2009

. 119 Gallery

DAN ROCHA: REFLECTIONS / DEFLECTIONS Dan Rocha is a widely exhibited local painter and sculptor who combines both forms in alluring 3-dimensional works. Dan is the winner of 119 Gallery�s 2010 Juried show. Reception Oct 1, 3-6pm.

suzanne abrams

I began my artist career as an abstract painter in the fall of 2008.  In 2009, I decided I wanted to make a quilt.  So I went to Walmart, bought a sewing machine, and then asked my neighbor to show me how to thread it since I really had no idea how to sew.  I now have four sewing machines and sew every day!  I love to paint and sew and the two art forms often compliment each other.  My work is all about pattern and color.  While trying to narrow my focus, I've noticed that it just becomes wider, and I am just going with it. Making art is my life and it's not really a choice but something that I'm compelled to do.  I love it though, and that is what's most important.

The American Textile History Museum

Stephan Anstey

Robert Archambault

UML / Printer on Prescott Arts Research Collaborative

Jean Curley Barrett

David Barton

Elaina Bates

Raquel Bauman

My work is inspired by color, by the fact that forms are not static forever, by the fact that lines and boarders often merge and blend into each other.  The dye in tissue paper lends my work entensiy of color.  Water facilitates the movement of colors and lines, it helps create new colors, new shades and hues.  The tissue collage, because one sheet or piece of tissue in layered on another, has texture.  The viewer is drawn closer to the work, often wants to touch it, to run fingers over its surface.

Long ago and far away, in a stuffy Austin High School art room in Houston, a classmate spilled water on one of my ink paintings and on some tissue paper on my table.  Mrs. Tuly was alarmed.  I was pleasantly surprised.  My method emerged from that "accident"!

Sergio Bautista

Donna Beales

david beati

Janeth Sierra is a Contemporary Artist from Colombia, South America.  Her work consists of mixed medium, acrylic paintings.

David Beati is a Professional Civil Engineer from Lowell, MA.  He produces 3-Dimensional Conceptual Renderings of Engineered Site Plans.

Together, their work is being showcased in Apartment #114 of the Appleton Mills Live/Work Studios.

Donna Berger

Donna Berger - Artist Statement "Art has always been a driving force in my life, whether it's creating for myself or work for print or publishing clients. My creative work includes illustrations and designs for books and publications, design and marketing for business clients and individual commissioned art. Traditional techniques include acrylic, watercolor, black/white pencil and ink, scratchboard, colored pencil, charcoal and graphite. Digital techniques use Adobe Creative Suite software and a digitizing drawing tablet. My stylized realistic and whimsical styles are used in a diverse range of subject matter: children, people, ethnic diversity, animals and nature.

Web and Portfolio Sites:
www.donnaberger.com
www.childrensillustratos.com/donnab/
www.picture-book.com/donna-berger

Organizations and Associations:
Arts League of Lowell (ALL)
Brush Gallery, Lowell
Chelmsford Art Society
New Hampshire Creative Club (NHCC)
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)
Whistler House, Lowell

William Berry

BFA Ma.College of Art (Painting and Illusration) Teaching Certificate From B.U. Taught art at Chelmsford High and adult education Commissioned mural paintings: Olympia Restaurant, Evzon Reastaurant, Tyngsboro Family Dental Center Numerous one man shows Art Associations: Chelmsford Art Society, Rockport Art Association, North Shore Art Association,Whistler House Museum of Art

Hollandra Berube

Karen Bettencourt

I have always been truly fond of that which is old, weathered, rusted or distressed. I search endlessly for old handwritten letters, paper, tickets, photographs, hotel bills, rusted metal, and aged or distressed wood.

Some of these treasures I scan to help me create my digital collage work. Then, everything gets sorted into boxes for use in my material collage and assemblage. In every collage, I'm trying to tell a story, using transparency and the effects of time to bring that story to life.

Norma Biggins

Fabric is such an inescapable part of our everyday lives; I have always been amazed at how many ways it could transform into objects of importance.  A self-taught quilter, I have never felt bound by rules, developing my own style of hand-guided machine quilting. Working in conjunction with other quilters, I feel gifted to play a role in the creative growth of a quilt in progress. Combining two minds�the quilter and the piecer�we are able to bring the work up to its fullest potential. In the same regard, my own artistic growth has been deeply influenced by a vast quilting community.  I enjoy sharing what I�ve learned thru classes using my own patterns, and have been fortunate to lend my skills to manage and participate in community outreach projects.  In all my time as a quilter, I have found no greater satisfaction than the knowledge that my creation has become an integral part of someone�s life experience.

While I enjoy quilting in a traditional sense, I also love making creative and beautiful items one can truly live with.  Quilts, bags, accessories and much more.  Other media often find their way into my work, too. There are no boundaries!

Please drop by and see how much quilting has to offer.  Just listen down the hall for laughter or singing to guide you; I look forward to meeting you!

Anna Birch

Adrien Bisson

Andrea Bobroff Peters

Now combining the two worlds of painting and collage, I now consider myself to be a mixed media artist, not just a painter.  By using my own collage images in my paintings, it has allowed my art to develop in a way that has been an unexpected, but an enjoyable journey.  By combining the two mediums, it has allowed me to be more playful with my audience.  I want them to explore deeper into each piece.  With different levels of hidden worlds and subliminal images, each viewer will have thier own unique experience.  Each will discover something the other missed, making for a more active experience for the viewer. 

