Each week of late there has been a gallery stroll at one of the down-Island towns. Excellent. Plenty of opportunity for an artist date, as Julie Cameron calls it in her book The Artist’s Way. The idea being that if you take the time out of your busy lives to experience art your own creativity will blossom.
The art is for sale, too, so if truly inspired bring the work home with you.
The featured artist this week, August 25 through 31, at Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs is Karen Tusinski.
Ms. Tusinski’s work focuses on the many ways one can look at a single item. For example, the depiction of an ordinary table or flower arrangement, examined from several angles, then comes together as a single image while still retaining the multiple perspectives. She does this does this by illuminating the shapes and colors that represent each of these angles.
Chilmark artist Jules S. Worthington believes the creativity that drives him is fundamental. It is the breath of life, in good times and not so good times.
His home off Tea Lane overflows with signs of it. Every wall, from the kitchen to the den, has his paintings on display. They are bright, big and colorful.
Today, Sept. 16, it’s a double bill from Renaissance House.
From noon to 6 p.m. the Shephard Fine ArtSpace in Oak Bluffs is hosting an art show featuring Renassaince House artists Virginia Deeds and Barbara Russell, aka the doodle queen.
Most painters cannot tell you at precisely what moment, or how, they knew they wanted to become an artist. Usually they attempt to articulate some ineffable urge that has been with them for as long as they can remember, or perhaps an epiphany triggered by their first contact with an inspiring masterpiece or art teacher. Chris Pendergast, in marked contrast, sat down at the age of 20 to think about his life, and having mused upon everything that mattered to him, decided that “painting is what I should do” — even though he’d never painted.
On Saturday, August 13, from 4 to 7 p.m. the Oak Bluffs Arts District will host a gallery stroll which includes galleries along Dukes County avenue and nearby. Enjoy art, music and refreshments all served up in a casual summer evening manner.
Got those Black Friday blues? Never fear, there’s no reason to go off-Island and get involved in that mad commercial scramble. But no need to sit home giftless with a long list to fill, either.
Today, Nov. 18, Featherstone in Oak Bluffs opens up its annual holiday gift show. The event takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight and then continues throughout the weekend from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
It’s a 3-D world, and Vineyard artists are hip to that.
At artist Jeanne Staples’s upcoming exhibition at the Granary Gallery you will see Crick Hill at Menemsha, just as lovely as you know her work to be, but in addition to landscapes of Martha’s Vineyard, Staples may surprise you with some installation pieces, including a thrilling third dimension.
Look out for Eat Beets for Health and The Vodou King, a life-size double portrait of Haitian artist Wilfred Dantis. In these pieces, Ms. Staples explores her more modernist interests.
A rare collaboration between Harlem Renaissance artists Norman Lewis and Augusta Savage, called The Hubert Log Cabin, is coming up for auction from the Swann Gallery in New York on Oct. 6.
