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ART! Dryden Gallery’s Summer Exhibition
Photo, top: Anthony Tomaselli painting
Celebrate and toast the artists at the opening reception of DRYDEN GALLERY’S Summer Exhibitions. Artists exhibiting are Michael MacMahon, Inherited Vistas and Anthony Tomaselli, City to Sea.
The opening is set for Thursday, July 13th from 5:30pm to 8pm.
Michael MacMahon: INHERITED VISTAS
Anthony Tomaselli: CITY TO SEA
Anthony Tomaselli – CITY TO SEA
On view July 8 – August 26, 2023
Reception: Thursday, July 13, 5:30-8:00PM
Evening Blue, oil on panel, 16” x 12”
Focusing on sea and city, Anthony Tomaselli’s paintings evoke feelings that touch the viewers’ soulful sensibilities. From his own experiences, Anthony captures the day, the night, the rain, and snow with an awareness of personal place. His places become your places, your memories of that given morning, that evening bursting with light, or the hustle of a busy city.
Anthony Tomaselli is a graduate of Rhode Island College with a degree in fine art, concentrating in painting. Following graduation, Tomaselli studied for two years at the Boston Architectural Center and apprenticed for Gene Tonoff in art and philosophy and Joseph Rotundo in painting. He is a member of the Cranston Hall of Fame, has been awarded the Rhode Island College Alumni Award, and is honored to have the painting studio at RIC named the “Anthony Tomaselli Painting Studio.”
Tomaselli is an active practicing and exhibiting artist member and educator at the Providence Art Club and a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City. In addition to spending his time painting in his studio, the historic Fleur de lys Studio at the Providence Art Club, Anthony teaches classes, workshops and gives presentations throughout New England. His work is represented by several galleries throughout the Northeast and the United States.
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Michael MacMahon – INHERITED VISTAS
On view June 12 – August 26, 2023
Reception: Thursday, July 13, 5:30-8:00PM
I Never Did Learn to Swim (2019)
New-England based painter Michael MacMahon presents a range of possible approaches and perspectives by which to analyze not only the unique places we inhabit, but also their context in relation to ourselves. Informed by his own immigration to the United States, MacMahon examines how each of us holds many landscapes in tension. These Landscapes reflect a living synthesis of people, place, need and curiosity that have brought peoples from different cultures and communities into contact across great distances. These landscapes are never inert, as people engage with them, re-work them, appropriate and contest them. As Landscapes operate on temporal scales they are tied to our identity or lack of identity, our roots or loss of roots. The Landscape is both spatial and temporal, as it encompasses activity, political action and evidence of changes past and present. It is a half imagined lived-in terrain, a distant and fantasized place held in memory.
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