Carol Boileau

Teri Bonatti

Scott Bot

Bill Bradbury

Bill Bradbury

Bill is a graduate of New England School of Art, Boston. His work has been published in newspapers, magazines, and numerous publications. He instructed courses in Cartooning and Advertising at UMass Lowell in the Continuing Education Division for about 15 years and was employed as a graphic artist at the Lowell Sun Newspaper for 25 years, as well as teaching a course in Graphic Design at Middlesex Community College. He is a member of the Arts League of Lowell, and the Chelmsford Art Association. He spends a great deal of time doing portraits, caricatures, drawings and advertising. Bill shares Studio 5-15 at Western Avenue with his wife and creative partner Lois.

Richard Bramante

Debra Bretton Robinson

Sharon Briss

David Briss

Deborah Brown

. Brush Gallery & Artists' Studios

Kathleen Cammarata

Kathleen Cammarata

25+  Solo Shows including copley, MIT, UML, UM Amherst, Regis
50+ Juried Shows including Boston Printmakers Biennials
26+ Awards and Grants including Berkshire Taconic, Worcester Art Museum Kinnicut Award
25+ Publications including Globe, Artsope, Art New England
2 Residency Fellowships @ VT Studio Ct.
Works in numerous collections. Teaches at DeCordova and UML

Renee Caraviello

Normand Caron

Norm Caron was born and brought up in Lowell, MA and is now a resident of Dracut, MA.  At the age of 13 he purchased his first 35 mm camera and started taking photographs for family and friends. Norm has a great love of the New England and Lowell area with its rich History of the Mill City. He has taken his passion of photography to a new level after completing a Digital Photography Certification Program, at Middlesex Community College, in Bedford, MA.  He is an Award Winning Landscape and Nature Photographer.

Member of the Arts League of Lowell
Member of the Ayer Loft Gallery, Lowell
Member of the Lowell Camera Club
Member of the Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell

John Cascio

Graduate of Massachusetts College of Art & Design, also studied at The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Landscape and Figurative Painter with eclectic styles, ranging from Impressionistic, to Realist, to Expressionist. An oil, pastel, and mixed media painter, and illustrator in the Boston area for over 25 years. Exhibited in numerous shows, a past Artist in Residence, under a Federal Grant program, as well as recipient for other Grant proposals. Chosen as one of five members of a group study exchage program to Surrey and Sussex, England. Artwork can be found in many Private and Government Collections throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and England.

Anne Cavanaugh

I use plant material to create patterns based on textiles, wallpapers, tiles, and other images inspired by or reminiscent of plant forms. The patterns are embedded and preserved in layers of encaustic, a mixture of beeswax, damar resin, and pigment. As a paint medium, beeswax is tactile, aromatic, luminous, and transparent, and it has a natural connection with the plants. 

Lorriann Centineo

Eling Chang

Lynne Chantler

Tarja Cockell

Jessica Cohen

Judith Copeland

Christiane Corcelle-Lippeveld

Sean Corliss

Daniel Coury

Penny Cox

Unique, wacky, wonderful & whimsical jewelry, handcrafted with an artful touch by my willing hands.

This piece is representational of my Stones of the Lake (Champlain that is) Jewelry.  Each one with its own character...each one chosen with feelings of awe.

Commissions accepted.

Classes Info: http://www.pcoxstudio.blogspot.com

Virginia Cramer

Virginia Cramer has studied Art over the past 25 years at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, Mass College of Art, the University of Massachusetts, The Danforth Museum, and the DeCordova Museum School. She has taught art in the Chelmsford Public Schools for 8 years. A member of the Western Avenue Artists Association in Lowell, she works primarily in collage and mixed media.

"In my collage and mixed media work I strive to create a richly textured surface using primarily found papers, fabrics, rust, string, paint, pastel, raw pigments, wax and drawing. Some of the work is entirely abstract collage. Other pieces are based on more realistic subjects such as the figure, nature, still life, and most recently, bones. These pieces vary in degree of realism and abstraction. In all of my work I am continuously exploring the interplay of materials, texture, color and composition."

David Crane

Uli Danek

Amber Daniels

Meredith Fife Day

Michael delaVega

My basic approach to photography is seeing what is in my mind's eye and transferring it to an actual image in the lens.  My portfolio contains a wide variety of subjects including art, architecture, wildlife and portraits   There is beauty all around us in the natural world, we have but to look and see the wonders.

Let me document that special event for you.

Lori DeMartin

When I work I often discover my playful side, the side that is full of life, big and bold, cheerful and energetic. I think of the loves in my life and my passion for life itself. I express these inner feelings because it's very presence when applied to my work is compelling, exciting and alluring. My shapes are inspired by form and space in motion. My work is organic and free flowing; creations of life forms, filled with tranquility, tension, happy and sad emotions. It is the basic reality of human everyday life; give and take, ying & yang.

Lolita Demers

Gary Destramp

Deborah Dixon

Zsuzsanna Donnell

Laura Doran

Diana Dow

Whether I am creating art or providing a massage, working with my hands is my passion. My interests are wide ranged. You will find my metalsmithing and beaded jewelry, hand crafted journals, love books, and quilted items.  I am so proud to be amongst six other wonderfully talented artists in the Lowell Fiber Studio - Cathy Granese, Gwen Stith, Laura Gawlinski, Diana Dow, Linda Dunn, Susan Webber and Suzanne Abrams. 

