Trio



John LaPrade



McGowan Fine Art announces a show featuring the work of John LaPrade, Marisa DiIorio Peters and Wendy Prellwitz. The show will run from June 21- July 29, with an artist’s reception on June 24 from 5 to 7 PM. This show is free and open to the public.



John LaPrade

This is a show intended to reintroduce gallery goers to three experienced artists from around New England: John LaPrade, Marisa DiIorio Peters and Wendy Prellwitz. “The three have quietly operated under the radar in our stable of artists,” says gallery director Sarah Chaffee. “I thought it was time to display their work and let everyone know what I appreciate about their technique.”



John LaPrade, of the Worcester area, has been creating art for over 30 years that explores rich subconscious imagery overlaid with memory and nostalgia. He has worked in a number of mediums over the years but this show will focus on his desktop series, which is created on an old high school writing desk with its distinctive paddle shaped arm. Multiple layers of colored pencil, watercolor, collage and enamel creates a textured surface exploding with color texture and some surprising imagery. In “Mill Town” the industrial buildings of Worcester provide a back drop for trees and a cemetery. The graffiti of the desk are visible creating yet another layer both visually and metaphorically.



Wendy Prellwitz



Marisa DiIorio Peters



Boston area artist, Wendy Prellwitz has a new body of work that focuses on the river passing through her city. Her medium of monotype is well chosen for the subject matter. In ‘First Light #6” she captures the shimmering of the water as the morning sun hits its rippled surface. Monotype allows for the soft edges and muted colors that are so evocative of water. These prints are romantic in their coloring but with an abstract viewpoint. “Water itself has no pattern and little color, except for the forces of wind and tide and the reflections of light and sky. I aim to evoke the feeling and movement of water, the surface wave patterns and the sand ripples left behind,” says the artist.



 

Marisa DiIorio Peters



NH artist, Marisa DiIorio Peters has been with the gallery for over eleven years. Her organic shapes bring to mind plant forms and the sensuality of floral reproduction. Pods, orifices, branches, and flowers float across the surface of her canvases with a dream like quality and luscious colors. “The reality of constant flux in nature and of the metamorphosis of living things are what motivate these images,” says the artist. “But I have long been engrossed with the materiality of oil paint; my love of manipulating surface and color stems from an attachment to the highly seductive nature of the paint.” 

Wendy Prellwitz