Galaxy Gallery presents artists’ views of Oak Bluffs
While Vineyard artists tend to favor scenes around the up-Island towns, focusing on the beaches and farmlands in West Tisbury, Chilmark, and Aquinnah, there's a lot of beauty to be found down-Island too. The...
Seeing double in Donna Gordon’s new exhibit
The title of Donna Gordon’s show, “Double Vision,” at the Chilmark library plays on the two-word term. While double vision isn’t something you want in your physiological eyesight, the richness of the process of...
Making deep connections through the ‘art of conservation’
From the mouths (and eyes) of babes comes the most profound response to climate change I’ve seen in a while. This year’s annual exhibit, hosted by the Featherstone Center for the Arts at the...
Welcoming spring
Louisa Gould is celebrating the start of the summer season with an exhibit titled “Spring Arrivals,” featuring new work by dozens of the artists she represents. Among these are two new painters who will...
Beautiful blooms
Keeping up with a tradition that goes back over two decades, the Featherstone Center for the Arts is once again welcoming spring (and its influx of returning summer visitors) with their annual Art of...
Artist Virginia Stone’s whimsical take on the pandemic
Virginia Stone attacks the early pandemic with a keen eye for the changes it wrought in our everyday lives, with both compassion and humor. Her show, “COVID Up-Island,” at the West Tisbury library, looks...
Lose yourself in Erica Brody’s shimmering works of art
Seasonal resident Erica Brody is a captivating colorist. Her hues convey the very essence of time and place, shifting our outer experience of her work into an inner encounter. You can see Brody’s first...
Putting the beautiful pieces together
Anne Marie Eddy has had a thing for gemstones for years. The owner of Coastal Supply Co. in Vineyard Haven started collecting semiprecious gems and making jewelry about 15 years ago. More recently, she...
Painting with light
I’ve drawn in pencil, charcoal, and inks; painted with watercolors, acrylics, and oils; created woodcut and linoleum block prints; sculpted in plaster and with found objects; and worked with cameras of all sorts. What...
‘Textures and Patterns’ open to interpretation
The title of Featherstone Center for the Arts’ new exhibition couldn’t be more straightforward: ‘Textures and Patterns.” The resulting 120 works stimulate a visceral reaction as we move from one artwork to another, and...
Heather Sayeau’s ‘spring’ has arrived
You’re bound to have a wonderfully visceral reaction to Heather Sayeau’s breathtaking floral oil paintings in her aptly titled show, “It’s Spring,” at the Vineyard Haven library. Her luscious depictions of roses, peonies, and...
Healing comes with every brushstroke
Artist Beth Smith has come a long way since she started painting in 2016. A former ER nurse, Smith has devoted herself full-time to her second career since retiring from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital...
Celebrating women artists
In honor of Women's History Month, Pathways Arts hung a show devoted to women artists during the month of March. Now they have extended the exhibit through the end of April.
On the walls of...
A good eye
When photographer Matt Cosby and his wife relocated full-time to the Vineyard in 2019, he couldn't possibly have realized that his move would add a further distinction to his already impressive career. It was...
‘Learning to Look’
There is a beautiful photography exhibition at the Oak Bluffs library that exudes creativity. Not surprising, really, as the entire wall is covered with nearly 200 photographs taken by students, grades 5 to 11,...
Outside the box
With his latest venture, artist Paul Lazes is thinking outside the box, or rather using the outside of boxes as a medium. His most recent series of sculptural wall art is constructed from strips...
Two poets in artistic motion
When Fan Ogilvie was selected to show her artwork at the West Tisbury library, she invited Paige Taylor to share the space with her. Ogilvie, the former West Tisbury poet laureate, wanted to give...
Find ‘An Abundance of Color’ at Featherstone
Ann Smith, executive director of Featherstone Center for the Arts, and I were speaking about how inexorably art and health are entwined after walking through Featherstone’s new exhibition, “An Abundance of Color.” In fact,...
Drawing room
I thought Tim and Eileen Maley would know, but Eileen only said, “Sometime in the ‘80s.” That is the closest timeframe that anyone seems to remember about the formation of what has been an...
Love lives at Featherstone Center for the Arts
Clearly, Vineyarders abound with love — for the Island, their animals, and for each other. “Love Lives Here,” on view through Feb. 26 at Featherstone Center for the Arts, bursts with kindness — an...