Glen Urquhart School

Current exhibition

Works by Robert Oppenheim

May 1 – June 16

Mr. Oppenheim’s abstract paintings are executed on frayed and worn textile remnants.  Solid fields of bright aquas and greens, or neutral blacks, grays and whites are riddled with looping lines of thread running through and around drips and pools of paint. Using the sewing machine as a drawing tool, Oppenheim creates dazzling lines of distinctively colored thread to evoke both tension and solace. Paint mysteriously oozes from behind the pierced holes of the fabric, while other droplets puddle together to form islands and shapes of unknown territories.

Mr. Oppenheim has an impressive list of accomplishments as an artist, curator, and educator.  He was recently the recipient of a prestigious Fellowship in Painting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Oppenheim  has been a  distinguished Professor of Art at Simmons College for many years, where he is also the curator of the Simmons College Art Collection. He is also the founder and Director of  Simmons Trustman Gallery.

The Glen Urquhart School is located at 74 Hale Street, Beverly Farms, MA.

Gallery hours are Mon-Fri, 9 AM – 4 PM. For information call 978-927-1064.

NOTE: 25% of sales benefit the GUS Scholarship Fund

For information contact Dawn at:  dsouthworth@gus.org

Past exhibitions

January 2010–Spring Break

Art by Kathleen Volp

Kathleen Volp blends the actual with the abstract. Her mixed media pieces integrate memory and story and are set within pattern and a sense of place.  Her work is painted, cobbled, shaped and nailed. Her paintings are richly textured with multiple layers and often include letters and text scrawled into the picture plane.

Volp’s paintings allow for multiple interpretations. Her surfaces are worked and reworked with one layer wandering into the next, creating rich associations and metaphors of our shared existence.

Kathleen received her BA from SUNY/ Empire State College, New York, NY, BA; and later attended Minneapolis College of Art and Design. An educator, Kathleen has taught at the Decordova Museum School, New Art Center in Newton, and the Concord, MA Public Schools. Volp has shown at the Revolving Museum, Concord Art Association, New Art Center, and Artspace, Maynard, and lives in Concord, MA.

The group exhibition in the Johnson Gallery features artists working with various media in non-traditional ways. Jack Clift, a sculptor, creates wall reliefs with complex patterns of painted cut metal. Wendy Small, a photographer, works without a camera in the production of elaborate unique color photograms. Ana Maria Hernando makes intricate works on paper, while Tom Judd incorporates antique maps, hand-written recipe pages and other collaged material.