A Harvest of Landscape
New work by Maxine Farkas and Vicki Green (aka Verde)
October 29 - November 23
Opening Reception November 7th from 6 to 9pm
The Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios
122 Western Avenue, 2nd Floor of the A-Mill
Lowell, MA 01851
www.theloadingdockgallery.com
Contact Maxine Farkas: 978 349-8069
Contact Vicki Green: 603 860-8723

Vicki Greens work exhibits a fascination with individual elements in the landscape, Maxine Farkas' work is about the broad sweep of the natural landscape . . . both self taught artists eschew manmade for the natural.  In A Harvest of Landscape, the November exhibit at the Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios, Green and Farkas are offering a bounty of small format landscape paintings, with more than 75 works on offer.

Vicki Green began a love affair with rural New Hampshire during childhood summers when her family would leave Southeastern MA and head north for vacation.  Since 2000 she has been firmly rooted in Weare NH, with her husband, children, pets and chickens. 

Green describes Weare as a very bucolic setting for painting and creating, but not well situated for capturing the attention of the public and selling her work.  After a year long search for affordable studio space in the Manchester area, Green discovered Western Avenue Studios and she now makes the hour long commute several days a week to paint and offer her work to the public.  Since her move to Western Avenue she has discovered a variety of opportunities and has added 3 galleries to the list of venues showing her work.  She says that New Hampshire is where she will always live, but Lowell is where she will always paint.

A self taught artist, Green began painting full time in 2002.  Since 2006 she has had 12 paintings published and licensed for mass-market retail print sales under her Art by Verde company name.

Green's art is deeply influenced by her love of trees.  As a child she would spend entire summer days in an old crab apple tree behind her house, she would bring snacks, read and daydream away summer days, it was her favorite place to be.  Her landscapes are devoid of man made intrusions, and do not refer to the natural landscape, when she paints the focus is always the tree.   Her landscapes reside in her imagination, they are places of meditation and contemplation and an homage to the refuge offered by an ancient crab apple tree.

A native of Chicago and committed urbanite, Maxine Farkas has always been fascinated by the interaction of man and the landscape.  Trained as a planner and historical geographer she began painting after 10 years of creating and exhibiting her fiber art.  Her fiber work often looked at the landscape as did her early paintings. But her landscape paintings underwent a transformation when she moved to the 22nd floor and encountered the broad sweep of the natural landscape 'from altitude'.  Farkas works in fluid acrylic on unprimed linen, often black or navy. Her work is about landform, light and mood. 

Farkas came to Lowell from Boston in 1997 and has been a working artist and freelance curator in the city since her arrival.  She has maintained a studio at Western Avenue Studios since 2005.

A Harvest of Landscape will be showing in The Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios, 122 Western Avenue 2nd floor of the A-Mill from October 29th to November 23rd .  There will be a reception for the artists on Friday evening November 7th from 6 to 9pm.  Gallery hours are Wednesday thru Sunday from 11am to 4:30pm.  For information about the exhibit see www.theloadingdockgallery.com or call 978 349-8069.