http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/ The Art on Rotation Gallery provides gallery space in public places for emerging and established artists to display and market their work. en Copyright 2010 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:35:20 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Reynald Poisson's exhibit of his acrylic paintings are on display from March 2, 2010 through April 2010 at the Art On Rotation Gallery at Thayer Memorial Library 717 Main St. Lancaster. His work is very modern and new. A show you will enjoy!. http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2010/03/current_exhibits_at_the_art_on.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2010/03/current_exhibits_at_the_art_on.html Articles Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:35:20 -0500 Art work by Arllen Acevedo Arllen Acevedo's paintings and digital art will be on exhibit September through October 2009 at the Art On Rotation Gallery at Thayer Memorial Library's 717 Main St. Lancaster, MA reference room. Arllen's work has been exhibited in Puerto Rico USA, Worcester MA, Augsburg and Landsberg Germany. Color has always fascinated her especially bright, vibrant colors. Her early paintings were meticulously created striving for perfection and paying close attention to detail. Currently, she works in oils, watercolor and acrylics. She paints in realistic and abstract styles. She loves creating vibrant -colored landscapes, seascapes, and paintings of the subconscious. Through her paintings, she attempts to touch the souls of the spectators, hoping to enrich their lives and their perception of the world. She also enjoys creating digital abstract and realistic designs, illustrations, and portraits. Some of her digital work is creating collages using mixed media. The artist's latest inspiration includes designing jewelry. She loves to combine fine jewelery beads, crystals with semi-precious stones and silver. jewelery making brings great joy to her life. Arllen's artwork represents the depth, uniqueness and individuality of a true artist. The exquisiteness of her technique, the dramatic quality of her work and the vibrant colors make her creations genuine works of art. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2010/03/arllen_acevedos_paintings_and.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2010/03/arllen_acevedos_paintings_and.html Articles News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:33:57 -0500 Frozen Water Acrylic by Tess rock Tess Rock's Water Series Acrylic Paintings are on exhibit January through February 2010 at Thayer Memorial Library Art On Rotation Gallery 717 Main St. Lancaster. Her acrylic paintings are full of color and are captivating and interesting to the viewer. This show will thrill your senses. Come and see. Artist statement about her Water Series The origins of my paintings are rooted in nature. The shapes are allowed to flow and intermingle, creating a tangible environment. Water, especially when freezing upon a river is my muse. The way, in which water transforms, layer by layer upon the river surface informs my work both directly and indirectly. Forms are freely moving over the surface of the canvas enticing the viewer to travel throughout the piece. I have chosen to work in vibrant colors because they resonant with the energy of nature. Water in its simplicity is changed by reflecting its surroundings. These paintings are my reaction to the vibrancy of our natural environment. My intention is to depict the imagery of nature thru these organic abstractions. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2010/01/tess_rocks_water_series_acryli.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2010/01/tess_rocks_water_series_acryli.html Gallery Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:08:04 -0500 "A Passing Storm", Neck Rd. Lancaster Acrylic on canvas by Lori MacDonald Lori MacDonald Collins Artworks is please to have Lori MacDonald's landscape paintings on exhibit from November through December 2009 at the Thayer Memorial Library Art On Rotation Gallery 717 Main St. Lancaster, MA.. Lori MacDonald is an award winning artist from Gardner, MA. Lori's paintings are for sale. Anyone interested in buying her work should contact Sheryll Collins AOR gallery Coordinator at Collins Artworks Art Center at 978-368-3300. Collins Artworks accepts credit cards, debit cards, checks and cash. Welcome to my “Eclectic” landscape exhibit. While I’ve been painting with acrylics for almost 38 years, I’ve used 2009 as a time for exploiting my familiar painting medium. The works displayed here are the result of my year-long venture to expand my proficiency with acrylics - from glazing techniques to heavy impasto applications (with even a bit of gold metal leaf). This exercise has perhaps fashioned or freed me, for better or worse, to an eclectic style with a refreshing array of creative options. The subjects of my paintings in this exhibit are inspired by the landscapes of Central Massachusetts. The beauty of this region could occupy an artist for a lifetime. With the change of seasons, dramatic skies, cows, mist in the valleys on a summer’s eve, the trees, the stonewalls, the ponds, the mountains, the dappled light, vineyards, meadows, hiking trails, and more cows, the color of green after the rain, winter shadows, and so much more – I’m not bored. I like to think of favorite Bible verses while I paint. Lately, I’ve enjoyed making use of impasto techniques to