Events Calendar

February 2, 2012

5-8 PM

28 Amity Street

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The images in this exhibit are all close to the camera lens, mostly within three feet.  They are from Amherst, sunderland, Turners Falls, New Jersey, Georgia, and Norway. 

Burnett Gallery (Jones Library)

43 Amity Street 

Louise Arnold

Oils--Autos, Farms, Streams

February 1-29, 2012  

 

JOZAN TRESTON

 

 

February 2 - 25, 2012

Opening Reception, Thursday, February 2, 2012, 5-8 pm

  

Gallery A3's February exhibition is a one-person show of paintings, encaustics, drawings and constructions by artist Jozan Treston.  The show runs from February 5 to February 25. 

Gallery A3 marks its tenth anniversary in 2012.  The celebration began with an all-member retrospective in January and continues with Treston's one-person show.

Treston is the gallery's founder.  The impetus to form a cooperative gallery came in September 2001, just after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.  Treston felt a need to work with other artists to create a healing response.  He felt that art is essential to the life and health of both the artist and the community and joined with others to form the Amherst Art Alliance, the artists' group at the heart of Gallery A3.

Aside from his role at the gallery, Treston, who is turning 80 this year, is an accomplished painter with more than 50 years of experience. His abstract paintings conjure images of the ocean, the earth seen from space, distressed moons, or lush rainforests.  Treston, however, doesn't imitate life with his art -- he allows the image to surface from the canvas and leaves the interpretation to the viewer.

Treston's richly textured paintings reflect the depth of his life experience:  years of living near the Chesapeake Bay, his service as a young Navy weatherman during the Korean War, two years in a Buddhist monastery, and two decades in the Pioneer Valley.  The selected works in this one-person show are just a glimpse of the long experience of a prolific artist.

Phone: (413) 256-4250

Email: www.gallerya3.com 

Hope & Feathers

319 Main Street

Feb. 3, 2012

Rene Théberge Photographs  

February 1-28, 2012 

Reception February 2, 5-8 pm.

From February 1st through the 28th, René Théberge will be exhibiting recent photographs at Hope & Feathers Framing, 319 Main St. Amherst,MA.

Théberge will exhibit a collection of photographs that combine his interest in macro botanical photography in addition to his more recent focus on the larger natural world.

For over a decade and a half Théberge has been using macro photography to explore flowers, particularly the inner details, as he says of these photographs the point is "to share with people the beauty in even the smallest details of nature and to inspire others to look more
closely at the world around us".

Over the last few years Théberge has switched gears to include landscape photography using both film and digital photography to explore the rhythms and patterns of the natural world.

There will be an artist's reception on Saturday February 11th from 4 - 7 pm.
www.renetheberge.com

 
Amherst Art Walk Thursday, Feb. 3, 5-8 pm.
Artist's Reception Thursday, Feb. 3 during open hours, Monday - Weds 10-6, Thurs & Fri 10-8, Sat & Sun 10-5

February 2, 5-8pm

Stephen Hamilton served as director of the Amherst Boys and girls club from 1945-1982. Hamilton, who lived in Amherst with wife Genevieve Hamilton, was a founder of Leverett Crafts and Arts and taught art at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield. Genevieve Hamilton died in February 1993, just months before Hamilton's own death in November of that year. They had no children.

Hamilton also painted murals for the Massachusetts Building at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield. His work was exhibited locally and at the Commerford Gallery and Columbia University, both in New York City; Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada; Watercolor U.S.A. in Springfield, Mo.; and the Academic Artists Association in Springfield. His works were also shown at The Alpine Galleries in London in 1947. Queen Mary attended the exhibit opening.

All sales of artwork benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Amherst