Saturday
and Sunday, September 24 and 25 from 11 to 5:00 pm
Hutson
Gallery, 508-487-0915
Mary
Feeley, Director - hutsongallery@gmail.com
Hutson
Gallery
is pleased to announce, in conjunction with Provincetown's 10
Days of Art ~ Celebrating America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony, an
exhibition and demonstration of ACEO, a variation of artist trading
cards by Provincetown artist John O'Shea.
Artist
Trading Cards (ATC) are miniature works of art about the size of a
modern baseball card that were originally traded or exchanged among
artists. A variation of ATC is ACEO (Art Cards, Editions and
Originals) developed when art cards were sold to the general public.
The ACEO website, http://www.art-cards.org,
provides an interesting history of the ATC. ACEOs have one main rule:
they must be 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches - the size of a trading card.
ACEOs are sold as originals or editions and can be created in any
medium.
Provincetown
artist John O'Shea has been creating and selling ACEOs for many years
on EBay and at Provincia Gifts, located at 140 Commercial Street,
which he founded in 1997 with Manuel A. Sousa.
John’s
art covers a wide range of subjects, media and sizes but he
will be exhibiting his ACEO portfolio during the 10
Days of Art.
In addition, John
will demonstrate how he creates the cards. He
combines eye-catching colors and textures in his abstract and
figurative paintings all adding to his intriguing and sometimes
mystical creations. “My work is a reflection of my inner thoughts,
happy memories, successes, regrets and dreams. My art is my music. It
progresses, moves forward…and the last piece is always a departure
point to a new creation that reflects my eager to experiment while
venturing into new territories”. And it is this eagerness to
experiment that led John to creating ACEOs.
John
O'Shea was born in New York City in 1959. He moved to Ireland when
he was 3 years old and only returned to the US when he was 19. John
began painting when he was 10 and began to really develop his
artistic abilities when he moved to New York City, Provincetown, MA
and Évora, Portugal. It was in Évora that most of his work was
developed and admired in view of the time spent in the Alentejo
especially during the last 10 years.