construct visual descriptions of those truths. For example, painting #1, “Deeply Rooted”, is more than a wind-blown tree managing to stay standing. I watched as this tree stood in the wind at the Quabbin Reservoir Park and this verse from Isaiah 26:3 came to mind, “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.” The patch of calm in the painting, speaks of the God-given peace. I also like to capture the effect that light has on unassuming subjects. Something as plain and ordinary as my neighbor’s cement garage becomes lovely in the right light (see #11) – and lovely is what I like my paintings to be. Thank you for viewing the exhibit. Please sign my guestbook which you’ll find on the lectern in the rear of the room. I welcome your comments. Lori MacDonald is a member of the Greater Gardner Artists’ Association, the Gardner Area League of Artists, The Leominster Art Association, and the Cultural Arts Alliance of Hopkinton. She is an exhibiting artist at the Collins Artworks Art Center (home of the Art on Rotation Gallery) in Clinton, The Boulder Art Gallery in Fitchburg, and the Jaffrey Civic Center, Jaffrey, NH. Her work has received awards in many of the local art associations’ exhibitions. Lori and her husband, Bob, live in Gardner, MA. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/12/on_exhibit_at_the_gallery_at_t.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/12/on_exhibit_at_the_gallery_at_t.html News Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:00:20 -0500 Gerald Ruberti #30 -"Clinton High School, Police Station & Courthouse 1950" Other Winners of the Olde Home Day Juried Art Show 2009 Clinton Olde Home Day Juried Art Show Winners Photography 1st – Jennifer Denney – “Railroad Tracks 2nd – Nina Pagano – “The Shrine" 3rd – Joe Repole – “My Girls” Acrylic 1st – Mary Calkins – “Sunlight and Moonlight” 2nd – Lori MacDonald – “6:31pm – Clinton” Oil 1st – Sharon Marini – “Pimento" 2nd – Abubakar Mwenye – “September 11th Collage” 3rd – Robert W. Duffy – “Still Water River” Honorable Mentions: Kathleen E. Hebert – “Red Chair” Kathleen Morrissey – “Horse Country” Mixed Media 1st – Nan Rumpf – “Entrapment” Honorable Mentions: Carol Panek-Clark – “Looking Through” Dan Lowe – “MBTA Heath Street Station” Frederick Johnson – “Brotherhood” Watercolor 1st – Nan Rumpf – “The Journey” Other Media 1st – Chester Burzenski – “Scream” 2nd – Sotirios “Sam” E. Lalos – “Epiphany”]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/09/peoples_choice_award_olde_home.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/09/peoples_choice_award_olde_home.html News Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:17:31 -0500 "Joe Satriani," by John Nunziato John Nunziato Photography Exhibit can be viewed at The Art On Rotation Gallery at High St. Cafe 310 High St. in Clinton, MA in September and October 2009. John's work is about the images of the beautiful New England landscape. Don't miss this one! Artist's Statement My first camera was a pocket 110 camera given to me by my mother, on the day I was leaving on vacation to Nova Scotia. For the trip my friend had brought along a recently purchased Canon AE-1 film camera. After returning from that trip and comparing photos.....i ran out the next day and purchased a Canon AE-1camera. Like most fellow photographers, there are several factors that influence my work; family, friends and being in the moment. My keen sense of inspiration of the image comes from how the image initially appears and how I can capture it at that moment. My work has appeared in group shows, publications online magazines, calendars, newsletters , internet websites and private collections. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/08/john_nunziato_photography_exhi.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/08/john_nunziato_photography_exhi.html Articles News Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:37:00 -0500 "Lottery" by Nathan Orie Nathan Orie will be exhibiting at the Thayer Memorial Library 710 Main St. Lancaster, MA July and all of August 2009. Nathan's unique paintings will thrill you as well as make you think about social issues. There is also hidden images and messages in some of the paintings that can only be viewed in the dark. More information about Nathan- Nathan Orie and His Art Artist’s Statement This art show is a testament to where we are as a searching people. It is my intention that the pieces of this show direct us back to the original questions. We exist in an era that defies definition; henceforth, we have construed more definitions of our post-modern culture than is necessary or useful. We are so intent on finding the answers that all answers have become equally valid. And rightly so, for any answer can be correct if the question has been disregarded of misplaced along the way. This show is a call to reject the deconstructions and fragmentations of post-modernity and enter into an era where we can reclaim the questions that have been lost to us. In teaching English to middle school students in Springfield, I have noticed that when my students are asked a question that involves thinking, they really desire to know the answers. At first I was excited that they were actually engrossed with my lesson, but then I became more wary. I ask them a question relating to the reading, and more often than not a student will yell out, “Just tell us, Mr. Orie!!!” It seems that they want the answers so badly that they are willing to forego the question to get the answer. This