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Art Exhibition at Gallery on the Green

GALLERY ON THE GREEN: THE ANNUAL
MAXWELL SHEPHERD MEMORIAL INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION



April 25 – May 25



 

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The Eighth
Annual Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Invitational Exhibition will take place at the
Gallery on the Green in Canton from April 25 through May 25, 2014.  The exhibition will be curated by Walter
Kendra, Professor Emeritus of Art at Central Connecticut State University and
Mark Snyder, Associate Professor of Visual Design at the Hartford Art
School.  This year's invited artists are
Connecticut residents Mary Kenealy and Richard  Klein.  The
public is warmly invited to an opening reception from 6:00 – 9:00 pm on
Saturday, April 26.  The artists will
give an informal talk about their work prior to the reception, at 5:00 P.
M.   The Gallery on the Green,
Connecticut's oldest artist guild, is located on Canton Green Road in Canton,
Connecticut.  Gallery hours are Fridays
through Sundays from 1:00 to 5:00 P. M. or by appointment
(www.galleryonthegreen.org).

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Mary
Kenealy, registrar at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield,
Connecticut, has shown widely throughout Connecticut in solo exhibitions
including those at Real Art Ways and Trinity College in Hartford.  She has also been included in several group
shows such as those at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the National Collection of
Fine Arts in Washington, D. C.,  the
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, 
and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts.  Kenealy has also served on the faculty of
Central Connecticut State University and Fairfield University.  She works largely on paper creating intricate
and engaging patterns of color.



Richard
Klein, exhibitions curator since 1999 at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art, has had works shown in numerous museums and galleries, notably at the
Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, Caren Golden Fine Arts in New York
City, and Tufts University Art Gallery in Medford, Massachusetts.  Working with found glass and everyday objects,
Klein fuses them to create works that are ethereal and transcendent while
remaining grounded in the commonplace. 



The Annual
Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Invitational Exhibition is sponsored by the Maxwell
Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
the fine and performing arts.  For
further information about the Fund please write to MSMAF, Inc., 16 South St.,
Collinsville, CT 06019 or telephone 860.693.2762.



 



Also on exhibit April 25 – May 24 are two new shows in
the upstairs galleries. 



Judy Cantwell’s show, “Ten Years Later”, will be in the
Spotlight Gallery. Cantwell is a member of a group of Ct./ Ma. mixed media
artists known as MIXUS as well as a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine
Arts. She has found that using more than one medium at a time allows her to
better translate the images of the world around her into works of art.  Found objects such as old wood and rusted
metal are given new life as simple constructions. Digital photographs, gel
transfers and mixed media woven paper pieces are full of colors, patterns and
intriguing images.



 



Genti Bushi ‘s 
show,  “Recollection !”, is on
view in the main Upstairs Gallery.  The
subjects in his paintings come from objects , landscapes  and images from his memories  , shapes and colors that have been  tucked away but never forgotten.  Bushi’s acrylic and oil paintings are rich in
vivid colors and  lively compositions.



 



 



 

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