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The Marion Art Center is hosting an exhibition entitled “Still Life and Portraits” by Bill Chisholm. The opening reception will be on Friday, June 11th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. At the same time, members of the Marion Garden Group will create floral interpretations of some of the works, an “Art in Bloom” special event.

^{Bill Chisholm - June 2010
Through his paintings, Mr. Chisholm
attempts to synthesize the long tradition of classical
realist painting with the inspiration of the relatively
new art medium of photography. “By drawing on the skills
from my previous photography work, I utilize the camera
to create intimate “portraits” of my still life
subjects.” The pre-painting photographic study offers a
very specific way of observing and capturing a subject.
While using the photograph as a visual reference Mr.
Chisholm then proceeds to draw and paint with the
sight-size method and other classical techniques in the
same way painters have worked from casts or life drawing
for generations.

In his paintings of fruits
and vegetables, his goal is not only to provide a
realistic image of the subject but also to capture the
object’s uniqueness and “character.” “I continue to
build the layers of paint while exploring a diverse
range of contemporary color fields and compositions
frequently inspired from modernist and abstract
painting.”
Mr. Chisholm is a graduate of Tabor
Academy and holds a BA and MA from Boston College. He
attended the Museum School at the MFA in Boston,
Montserrat College of Art and studied with Tom
Ouellette The Atelier. He was owner and CEO of CS
Photography from 1985 to 2004. Mr. Chisholm has
exhibited in Newport and Tiverton, Rhode Island;
Woodstock, Vermont; Boston, Nantucket, Martha’s
Vineyard, , The DeCordova Museum, Provincetown, ,
Gloucester and Rockport in Massachusetts.}