Housatonic River Museum – Jump In!
This should be a fun show celebrating all things water in our landscape. That’s my son Matt jumping into the Stockbridge Bowl. WIth all the water in our landscape this year, I think it will be particularly pertinent!
Opening reception
Friday, September 4, 2009
5:30 – 8:00 PM
The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield MA
(413) 499-9348
www.culturalpittsfield.com
Please join the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in downtown Pittsfield and the Housatonic River Museum in partnership with area environmental and arts organizations as we celebrate water in our landscape. JUMP IN! exhibition and sale will feature photographs, drawings, paintings, sculpture and writing inspired by the waters of our region and the premiere of A Sound Map of The Housatonic, a commissioned sound installation by Annea Lockwood. Water-related events and entertainment will compliment the artful offerings at the gallery. All events are free and open to the public.
Photos up at Ferrin Gallery
My photos are on display at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield through the month of March as part of the Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts. The show is entitled WOMEN: Portait+ Figure and is really great. I encourage you to go see it. Of interest also is that Leslie Ferrin chose to forgo the usual artists credits on the walls and instead has simply numbered the works, which allows the viewer to guess who the artist is and what their gender is. It’s a nice twist.
I have six nude studies up that I shot for the show. It was an opportunity for me to delve into the subtle world of the human form and the form and shape of it. Thanks to the participation of my talented model, the results fulfilled my desire to create a small collection of classic images. Life is a learning process.
Kevin Sprague at Gallery 37
I hope you can join me at Gallery 37 in Williamstown, MA on October 4th, 2008 between 4-6pm (and who knows what revels after) for the opening of my one-man show entitled PAST/PRESENT.
This show will include work from the past, including selections for the Postmarks series, Tidal Forces, the “Muse” project and others. New work will include a selection of portraits and new composites.
Hope to see you there!
Inspired by The Clark
We visited The Clark Art Museum last weekend for the Japanese-themed family day and I managed to breeze through the lovely “Like Breath on Glass” exhibit featuring works by Whistler, Inness, William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, Eduard Steichen, and Thomas Wilmer Dewing. I was struck in particular by the romanticism and story in Dewing’s work, which has a very modern quality to it of leaving you in a state of curious wonderment. I was also drawn to the immediate parallels with Maggie Mailer’s recent exhibition at the Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield.
During a photo shoot with the lovely Brittany Morgan, currently acting at Shakespeare & Company in both “Othello” and “All’s Well that Ends Well”, who consented to model for me for another project, I was inspired to see if I could simulate the effect that Dewing produced (after all, the model was in a corset…).
Anyway, here are the results of that experiment:
Inspiration from Mucha
I’m working on an image for “As You Like It” and hoping to channel Alphonse Mucha on this one. One of my favorite illustrators from the early part of the last century and a fixture in our household growing up (his work, that is), our family has had a long connection to this artist. At one point in the ’20’s or ’30’s my great-grandmother was a kind of patron to Mucha and ever since his presence and work has been around me.
Pretty girls and flowers. Always seems to work. But beyond that there is so much style in the work, so much motion and design and great typography. Stay tuned. Let’s see what happens!
Celebrate Sienna
It’s Sienna Patti’s birthday today: I know because it’s the same day as my son Nicholas. If you know Sienna, wish her a happy birthday! If you don’t, you should because Sienna is very cool. She’s been running her gallery for about as long as I have been in business, some 10-14 years or so, but when she started she was just out of school. And look at her now…. On the cover of the SOFA catalog last year, all over the show this year, shaping up the whole world of contemporary jewelry and art, kicking it as a publisher with her amazing collection of catalogs and books.
And soon – ecommerce: Sienna online. But ‘nuf said. She’s great.
Happy Birthday Sienna.
Oh, BTW: that’s a Jamie Bennett brooch in the photo.
Artist:Subject
Had lunch with my friend Sol Schwartz today, author of “Drawing Music, The Tanglewood Sketchbooks” and artists-about-the-berkshires. We had a great time and talked about everything, including the revolution of self-publishing with Lulu and Blurb and art, and a lot of other things. Sol made this great portrait of me on the white paper that Zinc uses on the table. How cool.
