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Rebel HQ Gallery Show and Costume Gala with Patrick Malin—October 27, 2012

Dear Friends,

Please join us for the next Open House Art Gallery and Costume Gala on Saturday, October 27, 2012, starting at 6 pm with Patrick Malin www.patrickmalin.com

Patrick will be presenting selected works from his “Nature” series. For these oil paintings he worked outdoors directly on site, or “en plein air”, in a sketch-like manner on sized paper. This method dates back to the beginnings of landscape painting in Europe and America.

Patrick’s work is all about apprehending Nature, or what is left of it—of the natural landscape, that is landscape that isn’t domesticated (feeling) but is closer to it’s natural, or wild, state. He often goes on excursions to find remote places to paint—to places like the Mojave Desert, southern Arizona, and the Adirondack Mountains. When not on these excursions, he works closer to home in Rhode Island.

While the aesthetic of the sketch is the essence of Patrick’s work, he tries to be truthful more to the direct feeling of the landscape than to it’s physical form or likeness. So the paintings can be considered abstract in that sense. To him, painting is a humble pursuit—using the modest materials of paint and paper to make an homage/gesture about the natural world. All work is for sell, $200 each.

As always Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the accompanying host artists; and Rich Streitfeld is our host of honor and whimsy, bank of information and network advice. All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments and ice breaking.

Bring pot luck food, drinks, and musical instruments, if you play. By popular demand we will have a fire pit outside, so hot dogs, franks, wursts, sticks etc. will be nice.

And as usual kindly forward the invitation to friends of all ages.

Celebrate Life. Celebrate Art. Feed the Soul.
Patrick, Dorota, Rich and Wayne

April 28, 2012 Rebel HQ Gallery with glass artist Christopher Billeau

Dear Friends,

Please join us for the next Open House Art Gallery on Saturday, April 28, 2012, starting at 6 pm with Christopher Billeau www.belleauartglass.com

It is our honor and pleasure to share a wonderful artist with the Rebel community. Though Chris was trained as a potter, apprenticing at age 13 to a craftsman from his home town in Wisconsin, he was eventually drawn to the more ethereal, fluid and translucent qualities of glass. What really hooked him was the opportunity glass provides to play with color. He hopes the viewer finds his work to have a sense of beauty, magic, and maybe, even humor.

As always Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the accompanying host artists; and Rich Streitfeld is our host of honor and whimsy, bank of information and network advice. All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments, ice breaking ONLY!

May 28, 2011 Rebel HQ Open House Gallery with Anna Shapiro


Dear Friends,

Please join us for the next Open House Art Gallery on Saturday, May 28, 2011, starting at 6 pm.

“…Anna Shapiro www.artbyannashapiro.com is a mixed media artist using steel, thread, glass, cement, mirrors, plaster, astroturf, found objects, and video. Incorporating Dada, Surrealist, Pop, Post Minimalist and Feminist traditions, she allows her subconscious hand to lead her into explorations of materials towards meaning. Formal figure/ground aesthetics often blur the edge between interior and exterior. The art becomes a cathartic transformation of recognizable elements into poignant and humorous art…”

As always Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the accompanying host artists; and Rich Streitfeld is our host of honor and whimsy, bank of information and network advice. All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments and ice breaking.

Bring pot luck food, drinks, and musical instruments, if you play. By popular demand we will have a fire pit outside, so hot dogs, franks, wursts, sticks etc. will be nice.

Celebrate Life. Celebrate Art. Feed the Soul.

Anna, Dorota, Rich and Wayne

March 26, 2011 Rebel HQ Open House Gallery with Daved Ferrell


Dear Friends,

Please join us for the next Open House Art Gallery on Saturday, March 26, 2011, starting at 6 pm.

Bunnies versus Piggybank. Intense, warm, full of questions narration of a wonderfully complex printmaker artist Daved Ferrell.

As always Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the accompanying host artists; and Rich Streitfeld is our host of honor and whimsy, bank of information and network advice. All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments and ice breaking.

Bring pot luck food, drinks, and musical instruments, if you play. By popular demand we will have a fire pit outside, so hot dogs, franks, wursts, sticks etc. will be nice.

Celebrate Life. Celebrate Art. Feed the Soul.
Daved, Dorota, Rich and Wayne

July 31, 2010 Rebel HQ Open House Gallery with Marylou Butler


Dear Friends,

Please join us for the next Open House Art Gallery on Saturday, July 31, 2010, starting at 6 pm.

Please welcome an amazing photographer and writer Marylou Butler www.maryloubutler.com whose work has been most notably featured in the popular magazine SO Rhode Island
“…Marylou captures wonderful reflections that turn the world up side down all in lush colors…” says AS220 about her latest show.

As always Wayne Bridge and Dorota Streitfeld are the accompanying host artists; and Rich Streitfeld is our host of honor and whimsy, bank of information and network advice. All art is offered for sale, discussion, comments and ice breaking.

Bring pot luck food, drinks, and musical instruments, if you play. By popular demand we will have a fire pit outside, so hot dogs, franks, wursts, sticks etc. will be nice.

And as usual kindly forward the invitation to friends and foes!
With love to all,
Marylou, Dorota, Rich and Wayne