Joan DeRugeris
Matmata
Matmata
41" X 41"
acrylic
2008
acrylic
2008
February 7 through February 26, 2010
Joan DeRugeris, Linnea Toney Leeming and Daniel Read: The Color of Light
Dodge House Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 12-4pm, Weekends 2-4pm; GALLERY NIGHT: Thurs, 9/16/10 5-9pm; CLOSED: 9/4 - 9/11/10
Maxwell Mays Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 12-4pm, Weekends 2-4pm; CLOSED: 9/4 - 9/17/10; OPENING RECEPTION: Sat, 9/18/10, 5-7pm
Joan DeRugerisJoan DeRugeris, Linnea Toney Leeming and Daniel Read: The Color of Light
Dodge House Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 12-4pm, Weekends 2-4pm; GALLERY NIGHT: Thurs, 9/16/10 5-9pm; CLOSED: 9/4 - 9/11/10
Maxwell Mays Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 12-4pm, Weekends 2-4pm; CLOSED: 9/4 - 9/17/10; OPENING RECEPTION: Sat, 9/18/10, 5-7pm
Biography
Joan DeRugeris began her commercial art career in New York City’s garment industry. She received her degree from the State University of New York, Fashion Institute of Technology. DeRugeris then went on to head the art department of a leading textile-consulting firm, where she designed prints for the ready to wear and home furnishings market.
DeRugeris continued her commercial career in the area of freelance design for Corning Glass in the consumer products division. Upon leaving New York, she taught watercolor painting through Delaware Technical and Community College, while also pursuing an exhibiting career.
After arriving in New England, DeRugeris continued her studies in advanced painting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Her work has been selected for numerous juried exhibitions and is in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad.
Linnea Toney Leeming
Artist Statement
Rhode Island artist Linnea Toney Leeming is an abstract painter whose multi-faceted career as an artist, educator, and photographer has spanned more than 30 years. After achieving her BFA in fine art photography and exhibiting for many years as a photographer, Leeming became intrigued by the ability to visually communicate without the distraction of mechanical tools.
Pursuing her painting passion, she attended RISD and the Boston Museum School, as well as receiving private instruction, and launched her career as a painter. She has been exhibiting abstract paintings since 1993. Leeming continued her interest in eye to hand directness in creating her own sense of space and time, using the abstractionist’s process-driven approach to painting and utilizing the practice of listening to the unconscious. Her large abstract paintings on canvas are made by a series of considered decisions fueled by issues of color and composition, where colors, lines, patterns and textures overlap and merge into unified compositions. Working intuitively and impulsively, but always vibrant and energetic, her paintings burst with color, mind and hand working together subconsciously to spark a passage of perfect grace.
Leeming’s paintings can be seen in galleries and collections throughout New England and New York.
Daniel Read
Resume
Student:
1977 - 1989 Dale Chihuly
1977 - 1986 R.I.S.D.
1977 Flora Mace
1979 Howard Ben-Tre
1984 Steven Weinberg
Teacher:
1980 + 1982 Pilchuck School
1981 + 1983 Haystack School
1983 - 1986 R.I.S.D.
1993 + 1994 M.I.T.
Artist:
2002 + 2004 Providence Art Club
2000 Happy White Gallery, Barrington, RI.
1997 - 2007 Boston Gift Show
1998 - 2007 Buyers Market of American Crafts, Philadelphia, PA.
1999 Sandwich Museum of Glass, Cape Cod, MA.
1998 - 2007 Wickford Art Association, Wickford, RI.
1999 Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT.
1997 - 2000 LENOX/GORHAM Inc., designer
1995 - 1996 A.T.CROSS Inc., designer
1995 Bellevue Gallery, Newport RI.
1993 - 1995 Nicole Saul-Kogut Gallery, Providence, RI.
1993 Lyman Allyn Art Museum, CT.
1979 - 1993 R.I.S.D., and various galleries in MA, RI, & CT.
Grants:
1992 Massachusetts Arts Council
1990 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
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