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Jerome Street Studios is happy to announce the arrival of our newest artist: Katie Lane O’Brien.

Welcome Katie!  We can’t wait to see your new work…

“I’ve been creative ever since I can remember,” “The first time I picked up a paintbrush, I knew I was going to be an artist,” “I’ve been drawing since I was 3 years old”. This is not Katie’s story. Katie started making work five years ago as an 18-year-old high school senior in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Still not convinced to continue making work after, she planned to enter a liberal arts education to study Psychology. As school approached she made a gut decision to switch paths and get her BFA in Fine Arts. This kind of decision making has always been how she maneuvers through life. Making marks and split decisions that are spontaneous yet deliberate, sometimes aloof but always confident and decisive. Through painting she involves herself in a uniquely honest process that speaks of the human experience in a disillusioned manner, mark after mark. Each piece its own understanding of circumstance and life. The result, compositions that are grungy, primal, emotional, and sometimes beautiful (or just plan chaotic). Katie continues to develop a style that crosses abstraction into realism and realism into the abstract while she enjoys drinking wine and taking care of her two plants.

To find out more about Katie, please visit her website at www.paintedbrushes.com

Stephanie Todhunter

Paint & Paper

May 15- July 1

Liquid Art House

100 Arlington Street

Boston, MA 02116

Liquid Art House is a restaurant and art gallery located in Back Bay Boston.

I’m also super excited to have been accepted into the Cambridge Art Associations 2017 National Prize Show!  The reception is this Thursday from 6-8pm at both the Kathryn Schultz Gallery and the University Place Gallery, both in Cambridge.  I will be at one of those locations – I’ll post which one once I find out where my piece will be hanging. -Stephanie

Trish (totally digital)

22×29

glass backprinted photo, mixed media

In conjunction with both West Medford Open Studios and ArtWeek Boston, Jerome Street Studios will be hosting several demonstrations over the weekend:

Fire and Ink

Saturday 2:30-3pm

Do you like to set things on fire? Are you attracted to bright and shiny things? Are you artistic? Go beyond traditional painting. Use alcohol inks and fire to create artworks that defy description. Will your painting crackle like alligator skin? Or will the inks burn smoothly off in wavelike patterns?

Learn how to use alcohol inks and fire to create vibrant one-of-a-kind paintings. Alcohol based inks are dye-based, transparent, highly saturated,fast-drying, fade-resistant and can be used on any hard surface, including glass, metal, plastic, ceramic, stone and clay. Stephanie Todhunter will demonstrate how to use alcohol ink, denatured alcohol, clayboard and fire safely to create colorful abstract works.

Fire and Ink will be located in the backyard of Jerome Street Studios, a small cooperatively run art studio space in West Medford.  This demonstration is a part of the ongoing West Medford Open Studios, a two day event located in West Medford, MA.

Design. Shape. Create.

Saturday 3:30-4pm

Learn how to design and shape wax to create beautiful silver and gold cast jewelry. Join Sheila Corkery at Jerome Street Studios for a lively demonstration on the fun and surprisingly simple art of carving and melting wax into unique and organic shapes to form rings, pendants, charms and more.

Culinary Demo

Sunday 1:00-1:30pm

Join Tanya Howard in a spring oriented culinary demonstration.  Afterwards you can eat the examples!

Words Into Wax

Sunday 2:00-3:00pm

Learn some simple techniques to transfer written work onto encaustic media using modern technology. This is a demonstration designed for artist-poets to be able to include a hand-written look in their pieces. It can also be used for text and drawings. Additionally, learn about the art of encaustic painting via video clip and talk with the artist, Darcy Schultz.

Rules4LittleBoys

Saturday and Sunday noon-5pm

Having participated in past WMOS events as a writer and a photographer, this year Ted Adams will reveal a newly conceived outdoor installation based on a photography series he has been growing for nearly a decade, “Rules for Little Boys.”

The series explores American society through the encounters of a boy thwarted by posted restrictions. The rules are either a daily illustration of the nanny state or a defensive marker of how litigious our society has become. They act as both appropriate cautions for little boys and ridiculous restrictions on adults who possess the judgment of little boys.

WEST MEDFORD OPEN STUDIOS

SATURDAY APRIL 29 AND SUNDAY APRIL 30, NOON TO FIVE

@Jerome Street Studios

128 Jerome Street Medford MA

West Medford Open Studios is only one week away!  We invite you to visit Jerome Street Studios during the weekend.  In addition to our regular artists: Tanya Howard, Earl Howard, Sheila Corkery and Stephanie Todhunter,  we will also be hosting four visiting artists: Ted Adams, Hilary Tait Norod, Darcy Schultz and Andrea Brown.

Artist website links

Tanya Howard

Earl Howard

Sheila Corkery

Stephanie Todhunter

Ted Adams

Hilary Tait Norod

Darcy Schultz

Andrea Brown

Event links

West Medford Open Studios

West Medford Open Studios Facebook Page

Jerome Street Studios Facebook Page

Artweek Boston

Ink&Fire Painting Demo

Design.Shape.Create. Demo

Culinary Demo

Words into Wax Demo

Hilary is coming back to JSS for Open Studios weekend!  Please stop by to see what she has been working on in her new private studio space in Medford.

Norod having grown up on the South Shore of Boston was surrounded by a creative family, succeeding generations of Artists.

Norod graduated Skidmore College with a BS in Studio Art, in 2009 she was the recipient of the Jesse Soloman Award. Current representation includes Webster Company in Boston and Gallery ZG04 in Los Angeles. Norod has shown at Gallery 315 in New York, The Distillery Gallery in Boston, and The Warwick Museum in Rhode Island. Most recently Norod has been awarded the Presidential Scholarship for Lesley University where she will be receiving her Master’s in Fine Art 2018.

“My work forges a visual language filled with iconic, recognizable imagery, such as the bed and other interior settings, matched with forced perspective and a bold color palette. Psychology is a driving force for my work. This series explores the discovery of self and identity of how we form our closest relationships in life. Finding myself aware of my authentic feelings becomes an inner dialogue in my home. The combination of these objects with an exterior ambiguity and a forced perspective initiates a thoughtful examination of the interior spaces of the mind.”

Falling 48″ x 36″ Oil and Pastel on Canvas

Lady In Waiting, Zebra Stripes 56″ x 72″ Oil on Canvas

“Vows of Entanglement” Fitted Bed Sheet, Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Fibers