Lauren Drake

Laura Dunlavey

Linda Dunn

I transform fabric with print, paint and dye. Every scrap holds promise.

Jeffrey Engel

. EYEFORMATION

Maxine Farkas

Derek Fenner

Bootstrap Press is an innovative publishing company that promotes the integration of multi-dimensional art forms and experiments into fine press publishing. The organization seeks to introduce the general public to experimental and contemporary art and writing; and to stimulate public interest in small press publishing, including the art of letterpress printing.

Derek Fenner  is an artist, writer, publisher, and juvenile justice educator. He is the author of My Favorite Color is Red (Bootstrap Press 2005), I Know Longer Believe in the Sun: Love Letters to Katie Couric (Boostrap Press 2009), and Wild Schemes (Lew Gallery 2010). Derek is the coordinator of arts programming for the Collaborative for Educational Services in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services.  He has lived in downtown Lowell since 2007.

Mark S. Fisher

Come on by and see my rogues gallery of witty and whimsical character constructions. 

Barbara Fletcher

I am a sculptor, primarily of soft materials such as fabric and paper. The tactile and meditative nature of fabric/fiber/paper attracted me over 25 years ago. Over time I have experimented with many surface design techniques on fiber such as dying, painting, batiking and photography. I am drawn to figurative and animal themed art. My sculptures reflex the humor I see all around me, particularly in the natural world. A major influence on my art has been that of 16th century Dutch painter, Hieronymus Bosch whose mythical creatures are renowned for their satiric and religious content. In the mid-1980's after taking a fantasy illustration course at the Rhode Island School of Design my animals began to personify. This metamorphosis culminated in a commission of fantasy sculptures for writer Stephen King. Animals, insects, fish, birds and other creatures combined to make fantastical forms that hung suspended over an indoor pool and on the wall of the hallway leading to the pool area. I called it my creature evolution series. After arriving in Boston in the late 1980's I began to work with the unusual technique of paper casting. My art was eventually shown in numerous galleries and museums including The DeCordova Museum, The Danforth Museum and a one person show at The Children's Museum in Boston. I have also been featured in many books on paper art and paper casting. Continued exploration with fiber led me to a technique of spraying many overlapping layers of paper pulp onto a wire surface. In this process I discovered that the texture of the paper is illuminated beautifully as the surface is not opaque and allows light to come through. These works are also sculptural. I am completing a series to be exhibited in the coming year.

Gillian Frazier

This year the work that I am showing is a continuation of a series I am doing about clouds . Here I have abstracted elements of clouds and have additionally expanded the themes to include more political themes emphasizing the environment and political events. I am also showing a series of drawings and paintings done over this past summer.

Barbara Frost

rorry gallagher

Laura Gawlinski

Cindylee Gee

Studio A303 will host Cindylee�s fabric creations in Limited Editions as wearable art and accessories for special gifts. Studio A303 will also allow teaching space. �My space is right off the elevator, perfect for wheeling your sewing machine in for lessons.� You can create your own sewing class, private or for a group of friends. We will also offer �Sew with a Pro� � your day out to sew. Cindylee has been sewing since the age of 12; �God�s Gift� is how she refers to her instant talent. Cindylee has a degree in Fashion Merchandising and Retailing. studies include flat pattern drafting at Rhode Island School of Design and fashion draping at Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Cindylee has been designing interior window treatments for special clients. Cindylee Gee is well known throughout the Littleton / Westford area for her gifts through large, community-based charity group projects she designs and manages. Westford 2008 Quilt - done with The Nashoba Quilters, raised funds of $14,000 for Habitat for Humanity.

Wilda Gerideau-Squires

Wilda Gerideau-Squires is a noted fine art photographer who has garnered national and international recognition for her abstract, human interest, and landscape imagery. She has received numerous national and international awards for her photography and in 2008, Women In Photography International named her among the world�s most Distinguished Women Photographers. Her photographs are included in the Peter E. Palmquist Collection at Yale University�s Beinecke Library, the State House Office Building in Boston and in numerous private collections in the United States and Canada.

Vasillios Giavis

Denise Gil

Kathleen Gilday

Tom Gill

Tom has been painting since he was 10 years old. Born in Lowell, MA and raised in Chelmsford, MA, he started his professional career in 1982, after flirting with a rock musician career, and after taking his fine art education with the Art Insitute of Boston. Tom developed his own style using acrylic paint mostly on canvas to express his emotions, using brush strokes that are full of energy. The result is always loose and impressive with harmonious colors that interplay with light.. He teaches this style through entertaining demonstrations throughout New England art associations. Tom's painting style is inspired by John Singer Sargeant, Norman Rockwell, Richard Schmid, and many others. He describes his style as impressionistic realism. He likes to work fast and paints figures in their own environments. He finishes his paintings spontaneously with what he calls, "slap, dashes and dots".

Valerie Gingras

Valerie Gingras is a local glass artist, working mostly with dichroic glass, which she uses in one-of-a-kind jewelry designs. Her work involves using the kiln at different firing times and temperatures, as well as individual hand cutting, to yield varying, unique pieces. Valerie's work is featured in boutiques in Vero Beach, Florida and on Cape Cod, Mssaachusetts.

Pam Goncalves

 I have been making Circles, using warm sensual colors and words.  I have come to understand a Circle has no beginning or end, A Circle is a tool of empowerment for women, A Circle is everlasting!

