WESTERLY — Artists Liz Goor and Gerry Mateo will be the featured artists this month at the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly.
The March exhibit, titled “How We Do It — The Creative Process,” will run through March 30, with an opening reception scheduled for this Friday in the train station gallery.
The artists will share their creative processes during the March exhibit, according to member Karen Piazza, and will offer “glimpses of how their work begins as a blank canvas, a lump of clay, a piece of metal, or simply an idea, and progresses into a finished work of art.”
“Like bleak winter evolving into springs life and color, an artist’s journey begins with a blank canvas and a spark of inspiration,” Piazza writes in the gallery’s monthly newsletter.
Elizabeth Goor, Piazza writes, “was a representational artist for the better part of her artistic journey. She has since found her true calling in abstract expressionism, finding it freeing and spontaneous. Her paintings often display hidden elements among the bold colors and strokes.”
Mateo’s interest in photography began in the 1970s when she purchased her first “serious” camera and set up a darkroom in a bathroom, said Piazza.
“Her subject matter varies, especially when she travels, it’s a matter of capturing the light, the moment, and telling a story. Mateo has won many awards, and also exhibits at South County Art Association, Wickford Art Association and Conanicut Island Art Association.”
— Sun staff
