I am delighted to announce that I have been selected as a Massachusetts Cultural Council 2010 Artist Fellowship finalist in Painting!

In addition to the cash award, I and my work will be included in MCC publicity and shows, including one scheduled for July on Cape Cod Details to follow, closer to the date.

I'm quite honored and delighted by this award.

You can view an on-line gallery of all of thiss year's Fellows and Finalists at www.massculturalcouncil.org/gallery.asp

This fall I'll be participating in two large arts fairs, showing and selling my paintings and prints. Please come by and say Hello, and take a look at my newest pieces. I finished a new collage series this summer and am finishing up a new print series just in time for these shows!

The first is the ähts Boston Festival.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
September 10, 11, and 12
12noon to 6pm
(check the website for performance schedule).
It's at Christopher Columbus Park in Boston, right next to the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the North End, with a great view of the harbor. I participated in this show last year and it was a wonderful time, with music, dance, food, and lots of great artists.

The entire festival and all the performances are FREE, sponsored by the City of Boston.

Two weeks later, I'll be showing for my first time at the DeCordova Family SculptureFest

The show was juried by the DeCordova, and includes sculptors (natch') and also jewelers, ceramicists, painters, print-makers and more. You can preview all the participating artists on the event website.

One day only, Sunday, September 19
10am to 5pm
Free for DeCordova members and Lincoln residents, or $15/adults, $12 youths, students, and seniors. Admission to the event includes admission to the sculpture park and museum.

I hope to see you this September!

Friday, August 6th, come to Jamaica Plain for a book-release party and art exhibition.

RIFRÁKT artists' collective announces its premiere publication launch party, for 25 Emerging Boston Artists 2010. The book features 25 artists, residing throughout the metro Boston area, with work ranging in medium and process. Each artist in represented by a two page spread featuring their artwork and statement.

Two of my collaged wood-block prints are in the book, and will be hanging that evening as well. If space permits, I'll also hang my very newest piece that I just finished this week. It's a larger woodblock-print collage that I'm really excited about, in a new series.

Friday, August 6
6pm - 10pm
focus on the book release and art exhibit for the first hour and a half. Musical Performances by Huellas & The Organ Beats starting at 7:30pm

The Temple
670 Centre Street, Suite 9
Jamaica Plain, MA

25 Emerging Boston Artists 2010 will be on sale at the party, with all proceeds donated to non-profit organizations which promote and encourage local emerging art. Right now the Massachusetts Culture Council has been selected as the premier benefactor.

You can learn more, and also purchase the book on-line from the RIFRÁKT website, www.rifrakt.com.

With Somerville Open Studios coming up, it seems to be a good time for press. Check out:

Mello finds art in urban landscape, on boston.com, a nice biopic piece about me in the S'ville arts community.

Somerville Open Studios, on the Weekly Dig website, featuring an image of my piece A Supposedly Good Idea—further study in the on-line edition, and a handful of other SOS artists' work as well in the print-edition.

There's also another nice piece on boston.com just about SOS, Somerville artists open their doors.

Purportedly, SOS will be in print in the 'G' section of the Globe... I'll let you know when I see it.

Well, hey, that's fun!

A few of my pieces were hung over in City Hall for the Inauguration Night events in Mayor Curtatone's office.

Mayor Curtatone has been a big supporter of arts in Somerville; I hope he enjoys the pieces while they're there on loan.

This one for the New Yorkers out there. Drop in and see two of my wood-block print collages. Upcoming at climate/gallery,:

Prolific Impressions: Printmaking Now.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 8, 6pm – 9pm

Chances are good I'll jump on a Bolt Bus and head down for the opening, so maybe I'll see you there?

One of my larger cut-silhouette pieces, Girl on a Street Corner has been juried into a group show at Gallery 1581 in Brookline, MA.

Gallery 1581 is the art gallery of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, which regularly features themed shows on topics relating to the focus of the school. This month About Face explores self-representation—while a not-uncommon topic in fine art, the context of the school of psychoanalysis adds an intriguing twist.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 30th 6:30 – 8:30pm.

Aaaaand... it's Somerville Open Studios time again! Didn't I *just* sweep and mop my floor, just last year?

This year Mad Oyster Studios will be hosting The Haitian Projects Sewing Cooperative in addition to our own sixteen painters, printmakers, photographers, sculptors, and weavers who work in the studio year round. Davis Sholl's jazz band will be playing in a temporary Jazz-Grotto Bistro, featuring snacks and treats sold to benefit Pets In Need Animal Adoption Shelter.

Phew! That's a whole lot going on under out roof!

Preview the work you'll see at our studio this weekend, at www.MadOysterStudios.org. Or just come by and say Hi!

On view now through Thursday, March 4, 2010, at The Center for Arts in Natick, the largest display to date of my current series of Sihouette-Shadow pieces, all together in one large Solo Show.

TCAN features concerts, theater, and events throughout the week bringing thousands of people in to see great performances. My work is featured in the main lobby and the performance hall, setting the tone for the months of January and February.

This show features over fourty pieces, nearly the complete body of the current series, with cut-surface oil-paintings and the companion relief-prints and collaged prints. The performance hall at TCAN offered a particularly interesting venue for my work, as many of the walls are aged red-brick, which, of course, shows through the openings in the paintings, and sets a particular feel for the prints. I'm quite interested in the look this space created.

I hope you'll have a chance to go and see for yourself. Visit www.natickarts.org for a listing of concerts and shows, for directions to the center, and for the hours of the Center.

The last show my work will be in for 2009!

I was flattered and delighted when Annie Newbold of Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA wrote and asked me to participate in their holiday show. And when I brought in my pieces, my pleasure was multiplied. What a great set of work to be included amongst!

Each of 15 artists were invited to put together work for a 4' x 6' panel, and somehow this all comes together into a cohesive collection of work. I'm proud to be hung in such company.

Please join us if you can, Saturday, December 5 for the Opening Reception, from 4pm to 6pm.

All the works are for sale and almost all are priced at under $400 (many under $100) to make the show as accessible as possible to new art-buyers or to people shopping for gifts.