delicate,100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. subtle yet expressive.
When he's not making gorgeous broaches, buckles and pendants, he has crafted remarkably detailed silver sailboats and dinghys with moveable oars, rudders and sails. Harwood pointed out his wife, Sue Ellen Harwood, has made most of the earrings on display.
For the first three exhibits to be shown simultaneously in his recently expanded Gallery 55, Mottern and co-owner Anet James are featuring striking and original art made from cotton, silver and an enflamed imagination.
Three very different artists opened exhibits last week, creating distinctive works that explore the boundaries of their varied materials.
In her appropriately titled "Cotton Song," Lauren S. Langevin is showing 15 textiles and quilts that combine meticulous craftsmanship with intricate designs. The lifelong Natick resident said she "uses fabric like oil paint so people don't always notice the quilting in my quilts."
As if signaling his interest in nature's hidden forces, Gedas Paskauskas named his exhibit of small and monumental oil paintings "Tides & Sky." Starting from sketches of real places, the Boston artist imbues remembered landscapes with his own feelings.
The gallery's first artist-in-residence, silversmith John Harwood shapes bars, sheets and bits of wire into delicately wrought necklaces, bracelets and earrings with sausage-sized calloused fingers. "The only way I can describe what I do is it's eclectic," said the Natick resident, who looks like he just rambled in from the OK Coral.
Langevin and Paskauskas will be showing and selling their work through Jan.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, 12. Harwood is a regular fixture in the gallery at 55 South Main St., Natick.
Preparing for Friday and Saturday receptions for the three artists, Mottern said, "Visitors will see all completely new art."
He recently more than doubled his space by expanding into an adjacent shop to add a new gallery with 11-foot-high ceilings that he calls Salon II.
"This will be our first double opening of Lauren Langevin's and Gedas (Paskauskas') work. We'll still have solo exhibits in our two separate spaces. Our mission remains the same: To build community around a place where artists and the public can gather together and see new work," he said.
Each of the three artists appears to be exploring the limits of their chosen materials.
Langevin believes her teenage passion for knitting evolved over the ensuing decades into her present fascination with creating textile art.
"I actually like the physical act of knitting. The sound of a sewing machine gets me in a rhythm. After 25 years working in the corporate world, I find this very therapeutic," she said. "I don't look at myself as a traditional quilter. I look at myself as a fabric artist."
Several of her pieces reveal dazzling complexity.
While each of the 35 squares in her "Asian Crazy Quilt" appear to be unique, Langevin said, "It's not about the pattern.Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet,"
"It's about the fabric. You use the fabric as a medium. It's like painting with fabric,ceramic magic cube for the medical," she said.
After several years painting mostly realistic murals and commissions, he said he's currently striving to forge a more personal style "beyond representational" art.
He paints many of his smaller works "en plein air" focusing on composition and the play of light. As he reworks smaller scenes into monumental canvases, Paskauskas said his color palette becomes more subtle and subdued so not to overwhelm viewers.
By comparing lovely smaller landscapes like "Sakonnett" with his imposing "Ghost of Sayulita," a careful viewer can see Paskauskas progressing toward a more personally expressive style.Your source for re-usable Plastic moulds of strong latex rubber. Whether painting landscapes in Maine, Mexico or the Caribbean island of Dominica, he succeeds in creating a parallel emotional world that's likely to touch viewers.
Describing his own work, Paskauskas said, "In the end the painting is successful when it not only evokes memories of a real place but when lyrical and gestural forms reflect a more personal sentiment. By his own strict standards, he succeeds more often than not.
Around 1970 in North Conway, N.H., Harwood switched from carpentry to making jewelry, eventually forging over 40 years a distinctly personal style that's both confident and delicate,100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. subtle yet expressive.
When he's not making gorgeous broaches, buckles and pendants, he has crafted remarkably detailed silver sailboats and dinghys with moveable oars, rudders and sails. Harwood pointed out his wife, Sue Ellen Harwood, has made most of the earrings on display.
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