Donna Gordon

Elizabeth Granfort

Vicki Green

Marcus Griep

Deirdre Grunwald

Barbara Guilmet

Lenny Hall

Self-taught Musician-Artist-Writer-Videographer for over 30 years  trained in Theater and Improvisation for over 10 years WITH ANDREA SOUTHWICK in Theater Studies and Ruth Zaporah in IMPROVISATION. He has been working in the Former St Joseph's Hospital Building on Pawtucket St and has lived in Lowell since 1977.

www.laughingdervish.com/improv_bio.html

Lenny Hall  & The Lowell House Of Improv Features Outsider Art,Outsider Film,Outsider Story Books,Outsider Music.He has performed around Lowell in the 80's and 90's as Lance Gargoyle profiles.google.com/lancegargoyle#lancegargoyle/about

Lots of free items. Music Link: www.youtube.com/user/lancegargoyle#p/u/30/QpCpLwbZKso

New cut and stretched meditation cloth.
Tons of free original music.
Free stories from Lowell.
www.laughingdervish.com/stories.shtml

     "NEW DVD SERIES "MY LOWELLIAN LIFE". 24 Episides
New DVD series, "My Lowelliam Life."

Lenny Hall  :www.youtube.com/user/lennyhall

Lance Gargoyle www.youtube.com/user/lancegargoyle

Sidney Hipple www.youtube.com/user/sidneyhipple#g/u 

 Over 2000 original song www.cdbaby.com/all/lennyhall

As an Improvisationist my job is to create something from nothing so I have learned to create from Items I get for free.

profiles.google.com/lennyhall01#lennyhall01/about

Speaking of Free here's my two art sites I've had for years.No uploads in years but I get regular activity.Its Free and its great1I tell artists in Lowell all the time about ARTWANTED.com but who listens.You can't drive a screw with a hammer!

Lenny Hall  www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm

Sidney Hipple www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm

I have T-Shirts. TONS of Iron-Ons,Post Cards ALL FREE.many more DVD and CD Series. Open Studios 2010 DVDs

"You'll Always go away Laughing or at Least Smiling"

Quality Control  www.laughingdervish.com/mp3email/mp3email.shtml

A Member of Western Ave since April 2006.Thank You Lowell,Maxie,Karl Frey,Bill Tyers,Mary Ann Mathews,All my favorites Tenants at Western Ave AND all the hundreds and thousands of visitors who have enjoyed,appreciated and commented on my many Creative Adventures I've discovered over the years in ART,FILM,MUSIC,WRITING & Presenting my Creative Expression

Special Thanks to One of My Heros at Western Ave Studios for allowing me the use of his terrific and utterly stunning photos.Stuart Krentcil  www.stuartekrentcil.com/   Check Him Out. You won't be Sorry.Better yet surprise yourself and Visit his Studio some time  Studio 3-06 Western Ave Studios Lowell,Mass

Amy Hamlet

Anna Harrison

Michael Harvey

Stewart Hitelman

I began painting in my mid-twenties by taking a few beginning oil paintings and soon began to discover a new richness for experiencing the world. I strive to develop my technique in order to express my take on what I paint. Over the years I have received much positive feedback including several prizes in local art shows. Since 2006, I have studio space in Lowell, Massachusetts where I mix painting with family and work life.

David Hogan

CV of art training and work:

AAS Fine Art with focus in printmaking and painting

Junior College of Albany, NY, 1976 (Bocour Award)

BA Studio Art with focus in printmaking and painting

State University of New York at Albany, NY, 1979

99% completion of BArch (First professional Dregree)

Boston Architectural College (on leave)

Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell MA.

Upcoming show at Loading Dock Gallery in October, 2011.

Jack Holmes

"Those far away places with strange sounding names calling, calling to me..."; a fifty year old song that plays in my head. I am an award winning traveling photographer and lecturer. Over the past five decades I have photographed in over 30 countries and throughout USA. I look for images that convey the place and its people.

Amanda Hosmer

Pamela Howland

Vickie Hu Poirier

jenny hudson

Cynthia Hughes

I've been a weaver since 1984 and have a B.S. in Clothing and Textile Design.  My passion is weaving with the beautiful yarns I dye to get the vibrant colors I want.

I have been lucky to be part of a great group of artists at the Brush Gallery and Studios where I've had my working studio space for 14 years and to be part of an ever growing Lowell arts community that energize and support each other.

Chrissy Theo Hungate

Chrissy Theo Hungate is a sculptor/painter with a BFA from Boston University. She has worked in the field of sculpture for over 20 years. Her primary studio is located at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios, in Lowell, MA where she works cooperatively, with 13 other Artists, to provide daily visitors with an inside look at Art and Artists within their studios. She conducts Art Classes for younger children there as well. Chrissy is a long time member of the New England Sculptors Association as well as of the Lowell Art Association and the Arts League of Lowell.

Jay W. Hungate

Sus Iserbyt

Heidi Jackson

Heidi Jackson

Susan Jaworski-Stranc

Jim Jeffers

Jan Johnson

Jan Johnson received a BA from Wake Forest University, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing from Brandeis, and an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.  She has exhibited extensively, and is a national member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.  She was the recipient of a Drawing Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Painting Fellowship from the Rhode Island School of Design in Rome.  She has taught at Brandeis, UMASS Lowell, Clark University, RISD and the Massachusetts College of Art. 

