MARCH SHOWCASE
Face to Face
March 1 to March 26
Reception 3-5pm, Saturday March 4 during
Western Avenue Studios’ monthly Open House.
Katren Cleo and Wendy James explore the universal within the individual this March in Face to Face at Loading Dock Gallery. Their portraits invite connection between the viewer and the portrayed.
Wendy James paints bold, intimate oil paintings, rooted in her personal photographs, rich in saturated color. Each sitter poses with one significant object, which combine with text to create a narrative about shared human goals.
Katren Cleo focuses on communication through face and body. Her charcoal portraits range from realistic to abstract, with bold marks and sweeping gesture. Her portraits resonate with dark emotion, private and familiar.
James has BA in art education and started painting at age fifty. Her work has been displayed in New England galleries. Cleo trained as a photographer and has focused on drawing for the past four years.
APRIL SHOWCASE
Fire and Fiber
March 29 to April 30
Reception 3-5pm, Saturday April 1 during
Western Avenue Studios’ monthly Open House.
Carol Rissman joins member Tarja Cockell at the Loading Dock Gallery as they present Fire and Fiber, a show of color, texture, and form in contemporary weaving and ceramics.
Cockell’s work begins on the loom. She pushes dimensional possibilities of an initially flat form, using structural manipulation and layers with a variety of media to achieve elegant and painterly art. Trained in Finland, Cockell emphasizes subtle colorways and clean, simple shapes.
Rissman explores how clay can respond to and take on the characteristics of cloth. Her work is woven and tied. It flows and ripples. She pushes clay’s boundaries to create fabric-like pieces: quiet, minimal, and mediative. The finished surfaces have a burnished glow.
Cockell lives in North Andover, Rissman in Bedford. Both artists work out of Western Avenue Studios in Lowell.
Fire and Fiber
March 29 to April 30
Reception 3-5pm, Saturday April 1 during
Western Avenue Studios’ monthly Open House.
Carol Rissman joins member Tarja Cockell at the Loading Dock Gallery as they present Fire and Fiber, a show of color, texture, and form in contemporary weaving and ceramics.
Cockell’s work begins on the loom. She pushes dimensional possibilities of an initially flat form, using structural manipulation and layers with a variety of media to achieve elegant and painterly art. Trained in Finland, Cockell emphasizes subtle colorways and clean, simple shapes.
Rissman explores how clay can respond to and take on the characteristics of cloth. Her work is woven and tied. It flows and ripples. She pushes clay’s boundaries to create fabric-like pieces: quiet, minimal, and mediative. The finished surfaces have a burnished glow.
Cockell lives in North Andover, Rissman in Bedford. Both artists work out of Western Avenue Studios in Lowell.
