2023-2024 Season
Final Show of our 2023-2024 Season runs March through April 24th.
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HARRIET BERNSTEIN
“Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons and other abstract expressionists caught my eye early on. Then Agnes Martin’s large, meditative canvases in soft pastel stole my heart. During two decades in NYC SoHo, I kept my eyes saturated with abstract art, and slowly built up a desire to make my own work. The pandemic was my moment to blossom. What started on my dining room table is now about to take over my living room. As my work continues to grow, I am in search of studio space where I can work on a series of larger works inspired by Agnes Martin.” Harriet Bernstein
Chandler Biggs
RAM Bling is a social commentary on how society neglects the environment, takes our resources for granted, while holding our heads up high, almost proudly. “Killing our ride”, is how the artist describes it, a metaphor for biting the hand that feeds us.
Chandler hails from an artist family in California, and is a recent newcomer to the island. Her mother and grandmother are both painters. She studied Animation at Cal State LA (CSULA), is a self taught painter, and has participated in various roles in DIY warehouse art spaces. She uses art as a self exploratory tool to process her observations about the external world, mirrored internally as a form of self discovery.
Deborah T. Colter ‘Baker’s Dozen’, mixed mediums on panel, 16 x 16 inches $ 1,200 
Deborah T. Colter ‘Outside the Door’, mixed mediums on panel, 16 x 16 inches $ 1,200 
Deborah T. Colter ‘Silver Suitcase’, mixed mediums on panel, 16 x 16 inches $ 1,200 
Deborah T. Colter ‘The Other Half’, mixed mediums on panel, 48 x 48 inches $ 6,900
Contemporary, abstract, mixed media painter, Deborah T. Colter is a career artist working mostly on canvas. She combines elements that evolve and appear through an intentional process of discovery as each artwork evolves. This process is void of expectation, as each piece becomes a new exploration of form, line and color. Deborah masterfully structures layers, sometimes with architectural shapes, loose gestures and with an instinctive ability at finding balance and symmetry that captivates and holds the attention, “Inspiration starts with a mark, a color, a form, a layer, and it builds from there.”
Deborah graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1981 with a B.F.A. and has been making art full-time ever since.
CAROL BROWN GOLDBERG
A prolific artist in various mediums, Carol Brown Goldberg broke her right wrist in 2020 and could not paint for the first time in over forty years. What emerged was a spontaneous series called, On the Other Hand. Squeezing paint directly out of tubes onto small pieces of paper with her functional left hand, narratives emerged and a series formed as she allowed the colors to drip and drop, sometimes oozing off the page. She was determined to create, despite her temporary impediment. When her right hand healed, she revisited the series to add with black pen the detailed, tiny interconnecting markings that have become an integral signature style of her larger canvas works, which she calls ‘Entanglement.’ Whether intentional, or subliminal, this series was influenced by her attraction to a short-lived avant-garde art movement, (1948 to 1952) known as CoBrA. Following WWII, an international group of pioneering artists caused a revolution in modern art. Considered the first truly international post-war avant-garde art movement, the members sought new means of expression: based on spontaneity and experimentation by rejecting rigid form and limited palettes. They chose vivid primary colors, applied in a primitivist and joyous child-like manner, which became a celebrated characteristic of the movement. Carol is a longtime summer resident in Chilmark, and is otherwise based in Washington, DC.
Follow this link to see other works from Carol Brown Goldberg’s exhibition “… On the Other Hand” Addison/Ripley Fine Art, 2021
Marianne Goldberg
In the late summer of 2015 Pathways founder, Marianne Goldberg, choreographed 10 dancers from across the country at The Yard theater and along the Chilmark coast. Inspired by ocean terrain, utilizing improvisational structures in perception, space, time and live presence, OceA Wilderness transported outdoor explorations into the architecture of the theater as an interior shoreline.
Marjorie Mason
Well known for her Vineyard landscape oil paintings in the hundreds, Marjorie Mason can be found mostly in her charming Chilmark studio filling in the details that capture the iconic scenery along the island’s shorelines, overlooking ponds, fields and trails. She is a keen observer. Her attention to subtle light changes, cloud forms, and an ability to draft perspective perfectly combine to recreate the picturesque habitat Cape Codders fall in love with. She can talk about color for hours, her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm. Her preferred medium is currently oil, yet she is equally adept at monotypes, which she put aside a decade or so ago so that she could create larger scale works.
