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SUMMARY:Life\, Love & Care: A painting Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Pazienza\nBlooms & Burdens\, 2023 \nThe artist will be in attendance at the Opening\, on September 10 2026\, 5-7 pm\, Introductions at 5:30\nJennifer will do an Artist talk and a Beginner Oil Painting Workshop later this year or early next year.\n(To be added to a list of interested participants let the Gallery staff know)\nIn Life\, Love & Care: A Painting Landscape\, Jennifer Pazienza treats us to carefully selected contemplative and liberating paintings made since her work first appeared in the gallery 14 years ago. From her Keswick Ridge\, New Brunswick studio hers is an embodied and responsive practice attuned to seasonal change and situated at the frontier of internal and external landscapes. These liminal spaces where past and present realities meet and mingle ground her practice. She ritually begins her signature approach to oil painting by welcoming the poetic challenges trusting the exploratory process endless possibilities an open and limited palette invites. With deceptively simple rules of colour mixing and paint handling\, from some blues\, reds\, yellows and titanium white\, Jennifer creates complex surfaces. Transparent\, windy washes convey her love of the materiality of paint; graphic mark making identifies her hand and layered shadows tint the transient nature of time. The works presented here are infused with a sensitivity that is neither decorative nor didactic. Instead\, Jennifer Pazienza conveys her careful inquiry into how energy\, attention\, and touch can shape material processes and viewer experience to reignite intimacy and wonder within the contemporary landscape genre. \nArtist Statement\nLife\, Love & Care: A Painting Landscape Mine is an embodied and responsive art practice marked by an old-fashioned love affair with oil paint. Rooted in childhood\, it is framed by poetic encounters with other-than-human nature. It is the ground from which my faith in the regenerative healing power of creating landscape imagery for myself and viewers is reaffirmed. In my Sicilian immigrant mother’s\, New Jersey backyard garden\, I would sit beneath the canopied shelter of a white peach tree. Memories of their branches heavily ladened with ripe fruit straining and rising up against the confines of a garage and potting shed shaped my earliest and most cherished art-making experiences. The perfume of softly blushed-violet wisteria and rambling roses twining the fenced perimeter\, mingling with scented green and umber basil and oregano surrounded me. Along with earthy\, sun-absorbed cadmium-red tomatoes reflected in the gloss of plump\, dusky indigo eggplant\, these unwitting sensory-rich lessons in colour and form taught me about physical\, emotional and spiritual abundance and scarcity. That landscape was my place for daydreaming\, refuge and renewal. It was the counter posture to the careless mishandling of adults stemming from systemic postWWII domestic violence. It is the painting landscape I carry within me to this day. A landscape I have sought to recreate in diverse geographies including Pennsylvania\, Texas\, Sicily and for the last 33 years\, from the sanctuary of my studio on Keswick Ridge in New Brunswick. Through tall windows or en plein air\, looking to the Wələstəq\, the beautiful and bountiful Saint John River valley and the wild worlds just outside the doors\, in moment-to-moment awareness memories twig and mix. The invitation to poetic dwelling in concert with the gift of human agency presences call me to presence. Whether the drape of a branch\, the fading face of a flower\, the mystical materiality of galvanized steel set against vast skies I paint to understand life\, love and care. Thank you\, Jennifer Pazienza \nCV\nAward-winning painter\, Jennifer Pazienza was born into an Italian-American New Jersey family. She began making art in the sanctuary of her mother’s garden. The last 30+ years have seen her painting from her Keswick Ridge\, NB studio. Retired University of New Brunswick art education professor\, published art writer\, curator and advocate\, Pazienza holds a Bachelor’s degree from William Paterson University\, New Jersey (1976). Her MEd (1985) and PhD from the Pennsylvania State University (1989). With over 40+ solo and group shows to her credit in Canada\, the US and Italy\, Jennifer\, was one of nine Canadian artists chosen by Curator Francesca Valente for the juried 2023\, Luciano Benetton Imago Mundi permanent exhibition\, Art Theorema #3\, of which there were 200 works by 170 international artists. Her paintings reside in permanent and private collections in Canada\, the US and Europe including\, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery\, Fredericton\, NB\, McCain Corporation\, Florenceville\, NB\, White Plains Hospital\, White Plains\, NY\, Gallerie delle Prigioni\, Treviso\, IT and Misterbianco\, Sicily\, IT. Jennifer Pazienza is represented by Gallery 78\, Fredericton\, NB; Galerie 12\, Moncton\, NB and Alex Ferro Gallery\, Long Island\, NY. Delivering Beautiful Dreamer: Landscape & Memory\, a critical reflection on her landscape-based practice\, at the closing plenary session of Art & Psyche in Sicily the land of her maternal heritage\, is a career highlight.
