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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Stepping into Medfield’s Zullo Gallery, it almost feels as if one has teleported to an upscale art gallery in the heart of New York City. The bright airiness of the top floor gallery brings a sense of peace as visitors head towards the most alluring pieces hanging on the wall. Perhaps the problem is that every painting, photograph, and mixed media piece is simply stunning, and each work competes to enchant the viewer’s eyes first.
“They’re all pieces that went through a selection process to be in the gallery, so they’re all really good,” said Jamie Woods, one of the gallery’s employees, whose favorites include a large painting of tulips and three canvases put together to create a massive ocean wave.
‘Rocking’ by Anna Starkova attracts many viewers with the realistic and calming blue wave at Zullo Gallery’s 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition.
Zullo Gallery’s 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition runs from September 16 to November 4 to showcase entries from New England artists. The Gallery invited artists to send up to three works to be considered for the exhibition. Only the most compelling pieces were accepted.
Among the accepted works were Yolanda Mazzoni’s “Blown Away,” which features a young woman’s portrait using oil paints on an aluminum background, and “Hard Landing,” a colorful and abstract photograph from David Phoenix.
‘Holding Back’ by Barbara Fletcher (left) is one of the few 3D constructed pieces in the gallery. It is accompanied by Robin Wessman’s ‘Tangerine Tea’ (top) and June Vernon’s digital collage ‘From the Ground Up #5’ (bottom).
“Holding Back,” a 3D construction from Barbara Fletcher also made a big impression on the exhibition as one of the few 3D pieces in the gallery. The piece incorporated a three dimensional earth, cut to see a person standing in the center of the planet against a contrasting background.
Other pieces used mixed media, as well, such as Nan Daly’s “Counterpoint: Koi,” which featured bright, swimming koi fish. Using a different medium, Daly intricately created texture on the fishes’ fins, giving the final product a more complex look than simply some fish swimming in a pond.
Nan Daly’s addition of texture to ‘Counterpoint: Koi’ help transform the piece into a more interesting and appealing portrayal of a koi pond.
‘Looking Into It’ by Donald Brown (top) and ‘Hard Landing’ by David Phoenix (bottom) show how different each piece at Zullo Gallery is from one another, but also exhibits how nicely the works compliment each other.
Stretched out on a long table was a 14-page book by Nancer Ballard. Nontraditional in its form, the pamphlet-like book included small photos on each page of a girl and an elephant’s relationship.
While Ballard’s photos seemed to be more straightforward, many of the pieces were abstract and open to interpretation.
With dozens of works on display and for sale, Zullo Gallery’s Juried Exhibition successfully compiled a fabulous collection of various mediums and styles for Medfield’s art appreciators.