“She creates simply to create; to connect with her surroundings, community, and the myriad of things that make the Cape and Islands so special.” – quote from Cape Cod Art / ART Annual 2020
Marjorie is otherwise represented by Christina Gallery, Edgartown and other Cape Cod galleries.
Avery Miner is a mixed media sculptor, a co-owner of the Miner Family Gallery in Vineyard Haven, and an island local. His sensory-based artworks are experiments in a variety of styles. He finds inspiration in materials as diverse as clay, leather, cloth, wood, and polyurethane – and combinations of these.
Avery is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he majored in sculpture. To see more art by Avery, visit The Art of Avery Miner
Craig Miner
Craig Miner ‘In a Dim Cafe’ acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 inches $2,800 
Craig Miner ‘In Service of Secrets’ acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 inches $2,200 
Craig Miner ‘Permits’ acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 inches = $ 1,400 
Craig Miner ‘Your Breeze’ acrylic / collage on canvas 40 x 30 inches $ 2,800 
Craig Miner ‘Lamberts Answers’ acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 inches $2,800
Self-taught contemporary artist, Craig Miner‘s passion to make art began in earnest after initiating and organizing the group project called “Whatever the Outcome,” a series of interactive pop-up art events where 1000’s of hand-painted magnets were distributed. After teaching art classes to teens at our local Charter School, where he experimented with various forms of low-brow street art, design and bold color, his bright palette and aesthetic took shape.
For the past few years he has been creating colorful paintings combined with collage featuring abstract elements, figures, text, and lately has been working on commission pieces incorporating his most popular elements on solar panels.
He has exhibited his work at The Workshop Gallery and has shared studio / gallery space with Althea Freeman Designs in Vineyard. In the Summer of 2023 he launched MFG (Miner Family Gallery in Vineyard Haven with his son and wife.
To learn more : Miner Family Gallery flourishes in the off-season / MVTimes, February 28, 2024
Heather Sommers
Marsha Winsryg
Marsha Winsryg is a multidimensional artist and longtime permanent resident on the island. She works in various mediums, including egg tempura, and has for years shown her artwork across the island in solo and group exhibitions.
PAST EXHIBITS
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Join us for a casual ARTIST TALK with Q&A + RECEPTION on Sunday, January 21st, from 2 to 4pm
for ISAAC BLAISE HURWITZ • paintings
and PAUL LAZES • mixed media
for ISAAC BLAISE HURWITZ • paintings and
PAUL LAZES • mixed media
Island native, Isaac Blaise Hurwitz is a painter and occasional muralist. He uses paint to navigate realms where language cannot traverse, using mark-making to articulate ideas, form and connections between the physical, rational and spiritual.
“Contradiction is proof of balance. We cannot understand a force in total until we understand both its polarities.”
Isaac graduated from the Regional High School in 2011, earning an Arts Scholarship award from the MV Arts Association (MVAA). He went on to study painting at the San Francisco Arts Institute, where he graduated in 2015. He recently returned to living full-time on the island.
Paul Lazes is primarily a conceptual series artist, working in a variety of mediums: from photography, pen and ink, pencil drawings, to assemblages combining natural found objects, recycled cardboard and synthetic doll parts. His early work includes traditional figurative work and still life paintings.
He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in1980, and has been experimenting with different art forms since moving from Long Island to the Vineyard full-time in 2000. He has exhibited his work at the e’kaya gallery, A Gallery, Mocha Motts, The Vineyard Playhouse, as well having work in the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Permanent Collection.
2 MAN SHOW
PAUL LAZES AND ISAAC BLAISE HURWITZ
Mixed Media and Paintings
Through February 24th, 2024
Paul Lazes is primarily a conceptual series artist, working in a variety of mediums: from photography, pen and ink, and pencil drawings, to a combination of natural found objects, recycled cardboard and doll parts. His early work includes traditional figurative work and still life paintings.
He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in1980, and has been experimenting with different art forms since moving from Long Island to the Vineyard full-time in 2000. He has exhibited his work at the e’kaya galler, A Gallery, Mocha Motts, The Vineyard Playhouse, as well having work in the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Permanent Collection.
