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Artist Exhibitions:
2003 Members Exhibit,
Fuller Museum of Art,
Brockton, MA
2000 Faith, UMass, Dartmouth
Religious Ctr., N. Dartmouth,
MA
1999 Risking Art: Risking
Faith, EDS, Cambridge, MA
1998 Invitational, Episcopal
Diocese of Mass. Gallery,
Boston, MA
1996 Fort Point Artists
Community, 300 Summer Gallery,
Boston, MA
Women’s Caucus for Art, ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Rev. Wm. Barger, Doylestown,
PA
Drs. Ethan & Helen
Kisch-Pniewski, Boston
David Bishop, Cambridge, MA
Rodney Burlingame, Boston, MA
Nancy Cahners, Boston, MA
Dean Phyllis Curtin, Boston,
MA
Brian D’Angora, Boston, MA
Susan Daniels, Isle of Iona,
Scotland
Nancy F. Earsy, Esq.,
Lexington, MA
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Gardner,
Milton, ...
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Michelle Mendez
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In all media, the work's design, proportion, surface treatment and detail are important elements in the process. I respect colors found in nature and honor them. I prefer working from life because I enjoy the reciprocity of engaging oneself with the elements of nature. Many small oils are done on site, then larger works are built up in the studio from oil and drawing studies, photographs and imagination.
I studied with landscape painters John Moore, James Weeks, Harriet Shorr and George Nicks at Boston University; Gillian Pederson Craig and Gabriel Laderman in New York; and Julia Wroughton in Scotland. I learned about draftsmanship and the 3d world from ceramist Ron Mello, sculptor John Wilson and printmakers Sydney Hurwitz and Debra Cornell. I am deeply indebted to my teachers.
I had the great fortune to travel to China to see first hand the great landscape scroll paintings and meet with master calligrapher artists and wood cut printers. I would like to go back to study more and paint the landscape. I was also fortunate to live in Scotland and paint landscapes on the Isle of Iona and Mull. I have painted around New England and enjoyed sketching in the Wellesley College greenhouse.
Currently, I teach art and you can learn more about this and see images from my trip to China at this site: http://www.cantonma.org/myweb/hayesm/
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