Presenting the Savage Godfrey Gallery’s Inaugural Exhibition
The premiere exhibition of the Savage Godfrey Gallery is now open! Featuring works by Kelly Brodrick, John Thompson, and Amy Ross, this exhibition is a dynamic look at the natural world– from the whimsical to the meditative. Works will be on view until December 31, 2024.
About Our New Name
Savage Godfrey Gallery is a multi-generational woman-owned business, formerly the Sunne Savage Gallery, founded in 1975 by Sunne Savage in Boston, MA. This year’s rebranding reflects Christina Godfrey’s dedication and key role in gallery operations over the past 20 years. The Gallery specializes in residential and corporate art sales, custom commissions, and collection management including framing, conservation, and appraisals. Gallery clients include Amundi, Boston Children’s Hospital, Lendlease, RSM, and numerous private clients.
About Our New Location
Christina Godfrey, Norwell resident and Gallery Director, is leading the opening of the new location. Savage Godfrey Gallery will promote emerging and mid-career regional artists. Group exhibitions will range stylistically from abstract to transitional with inspiration rooted in nature. Rotating exhibitions will run for 8-12 weeks. The Savage Godfrey Gallery will be a destination on the South Shore of Massachusetts for collectors, makers, designers, and art enthusiasts. The premiere exhibition will combine intuitive abstract paintings by Kelly Broderick with unique screen-print water studies by John Thompson and whimsical “nature-morph” collages by Amy Ross.
Savage Godfrey Gallery is located at 693 Main Street, Norwell, MA. The Gallery shares a building and entrance with Coastal Chic Interiors. Gallery hours are Tuesdays 12 to 4 pm, Wednesday through Friday from 10 to 4 pm or by appointment.
Richard Keen and Robert S. Neuman at Shaw Contemporary
We’re excited to announce that our own Christina Godfrey has guest-curated an exhibition with works by Richard Keen and Robert S. Neuman at Shaw Contemporary Jewelry!
The exhibition will be on view from August 15th through the 28th. An opening reception will be held on August 15th from 5 to 7 p.m. Shaw Contemporary Jewelry is located at 128 Main Street, Northeast Harbor, ME.
The works on view by Neuman are drawn from his Space Signs series. Spanning decades and diverse media, varying in size and composition, the common thread that binds this series is the constellations that adorn Mount Desert Island’s night sky.
Each work hosts a myriad of heavenly bodies that are sketched, stamped, and painted. More so than any of Neuman’s other series, Space Signs rewards close-looking. No two vividly colored spheres are alike, each is a unique world unto itself.
Richard Keen’s paintings bring the exhibition back down to earth. Works on view are drawn from his Island Geometry series. Keen is best known for the way he reduces detail, flattens space, amplifies color, and responds to patterns.
Island Geometry showcases this distinctive artistic signature as the artist reflects on hikes taken around Mount Desert Island’s inlets, ponds, beaches, and woodlands.
Sunne Savage Gallery Exhibits Local Artists at Coastal Chic Interiors
Interior Designer Mary Bess Engel will be hosting this unique summer art soiree and shopping experience curated by our own Christina Godfrey. 10 original artworks created by local artists, Christine Bodnar, Jess Hurley Scott, and John Vinton will be on display.
Norwell Spotlight TV stopped by Coastal Chic Interiors in Norwell Center for our art reception! NSTV interviewed Mary Bess Engel, owner of Coastal Chic, and Christina Godfrey, Director of the Sunne Savage Gallery. Watch the full interview here.
Christine Bodnar’s paintings are inspired by how light sets the drama of color, shadow, and rhythm of a composition. Best known for her pastels on paper, her work is derived from observing her natural surroundings.
She creates interpretations of these moments in a contemporary realist and expressive style. This exhibition will feature a series of her recent acrylic paintings on canvas of the South Shore.
John Vinton paints to capture a sense of place, conveying a mixture of impressions, allusions, and an “inner” feeling of the places that move us.
