"View of the display at Sisters We Three Gallery (vertical arrangement in center), 57 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, Mass. Sisters has around 30 pieces ($25-$150), old and new, and will rotate the stock and the location in the store. If…"
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Jeff Roberts Showing at Sisters We Three Gallery at Sisters We Three Gallery, 57 Pleasant St., Newburyport, MA 01950
May 5, 2012 at 10am to May 31, 2012 at 7pm
Sisters We Three Gallery28 works by North Andover MA assemblage/collage artist Jeff RobertsSee More
"Thanks Ken. On Cosmic Windmills I placed a dried cat tail on the glass before painting. That left the shape in the center that I then over-painted in jade. I also ended up with a half-painted dried cat tail. Hmmmmm...
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Jeff Roberts Poem Objects: Assemblage, Collage and Boxes 2011-2012 at Gafney Library
April 14, 2012 from 11:30am to 1:30pm
“A one of a kind art show; a collection of ingenious assemblage created using fine images, found objects and a collection of nuts, bolts, pins and needles,” is how Exhibit Coordinator Peter Abate describes the latest art exhibit at the Gafney Library in Sanbornville. The exhibit features the work of artist Jeff Roberts and is titled “Poem Objects: A reception celebrating his work on will be held Saturday April 14 from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. For the full press release, click…See More
"I'm working on a series using spray paint on glass and adding collage elements to the front. I'm seeing some interesting textures and solarizations while mingling the paint that guides the selection and placement of the collage bits. I…"
"I sometimes use stock photo agencies when I need a specific image type and can't take my own pictures. I pay for these licenses, but the licenses still come with prohibitions. One of the Permitted Uses has always made me feel a bit more…"
"Huge Thanks to Peter Abate from the Mount Washington Valley Arts Association for hanging the show.
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- What kind of art do you do?
- I am first a poet. I make poems, both written and “poem objects” inspired by the masters Cornell, Nevelson, Westermann, Duchamp, Schwitters, and countless others. I am self-taught and self-represented. I create from inexpensive or found objects, assembling to suit my whims at the moment. I usually create as I go rather than plan out a piece, as any plan quickly changes dynamically from what I see as I build.
I am a member of The International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists, The Academy of American Poets, and the New England Poetry Club. My first book of poems, Chatter in the Canopy, was published in 2009 and is available from Etsy and Amazon. My poems have appeared in The Aurorean, Meanie Magazine, Recursive Angel, 15 Credibility Street, The Hudson Street Review, The Pictish League, and Blood Pudding Press. Her Unusual Journey won first place in the annual Lawrence (Massachusetts) Eagle-Tribune Poetry Contest (1999). Beach Glass, which first appeared in the Aurorean, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009.
Chatter in the Canopy
Poems by Jeff Roberts; Drawings by Dick Roberts and Doug Heinlein
ISBN-13: 978-1439214817; LCCN: 2008909362
“An exquisite blend of art and verse.” -Midwest Book Review
“…fiercely observant, honest and keenly sensitive, without self-pity…” -Ned Clay, Love & Love Reclaimed, The Simple Press
“…Roberts’s poems bring us to a place where we remember and might reclaim the kind of experience that both aches and heals at once—the thing we come to poems for, in the end . . . a lost wisdom that poetry more than anything else tries to give back to us.” -Paul Haenel, Farewell, Goodbye, Wave Goodbye, Washington Writers’ Publishing House
- What is your website address?
- www.etsy.com/shop/opmjeff
- What is the guiding principle in your art?
- The original spark between artist, art, and audience is as whimsical and unpredictable as it is between humans. Who knows why we are initially attracted to a piece of art. As with people, the first reaction is usually to some physical feature. Something either affects us or it doesn’t, and that is perfectly acceptable. We explore. We discover. We winnow. A poem or a piece of art needs to hit us somehow before we move deeper into it. When I finish a piece of my own or discover work by others, either art or poetry, and that piece really works for me and on me, I have the urge to windmill my arm like Pete Townshend. It's what drives me and keeps me up at night and gets me up in the morning. I believe that any form of art is only successful if the work turns a common item or idea into an uncommon one – creating not only the poem or poem-object, but some form of emotional power chord. Or sometimes just the sense - or possibility - of that kind of alchemy.
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- At 8:43am on February 19, 2012,
ken coleman said…
Congratulations on the upcoming show, Jeff.
Be sure to post a few photos of the exhibition here for us to see.
- At 7:06pm on February 10, 2012,
Stephen Mead said… Your eye for the eloquence of a curve is moving, whether used to evoke nostalgia or something futuristic.
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