Island native, Isaac Blaise Hurwitz is a painter and occasional muralist. He uses paint to navigate into realms where language cannot traverse, using mark-making to articulate ideas, form and connections between the physical, rational and spiritual.
“Contradiction is proof of balance. We cannot understand a force in total until we understand both its polarities.”
Isaac graduated from the Regional High School in 2011, earning an Arts Scholarship award from the MV Arts Association (MVAA). He went on to study painting at the San Francisco Arts Institute, where he graduated in 2015. He recently returned to living full-time on the island.
Isaac Blaise Hurwitz web page for more info
BRUCE MacNELLY
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Bruce began with a talk about his approach to collage making, which includes an unconventional method of working intuitively.
This enables him to very quickly conceptualize and commit forms, color and lines to create narratives. Followed by the Workshop.
• Bring your fave pair of scissors and your assortment of images or printed matter from which to be inspired,
or select from magazines & books using our scissors provided by Pathways.
Attendance was limited to 15
Solo Exhibition: Drawings, Paintings & Collage is on view through December 31st, 2023
Hours: Event Days from 12 to 9pm and By Appointment
Island architect Bruce MacNelly returned to making art 15 years ago, after a decades-long hiatus. MacNelly’s family background includes many artists, including his portrait artist father, and his brother, the acclaimed editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly. Bruce himself graduated from Williams College, Williamstown MA, in 1971 with a double major B.A. in Art History and Studio Art. He then earned his Master of Architecture degree in 1975 from University of Virginia, and worked in the office of the widely influential architect, painter and academic Michael Graves until 1979 before moving to the island in 1981 with his wife and business partner, Linda Joy Cohen.
MacNelly credits Michael Graves as a major influence in his art practice, especially his approach to collage making – which is spontaneous, intuitive and instinctive. Integrating various influences: including art history, portraiture, architecture, political commentary, and collage, MacNelly works in a variety of mediums, on varied surfaces.
PAST SEASONS
2021-2022 Season
JACK RYAN : A selection of prints of original pen and ink stipple illustrations
of iconic buildings and vistas in New York City and surrounds | framed.
Gallery hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday : 11am to 5pm
If you missed Jack Ryan’s recent exhibition of 30 drawings at the West Tisbury Public Library you can now view a selection of 15 framed prints at Pathways through April 23, 2022. Island based part-time artist, Jack Ryan has for decades been fascinated with his hometown, New York City and surrounds.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Ryan studied with architectural illustrators at the renowned Pratt Institute of Art. As a young man in the 1970’s he explored and scrutinized nearly every architecturally significant building and bridge in Manhattan, sometimes in passing, other times as a dedicated field trip. Oftentimes trespassing and possibly endangering his life!
You can read more about these experiences in the article Jack Ryan at the Post Office / Arts and Ideas, 2015
Mr. Ryan employs a stippling technique for his original pen and ink illustrations, using Rapido-graph technical pens with minute nibs. A time consuming effort, the success of which is measured by achieving relative contrast between light and shadow using dots.
Recent articles: New Drawings by Jack Ryan / Vineyard Gazette, Wednesday, March 2, 2022Architectural art / Martha’s Vineyard Times / March 2022
MV TIMES ARTICLE ON WALKER’S SHOW HERE
MV TIMES ARTICLE ON KRISTIN TEXEIRA’S SHOW HERE
SEE THE VIDEOS OF THE ARTIST TALKS HERE
The Gallery is open Tuesdays and Fridays through Sundays in February. Hours are11am – 5pm.
Or call/stop by to see if we are in or call to make an appointment. 508 645-9098
At our Artist Talks on Sunday Feb. 4th, Wendy Weldon & Robert Hauck spoke about their respective early works, their varied influences, and collaborations over the years.
Both are known for their abstract tendencies, color field, and texture studies. Included in this exhibition are early works never before shown on the Vineyard.
The event took place as a Zoom Webinar and an in-house event.Videos of the talks will be available here.
