Wyatt Asgarian
Jane Doyle
Ella Fletcher
Melia Cook-Wright
Erin Melley
Jeremiah Keefe
Alexander Wegner
John Carney (Instructor)
Mail Art 24 – Saturation
collection of small sculptures, wood, plastic, paper
14″ x 16″ x 8″
2024
This collection of mail art was inspired by the Fluxus movement. The seven student artists involved used the concept of Saturation as jumping off point for their creative approach to the collection, with each artist making ten editions of each work. The collections are individually mailed to ten recipients, each receiving an entire identical set of seven works. Each piece represents the artist’s interpretation of “saturation,” some engaging with color while others explore sound, thought and environmental meanings.
Heather Barros
Ricardo Barros
In Conversation
photograph, digital print and pastel (with Heather’s oil paintings pictured)
27″ x 34″
2024
Heather had the concept of my photographing an ’empty’ space in our home, which she would paint or draw on the print. I discovered beautiful light raking across our dining room table and casting a chair shadow onto the wall. This raking light echoed that of her oil painting of a chair, also on the wall. I digitally removed a flower vase on the table, and she replaced it with a pastel drawing of Queen Anne’s Lace. Her pastel rendering claimed the original vase’s shadow as its own, creating an additional layer of our conversation through artwork.
Ray Bernoff
Ben Cline
Daily Essentials
poplar wood, acrylic, jewelry findings, non-biological medical waste
5″ x 14.5″ x 11″
2024
Some people won’t go out without their jewelry. Others can’t leave the house without their medication. Chronic illness is not known for its aesthetic appeal, but with this piece, we ask “What if all our daily essentials were beautiful?” By juxtaposing Ben’s fine woodworking and Ray’s waste-based assemblage practice, we’ve synthesized the mundanity of the daily pill case and the glamour of the jewelry box into an art object with a touch of both.
@rmhbernoff
@clinecraft
Ray Bernoff
K.C. MacPhail
Swollen
acrylic, mixed media art waste (including watercolor, spray paint, paper, resin, and lightbulbs) on canvas
17″ x 13″
2024
“Sensitivity” expresses our experience with pain caused by chronic inflammation, marrying Ray’s waste-based art practice with K.C.’s portraiture to create something swollen and suffocating. The subject is exhausted, resigned to their pain, letting the bits and pieces of agitation close over them.
Thierry Borcy
Madge Evers
Before the Departure
photograph; mushrooms spores on photo; scan of new image; final printed photograph
26″ x 38″ (framed)
2022/2023
These collaborative works explore the quality of transformation inherent in death, grief, and rebirth. The images are created by combining two distinct art processes – photography and the mushroom spore print. Borcy and Evers depict the landscape of Mount Auburn Cemetery and its human created statuary together with the regenerative biodiversity of fungi and plants.
@borcy.art.photo
@_sporeplay
Chelsea Bradway
Rebecca McGee Tuck
Censored
black and white photograph on fine art paper
40″ x 30″ x 1.5″
2021
This work was inspired by fellow artist Rebecca McGee Tuck, who shared with Chelsea her recent experience of having to censor her art in a public venue. As the take-charge person that Rebecca is, she put her frustration to work and made a Censor Sash to drape over her forbidden work. Chelsea was dumbfounded that we still can not say what we want to say, be who we want to be, or act the way we want. She was angry and thought of the many times that she had been asked to be quiet, told she was too passionate, too assertive, and just too much. Chelsea reflected on how her eleven-year-old daughter had been asked to change how she dressed because what she was wearing was too distracting to boys. Through this frustration and Rebecca’s experience, this group of work was born.
