Bert Gallery

There will select works of art from The Passionate Collector exhibit on sale throughout the month of August. We will post weekly sale items in the Attic Sale & the Art Market section of our website.

Don’t miss out, and visit our Attic Sale & the Art Market section for new postings August 10th, August 17th, August 24th and the Grand Finale on August 31st. This will be the only notice of the sale – you need to visit the Attic Sale directly every week to follow new postings. To get a full view of the complete Passionate Collector exhibit, visit the gallery or view our online slideshow.

Two recent reviews of The Passionate Collector exhibit, by Renee Doucette of East Side Monthly and Bill Van Siclen of the Providence Journal. Download PDFs of the reviews by clicking on the links below!

East Side Monthly Review, August 2011
ProJo Review, August 2011

Until August 28th: Visit our new exhibit, The Passionate Collector, and see an array of different print media including etchings, wood engravings and woodcuts. To get an excellent review of different types of prints, visit MoMA Museum link What is a Print? here.

July 21st: The opening reception for The Passionate Collector is Gallery Night Providence on Thursday, July 21st. Join the festivities!

Until October 16th: Check out the Bert Gallery paintings included in the Newport Art Museum exhibit, Remembering the Ladies: Women and the Art Association of Newport. Florence Leif and Louise Marianetti are included.

August 4th: Catherine Bert joins curator Nancy Grinnell for a Gallery Talk, Women at Mid-Century at the Art Assocation of Newport, for Newport Gallery Night.

August 18th: Panel Discussion on Gallery Night Providence at 6:30, The Passion to Collect Art. Speakers include contemporary collector Dr. Joseph Chazan, East Side Monthly art writer Renee Doucette, and Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) Photography and New Media Curator, David E. Little, PhD. Find out the many motivations to collect works of art.

There are two new online exhibits launched on the Bert Gallery website.

From the Stock list of George Whitaker (1841-1916)
George Whitaker was a critical figure in Rhode Island Art. He was one of the founders of the Providence Art Club in 1880, one of the earliest Providence artists to study with Millet protégés in France bringing back the Barbizon art style to Rhode Island and the first oil painting instructors at the Rhode Island School of Design.

However, Whitaker was also an avid collector of paintings from fellow artists in Providence. This slideshow has several paintings consigned from the des- cendents of George Whitaker – what a great provenance from his studio through three generations. We added a few extra Whitakers from the Bert Gallery inventory to round the slideshow out.

Paula Martiesian Curates Paula Martiesian
Paula has selected a number of newer paintings for viewers to explore. Two paragraphs from her artist statement describe her commitment to painting.

“I am a person seduced by color and addicted to tubes of paint. I am a person who spends much of her life juggling the demands of time, the limitations of space and the politics of color on a three by four foot canvas. I am a person who believes most of the world’s problems could be solved if only I could get that lower left hand corner of a painting to behave.

On any given day, you will find me in my studio deep in negotiations with cobalt blue and permanent rose. But eventually the negotiations cease, the painting is dressed up in a frame and off it goes to rest on a wall somewhere in a gallery or in someone’s home. Then I step back and the painting begins a life of it’s own – a life without me.”

Visit our newly organized PODCAST section on the website and stay tuned for new entries.

On March 10th, Bill Van Siclen of the Providence Journal reviewed our current Marianetti exhibit. Click here to read the review on the ProJo‘s website (scroll to halfway down the page for the start). Download a PDF of the article here.