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Wellesley College Hosts 'Primordial' Art Show [PHOTOS]

Art and technology on display at Jewitt.

Tuesdays opening reception of "The Primordial Show" at the Jewitt Art Gallery at Wellesley College featured the works of Artists Constance Jacobson and David Hart. Hart explained, "The Primordial Show" is about putting together art from two very different media, but that share a common goal, to create and experiment with new life forms. Constance's work is more physical and analog, and mine more digital and less tangible. The process that I am using to create my images is based on mimicking natural selection in software and then actively choosing what lives to mate and what dies, literally growing new imagery and infusing my own aesthetic along the way through choices I make." As a young boy Hart loved the mixture of art and technology, …

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Emotion Is The Core of An Exhibition of Abstract Painting

Artist Beatrice Dauge Kaufmann's work on display at the Wellesley Congregational Church reflects her love of the sky and sea.

For artist Beatrice Dauge Kaufmann, painting is way to express her emotions. “Emotions are at the core of my work,” she writes.  “I do not fear them, but seek to render them through abstract pictures or landscapes and figurative elements.” Dauge Kaufmann’s paintings will be on display through July 29th at the Wellesley Congregational Church on Central Street. The exhibition, “Colors and Sea,” depicts Dauge Kaufmann’s love of the sky and sea through a series of abstract paintings in an amazing range of blues and greens. The works bear witness to her philosophy of painting as a process of letting go and allowing abstract elements to become an expression of feelings and ultimately a painting. The Arlington artist who was born in Lausanne, …

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Reception for Landscape Painter Roy Perkinson Tonight

Painter Roy Perkinson has a solo exhibit at the Fountain Street Fine Arts gallery. There is a reception with the artist tonight from 5-8.

Roy Perkinson, a Wellesley resident and respected landscape painter, has a solo exhibit of recent oil and pastel work, entitled Moods of Light, at Fountain Street Fine Art in Framingham. A native Texan, Perkinson has lived in Wellesley for many years. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as in numerous private collections from California to Europe. More information about him, including a video clip, produced by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in which he describes his fondness for painting scenes set at dusk and twilight, can be found at www.perkinsonpaintings.com The exhibit is through May 29. There is a reception with the artist tonight, May 7 from 5-8 p.m The gallery is typically open Friday, …

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Wellesley College Student Creates iPhone App

Intern at Davis Museum built program to help users respond to art.

Opinions on what makes art "artistic" vary wildly, but with an upcoming iPhone application built by a local student, you can register your opinion on the subject. This application makes you the art critic by using your Apple iPhone to respond to the pieces housed in the Davis Museum.  The Davis Museum, located on Wellesley College's campus, houses more than 10,000 works in its permanent collection, ranging from ancient to contemporary and including art from all over the world. The museum also includes four gallery spaces with changing exhibits.  Each year, the museum hires a handful of interns to work in the museum for 10 weeks. These internships not only introduce the participants to the behind-the-scenes work at a museum, but also lets …

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