@official.all.things.sparkley.photography
@rebeccabombshellart
Carrie Crane
Timothy Johnson
Trapesoids, Triangles and Transits
ink, graphite, acrylic paint on paper
10″ x 10″ (unframed)
2024
@carrie_crane_art
Katie Crommett
Suzanne Duquesnay
Julie Tomanaco
Pamela Ryan
Joanne Paquin
Art Sisters Journal Project
mixed media, including acrylic, watercolor, pigment inks, stencils, collage with found papers and objects, pastels, ink pen, fabric, ribbons, cut paper, linocut impressions, organic materials
five 8″ x 9.5″ books, video of journal flip-through: 15 minutes
2021 through 2023
Not for sale
During the COVID-19 pandemic, five friends missed creating together. Wanting to have more connection, inspiration, and collaboration, we created a traveling art journal project. We worked in five journals, using various mediums, following the same themes, creating backgrounds, swapping journals, and working over another’s background. We learned new techniques and tried new tools. We released ownership of our individual creations to the collective, and we were repeatedly in awe of the evolution of the pages. Our art is not just the five journals and the 150+ spreads within; it’s our process, journey, and the relationships we formed. Although the art journals were the container for our creativity, the act of gathering together and sharing what we made created a container where we were seen, celebrated, and supported, especially during a time when isolation was the norm. It was our sanity and our touchstone. Our hearts are on these pages.
@katieczt
@juliet.czt._reowphst
Jennifer Davis Carey
Patricia Dehls
In Full Bloom
vitreous enamel on copper; wirework
19″ x 13″ x 3″
2024
Created in response to our doom scrolling, doom viewing, and doom reading, In Full Bloom is about joy and connection. The piece centers two women who evoke beings of mythological time in relationship to each other and connected to nature. It also references the collaboration that brought this work to fruition. While both artists work with metal and vitreous enamel, for this piece, we decided that Trish would have primary responsibility for the metalwork and Jen for the enameling. We were in constant dialog throughout the planning and execution. Questions such as “does this color work?”, “Braid the metal or not?”, “Flowers here or there?’ assured that both had input into the final work. Through the process, each also learned from the other in a shared practice. And working on In Full Bloom brought us joy and connection.
Anne Diamond McNevin
Jill Watts
Sit, Relax, Breathe
photograph
20″ x 27″
2020
Jill Watts and I began exploring some of Worcester’s outside spaces at the start of COVID. Thus we were able to avoid contagion and enjoy some of Worcester’s lovely parks. As a long term local resident, she was a knowledgeable and congenial connoisseur of the area. I was happy to visit and learn about Worcester. Jill selected her costumes, which always related to the sites in some manner. At each location she usually decided where and how to pose and I photographed her. After looking over the ensuing images, I chose which ones to keep and possibly print. For this proposal we decided on Boynton Park and Cascades Park because of her long history visiting these sites. In addition to two photos, the third piece is a framed paper containing a brief history and her personal recollections of the parks. The research and subsequent write up were composed by Jill.
Jaimee Dunham
Shawn Carlin
The Lost Oasis
acrylic on canvas. Foam, plastic, wood, UV resin, cotton fiber, gold leaf, various dried plants and basing materials, plastic animal and human miniatures and air dry clay.
25 x 36″ painting, 11″ x 8″ diarama
2022-2024
In this collaborative work, miniature diorama artist Shawn Carlin, and painter Jaimee Dunham, explore what it means to be a rainforest. Vast, lush, and untamed. To be alive as an animal or plant. To be the clouds meeting the mountains, the water eroding rock, or the moss covering the forest floor. To be fluid or to be solid. To exist as a part of the whole. This work focuses on the power of these elements and the interdependence between them. The contrasting approaches of medium and scale expand the possible stories that could be told. Stories that regard history and ecology. Stories about exploration and discovery. These two works come together to create a visually immersive piece, and an experience that reminds us that there is always more than meets the eye.
@jaimdunham_art
@oakhill_studios
Donna Hamil Talman
Dawn Naylor
Communication is an Art.
encaustic, polymer clay on wood panel
39″ x 12″ x .75″
2024
Communication is an Art. Plato wrote communication’s possible because language represents ideas and concepts that existed independently, and before language. Renaissance scholars argued, language originated in emotional expression, and it’s closer to music and poetry than rational thought. Today we know language isn’t just the letters that create words, it’s meanings, colors, emotions, social, personal and so much more implied and hidden. Each letter is a work of art evolved from ideas, concepts, and desire. To see this simply invert the capital letter A and you can see the origin of the letter, the head of an ox. It illustrates the art inherent in the written word, beyond the meaning. The art of expression, which changed us, from cuneiform all the way to digital communications. Our writings show an unfolding of knowledge. Each stage has reflected society. To discount the newest forms of communication is to miss the newest chapter.