Vinton uses the “sense-ness” of abstraction to tap into our earliest experiences before we had placed our responses into categories like “tree” and “house”. Layered, textured abstract canvases depicting the artist’s favored coastal locations will be on display.
Jess Hurley Scott is a contemporary painter of land and seascapes. Her dimensional paintings of multi-layered, individually painted acrylic panels deal with light, illusion, and perception. Scott plays with the intricacies of the natural world, digital technology, and translucency in her work. The result is bold realism and a unique interpretation of the landscape. Her scale ranges from near miniature scale vignettes to dramatic, sweeping seascapes. Both are on display.
Coastal Chic Interiors is an interior design firm serving the Boston area and its surroundings. Mary Bess Engel, owner and Interior Designer, helps clients create beautiful, livable spaces that reflect their unique taste and personal style. Whether you’re starting with a blank canvas or integrating existing pieces, they will help you achieve your dream home.
The Sunne Savage Gallery is a multi-generational, woman-owned business that provides private and corporate art services. Gallery services include art acquisition, appraisal, sales and commissions, and collection management. Christina Godfrey, Gallery Director, is a Norwell resident and represents regional emerging to midcareer artists.
TRASH TO TREASURE ON VIEW AT BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL MINI-MUSEUM
From the rocky coast of Maine to the sandy gulf shores of Alabama, Trash to Treasure features artwork made from objects collected on the beach. Focused on bringing attention to the abundance of trash in the environment, these artists repurpose and examine these materials up close.
The exhibition is on view in the Mini Museum at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Hale Family Building Lobby, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA. It will be on view through September 30th. Read on to learn more about the artists featured in this exhibition!
The Caver Family
Oliver and his family began cleaning Gulf Coast beaches in 2020. “We try to recycle as much of the trash as we can, but occasionally we will bring the cool finds and colorful microplastics home to up-cycle them into art. The process is like putting a puzzle together. Every piece must be hand-placed. The wood for the bases is also recycled from scraps we find.
Clean Horizons was founded in 2020 by the Cavers with a mission to inspire younger generations and their families to get involved in environmental actions and find ways to reduce their plastic consumption while promoting quality family time spent outdoors. To date, Oliver and his family have captured 8,428 pounds of litter from the coast and Clean Horizons has captured 29,937 pounds of litter through community cleanup events.
Eric Darling
A self-taught artist native to New England, Darling’s interests in photography, travel, culture, and the natural world are evident in his work. Living along the shores of Midcoast Maine, he started to discover pieces of rope from the lobster fishing industry washed up on the banks of the Saint George River. The vibrant, colorful cords of rope inspired him and he began adhering them to wood panels.
Since 2015 he has been exploring ways to use rope artistically resulting in the emergence of The Drift Rope Project. The rope is collected from a local transfer station, and folks from the lobster industry directly. This “art with a mission” recycles waste from one of Maine’s largest industries’ waste into fine art and highlights how integral rope is to the livelihoods of coastal communities.
View more of Eric’s work here.
Evelyn Rydz
Multidisciplinary artist Evelyn Rydz creates drawings, paintings, site-specific installations, and participatory community projects. Her artistic practice centers on interconnected bodies of water, highlighting the complex relationships between personal histories, human impacts, and threats to natural and cultural ecosystems.
As part of her ongoing project Floating Artifacts, Rydz conducts coastal field studies, gleaning tiny samples of debris that have washed ashore. She magnifies her findings under a microscope and then creates portrait-sized photographs of them. The resulting body of work encourages us to think about what these objects are made of, how they got into the ocean, and how that relates to the abundance of plastic in our world.
Evelyn is originally from Miami, Florida, and currently lives, creates, and teaches in Boston, MA.
View more of Evelyn’s work here.
LEGOMASTERS EXHIBIT BRICK BY BRICK AT BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL MINI-MUSEUM
Brick by Brick is currently installed at the Hale Building’s Mini Museum. The exhibition includes intricate and unique three-dimensional and mosaic LEGO constructions created by Corey Samuels, Liz Puleo, Erin Laundry, and Tacos Blandino, participants of Fox Network’s popular LegoMaster series.
