MARBLEHEAD – (Photos) Marblehead artist, Amy Hourihan, will be showing a selection of her recent work, in the Carten Gallery at Marblehead’s Abbot Library, for the month of April. The show is entitled “Speaking the Local Vernacular.” Sunday, April 2nd Through Wednesday, April 26th
Public Reception: Sunday, April 2nd, 2:00 – 4:00 Pm
Amy explores the marshes, farms, harbors and gardens between Boston and Gloucester, looking for the iconic and the familiar, but also the warm intimacy of home and family. Principally a plein air watercolorist, working on North Shore landscapes, she also is a printmaker working out of the newly launched Little Harbor Studios in Marblehead. Her watercolors of local scenes are done in a loose style, and in a palette that might be described as “confident.” Her monotypes of local flora and of sea life are stated more abstractly. She also works in woodblock reductions and smaller, multiple block moku hanga Japanese woodcuts. More recently, she has been combining her monotypes into layered encaustic panels. All of these methods will be on view in this show. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, April 2nd, from 2 pm to 4pm, with light refreshments, and the public is warmly invited to attend and greet the artist.
Amy is a member of the Marblehead Arts Association, and is a frequent contributor to the Marblehead Festival of the Arts. She has been a student at the Museum of Fine Arts, Maude Morgan Arts Association, and studied watercolor most recently with Joel Janowitz and Gary Tucker, of Boston. She has shown her award-winning work recently at The New England Watercolor Society National Open Show in Gloucester, in October, 2016, and the Monotype Guild of New England’s 4th National Exhibit in 2016.
The Abbot Public Library is located at 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945. For additional information, please call 781-631-1481 or visit www.abbotlibrary.org.
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