Cynthia Brody

              Cynthia Brody

     Cynthia Brody has been an exhibiting artist for over 35 years. She studied painting at Parsons School of Design and The New School in New York. Ms. Brody developed a style of mixed media painting that she has expanded upon throughout the years. The bulk of her work incorporates the combination of photo images with acrylic paints and found materials to create a surreal impression. The photos are often used out of context for their visual texture, and it is only upon closer inspection that the viewer begins to discover that what appears to be recognizable is actually something else entirely. Her works incorporate elements of beauty, such as metallic paints and gold leaf, which parallel the adornment of the subjects in some of the cross-cultural pieces. This is contrasted with the strong statements and pensive attitudes of the women depicted. Several of the pieces resemble icons honoring the complexity, angst and beauty of the female experience.

Ms. Brody is also a psychotherapist practicing in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her interest in the psyche is reflected in her artwork. She is the contributing editor of Bittersweet Legacy - Creative Responses to the Holocaust, a collection of art and poetry published by University Press of America. In her work as artist, editor and therapist, Ms Brody strives to raise the awareness and sensitivity of others regarding the human experience and the struggles and beauty, which are an integral part of life.

Opening Exhibit: February 21, 2015

Blue Wave Art Gallery  52 Main St.  Amesbury

Artists’ Perspectives on Trees

February 21, 2015.   

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. 

This will be an incredible show, introducing several new artists to Amesbury including Jeremy Barnard, Cynthia Brody, Ryan Kelley and Jack Fowler! Join us for this opportunity to meet the artists and share poetic perspectives on nature. We will have a writing wall for visitors to share their own thoughts on trees. 

No. 8 Restaurant will be providing food

and cash bar for this unique opening. 

There will be a mid-exhibit reception March 15, 2015

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Exhibit runs through April 1st, 2015.

www.bluewaveartgallery.com 

Jeremy Barnard

Jeremy Barnard

    Jeremy Barnard has been primarily a practitioner of black and white photography for the past forty plus years. He is self-taught, his craft having been molded and influenced by the photography and writings of some of the great masters. «My love affair with photography began when I developed my first roll of film and created my first print. I fell in love with the process, the magic.» His passionate pursuit of technical excellence has kept Jeremy involved in every step of the photographic process. He retains control even into the presentation stage by doing his own post processing, mounting, matting, and framing.

                        

 More than twenty years ago the computer made its appearance in Jeremy's work environment. In the beginning he viewed it as an unnecessarily complex typewriter. As it began to insert itself into the world of photography it was easy to be skeptical about the computer's photographic future, since the early results of digital imaging were disappointing. Things, as we now know, have changed radically in the digital world of photography. Output quality has surpassed that of film. At this point it has been over twenty years since Jeremy has shot a roll of film, and he's not looking back.

                         

         Mr Barnard's approach to his work can best be described as an ongoing  process of self discovery. His photographs walk a fine line between abstraction and realism. His early work results from a concentration on people, mostly on the street. In his contemporary work he prefers to make photographs that do not contain people. However, his images frequently contain evidence that people have been there, adding an element of mystery. «I like to make pictures that ask more questions than they answer.»

                        Artist/writer David Raymond wrote in Art New England  that Barnard's photographs «not only convey a sense of place, but a sense of time transcending place,...his work is poetic in unexpected ways.»