Steven Noroian at Centro Restaurant & Bar

Exhibit runs now through June 30

Artist Reception: Sunday, June 3, 1 to 3 pm

Centro Restaurant & Bar

24 Market Street, Lowell, MA

www.centrolowell.com

Steven Noroian is a fine art photographer from North Andover. He combines the latest in digital printing techniques with traditional photography to create bold and evocative prints. With an eye towards abstraction, he works to capture the beauty of his surroundings through strong composition and brilliant color. His work reveals his passion for landscapes, architecture, and still life photography - the essential elements of New England and Europe.

HOWL IN LOWELL Launches New Online Arts & Entertainment Website

Hi everyone, I want to share a new online magazine that I'm contributing to, HowlinLowell.com

It will be live on March 1, 2012. I hope you enjoy it. Below is an intro from Rita Savard:

Hello Lowell,

Something electric is in the air. Do you feel it? You should because you, dear readers, are the charge, the spark, the burst of energy lighting the way to a new era in our city.

Welcome to Howl in Lowell, an online arts and entertainment magazine celebrating the voice of a new generation – yours.

During the past seven years, I have worked as a full-time staff writer at The Sun newspaper and was often asked the same question: Why isn’t there more coverage of the city’s eclectic and flourishing arts scene?

The time to fill the void is now. I have left The Sun to team up with Caroline Gallagher, an experienced filmmaker, broadcast news veteran and webisode guru. With help from a very talented group of local writers, artists and art-lovers, we have created howlinlowell.com. Launching March 1, Howl in Lowell’s mission is bringing you the latest and greatest in entertainment news and reviews, and introduce the talent of tomorrow, today. Whether you’re an artist, musician, writer, photographer, filmmaker or simply an art-lover, Howl in Lowell is a portal for connecting people like you to the music, art and culture that inspires your world.

Check howlinlowell.com daily for news bites and feature stories spotlighting the names, faces and places making Greater Lowell a destination location for the arts. We’ll also be your tour guide for shows and events in the city and beyond. So come out and play. 

The Howl in Lowell name stands for our strong desire to hear the city’s unique voices. Howl out, we want to hear you! Our name also gives a big salute to the Beat Generation, a period in time when the unique voices of a small but creative group of friends led to a movement that rocked the world. Lowell native Jack Kerouac, along with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, believed in stirring things up and living out loud. Their infusion of new ideas and talent dropped like a bombshell into staid 1950s America.

With your help, we’re here to shake up the Merrimack Valley. Our message: Open your mind, dream big, create, play and take an active part in a community cultivating culture. 

Think of Howl in Lowell as the new Beats, improving quality of life through exposure to beauty. So, as Kerouac put it so brilliantly, let’s “burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’ ”

The centerlight is you. Keep your mind open, your heart full and follow your unique voice. It’s time to Howl!

Sincerely,

Rita Savard, Editor

Have a tip for us? Is there a local band we simply need to hear or an artist we should know about? Or maybe, you’d like to write forus. Please let us know at submissions@howlinlowell.com

Dennis Lucas at Centro Restaurant

Dennis Lucas: Recent Works

Centro Restaurant & Bar
CentroLowell.com

24 Market Street, Lowell

Now through March 31, 2012

Reception: Sunday, February 19 from 1 to 3 pm
Snacks / Cash Bar

A contemporary impressionist painter from the Cape Cod School of Art, Dennis Lucas focuses on the ever-changing light key and its effects on color in nature.

The Cape Cod School of Art was instituted by Charles Hawthorne over 100 years ago.  Hawthorne developed a style of impressionist painting which he taught in New York and Provincetown, MA.  Henry Hensche, Hawthorne’s assistant and bridge to the next generation of Cape School painter’s, continued this method as Director of the School.  Hilda Neily, Cedric Egeli and Lois Griffell are the contemporary masters from the Cape School who have handed down this lineage to Lucas.

In 2001, he was invited to be the Artist in Residence at the historic Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA where he painted and taught for two years.

An active teacher and member of the Arlington, Provincetown and Lowell art communities, Lucas is an associate member of the Boston Guild of Artists and serves on the board of the Cutter Gallery in Arlington.

Gay Tracy at Centro Restaurant

Don't Stare, Come Dance

Centro Restaurant & Bar

24 Market Street, Lowell, MA

Exhibit runs through September 2011

Closing Reception on Sunday, September 18 from 1 to 3 pm

For me, painting is about color, motion, and emotion and their expression as form on canvas.  My palette and subject matter reflect the joy, and sometimes the humor, I find in the world of my imagination and in everyday life.  I love using the intense complimentary colors which give my work its signature exuberance, boldness, verve, and unique spirit.              --Gay Tracy

"Tre Artisti in Sicilia"

"Byzantia" mixed media on board by Jean Winslow

Exhibit runs now through June 25, 2011

Centro Restaurant & Bar

24 Market Street

www.centrolowell.com

Reception: Sunday, June 12, 2011

1 to 3 pm

In May of 2010, three Lowell artists convened together in a charming villa high in the Madonie Mountains of Sicily near the ancient seaside town of Cefalu. An artists' salon was born.

They gathered together with musicians in the evenings for music and stimulating conversation by a crackling fire. They traveled to ancient Roman and Greek ruins. Enjoying the wines and cuisine of the region, they traversed the beaches and the medieval mountain towns, absorbing the sites and sounds, storing those memories for personal visions.

"Tre Artisti in Sicilia" is the culmination of this incredible journey. The three artists, Will Winslow, Jean Winslow, and Barbara Gagel now wish to share their joyful memories with others.

The work shown is a mix of media: oil, acrylic, and encaustic, offering a textual narrative to three inner journeys.

Shared Visions: Recent Landscape Paintings

Heather Johnson Reid and Cheryl Dyment
at the Laura Coombs Hills Gallery of the 
Newburyport Art Association
March 31st-April 23rd
Reception: Friday, April 8th from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

For the first time, artists Cheryl Dyment of Middleton and Heather Johnson Reid, Beverly Farms, combine their talents for a show of their work. Shared Visions: Recent Landscape Paintings will be on view in the Laura Coombs Hills Gallery of the Newburyport Art Association, March 31st-April 23rd.

Both painters are Artist Members of the NAA, and have been selected as part of the Featured Artists Series to show their most recent oil paintings of the familiar and sometimes overlooked vistas of Boston’s North Shore and New England region. Many times the two painters have met and worked outdoors together, created sketches, and began paintings that they finished in their studios.

The public is invited to an opening reception for Shared Visions on Friday, April 8th from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in the NAA Laura Coombs Hills Gallery 65 Water St., Newburyport, MA 01950. The gallery is open weekdays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays from 1- 5 p.m. Other times are available by appointment.

For more information contact the Newburyport Art Association: 978-465-8769 (www.newburyportart.org) or see the artist’s websites: www.heatherjohnsonreid.com and www.cheryldyment.com.

Images: Shark Cove by Heather Johnson Reid and Allee Verte by Cheryl Dyment