@dhtalman
@gingeredawn
Casey Hickey
Scott Boilard
Convergent / Divergent
wood block print, oil on panel
print: 16″ x 20″ (framed), wood block: 12″ x 16″
2024
Limited unframed prints of Convergent available: $120)
Hickey and Boilard’s collaboration first converged around the idea of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth. The artists worked together on the imagery and symbolism, drawing from mythology. Hickey laid out the design of the labyrinth and the Greek key on the wood block, Boilard sketched in the minotaur. Hickey carved and printed the block in a two color reduction process to create an edition of ten, “Convergent.” Boilard then painted directly onto the plate to create the oil on panel, “Divergent.” Shown together, the two pieces are reflective and complementary though vastly different in process and aesthetic. (Convergent $300, Divergent $600)
@hickeyartist
@scottboilard
Allison Jané
Cecilia Jané-Brown
Blades of Grass
acrylic and tempera on canvas
40″ x 40″
2024
This work was created collaboratively by mother and daughter. Using paint, paint sticks, and paint markers, we worked intuitively, engaging in ongoing conversations about the choices we made as we layered the materials. The process alternated between experimental mark-making and more intentional strategies to bring the piece together. With a new baby in the home, this project provided a meaningful opportunity to spend time together and create a visual record of our bonding moments. The title of the piece was decided by three-year-old Cecilia, as she poetically explained “because the blades of grass look like these and lions can roar.”
@allisonjane_art
Christopher King
Qlynton Carboo
Chenille For “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince”
tailored apparel using hand woven fabric
60″ x 24″ x 12″
2024
Chris King and Qlynton Carboo met in early 2022 creating marionettes for Worcester’s 300th anniversary parade. For the past two years they collaborated on after school program art projects at The Jubilee Center for the Performing Art. They decided to create apparel using Chris’ hand-woven fabric and Qlynton’s design and fashion sense. This long coat entitled, Chenille for “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince,” embodies the imaginations of both artists. The woven fabric was produced by Chris. The purple fabric, coat design, cutting, and sewing was Qlynton’s hard work. Qlynton tailored the coat to fit Chris. The design is unisex.
@kingchrisg
@wavvznewage
Christopher King
Patricia King
An Apple A Day
apple: paperback book, acrylic paint, stems and leaves; woven mat: cotton thread warp with bellflower stem weft
Apple: 6″ x 6″ x 5″, mat: 12″ x 12″
Apple – 2024, Mat – 2022
The creative process of upcycled art involves a unique blend of creativity, innovation and resourcefulness. By taking what society deems as waste and turning it into something aesthetic, artists challenge us to think about the material world. Working together Patricia and Chris King find inspiration in discarded and outdated materials to create unique pieces of art. Patricia created the apple from a discarded book and Chris created the mat from expired plant materials.
@kingchrisg
Christopher King
Stevie Leigh Andrascik
Patch And Sew
woven cotton threads and upcycled denim
36″ x 24″ x 10″
2024
Chris King and Stevie Leigh met in early 2021 while both exhibiting at JMAC Pulp Windows. They have collaborated to create a downtown Worcester storefront window, worked together to advance the process of sorting and reusing scrap fabric, and have created several pieces of apparel from Chris’ woven fabrics. This bowling shirt, Patch And Sew, combines the textile creations of both artists into a single wearable art piece, celebrating each individual as well as their long standing working relationship. The woven fabric was produced by Chris. The denim patchwork was produced by Stevie. Chris sewed the patchwork segments and then Stevie cut, sewed, and tailored the shirt to fit Chris. The design is unisex and reversible.
