Spring art events abound around the region this weekend
Spring has sprung around here in the week that Eye on Art took a break.
There are options galore to enjoy art and mix and mingle with likeminded folk at receptions and events. And we’ve got some ideas for arts-oriented fun coming up this weekend.
Gallery Sitka, 2 Shaker Road in Shirley announces the exhibition “Symptoms” by French visual artist Veronique Sapin, with an opening reception on Friday, April 26 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Sapin, whose studio is in Cugnaux, France, will attend the reception. The show continues through May 3.
Also planned is an Artist Talk, “Sisterhood in Art, as a Consequence, as a Strategy” at the Fitchburg Art Museum on Thursday, May 2, 12:301:30 p.m. Both the artist reception and the artist talk are free and open to the public.
The scope of Sapin’s artwork is of the visual arts nature, including videos, installations, photos, ink, and art books. Her artwork has been a part of more than 240 showings in forty countries. She is also curator, co-founder and coordinator of the international women artists collective Femlink-art which involves 140+ artists from 60+ countries. She has initiated important partnerships with institutions such as Unesco for the video training of African women artists. For info, visit www.gallerysitka.com.
Photographer Adrien Bisson’s project, “The lawn was like a hay field,” is on view beginning this week and through May 19 at the Arts League of Lowell’s Greenwald Gallery, 307 Market St., Lowell.
The opening reception on Saturday, April 27, at 3 p.m. is free and open to the public. The gallery is open Wednesdays through Sundays, from 12 to 4 p.m.
Bisson presents photographs that he created when he was a teenager in the small town in which he was born and raised, juxtaposed with ones that he made there in the last couple of years. It’s a story filled with memories of growing up in that time and place and how he and the town have both changed and stayed the same.
Bisson is a Lowell-based photographer with over a decade of experience in commercial Merrimack Valley and editorial work. He Magazine and North
Berkleend studied music at Shore Magazine. His personal and spent over two decades work explores portraiture, as a software developer. urban landscape, He became interested and observations on everyday in photography as life. a teenager and is largely For more info on Bisson self-taught. Until recently, and his work, visit https:// he operated a successful adrienbisson.com/blog. commercial and editorial This is the weekend for photography business Art in Bloom at the Fitchburg with clients in the Art Museum. Laurelwood tech and financial sectors, Garden Club members, as well as the University local florists, and of Massachusetts artists have used flowers at Lowell and several local and floral arrangements interest magazines, including to interpret works of art throughout the museum in this event running today through Sunday. For hours, admission and other info, visit https:// fitchburgartmuseum.org/ art-in-bloom/.
And don’t forget The Brush Art Gallery and Studio’s Dinner & A Show Too, the annual fundraiser, beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 at Lenzi’s, 810 Merrimack Avenue, Dracut. It includes cocktails, a raffle, buffet dinner and cabaret entertainment produced and directed by Michael Lally. For info and tickets, visit www.thebrush.org.
Nancye Tuttle’s email is nancyedt@verizon.net