University of Massachusetts Chancellor Robert Holub and his wife Sabine will welcome artists and community members to their on-campus home today for Ms. Holub’s monthly Hillside Salon event.
The gathering will bring together four area artists and will focus on landscape painting, multimedia art and sculpture, as each artist will be allotted 20 seconds per slide to showcase up to 20 slides.
At this month’s Salon, attendees will first be treated to the work of Ali Moshiri, a painter and a doctor, according to an April 19 release. Moshiri trained in art psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center in the Berkshire’s Stockbridge, Mass., under the guidance of seminal art psychotherapy practitioner Leo Garel, until Garel’s death in 1999. According to the release, Mr. Moshiri bases his work on his “observations from nature, primarily landscape.” In his recent work, though, Moshiri has drifted towards more abstract painting, still drawing from nature as a source. Moshiri’s work has been displayed at the Fauve Gallery here in Amherst, according to the release, and has also been featured at the Image Gallery in Stockbridge.
The second artist to display his work at tomorrow’s Salon will be the Worcester-based Michael Tillyer. Tillyer is a graphic artist and a sculptor whose works have been featured at a variety of museums across the Commonwealth and elsewhere, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, the Chesterwood museum and the Lynhurst Museum, according to the release. Tillyer trained under the mentorship of Peter Forakis, Charles Ginnever and David Rohn, the release states. He presently teaches an online art course at Holyoke Community College.
Third to present will be “intermedia artist” Burns Maxey, who seeks to use a variety of contemporary and historical artistic methods to focus on “place and narrative,” according to the release. Maxey’s work typically incorporates video, performance art, audio, photo imagery, sculpture and painting, according to the release, utilizing a medley of media to tell a more encompassing story. She has displayed her work in Boston, San Francisco, New York and around the northeast, the release states, and will be working on the third piece of a four-installment multimedia endeavor titled “Project Elements Easthampton.” She is also a member of the Boston-based artists’ group Mobius, which seeks to “generate, shape and test experimental art,” according to the News Office statement.
Fourth will be Williston Northampton School painting and design teacher Marcia Reed, who has been at the Easthampton preparatory school for 30 years, according to the release. She also teaches at the Maine College of Art in Portland. Reed leads “retreats” across Italy, specifically in Sardinia and Tuscany, according to the release, and has been a member of the summer staff in painting at the Snow Farm New England Crafts Program in Williamsburg, outside Northampton. Reed has displayed her work at galleries across New England, according to the release, and has also been featured in exhibitions in New York City and the Virgin Islands.
The event requires registration at www.hillsidesalon.org., with Salons typically held on the third Thursday of each month during the school year.
-Collegian News Staff
