East Boston, May 2010 – From June 4 through June 30, 2010, Atlantic Works Gallery presents STORY/STRUCTURE: Artwork by Richard Dorff, Martha McCollough and Neil Wyatt. Your stories help you understand your life as a meaningful structure. Atlantic Works artists Richard Dorff, Martha McCollough, and Neil Wyatt and tell stories of creation, destruction and change with curiosity and humor.
Dorff sculpts environments from a wide variety of materials, and the effect stimulates you to see your world afresh. McCollough paints darkly humorous, absurdist cartoons in enamel, often with monoprint techniques to merge mechanical and human gestures. Wyatt draws narratives of nature and familiar places, and paints oil explorations of flow and mutability. Although their artwork looks completely different, these artists all accomplish the same alchemy: their stories turn uncertainty into possibility.
The public is invited to attend the ARTISTS’ RECEPTION on Friday, June 11 from 6-9 pm and to visit the gallery Fridays and Saturdays from 2pm to 6pm. The public is also invited to Atlantic Works Gallery’s monthly THIRD THURSDAY GATHERING, on June 17, 6-9pm. To schedule a private press viewing and interview at a more convenient time, please contact Martha McCollough, 617.466.2349.
About the Artists
Richard Dorff studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art and attended a series of summer workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is a founding member of the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, has shown his work there for the past six years, and has been in various shows in the Boston area.
Born in Detroit, Martha McCollough got her MFA from Pratt Institute and has exhibited in solo and group shows around Boston and throughout New England since the early 1980’s.
Originally from Wales, UK. Neil Wyatt earned his BA in Fine art at the “Cardiff Institute of Art and Design”. Since moving to the United States he has progressively been working in the medium of oils and inks and has won several national and state awards.