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Tradition
Gallery U Boutique is proud to present its latest exhibit, ”Tradition.” All of us have our own unique traditions for this time of year.
Artists were asked to submit their favorite holiday or family tradition or the traditions of others that have moved them to create. This collection of work tells a collective story of family, friendship, light, and joy; all the making of a Tradition.
For our “Tradition” exhibit Gallery U Boutique located at the circle in the Root Buildings at 439 South Avenue West in Westfield, New Jersey is proud to welcome 11 local artists.
The exhibit will be open from Thursday December 8 until January 13. A public artists’ reception for this and our Art in the Boutique show which highlights the work of Linnea W Rhodes is scheduled for Thursday December 8, from 6-8pm. All are welcome. The 11 local artists who were selected for this show include: Virginia Carrol, Avi Kiriakatis, Harriet Kushina, Charlann Meluso, Nancy Ori, Gina Petrecca, Lynn Ronan, Shalini Prasadd, Linnea W Rhodes, Leon Seufert and Anthony Zachares.
Linnea W Rhodes majored in Fine Arts at Douglas College, New Brunswick, New Jersey with a concentration in Printmaking (etchings aquatints and lithographs.) After graduating college Linnea worked in New York City as the Assistant to the Director of Art at Norcross Greeting Cards. While raising her family she started a business doing fine line ink drawings of houses in her hometown of Westfield, New Jersey. In 1989 she left art behind and worked for ten years as as the Executive Director of the Westfield Day Care Center. She has been painting in oil since 2000. She began working in colored pen and ink in 2006. She is presently a member of the CAG Board. Linnea Rhodes, Watercolor Collage, “Christmas Cookies” Is a bare minimalist watercolor Collage. It takes some time to appreciate. Seven popular Christmas cookie favorites are neatly portrayed in symmetrical order.
Virginia Carrol has been involved in art for as long as she can remember. She focused on art into her college years. For some time her focus was on her children and family, but she found that she could not stay away from her easel. She then found colored pencil as a medium and began producing drawings at such a rate that she was able to collect a body of work exceeding 40 drawings in the space of 7 months and was given a “one man” show at Hilltop Gallery in Nogales, Arizona. Since then she has continued to create drawings in colored pencil and has been accepted to many shows of renown. Ms. Carrol senses beauty in all things, particularly the flora and the fauna of the desert. Her submission for our “Tradition” exhibit, “Gala Ceremony” is crowded with a multitude of distinctive figures. Ms. Carrol demonstrates a clearly higher level aesthetic acumen. Her ability to so clearly etch distinctive features is indicative of pure talent.
Harriet Kushins uses the camera lens to capture her soundings. The camera lens permits her, as an observer and photographer to provide an expressive perspective on the world .She focuses on nature’s beauty through her travels. It gives her an opportunity to observe, to step back, reflect, linger, and capture beauty in different spaces. The image she sees through the lens leads her to explore a subject; its angles, space and light to reveal complex relationships. Harriet Kushins’ “All Aglow” is a digital photograph that is extremely modern; brightly shaded spheres are scattered beneath elongated, oblong shaded figures. Fireworks explode in the background of this luminescent Digital Photo. On the subject of Tradition…Not only is Tradition manifest in our unique activities as they are engaged during our lived experience. Tradition, as the historical manifestation of that lived life determines those activities. We exist in Time. It is our temporal Horizon, and our cognizance of our place in Time and to a lager extent, History that manifests itself as a Tradition.
Tradition is a complex topic. Its manifestation is witnessed in our Christmas festivities, but those activities have much deeper roots.
It can easily be anticipated why our director chose the theme of: “Tradition” for our latest show. It is topical, and more than many of our other shows is manifest of present times.
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