Empty Landscapes, Silent Halls

June 18 – December 1, 2009 at the GArtH Gallery of Art at the Hadley
657 Main Street, Worcester, MA

Empty Landscapes, Silent Halls Artist Reception: Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm at the GArtH Gallery of Art at the Hadley, 657 Main Street, Worcester. This occasion is free and open to the public.

Empty Landscapes, Silent Halls, will serve as the first exhibition held at the new GArtH Gallery of Art at the Hadley Building, 657 Main Street, Worcester. This exhibition is presented by ARTSWorcester and will feature contemporary paintings by local artist Brian Burris. Brian is self-taught and has been painting for over twenty years. He closely identifies with color field painters such as Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman. Brian describes his work as abstract expressionism, with the emphasis on the “automatic” or subconscious act of painting.

The GArtH Gallery is located in the historic Hadley Building. Constructed in 1923, the Hadley Building originally served as headquarters for the Hadley Furniture Company. The company retained the space throughout the Great Depression and the following decades before selling the building and the business to the David Burwick Furniture Company in 1964. The Burwick Company abandoned the building in the early 1990s, and the building sat vacant until it was purchased and renovated by the Economic Development Finance Corporation one year ago.

Gallery Hours and Information:  Tours of the GArtH Gallery of Art at the Hadley are available by appointment. For information please contact:

Jan Seymour, Executive Director:
(508) 755-5142 or              
www.artsworcester.org

Coming soon to the AW Aurora Gallery: On view from June 11 through July 31, 2009 is Journeys…Stops Along the Way, an AW members then and now retrospective.

Currently presented by AW at the Quinsigamond Community College Hall Gallery: On view through July 10, 2009 is Weekends & Road Trips, photography by Troy B. Thompson.

Currently presented by AW in the Mary C. DeFeudis Pavilion and the Salon Gallery at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts: On view through August 29, 2009 is Garden Goddesses, sculptures by Ginny Gillen and Outback Abstractions, works by Barbara Kahn.