Brick by Brick, curated by Christina Godfrey of the Sunne Savage Gallery, will be on view at Boston Children’s Hospital through May 2024.
“Play is how children make sense of the world around them. In the hospital it helps kids in many ways; provides escape, to feel in control, and to better understand. Most importantly, it makes them smile.”
-Rusell Cassaveh, LittleBricks Charity
In conjunction with the exhibition, LittleBricks Charity generously donated hundreds of LEGO sets to Boston Children’s Hospital as part of BCH Brick Day. Brick Day highlights also included live builds with the Lego Masters at BCH as well as two Seacrest Studio programs hosted at the Hospital. Learn more about Little Bricks Charity at www.littelbrickscharity.org
Anne Neely: Awash & Jess Hurley Scott: Tidal Places at Shaw Contemporary
Works by Jess Hurley Scott and Anne Neely will be on view at Shaw Contemporary from August 17th through the 30th. We hope you’ll join us at an opening reception on August 17th from 5 to 7 p.m.
Scott blurs the assumptions of 2D and 3D in her painting. Her process begins with photographs taken on the coast and then moves to the studio. She divides her compositions into three layers which she paints in reverse on Plexiglas. By keeping the layers translucent, a jewel-like effect is produced by filtering light. Her landscapes have actual depth that play optical tricks as the viewer moves around her dioramic paintings.
Neely feels a heightened awareness of the inevitability of climate change; a message that she transmits through paint. On canvas, she addresses the beauty and foreboding that fills our lives, as we witness the urgency for change. In her watercolors, she follows the beauty, awe, and magic she still feels looking out from her perch in Jonesport, ME.
The Sunne Savage Gallery has placed Neely’s work in numerous corporate and private collections in the Boston
area. This is Neely’s first exhibition on Mount Desert Island.
Jess Hurley Scott is a 2022 Pouch Cove Foundation resident. The “Tidal Places” on display are of Newfoundland, Acadia, and Scituate. This is the second exhibition of Scott’s paintings on Mount Desert Island; the first in 2019 sold out.
Shaw Contemporary is located at 128 Main St. in Northeast Harbor, Maine. You can preview the works on view here.
Image pictured: Anne Neely, FOG BUOYS, 36 in x 44 in
Gints Grinsburgs On View at Tim Murphy Studios
Four eight-foot tall sculptures by Gints Grinbergs are now sitting proudly at the end of Main Street in Northeast Harbor, ME.
Installed on the terrace of Tim Murphy Studios, the stainless steel and stone sculptures will be glistening in the sun all summer long. Inside the gallery, an additional three smaller works are on display. Both sets of work share the quintessential elements of Gints’ work: recycled materials and simplified designs inspired by nature.
These sculptures may seem familiar to New Englanders. Gints lives and works in Massachusetts and his works have been displayed outdoors at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge MA; the Heritage Museum and Sculpture Park in Sandwich, MA; and Pingree Schools in Hamilton, MA. Additionally, one of his large-scale works lives at the Duxbury Free Library in Duxbury, MA. The work is a commission completed in collaboration with the Sunne Savage Gallery.
Contact:
Tim Murphy, Tim Murphy Studios: 146 Main Street, Northeast Harbor, ME. (207)276-8047
Christina Godfrey, Sunne Savage Gallery: (508)667-1062
Jess Hurley Scott Returns to Rusticator
The Sunne Savage Gallery is excited to collaborate with Rusticator for the third year in a row to showcase works by Jess Hurley Scott. Scott’s meticulously composed paintings will be on display at Rusticator in Seal Harbor, ME through Columbus Day.
Rusticator is located at 10 Main Street, Seal Harbor, Maine. Shop hours are 10am-5pm Tuesday through Saturday. Please contact Kaleigh Kelley at (207)276-8140 or Christina Godfrey at (508)667-1062 with inquires.
Frolic and Fables at Boston Children’s Hospital
Spring has sprung at Boston Children’s Hospital! Just follow the butterflies to the Hale Family Building’s Mini Museum where wild creatures play and learn important life lessons.
