Cassie Doyon

Artist Statement:
I work in mixed media with a strong focus on mosaics. I use a wide variety of materials in my work, including natural, foraged and found items such as sea glass, bone, driftwood and stone. I am particularly focused on surface design and pushing the boundaries of sculpture with unconventional and re-purposed materials.

Much of my artwork is abstract in style and form, reflecting my lifelong interest in tribal art and artifacts from around the world. In addition, I like to create “color and texture memories” of places I’ve visited over the years, and to explore macro and micro-environments in nature.

Artist Bio:
I have worked as an artist and art educator in the Merrimack Valley for the past 30 years. My artwork and sculpture has won several awards and has been exhibited internationally.

www.cassiedoyondesigns.net

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Randa Dubnick

Artist Statement:
My recent paintings are part of a series of mountain landscapes inspired by memories and daydreams of my home state of Colorado. The mountains are in my mind's eye and I try to capture the beautiful lines of the Rocky Mountains and the colors of Colorado. The work is done from my imagination and my memories of the Colorado mountains. I work in acrylic paint, often on paper. I enjoy experimenting with techniques and approaches borrowed from watercolor, mixed media, printmaking, and even raku pottery, to create the shapes and textures of the mountains. I make art every day. Since 2005, I have been posting an image daily on my blog, Randi Art. (randiart.blogspot.com)

Artist Bio:
Randa Dubnick was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. As a child, she loved to draw and paint, and took art lessons from grade school through high school.

She studied painting at Southern Colorado State University and earned a BFA at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Randa also earned an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado. Her dissertation on Gertrude Stein and Cubism was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1984. Although Randa left Boulder after college, going back only periodically to visit family and friends, those mountains have stayed with her all this time.

Randa had a long career in college teaching and administration and moved frequently, living in Lawrence, Kansas; Chicago, Illinois; and Princeton, New Jersey. In 1997 she moved to Beverly, MA.

She has participated in drawing groups, artist’s collectives, art auctions, group shows, and art instruction (formal and informal), whenever possible, including evening classes at Montserrat College of Art, where she was VP of Student Services from 1997 to 2004.

Since 2005, Randa has been a member of Porter Mill Studios in Beverly, MA, where she maintains a studio and participates in events and exhibits. In 2013, she began exhibiting at Galatea Fine Arts.

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Michelle Lander Feinberg

Artist Statement:

Circles and curves appear throughout my paintings representing renewal and the ongoing nature of growth. I use color intentionally to energize and uplift a space. Whether through layered geometric compositions or more fluid forms, I create work that engages both visually and emotionally, offering moments of pause and reflection.

An important element in my work is the idea of play. Play becomes a way of loosening control, allowing for discovery, and new ways of seeing life. This balance between intention and play mirrors life. We seek order, but benefit from spontaneity. We move forward, but rarely in straight lines. My paintings reflect this tension and harmony, inviting viewers to engage with both the structure and the freedom within each piece, and to reconnect with a sense of possibility and joy.

Artist Bio:

Michelle Lander Feinberg is a Norwood-based artist whose paintings are recognized for expressive color, and dynamic form. She is a signature member of the National Association of Women Artists and an artist member of Galatea Fine Art and TAG, galleries in Boston’s SoWa Art and Design District.

Her paintings are collected by and held in private collections and institutions including Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. In addition to her art practice, she is a retired attorney, the author of the Cooper the Dog children’s book series, and a mother of five.

www.micheidistudio.com
@micheidi_studio
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-lander-feinberg-9463251a7

Marjorie Kaye

Artist Statement:
Taken Out of Context is a study of the relationship between my recent two dimensional paintings and three dimensional sculptures. My paintings see interrelationships between shapes along the surface, as if there were entities co-existing within the space. They encouraged three dimensional pieces that seemed to have jumped out of the surface, escaping from the confines of the second dimension.

My gouache paintings are built from the observation of complexity and my intention in actualizing sequential order. I need to work as if untying a complicated and seemingly impossible knot. The forms are immediately organic, swirling and undulating from one end of the surface from the other. Once this has been established, I go in honing, working each shape, dissecting it into its unique rhythm. This is the secondary aspect of making each work, and the action that ties the shapes into a whole, one that balances between energy and calculation.

These shapes are mirrored in the sculptures. Entities are born from shaped wood pieces, all coming together in a series of elemental creature-like formations. In opposition to the paintings, these sculptural forms are minimally painted, deriving any sense of complexity from the juxtaposition of individual pieces.
There is a dichotomy present in the works, from subtlety to complexity; iteration to minimalism. Together the works address the balance between two disciplines, and the singular worlds that arise from their interaction, as in a thought giving way to the crystallization of form.

Artist Bio:
Marjorie Kaye has lived in the Boston area for most of her life, with stops along the way in Syracuse, NY to earn her BFA in Painting, as well as New York City in the 80s.

She is a sculptor with experience in drawing and painting as well. Her work has been an exploration of opposites: form and color; organic and geometric; precision and chaos. Colorful and bold, her sculpture and present gouache paintings are kinetic and energetic. Her work has been reviewed in many publications including the Boston Globe and ArtScope Magazine, and has been shown extensively both locally and nationally, including Galatea Fine Art in Boston, Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston, and Space Womb Gallery in NYC.

