Lake Street Studios hosts Tummino, Richmond
From staff reports
Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor will host an opening reception for painter Judith Tummino on Friday, July 19, from 6-8 pm. Tummino’s work will be featured until July 25. The Gallery is open daily from 11 am-5 pm. Visit LakeStreetStudiosGlenArbor.com for information.
“I plan to exhibit approximately 25 landscapes from Leelanau County and the Sleeping Bear Dunes during my show,” said Tummino. “There will be oil paintings on canvas and panel. Much of the time I work en plein air, enjoying the challenges that the changes in the light and shadows provide. During the winter I work in my studio from drawings and studies. I also rely on memory. My work includes a combination of sky, dunes, trees and water, some painted in mist, others in the bright sunlight.”
“This work is part of a landscape tradition which I have painted for years. I have painted from the shores of the Chesapeake Bay where I spent summers growing up in Maryland. When I moved to Michigan over 40 years ago I continued to paint the waters and sands of the shorelines. Some of my favorite places to paint in Michigan include the Platte River as well as the more central dunes of Sleeping Bear Dunes.”
A reception for painter Joan Richmond will be held Friday, July 26, from 6-8 pm. Richmond’s work will be featured until August 1.
“My paintings use gouache or acrylic water-based medium, primarily landscapes generated first in plein air,” said Richmond. “Some are completed and further developed in the studio. This show of paintings at Center Gallery will represent an ongoing series that express my interest in how forms compose a landscape image.”
“The theme for this show is: Found Shapes—Uncovering landscapes. These images explore how shapes, both geometric and organic, come together to create compositions. They show my interest in how observed forms play with each other to create compositions. What are the visual relationships in how shapes find themselves together? Shapes interlock, and natural patterns occur. These combinations become abstracted when formalized in a painting. “Local” color sets the palette but the value range, light to dark, organizes the space.”
