Exhibitions

 

Goetemann Artists in Residency Program

This is the 8th year of the Goetemann Residency Program. The quality of the applications submitted continues to rise and there has been an increase in our geographical range. Applicants have come not only from the Boston area, state of MA and New England, but now there are many more national and international candidates. Choosing only 3 from this list caused us to examine more carefully candidates who best serve the colony's interest in diversity of stylistic orientation, career level, and understanding of the mission and objectives of our community of Rocky Neck.

2012 Goetemann Artists in Residence Lectures

Introductory Slide Presentation begins at 7:00 pm at the Cultural Center on Rocky Neck (CC) at 6 Wonson Street. The Studio Conversation with the artist begins at 7:00 pm at the Goetemann Artist in Residency Studio (GRS) at 51A Rocky Neck Avenue. The Distinguished Artist/Teacher lecture begins at 3pm at the Cape Ann Museum (CAM), 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester).

Sunday, May 13 (CAM) Joel Janowitz, Distinguished Artist/Teacher Slide Lecture,3pm
Monday, June 4 (CC) Ekaterina Smirnova, Introductory Slide Presentation, 7pm
Wednesday, June 27 (GRS) Ekaterina Smirnova, Studio talk
Wednesday, July 11(CC) Lisa K. Rosenstein, Introductory Slide Presentation, 7pm
Wednesday, August 1 (GRS) Lisa K. Rosenstein, Studio Talk, 7pm
Wednesday, September 12( CC) Victor Valasek, Introductory Slide Presentation, 7pm
Wednesday, October 3 (ARS) Victor Valasek, Studio Talk, 7pm

 

Distinguished Artist/Teacher

Joel Janowitz Selected as Distinguished Artist/Teacher
for the Goetemann Residency Program

Joel Janowitz, painter and printmaker (www.JoelJanowitz.com) was selected to be the Distinguished Artist/Teacher in residence as part of the Goetemann Residency program of the Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC). Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely, with over 30 solo shows. From January to March of this year he participated in a two person exhibition at the Art Institute of Boston. His work has been collected by numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Harvard University's Fogg Museum. In 2008 he received his third individual Artist's Fellowship from the state of Massachusetts. Other awards and honors include an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and two artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Janowitz has taught painting and drawing at Wellesley College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is currently teaching at the Art Institute of Boston.

Artist Talk with Joel Janowitz, Sun, May 13, 2pm at the Cape Ann Museum

Presented by the Cape Ann Museum in partnership with Rocky Neck Art Colony. Reception to follow. This program is free and open to the public; reservations required. See Workshops for information about Joel Janwitz's workshops on Rocky Neck.

 

2012 Goetemann Artists in Residence

May 31-June 29: Ekaterina Smirnovanova

Ekaterina Smirnova

Las Ramblas 40 x 52

 

Ekaterina Smirnova, a Brooklyn based artist, started painting in a Russian art school in Siberia in 1991. Her style has been further developed at The Art Students League of NY, where Ekaterina has been a member since first moving to the United States in 2006. Watercolor, her main medium, and etchings are often exhibited at art shows around New York and the Northeast. In the past 4 years, Ekaterina has received various awards in juried shows including from The Salmagundi Club, Allied Artists of America and Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition (BWAC). Currently she is a Junior Scholar and a member of The Art Committee at The Salmagundi Club.

Barcelona

Sunset over Barcelona Watercolor on rough Arches paper 40" x 52", 1.2012


Artist statement: Water – it can range from a reflective puddle to an opaque fog, a delicate water drop to a torrential down pour, a blinding snow to a patch of black ice. I want to harness that diversity and explore watercolors from many under-appreciated perspectives. I want to experiment with big paper, unconventional textures, and intense shadow and contrast. I want to prove that watercolor is as dynamic and versatile as water itself.

www.katapostrophe.com


July 8 -August 4: Lisa K. Rosenstein

Lisa K. Rosenstein
Cut Me Loose

 

Lisa Rosenstein, a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art and Design and from Washington, D.C., is a multi-media artist whose recent work has focused on a unique approach to using a limited means toward achieving a great variety of evocative imagery. Using the reductive capability of white paint and found objects, she has created intimate yet powerfully meditative and reflective works,which she has described as "altars".

