Gallery 49

Each month 49 West features the work of a different artist. Meet the artist(s) the first Sunday of each month 5-7pm at a wine and cheese reception.

This Month’s Featured Artist(s):

Come meet John O’Neill Sunday June 4th 5-7pm

Each month 49 West features the work of a different artist. Meet the artist(s) the first Sunday of each month at a wine and cheese reception.

This Month’s Featured Artist(s):

Come meet Erin at the opening reception  May 7th, 5-7pm at 49 West Coffeehouse.

Erin Schweers
“Untold”

Erin Schweers was born in Stony Brook, New York.
Working with oil paint she is inspired by the complex simplicity of nature and our abstract views of the world.
She graduated from the Ringling College of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Arts painting.

Artist Statement.
I entangle myself in the unseen world of dreams, connections, realizations and spirit.

Creating mindful coincidences, my paintings are rooted in the continual experience of the journey.

As a colorist I connect with the viewers directly through emotively rendered strokes.

Paying close attention to details of my awareness, I cultivate a painting process through layers and subtle texture.

Translating the UNTOLD into unidentifiable landscapes full of potentiality.

Photography

Come meet Laura at the opening reception  March 5th, 5-7pm at 49 West Coffeehouse.
Bio:

WHAT DO I HOPE “THEY” SAY OF MY WORK?
“HER WORK INVOKES A FEELING OF HUMILITY; AN APPRECIATION FOR HOW SMALL, YET HOW CRUCIAL EACH OF US IS TO THE NEXT. IT’S REFLECTIVE OF CONNECTIVITY TO THE LAND, TO THE CREATURES, AND TO THE PEOPLE THAT INHABIT IT. HER ARTISTIC RENDERINGS LEAD THIS CRITIC TO BELEIVE THAT AN ENOURMOUS PASSION AND IMMENSE LOVE FOR LIFE AND BEAUTY CLEARLY DEFINE HER WORK BUT DARE I SAY, ALLOW US A GLIMPSE INTO HER VERY SOUL.”

Well… Yeah!!! That would be totally fantastic!
BUT TRUTH BE TOLD… IF ALL THEY SAID IS “HER WORK IS FREAKING AWESOME!” WELL, MUST SAY, THAT WOULD MAKE ME SMILE QUITE A BIT TOO!

So who is Laura Sita Anyway?
I am a simple person with a huge belief that beauty can be found in all people, places, and things! All we have to do is be open to the possibilities! I believe that the impossible is in fact POSSIBLE! I am, first a Christian, then a mother, and finally a photographer, writer, mentor, and friend! Family means everything to me! Integrity and Honesty, those are staples of who I am! I’m a perpetual student of art, photography, business, and life. Three words that sum up me: Love | Faith | Adventure

My children are my greatest masterpieces and the best of all gifts I will ever receive! I had a dream to share the world with my babies before they graduated from high school. I wanted to give them the gift of history, humanity, compassion, the value of hard work, and an appreciation for nature and beauty. We have shared many fantastic, unforgettable, adventures together. Rooted in a desire to share with those who could not otherwise see the beauty of our land, my portfolio was born. I am blessed to do what I love, but more, to love, what I have been blessed to do! My most sincere hope is that you will be inspired by my work. Perhaps by way of your purchase others may too!

Come meet Jonathan C Nordstrom at the Opening reception Sunday, January 8th 5-7pm.

Note that this is the 2nd Sunday of the month instead of our regular 1st Sunday of the month receptions.

 
BIO:   Jon Nordstrom was born and raised in Michigan. Always a dreamer, he flitted and drifted through his early life. His art career started with a single tragedy and a dream that changed him forever, and drew out the talent he had hidden for so long.
“Sometimes Sleep” was created on paper with ink and marker. Sometimes Sleep is dedicated to the memory of their beloved nephew, Nathan, who was taken from them far too soon, and whose bright smile and infectious laugh still echoes in their hearts.  Jon’s second book, “Shimmer” allows children to immerse themselves in a touching and hilarious adventure.
Last but certainly not least, in between working on his children’s books, Jon also expresses his view of the universe across several canvases. He uses bright, powerful painting to reflect the immensity of the universe, his place in it, and the constant interplay of light and dark.
The website:  www.sometimessleep.com

2 JPEG’s of work with title of the pieces and what medium it was created in:
First attachment is “Transience”.  It is acrylic on canvas
Second attachment is “Comet”.  It is marker and ink on paper

Each month 49 West features the work of a different artist. Meet the artist(s) the first Sunday of each month at a wine and cheese reception.

