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TUNNEL CITY COFFEE HOSTS LOCAL ARTISTS FOR FALL SHOWS:
Artists Robert Lafond and Jane Hudson exhibit landscape and abstract paintings at Tunnel City Coffee’s cafe locations this fall. Lafond displays landscape paintings inspired by his home of Williamstown, MA, as well as scenes from New England, France and other locales, at Tunnel City Coffee’s 100 Spring St. location in downtown Williamstown. Hudson displays her show, “Illumination,” a collection of vibrant abstract pieces , at Tunnel City Coffee at MASS MoCA for the fall season. The show features works from her latest Alchemical series and makes use of bold colors and shapes as a metaphor for personal evolution.
Robert Lafond's landscape paintings are on display at Tunnel City Coffee in downtown Williamstown, MA through fall 2019.
Lafond studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and worked for twenty years at the Princeton University Art Museum. He has shown his paintings at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Southern Vermont Arts Center, the Canfield Gallery, and the Bryan Memorial Gallery, among others. His pastel and oil paintings focus largely on Brooklyn streets and the rural Berkshires.
Jane Hudson's abstract paintings are on display at Tunnel City Coffee at MASS MoCA through fall 2019.
Hudson is a painter, National Endowment for the Arts award winning video artist, musical composer and performer, and spent years teaching at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has shown her paintings at the Atlantic Gallery, Nielsen Gallery, Segal Gallery, and The Left Bank, as well as other local galleries.
Jane Hudson's work is on display at Tunnel City Coffee at MASS MoCA through the fall season, and Robert Lafond's work is on display at Tunnel City Coffee in downtown Williamstown. All work is available for in store purchase.
Art by Tracy Baker-White is on display at Tunnel City Coffee in Williamstown through September 2019.
Tunnel City Coffee in Williamstown, MA hosts local artist Tracy Baker-White for a summer show of landscape paintings through September 2019. For the last several years, Baker-White has focused on landscapes from New England and Ireland.
She writes: “It is humbling, really, to stand in a landscape and listen to the quiet… to understand the land, and its interaction with the human hands that have shaped it. My work explores the importance of landscapes in human consciousness.”
Baker-White paints with oil on linen or gessoed wood panels with an orange ground. She relishes the visual effect of complementary orange peeking through the green, blue and gray. She often works in a series, starting with small studies, then developing large scale pieces.
“I am always attracted to the tension between real and abstract shapes. Mark making has always been important to me, and my goal is to develop a rich surface that allows for depth, perspective, and fullness of form while retaining the character of marks.”
Baker-White’s summer landscape show runs through September 2019 and all work is available for purchase.
Words courtesy of Tracy Baker-White and Tunnel City Coffee/photo courtesy of Tracy Baker-White
Tunnel City Coffee at Mass MoCA displays a summer show with art by Viola Moriarty and her daughters Anna Moriarty Lev and Phoebe Moriarty Lev through September 2019. The show features a collection of still lifes and portraits–a variety of bold and colorful pieces by a family connected through art.
Viola Moriarty’s work includes portrait pieces and still lifes that capture simple and beautiful everyday moments, painted both inside her studio and outside. She started painting in oils in 2002 and it changed the way she saw the world. Viola’s art lives on through her daughters and her collection of personal, compelling work.
Phoebe Moriarty Lev lives and works in southern Chile, painting on canvas and anything she can find, including blank walls for her mural work.
Art by Viola Moriarty, Anna Moriarty Lev and Phoebe Moriarty Lev is on display at Tunnel City Coffee at Mass MoCA through September 2019.
Anna Moriarty Lev is a cartoonist and figurative painter, focusing on people and daily rituals. One of these rituals, coffee, is a recurring theme in both her art and family life. After her first child was born, she found some peace in walking to and visiting Tunnel City Coffee. Anna sends bags of Tunnel City Coffee’s dark roast Sumatra coffee beans to her sister in Chile, where instant coffee is the more popular choice.
“That cup of coffee in the morning is one little connection between faraway siblings,” says Anna.
Their artist statement reads: “This exhibit is about more than just women and coffee. It is about bold and intense women and what fuels us, about the art that connects us to the mother we so deeply miss, and about the little inspirations that come from living a full creative life, which can be anything from an intense sense of loss to a beautiful mug filled with cafe con leche.”
Viola, Phoebe and Anna’s summer art show at Tunnel City Coffee at Mass MoCA runs through the end of September 2019 and many pieces are available for purchase.
Photo courtesy of Anna Moriarty Lev