has inspired me to ask through my art why we are so intent on finding answers to questions that we do not care to actually explore. In these art pieces I have wrestled with questions about human rights, suffering and even questions we ask of God himself, such as “Are you there, God? And if you are, how do I know?” Sir Francis Bacon said that knowledge is power, and I am beginning to wonder how true this can be when knowledge is only a few keystrokes away on my computer. The value of knowledge has been cheapened by the accessibility to information. Our economy is based on supply and demand. If this is true for information as well, then our supply has far exceeded our demand, and information has become inadequate. Knowledge saturates our vision so consistently that I cannot drive down the road without being given information on what watch I should buy, what car dealership has the best cars, and which coffee I will run on each morning. We have enough information, and I would therefore propose that while knowledge may contain power, it is in the pursuit of knowledge that we find true strength. We can readdress the eternal questions that have been given to us and develop relationships around these questions, transcending the cold calculations of the billions of terabytes of information available to us. Then, we can instead focus on where we are as a people, and realize that we are still pondering the same thoughts that have been pondered since the dawn of time. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/08/a_social_consciousness_an_art.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/08/a_social_consciousness_an_art.html News Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:36:31 -0500 Scott Niemi pictured here stands beside his beautiful oil painting. At the Art On Rotation Gallery at the High St. Café , Scott Niemi's oil paintings will be on exhibit from July 6- August 31, 2009 during café operating hours. Scott’s work can also be seen at Collins Artworks Art Center gallery18 High St. Clinton. Scott Niemi was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1964. Scott completed his formal education at Florida Atlantic University where he earned a M.F.A. in Visual Art with a concentration in painting. Currently, he is a part time lecturer for Franklin Pierce University (Rindge, NH) and an art professor at Becker College (Worcester, MA). In the past, he has worked for Florida Atlantic University as an adjunct art professor, for Palm Beach County as a substitute teacher (grades K-12) and has done art handler/installation work for the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in Lake Worth, FL. Scott has participated in many shows both on the national as well as the local level. His work can be seen, among others, in the corporate collections of the Oak Brook Bank (Oak Brook, IL), the Essex Inn (downtown Chicago), and in the Schacknow Museum of Fine Arts (Plantation, FL). He has work in over 100 private collections, ranging from Beverly Hills to Australia. He resides in New Hampshire with his wife and two children. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/07/scott_niemi_acrylic_paintings.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/07/scott_niemi_acrylic_paintings.html News Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:55:13 -0500 Alyssa Kullgren photography show will be on exhibit from May 16- June 30, 2009. Her subjects are of the beauty that surrounds us and often miss. Her show is one not to miss. The exhibit is open to the public during library viewing hours. Artist Statement: I have always looked at the world as a picture. I see something and imagine just how wonderful it would look on the wall. I capture real life, and keep those moments forever. All of my creativity and inspirations come from my mother, my muse. My name is Alyssa. I am a college student and love photography. It allows me to be creative in anyway I want. I plan to graduate in a year, and move on to Physician's Assistant school. Photography will always be my hobby and my love. Alyssa Kullgren http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/06/alyssa_kulligan_photography_sh.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/06/alyssa_kulligan_photography_sh.html News Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:09:27 -0500 On My Way Home On Route 62, by Sheryll Collins Instructor A watercolor exhibit of student and teacher artwork will be shown at the Art On Rotation Gallery at the Thayer Memorial Library in Lancaster, MA from May 1- May 16th 2009. Sheryll Collins has been teaching beginner students watercolor at the library this year. Come see the students work and Sheryll's. The students work is exceptional and beautiful. It is a show not to miss. The paintings are for sale. A portion of the sale will benefit the library and an art scholarship fund for students. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/05/a_teacher_and_student_watercol.