February Art Exhibit
Scott Niemi (South Room) and Byron L. Levy (North Room)
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, February 13 at 5:00-7:00pm
Available for viewing during Dubhub open hours:
Mon 10 -12 , Tues 9am-3pm & Wed 10-3 and by appointment.and by appointment.
Exhibition runs Friday, February 13 - Wednesday, March 4
Paintings by Scott Niemi, an award-winning fine artist/illustrator who was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts will be on view in the South Room of the DubHub. Scott completed his formal education at Florida Atlantic University where he earned a M.F.A. in Visual Art with a concentration in painting. In the past he has worked as a professor of Interactive Media/Design at Becker College, as a part-time art lecturer at Franklin Pierce University, at Florida Atlantic University as an adjunct art professor, and as an art handler/installer for the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Currently he is a Teaching Professor in the BSDT program at Clark University.
Scott has participated in many art exhibitions- both on the national as well as the local level. His work can be seen in the corporate collections of the Oak Brook Bank (Oak Brook, IL), the Essex Inn (downtown Chicago), and in the Schacknow Museum of Fine Arts (Plantation, FL), UMass Ambulatory Center (Worcester, MA) and Clinton Hospital (Clinton, MA), as well as in hundreds of private collections, ranging from Beverly Hills to Australia. Scott’s artwork is carried by the following galleries: The Boulder Art Gallery (Fitchburg, MA) and Collins Artworks (Clinton, MA). He resides in southwestern NH.
More info: www.artwanted.com/niemi
In the North Room, February’s exhibition showcases the diverse experiments with style and subject matter of Byron L. Levy (1921 - 2015), a Louisiana watercolorist with connections to the Monadnock region. Byron was born in New Orleans where he maintained an avid commitment to art over seven decades. He organized exhibitions, field trips, and workshops as a member of the New Orleans Art Association, the Louisiana Art and Artists’ Guild, the New Orleans Lettering Arts Association, and the Louisiana Watercolor Society, which awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Byron worked as a business executive until retiring in the 1980s, fully immersing himself in artistic pursuit throughout a thirty-year retirement
Byron’s watercolors characteristically portray Louisiana wetlands and New Orleans vignettes of local interest, but he depicted diverse scenes encountered in his travels and was especially enchanted by what he found on repeated trips to New England. His technique and style were melded from decades of ongoing study with premier watercolorists Edgar Whitney, Milford Zornes, Bob Woods, and his mentor Dong Kingman. His collection of illustrated notes from workshops with these and other artists, amassed over the decades, was featured in American Artist Watercolor magazine.
Byron’s son Ron, now retired in Hancock, is curating the extensive array of Byron’s work. His corpus includes an array of pictorial journals, and a vast collection of sketchbooks spanning eight decades, beginning with his experiences as an American officer in World War II. After Byron’s death, one assembly of his illustrated memoirs was featured in this Op-Doc portrayal in The New York Times. The eclectic mix of artwork on display at the DubHub draws from the paintings in his collection.