News and Events for Nantucket Island
There’s a particular kind of person who can’t walk past a crooked painting without straightening it. Robert Foster is that person: the kind who notices the tilt of a frame in a crowded restaurant, who sees not just walls but canvases waiting for the right art to complete a room’s story.
This Friday, August 22 from 6 to 8 pm, Nantucket artists Rose Gonnella and John Devaney will greet guests and discuss their art and their processes at an opening reception for their show in Robert Foster Fine Art, 8 India Street. This is the fifth of a half-dozen dual exhibitions […]
During an interview we did with artist Clara Urbahn in 1999, she told us that her mother “trained us to look through a window and see everything as a painting…It was a wonderful way to start life off, as if you’re living in a painting…” Judging from her current exhibition […]
This Friday, September 1 in the Robert Foster Fine Art at 8 India Street Land – Sea – Air: Depictions of the Island will open with a festive reception from 6 to 8 pm. This exhibition of Nantucket scenes features the Fish Series by Diane Dicker, work by Meghan Weeks who […]
Artist Anne Rose seeks to convey the essence of the person within her paintings. Color has a great deal to do with the process. With color and her excellent draftsmen skills she recreates, imagines and captures the secret quality that lives within us all. She develops each painting as a […]
Elizabeth Congdon sees her work as “a diary written with pigment and brush.” She paints from life to watch the nuances of the natural world and uses these studies to work on a large scale or combine with still life. This Friday, July 24, from 6 to 9 pm, you […]
October is filled with opportunities to appreciate art on Nantucket. Several wonderful galleries will be showing both new and long-loved art. During Columbus Day weekend, Artists Association of Nantucket will host their annual Wet Paint Weekend, and Nantucket Community Music Center (NCMC) will host their famous Pipe Organ Crawl. Several […]
Anne Rose seeks to convey the essence of the person within her paintings. Using color and her excellent draftsmen skills, she recreates, imagines, and captures the secret quality that lives within her subjects. She develops each painting as a whole, working expressively, and her finished work is poetic and poignant. […]
