Artist: Robert Dec
City/Town: Westport
Title: Cosmic Karma
Size: 24″x30″
Description: Acrylic on Collage on Stretched Canvas
Price: $700
Email: Bossbandbob@gmail.com
Website: Rdecart.com
Social Media: @Rdec_studios on Instagram
Submitted bio: Concentrating on the combination of various art media to express nature with works ranging from realistic to semi abstract to completely abstracted. 40+ year career teaching art and exhibiting my work.
Artist: Robert Dec
City/Town: Westport
Title: Snow bird
Size: 24″x18″
Description: Acrylic on Photo Transfer on Stretched Canvas
Price: $900
Email: Bossbandbob@gmail.com
Website: Rdecart.com
Social Media: @Rdec_studios on Instagram
Submitted bio: Concentrating on the combination of various art media to express nature with works ranging from realistic to semi abstract to completely abstracted. 40+ year career teaching art and exhibiting my work.
Artist: Mary Monteiro
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: “Recognition” Nature’s Sanctuary in Blue
Size: 24″ x 36″
Description: Oil on gallery wrapped canvas
Price: $1,800
Email: threadsgallerydesigns@gmail.com
Website: ThreadsGallery.artspan.com
Social media: Threads Gallery Designs on Facebook
Submitted bio: I paint to experience and share the sense of unity I find in natural world. The purpose of my art is to serve as a bridge between the unity in nature and the unity within us, and to serve as a gentle reminder and guide back when we lose touch with it.
Artist: Mary Monteiro
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: Intergration
Size: 20″ x 20″
Description: Oil on gallery wrapped canvas
Price: $700
Email: threadsgallerydesigns@gmail.com
Website: ThreadsGallery.artspan.com
Social media: Threads Gallery Designs on Facebook
Submitted bio: I paint to experience and share the sense of unity I find in natural world. The purpose of my art is to serve as a bridge between the unity in nature and the unity within us, and to serve as a gentle reminder and guide back when we lose touch with it.
Artist: David Dauer
City/Town: Plymouth
Title: Whimsical Musings
Size: 9″x 12″
Description: Watercolor, Ink and graphite on watercolor paper – Floral and abstract/realistic background showing interplay and visual storytelling with use of strong colors
Price: $450
Email: david@dbdauerstudiostore.com
Website: dbdauerstudiostore.com
Social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Submitted bio: I work with flowers while integrating them with free flowing abstracted dialog using representational and non-representational forms. I have a longtime background in both fine arts and design with art school at Southeastern MA University now UMass Dartmouth.
Artist: David Dauer
City/Town: Plymouth
Title: Conversations
Size: 9″x 12″
Description: Watercolor, Ink and graphite on watercolor paper – Floral and abstract/realistic background showing interplay and visual storytelling with use of strong colors
Price: $450
Email: david@dbdauerstudiostore.com
Website: dbdauerstudiostore.com
Social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Submitted bio: I work with flowers while integrating them with free flowing abstracted dialog using representational and non-representational forms. I have a longtime background in both fine arts and design with art school at Southeastern MA University now UMass Dartmouth.
Artist: Denn Santoro
City/Town: Rochester
Title: Megawatt #1 – The Big Five-Oh! Series- The Pilobolus Project
Size: 27″ width x 20″ height
Description: Photo C-print archivally mounted. Watermark is not on the actual print.
Price: $550; $400 at 16″ x 20″ and $275 at 11″ x 14″.
Email: Denn@dennsantorophoto.com
Website: DennSantoroPhoto.com
Social media: @dennsantoro on Instagram
Submitted bio: My photos generally concentrate on the interplay of angles and shapes and light. I compose with a point of view that is intended to confound the viewers’ normal perspective and view of the world. I enjoy playing with the viewers’ perceptual tendencies in ways that make them engage with the image as they try to force it into a more usual perceptual framework. I do this in various ways from using radical perspectives, tight and unusual composition, subtle lines that skew the perspective in a way the mind tends to reject and readjust, placing the focus in unexpected places or the simple inclusion of odd detail. I often create photos that are an abstraction of the subject such that it is hard to recognize at first or at all. The viewer, offered a perspective they would be unlikely to see in everyday experience, should engage with the subjects of the work and, hopefully, see them in a new way. I try and make my work visually interesting and perceptually difficult. I do almost all my composition in-camera. I rarely crop my photos nor do I modify them in any other way from the actual result of what the camera captured. No digital or other manipulation is involved. The prints are actual photo prints (silver halide type processing C-prints), not digital prints.
Artist: Denn Santoro
City/Town: Rochester
Title: Shizen #8 – The Big Five-Oh! Series- The Pilobolus Project
Size: 27″ width x 20″ height
Description: Photo C-print archivally mounted. Watermark is not on the actual print.
Price: $550; $400 at 16″ x 20″ and $275 at 11″ x 14″.
Email: Denn@dennsantorophoto.com
Website: DennSantoroPhoto.com
Social media: @dennsantoro on Instagram
Submitted bio: My photos generally concentrate on the interplay of angles and shapes and light. I compose with a point of view that is intended to confound the viewers’ normal perspective and view of the world. I enjoy playing with the viewers’ perceptual tendencies in ways that make them engage with the image as they try to force it into a more usual perceptual framework. I do this in various ways from using radical perspectives, tight and unusual composition, subtle lines that skew the perspective in a way the mind tends to reject and readjust, placing the focus in unexpected places or the simple inclusion of odd detail. I often create photos that are an abstraction of the subject such that it is hard to recognize at first or at all. The viewer, offered a perspective they would be unlikely to see in everyday experience, should engage with the subjects of the work and, hopefully, see them in a new way. I try and make my work visually interesting and perceptually difficult. I do almost all my composition in-camera. I rarely crop my photos nor do I modify them in any other way from the actual result of what the camera captured. No digital or other manipulation is involved. The prints are actual photo prints (silver halide type processing C-prints), not digital prints.
