‘Free Parking’ Opening Reception Thursday
New Exhibit at 13FOREST Gallery
Kate Sullivan
Through exquisitely detailed drawings and paintings, “Free Parking” presents realistic and magic-realistic studies on the buildings and transportation systems that define familiar and fictional urban environments. Though the artists have shown their work across North America, Europe and the Middle East, this will be the first time all four have been parked in the same lot.
The exhibit will run from Thursday, September 16 through November 12. The opening reception is Thursday from 7-9PM. 13FOREST Gallery, owned by Medford resident Marc Gurton, is located at 167A Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington.
About the Artists
Vanessa Ly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in architecture, a discipline that instills in her mostly black-and-white drawings sharpness, clarity and an optimistic sense of space that celebrates human diversity with imagination.
Jack O’Hearn earned his BFA from the Art Institute of Boston and quickly gained a reputation for producing urban trompe l’oeil paintings that critics have praised as arresting meditations on everyday objects and “salutes to the lowbrow and the overlooked.”
Kate Sullivan, a graduate of the Mass College of Art, could be defined as an urban portraitist by her highly realistic drawings and paintings that capture not just the physical appearance of city buildings and vehicles, but also an essence that makes each of them unique.
Yossi Veissid is an Israeli architect who, while acknowledging human anxiety and despair, transforms them through highly detailed meditations on beauty, harmony and renewal. This will be Veissid’s last American exhibition before he relocates to the Middle East in October.
– Information from 13FOREST Gallery