Art
A day of art at Louisa Gould Gallery on Sunday, July 5, begins with a trunk show for a new jewelry line by Francesca Lewis Kennedy from 1 to 5 p.m. Then stay for an artists’ reception for Christopher Pendergast, Stephan Hart, Caryn King and Leslie Smith from 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery on Main street in Vineyard Haven.
Forsythe Studio Gallery, a new modern art space in Edgartown, will open its doors for the first time on Friday, July 3 with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
Forsythe is located at 15 North Summer street, half a block off of Main street. Refreshments will be served.
Owner Ashley Bostrom, the gallery’s sole artist, both works and exhibits in the studio gallery. The broad range of her subject matter and media creates a combination of work that is innovative and engaging.
There are unmistakable signs of Gary Mottau’s artwork nestled throughout the rolling up-Island countryside on Abel’s Hill in Chilmark. They blend with their environment, just as he intended; that is his art, his ability to take a cue from nature and create exquisite sanctuaries from wood, stone and seed.
His artwork extends to other media as well; a collection of his wired drawings, which he describes as “three dimensional line drawings,” are on display at Carol Craven Gallery in Vineyard Haven.
Island Theatre Workshop presents PigPen Theatre’s latest show, The Old Man and the Old Moon, for a limited engagement at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Sunday and Monday, July 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. The Old Man and the Old Moon is a tale of an old man who must abandon his duties of refilling the moon every month, to cross the seas in search of his missing wife. The show runs just under one hour and is appropriate for all ages, both children and adults. Tickets are $10, available at the door.
Vineyard-born artist Max Decker tends to mold his artistic personality to match his environment. His Island summers inspire classic landscape paintings, but come fall, his return to his home in Brooklyn seems to trigger a more aggressive and figurative form of expression.
“I guess by osmosis, what’s around you is kind of what you start producing,” said the artist. “When I’m in New York, it’s kind of loud. Here [on the Island], I get a little more atmospheric, a little more subdued.”
As he sits for an interview in the kitchen of his mother’s Oak Bluffs cottage, Paul Padua seamlessly breaks into and out of character — not just one, but many of the roles he’s played over the years as a member of the Vineyard Playhouse performance group the Fabulists.