Her work is included in an anthology, Young Angel Midnight: An Emerging Generation in the Arts of Lowell, commissioned by the Cultural Organization of Lowell.  She has an upcoming solo exhibiton Jan Johnson: I did not provide the cup in November, and is part of a four-person exhibition The Feminine Sublime in December, both at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn.

Laura Johnston

Darleen Joos

signe kaleel

Linda Kapeckas

Ulrike (Uli) Kapp

Cindie Kazmer

Betsy Keeney

Betsy Keeney

I love beginning with a plain piece of metal and finishing with a lovely piece of wearable art. Starting with that little seed of an idea, and turning it into a cherished heirloom, is a wonderful way to spend my days

Kristin Kelley

About ten years ago, I made a trip up to Harrisville, NH and bought my first floor-loom (as a kit), built it over the course of a rare weekend off, taught myself to weave, and have been hooked ever since. I've been selling my wearables since 2006, am a Board Member of the Weavers Guild of Boston, and have recently expanded into leading seminars and classes for various New England-area weaving guilds. I work with a variety of fibers, but mostly love to create movement and use color to highlight that movement in my wearable pieces. If you'd like to see a traditional (or a more modern compu-dobby) handloom in action, stop by my studio at WAS!

Rachel Kowalik

Since I have no home in the traditional sense, I create one through my paintings.  My palette choices relate to my sensory experiences and are intuitive investigations of color worlds.  Line and texture unify the individual pieces.  Through multiple layers I build a history.  The scale and vertical orientation is linked to the figure as an extension of the autobiographical nature of the work.  Often I paint very thin, semi-transparent layers of oil over some form of metallic surface, such as gold leaf or other precious metals.

Besides the rich reflective properties of metallic leaf, I use it because precious metals shaped my life. My father moved my family and I around the world every two years as an exploration geologist for the world�s largest gold mining company. My artwork expresses the many different cultural influences I have experienced and helps explore my identity. In casual conversation, I find the simple question, �Where do you come from?� problematic. In short, I come from many places and my work reflects the multiplicity of place, time, and memory

Stuart Krentcil

Arlette Laan

Janet Lambert Moore

Margaret Langdell

Barbara Laviska

Marjorie Layman

David Leblanc

Artist's Biography David J. Leblanc A wide-eyed fascination with comic books since I was a boy generated a passion for the genre that drives my considerable Abstract Expressionist paintings today. Comic books fueled my early love for art and reading. After struggling for many years with how to integrate this boyhood passion in to my paintings, I stumbled upon a book comprised of Action Comics covers featuring Superman from the 1930’s and 1940’s. The book became the inspiration for my signature Action series combining the elements of Abstract Expressionism and the Pop Art elements of comic books. My arts education took shape at UMass/ Dartmouth where I earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from 1985-89. However, my desire to create comics evolved into a love for painting. I studied and practiced Abstract Expressionism, Germany Expressionism, and Pop Art during those developing years. The works of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollack, Willem DeKooning, Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, but most notably the works of Franz Kline inspired my vision and continue to influence my work. I painted my first notable abstract works in my final year at UMass/Dartmouth. These bold black and white paintings of wide bold brush strokes, drips and splatters pointed me in the direction of Kline and Abstraction Expressionism. After leaving school I worked sporadically for many years and earned a Masters degree in Education. In the summer of 2004, I seized the opportunity to paint a mural at the health club I attended. With the successful completion of the mural of the vineyards of Tuscany, my desire to paint was revived, but I needed a place to work away from home. After making several inquires for studio space, I was made aware of the launching of a new arts community in Lowell at Western Avenue. Soon I became a founding member of the growing Western Avenue Studios community. I maintain a studio there to this day while I prepare my body of work to pursue my career as a working painter.

Dominique Lecomte

Ann Lee

Sonja Lee-Austin

Nita Leger Casey

Sharon Levy

Winnie Liakos

Michael Lichtenstein

Rachel Lieman

Alyshia Lien

Alyshia Lien, aka ALIEN, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts (1976). As a young girl she enjoyed exploring nature and all its wonders, which proved to be the beginnings of her creative process. Growing up in New England she discovered her passion for the arts. An aspiring artist and an avid ballet and modern dancer since the age of eight, she attended college at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1995) as a fine art major and dance minor. During college, her passion for dance was under bellied by her visual art explorations. Alyshia further advanced her fine art techniques during her studies at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (1997). Feeling more confident in her artistic abilities, she was both inspired and disenchanted by the city. When her love-hate relationship of the city began to take its toll, she moved back home to complete her BFA at University of Massachusetts Lowell (2003). ALIEN was the Artist-In-Residence at the William Steeple Davis House in NY (2006-2007). During her residency, she spent many days beach combing for sculpture materials and arranging the found objects in her studio for potential assemblage configurations. Sometimes it would take months before a sculpture was completed, while searching for that perfect found object. Collecting objects in the studio and living with them on a daily basis allowed her to become acquainted with the found materials. Alyshia discovered her preferred method of painting during her stay at the Davis House. She would embrace the canvas with water-based media as an under painting. Then she would apply oil sticks, pastels, and oil paints over that to achieve a layered effect. In addition to finding her painting and sculpture processes, she re-discovered her love of writing poetry. Alyshia continues to incorporate her poetry in her art making process. The joys and hardships of solitude and isolation proved to be an unprecedented journey of self-exploration. She was able to discover how her creative process unfolds in space and time. Currently living in the Lowell area, she continues to experiment with mixed media paintings and sculptures. With a newfound affinity to video and improv dance, she has performed and collaborated with various artists at local events, fundraisers, and benefits. Alyshia has shown her work at local galleries and coffee shops. She is diligently working on a large body of work in her studio. In addition, ALIEN is always brewing spontaneous performance and installation ideas in the background of her mind and configuring the juxtaposition of a multi-media conglomeration of all the wonders of the world, or at least of her many artistic endeavors. ALIEN is coming to a gallery near you.

