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  • Thursday, March 15 – Sunday, March 18 – AD 20/21

    AD 20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries, featuring 50 Select Exhibitors offering modern to contemporary fine art, photography, jewelry, vintage and contemporary studio furniture, decorative arts, sculpture, fine prints, drawings and more at the only show and sale of its kind in New England, takes place at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street in Boston, beginning with a gala preview party Thursday, March 15 to benefit Boston Architectural College. Weekend hours are Friday, 1 – 8, Saturday, 11 – 8, and Sunday, 11 – 5. Standard admission $15, children under 12 free.

    On Friday, special guest speaker Vicente Wolf will present a talk on the infusion of global design and style into his work, and will sign copies of his books Lifting the Curtain on Design and Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design. The talk begins at 1:30. On Saturday at 3, join panelists Richard Baiano, President of Childs Gallery, Judith Bookbinder, author of Boston Modern: Figurative Abstraction as Alternative Modernism, and Katherine French, Executive Director of the Danforth Museum and School of Art, for a lively exchange moderated by Judith Tolnick Champa, Editor of Art New England. Immediately following the Boston Expressionism panel, Martha Richardson of Martha Richardson Fine Art, and James Stroud of Center Street Studio will offer informal talks in their exhibition booths, which will both feature works by African American Boston artist John Wilson. Finally, on Sunday at 2, Katherine Mierzwa of the Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln offers a fascinating presentation on architect Charles M. Goodman, the 1957 Alcoa Care-Free House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the history of aluminum and its important role in mid-20th century modern architecture. For complete information visit www.AD2021.com.

  • Saturday, November 21, 1:00 – 5:00 pm – Laura Coombs Hills: Portraits from My Garden

    The Cooley Gallery, 25 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Connecticut is extraordinarily excited to announce a landmark new exhibition of pastel work by Laura Coombs Hills.  Portraits from My Garden will be the largest solo exhibition and sale of Hills’ unparalleled floral pastels in nearly seven decades.  You are cordially invited to the open house reception on Saturday, November 21, from 1-5 pm.  The show will run through January 2, 2010, and you can see a preview exhibition on November 12 at the Cooley Gallery booth at the Boston International Fine Art Show at the Cyclorama, 539 Tremont Street in Boston.  The exhibit is produced in conjuction with Vincent Vallarino Fine Art, LTD and Lepore Fine Art.

    Sandra Lepore writes: “Rendering flowers in pastel became Hills primary artistic concern. Lizzie carefully cultivated and nurtured favorite specimens — peonies, lilies, larkspur, Van Fleet and tea roses, zinnias, and dahlias — at “The Goldfish.” Cut early in the morning, still glistening with dew, the blooms were carefully arranged in full sunlight for optimum vibrancy and contrast. Hills occasionally added an electric bulb to enhance the lighting effect. “It woke those lilies up,” she said, “[and] made them speak.”  Hills worked quickly, laying colors with her pinky poised for selective blending. She paid considerable attention to backdrops: employing scarves, tapestries, and fabrics she had collected on her various trips to Europe.

    Beginning in 1921, Hills began an almost unbroken string of annual solo exhibits in Boston, each extremely successful from a sales standpoint. In her 1927 Copley Gallery exhibition, only five of forty-five floral pastels remained after noon on the first day.”  The image below is courtesy of Childs Gallery, Boston.

    [Pink Flowers in Vases]