It’s Still Summer Studio Sale!
In an effort to get to the bottom of my studio desk I am selling small paintings on paper for the bargain price of $50! I’ve been posting a piece daily on on my Instagram account.
Please check here daily and reach out to add to your collection!
https://www.instagram.com/amysolomon_studio/
I’ve been having fun virtually framing so you can check out how the work would look in your home.
Cheers,
Amy
I haven't been able to put art in the windows at 45 Harvard for a few months. The sun has been too strong. Yesterday morning I tested it out again- and then summer returned! I am planning an open studio weekend with my neighbor Jean M Svizzero who will be showing her beautiful weavings. Save the date! Evening of November 19th and day of November 20th. Brookline Village!
I have framed and unframed art for sale in the studio available for purchase. Buy art for the holidays!
Brookline Post-Pan (We Hope): Two Cape galleries to exhibit Amy Solomon's art
Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com
"I'm looking forward to, at long last, leaving my cave and enjoying the ocean breeze," said Amy Solomon, who operates Art with Amy at 45 Harvard St. in Brookline Village.
"Plus," she added, "I get to enjoy real art, live and in person!"
Sounds like a great deal, especially right about now, as we are shedding wings and leaving cocoons. Solomon's paintings will be featured in two Cape Cod art shows this summer, the first in Provincetown, the second in Wellfleet. So if you're looking for an excuse to head Capeward, here's a couple.
Solomon's new series of ink/mixed media scrolls, "Earth Beat," will be at Art Market Provincetown (AMP) at 432 Commercial St., from June 25-July 21. The show will be curated by the gallery's director and curator Deb Nadolney.
"She's a master, and her shows never disappoint," Solomon said.
These works were made with heavily layered ink and paint on paper during the lockdown year. "I had many hours of isolation, counting time, walking in nature and thinking about and missing people," Solomon reflected.
She also found herself thinking about Hokusai, the Japanese printmaker from the 1700s. She wondered how he painted wind and air. "So impossible! The simplicity of his line carrying so much weight," she thought.
Solomon also formed a new ritual of walking the river near her home. "It was with a mixture of joy and fear," she said. "Time was slower, and this was a long year. But I enjoyed the new solitude, and watching as the seasons changed," she added.
"It was walking in cold snow and slushy rain, and finally, a spring with leaves returning and new hope," she said. "Definitely, a strange and wonderful year of art making!" But she found the repetitive and quiet days suited her. "These paintings are a marking of that time," she said.
Solomon will share the art show with Susan Bernstein, Phyllis Ewen, Philip Gerstein and Judith Trepp.
The Wellfleet exhibit, at Off Main Gallery, 75 Commercial St., runs July 23-Aug 12, with the opening on July 24 from 6-8 p.m. Solomon will be showing with artists Susie Nielsen and Kay Gordon.
This show will be curated by gallery director Robert Shreefter. "He is both an artist and an arts/literacy educator," Solomon said. "He served as the director and curator of the Marran Gallery and the Atrium Gallery at Lesley University, and has consistently brought together interesting combinations of artists to create intimate and welcoming exhibits."
She explained that this is the kickoff season for Off Main's brand new light-filled space, situated by a salt marsh in beautiful Wellfleet.
Sounds lovely, for sure. But if you can't get to the Cape, you don't need to travel far to check out Solomon's indie art center in the Village, where she has held classes and workshops for almost 20 years.
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Solomon, who has a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, lives in Brookline Village as well. She's worked with K-12 children around the neighborhood; at her workshops, they learn to make real art with their hands. "There are no computers or iPhones to be found," Solomon said.
Her work has been shown at Wayfarers Brooklyn, and at Chandler Gallery in Cambridge. Along with colleague Lisa Link, she received a grant from Jewish Collaborative Arts and produced a traveling, interactive exhibit "Words Matter - The Tree of Life." Her work is held in collections in the U.S., Greece and Switzerland.
For more information, contact artwithamystudio@gmail.com or info@artmarketprovincetown.com (646-298-9258) or offmaingallery.com (508-514-1326).
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Provincetown and Wellfleet
Super excited to be showing my work on the Cape this summer!
Now through May 26th I have small drawings up at AMP www.artmarketprovincetown.com/
June 25th-July 21st I’ll be showing a set of scrolls made during our lock down year at AMP www.artmarketprovincetown.com
July 24th- August 14th I’ll have a set of my counting time pieces up at Off Main Gallery in Wellfleet www.offmaingallery.com
I’m looking forward to leaving my cave! Hope you’ll stop in and check out my work. There are Covid safe openings for all. Info coming soon!
Detail of one of my ink scrolls below.
Two of my drawings are hanging at AMP: Art Market Provincetown 432 Commercial Street! If you are lucky enough to be in the area please stop by! Limited number of people allowed in the gallery and everyone's masked up.
These two drawings are up through May 26th. And then I'll be back with mixed media drawings June 25th- July 21st.
Here are the starts to the large paintings made in the Castignetti building in the North End of Boston circa 92-97. The final pieces were thrown out by the landlord of our cheap apartment near the studio building. I’ve been working /reworking these painting ideas now. But there’s my childhood headboard!
Some paintings I’ve been working on.
February 2021
Recently I unearthed photo copies I made back in the 90’s. I kept a dream journal and explored my family history through painting. Lots of images of women. I started calling them Royalty. Back in the 90’s I had eight foot canvases I was working on using Yoko, Nefertiti and other royal looking women…I remember these images along with shoes and my childhood headboard affixed to eight foot canvases. My old landlord C. allowed me to store these giant paintings in an empty apartment on the first floor of our building. One day he just threw them out. I remain indebted to him as I lived in a top floor apartment over looking the river ( if you squinted) for just $400 a month. Yes, there was no heat and yes, he laughed when I asked about it. Yes, we replaced the old windows ourselves…but still. These pandemic days I have been reworking the idea of Royalty. With so many Yoko’s printed out there are many to go. It’s snowing out. Off to my cave.
i miss Provincetown! If you are lucky enough to be in the area I have a drawing in the WInter exhibit at AMP gallery at 432 Commercial Street http://www.artmarketprovincetown.com/ Stop in and say hello!
This week I discovered a batch of drawings from my 2018 drawing challenge in the back studio. If you’ve ever been to the studio this will not sound surprising. Something about the counting nature of the work feels right for these times. Here are some of the pieces rediscovered. If you’d like to purchase work click here. More coming soon.