J.J. Long

Leslie MacPhail

Candace Mangin-Barnes

Karenna Maraj

Mary Ann Matthews

Regina McGearty

Regina McGearty

Carol McGrath

After a career as a Decorative Painting teacher, Carol put away her brushes to follow her family�s busy schedule. Then, she discovered �Trompe L�oeil�! Trompe-l��il, is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions. She started her quest at the Decorating Masters school in Georgia. Then traveled to Maryland, back to Georgia.. anywhere it was being taught. She studied at The Kendall School for the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design and Monserrat. Her passion and love of learning new techniques have partnered her with some of the best teachers in the country. � Trompe L�oeil has given me a sense of power. I can give my clients a permanent memory in their homes. A doorway to Aruba.. a loft overlooking Beacon Hill.. a Tuscany landscape... a window on Provence.. a garden with perpetual flowers.. a childhood memory.. a window on Ireland... all these can be brought to life with a stroke of a brush. Sometimes, I feel it�s almost magical... and I get to wield the �magic wand�! Her furniture ranges from a life-like pizza table to a breath- taking seaside view bureau. If you imagine it... she can paint it.... with her �magic wand�.

Rex McManamy

Cassandra Merry

Cassandra Merry

Lieby Miedema

Paula Mingolelli

Meghan Moore

Guinevere Moyle

Brian Murphy

Donna Murray

Whistler House Museum of Art

Lowell National Historical Park

Steven Noroian

Steven Noroian is a fine art photographer from North Andover.  Steven combines the latest in digital printing techniques with traditional photography to create bold and evocative prints.  With an eye towards abstraction, he works to capture the beauty of his surroundings through strong composition and brilliant color.  His work reveals his passion for landscapes, architecture, and still life photography - the essential elements of New England and Europe.

Don Ouellette

Leanne Owen

Vinnie Parent

Virginia Peck

Shirley Peirce

Christopher Pendergast

Born 1976 

BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago � 2000 

Growing up as a foreigner in Europe I became acutely aware of the difference between how I saw myself and how others defined me. Preconceived notions of Americans typically had more influence on how I was perceived than my own actions. These often contrary viewpoints were a striking introduction to the subjective nature of perception. My work explores the inherent conflict between simple objects or scenes and the complex perception that personal experience brings to a subject.

I bring my own perception of the subject to my work through the use of highly representative and heavily abstracted elements. At first glance, the literal elements of the paintings are most significant. Upon further reflection, the role of the abstract components in providing context for those literal elements becomes clear. The expressive nature of the abstract exists in the contrast to the representative facets of my work. The act of resolving this tension between the literal and abstract is a symbolic exploration of the relationship between the subjective and objective aspects of perception. My paintings are the visual record of the complex internal dialogue that exists throughout this process. The subject matter, my knowledge of art history, materials, technique, methodology, and my own narrative are all equivalent counterparts in this discourse.

The nature of perception is further reflected throughout my creative process. Exhaustive photography of the subject allows for the creating of a collective perspective. While my internal dialogue develops the highly flexible nature of oil paint allows me to keep the work vital. And while at times I still seek the give of canvas or the precision of a uniform surface like archival panel, I find that linen most often provides a consistency as well as liveliness upon which to watch the finished work unfold.

Frank Perra

David Phaneuf

After graduating from Massachusetts College of Art, I initially focused on sculpture, but ultimately pen and ink has become my medium of choice. A few years ago I began showing my work locally, in Lowell and Lawrence. I joined the Arts League of Lowell a few years ago, where I have much enjoyed interaction with fellow artists. I preparing to do a piece, I first scout out locations, I particularly like industrial scenes, including factory buildings, freight yards, bridges and canals. Next, I cut my paper stock to the desired size. I bring it to the location and do a light pencil sketch of the scene. Finally, back in my studio, I complete the drawing in pen and ink.

Patrick Pierce

Stacey Piwinski

Cheryl Polcaro

Cheryl Polcaro was born in Connecticut. Having a life long love of art, she obtained her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in 1999. She developed a love of printmaking and photo transfer methods late in art school and has been enjoying the process of manipulating images and adding her own painterly details ever since. Cheryl has also been a working Certified Veterinary Technician since 2003. Many of her subjects involve animal life as well as current animal welfare issues. She has shown her work in galleries throughout New England. Her artistic influences include Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Sue Coe, Mark Ryden, Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith, and all who continue to push the boundaries of art. Cheryl currently works in her studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. All are welcome to come to the Open Studios event held the first Saturday of every month from 12-5pm and visit her at studio #402

Deb Pratt

 I have been a graphic designer for print, Web and digital media for over 12 years. I am sole-proprietor of a graphic/Web design business, the primary focus of which is to produce print and digital media for small businesses, artists and craftspeople.

