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slug: Turks Head Gallery To Show Heidi Morgan Photographs
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. â BankRI Galleries will present the photographs of Heidi Morgan, January 6âMarch 2 at the Turks Head gallery.
Morgan looks for the unusual for her photographs, colors, textures and feelings that she can translate into a still image. She looks at a scene, âwondering what kind of feeling it brings out in me.â This show is in memory of Alan Adair Morgan, her late brother. Alanâs love of birds of paradise inspired the photographs presented in the exhibition.
BankRI Turks Head gallery is at One Turks Head Place, the downtown Providence corporate headquarters of BankRI. Hours are MondayâWednesday 8:30 am to 3 pm, and Thursday and Friday 8:30 am to 5 pm. For information, 401-456-5000 or bankri.com.
Tom Wesselman obit
NEW YORK CITY (AP) â Tom Wesselmann, a Pop artist best known for his modern take on the reclining female nude, has died at age 73.
Wesselmann died December 17 at New York University Medical Center of complications after heart surgery, said Emilio Steinberger of the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea, where Wesselmann had a show last year.
Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati in 1931 and was drafted into the Army during the Korean War. Afterward, he studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, then moved to New York in 1956 to attend the Cooper Union School of the Arts.
By the late 1950s he was making large collages from magazine clippings and found objects, usually combined with an image of a female nude.
Wesselmann had his first solo exhibition at the Tanager Gallery in New York in 1961. In 1962, he participated in the exhibition âThe Figureâ at the Museum of Modern Art.
In the 1960s, Wesselmann expanded on his collages in still lifes and interiors-with-nudes that often combined painted images with real objects including radios, television sets, refrigerator doors and bathroom fixtures. In his âSmokersâ series of the 1970s he zeroed in on the female nude with a series of enormous cutout details: ruby-red lips, manicured fingernails and cigarettes. At the time of his death he was working on a series of nudes painted in an Abstract Expressionist style.
Wesselmann is survived by his wife Claire, daughters Kate Wesselmann and Jenny Wesselmann, and son Lane, all of New York.
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SLUG: BankRI To Exhibit Maria Napolitano In January
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. â BankRI Galleries will present the paintings of Maria Napolitano, January 6âMarch 2 at the BankRI Pitman Street gallery.
Napolitano works in series, or sets of paintings, often incorporating something she has read or heard. Her paintings are spare, poetic statements that balance the reason of an idea to the richness of a surface. Over the years she has worked hard to pare her paintings down to the bare essentials, leaving a feeling of expansive open space defined by a few key elements. The last few years have found her hard at work incorporating ideas into her paintings. Napolitano says, âPainterly paint wasnât enough for me anymore. I wanted to join the idea to the image.â
BankRI Pitman gallery is at 137 Pitman Street. Hours are MondayâFriday 9 am to 7 pm, and Saturday 9 am to 3 pm. For information, 401-456-5000 or www.bankri.com.
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slug: New England Motel and Antique Fair At Brimfield Adds New Pavilion
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BRIMFIELD, MASS. â Antique show promoters Marie Doldoorian and Howard Pratt of New England Motel and Antiques have announces the addition of a third pavilion for the 2005 season. The pavilions feature 12-foot ceilings and white lighting that beautifully illuminates a dealerâs merchandise.
The New England Motel and Antiques Market will feature more than 400 dealers and the shows are held in May, July and September. The five-day show, May 11â15, runs from WednesdayâSunday and buyers will appreciate the early Wednesday morning, May 11, opening of the fair at 6 am.
The fair is on Route 20. For information, 508-347-2179 or www.antiques-brimfield.com. Future fairs will be held July 6â10 and September 7â11.