@kingchrisg
@itsmestevieleigh
Christopher King
Stevie Leigh Andrascik
Rope Works
woven cotton threads, handmade rope, and upcycled denim
36″ x 24″ x 10″
2024
Chris King and Stevie Leigh met in early 2021 while both exhibiting at JMAC Pulp Windows. They have collaborated to create a downtown Worcester storefront window, worked together to advance the process of sorting and reusing scrap fabric, and have created several pieces of apparel from Chris’ woven fabrics. This bowling shirt, Rope Works, combines the textile creations of both artists into a single wearable art piece, celebrating each individual as well as their long standing working relationship. The woven fabric was produced by Chris. The rope was produced by Chris from fabric strip supplied by Stevie Leigh from tailoring waste. The denim sleeve patchwork was produced by Stevie. Stevie cut, sewed, and tailored the shirt to fit Chris. The design is unisex and reversible.
@kingchrisg
@itsmestevieleigh
Madeleine Lord
R. Douglass Rice
Paprika
painted welded steel
46″ x 36″ x 18″
2022
One sunny day Doug Rice visited to deliver a work for me to drive to an exhibit in Vermont. While poking around I challenged him to play with several scraps that I had picked and loved but set aside. Within minutes he twisted them together and we decided on the bottom – found a base and I did the welding. Together we decided to paint it with “paprika red” and thus the title. The spice paprika is pepper based, and used to enhance flavor as well as visual appeal. This work frames a view in my garden, adding flavor and appeal in 3D.
@madeleinelordmadimetal
@r_d_rice
Dhiogo Machado
Renette M. Dorval
Window of Time
acrylics on canvas, found object
56.5″ x 27.5″.
2024
More directly concerned with the collaborative experience, this piece highlights our opposing points of views, while simultaneously coming together under the same frame. Our motivation for this came from working side by side in a drawing class, which led Ren and I to acknowledging our similar approaches and sensibilities to creating art. We sought out independent study classes for the following semester in order to specifically see what we could come up with between us both, which is where we developed this piece. The broken glass symbolizes shattering norms and bridging the gap between barriers, namely, the 45-year age gap, gender, etc.
@dhiogum_arts
Ashley MacLure
Kelly Garabadian
Cycle Breakers
mixed media assemblage: embroidery, found objects, fabric, ink
30″ x 60″
2024
Cycle Breakers: It’s been said that generational trauma continues until someone is ready to heal it. Using discarded and broken materials, we are repairing, stitching, rebuilding in order to create a peaceful space for our daughters to thrive. We hold them sacred and safe from the burden of carrying a legacy of pain with them. We will heal it for them. We will hold it from them. We will break the cycle.
@ashley.maclure
@kgizzledizzle
Kathy Morrissey
Will O’Brien
Will
mixed media
40″ x 30″
2023
This piece “Will” was a collaborative work done by my 12 year old grandson Will and I in my studio. We had conversations about expressionist art and how it can be interesting to make art in that way rather than going towards total realism. We used a variety of media including acrylic paint granite oil crayon and washes. At times mark making simultaneously alternating with both of us stepping back and then intuitively adding marks we felt added to the piece. A portrait of Will for me and a self portrait for him. An engaging way for us to make art together.
Callie Mulcahy
Lizzie Fortin
Collab #4
mixed media on wood panel
36” x 12”
2024
This collaborative piece is a celebration of community, friendship, and care. It represents the blending of our unique artistic practices: Lizzie’s mixed-media abstract compositions, featuring transfers and collage, and Callie’s vibrant floral paintings. Over the years, our relationship has evolved from colleagues to mentors to close friends, creating a bond that deepens through our shared experiences. The work evokes joy by intertwining the imperfect and spontaneous with the detailed and deliberate, mirroring the essence of our connection. It is a visual manifestation of our shared journey, where our styles and spirits merge into a singular expression of both art and life.
@calliepaints_and_pots
@veglizzie83
Nicole Overbaugh
Saanvi Singh
Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui
Time is a Flat Circle
video installation film
1 minute and 50 seconds
2024
Time is a Flat Circle is a video installation film written and directed by Nicole Overbaugh and Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui, with the help of camera assistant Saanvi Singh. In an attempt to reconnect creatively after Overbaugh returned home, this film synthesizes our creative tendencies around the subjects of change and belonging. Our intention was to break away from the format of the narrative short films we are used to collaborating on, opting to lean into the way video installation films typically run on a loop in gallery settings. The furniture alludes to the familiar setting of a home that the protagonist eventually leaves, while the mysterious object they encounter is symbolic of the unknown. The protagonist is trapped in the perpetual purgatory of a dream they cannot escape, calling into question the notions of free will and impermanence in a cyclical world.