"For the past three years, I've been working exclusively in White with a focus on shadow, texture, pattern and dimension. This work evolved into 3-d and recently has left the canvas and gone to the floor in the shape of handmade, unstructured "nets" which I can hang on the wall as free-form sculptures."

Lisa K. Rosenstein
Neutral Networks

 

Artist statement:

Life is chaotic, complex, noisy,
and at times painfully full.
These paintings are a reflection of my need for peace and quiet.
Using nothing but white paint and found objects
I hope to created a space of
contemplation, solitude,
and a visual opportunity for slowing down.

www.lisakrosenstein.com


September 9 to October 6: Viktor Valášek

Viktor Valasek

bez nazvu / untitled; acrylic on fiberboard; 180x280 cm

Painter Viktor Valasek is a native of Czechoslovakia and has a Master's Degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He studied at Cooper Union in NYC in 2009 and his work from that time was included in an Exchange Students Exhibition. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including at Trafo Gallery and AVU gallery both in Prague. He is currently a resident artist at Meetfactory, a center of contemporary art in Prague.

Viktor Valasek

Artist Statement: Even though I have been recently working on a body of work that is more abstract, most of my work is figurative. I am trying to comment and depict my own surrounding, including cultural stereotypes and memories from my own nation's collective consciousness. It is a view which is only possible after a person leaves his own culture and looks back from the 'other' location. At once, one feels trapped within his or her own stereotype. This is who I am. This is who I am expected to be. We are expected to conform to the view imposed by 'them' on 'us'. I am balancing on the edge between doing a good show – as 'expected' and self-reflection. The 'folklore' otherness of Central European post communist contemporary art is the product which is delivered to the spectator, yet it comes with a self-critical edge. Is it myself, or is it the image of myself, as defined by others? The most recent abstract paintings are different not only in the attitude but also in the whole visual impact on the viewer. By covering the space of the painting with a symbol of thinking, I am also stepping out of the previous stereotypes.

viktorvalasek.com


 

About the Goetemann Artist in Residency & Distinguished Artist/Teacher Programs

Originally called the Rocky Neck Art Colony Artist in Residency, the program was renamed the Goetemann Residency Program in 2010 in honor of its founder, Gordon Goetemann. The Rocky Neck Art Colony accepts applications from visual artists in the late winter and early spring of each year. The artists selected will evidence high-level accomplishment, originality and seriousness of purpose. One applicant will be selected for each of three four-week residency terms. The program includes prime studio/gallery/living space (including utilities), press coverage, art sales opportunities, and access to a rich cultural community.

The Goetemann Artist Residency was established in 2005 by Gordon Goetemann. It reflects principles stated in the RNAC by-laws to

  1. Acknowledge the importance of the traditions upon which the Rocky Neck Art Colony was founded and work to keep them vital in the context of contemporary culture.
  2. Provide opportunities for educational and professional development in the arts, which might include lectures, w6rkshops, exhibitions, scholarships and residencies.

The artists in residence live and work at the Kismet Wharf, 51A Rocky Neck Ave.
For more information, see www.artistcommunities.org/residencies/goetemann-residency-rocky-neck-art-colony or contact the director of the program, RGlouc@comcast.net.

Application period now closed for 2012. Please check back in 2013.

 

For information contact RGlouc@comcast.net.

About the Rocky Neck Art Colony

Situated on a peninsula in the working fishing harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Rocky Neck and neighboring East Gloucester present a dramatic stimulus to visual artists. Long renowned for their light, this harbor and coast have been a magnet for the most distinguished artists America has produced. From Fitz Henry Lane and Winslow Homer, to Childe Hassam, John Sloan and Edward Hopper, this place has inspired some of the most revered realist paintings in American art. A catalyst for the progressive ideas of modern artists Theresa Bernstein, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Milton Avery, and Nell Blaine, among others, this physical setting continues to attract artists to a current thriving creative community. The Rocky Neck Art Colony organization serves a mission to nurture excellence in the visual arts, and to provide educational and professional development opportunities to its members and the greater community.


Mass Cultural CouncilPast funding for the Rocky Neck Art Colony Residency Program was in part from the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts made possible by The Massachusetts Cultural Council John and Abigail Adams Arts Program.