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Pamela Hoss & Kim Barry
Two Painters, Two Friends

Show Dates
September 28 - November 1, 2024

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 28, 3:00-5:00pm

Gallery Presentation 
Tuesday, October 15, 7:00-8:00pm
FREE and Open to the Public

The Marion Art Center will host an artist presentation on Tuesday, October 15, from 7:00-8:00pm in the MAC galleries at 80 Pleasant Street, Marion. Exhibiting artists Pamela Hoss and Kim Barry will discuss their paintings and their processes, and answer questions about their work.

Kim Barry is a painter, potter, sculptor, and art educator. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Sculpture and from University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth with an MFA in Painting. Kim has lived in the south coast of Massachusetts most of her life and is a member of Hatch Street Studios in New Bedford, South Coast Artist, an exhibiting and teaching member of the Providence Art Club, Rogers Gallery in Mattapoisett, The Drawing Room in New Bedford, Westport Art Group, Marion Art Center, Cape Cod Cultural Center, and owner of Clay Trout Pottery in Mattapoisett. Her work is informed by the beautiful, south coast environment and the natural objects she encounters.

My pockets are always full of shells and the bits I discover along my walks. Through deep observation and my intimate response to the natural world, I find a bounty of inspiration for my paintings. My subject matter such as fruits, flowers, veggies, shells can often reference the human form, gesture, memory, emotion, sensuality. My landscapes simply capture the energy of a time and place. When I work from the natural world, I ingest this experience and then synthesize it into my own expression. My use of paint is visceral. I have an appetite for color and enjoy the manipulation of paint that grabs the eye and stirs the unconscious. When painting, I am compelled to articulate a fierce passion for life, female strength, and fecundity.

Kim Barry, Umbrian Terrace, 2024, oil on panel, 16" x 16"

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Philip Tifft

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Maria Bayazid
Cathleen Broderick
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Harriet Ingerslev
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Pamela Hoss received a BFA from Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1972 and an MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 1984. She taught drawing at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University and Montserrat College of Art. She started teaching at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1989 and continued for thirty years, retiring in 2018.

Among her many awards are: an award from the Boit Competition (the Museum School, 1982); the Tomaso Travel Award to Italy (Tufts University, 1984); a trip to the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain from Eleanor Sayre, an international authority on Goya and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the MFA Boston; a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Artist’s Fellowship for works on paper in 1994; a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant and an ARTnet Grant from New Bedford Creative in 2023.

Hoss has also served as juror and curator: juror in 2023 and 2024 for the Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival, a joint endeavor between the MAC and the Gosnold Cultural Council; co-curator (with Willoughby Elliott) of “Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections” for the New Bedford Art Museum in 2012; juror for the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grants, 2013; juror for the National Figure Show at the North River Art Society, Marshfield MA in 2009.

Hoss has several pieces of her work in the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the Boston Public Library. She has exhibited nationally and regionally in commercial galleries, university galleries and many museums. Selected exhibitions include the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, the Fitchburg, the Danforth Museum in Framingham, the Fuller Museum in Brockton, the Attleboro Art Museum, and the New Bedford Art Museum.

Pamela Hoss, Mother's Larkspur, 2024, oil on canvas, 20" x 20"

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Call for Entries

Small Works + Holiday Shop

Applications due by October 23

Show Dates
November 9 - December 20, 2024

Opening Reception
Saturday, November 9, 3:00-5:00pm

The Marion Art Center announces a call for entries for its final exhibition of the 2024 season, Small Works + Holiday Shop. This annual juried/invitational show features original works of art, all under fourteen inches, plus a curated selection of handmade goods including jewelry, textiles, ceramics, woodworks, gifts, and more. If approved, an artist may submit up to four pieces for exhibition. The number of handmade craft items allowed such as jewelry, apparel, cards, etc. will be determined on a case-by-case basis. Any artist who has previously shown at Arts in the Park, or any other juried MAC exhibition (this excludes members’ shows) is invited to participate and does not need to apply or be approved by the exhibitions committee.

To apply to the Small Works + Holiday Shop exhibition, use the form below. All applications are due by Wednesday, October 23. Works should be no larger than 14" in any direction, including frame. Both 2D and 3D works will be accepted. All works must be ready to install (framed, wired, etc.), in good condition, and available for sale. Participating artisans in the Holiday Shop will be required to submit a detailed list of items and prepare all goods with price labels and inventory codes. The MAC retains a 40% commission on all sold artworks and shop items. Artists will be notified by the end of October if they are accepted, and early applications are strongly encouraged. Drop-off dates are scheduled on Saturday, November 2 from 10am-2pm and Tuesday, November 5 from 10-3pm.

2024 Highlights

Nancy Dyer Mitton Paintings
A Survey: 1984-2024

Show Dates
July 6 - August 9, 2024
The Marion Art Center is pleased to present works by Nancy Dyer Mitton, honoring forty years of exhibiting at the MAC.

An interview with Nancy about her work:

Nancy Dyer Mitton resides in Marion, Massachusetts. She is a lifelong student of art and art history. Ms. Mitton received her BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art where she studied with George Nick. Her first exhibition at the Marion Art Center was in 1985. Soon after, she co-founded the Water Street Gallery in Mattapoisett with fellow artists Severin Haines, Laura Anderson, A.D. Tinkham and Henry Avery. The Maryland Institute College of Art awarded Nancy Dyer Mitton artist residencies at Rochefort-en-Terre in Brittany, France twice - in 1995 and 2001. She became an exhibiting artist member of The National Arts Club in New York in 1993, and a member of the Artists’ Fellowship in 1995. In 1999, Nancy Dyer Mitton wrote “A Romantic Art Colony: Marion, Massachusetts,” a book about careers of key American artists and writers who put Marion and New York on the global cultural map during the late 19th Century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is exhibiting this group, “New York Art Worlds, 1870 - 1890” on view through July 21, 2024.

Nancy Dyer Mitton’s paintings are featured in collections throughout the United States and Europe, and Mitton has been represented by Soprafina Gallery in Boston since 2001. Soprafina Director Frank Roselli describes Nancy as "an avid lover of nature - its expansive beauty, power and light. Her paintings use the physicality of the oil paints as she creatively constructs her canvas using wet paint with adroit skill.”

The new 2024 catalog of Nancy Dyer Mitton paintings is available at the Marion Art Center July 6 - August 9, 2024.

Nancy Dyer Mitton, Planting Island, 2023, oil on canvas, 36" x 60"
Nancy Dyer Mitton, Dune Slide, 2023, oil on canvas, 36" x 48"