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/05/a_teacher_and_student_watercol.html Articles News Fri, 01 May 2009 09:23:52 -0500 Award wining artist Natalie Ford will be exhibiting her paintings and drawings at the Art On Rotation Gallery at the High St. Cafe 310 High St. Clinton, MA. all of May and June 2009. Natalie is a local artist who is a recent graduate of Atlantic Union College in Lancaster, MA. The paintings and drawings are for sale and a portion of the sales benefit an orphanage in Uganda, Africa. For more information please call: Sheryll Collins Art On Rotation Gallery Owner/Curator at 978-549-5822. Short Bio: Natalie is an artist, specifically a painter. She feels a personal call to be a missionary. For her, finding places with a need to be seen by the rest of the world is an opportunity. She can make art and call attention to that place by creating works about its culture and people. This process could best be described as "painting journalism" or "journalism through painting." Her works are fundamentally portraits, but they are a portrait of a place and a moment as well as of a person. Artist Statement for current body of work: My professor Wayne Hazen often quotes that a person shouldn't paint the sea unless he has submerged himself in it for a week, and so a sea that I am currently submerged in is the orphanage in Uganda, Africa. A good friend of mine has started a foundation to support the orphanage. Most of the pieces in this show are about this place. I hope that you will be moved by this show and support this wonderful endeavor. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/05/compilation_at_painting_journa.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/05/compilation_at_painting_journa.html Articles News Fri, 01 May 2009 08:47:02 -0500 The AOR gallery multimedia art show is now on exhibit at the Sovereign Bank on High St. Clinton, MA from February 7 through March 31, 2009 during the banks operating hours. The show is a wonderful mix of different media and styles represented by several different artists. Thank you all who are exhibiting. High St. Cafe discount coupons are available on the art exhibit table at the bank. The artists are- Stephen Collins, Sheryll Collins, Helen Garcia, Kathy Hebert, Richard Harding, Sid Solomon, Ann Hill, Belinda Mazur, Mary Jensen and Nina Gonnella. I want to thank Stephen Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harding, Ann Hill, and Sid Solomon for helping put up the show. Please come and see it. We have a new sign with the website on it. We also added more paintings before the bank closed Saturday. Come see this beautiful show. http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/03/compilation_a_multimedia_art_s.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/03/compilation_a_multimedia_art_s.html News Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:18:40 -0500 "Lake Champlain Sunset," by Kathy Hebert The Art on Rotation Gallery is pleased to have Kathy Hebert exhibit at the Art On Rotation Gallery at the Thayer Memorial Library Lancaster, MA. all of March and April 2009. Kathy is a local artist who lives in the Lancaster area. She teaches oil painting and drawing at the local vocational evening adult ed program and in her home. Kathy's paintings are full of light, grace and beauty. Her work also has a sense of peace and joy. This exhibit is extensive and is one not to miss. Artist's Statement- This show reflects what I love to paint – everything! Having been a non-artist for half of my life, being able to paint what I see is a lovely bit of heaven. I never thought that I would be able to draw and paint. Now I teach other “non-artists” how to draw and paint. That is almost as rewarding as painting itself. I bring my camera wherever I go and many of my paintings were done from my photographs. Sometimes my Dad sends me a couple of his photos and I am very fortunate to be able to paint from them. Every so often I throw in a few still life as a challenge to my artist’s eye. I never know what I am going to paint next and I am always intrigued by the things that call to me. Sometimes it is the light, sometimes it is the color or maybe it’s the subject matter. This summer, I decided to make my own website – from scratch. This was a monumental undertaking as I am not gifted with technical ability. With the help of a few “Dummies” books I managed to put a site together featuring my paintings and the cards that I make from them. In the past few months I have collected quite a few photos of areas close to my heart around Worcester, Florida and Vermont and I am really looking forward to painting them in my studio with my students this winter. I firmly believe that we are all creative. It is just a matter of finding a good teacher and then doing the work. I was very fortunate to have studied with Helen Van Wyk. Her wisdom and method of teaching opened up a whole new world to me. I expect to be painting for many more years to come. To see more go to the gallery or to her website To purchase call Sheryll Collins 978-549-5822 or e-mail artrotationgallery@gmail.com ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/03/my_painting_passions_an_oil_pa.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/03/my_painting_passions_an_oil_pa.html News Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:07:54 -0500 Tribute Race, by Richard Harding copyright The Art On Rotation Gallery is pleased to have Richard Harding show his fine art photography at the AOR Gallery at the High St. Cafe 310 High St. Clinton for March and April 2009. Richard L. “Dick” Harding and the Art on Rotation Gallery are hosting a reception at noon Saturday, March 7, for the exhibit of Harding’s photography and digital art at High Street Café, 310 High St. (next to the post office), Clinton. Refreshments will be served. Artists statement - Also story found in The press Release in the Times Courier March 4, 2009 by Richard Harding Twenty years ago, the term “millennium” was simply unknown to the jet-set generation. They simply let