A Regional Art Museum In Massachusetts

Some of the works in the Community Gallery.

It's an art museum that has been around for a while, since 1925, to be exact. It is made up of a four-building complex, with about 20,000 square feet of exhibition space. It has both historical collections and regional contemporary art. It is located in North Central Massachusetts and serves both Fitchburg and Leominster and their surrounding area. It is an art museum, the FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM, a main part of the cultural lives of those who live in the area.

The museum has showcased some of its recent photographic acquisitions in an exhibit curated by Stephen B. Jareckie, Consulting Curator of Photography. Included are prints that have been acquired in the past year, and some promised gifts to the permanent collection.



Some of the variety of photographic expressions include Lucien Aigner's photojournalistic photos of some New York scenes; Harold Feinstein's photos of army life during the Korean War, and of Coney Island; S. B. Walker's photos of Walden Pond; Al Fisher's studies of Boston street performers; Victor Landweber's images from his Artist To Artist series; and the abstract photos of Carl Chiarenza. With these addition the museum's photo collection has grown to more than 800 prints, mostly from the 20th and 21st centuries.

In the Fitchburg Museum's version of "the show must go on", the opening reception for A Curious Nature: Paintings Of Shelley Reed this month had to be postponed for about a month, due to adverse weather conditions, but the exhibition itself did go on and it opened on Feb. 12, running through June 4.

A talented four-year-old submitted his art work in honor of Shelley Reed.

A selection of Ms. Reed's striking black and white paintings on canvas, along with never before seen oils on paper, all from the past ten years, are being presented. "A gallery filled with her works vibrates between dense accumulations of animal and botanical details, and studies of figures in isolation. [Ms.] Reed purposely plays with the pulse of her paintings, often juxtaposing raucous, dynamic actions with implied moments of pause. Her subjects stalk, contemplate, attack, parade, and preen, all the while leaving viewers to wonder who is watching whom. The curiosity of a hound eyeing a tortoise, for example, or the fierce glare of a tiger over its shoulder are moments that feel astonishingly palpable, prescient, and alive."

Finishing touches before the exhibition opened.

Curator Mary M. Tinti and Interim Curator Lisa Crossman organized the exhibit; the Simonds Lecture Fund provided some of the fiscal support.

Thanks for information from this page on Fitchburg Art Museum: http://fitchburgartmuseum.org/More-Recent-Acquisitions-Photography.php; this page from Fitchburg Art Museum: http://www.fitchburgartmuseum.org/assets/Shelley%20Reed%20at%20FAM%20-2(2).pdf; and the above link.

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