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Vincent Amicosante, the gallery director, also shows his work at the gallery. The Harmon Gallery represents Megan Hinton, Eric Abrecht, Victoria Blewer, Cynthia Consentino, Jody Craven, John Dorish, Cynthia Guild, Lorraine La Pointe, Daniel Maffia, Heather Pilchard, Blair Thornley and Anne Sargent Walker.

“Everyone goes to their studio and scales down what they normally do,” she says. Her small work is an example of what everyone does for the show. The result lies enigmatically between painting and decorative object.įor the small works show, she creates simplified versions and puts them in less expensive frames. She gives these exquisite paintings of fragile living things backgrounds of patterns like an antique home’s wallpaper. In the recent year, she has painted objects, mostly birds, with a high degree of specificity, on matchbooks and boxes. Harmon-Hay’s own work uses emotionally weighted objects tenderly held by their environments. After all, the Pilgrims did arrive here first. Sometimes people don’t realize how many people come up to the Cape for Thanksgiving. “Thanksgiving,” says Harmon-Hay, “is a really busy weekend. The invitation to new artists is the chance to create an opportunity for artists whose work might never have been shown before on a gallery wall. In the past, she has shown high school students’ work as well. Harmon also invites four local artists every year from outside the gallery. The work cannot exceed 24 square inches in any media. Traci Harmon-Hay is preparing for the 9th Annual Small Works Show.Īll 14 artists represented in her gallery contribute work for the show.

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A few feet out the window, water laps at the rocks at full tide. The Harmon Gallery occupies a light-filled corner of the Quiet Mind Studio building. 28, at the Sandpiper Gallery, 55 Commercial St. The opening reception for “CigArt” will be at 5 p.m. “So many people contributed that it makes you feel good,” she says. One hundred percent of the proceeds will benefit Helping Our Women. Every box contains a subtle surprise.Īlong with food and wine, the jazz group “Big Band” will be playing. It could become a perfect Thanksgiving centerpiece. In a total transformation of two cigar boxes, Hugo Porcaro made monochromatic black sculptures of minimalist animals, one with the graceful neck of a swan and four funny feet. Dorothy Strauss, a member of the Blue Heron and the Rowley Gallery, contributed two paintings including an intimate salon of chamber musicians.Ĭeleste Langlois, whose own gallery is just a stone’s throw down Commercial Street, recreated the cigar company’s bull-fighting logo in paint on the front. In a celebration of painterly-ness, Candice Ronesi used the proportions of the box to paint a perfect path over a dune. This piece became part of her cigar box, entitled “Kiln Goddess.” In another box, “Tweezer Head,” she combines her metal work with found objects showing the effects of smoking on one’s health.Ī member of Truro 21 and the Rowley Gallery, Lorraine Trenholm contributed a wax encaustic of a rooster. She recently found a twisting branch of metal flowers at the Truro dump with her name on it from those earlier days. In the ’70s, Del Filardi sold her metal sculptures in Greenwich Village. Kent Plank made a box that depicts the Congregationalist Church, an almost exact replica of a painting that hangs in the gallery. Some are painted, some are engraved, some transformed into other things entirely. Houk expects anywhere from 75 to 100 boxes.