On exhibit at the Firehouse Center for the Arts Gallery
1 Market Square
Newburyport, MA 01950
Gallery hours:
Thursday-Sunday
12pm-5pm
Artists’ Reception
Saturday, October 16th
12pm-2pm
Two Newburyport Art Association members—photographer Jay McCarthy and painter Kale Baker Amato—present “Outside-In” at the Firehouse Center for the Arts Gallery.
Award-winning photographer Jay McCarthy has been passionate about his craft for the past 30 years. He specializes in landscape and portraiture photography and his work has been featured in numerous juried shows and galleries including the former First and Ocean Bank in Newburyport, Fidelity Investments in Boston, The Newburyport Art Association (Best in Show and Best Photographic Submission - Annual Winter Members Juried Show/2012), Cambridge Art Association's "Blue" Exhibit, David’s Restaurant, the Blu Water Café, Michael's Harborside and Chase & Lunt in Newburyport, The Topsfield Fair (2005 Honorable Mention and Third Place in the Professional Photography Division), The Merrimac (MA) Town Hall (Best in Show), Yankee Homecoming’s “Photography at Brown Square”, inclusion in the Mass. Municipal Association’s 2005 Calendar, The Newburyport Literary Festival (Website), Newburyport Magazine, Merrimack Valley Magazine, Post Road Framers in Rowley, MA, Andover’s (MA) “Art in the Park” and other venues.
Kale Baker Amato shares about her work:
Vessels is a grouping of most recent works. These paintings depict potted plants in the controlled setting of a greenhouse; a delicate structure which protects its contents from the harshness of the elements, while simultaneously utilizing the environment to its benefit.
Through use of perspective and subject matter, Baker explores the parallels between the potted plant and humanity, speaking to the fragility and codependence of both upon outside forces bigger than themselves.
Vessels is a nod to the beauty of the collective, the power of the individual and the interconnectedness of humanity with the land. Everything is at the mercy of nature and survival is dependent upon the ability to work with it instead of against it; acknowledging the “glass house” we live within.