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The Portrait Show at LynnArts
Time Warner Gallery
September 17- October 29

Selections from the Lynn Museum Portrait Collection
Willow Community Gallery
September 17- October 29

Featuring the work of more than 30 artists, this exhibition provides a multi-medium look at modern portraiture. The show includes photographic portraits, beaded portraits and images created entirely from buttons in addition to traditionally rendered images in oil and watercolor. Artists from throughout the North Shore are represented including:

Nina Fletcher


Essex

Kathleen Austin


Framingham

Mike Annese


Groveland

Andrea Maglio-Macullar


Ipswich

Amy Anderson


Lynn

Dominick Takis


Lynn

Isabell Van Merlin


Lynn

Kathleen Speranza


Lynn

Ray Gilbert


Lynn

Steve Negrón


Lynn

Ken Buck, Malden


Malden

Barbara Rafferty


Marblehead

Dick Buckley


Marblehead

Elaine Caliri Daly


Marblehead

Holly Aloha Jaynes


Marblehead

Judith Zorzy


Marblehead

Lisa Bohnwagner


Middleton

C-J Stevens


Natick

Virginia Fitzgerald


Natick

Dottie Doucette


Peabody

Wilson Hunt, Jr.


Roslindale

Philip MacKenzie


S. Lawrence

Leslie Fahn Rosenberg


Salem

Paula Beaulieu


Salem

Martin Whitkin


Swampscott

Robin Samiljan


Swampscott

David A. Lang


Wayland

Sarah J. Cooper


Windham, NH



The Portrait show was juried by Joseph Wardwell. Mr. Wardwell has exhibited widely in Boston including at the Allston Skirt Gallery, the Bernard Toale Gallery, the Rose Art Museum, the Mills Gallery, the Green Street Gallery and Hallspace. His exhibition at LaMontagne Gallery in Boston was named one of the city’s ten exhibitions of 2009 by both The Boston Globe and The Boston Phoenix. Mr. Wardwell is currently the Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing as well as an Artist in Residence at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.



Pairing with this show in the Willow Community Gallery is a collection of historical portraits from the Lynn Museum Collection.



LynnArts, Inc. is a private non-profit arts organization located in Lynn’s Central Square at 25 Exchange Street. The building houses two large and airy gallery spaces as well as a black-box rehearsal/performance space and several artist studios. The LynnArts office welcomes queries regarding artist exhibition proposals, membership, teaching opportunities, and rental of office and studio space. For more information please contact Susan Halter at 781-598-5244.