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2010 Artists:

Carolyn Latanision ~ Gunther Winkler ~ WAN (Winchester Artists Network) ~ John Rich ~ Elisabeth Kaplan ~ Al Levin ~ Steven P. Johnson

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January. Carolyn Latanision, The Encompassing Art of Watercolor

Artistist's statement: Though I don’t recall a “magical moment” in my youth when I realized that I wanted to be a painter, my mother was an artist and art teacher, and she nurtured my artistic expression. Like many children, I drew and painted and the rest of my life became an extension of those early experiences. Painting was what I wanted most.

Growing up within blocks of the Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) Steel Company, I absorbed the power of its massive industrial structure and its pounding energy. Its vitality informed my visual interest in the geometry of architecture and planes of light. I am also drawn to the life and energy of “the city,” to the urban contrasts and colors, and to the historic landscapes of my New England home. I never tire of painting people, their interaction, and the occasionally whimsical insights I find.

I am a signature member of The National Watercolor Society, New England Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in NYC, and Hudson Valley Art Association. In the Boston area, I am a designated Copley Master in the Copley Society of Art.

My work is in numerous corporate and private collections. I exhibit work in galleries in Boston, Providence, and Atlanta, and frequently participate in juried national exhibitions. Currently I am exhibiting at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art near Philadelphia. My most recent award was the Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal with the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club national juried exhibit at the National Arts Club in NYC, in October.

Painting: Conversation, Naples, Italy

Email Carolyn Latanision ~ Artist's Website

 

February. Gunther Winkler, Faces of Bhutan

Photographs.

 

March. Carolyn Lantanision, Watercolor Paintings & Gunther Winkler, Photographs

Latanision’s watercolor paintings present city scenes from Manhattan, New Orleans, Dijon and Venice and Winkler is displaying black and white photographs of New York City. Carolyn Lantanision's artist's statement was written for her Jan. 2010 exhibit (above).
Painting: Manhattan Bistro

April. WAN (Winchester Artists Network), Renewal

Twenty-two Winchester artists will present works on this year’s theme. On exhibit will be various examples of oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, collage and mixed media, as well as sculpture and photography. Artists showing their work include Berit Ahmad, Joan Baldwin, Amy Bruch, Sue Clark, Muriel Crum, Michael Emerald, Peter Engeldrum, Lee Ferrara, Mildred Fischer, Kristen Fitzgerald, Mark Flannery, Mary Hart, Bob Hesse, Carol Keller, Ruth Lieberherr, John McConnell, Earl Powell, Jan Powell, Jan Santaniello, Carolyn Sirois, Doris Surette and Susan Vrotsos. Pictured, Winchester Summer Dreams by Tony Fenn.

 

 

 

May. John Rich, MILES TO GO: Portraits of Elite Senior Athletes

Artist's statement: Since 2007, I have photographed and interviewed age-group athletes; men and women over seventy, who actively compete athletically, and who are, in many cases, among the best in the world at their sport. The project explores preconceptions about growing old; and asks how are the experiences of these unusual individuals changing the cultural landscape?  At the core of the project, however, are the athletes themselves; with their singular drive to compete, and their belief, against the odds, that with dedication and luck they will continue to excel beyond expectation.

For more than 20 years, I have been involved with photography; as a teacher (Harvard University, Danforth Museum), as a photojournalist, and more recently as an editorial and corporate photographer.  My work has appeared in publications such as Sports Illustrated , Yankee Magazine and The Boston Globe , and recent clients have included Wellesley College, Bank of New York Mellon, and Pine Street Inn.

photo of swimmer Louise Wing

Email: john@johnrichphoto.com Website: http://www.johnrichphoto.com/

 

June. Elisabeth  Kaplan, Blooms and Numens

RECEPTION: JUNE 5TH from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Artist's statement: I was born in Rio de Janeiro, but have been a naturalized American since 1986. I have lived in four different countries in three different continents. As a child I was fascinated by the books my father brought home about the lives and works of famous painters.  But it was during my  years in Normal School that art became a part of my life.  Decorative art, in particular, fascinated me.

