Jeannie Motherwell, David Borrus, John Heymann: Rock, Paper, Scissors January 5 - 30 Reception: Thursday, January 13, 6 -8PM
Three Virtues: Prudence, Fortitude, Temperance Jeannie Motherwell	Gymnast David Borus	Lantern, Antelope Canyon, Arizona John Heymann

Unlike the children’s game Rock, Paper, Scissors, these artists are not competing in strength but rather exhibiting their contrasting works together in the hopes of illuminating the similarities and differences of their artistic approaches: how they combine a subject with the camera or torch or paintbrush to express an idea, how that medium of choice influences the artist’s vision, how they express texture or light, and other concerns.

Borrus’ sculptures are perhaps most closely influenced by his medium: steel and bronze, welded with a torch. Although his graceful sculptures of musicians and athletes look delicate, the internal strength of the metal makes possible the joyful stance of a mother on tiptoe holding a baby over her head or the elongated form of a goalie swooping through the air to ground a ball. Borrus is attracted to the strength of the athlete and the abandonment of the musician when performing and uses his skill with the gas torch to create musculature as well as motion.

Motherwell’s acrylic/collage works comment on time as well as space. Her world-within-a-world technique of layering a small image over the larger whole stops time and adds depth, just as her triptych “Driving East” shows three snapshots of the changing scenery, capturing three different times as the day hurries on. Her idea of contrasting a blurry impression of land with the smooth, still surface of a lake or sky or of painting below the paper onto the mat also draws our attention away from the narrative to the artist. Her view is always present, as we are reminded by her titles: “Window, with Pink Dune” and “View I.”

Heymann uses light and shadow with the texture and shape of natural objects to recreate what we see before us. Often the subject is photographed close-up, making the image abstract. As he focuses on a striped pattern of light in a corridor or reflected light in a canyon, he creates a sense of motion and depth and sometimes tricks of illusion: is the couple we see really stepping onto a pool of water indoors or is the floor of the museum "flooded' with the reflection from Lake Michigan?

Motherwell has exhibited at Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Boston State House, Sacramento St. Gallery and others as well as Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Stebbins Gallery from which she has received awards.

Heymann has exhibited in Tokyo, at the Boston Public Library and at universities, medical centers, clubs and galleries. He created a mural for the Ashmont MBTA Station, taught workshops to teenagers in Somerville and Dorchester and worked as editor, reporter and photographer for several news vehicles.

A welder by trade, Borrus has exhibited with Cambridge Art Association, Danvers 250th Anniversary Sculpture Show and at galleries in New Hampshire and California. All three are members of North Cambridge Artists (NoCa).

Carter’s little houses haunt the imagination as a child’s secret playhouse might, discovered by chance. Like shrines or reliquaries, as she calls them, these wall sculptures house not only natural objects like birds nests, rocks or shells, but man-made objects weathered or rusted over time, carefully arranged. Carter is concerned with the passage of time and what’s left behind when we move on or die, as the exhibit displays things found “in the garden where detritus from other people’s past appears as the ground freezes and thaws,” and in other places, she says. The titles suggest an exploration of balance, a cycle or continuum, an atmosphere: “Barely off Center,” “A Presence in the Night,” “Within/Without,” “Ocean by Day and Night.” The feeling of shelter is created along with an homage to time, intuition and imagination.

Carter has exhibited with the Cambridge Art Association, at the Attleboro Museum and with Women’s Caucus for Art at the International Center in Boston and Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville. She has also shown work in Texas, Virginia, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Jazz pianist Eyran Katsenelenbogen will return to the Library for a concert of standards and some jazz renditions of Israeli folk songs on Sunday, January 2, at 2:00PM.

The Library welcomes flutist Vanessa Holroyd and pianist Joy Cline Phinney in a return concert engagement on Sunday, January 9, at 2:00PM. Their program will include works by Bach, Poulenc, Schubert, Bizet and Taktakishvili. Seating is limited.

Holroyd and Phinney have performed throughout Boston and New England, as featured artists with the Westford Chamber Music Society and the Steinert & Son Concert Series. They have toured the U.S. Virgin Islands, including the Arts Alive festival in St. Thomas and will be performing in St. Croix in 2005.

Holroyd performs as a soloist with the Rochester Chamber Music Society in Vermont and recently joined Arcadian Winds. In 2002 she was a top prize winner in the Young Artist Competition sponsored by the National Flute Association.

Phinney has appeared in solo and chamber music recitals across the U.S. and in Europe. She has collaborated in chamber music concerts, recording projects and radio and television programs with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera orchestra and others. For over a decade, she has regularly performed at the Sarasota Music Festival in Florida.

Egeria Winds, composed of Susetta Dunn-Rockett, oboe, Michelle Shoemaker, clarinet and Kristin Flower, bassoon will perform works by Francaix, Tomasi, Ibert and Massachusetts composer Daniel Pinkham on Sunday, January 23, at 2:00PM at the Library. This concert is part of the series sponsored by the All Newton Music School, featuring faculty members. Seating is limited.

Founded in 2003, Egeria Winds (formerly NanBei Winds) has performed at Longy School of Music, All Newton Music School and other venues. Last March, they performed Lewis Nielson’s "Alito, gémito" at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. This past fall, Egeria redefined its mission and began focusing on promoting and commissioning woodwind trios written by women composers. The inspiration for the group’s name is the Spanish Abbess

Egeria, who, during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the fourth or early fifth century, noted the involvement of women as singers, together with men, during liturgical services.

Shoemaker’s performances have been described as “excellently controlled,” with a “stellar high register.” She has performed with the New England Philharmonic, Firebird Ensemble, Soria Chamber Players and the Gardner Chamber Orchestra. Chair of the Woodwinds and Brass Department at Longy School of Music, she also serves on the faculties of ANMS and the University of Rhode Island.

Dunn-Rockett, originally from Texas, has performed as Second and guest Principal oboist with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. Since moving to the Boston area, she has performed with the New England Philharmonic, Gardner Chamber Orchestra, MIT Philharmonic Orchestra, Newton Symphony Orchestra and others. This past year, she was involved in performances at both Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall.

Flower is an active freelance musician. She has performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, Berkshire Symphony, Springfield Symphony, Albany Pro-Musica and the Shaker Mountain Music Festival Orchestra. She has served as principal bassoon of the Brockport Symphony, Euridice Chamber Orchestra and the Berkshire Theater Festival Orchestra.

The Green Decade Coalition will kick off its annual Environmental Speaker Series at the Library on Monday, January 24, at 7:00PM.

"Newton’s State of the Environment 2005" will offer an in-depth look at the status of environmental programs in Newton. Water, air, solid waste, transportation, open space and energy will all be on the agenda. Mayor David Cohen will join a panel of representatives from City departments and local groups to discuss environmental efforts, actions and forecasts.

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