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Opening of exhibits
by two philhellenic American artists—
PAINTINGS BY JOHN RECCO
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John Reccos’ exhibit highlights paintings associated with
his recent stay in Greece, which was funded by the Fulbright Scholar
Program to research and observe through painting the relationship
between the landscape and sacred temple sites at various locations
throughout Greece. During the five months of his Fulbright grant,
Mr. Recco painted at Mycenae, Delphi, Nemea, Olympia and other sites.
He also painted studies of the wildflowers found in each locale
and photographically documented the surrounding landscape, flora
and fauna.
After returning from Greece to his studio in upstate New York,
he began a series of paintings depicting each of the sites he visited,
using as guides and inspiration the smaller painting and photographic
studies done in Greece in combination with other images gleaned
from museum collections. The exhibit at the Maliotis Center, which
will be the first preview of Mr. Recco’s project, will include
the oil studies and latest paintings based on his research.
Mr. Recco is a native of Lowell and lives and works in Hoosick,
New York. He has exhibited in New York, Boston and throughout the
Northeast and is currently represented by the Katharina Rich Perlow
Gallery in New York. He has taught at Bennington College, Marlboro
College and Williams College and has been a visiting artist at a
number of institutions.
STONEWARE AND PORCELAIN SCULPTURE BY ADELE SKINNER
Adlele Skinner’s exhibit is a unique display of high-fired ceramic stoneware and porcelain sculpture that are a composite of her life-long involvement with Greek literature, archaeology, architecture and dance. In her artist’s statement she says “this work reflects my visual, intellectual and visceral response to the luminous colors of the Aegean sea and sky, and the art and artifacts of an ancient and living culture.”
Her focus is on the Cyclades because she knows them best. She and her husband built a house on Mykonos, where they lived every summer for 25 years. From her north terrace she can see to the west the tip of the still sacred island of Delos, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. In addition to Mykonos and Delos, her work is inspired by the other myth-haunted islands of the Cyclades, whose archaelogical sites give testimony to the flow of history in the form of buried and destroyed towns with evidence of lives lived, and the quarried ruins of theaters and temples.
Adele Skinner lives and works in Greece and Concord, Massachusetts. In addition to the present exhibit she has had four one-person exhibitions over a period of 25 years, beginning at the Gallery Montparnasse in Mykonos, Greece, then, in Massachusetts, the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, the Concord Art Association, and twice at the Greek Institute in Cambridge. During four years of graduate study in classical archaeology at Harvard University and Boston University, she participated in the archaeological excavations at Stobi, Yugoslavia. She is also a gallery instructor in all the collections at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and has taught at several museums and organizations as a lecturer on Greek art, myth and dance.
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