Starting Dec.13th, 2021
through January, 2022
Dena Porter – Photography
Reflections Here and There
Washington Ledesma – Paintings
Early Works
“Retrato De Un Soldado Descomocido” Acrylic & Oil on canvas 28×42″ 6500.00
13×19″ Framed $425
Whitney Cleary Oil Paintings 2020 – 2021
Click on an image to enlarge & get info
Artist Statement: My paintings attempt to represent a single moment of observation, cast in the light of one’s own subjective experience. It is in this experience that we find ourselves connected to the world around us, but also divided by the beauty of our loneliness. I work in many thin layers of oil paint on wood, adding and subtracting until it feels right. I have no formal training as an artist, but have had many teachers along the way. Originally from Western Mass, I have found home here on Martha’s Vineyard.
Article on Whitney Cleary in Arts & Ideas Magazine
CLICK TO SEE THIS PAST VIRTUAL ART SHOW
WITH ANNETTE SANDROCK, BETH PARKER & DARCIE LEE HANAWAY
What was Hanging at Pathways Gathering Space
November 2020 – January 2021
Richard Skidmore’s Video – Halloween at Ghost Island Farm
with Rusty – Genius Farmer/Inventor
CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE THE ARTIST’S TALK
From Rachel Elion Baird:
Experimental Short – follow a pair of red bottomed stiletto heels down Madison Avenue in the dark… is she from NYC, or Paris – Channel, 1959?
Pathways Celebrates Black History Month with an Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Mixed Media Works, and Ceramics by Four Local Artists.
5th February to March 1st, 2020
Jamaican native, SHAVANÁE ANDERSON, who now resides on Martha’s Vineyard, has been making art for most of her life, yet only started painting a year ago. Her vibrantly colored, Afrocentric, graphic compositions are part of a series of 12 striking portraits of inspirational women whom she feels have left an imprint on her and who have influenced her life positively – including Des’ree, Michelle Obama, Toni Morrison, Oprah, her Mother, Beyonce, Frida Kahlo, and close fiends. She attributes her early inspiration to an art teacher who encouraged her, her own artistic mother, 90’s sitcoms, learning about the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and films like Black Panther.She works at various scales, using a number of mediums on paper, wood-panel and canvas. Anderson graduated from Suffolk University, majoring in Communication with a concentration in Film Studies and cinematography.
A selection of paintings by BASIA JAWORSKA from her ongoing Roots Music Series, of iconic African American musicians who each have pushed the boundaries of their art form, opening the doors for others to follow in their footsteps. Her subjects include Thelonius Monk – he had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire | Tina Turner – recipient of 12 Grammy Awards | Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley) – a key figure in the development of blues music in the 20th century | Big Mama Thornton (born Willie Mae Thornton). She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller’s “Hound Dog”, in 1952 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe – the first recording star of Gospel music. She pioneered electric guitar techniques using heavy distortion giving rise to the electric blues. She influenced the British blues sound in the 60’s: Keith Richards and Eric Clapton.Jaworska works with oil and acrylic and mixed media on canvas, paper, wood panel.
Painter, CHIOKE MORAIS has recently been making one-of-a-kind utilitarian ceramics under the name Bent Wing Pottery, now available to the general public. Pathways has a selection of uniquely shaped mugs perfect for coffee, tea, cocoa, soup and more – and a number of unique bowls with interesting glazes.
Well known island artist, Suesan Stovall SUESAN STOVALL, of Groovy Sue Gallery in Oak Bluffs, with a selection of her characteristic mixed media collage assemblages on wood, paper and wood panel. Her pieces are soulful and spiritual, sometimes political, and often historical, exploring both her own personal journey and the journeys of others in the African diaspora.
Since January 2020 started with Pathways’ first CinemaDance Festival, the theme on our gallery walls for the month was dance. Showing were manipulated, stitched and collaged photographs by Valerie Sonnenthal and retired printing blocks and a block print by Keren Tonnesen.
Sally Cohn showed framed photographs as well as photographs shown on our large digital display. Sally also showed garments, wall hangings and bags printed with her photography of dancers. Dena Porter showed her photographic work featuring dancers on the display as seen in the slidshow below, with Sally Cohn.
Pathways’ art walls featured the works of
Rob Hauck; mixed media on paper,
Marie-Louise Rouff; acrylics on wood panels,
Alissa Turnbull; watercolor, pencil on paper,
Beth Parker; mixed media on canvas,
Jill Gross; porcelain figures,bowls,plates and more.
