IN THE ANNEX: OCTOBER 2023
Jodie Kain + Jillian Vaccaro + Louise Winant
2023 ANNEX FELLOWS
October 5- 29, 2023.
SoWa First Friday Art Walk: Friday, October 6, 2023, | 5:00–8:00 PM
Annex Fellowships are designed to provide opportunities to emerging artists from all backgrounds who are residents of Massachusetts. Fountain Street is pleased to present the work of our 2023 Annex fellow, Jodie Kain, Jillian Vaccaro, and Louise Wining.
Jamaal Eversley was the juror for the selection of the 2023 artists. He hails from Randolph, MA. With a business degree in hand, from Babson College, he has decided to chase after his dreams and passionately pursue his talents as an eccentric abstract artist and intertwine business with the arts in order to serve the community. His art has been exhibited throughout the South Shore and Boston area and he has received a numerous public art grants to bring his colorful patterns to the community. Jamaal constantly creates to spur the juices of creative genius and put the “F” meant for “Fun” back into Fine Arts. As a Fountain Street Annex Artist himself in 2020, Jamaal brings a unique perspective to the selection process. You can see more of his work at @SirJayEvs on instagram.
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Jodie Kain
Jodie Kain, a Contemporary Realist, paints emotionally charged figures utilizing skills from her classical and expressionistic training. Kain works exclusively in the tactile medium of pastels. The accumulated experiences of her environment are the major influences on her work. The sights, smells, textures and, most importantly, personalities of New York, London and Boston are captured in her paintings, mixed with a bit of humor.
Kain’s first studio experience was in Robert Beverly Hale’s anatomy class at the Art Students League of New York. This training set the base of her artistic approach: an emphasis on strict anatomical modelling, melding form built with the underlying structure as well as light. Building on this academic tradition, she studied under photorealist Rob Neffson at Penn State University, earning a BFA.
Kain has exhibited across the country, including at the Guild of Boston Artists, the Arnot Art Museum, Steamboat Art Museum, the Haggin Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, as well as the 14th, 15th and 16th International ARC Salons. Her work has been published in Spain and is included in the Lunar Codex (a time capsule museum on the moon). Her work has been recognized by the North River Arts Society Focus on Figures Exhibit 2023, 2nd Place Award; 94th Grand National Exhibit, Honorary Award for Pastel, 2022; and the Art Preservation Institute 2022 Curator's Juried Art Competition, Honorable Mention. Kain is a member in the American Women Artists and the American Artists Professional League, where she also serves on the Board of Directors. Kain paints full time in one of two bedrooms in her South End, Boston, apartment.
Jillian Vaccaro
Jillian Vaccaro’s art is an exploration of her long-term memory with a focus on familial relationships. Each work functions as an emotional response to her past, fabricated to depict the fragility and loss that permeates the act of recollecting. Before she begins a new work, she situates her mind in a previous time. She brings herself to this place through writing, reminiscing with loved ones, navigating through souvenirs and familial archives, and revisiting significant environments from childhood and her adult life. When she arrives in the past mentally, she responds with her materials intuitively.
The use of personal souvenirs is woven into her practice as they function as objects of remembrance and assist her recollections. Vaccaro shares intimate parts of her personal history so that others may feel connected through a similar sense of vulnerability, appreciation, loss, and reflection in their own lifes.
Jillian Vaccaro is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher, and currently works out of her studio in Somerville, MA. She received her BFA in studio art from Emmanuel College in 2014 and graduated from the low-residency MFA program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2021. Vaccaro works across media, describing memories from her past experiences. She is also a dedicated art educator, teaching visual arts in Boston.
Louise Winant
Louise Winant paints color, light and beauty in its varied forms. She mixes a considered composition with intent, in the end creating a small visual story, something like a painterly Haiku. Her pictures often become expressions of her inner “mullings”. They help her to make tangible those strange little striking moments that are important, or not, depending upon your perspective.
Winant’s pictures most often talk to her with the simplicity of a child’s heart. While she thinks of them as small stories, sometimes they are just questions. Her works are created in studio using a variety of glazing techniques to create depth and subtlety of color variation. Her works grow slowly as she meditates on their meaning. Painting in a figurative, narrative style she draws upon scenes with which she is most familiar, ocean, sky, fields, animals etc. Her subject matter evolves from the small narratives created within her pictures. Her pictures have been described as spiritual, evoking contemplation beyond the simple image.
Louise Winant is a native of New England, currently living in rural, central Massachusetts. Her subject matter reveals an intimate relationship with both locations. She studied art and psychology at Salem State University before completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at MA College of Art, Boston. Having raised her family, she has turned her creative efforts back to her first love, brush in hand. She has exhibited her work within New England and has several times exhibited in the prestigious Salmagundi Art Club, NY, NYC.