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/lifelove-care-a-painting-landscape-jennifer-pazienza/
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SUMMARY:Art Appreciation with Celia Gallardo
DESCRIPTION:Art Appreciation with Celia Gallardo	\n\n\n\n			\n			$20.00 – $60.00Price range: $20.00 through $60.00		You save  (%)		\n		\n		\n	\n\n\n\n	\n		\n		\nSelect options	\n		This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page	\n\n\n	Details\n\n\n	\n	\n\n	 \n\n\n\nArt can sometimes feel intimidating – especially when you’re standing in a gallery wondering\, “Am I looking at this the right way?” \nThis experiential\, hands-on program invites participants to leave that question behind. Rather than focusing on memorizing artists\, dates\, or movements\, we’ll explore how to look at art\, respond to what we see\, and develop confidence in our own interpretations. \nThrough conversation\, observation\, and engaging activities\, participants will learn to trust their eyes\, their instincts\, and their voices. Together\, we’ll break down the barriers that can make contemporary art feel inaccessible and discover how the Gallery can be a space for curiosity\, connection\, and conversation. \nNo art expertise required—just bring your perspective. \nTarget audience: Absolute beginners\, museum-goers who want to deepen their experience\, and anyone who has ever felt intimidated by art. \nModule 1: Art Doesn’t Bite (But it might move you) \nOctober 1\, 6-7pm \nPurpose: Break fear and dismantle common prejudices. \n\n“Anyone could do that” – art vs. technique.\n“It’s ugly” – beauty beyond pretty; finding aesthetics in the raw\, the difficult\, or the ordinary.\n“Art is useless” – meaning vs. function and the layers of human experience.\nThe myth of elitism: how are became a space for the “enlightened” and how to reclaim it.\n\nModule 2: Art\, Craft\, and Design: What’s the Difference?\nOctober 8\, 6-7pm \nPurpose: Understand intention\, authorship\, and meaning without rigid boundaries. \n\nArt vs. craft vs. hobby\nArt vs. design: close relatives\, not twins.\nTechnique vs. concept: when meaning outpaces craftsmanship.\nHybrid practices in the 21st century: exploring where the lines blur\n\nModule 3: When Art Broke it’s own Rules\nOctober 15\, 6-7pm \nPurpose: Give historical context to modern discomfort and radical changes \n\nFrom Renaissance harmony to modern discomfort and radical changes\nDuchamp and the shift from the physical object to the idea\nConceptual art\, performance\, and provocation.\nWhat art changes – and why it still unsettles us.\n\nModule 4: Learning to Look: Tools for Seeing\nOctober 22\, 6-7pm \nPurpose: Provide practical\, material\, and visual tools for deep observation. \n\nThe visual language: colour\, form\, rhythm\, and composition.\nMaterials and texture: what the physical material communicates without words.\nContext: how time\, place\, and the artist’s life alter meaning\nEmotional vs. formal reading
URL:https://mccainartgallery.com/exhibitions/art-appreciation-with-celia-gallardo/
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