Christopher Gillooly and Rachel Elmaleh will be showing their artwork at Gallery North, 9 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA. The exhibit will accompany new work by permanent gallery artists Marilyn Cavallari, Sean McCusker, Barbara Patton, Stephen Dankner, and Carol Shumans from October 2nd to October 31st, 2025. Artists will attend an opening reception Friday, October 3rd from 5-7pm.
Christopher Gillooly is a self taught artist well known in the North Adams community. While helping to form the industrial aesthetic of MASS MoCA, during its founding from 1987-1997, he also documented the process through his artful photography. Known for his unflinching eye and poetic realism, Gillooly's work has both captivated and provoked throughout his 50 year career. This latest exhibit focuses on his art boxes that function as spiritual and historical documentation.
Rachel Elmaleh was born in an artistic family in Paris France. Rachel’s childhood was rich in creativity, surrounded by her father’s impressionist paintings and her mother’s own Dalton School art background. Inspired by her parents’ artist friends and painting mediums, colors and music, Rachel learned to love art for herself. After her family moved to Boston in the '70s, she attended Bennington College, Harvard Extension courses and practiced her own artistic exploration at MassArt and the Museum School.
Marilyn Cavallari, founder/owner of Gallery North, lives in Williamstown. She is a contemporary landscape and seascape artist. She works on several paintings simultaneously, distributing to each canvas her choice of bright and joyful colors.
Stephen Dankner is an American composer/pianist of contemporary classical music. He is also a visual artist, with juried exhibitions of his experimental digital art, much of it taking inspiration from mathematical manipulations of both Julia and Mandelbrot fractal patterns found in nature.
Sean McCusker creates mysterious landscapes filled with light and color. His work inspires hope as the characters, surrounded by a dark world, seek the light just over the horizon.
Barbara Patton’s alternatively fired ceramic work is fired quickly with a rush of flame, smoke and excitement. The fiery chaos of smoke-firing, using natural and chemical materials combined with elements of form and surface, create both fragile yet hardened objects from the earth.
Carol Shumans’ work emerges from a primal connection to the natural world, an intimacy with earth, light, water and memory that has a sense of the ancient and divine. Most pieces become a dialogue between the seen, imagined or felt.
Gallery North is located at 9 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA. Open Tuesday through Saturday 4-7 or by appointment (413) 663-1509. This show will be on display from October 2nd to October 31st, 2025. www.gallerynorthadams.com
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