At the HHAC

Julien Havard
Artist In Residence

Julien Havard is the Hyannis Harbor Arts Center’s Artist-In-Residence for the Summer of 2011. Julien was born in Canada in 1969 and his family moved to the United States when he was eight years old. They moved around the country frequently so he was exposed to a wide variety of living environments including Atlanta, GA, Burbank, CA, Philadelphia, PA and finally New York City. Julien studied Fashion Illustration at the prestigious Central Saint Martin’s School for Art & Design in London.

Coming from a family that has always been involved with the theatre, Julien found his way to Broadway upon returning to New York. He has spent the last 20 years dressing some of biggest names in the business, including Tony Award-Winning Actress, Sutton Foster with whom he worked for nine years.

In addition to his career on Broadway, Julien never stopped creating a variety of artwork including paintings, 3-dimensional works on paper, hand-painted furniture, jewelry and other wearable art. He also created many ink drawings and murals depicting characters from the musicals that he was working on. He eventually opened a gallery, LOVE JULIEN STUDIOS, in the heart of the East Village.

Julien completed commissions for Dreamworks Animation, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, and a long list of well-known actors including Megan Mullaly, Delta Burke and Toni Collette. His murals have been featured in productions by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the METRO PCS Summer Concert Series.

Exhibiting Artists
 

Tessa D’Agostino
October 13th – November 6th
 

Tessa is a Cape Cod native with an Associates in Visual Arts degree from Cape Cod Community College and a Bachelors in Fine Arts from The Museum School of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston. She actively pursues a variety of art mediums as well as artistic outlets in the Cape Cod area. She teaches a self designed therapeutic and expressive arts program called “Inside Art” at various organizations.

No matter its form, D’Agostino’s work embodies the essence of human/nature relationships, spirituality and metaphysics. She seeks to navigate through the creative process by the use of unrecognizable shape and form in order to birth a finished piece. This show will feature sculpture, 2D work such as pen and ink, a variety of nature installations, and more. The show will read as an unfolding story through a variety of art media that speaks cohesively from a conceptual foundation.

“The foundation of my work is strongly based on the constant flow of interconnectedness and how that ongoing bond potentially affects everything. I have a strong relationship with nature which I strive to define within myself through my work. It is this process that also enables me to explore that spiritual connection with the Earth in hopes of understanding the overall link between man and nature. Or, how man and nature are in fact one ongoing organism as well as their interconnectedness with the universe. Essentially this concept is endless in itself. My most recent works have grown to reflect this concept through paintings, sculpture and drawings.”

 

Frank Chike Anigbo
September 22 – October 10
 

"I made this sketch – A Beggar, Seville -- in the spring of 2000. Two months before that I had painted Death of a Skunk when I came upon a skunk dead by the side of a road. At first I instinctively hurried past it with a deep breath drawn in and held, eager to put some distance between us. But I did look at her and for a brief moment allowed myself to see her with the eyes of one whose life is made worse for her death, a mate who waits listlessly for her return, unable to comprehend the finality of her absence.

"It would have been natural to feel sadness for the loss of some unknown dog or a cat dead by the side of a desolate road, because we cannot help but apportion value to a life based on perceived worth to someone we know or can readily imagine; some child somewhere, broken-hearted for the loss of a beloved pet; no one will miss a skunk dead by the side of a road. I went back and painted her with the intent of creating a work of art that transcended the value a person might have assigned to her life. I painted the man in Seville -- an isolated beggar crouched against an immovable wall as though he accepts with all penitence the judgment of a failed life, for that same reason. I wanted to strip away all the distractions that prevent me from seeing a person I might have recognized -- a long-lost brother, my father, my friend. I wanted to allow myself to see and feel by assigning value based on worth to someone I know or can easily imagine.

