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July 09, 2010
Family Ties - The Art Connection
FAMILY TIES – THE ART CONNECTION explores the differences and similarities found in the work of artists who live together or have lived together. Partners, couples, Mothers and daughters, nephews and Aunts exhibit together in this delightful show. Join us on Sandwich. Wednesday, July 21st from 5-7 p.m. to meet the Family! Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery is located at 69 Maple Street (route 113) in Center Sandwich.
Participating artists include Michael Doyle and Laura Marconi have summered in Tamworth for years. Stronger than ever, Doyle’s loose impressionistic style lends itself to the lakes and mountains in our area. Marconi’s jewel like palate reminds of 19th century Italian art. Not surprising as she is from Rome. Stoney Coneley and Mary Armstrong, both Boston artists whose subject matter stretches from the Maine Coast to Venice, Italy. Conley’s peaceful landscapes are challenged by Armstrongs paintings that are influenced by ancient maps. Frances Hamilton and Peter Thibeault are also both from Boston. Hamilton is a painter best known here for her paintings of the camps on Squam Lake. Thibeault is a sculptor whose work is both precise and whimsical. CC White and Tyler Pope: White is from Sandwich while her nephew. Tyler Pope lives in Maine. White’s “interior landscapes” explore life through color and line while Pope crafts masks and bracelets from copper. Breton Morse is a long time gallery artist. His humorous and painterly work has delighted viewers for years. His daughter Alice Morse lives in Spain. Her work has an ancestral quality that is expressed in her highly tactile painting. Blair Folts from Effingham is showing encaustics and monotypes based on her last trip to Mongolia. Her Mother, Eshther B. Folts, an artist from Connecticut works in charcoal on paper. Marian Purviance and her Mother, Virginia Purviance have been visiting relatives on Squam for years. Marian Purviance creates landscapes and flowers in pastel and charcoal. Her Mother, Virginia Puriance’s, creations are made from found objects, printed matter and encaustic. The work is clever and amusing. Finally Sam Falls, a photographer living in New York, joins his mother Deborah falls in this exhibit. Deborah Falls has mastered beautifully the technique of painting on silk with dye. Her botanical pieces are precise and delicate.