In addition to my work as a graphic artist, I continue to pursue my love for textiles and fiber arts. The sculptural basket forms you will see in my open studio are selected from a production crafts line I continue to actively develop, produce and exhibit. The innovative technique used to produce my work is a direct outcome of my MFA thesis work. A four-harness loom is an essential tool in the process for weaving flat "fabric", which is then hand-woven, shaped and constructed to create three dimensional vessel forms. Currently, I am in a new product development stage�exploring the use of this same technique for developing sculptural lighting forms and combining graphics with collage and recycled fiber elements.

I am new to the Lowell artist�s community, moving here from Worcester, MA where I was a graphic designer for Clark University. I have a BFA in crafts from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA in Weaving and Textile Design from Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen. I am certified in computer graphic design for both Web and print media.

Kay Wray Pulsifer

Joe Quinlan

Maureen Radoncic

Elaine Perra Renault

Ilene Richard

Ilene Richard is a published children's book illustrator who has had the opportunity to work with many publishing houses such as Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin, Lerner, Random House, Spider Magazine, and Leapfrog to name a few. Ilene's latest book "The Queen Who Saved Her People" Kar-Ben has been on Amazon since January 2011. Ilene has also been very busy exhibiting her paintings in many shows and galleries from the Attleboro Museum to the South Shore Arts Center to Neiman Marcus later this year. She recently won an Award of Merit at a National Juried exhibit "Sources-Origins" in Cohasset, MA. You can check out more of Ilene's work at: www.ilenerichard.com

Jennifer Rocco Stone

Dan Rocha

Liz Rodriguez

Emily Schroer

 Emily Schroer is an artist and teacher.  Emily was raised in Lowell and currently lives downtown.  The old mill buildings and architeture of the downtown area provide inspiration for her collage work.  Emily's art work has been shown at the ALL Gallery, the Uptown Lowell Music and Arts Festival, and the Eyeful Beauty Salon where Emily was the artist of the month for July 2011.  Emily teaches middle school art in Wakefield, MA.

Laura Scott

Elaine Seidel

Colleen Sgroi

Tina Silverio

I love the way glass lets in the light, radiates warmth and dances with reflections. But, glass not only lets in the light, it can also light the space with color. It not only radiates warmth but fills the room with a warm glow, and I can create and manipulate its reflections to dance gracefully across the room. Because of its natural ability to say and convey so many things, I typically allow the glass to speak for itself in most of my art. While primarily self taught through many firings and "trial and error", I did attend formal education including working with world reknown teaching glass artists. tmsStudios is also a Preferred Bullseye Partner and Kilnformed Glass Resource Center which teaches a variety of fused glass and kilnformed glass classes while selling Bullseye Glass and tools to students who wish to continue the art at home.

Laurie Simko

Liz Smith

Greg Spitzer

Margot Stage

Wanda Stanley

I believe that each individual has an innate need to share their inner soul in some way - and it shows up through music, writing, and through various art mediums. I have a passion for drawing, painting, and photography that has developed over the past 40 years. Expressing myself through my art is not only an enjoyable and therapeutic pastime but it is also a deep desire to create something. Through the eye of the camera, I try to capture �the moment� and bring the beauty of the world around me up close and personal � one photo at a time. You can look at the same subject through so many different angles and see something amazingly different each time. Many of the photos I take become the subject of my paintings. I like to paint realistic scenes that draw you in and make you want to stay there awhile.

Liz Stewart

Gwen Stith

Don Sullivan

Jean Swanay

Steve Syverson

glenn szegedy

Originally from new Hampshire and now working in Massachusetts, Mr. Szegedy has been in Lowell for the last six years. His primary work is sculpture; mostly carving wood and stone, and printmaking. Mr. Szegedy has been accepted in many local juried and group shows and has numerous pieces in private collections. He continues to complete commissioned and personal work out of his studio at Western Ave. in Lowell. EDUCATION 1996-2000 University of New Hampshire: BFA/Summa Cum Laude - Sculpture & Drawing 1978-1981 New England School of Art/Design: Certified Environmental Design

Frank Tadley

Frank Tadley has studied photography in the workshop programs at the New England School of Photography (NESOP) 1993-6, Lesley University/AIB and with photographer/teacher Keith Carter and Harvey Stein.

He works primarily in portraiture, nudes and abstracts.

Projects include, Edgerton Park, follows the "life" of a large community garden in New Haven, CT � during the different seasons and a series on elderly meals-on-wheels clients.   Another project has been a series of Polaroid transfers about the time he spent in Vietnam and, later, in the anti-war movement.

Currents projects include a series of nudes for a book intented for drawing students to practice and a new project called �the face of care� focused on the people, mostly women, who provide the daily care for the people on meals-on-wheels.

The Face of Care is another ongoing project having to do with the mostly women who provide in house care to the elderly and disabled in Arlington.

Meg Temple

Diane Testa

Ayer Lofts Art Gallery The

Ayer Loft's artist-residents and their guests show off their latest creations including art, sculpture, photography, pottery and jewelry making.

Loading Dock Gallery 2nd floor The

ALL Arts Gallery The

Jonathan Bell The Space

Jean Theurkauf

 I have had a lifelong love affair with fiber and color, especially expressed through handweaving, hand dying yarn, and freeform knitting and crochet. 

More recently, I have been completely hooked on abstract drawing methods of Zentangle.  

