Arts & Leisure
York Art Association fall show to begin Friday
This garden scene in front of the York Art Association's home on York Street in York Harbor announces the start of the YAA Fall Show on Friday, Sept. 22.
Courtesy photo
The YAA Fall Show is chaired by member artists Mary Ann Kennedy and Joan Quarry and the art will be judged by Copley Society Artist Dennis Poirier of South Berwick.
The theme of the show is gently general, "Fall Scenes in New England." Each YAA member may show one item and, depending on merit and space available, each member may also have one or two additional pieces selected for inclusion.
Poirier grew up in Gloucester, Mass., and soon became a part of the long line of Cape Ann artists who have become an important school among America's impressionist painters. He has trained at Butera School of Art in Boston, with John C. Terelak and Ted Goerschner at the Gloucester Academy of Fine Arts, and at the Art Students' League in New York, winning the Charles J. Romans Memorial Award at his very first national exhibit at the Allied Artists of America Show. Dennis returned to Cape Ann in 1980 to teach at the academy and later painted with Don Stone and helped teach classes in Monhegan with him.
He now lives and works in South Berwick, where his gallery studio is at 33 Wells St. Poirier stays close to the sea, drawing inspiration from meadows, forests and the coast from Cape Ann to Maine. He is a member of Oil Painters of America, North Shore Arts Association, Rockport Art Association, the Copley Society of Art (a Copley Artist), the Hudson Valley Arts Association and the Academic Artists Association.
The YAA Fall Show will run through Oct. 22 with the gallery open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Sunday, each week.
For information, call 363-4014.
