And Yet, Beauty Persists | Featured Artist Linda Megathlin
Spotlight Artist Bill Chisholm, Guest Artist Amy Lovera
On exhibit at Imago June 5–July 13
Artist Reception: Saturday, June 7, 5–8 PM | Music provided by harpist Mary King | All are welcome
Visit us at Imago Gallery and experience our new group exhibit featuring IFA exhibiting artist Linda Megathlin, spotlighted IFA exhibiting artist Bill Chisholm, invited guest artist Amy Lovera as well as other IFA member artists
IFA exhibiting artists besides Megathlin and Chisholm, who will be participating in this group exhibit include Dot Bergen, Jim Cain, David Clarke, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Mary Dondero, Crickett Fisher, Stephen Fisher, Philip Gruppuso, Eliza Goodwin, Gary Heise, Carl Keitner, Lisa Lowenstein, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Catherine Moylan, Mercedes Nuñez, Anne Marie Rossi, Lenny Rumpler, Duff Schweninger, Pat Warwick, and Meredith Wolf.
Regular gallery viewing hours are Thursdays 12–3 pm, Fridays and Saturdays from 12–6 pm, and Sundays from 12–4 pm.
LInda Megathlin, Enigmatic
"This work has been about looking back at the unfolding of my own artistic life and a persistent interest in finding beauty and meaning in nature’s inevitable impermanence"— Linda Megathlin
Linda Megathlin
Megathlin is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with photography and mixed media transfer prints with a focus on the transformation of iconic natural elements. She began honing her photographic skills as a newspaper reporter and continued to photograph through a long career that included journalism, commercial photography and corporate communications. For the last 10 years, she has focused almost exclusively on nature and still life fine art photography and has displayed her work at Imago Gallery and many other regional galleries.
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These photographs capture the ambiguity of what she perceives as wholeness including the beauty of decay, light in the dark, the etchings and patterns of time, the sadness of loss, but also the promise of renewal.
LInda Megathlin, Winsome
Bill Chisholm
Spotlighted IFA exhibiting artist Bill Chisholm’s paintings primarily focus on subjects and objects that he has encountered, observed, and studied throughout his life growing up and living in the coastal communities of New England. These subjects include stones from the ocean, fruit and vegetables, landscapes, and ceramic vessels he has collected over the years from potters.
Although Chisholm’s painting is anchored in traditional realism, he has been inspired by a wide range of classical, modern, and contemporary genres and artists.
With representation throughout the United States, Bill has had 12 solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibits. He now lives in Bristol, Rhode Island, and concentrates on exhibiting with New England galleries.
Bill Chisholm, Yellow Orchid
“My art is the most specific translation I can share of my physical, emotional and psychological experience of the world I encounter.”
— Bill Chisholm
Amy Lovera
Guest artist Amy Lovera’s work in this exhibit explores the transience of childhood from her perspective as a mother. This work is part of her recent “Securing Shadows” series of photograms, one of the earliest forms of photography. She says, “No camera is used. Instead, I am working with my family and myself as subjects, laying our bodies directly on top of light-sensitive paper to create white silhouettes. These images draw upon personal symbolism and reenact moments from our daily lives, including the imaginative play-worlds of my children.”
Her work is rooted in imaginative storytelling and the interplay between reality and fiction. These narrative works translate personal histories through reenacting them as photographs, animations, drawings and performances.
"This work ponders the transcendental connection I feel towards my daughters. I look into their eyes and think, I have known you all my life. How are we connected to all life stretching back to its beginning?” — Amy Lovera
Amy Lovera, Luna