Ms. Kaye is the founder/member/Director Emeritus of Galatea Fine Art in Boston, MA, a large artist-run gallery featuring over 50 artists from Boston and beyond. Past projects also include the web-based Caladan Gallery, which ran for 10 years and exhibited hundreds of artists from all over the world, and Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA , which enhanced the community with the exhibition of local, national, and international artists.

She currently resides in Cambridge, MA.

marjoriekayeart.com

Ronni Komarow

Ronni Kamarow

Artist Statement:
As an artist, I feel the need to connect my work to my own life and personal surroundings; this tends to take many forms in regard to types of media, though the themes and inspirations are fairly constant.

My work is consistently rooted in my immediate surroundings. Imagery is taken from objects and spaces in my home. Some work is narrative based, and derived from family relationships and personal stories.

I am constantly striving for a sense of intimacy and connection, seeking to offer a more subtle message that invites the viewer to engage, explore and augment.

Artist Bio:
I come from a family of artists, and so art has always been part of who I am and what I do. I hold a BFA in drawing (with a minor in woodworking) and an MFA in Interdisciplinary art. I am currently on the Graphic Design and Fine Art faculty at Newbury College. I am a curator, an avid traveler, a neighborhood activist, a competitive runner, a biker, a reader, a gardener, and a mom. These all seem to inspire my art at one time or another.

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Yvonne Troxell Lamothe

Artist Statement:
Painting en plein air keeps me grounded and observing and finding relationships in the natural world has become a form of meditation for me. I spend countless hours walking along the sea and hiking into the woods photographing and taking in special moments as I move along. Yet, I do have a restless spirit and attribute my constant searching and exploration of how to express the glory and unpredictability of the environment to my being an art educator for many years. The need to explore a variety of approaches has been ever present for me. As a painter, I am not easily satisfied with my work and seek new solutions to showing a spirit, finding an element of surprise and looking beyond the surface. Helen Torr, Lois Dodd, Marsden Hartley, George Bellows are among those whose work inspires me.

Artist Bio:
Yvonne Troxell Lamothe has pursued her interest in painting by both observing the natural world and being immersed in the elements. Learning and unlearning as an art educator and as a life long learner and an art maker has been an engaging process for her. Endlessly challenging her own ability, she has studied painting with many accomplished artists and now is accepting the outside world as her teacher. She has been producing both oil paintings and watercolors mainly completed en plein air. Yvonne embraces her roots in New England. Finding intrigue with marshlands, woodlands and glorious vistas of Quincy, Massachusetts and the south shore where she now lives and her cabin in Ossipee, New Hampshire and the White Mountains where she finds solitude gives her ample inspiration for painting. Trips to the Maine coast and Vermont offer great additional and endless places to stop and paint. It is no wonder that such a range of American painters have found their way here to New England. Among her favorites are Marsden Hartley, Lois Dodd and Milton Avery. Her paintings show close connections to the earth because of the unusual perspectives that she finds to insure a closeness to her subject. Color is of essence to Yvonne and this joy can be felt in her work. And, of course, as the earth becomes more threatened, she hopes her paintings will inspire others to take time to appreciate and celebrate our planet.

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Jeannine Hunter Lazzaro

Artist Statement:
I always thought that there was a clear distinction between artists who worked abstractly and the ones who included recognizable imagery in their work. Happily, for me this is not the case. The plurality that exists today in the world of painting makes it possible to move from narrative painting to abstract images and never leave the realm of exploring the act of mark making and the language of painting. For me my work is a celebration of being alive and of the creative moment! I combine various methods, textures and paint to create what becomes a transformative experience. The stain-painting method, masking out areas, creating collaged surfaces and shaping the canvas are elements employed in the visual language that I have developed over time.

Artist Bio:
Jeannine is originally from northern New Jersey where she grew up in the shadow of Manhattan. She has a BA in Contemporary Art from Ramapo College of New Jersey. The college was famous for employing struggling artists, writers, actors from New York. As a consequence, she worked with Joanna Pousette-Dart (painter) and Carol Duncan (Art Historian) early in their careers. She earned an M.A.T. from Bridgewater College and spent twenty years in teaching art. One of the many joys of teaching for her was working with high school students who had not yet learned to take the creative act for granted. She has an M.F.A. from Lesley College of Art and Design. One of the aspects of the program at Lesley was that individuals worked with various local artists. As a result, she had the opportunity to work with Jon Imbur, Ruth Dealy and Carrie Moyer among others.

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Gloria Martins

Artist Statement:
"I was born in Portugal, but my life has been shaped by the many countries and cultures I've had a chance to experience. These encounters opened my perspective and continue to influence how I see the world.
Trained as a graphic designer, I naturally gravitate toward the bold imagery and visual energy of pop culture, which often finds its way into my work. For me, art is more than expression, it's a way of connecting, of reflecting on the challenges of our time while drawing people into a story. I hope my work sparks curiosity, invites reflection, and leaves viewers feeling engaged in the conversation it creates."

gloriamartinsart.com
@gloriamartinsart