Newly installed, the exhibition Frolic and Fables features paintings by Marcia Ballou and sculpture by Nancy Schön. The exhibition is on view through the month of June and open to the public.
Known for her charming representations of human and animal figures, Nancy Schön is the creator of the iconic Make Way for Ducklings sculpture at the Boston Public Garden.
Her works in Frolic and Fables are from a series inspired by Aesop’s fables. “Aesop intrigued me,” she says. I was astonished to discover that he was a Greek slave, said to have written 656 fables. Here was a man who was born about 2,500 years ago, yet we are still quoting his morals.” The sculptures are made of cast bronze using the lost wax process— a casting method even older than Aesop!
Nancy Schön lives and works in the suburbs of Boston. Learn more about her work here.
Let it Snow! at Boston Children’s Hospital Mini-Museum
| Visitors to Boston Children’s Hospital are enjoying the wintery world of the Wee Folk! Located in the mini-museum in the Hale Building lobby, the exhibition case features a collection of hand-stitched Wee Folk by Salley Mavor. The nearby lounge and playspace features a colorful backdrop of illustrations by Chris Van Dusen chronicling Mr. Magee’s adventurous morning skiing for the very first time. |
Artist Salley Mavor has created three-dimensional hand-stitched artwork for over 40 years. In addition to stand alone pieces, her artwork is used as illustrations for children’s books, editorials, and stop-motion animation. You can see more of her work at www.weefolkstudio.com and take a video tour of the installation here.
Chris Van Dusen is an illustrator based on the coast of Maine. Since 2000, he has written and illustrated dozens of books including Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee and Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee. You can see more of his work at www.chrisvandusen.com.
Making a Splash at Boston Children’s Hospital Mini-Museum
We’ve created a space at Boston Children’s Hospital nicknamed the “Mini Museum” in the hospital’s new Hale Family Building. This rotating art gallery is an extension of the art program at the hospital. The first exhibition is SPLASH, a fanciful display of origami water creatures by Origamido Studio.
This exhibition is paired with a kit created by Origamido. The kits are distributed within the hospital and participants have an opportunity to create origami fish and seahorses and display them in the gallery.
SPLASH is on display through the end of the year.
Suspended in Water: Carole Bolsey and John Thompson at Shaw Contemporary
A gorgeous selection of Carole Bolsey and John Thompson’s works will be on view at Sam Shaw Jewelry from July 21st through August 3rd. They’ll be displayed alongside art by Petra Class, Todd Pownell, and Mary Kanzler.
Carole paints geometry. The surface of the water is a flat plane, but with Infinite variations of surface and color. A boat, one of the most beautiful forms ever, is but an object to occupy space. She loves boats of course, but on her canvas the type of boat is less important than how it casts a shadow, disturbs the water, or introduces color.
John’s observations of landscapes often describe a small detail. The selected works were inspired by observation of the landscape in New England ponds. By dissecting and reassembling, these familiar but fleeting moments are frozen for our observation and appreciation. Patterns emerge, and the accidents of weather and influence are perceived and recorded.
An opening reception, with an opportunity to meet the artists, will be held on July 21st from 5-7 p.m.
Jess Hurley Scott on View at Rusticator
The Sunne Savage Gallery is excited to collaborate with Rusticator for the second consecutive year to showcase works by Jess Hurley Scott. Eight of Scott’s meticulously composed paintings will be on display at Rusticator in Seal Harbor, ME for the duration of the 2022 season. The works on display are based on Scott’s photographs of Mount Desert Island and her hometown of Scituate, MA.
Scott is having a busy summer. In addition to displaying paintings at Rusticator, she recently returned from a May residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, Canada. She has also completed an Artist-in-Residence program at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA. A solo exhibition of her work is currently on view there.
Scott’s paintings are on display at Rustocator through Columbus Day. Rusticator is located at 10 Main Street, Seal Harbor, Maine. Shop hours are 10am-5pm Tuesday through Saturday. Please contact Kaleigh Kelley at (207)276-8140 or Christina Godfrey at (508)667-1062 with inquires.