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GALLERY OWNERS LAUNCH "MUSE" SERIES FOR 2001
by
Burt Albert, Series Developer,
"Tuesdays with the Muse"
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Four area gallery owners will launch the "Tuesdays with the Muse"
series for 2001 on January 23, 7PM. at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Route 6A,
Dennis Village.
Julian Baird, Audrey Parent, Geoffrey Smith and Judith Smith will take part in a program called "Nurturing Those Who Live Out Loud: Gallery Owners Tell Their Stories." The theme for the evening comes from a line by Émile Zola who once said, "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: ‘I am here to live out loud.’" For sixteen years, Julian Baird, president of Tree’s Place in Orleans, has been working with such "live-out-loud" people who are representational artists. He holds undergraduate degrees from Harvard and Oxford University and has a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a also member of the Oxford and Cambridge Society as well as the St. Botolph Club of Boston. His gallery and the artists he "nurtures" have been featured in numerous publications countrywide. At the age of 21 Audrey Parent dropped out of a Florida nursing school and bought the old American Legion Hall on Commercial Street in Wellfleet. For nine years thereafter she struggled to establish it as a gallery named the Left Bank. "It takes time to build respect from artists and other gallery owners," she says. Now she owns three successful sites: two in Wellfleet and one in Orleans. With no formal art training herself, she prefers works--be it a painting or piece of pottery--that are light and airy and "done by young artists who are on their way up." She is also sensitive to tastes dictated by the market. In 1978 Geoffrey Smith purchased the Aries East Gallery in Brewster, where the 20 to 25 artists in his stable work mainly with oils and acrylics--from representational pieces to abstracts. He himself is an abstract impressionist who first exhibited at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln at the age of 15. Four years later he was admitted to membership in the Copley Society of Boston. Also the recipient of a Prix-de-Paris award in national competition, Smith enjoys painting seascapes and sporting events, particularly golfing and horse racing. Judith Smith is beginning her fourteenth year as owner of the Giving Tree Gallery in East Sandwich. Among her 250 artists are sculptors who create large works on the gallery grounds, "where art and nature meet." Smith, who has served on the Plymouth Art Guild and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, seeks out young artists "who are provocative and innovative in their presentations" of mainly contemporary art. They must have works, she says, "that people can tune into emotionally." Members of the public are welcome to the Tuesday program. Admission is $10 members, $12 others. A discounted rate of $6.50 is available for members who purchase a CMFA Art Discovery Card. Set to celebrate its 20th anniversary in July, the CMFA was recently named "a star museum" by the New York Times. Its charter is to illustrate the role of Cape Cod and the Islands in the history of American art since 1899. |
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