Gallery

Each month, the COA Gallery exhibits the work of a different local artist. The Gallery is under the direction of Eleanor Meldahl and coordinated by Girard Smith. This month's artists are highlighted below.

MARCH

Marjorie and Richard Gidman

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After moving to Cape Cod, both Marjorie and Richard had a latent desire to begin painting again. Together they enrolled in the senior's painting class at Castle Hill in Truro under the instruction and “gentle” critique of Joan Hopkins Coughlin of Wellfleet. Throughout several years of classes, Marjorie has found painting landscapes in acrylics and oils to be her favorite.

Richard started with watercolors, but switched to oil pastels three years ago. The quality of paintings here is important to us, but the enjoyment of creating is most important. Richard and Marjorie are members of "The Truro Group" artists. They have exhibited in the Truro Library, the Wellfleet COA, Castle Hill, and at Seamen's Bank in Provincetown.

Opening Reception is Sunday, March 6th from 2-4P.M. All are welcome.

APRIL

OUTER CAPE PAINTERS

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April will bring the art of five outer cape painters to the COA.

Janice Allee, a resident of Truro, received a 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 water-color and photography.

Michael Prodanou was trained as an architect and started his figure painting and drawing career in 2000. He has taken workshops with Cynthis 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.

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