NOW SHOWING at Maser Gallery

The artwork of erica m. szuplat will be on display at the Maser Gallery at Falmouth Community Television, 310A Dillingham Avenue, from May 2 to June 3, 2010. Opening reception: Sunday, May 2, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.

erica m. szuplat is an artist based in Falmouth, MA who works in a variety of media. She currently divides her time working on commissions and her own personal work. The former includes both residential and commercial murals and signage as well as digital illustrations that have been used as customized invitations, business logos, and t-shirt designs. Her commercial work and illustration is typically in a bright, lively and cartoon style and she was recently commissioned to design a large-scale public mosaic mural for the Shining Sea Bikeway and worked as part of a team of artists in its construction. Her logo design and mural work can be seen locally at Uptown Dog Cape Cod and The Burrito Place and her literary inspired canvas panels have been installed in the renovated Falmouth Public Library.

Her personal work often consists of travel sketches (in pen and watercolor) and paintings (in oil, acrylic or mixed media). In addition, she assists her husband, photographer ben allsup, of benshotme.com, particularly as publisher of benshotme “the magazine,” a quarterly of ben’s photography, their own and guest essays.

erica studied at The Art Institute of Boston and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and received her degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Lesley University. A member of the Falmouth Artists Guild and Freelance Artists Network, she has also instructed children in drawing at the Falmouth Artists Guild and volunteered in the public school system assisting the art teacher. www.wishastudios.com, erica@wishastudios.com

erica's recent works, the "Edge of the Earth" series, are mostly mixed-media drawings (predominately charcoal with gouache) influenced by her recent readings and travels. The images, in part, revisit and explore the stark and striking rocky vistas, spiritual sanctuaries and oceanscapes of the Island of Tino in Italy, home to the hermit St. Venerius. They are also inspired by the overlapping threads in her reading: about a hermit Buddhist nun in the Himalayas, a writer in the Hebrides islands off the coast of Scotland, J.M. Synge's Aran Islands and the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe. The works explore the dramatic landscapes that artists, hermits and saints inhabit in order to experience solitude.

Exhibit Hours:
Sunday & Monday, 2-10 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10 -10 p.m.
Friday 10-6 p.m.