Thinking of You

The public is invited to a free reception on Friday, August 30, from 6–8 pm.

Rina Naik will present recent abstract landscape paintings that are “rooted in memories” of the New England scenery.  Responding to a recent loss, these atmospheric paintings capture fleeting memories. As an artist with a deep interest in design, Naik is interested in “both the observed and the experiential.”  Naik has an MFA in Interior Design and a certificate in drawing and painting from RISD Continuing Education (RISD|CE); she teaches at RISD|CE and Endicott College.

Elena Obelenus “finds infinite inspiration in the endless motifs in nature.”  Her artwork explores the relationships “between form, line and surface.”  Years working in the textile and surface design industry influences her ceramics and printmaking.  She employs deep knowledge and love of pattern in her artwork. Obelenus graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology and studied ceramics at the Center of Visual Arts in Summit, NJ.

Pamela Seymour Smith Sharp employs the “Roman Capitals alphabet to render letterform-based abstract imagery.”  Using a variety of mediums with different water solubilities and drying times,  Sharp writes with acrylic paint markers, graphite sticks, or pen and ink.  She then scrapes the work with hard tools and/or wipes the surface with damp towels, allowing the “resulting transparencies and obscurities” to coalesce into a composition “in which whole letterforms, or their parts, may be recognized or suggested.” Sharp studied calligraphy and stonecutting at Colorado College with Edward M. Catich and intaglio printmaking with painter and printmaker Guido Strazza.

Other IMAGO artists who will participate in the exhibit include Eileen Siobhan Collins, Mary Dondero, Carl Keitner, Pascale Lord, Yolanda Mazzoni, Linda Megathlin, Mercedes Nuñez, Anne Marie Rossi, Howard Rotblat-Walker, Lenny Rumpler, Harley Silva, Michael Somers, Amy Sutherland, Juji Watrous, and Howard Windham.