Bert Gallery

The Screen is Not a Canvas: Designing for the Laptop, Phone & Tablet
By Danny Chapman of DucStudio

Bert Gallery
Thursday October 20, 2011 at 6:30PM

Presenting your art collection online poses radically different challenges from presenting it in print. Join us to hear how Danny Chapman of DucStudio has assisted Bert Gallery in taking on these challenges. This will be an interactive session discussion – please bring your questions and ideas. Reservations suggested by calling 401-751-2628. The program happens during October Gallery Night Providence.

About Danny Chapman & DucStudio
DucStudio is a husband-wife (and toddler) design team, tucked in a corner of Rhode Island. Danny and Ulana Chapman combine two fancy liberal arts degrees, a decade of professional experience, seven years of non-profit work and some sharp design savvy. We can be serious, and we can be fun. We know budgets, spreadsheets and deadlines, and we know dreams, color and style. Mostly, we love good design and the satisfaction that comes from making things work. – DucStudio

Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Collectors
Bert Gallery
Thursday August 18, 2011 at 6:30pm
With Dr. Joseph Chazan, Renee Doucette & David E. Little

There are many different approaches to collecting art and the program, A Conversation with Collectors, explores different perspectives on art collecting. Catherine Little Bert, Owner of Bert Gallery, will moderate the conversation. Dr. Joseph Chazan, a long time collector of contemporary artists, discusses his interest in the individual artist their work process and artistic motivations. Renee Doucette, free-lance arts writer for the East Side Monthly, shares her thoughts on starting an art collection in your 20’s looking to affordable and innovative art student work. Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) Photography and New Media Curator, David E. Little, PhD talks of his experience in the museum world interfacing with various collectors of photography and the differing perspectives he has encountered. Please join us for the program during the August Gallery Night Providence. Reservations suggested by calling 401-751-2628.

About the Participants
Dr. Joseph Chazan has been a consistent supportor of contemporary artists in Rhode Island. He is a longtime RISD museum patron, member of the RISD Museum of Fine Arts Committee, Newport Art Museum Trustee and patron of many other arts advocacy exhibits, films and events

Renee Doucette is a free lance arts writer from the East Side Monthly and beginning collector. She is a graduate of Simmons College with post-graduate diploma from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, UK and a Masters certificate in International Art Crime Studies from Ameilia, Italy. Renee Doucette C.V.

David. E. Little, PhD. Is a graduate of Bowdoin College. He went on to secure his Masters at Williams College and a PhD from Duke University. The curator organized the photography exhibit, “Embarassment of Riches” this past Winter and is currently working on the upcoming exhibit “The Sports Show” that opens in February of 2012 at MIA. David E. Little, PhD, C.V.

Gallery Talk: Women at Mid-Century at the Art Association of Newport
Newport Art Museum
Thursday August 4, 2011 at 5:30pm
Nancy Grinnell, Curator Newport Art Museum & Catherine Little Bert, Owner of Bert Gallery

The current exhibit, Remembering the Ladies: Women and the Art Association of Newport, curated by Nancy Grinnell, is the backdrop of a gallery talk by Grinnell and Catherine Little Bert on select women artists, currently on view at the museum. Grinnell is currently researching and writing a book on the famous Newport matron, Maud Howe Elliott, and has extensive knowledge of many of the artist members from the Newport Art Association. She will talk about some of the 20th Century women artists on exhibit.

Catherine Little Bert, who has researched and written on Rhode Island artists for the past 25 years, joins Grinnell to discuss Providence printmaker Eliza Gardiner (1871-1955), egg tempera artist Louise Marianetti (1916-2009), RISD educator Edna Lawrence (1898-1987) and modernist painter Florence Leif (1913-1987). All are graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design and had active careers in Providence. For more information please call 848-8200. Newport Art Museum is located at 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840.

Gallery Night Providence
Thursday March 17th from 5-9pm

Special Art Demonstration at 6pm
What is Egg Tempera?
Hosted by Frank Gasbarro & Kathy Hodge
In conjunction with the current Bert Gallery exhibit, The Magical Realism of Louise Marianetti (1916-2009).

Veteran RI artists Frank Gasbarro and Kathy Hodge work with artist Louise Marianetti’s original materials and egg tempera formula in a painting demonstration. The demonstration will show what the properties are of the medium that made it so popular in Renaissance times, why it stirred a revival in American art in the 1940s and who still uses it today.

Also: New Review: Art New England March/April review of the Louise Marianetti exhibit. And – don’t miss the opening of Gallery Night Providence’s 15th Anniversary Season on Thursday March 17th.

Frank Gasbarro and Kathy Hodge have a scheduled demonstration, What is Egg Tempera?, on March 17th at Bert Gallery in conjunction with our current exhibit, The Magical Realism of Louise E. Marianetti (1916-2009). This three part video is from a prep session in Gasbarro’s studio:

1. Pigment mixing – original Marianetti pigments.
2. Pigment storage and properties.
3. Color samples and making egg tempera.

Enjoy a behind the scenes look at the two artists discovering and experimenting in preparation for their demonstration. Visit www.bertgallery.com to find out more details about the demonstration.