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

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!

Please join us for the next Open House Art Gallery on Saturday, December 31, 2011, starting at 6 pm, with Keri Marion, www.kerimarion.com

Keri’s current work is most closely associated with a new Minimalism using simple media or Lo-Fi technology to make commentary on the every-day experience.  She is highly influenced by the genres of Dada and Fluxus and their influences on Contemporary Art.

Her current body of work consists primarily of drawings and objects. Using ambiguity of image, she works with the accumulation of marks that vary in size, depth and boundary. Like any language, each mark holds layers of individual identity only to develop meaning by way of the relationships with other marks in its vicinity. In other words: Everything is relative. This is the substrate of her work.

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.

Please wear costume, if you wish; 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.
Keri, Dorota, Rich and Wayne

Dear Friends,

Anna, Dorota, Rich and Wayne

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