I sell handwoven items and handpainted yarns in my studio, as well as Zentangle inspired drawings and supplies.

However, my true love is teaching, and supplying fiber artists and Zentangle artists with beautiful yarns and materials to work with.

I believe that every human being has the ability to create beautiful artwork. I also believe that most people have an innate desire to express themselves creatively. However, as we grow into adulthood, our artistic instincts are often squashed because we find that we don't measure up to various "standards".

• Our teachers told us we don't color in the lines.
• Our lines aren't straight.
• Our drawings don't look like anything.
• Our knitting isn't even.
• We can't follow patterns.

Well, all of these things might be true, but they don't mean we can't create beautiful works of art.

My greatest pleasure is to see the moment when students look at their abstract works, which don't look like anything, and may have no straight lines, and say "Wow! I did this! And I love it!". Or maybe they combine colors and textures in patterns of their own design to create truly unique knitted or crocheted pieces.

I believe that if people are given the "tools" and "ingredients" (whether it be Zentangle patterns, beautiful yarns, a palette of colors), and a positive experience, that they will have the confidence to go forward and develop their own artistic instincts.

calvin thomas

Gay S Tracy

Artist Statement For me, painting is about color, motion, and emotion and their expression as form on canvas. My palette and subject matter reflect the joy, and sometimes the humor, I find in the world of my imagination and in everyday life My colors are bold; my subjects ask the viewer to engage in what they are thinking and feeling. Certain images have become part of my paint language, creatures, dreamers and their dreamscapes, landscapes, moons, and trees, and dogs. I am delighted that my work has been described by the local media as "edgy, fun, and fancifully colored".

Leanne Tremblay

Michal Truelsen

Samantha Tucker

Bill Tyers

. UnchARTed

UnchARTed is a multimedia art space thats aim is to provide Lowell and the nearby public with a fresh and innovative approach to viewing and making art. In recognizing the positive power of artists, we heed the call for change in the mundane and overdone. We are here to incite a creative revolution in an environment that begs for inspiration and new ways of finding it. UnchARTed Studios, housed within Lowell's 1871 Hosford Building, showcases uniquely combined elements of art, inventive musical performances, community engagement, educational workshops, open doors, and open minds.

The University Gallery@UMass Lowell

Open Saturday, Sept 25 during Lowell Open Studios 11am - 5 pm

Exhibition: "Buoyance" Watercolors by Jieun Shin

image: "Expedit," diptych, watercolor on paper, 63"x17"each, 2010

Sergio Velazquez

Christopher Volpe

My first creative work was poetry, and my painting comes from the same place. My landscape paintings explore mood, atmosphere, and abstract design, while the skies, hills, fields, ponds, barns, coasts, and marshes of New England provide my subject matter. 

Mary Walter

Pamela Wamala

I am intrigued by the challenge of observing and translating colors, light and moods of the landscape. By means of travel, daily life, imagination and reflective writing I am mindful of inspiration which leads me in new directions for my artwork. My landscape paintings are often described as peaceful and meditative.

Heather Wang

Kellie Weeks

Kellie Weeks

Ashlee Welz Smith

Ashlee Welz Smith

Rebekah Wetmore

Andrew Wetmore

Richard Wilkins

Richard Wilkins

Robert Williams

Linda Williamson

Photography has been a passion for Linda since a young age. Incorporating all of her passions, travel, the oceans, landscapes from around the world, animals, nature, people, and a love for life itself, she is realizing a dream. There is nothing she enjoys more than to be an active participant in the joining of two people into a new life together, consequently her attraction for specializing in wedding photography. Freelance work has taken her as far as The United Kingdom. In her studio she does portrait photography; headshots, senior portraits, pets and children, but much more prefers natural light and the beach or any outdoor setting as the backdrop. Her services also include Bar Mitzvahs, First Communions, and family or social events. She has a large selection of seascape, landscape and fine art images for sale at her studio or through her web site as well as many retail locations. Her freelance work has also been requested for a number of books where many of her photographs have been published. Most recently she is working on publishing a book of her work, along with gallery showings, weddings and portraits. Please visit her website or stop by her studio.

jean winslow

will winslow

Christine Wirth

Janet Wolahan

Bruce Wood

John Wren

Gregory Wright

Diane Zacaroli Spera

Diane Zacaroli Spera, originally from New York, has been living and creating art in Massachusetts for 30 years. Diane has been on hiatus from creating her art for the past several years to focus on her vocation as a Hospice and emergency medical Chaplain. She is a devoted lover of nature�s brilliance and is continually awed by the divine universe. Diane has spent much time in Arizona and Utah deeply exploring and hiking the wilderness of Mother Earth�s sacred landscape. She is now integrating the spiritual and healing aspects of her ministry and her travels into her art. Diane works in silk dyeing and oils.

Peter Zimmerman

Peter Zimmerman

Ellen and Diana Zipeto

Diana Zipeto

Diana Zipeto is a painter and illustrator working in acrylics and colored pencil. Sketchbook work has become her most recent focus, having recently completed the Sketchbook Project for the Brooklyn Art Library. Working in pencil has allowed her to add color quickly to sketches and brought her further down the road to a portfolio of personal imagery. Her work has been in shows including the Danforth Museum of Art�s annual show, juried by curators from Boston's MFA and ICA.

Ellen Zipeto

Eleni Zohdi

Gail Zwerling