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Participating Artists
Each year, we provide a brief description of each artist's work and links to their websites. Most of our participating
artists have been exhibiting since our inception, 22 years ago, and others have joined more recently.
Our goal is to have people visit our studios and see art where it is created. We encourage each visitor to sign up to our email and
mailing lists, as we expand our communication beyond once a year studio visits. Each artist offers work for sale or for order.
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This year, Artist Open Studios features eight wonderful artists in the Northern RI area. All are looking forward to sharing their
craft with you. 2024 Mailer with Map
Our Featured Artists for 2024 are:
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Alfredo Lorenzo 190 Harmony Road North Scituate,
RI 02857 401.368.5133 Alfredolorenzo83@yahoo.com
Abstract and figurative paintings
Alfredo Lorenzo is a professional artist and works in his studio located in Scituate, RI. He is a graduate of Rhode Island School
of Design. Each painting reflects the artist's interest in plants and nature as seen from his travels to Europe and North and South America. The work is influenced by Matisse, Paul Klee
and the German Expressionists. The chosen imagery is revealed through colored layers of paint, the scratching or scraping away of the surface, and through the vigorous interplay of vivid
colors and the background and/or foreground of each painting.
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Valery Nardacci 26 Samuel Stone Road North
Scituate, RI 02857 401.338.1636 info@valerygallery.com www.valerygallery.com
Observational paintings
Valery Nardacci grew up in Scituate and continues to draw inspiration from her rural upbringing. After completing her Bachelors in
Art Education and beginning her teaching career, Valery studied the figure to earn her MFA at UMass Dartmouth. Along with oil painting, she explores gouache painting, gesture drawing, and
printmaking. Valery is currently focused on still-life paintings of natural objects, many of which are gathered from her own gardens. She approaches painting openly, with a goal of
capturing the essence of what is observed. Through this fluid process, the contrast and nuances of inventive color schemes emerge as Valery balances representation with abstract
impressionistic qualities.
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Neal Drobnis 102 Pole Bridge Road North Scituate,
RI 02857 401.678.6464 ndrobnis@verizon.net www.casteglass.com
Blown glass art for home and garden
Neal is drawn to the glass medium because the fluidity makes it an expressionist art form, transparency brings the colors to life,
and the contrasts between textures enhances the perception of rough and smooth surfaces. These are the qualities he feels within his being and the artistic process is the way to share his
appreciation of the human drama of this our short time on earth. Neal received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. His work is present
in numerous public and private collections and is shown in galleries worldwide.
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Tom Grabbert 380 Seven Mile Road Hope
(Scituate), RI 02831 401.821.5238 grabbertt@aol.com
Functional, decorative, high fire porcelain
Tom Grabbert is a ceramic artist who creates elegant porcelain tableware and decorative items in a studio overlooking beautiful
farmland in Hope, a village in Scituate, RI. He began working with clay at the age of 15. For the past 30 years, Tom has developed a unique palette of natural, rich-toned glazes that
complement the forms of his work -- a complete line of tableware, vases, and other vessels -- and suggest both movement and tranquility. Tom studied at Rhode Island School of Design.
Locally he exhibits at the popular RISD alumni sales, and his studio in Hope, RI.
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Carla Thomson 551 Snake Hill Rd North Scituate, RI
02857 401.226.3542 carlathomson@carlathomson.com carlathomson.com
Paintings and functional ceramic serveware.
Glocester, Rhode Island artist Carla Thomson is known for her skillful work in oils and ceramics, focusing on realistic florals,
landscapes, and beautifully hand-built ceramics. With a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Rhode Island College, Carla's artistic talents have garnered recognition, leading to
her work being featured in private collections around the globe. Inspired by the natural world, Carla's paintings capture the essence of organic elegance, while her ceramic creations
showcase intricate and graceful forms. Through her art, Carla invites viewers to immerse themselves in her meticulously crafted pieces, offering glimpses of beauty and tranquility that
resonate with a wide audience.
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Ann Rozhon 88 Old Quarry Road Harmony (Glocester),
RI 02857 401.241.7725 annrozhon@gmail.com www.annrozhon.com
Paintings and sculpture
Ann has been a professional artist for over 25 years. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and has since had both
group and solo shows throughout New England. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections in the United States and Canada, and is also represented in the books,
"American Artists-An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries" and "Contemporary American Women Sculptors", as well as having been reviewed many times in The Providence Journal,
Artscope magazine, The New Paper, and U.R.I. Magazine. It was the subject of two feature articles in the Observer. Ann was commissioned by The Marriot Corporation to create a sculptural
frieze for Women and Infants Hospital and has worked restoring architectural sculpture for building facades and as an assistant exhibit designer at Roger Williams Park Zoo.
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Kristin S. Street 110 Old Plainfield Pike Foster,
RI 02825 401.378.8212 kristinsstreet@gmail.com www.kristinsstreet.art
Abstract, drawing, painting, sculpture.
Kristin S. Street earned a BFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in Studio Art / Sculpture from Maryland
Institute College of Art. She has exhibited widely locally, on the national stage and internationally. In addition to being an exhibiting artist, Kristin has taught in colleges,
secondary schools and through private lessons to students ages four to seventy-four for over forty years. Living among the pines in Foster, RI, in the western part of the state, her
studio makes you feel like you're among the treetops. Despite working within Nature, most of Street's work falls into the realm of abstraction and utilizes materials both industrial and
organic. Whether working with metals, fabrics, pencil or paints, her work uses repetition and mark-making as a fundamental component in her pieces to explore texture, line and
space.
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Earle Thurber 228 Ide Road North Scituate, RI
02857 401.647.7214 www.thurberstudio.com
Paintings and prints
Earle Thurber's paintings grow from a lifelong fascination with art, psychology, design, and in many ways are an integration of
all three areas of interest. Earle's technique is highly process oriented, a discovery process through which he is drawn by color associations, relationships of forms that evolve, and a
building sense of complexity of visual interaction. The work is constructed of layers of color and form, "free associations" that are subsequently refined through a more
conscious design process. His work is heavily influenced, and frequently totally driven, by music, from a wide range of interest, but especially jazz. Earle frequently thinks of the work
as the visual equivalent of jazz improvisation.
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