"My work explores the value of life, especially the lives of isolated individuals on the margins of society – often the chronically homeless and mentally ill, people whose social contribution and impact is negligible by our accepted definitions of value, people whose mortality is the least of society’s concerns. With writing and painting that speaks of the universal parallels of life, I aim to challenge the way we perceive worth and allocate value – at the same time staying true to the condition of the subjects whose lives I document in painted portraits and writing.

"The pictures contained in this book are representative of the individuals I have met in the streets of many cities, but especially the small section of downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row. Sherri, the one-time child-prostitute and convicted killer of a husband who raped her 6-year-old daughter; Patrick, the gentle soul unable to come to terms with the death of his beloved mother; “Shaky” – they call him that because he shakes each morning until he has had some alcohol in him; Eduardo, the recovering drug addict grandfather determined to regain control of his life and the trust of his family; Stephanie, the young mother and heroin addict whose hope to someday reunite with her children keeps her from taking her life.

"My writing and paintings attempt to bring these alienated individuals into the context of our own lives, despite the often stark differences in the ways and places we live, and to challenge perceptions of worth and the criteria by which we allocate value to a life."      -Frank Chike Anigbo
 

Cassandra
September 1 - 18
 

Cassandra dabbled in painting on and off from the age of 17. She tried a number of different paths – from EMT, to the Army, to sword swallower in a carnival. While working as a security guard five years ago, Cassandra began painting in earnest in response to her father passing away. After being fired from that job, she decided that it was time to pursue her art full-time. “My art is a meditation on, as well as an attempt to capture, the moment when a complex inner life meets the unyielding outside world…The landscape of the face is capable of revealing, to the viewer, all the truths that have ever been known.”

“We are very excited to bring this artist to the Mid-Cape community – this is a very powerful body of work” says HHAC managing director Karen Billard. “My daughter and I first saw her work at the DeLuca Gallery in Provincetown, and were very moved by the intensity and vulnerability of these portraits. Her work fits the Center’s mission to support emerging artists, and to bring important work to the community to inspire and educate.”






 

Sutton Foster
August 14 - 28

Sutton Foster is an award-winning actor, singer and dancer who feels blessed to be living her dream.

Sutton was born in Georgia, raised in Michigan, and currently lives in New York City. She appeared in The Will Rogers Follies, Grease!, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie, and Les Miserables before
her big break and Tony Award-winning performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Sutton originated roles in the Broadway productions of Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, and Shrek the Musical.

After touring the country with her hit solo concert which featured Broadway hits and songs from her debut solo CD 'Wish,' Sutton has returned to the Broadway stage. She is currently starring as Reno Sweeney in The Roundabout's revival of "Anything Goes", a role that earned Sutton the 2011 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire, and Broadway.com's Audience Favorite Awards.

She was first seen on television on Star Search at age 15, and has more recently appeared in Johnny and the Sprites and Flight of the Conchords. As a solo artist, Sutton has graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, Feinstein's, and Joe's Pub, among others. In addition to performing, Sutton’s passions include her shih-tzu, Linus and most reality television shows.

Just like her stage work, Sutton Foster's drawings can be appreciated on two unique levels. From afar, they suggest a moment caught in time, a portrait of nature.

But look closely at the details involved and you can begin to appreciate all of the hard work it takes for Sutton to make it look so easy. With this collection, Sutton reminds us that love is in the details.
(From her website: http://www.suttonfoster.com)
 

Sarah Dineen
July 21st - August 7th

Sarah Dineen is both an abstract and representational
painter. With her love of color, texture, form and intuition she energetically fuses these two disciplines to create an intensely rich, powerful visual language all her own.

Sarah describes her work as mostly abstract, with inspirations from the natural world. When asked about her creative process she says, “I begin each painting with a person, object or experience in mind. The paintings are discovered within the process of making them, not mapped out beforehand. Intuition and chance balanced with real life observation come together to create psychological pictures that challenge the viewer by offering up a combination of abstract and representational elements”.

Sarah Dineen received a BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. She also attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and was most recently a visiting artist at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green where she had a solo exhibition. Sarah has been included in many group and solo exhibitions including the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY and A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. She is currently in a group show called “Condition X” at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.


