JP Art Market

14 artists, 14 ways of seeing

Now through December 18, 2005

Becka Shertzer

Becka explores the delicate and powerful collision of the internal and external life experience. Inspired by beauty and the tension it holds within, her work is raw and evocative. A native of Andover and a long time Bostonian, Becka currently lives in San Francisco CA.

Timothy Aanensen

Inspired by the everyday framed in a peculiar manner, timothy's work is curious and emotional. He is a 26 year old New Jersey artist who communicates quietly and thoughtfully through photographs, ink abstractions, and figure drawings.

Pauline Coats

Of Arabic birth and a stormy past Pauline's charcoal portraits are infused with an aggressive voice. Her work is an attempt to reach beyond the barrier that she feels stands between herself and the 'beautiful' people she knows in this world.

Morris Norvin

Morris transforms discarded objects and materials into sculptures that tap into the organic nature of the materials he uses. He is a facilitator and owner of Stonybrook Fine Arts LLC here in Jamaica Plain, which will open in Jan of 2006.SFA, will be a working foundry and studio open to all who wish to learn about making metal sculpture.

Elsa Dorfman

A Cambridge artist, Elsa's famous 20x24 Polaroid's capture life with a sense of humor. Her objective way of photographing extracts something unique from each subject. In the early 60's Elsa helped organized the papers her friends the Beat Poets were churning out in their unruly exuberance. A person with a unique gift to easily sense the essence of other's characters, hundreds of Bostonians have had their portraits taken Elsa. A crisp clear white backdrop and her talent of knowing the right moment to trigger the shutter makes the trademark of a Dorfman portrait a familiar, casual formality.

Dermot Meagher

He is most commonly referred to as 'your honor', Judge Meagher was the first openly gay justice appointed to the commonwealth. Dermot's drawings have an intuitive and clear observational quality. They deal largely with the human figure and posses a poignant calm vision that is truly captivating. Interestingly enough, Dermot's drawings became even more precise when his eyesight lost some power these past few years. There is a hand that guides him as he often says he knows not where the talent comes from.

Janet Hamill

A poet, a painter and a performer Janet communicates the conflict between the seen and the unseen world. Her work searches for the sublime and captures intimate breaths of a marvelous world. Janet has traveled the world over, recently sharing performance bills with her college friend Patti Smith. Having come of age in late 60's Janet's work is the thread one finds interwoven between idealism and what we have to work with here.

Holli Featherstone

A young artist, Holli's work is introspective and infused with questions. Through installation, photography, and other various mediums she explores the real, the unreal, and the importance of sense and emotion.

George Anastos

George is a Boston based art teacher whose work is reflective of his fun loving nature. He uses color and character in a lighthearted but impacting manner. George is well known as being an innovative, imaginative educator. The guy is bursting with talent. Stilt walker, community organizer, mentor and friend, his work is fruitful and original.

Jon Strymish

The Strymish name has been known to New England book lovers for over 50 years. Jon Strymish, however, has succeeded in making that name synonymous with emotional, essential, energetic Rock photography. He draws lines between art and music with his black and white photographs. They are stark, well constructed, and mysterious. A beloved figure on the Boston music scene for nearly 2 decades, always with camera, Jon possess the most detailed visual documentation of the Boston rock scene than any other person shooting these days. He shares with us, his obvious love and devotion to music and Boston.

Patti Smith

Patti Smith's (yes, the rock star!) black and white photographs are intimate and quiet. With a great deal of emotion they speak in a strong but soft voice. To attend a live concert performance or poetry reading by Smith is to be transported through currents of all time-no time, jolted to senses primordial and futuristic. Smith has the ability to access communications usually reserved between God and the angels. Her work in photography is another aspect of her rare and valuable attributes. Talent supreme.

Tony Paris

Between the years he worked as Atlanta Georgia's premier rock and arts writer/editor and his current gig as road manager to John Cale, Tony spent a few years living in Jerusalem. He wrote for a Palestinian arts paper and is currently working on a book about that experience. Tony's color photographs are honest and socially aware. In an evocative way he communicates his own opinions while remaining apart of a bigger life picture. He gives us a look into an urban culture that is just below the surface of media fed stories.

Lino Riberio

Lino's reversal images, in partnership with the local collective 'ikatun', are at the intersection of performance and photograph. He challenges our perceptions and enhances our awareness of the constructed world we live in.

Patti Hudson

A strong and sensitive person, Patti's American-African Metal Mask sculptures have sold briskly these past ten years. Taking a much needed respite from the art factory feeling of churning out unlimited works of faces crafted from found metal, Patti's latest oil stick, acrylic and chalk portraits exude a sort of simplified human study. Inspired by history and by people and an understanding of them, her work captures a sense of who the person in her portrait is but also how we all fit into that. The most common comment from collectors that have purchased a Hudson piece is that the piece takes on a life of its own and the eyes of the piece seem to follow them around the room. To some, this is disturbing, to others, this new steady company is a welcomed companion.