November 2016 Featured Artist(s):

Anthony LaVorgna Jr (aka ANT) and Aaron Yealdhall (aka Scribe)

Anthony LaVorgna AKA ANT’s style is ever evolving. A mix of Pop and Abstract. His mediums of choice are melted wax, eggshells and acrylics. For this show he’s pulled his favorites from various series created over the last few months. He hopes to fully explore the potential of the melted crayon as a contemporary medium.

“Tiki Tonic” Skribe/Ant Collaboration  12×24 Crayon, Ink, Colored Pencil and Paint Marker on Canvas

“Reach Out” Skribe/Ant Collaboration 24×36 Crayon, Ink and Paint Marker on Canvas

“Jack” Aaron Yealdhall  11×14 Paint Marker, Ink, Colored Pencil in Shadowbox

“The Fringe Frontier” Anthony LaVorgna Jr 24×36 Crayon on Canvas (Painted Live at the 2016 Annapolis Fringe Festival”

49 West Coffee House celebrates October’s First Sunday Arts Festival with an exhibit of black and white photographs, circa 1950-1960, from the Annapolis Collection Gallery. Over twenty framed images will display here throughout October. Vintage Annapolitans are encouraged to come see this exhibit and let us know if you recognize yourself or your friends in a few of the images taken back in the 1950’s. An exhibit of Rock Star art with their show posters can also be seen in the Back Room.

We will not be having a reception for this night.

Each month 49 West features the work of a different artist. Meet the artist(s) the first Sunday of each month at a wine and cheese reception.

This Month’s Featured Artist(s):

Yoomi K Yoon

September 1-28, 2016

Art Reception Sunday, Sept 4th 5-7pm

Each month 49 West features the work of a different artist. Meet the artist(s) the first Sunday of each month at a wine and cheese reception.

This Month’s Featured Artist(s):

Members of The Arts Alliance

Alexis Rotella, Margaret Boynton, Carly Sargent, Cynthia Viener Hoff, Desiree Scherini, Janette Hiesener, Joanne Woodward Tew, Josie Vosoba, Catherine Dolch, Katherine Carney, Mike Driscoll, MichaelPaschal, Terry Peterson, Kimberly Minear and Amelia Arria

Opening reception August 7th 5-7pm

Showing from August 4th- August 31st

Alexis Rotella, award winning poet and digital artist, uses her iPad to capture the beauty and quirky side of life. Come see her interpretations of Eastport and Annapolis houses, portraits and traditional flower paintings presented on canvas, metal and glass.

Opening reception is Sunday, July 3rd from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Each month 49 West features the work of a different artist. Meet the artist(s) the first Sunday of each month at a wine and cheese reception.

This Month’s Featured Artist:

Craig Purcell Port City + T3xture
Port City Pattern & Texture
A Visual Tour

Each Painting develops like a Port City from initial discovery to first settlement ultimately flowering into a mature form as natural limits and an equilibrium or sorts are reached. There is a parallel in the gradual taking away of the native attributes of the Painting’s paper/surface/ground to an occupation of the picture plane/earth’s surface by man_womankind with their resultant constructions & outfall. All shape the image of the city in balance with and many times destroying nature. See ecosystems altered with flows of water changed, forest and field plowed under while land is fenced in occupied with wildlife corridors shut down.

Please do read the show with the distinctly human skill of the map reader able to divine pattern and symbol into a coherent story of place as it has grown through time. There are many parallels to hisoric seaport of Annapolis in the show from the southeast facing harbor tothe oxblood red bottom paint & brick streets to the ever present blue serpentine flow of waves of water eroding and altering the shoreline decade in and decade out. Observe the piers, docks, bulkheads, inlets and vessels plying the bay for trade and transportation while city struggles. engages and conforms to the natural edge.

You will see many horizons and the personality of the day reflected upon the sea and sky with the city hovering in the distance. There are many forces operating at many different scales shaping the city from the natural to the celestial to the subatomic which operate independently from the machinations of human kind as our species, numbering on the billions, struggles to alter ecosystems and settle the biosphere of an ever smaller planet. Use your forensic abilities to discover the forces shaping the patterns and textures of the Port City as it evolves through time.

Opening reception is Sunday, October 4th from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.