Contact: Catherine Bowen, publicist, 401.258.0077 | catherinefrancesbowen@gmail.com

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Gallery Sitka Announces
“Summer’s Launch” Exhibition

Jeanne Borofsky and Kellie Weeks
Open Reception Friday, June 7th from 5:30-7:30pm

Jeanne Borofsky, “Santa Fe”, encaustic on panel, 6″x8″

Kellie Weeks, “When Sadness Beckons”, oil and cold wax on panel, 8″x8″, 2024

Shirley, MA, May 22, 2024 — Gallery Sitka announces the exhibition “Summer’s Launch” by artists Jeanne Borofsky and Kellie Weeks. The public is invited to the free opening reception on Friday, June 7 from 5:30-7:30pm; there will be refreshments and live music. Featured artists, Borofsky and Weeks, will be in attendance. The show will be displayed through July 9.

Jeanne Borofsky whose studio is in Groton, MA, holds a BFA and MFA and is internationally recognized, with paintings, prints, and drawings in numerous museums and private collections.

A practicing artist for over 50 years, Borofsky makes art with watercolors, oils, encaustics, collages, and prints – traditional, photographic, encaustic and digital. Borofsky is a member of The Boston Printmakers, the Depot Square Artists, the Monotype Guild of New England, and New England Wax.

Ms. Borofsky states, “Most of my current work is encaustic collage. Encaustic – painting with hot colored beeswax and damar resin – is a medium that was used by the ancient Greeks. I love the way beeswax creates both physical and visual depth and translucency to the work – adding to the mystery and magic I’m trying to convey. Whatever I put into my art, it always includes the joy of creation, the love of art, and the happiness in my ability to create it.”

Kellie Weeks, whose studio is in Fitchburg, received a BFA from Bradford College in 2001. After years of exploring many media, she is now focused on painting with pigment sticks and encaustic. While using encaustics for their insurmountable quality, depth, and brilliancy, Weeks also incorporates dry pigments, metal leaf, shellac, and other mixed media as vehicles to develop a wide lexicon of imagery. Kellie often abstracts elements of nature and her immediate surroundings combining both elements of bold and muted colors. These dynamic compositions lend themselves to stories of relationships and transformations. Kellie’s work has been exhibited nationally in many juried and group shows and is included in both private and public collections.

Weeks offers, “Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “The Earth laughs in flowers.” Using encaustic and mixed media as vehicles to communicate abstracted floral compositions, my paintings are intuitively created using color, line, and form as constructs for spiritual illumination. At times the imagery is more subtle than others yet all of the elements speak of journeys, relationships, and transformations.”

Tamar Russell Brown, Gallery Sitka owner stated, “Gallery Sitka is pleased to host what has become an annual show for Jeanne Borofsky and Kellie Weeks. They were introduced to us in year one of our gallery’s life. They have both now been with us for close to 10 years. Since Gallery Sitka is celebrating 10 years this summer, we are thrilled to show these accomplished women to kick off the season!”

Additional information can be found at Gallery Sitka.

At a Glance

WHAT:  Exhibition and Reception at Gallery Sitka/Shirley
WHEN: Opening Reception Friday, June 7th from 5:30-7:30pm; Show thru July 9. Closed the week of July 4th. Gallery hours: M-W, 9-1 & by appointment or chance.
WHERE: 2 Shaker Rd., D101, Shirley, MA
INFO: Open to all, free admission, GallerySitka.com

About Gallery Sitka

Gallery Sitka® is a woman-owned and operated art entity with galleries in Newport, RI; Shirley, MA; Saratoga, NY (by appointment); and additional periodic pop-ups around the Northeast. With a focus on abstract art, Gallery Sitka represents the work of more than twenty painters, sculptors, encaustic artists, as well as jewelry designers from New England, New York, Brasil, France and Italy. The Gallery is committed to local art and the creative economy. Gallery Sitka opened in 2014 and has been featured in publications such as Art New England, Newport This Week, NorthCentral Mass.com, Harvard General Store, ChooseNorthCentral.com, among others. For more information visit gallerysitka.com.

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Gallery Sitka® Tamar Russell Brown, owner, GallerySitka.com | | 978.425.6290 | @gallerysitka

Gallery Sitka Announces “Portrait of Nature” Exhibition
Sculptural Forms from Nature by Melanie Zibit
Photographic Portraits of Flowers by Zen Saito
Open Reception Sunday, May 5, 2:30-4:30pm

Shirley, MA, April 27, 2024 – Gallery Sitka announces the exhibition “Portrait of Nature” by sculptor Melanie Zibit and artist/photographer Zen Saito. The public is invited to the free opening reception on Sunday, May 5 from 2:30-4:30pm; Saito and Zibit will be in attendance. The show will be displayed through June 5.   

Sculptor and Shirley Massachusetts resident, Melanie Zibit learned to carve in the marble workshops of Carrara, Italy. Her passion for creating sculpture started as an undergraduate and then grew in her 20s to working with artists in rural Maine and in New York City. Zibit carves at the Vermont Carving Studio and Sculpture Center. She gives presentations at museums, schools, universities, galleries, and arts festivals and has received commissions and exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the US. Zibit is the recipient of the 2014 and 2015 NYC Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club award and the 2015 Best Abstract in Show award from the Cape Cod Art Association.  

Zibit states, “I am inspired by ancient and modern sculptors. I use marble and bronze, classical materials, and components of forms found in nature to create a modern statement. Leaving elements natural or forms unfinished invites the viewer to complete the form in their mind’s eye.”

Artist, Japanese native, and Fitchburg resident Zen Saito (a.k.a. Yoshiyuki Saito) grew up in a small town in Japan with a family that supported his creativity. By age 18, Zen had moved to Tokyo to study design. At age 24 he moved to New York where he studied at The Art Students League of New York, worked at a sculptor studio, and exhibited his work in group and solo shows in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2007 Zen moved to Massachusetts and has expanded his artistic endeavors to include carpentry. 

Zen shares, “My artwork is often influenced by nature, and often reflects the period of my life. I once wanted my artwork to carry messages to the world — but recently I have just been enjoying working with different media, exploring and developing new skills, opening up my freedom to challenge my creativity.”

Additional information can be found at Gallery Sitka.

At a Glance 

WHAT: Melanie Zibit & Zen Saito “Portraits of Nature” Exhibition and Reception at Gallery Sitka/Shirley 

WHEN: Reception Sunday, May 5, 2:30-4:30pm; Show thru June 5; Gallery hours: M-W, 9-12 & by appointment or chance

WHERE: 2 Shaker Rd., D101, Shirley, MA

INFO: Open to all, free admission, GallerySitka.com

About Gallery Sitka

Gallery Sitka® is a woman-owned and operated art entity with galleries in Newport, RI; Shirley, MA; Saratoga, NY (by appointment); and additional periodic pop-ups around the Northeast. With a focus on abstract art, Gallery Sitka represents the work of more than twenty painters, sculptors, encaustic artists, as well as jewelry designers from New England, New York, Brasil, France and Italy. The Gallery is committed to local art and the creative economy. Gallery Sitka opened in 2014 and has been featured in publications such as Art New England, Newport This Week, NorthCentral Mass.com, Harvard General Store, ChooseNorthCentral.com, among others. For more information visit gallerysitka.com.

Images:

“Sunrise on the Pacific” by Melanie Zibit, Bronze, 7″ x 6.5″ x 6″

“Sunflower” by Zen Saito, Photograph, 24”x30”

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