After I married my Foreign Service husband I began painting with a passion.  I carried in my imagination the tropical colors of my native country, while my husband carried on with his duties as US Cultural Attache in US embassies abroad.  We visited innumerable museums and attended art exhibits almost every day. I was haunted by images.  Mine was a tumultuous and solitary internal world.  I never left the easel .  No sooner something in the external world crossed paths with my state of mind than I would rush to the canvas.  I have painted all my moods. I painted the creative power - the numens -  that animated my life, the same way Carnival in my childhood made mine a colorful world.

Great painters were always an inspiration: Adolphe Mucha’s posters, Ensor and his masks, Matisse and his odalisques, Klimt (whose works I saw at the Belvedere In Vienna)and Rousseau (who was so popular in the seventies) and so many others I saw in exhibits in Washington D.C., Ottawa, Toronto (where the American Embassy partly sponsored an exhibit from the Barnes Collection).  But it was really my long exposure to and many experiences of different peoples that contributed to the creation of the inner world that my painting reflects.

I used to work primarily with strong acrylic colours.  Thanks to formal classes in various cities, quite a few at the Ottawa Art School, and tireless experimentation, I now employ a number of media.  I rearrange various elements of previous paintings into new, meaningful composites, surprising the viewer and refreshing his perspective.

Painting: Venus and the Spring

Email: Tiercelkap@yahoo.com

 

July. Al Levin, Reflections, photographs.

Artist's statement: As children we looked into a Fun House mirror and discovered the magic of reflections. As adults we stood at the edge of a calm lake and were captivated by the reflections of blue sky and white clouds. 

Reality is transformed, distorted and enhanced by reflections, yielding a new image which often has little or no connection to the original.  When confronted with these new images, we may be puzzled, disoriented, amused or disturbed. 

The images in this exhibit represent reflections from various surfaces, including water, glass and polished steel.  They represent “happy accidents” which could not have been anticipated.

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I began taking pictures seriously in my twenties and was able to do my own darkroom work with the black-and-white images of that era.  With the introduction of color photography, I was compelled to send my pictures to commercial labs for processing.  As a result, I lost hands-on involvement in creating the final image. 

The advent of digital photography has re-ignited my passion for picture taking by allowing me to regain control of the final image through the “digital darkroom.”  I’ve been using digital cameras for the past eight years, doing my own editing and most of my own printing.  All my photos were taken with a point-and-shoot camera, which has the advantage of small size, enabling me to carry it with me anywhere without feeling encumbered.  My photos are handheld and use available light.  They involve minimal editing with photo software. 

It is perhaps no accident that images have also been central to my professional work.  As a cardiologist, I had daily involvement with a variety of heart “pictures”, primarily echocardiograms (ultrasound-generated motion pictures of the heart).

For additional information, contact albertblevin@gmail.com

 

August. Steven P. Johnson, Triumf - The Face of Romania

Artist's statement:

An exhibit of 14 framed photographs depicting the triumphant face of a beautiful country, emerging from under stifling oppression to become a flourishing democracy.  Originally intended to portray the strength of the rural villagers who will shape the future of the country, the work took on a new dimension as the physical surroundings also displayed facial characteristics.                                        

About the artist: Steve Johnson grew up in Winchester, and was educated in Boston.  He began his career as a journalist, then quickly shifted all his attention to photo-journalism.  Largely self-taught, he has made specialties of the subjects he is passionate about: architecture, portraiture, and travel for exploration and adventure.  The compulsion to travel has produced thousands of images which are available to the public as “stock photography”.  He has been at various times a newspaper photographer, staff medical photographer, studio manager, and custom printer. As a freelancer, most of his assigned work is for corporate brochures and annual reports, or residential interiors, all for publication. He has had work exhibited in the Griffin Museum's Juried show, and the Arlington Neighborhood Collaborative exhibition.  Several of his portraits will be included in an exhibit at the Griffin Museum this fall.

About the work: These images were selected from  thousands produced during a circuitous journey across the varied landscape of Romania.  From the capital city Bucharest, we trekked in a grand circle through small cities into rural villages and increasingly remote areas.  The first was the mostly Saxon influenced central Oltenia plain, then across Transylvania, into the Carpathian Alps, then the mountainous region called Maramures, north to the Ukrainian border, and then back south through Ploiesti to Bucharest. 

For additional information contact: stevejohnsonphoto@gmail.com