Painters Robert Abele & Mary Moquin will be exhibiting their work at the Marion Art Center, kicking off with an opening reception on Friday, May 24 from 5:00-7:00 pm at 80 Pleasant Street, Marion. The show runs from May 24 through June 28 and will encompass the annual Art in Bloom festival at the MAC, which sees the public selecting a painting and creating a flower arrangement that evokes it. Art in Bloom is scheduled Thursday, June 13 through Saturday, June 15.
Robert Abele is an American fine artist living and working in the South Coast of Massachusetts. His work captures the essence and beauty of architecture, particularly found in early New England homes. His works in oil also depict the coastal landscape of New England. Gestural & loose, painted alla prima, Robert’s work draws from French and American Impressionism with an affinity to the work of the Ashcan School and an enhanced interest in turn of the century architecture. (Alla prima is an Italian phrase that means ‘at first attempt’. It refers to a wet-on-wet approach whereby wet paint is applied to previous layers of still-wet paint, often in a single sitting.)
Mary Moquin is a professional artist and teacher. She lives on the Cape and spends part of the year in a remote dune cottage on the peninsula known as Sandy Neck in Barnstable, MA. The inspiration for her paintings comes from observing time passing as the light and shadows fall across the structures there. The structures have transformed into metaphors for meditation. Her work has won numerous awards and has been included in several regional and national juried shows. Mary holds a BFA in printmaking and an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her work is represented in Wellfleet, MA at the Cove Gallery, on Martha’s Vineyard at North Water Gallery in Edgartown, MA. Learn more at marionartcenter.org/events.