2023 Winter Artist Lineup in the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Community Gallery • January 6th – 31st:
“The Most Important Meal of the Day” A Series of Acrylicsby Valerya Couto • February 2nd – March 15th: “Refuge” A Series of Oils by Barbara Gordon Attleboro Arts Museum, 86 Park Street, Attleboro, MA. Free and open to all.
Artist Valerya Couto of Attleboro, MA: January 6th – 31st, 2023
The-Liege Valerya-Couto
The Community Gallery is located in the lobby of the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Emory Street entrance. For over a decade the Museum has been pleased to offer this prominent gallery space as an exhibition opportunity for both promising and professional artist members.
Valerya Couto is a self-taught artist who studied graphics and multimedia at the New England Institute of Technology.
She has been painting traditionally for the past four years but her interest in art began long ago as a child.
She works mostly in acrylics, her style ranging from impressionism to subtle abstracts, though she never settles on a style for long, preferring to experiment with different techniques and tools.
Her subjects vary depending on what sparks her interest. Some of her favorite pieces to paint include landscapes, florals, and especially animals.
She currently resides in Attleboro, MA and has had several pieces exhibited at the Attleboro Arts Museum. Valerya’s latest series, titled “The Most Important Meal of the Day” is a collection of breakfast foods, ranging from fan favorites locally to staples abroad.
The idea for this theme stemmed from a dream she had where she envisioned a collection of fun artworks full of vibrant color and yummy food—a feast for the eyes! With so many options on the table to consider, these pieces reflect just a few of the more popular choices we choose to start our day.
Julia Child once said, “People who love to eat are always the best people” to which Valerya wholeheartedly agrees.
Artist Barbara Gordon of Mansfield, MA: February 2nd –March 15th, 2023
PANIC BARBARA GORDON 1
The process of making art is part meditation, part storytelling, and always communication from the heart. The edges of the paper define a small, specific piece of the infinite space of the world, at a particular time, from my particular point of view.
The space on the paper is a metaphor for existence; the image is a record of my experience.
Mark-making, viscosity, and color of paint are all just as important as the images and stories.
Each painting is a dialogue: an interaction between the materials, internal experience, external experience, observation, ideas, and memory.
“Making art is always some kind of escape from the external world, but in the“Refuge” series I was intentionally making paintings for that purpose. I was painting and flooding my brain with color, as a refuge and a salve from the terror and isolation of the pandemic,” remarks Barbara Gordon.
Barbara Gordon has been making art for as long as she can remember.
She graduated from Cornell University with a BFA in painting, and Boston University with an MFA in Studio Teaching. She has been teaching art in one way or another ever since.
Currently, she teaches K-5 art at the Alcott Elementary School in Concord, MA, which she has been doing since 2000.
She makes art mostly during the summers, and whenever else she can manage it during the school year.
To learn more about exhibition opportunities in the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Community Gallery contact office@attleboroartsmuseum.org or 508-222-2644 x15.
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