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

Gallery Sitka® Tamar Russell Brown, owner, GallerySitka.com | | 978.425.6290 | @gallerysitka | 227 Spring St. Newport

Gallery Sitka Announces
“Summer Lights” Exhibit

Featuring 3 New York Artists and Fine Jewelry Launch
Reception Saturday, June 15th from 4:30-6:30pm

Newport, RI, June 5, 2024 – Gallery Sitka, celebrating their ten year anniversary, announces “Summer Lights” exhibit featuring New York artists Beth Barry, Barbara Groh Wahlstrom, Shira Toren and a fine jewelry launch by New York City jewelry designer, Always, A. The opening reception is Saturday, June 15 from 4:30-6:30pm at Gallery Sitka on the corner of Spring and Franklin Streets. The artists will be in attendance at the reception, which is free and open to the public. The show will be displayed through July 15.

Art New England magazine will be at the exhibit opening reception (and bearing cake) to celebrate their 45 year anniversary. Publisher Rita Fucillo stated, “Art New England is so happy to celebrate its 45th in Newport with Tamar and Gallery Sitka. A summer birthday pop-up amidst the gorgeous work of Beth, Barbara and Shira is quite special. Please join us as we toast the next 45!”

Tamar Russell Brown, Gallery Sitka owner stated, “Gallery Sitka is beyond excited to host Art New England, three of our incredible abstract-represented artists, and the debut of a jewelry designer’s summer line – a first for our gallery. This summer celebrates 10 years that Gallery Sitka has been showing art in New England so this opening is one not to miss!”

Artists in the exhibit include:

Beth Barry

Beth Barry’s themes range from celebration to reinterpretation to immediate reaction to impacted landscapes. Barry’s artistic influences include the coastline (as she was born in New Bedford) and the concept of rebirth is a recurring reference. Barry shares, “I characterize my paintings as landscapes with emotional concepts and feelings. Yet the works are often devoid of literal landscape references. I opt for transparent layers of primitive structures, loose gestures, and energetic color combinations.”

Barbara Groh Wahlstrom

Barbara Groh Wahlstrom is a visual artist who has immersed herself in the creative process for over four decades creating highly personal abstract works. Many travels inform her visual language as her sense of place, space and time. Featured are works inspired by India, Costa Rica and the Connecticut River by their proximity to water. Materials include acrylic, natural herbal paste, oil, graphite, ink, watercolor, and cold wax. Ms. Groh states, “It is a synthesis of location, perception, physicality, freedom and meditation. My art may reflect a quiet practice, a calligraphic meditation, or an energetic expression of freedom.”

Shira Toren

Shira Toren is an American-Israeli visual artist based in Brooklyn. Her work explores personal and global themes that reflect upon the environment. The abstract monochromatic paintings are process-oriented, using a method developed by Toren whereby she rubs graphite powder, pigments, and ink onto Venetian plaster substrates. Toren offers, “I tend to toggle between additive and subtractive practices, masking certain layers while peeling away others. This lends to an array of textures and pigments, often exhibiting bursts of energy alongside instances of stillness.”

Jewelry Launch by New York jewelry designer, Always A.

Jewelry designer Autumn Hope Kirby introduces “Chapter 1: The Quintessentials” a debut jewelry collection which Kirby describes as “capturing the essence of New York’s chic vibrancy.” Everything is solid gold and natural diamonds. The collection is a mix of rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces, ranging in price from $1,000 to $10,000.

At a Glance

WHAT:   “Summer Lights” Exhibit featuring New York Artists Beth Barry, Barbara Groh Wahlstrom, Shira Toren, and Fine Jewelry Launch by Always, A. at Gallery Sitka/Newport
WHEN: Reception Saturday, June 15, 4:30-6:30pm; Show thru July 15; Gallery hours:
Gallery hours: M | Th | F | Sa, 11-5
WHERE: 227 Spring St., Newport, RI (corner of Franklin)
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 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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