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Artist Buck Hastings in the
studio with mentor/artist John Riedel. |
January 12 - May 5, 2013
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
MEMBER's RECEPTION:
Friday, February 1, 5 - 7 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION :
March 24 at 2 pm
"Legacies in Paint" is the culmination of a four-month mentoring project that paired five mid- to late- career painters (Paula Martiesian, David Barnes, Michele Provost, John Riedel and Ida Schmulowitz) with five younger painters (Buck Hastings, Mollie Hosmer-Dillard, Li Jun Lai, Erika Sabel and Dan Talbot).
Martiesian and Hosmer-Dillard spearheaded the project, which has provided a rare platform for Rhode Island artists to meet, exchange ideas and create art. The eldest painter is John Reidel at 62; the youngest, Buck Hastings and Erika Sabel are in their mid-twenties. Martiesian says, "Mentoring is a shared experience through which mid- to late-career painters communicate knowledge, insight, forethought and encouragement to younger, emerging painters, whose fresh ideas and approaches stimulate the visual conversation. The relationship is a collaboration meant to celebrate the individualism of each painter and the visual in visual arts."
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Legacies in Paint: The Mentor Project :
Artists David Barnes and Dan Talbot during a studio visit. |
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John Riedel | Tie Two, 2002 | Oil on canvas; 34 x 38 in.
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Mollie Hosmer-Dillard | The Providence Crawl, 2012
Oil on canvas; 32 x 40 in.
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Ida Schmulowitz | Studio View, 2011
Gouache and watercolor; 25 x 41 in.
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