 

Roberta Meg Hurlburt
July 1st - 17th.

Born in North Central New Jersey, Roberta Meg Hurlburt spent all of her summers on Cape Cod. A lifetime of beachcombing and hunting for visually distinctive objects sparked an artistic flare that shines in her assemblages. Her art is sculptural and colorful, using three-dimensional fragments to crystallize unique expression.

Roberta attended Rollins College and Boston University’s School of Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture. She also studied at the Maryland Institute of Art and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC from 1995-1998. Inevitably, her passion and love for the Cape drew her to a permanent home in East Orleans.

Roberta’s love for her art has taken her to the beach, the garage and the junkyard. “I suppose my art springs from fun and serendipity. I will find beauty in a single found object and with fun and enjoyment introduce it to another object that has artistic compatibility.” Her sculptural assemblages speak of the familiar and the surprising. They call to mind the old and the new, the manmade and the natural, found objects and imagined creations. Each element of her pieces has its own history which is interpreted in juxtaposition with items the artist has chosen.

A solo exhibition of Roberta’s assemblages was held at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA in 2006.

Teaching Artists

James Wolf

James Wolf grew up in a semi-rural township just outside of Detroit, Michigan. Nature and his father’s industrial commercial art studio, and formal courses at Cranbrook Academy formed his earliest artistic experiences. He closely studied the French Impressionists and Chinese and Japanese painters while at Oakland University. Ultimately, his sculpting instructor, the renowned European artist, Morris Brose, most acutely influenced his studies.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s he traveled throughout Central America, where his time in Honduras and Panama most directly influenced the color, light and representational elements of his work. Soon after his move to Boston in 1982 and throughout the 1980s, he exhibited in various Boston galleries.

In 1990 he moved to the Cape Cod village of Cotuit with his wife and two sons, where he opened the James Wolf Gallery in 1992. In 1993 he organized and performed in two World Music Concerts held at Freedom Hall in Cotuit to test the idea of a community arts center.

In 1994 he founded Cotuit Center for the Arts, an artist’s work and exhibit space, offering workshops in various 2 and 3 dimensional art media, writing, photography, and computer graphics. In 1995 he was invited to sit on the board of DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) Boston chapter, and to direct and curate their 2 galleries at the Boston Design Center. In 1995, he closed the James Wolf Gallery and established a formal exhibit space at the art center.

In August, 2010 James joined forces with artists Jackie Reeves and Richard Neal to create a new painting studio at the Old Schoolhouse in Barnstable Village. This vibrant, new setting is where he creates all of his new abstract and figurative work.
 

Eliza Ryan
 

Eliza Ryan (formerly Lay) is an actress, choreographer, director and acting teacher who has worked in Boston, DC and New York. Her acting has been called "compelling" and "utterly natural" by the Boston Globe and she has been teaching acting for the international conservatory, The New York Film Academy, for the past five years. Eliza co-founded Way Theater Artists in Boston, where she served as literary manager and she has recently co-choreographed the touring production of the dance theater piece Wanderlust with The Movement Workshop Group in New York. Eliza was a company member with a Michael Chekhov based theater in DC and a company producing new works in Boston where, while acting, she also served as Production Manager. Eliza is currently involved with the Playwright's Lab in Provincetown and in coming months will be teaching at the Harwich Junior Theater, The Cape Cod Cultural Center and The Guyer Art Barn. For more information and details about ongoing classes visit www.wholeflowarts.com.

Testimonial
“Eliza’s warm and enthusiastic style made me not only excited about acting but excited about living. More than an acting class it was a life class, getting to know ourselves in a way we never imagined. It is amazing how a few exercises taught by a good teacher can make you understand things and even understand other people and relate with them, even if they’re strangers. After Eliza’s class, my way of thinking and of course my way of acting completely changed, it’s unbelievable how noticing your movements and noticing your body can really make a change in you and in others.” -Reina (student. Mexico)


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