it lay by the side of the road, without a second thought. Understandably, since the word only goes public every 1,000 years, it is easy to see how people might be unfamiliar with the Y2K terminology. Yet in his Millennium Diary of 31,000 digital photos, Clinton photographer Richard Lowell Harding chose his hometown as his special subject matter. One photographer … one digital camera … one town. Harding, a published author, photographer and painter, is no stranger to historical events. Almost 23 years before 2000 and 32 years ago this month, Harding asked the question “heard around the world” to newly elected President Jimmy Carter during a Town Hall meeting in Clinton: “Mr. President, what can you do to create a meaningful and lasting peace in the Middle East?” Carter’s answer on March 16, 1977, led to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979. He was the first president ever to speak out publicly in favor of an independent Palestinian state. Harding’s artwork, which includes selections from his 31,000-photograph collection of digital images of Clinton taken since 2000, will be on display throughout the month of March in the diner. Responding to questions from Times & Courier reporter Patrick Brodrick two decades later, Harding said he felt another brush with history while driving into town in the 1990s. “I saw the road sign that said, ‘Welcome to Clinton, Established 1850,’ and it dawned on me that the town’s 150th anniversary was going to fall exactly on the new millennium year, 2000 A.D.,” Harding told the reporter. Harding set out on a mission to capture the entire year 2000 in pictures. According to the newspaper story, Harding also had the town recognized as the official Millennium Town, USA, by Congress in Washington; opened a Y2K historical museum at the Bigelow Free Public Library; and photographed 2,000 school children in the same picture. He also won first prize, a $1,000 award, in the Campbell Soup National Millennium Photo Contest, and by the end of 2000 had amassed 2,800 digital photos of Clinton from the millennium year. Harding says the photos “showed clearly that God had not forgotten the official Millennium Town, USA, for a single second, minute, hour, day, week, year, decade, century or millennium.” Rather than stop there, Harding continued to document small-town life and now has more than 31,000 pictures, archived on 607 CD-ROM disks at Clinton High School. He claims the world record for first and largest millennium photo diary in history. Eleston Simons of Comcast Cable broadcasts some of Harding’s photos on Clinton’s cable-access television station, showing images of local elections, athletic contest, parades and other events. To see more images go to the gallery or go to http://www.flickr.com/walkdoc To purchase call Sheryll Collins 978-549-5822 or e-mail artrotationgallery@gmail.com ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/03/home_town_art_show_digital_art.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/03/home_town_art_show_digital_art.html News Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:43:50 -0500 Cheryl Wareck is a local fine art photographer and artist who lives in Lancaster, MA. She will be exhibiting at the Art On Rotation Gallery at the Thayer Memorial Library in Lancaster (717 Main St.)from January 10th through February 28, 2009 during library operating hours. A reception for the artist will be held at the gallery in the Dexter room on January 24, 2009. Call the library for the time. Personal Statement: I used to hold a rather mechanical view of photography-that as the shutter snapped, it was important for me to capture the particular image inside a space. At the time, this goal felt shallow, and now I realize that being present in the space, and my response to this experience, is what is most important. It is the “being” in a particular space instead of the space itself that is more important. Because for anyone, it is our response to a particular place, our experiences, histories and memories in it, that really create the space. I am consistently drawn to the earth, water and air. The suggestive spaces these elements create as they mix and melt, as they are transformed by differences in weather and light, is what compels me. Historically I am influenced by the 19th Century Romantic Tradition and the sense of awe I find in the ordinary, being careful to avoid sentimentality. I find great inspiration from the painter Mark Rothko and contemporary artist James Turell. Turell’s Quaker Heritage promotes ways to live simply and in balance with nature and especially to be aware of an inner light, to look within for answers. Quaker meetings begin with what is called a “gathering” a silent, simple group of people, reflecting, and bound together for the purpose of the accumulation of light. I create photographs, poetic spaces, that represent my personal “gathering” – quiet, simple groups, a witness of an inner place revealed by the accumulation of light and time. Cheryl Wareck lives with four dogs and two birds on a Christmas Tree Farm on Ballard Hill in Lancaster, MA. She is currently employed in the Marlborough Public Schools as an art teacher and has her MFA degree. Most of her images are taken close to the place she calls home. ]]> http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/01/inspiration_a_fine_art_photogr.html http://www.collinsartworks.com/aor/2009/01/inspiration_a_fine_art_photogr.html News Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:45:58 -0500