Name: Allen J Constant
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: Southern Arizona Landscape
Size: 11 x 14
Description: View from southern Arizona. Oil on canvas.
Price: $150
Email: a.j.constant@gmail.com
Website: allenconstant.weebly.com
Submitted bio: In New Bedford I’ve been painting what I know and what I see. It’s not journalistic because I’m not interested in facts. I’m interesting the emotional frankness of the ordinary—hopefully audiences will understand it this way. Like other contemporary artists I inspect the commonplace for traces of evidence. Evidence of honesty, light, hypocrisy, what-have-you. My specific interest, however, is in what we leave behind; what we’ve made in the flurry of self-importance, and what’s left over when the moment is gone.
Name: Allen J Constant
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: Grand Escalante
Size: 11×14
Description: The Grand Escalante from southern Utah. Oil on canvas.
Price: $150
Email: a.j.constant@gmail.com
Website: allenconstant.weebly.com
Submitted bio: In New Bedford I’ve been painting what I know and what I see. It’s not journalistic because I’m not interested in facts. I’m interesting the emotional frankness of the ordinary—hopefully audiences will understand it this way. Like other contemporary artists I inspect the commonplace for traces of evidence. Evidence of honesty, light, hypocrisy, what-have-you. My specific interest, however, is in what we leave behind; what we’ve made in the flurry of self-importance, and what’s left over when the moment is gone.
Artist: Erik Smith
City/Town: Ann Arbor
Title: Freezing
Size: 36″ x 48″
Description: Oil on Panel
Price: $1,250
Email: erikdoesartthings@gmail.com
Website: erikpaints.com
Social media: @erikdoesartthings on Instagram
Submitted bio: Jazz improvisation with a variety of tools as my instruments and color as my musical notes
Artist: Erik Smith
City/Town: Ann Arbor
Title: Set Ablaze
Size: 24″x 24″
Description: Oil on Panel
Price: $375
Email: erikdoesartthings@gmail.com
Website: erikpaints.com
Social media: @erikdoesartthings on Instagram
Submitted bio: Jazz improvisation with a variety of tools as my instruments and color as my musical notes
Artist: Lorene Sweeney
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: Italian door knocker
Size: Framed. 16” x 12”
Description: Acrylic painting of Italian door knocker on watercolor paper
Price: $150
Email: Keltill@gmail.com
Submitted bio: I express my love for beautiful objects and organisms through my paintings. I try to capture the life of an organism in its eyes. I create gardens with shells.
Artist: Lorene Sweeney
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: Shell Garden
Size: 12″ x 16” framed
Description: Acrylic on watercolor paper
Price: $150
Email: Keltill@gmail.com
Submitted bio: I express my love for beautiful objects and organisms through my paintings. I try to capture the life of an organism in its eyes. I create gardens with shells.
Artist: Susan Gilmore
City/Town: Wareham
Title: Galeforce
Size: 48” x 24”
Description: Acrylic paint on Canvas. This is a painting that expresses how I see my world when I am sailing in my 14’ Laser , with big winds.
Price: $3,500
Email: Gilmore1@comcast.net
Website: SusanGilmoreArt.com/
Submitted bio: Expressive, dramatic, colorful abstract landscape acrylic paintings which are painted by a passionate artist interested in combining her love for mother earth with her drive to make powerful landscape paintings that capture her intense, emotional, fiery perspective towards the view in front of her.
Artist: Susan Gilmore
City/Town: Wareham
Title: Untitled
Size: 48”x24”
Description: Acrylic on canvas. Trying to capture peaceful calm while watching a sunrise.
Price: $3,500
Email: Gilmore1@comcast.net
Website: SusanGilmoreArt.com/
Submitted bio: Expressive, dramatic, colorful abstract landscape acrylic paintings which are painted by a passionate artist interested in combining her love for mother earth with her drive to make powerful landscape paintings that capture her intense, emotional, fiery perspective towards the view in front of her.
Artist: Butch McCarthy
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: UHF
Size: 24×30
Description: Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
Price: $500
Email: butchmccarthy@yahoo.com
Website: Butchmccarthy.com
Social media: Butch McCarthy Art Studio on Facebook
Submitted bio: I work with acrylics and have been painting all my life.
Artist: Butch McCarthy
City/Town: New Bedford
Title: Blue vase
Size: 20×24
Description: Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
Price: $600
Email: butchmccarthy@yahoo.com
Website: Butchmccarthy.com
Social media: Butch McCarthy Art Studio on Facebook
Submitted bio: I work with acrylics and have been painting all my life.
Artist: Kathi J Chase
City/Town: Fairhaven
Title: Girl on the Beach
Size: 18×24
Description: Acrylic painting on canvas
Price: $150
Email: KandACreations20@Gmail.com
Website: Kandacreations20.com
Social media: KACreations20 on Facebook
Submitted bio: I am a self-taught artist working primarily in acrylic paints. My primary focus is landscape paintings but I’ve done other subjects as well. I enjoy painting on canvas but have also done mural work as well as painting on seashells & wood.
Artist: Kathi J Chase
City/Town: Fairhaven
Title: Sailing Newport
Size: 12×12
Description: Acrylic on canvas
Price: $60
Email: KandACreations20@Gmail.com
Website: Kandacreations20.com
Social media: KACreations20 on Facebook
Submitted bio: I am a self-taught artist working primarily in acrylic paints. My primary focus is landscape paintings but I’ve done other subjects as well. I enjoy painting on canvas but have also done mural work as well as painting on seashells & wood.
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