Council On Aging

Janice Allee, a resident of Truro, received an MFA from Parsons School of Art, N.Y.C., where she studied with Paul Resika and Leland Bell. Her formal education includes degrees from Columbia University and Renssalaer Poytechnical Institute. Locally she has shown at the Packard Gallery, Robyn Watson Gallery, and at Castle Hill.

Heather Blume graduated cum laude Sculpture from the New York Academy of Art, in 1994 and summa cum laude Painting from the University of North Florida in 1992. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, and at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis, as well as throughout Europe. She is the recipient of numerous awards, and her sculptures are in the collection of the British Museum in London. She teaches at PAAM and at Castle Hill Center for the Arts.

Nancy Ellen Craig lives in Truro. For more than forty years, both in Europe and America, Nancy has been painting portraits professionally. According to Frederic Tauber, eminent 20h Century classicist, Craig's work approaches the best American portrait painter, Thomas Eakins…"Few of our portraitists today can do such work." Her work has garnered many awards.

Mason Morfit studied with Jerry Farnsworth and Helen Sawyer in 1960 at their North Truro location on Pond Rd. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 1965, taught seventh grade art for three years, was a partner in a graphic design firm in Cambridge for ten years, and then a commercial photographer on the west coast and New York for thirty years. He now works primarily in watercolor and photography.

Michael Prodanou was trained as an architect and started his figure painting and drawing career in 2000. He has taken workshops with Cynthia Packard and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is an avid admirer of the Bay Area figure painters David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Olivera, and Richard Diebenkorn. He admires the work of the German expressionists Kirchner and Schmidt-Rotluff. He has shown in galleries in Provincetown MA, and Pompano Beach, FL. His home and studio are now in Provincetown, MA. He can be reached by contacting him via his website www.michaelprodanou.com.

I have called this collection Horizons because these abstract paintings, prints and collages, both landscape and seascape, celebrate the horizontality of my field of vision. Living in a coastal setting and witnessing the seasons shift the shape and color of shoreline, meadow and hill, has inspired my horizontal compositions. To make these landscapes personal visions, I inject imagination into the process via disorienting color, puzzling line, and unnatural light. Thus, familiar vistas become amusing, challenging, even disturbing.

Opening reception is May 8, 2-4 p.m.