May 2007 - Brickbottom Artists Association
May 2007 - Brickbottom Artists Association
May 2007 - Brickbottom Artists Association
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<strong>May</strong>’s Artist Of The Month - Resa Blatman<br />
Resa Blatman has lived in Somerville for the past<br />
19 years and just this past year<br />
became a member of the <strong>Brickbottom</strong><br />
<strong>Artists</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
Resa is an oil painter and a<br />
professional graphic designer. She ran<br />
her own studio, Blatman Design, for<br />
10 years before going back to school<br />
for her MFA. She now works as a<br />
freelance graphic designer 2 to 3 days<br />
a week. Resa also has been teaching<br />
graphic design part-time at MassArt<br />
since 1997. The rest of her time, 3 to 4<br />
days a week, Resa spends painting at<br />
her Vernon Street studio.<br />
Resa graduated from Boston University with a<br />
MFA in painting which, to her own surprise, is<br />
when she started to representational objects.<br />
When she first finished art school, she painted<br />
animals, birds, and portraits of humans. Some<br />
years later she moved into abstract painting and<br />
left behind representation, for good, or so she<br />
thought. Her paintings were about fertility, where<br />
she used only fruit and flora -- no humans or<br />
animals. When she finished her master's program<br />
and wasn't under the demands of school, Resa<br />
had time to think about her concepts more deeply.<br />
She wanted to incorporate something that would<br />
represent herself but she didn't want to use the<br />
figure, and so, went back to birds. Resa concluded<br />
this as a natural choice, since birds are a perfect<br />
metaphor for, and have a direct connect to, eggs,<br />
nesting, and the overall cycle of life. She believes<br />
they complement very well, her imagined<br />
landscapes of otherworldly flora.<br />
Resa is pleased to announce the completion of her<br />
most recent painting “Red Hot Peevish Birds” She<br />
also has a solo show coming up in October at<br />
Wheelock College.<br />
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The Baguette is selling Advertisement Space<br />
that will be seen by over 250 members of the<br />
<strong>Brickbottom</strong> community and posted on the web<br />
site. Ads can be either quarter ($25), half ($50)<br />
or full page ($100) spots. If you would like to<br />
purchase ad space in the Baguette or would<br />
just like more info, e-mail Julie at<br />
baguette@brickbottom.org, subject: AD.<br />
“Through my paintings, I attempt to show nature at<br />
odds with itself by playing with the contradictions of<br />
emptiness versus<br />
fullness, lush<br />
versus barren,<br />
etc. The berries,<br />
lemons, or tiny<br />
gold dots<br />
represent an<br />
abundance of<br />
embryos or<br />
eggs.” - Resa<br />
Blatman<br />
Resa’s work can<br />
be seen in<br />
Massachusetts’s galleries, and some of her<br />
paintings are a part of private collections<br />
throughout the United States and in several<br />
countries, including England, Italy, Switzerland,<br />
and South Africa. She is also a Lending Artist to<br />
the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln,<br />
Massachusetts, where thirteen of her paintings are<br />
currently on loan to the museum's corporate<br />
sponsors throughout New England.
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