@nicoleoverbaugh
@ _saanviii_
@gyani13wasp
Kristin Parone
Mags Munroe
Garden Girl
acrylic gouache on Canvas
30″ x 40″
2024
In this vibrant collaboration, a mother and daughter weave together a tapestry of colors and emotions. The painting is a celebration of the female experience – a journey marked by both strength and vulnerability. The woman at the center, surrounded by a riot of flowers, embodies the power and resilience of the feminine spirit. Yet, her gaze, both direct and introspective, speaks to the moments of uncertainty and self-discovery that are an inevitable part of life. In this painting, we see the beauty that can emerge from the very places where we feel lost. Figure—Mags Munroe Flowers—Kristin Parone
@kristinparoneart
@magsmunroe
Mary Pat Wager
Susan Stuart
STRUCTURAL CHANGE
welded steel and oil paint on canvas
40″ x 9″ x 3″
2020
Assemblage artist, Mary Pat Wager and painter, Susan Stuart did this collaborative work during COVID. As “older” artists, we followed the mandated guidelines and relied on phone calls, texting, and emails to plan this work. Never before had we witnessed such stress to our communities as during this pandemic. While experiencing the ” Pause” and the “Reopening”, we would talk on the phone about what we saw as our society’s strengths and weaknesses. We both felt that it was time to reset priorities for our society and our nation. However, we did wonder whether our nation would have the courage to make the necessary structural changes. The result of this experience is this work with the title “Structural Change”.
@mpatwager
Mari Saxon
Sophie Pearson
Challenge
photography, archival pigment print (framed)
16″ x 24″ x 1″
2024
From our ongoing project Self Love Club: I met Sophie at an exhibition of her paintings in ArtsWorcester Gallery, and I was struck by the contrast between her beauty and the self-hatred reflected in her art. I proposed we work together on a project to explore this self-hatred, with my main goal and hope being to show her — and the world — the groundlessness of this hatred, its illegality. Fullness does not detract from beauty; rather, it’s self-hatred that distorts it. This is precisely what I aim to express in my project. The title of the project was inspired by Sophie’s shoulder tattoo: a sarcastic inscription that reads ‘Self Love Club,’ adorned with roses.
@marisaxon.art
@creating.sophie
Mari Saxon
Sophie Pearson
Trapped in a body
photography, archival pigment print (framed)
16″ x 24″ x 1″
2024
From our ongoing project Self Love Club: I met Sophie at an exhibition of her paintings in ArtsWorcester Gallery, and I was struck by the contrast between her beauty and the self-hatred reflected in her art. I proposed we work together on a project to explore this self-hatred, with my main goal and hope being to show her — and the world — the groundlessness of this hatred, its illegality. Fullness does not detract from beauty; rather, it’s self-hatred that distorts it. This is precisely what I aim to express in my project. The title of the project was inspired by Sophie’s shoulder tattoo: a sarcastic inscription that reads ‘Self Love Club,’ adorned with roses.
@marisaxon.art
@creating.sophie
Cathy Webster
Mary Holmes
Friends Playing
acrylic
22″ x 28″ x 1.5″
2024
This artwork, created with acrylic paint on a 22 x 28 x 1.5-inch canvas board, represents the fusion of two distinct painting styles by two close friends. Our aim was to have fun and to craft a beautiful and imaginative abstract landscape where one could pause and experience a serene, joyful, and the picturesque place of our imagination. I leaned toward abstract landscapes and wanted to submit a piece for this show. I very much-admired Mary’s beautiful flowing lines and her love of nature as illustrated in the mountains, flowers, and tree. My style embraces bright colors, depth, and representational forms as seen in the town, sky, and river. I feel this experience was successful in both having fun, working together, and creating something special. I hope you enjoy it!