CLICK TO SEE OUR NOVEMBER 2019 SHOW FEATURING MVCC GRANT RECIPIENTS
Gallery Shows 2018-2019
SHOWING IN MARCH 2019
GALLERY HOURS ARE 11 – 5pm except Wednesdays & Sundays.
Event nights open til 9pm
WHITNEY CLEARY – OILS ON BOARD
Top: Path To The Beach 12″ x 6″ $300
Bottom: Looking Back 20″ x 24″ $1000
ALEJANDRO CARRENO
Acrylic on canvas 42″ x 42″ $8000
ED SCHULMAN
Left: “Chorus” acrylic on board $350
right: “Fencer” acrylic on board $350
Showing in February for Black History Month
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Showing on Gallery Walls December 14th through January…
ANNA-MARIA STRÖMBERG
Artist’s Reception November 24th from 3:30 – 6pm at Pathways Gathering Space
9 State Road Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard MA
Strömberg’s work is on view at Pathways in November through December 11th.
The Pathways gallery walls are open daily from 11am to 5pm except Wednesdays and Sundays. They space is open for all to use for creative work and collaboration and rehearsal during these hours.
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November 7th through Christmas 2017…
Richard Limber’s Video Installation “Day And Night (On The Vineyard)
This short multimedia video is entertainment with a political bite.
You can see it here….https://vimeo.com/228827166
CODY JEPHCOTE
Mixed media collages on a variety of mediums: canvas, wood panel,
and raw painted wood.
BOB KIMBERLY
Street Photography taken over a number of years, in various locations.
ALLEN LOOK
Black and White street photography from the 1960’s and 70’s,
of his travels around the world and in the US.
The original images were captured on Kodak TRI-X 35mm film.
Now transferred to digital, printed with ink jet on
Epson Ultra Premium Luster Archival Photo paper, in handmade wooden frames
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IN THE CORNER SHOP
The Art of Instagram
NAN BYRNE shows her 4 x 4 photos taken off her phone and into the world in this fun format. Instagram has gathered over 300 million users in just over six years. At $5 each with an easel or $10 for 3 photos.
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Cyn is always up to something new.
Pop Art Minis
They glitter and shine and are priced from $75 to $195
Click here to see Close-Ups on her page!
Mixed Media, Acrylic paints, glitter, $195
2015 – 2016 SEASON
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Handmade Wrap Bracelets by Kelly Mica.
Each wrap is unique and one of a kind!
The materials I use are fire polished glass beads, dyed leather cord and an assortment of metal and wampum buttons.
I was born on Martha’s Vineyard but love to travel! Cross country road trips with my family every year was a great part of growing up. I’ve always loved art and making jewelry..I love these wrap bracelets and am always wearing them. I have a different one on every day! They remind me of a gypsy style. Right now I am living here with my husband, two kids and three dogs and loving our little island!
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Cynthia McGrath is a serious scavenger who uses maps to discover old landfills and then researches her finds as much as possible. Her stunning display of jewelry crafted from unaltered sea glass also includes descriptions of the type and vintage of the finds. Her large and varied line, Original Cyn, runs from pieces featuring Legos & dominoes to painted and jeweled deer and snake vertebrae as well as semi precious stones, Swarovski crystals and pearls.
“I use as much found and recycled materials as possible,” she said. She also has a fondness for “anything kooky, fun and affordable,”
Close-up of Cyn’s tiny bottles of sea glass necklaces, and wampum & sea glass charm pendants.
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Jane Paquet makes gorgeous and durable bracelets that take many hours to create. They are hand crafted with Miyuki glass beads from Japan. Each one is unique. They only get more comfortable with time. Jane has hers on continuously for 3 years and they seem to show no wear. In double wrap and triple wrap styles, they can be used as necklaces as well.
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Jan Paul’s reversible cloths that serve nicely as beach picnic or baby
blankets & table toppers. 42 x 34″ $40
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Leah Crosby makes these cool earrings from upcycled bicycle innertubes.
They are light. They are one of a kind.
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KOWALity Quilts by Mary Kowalski
These lusciously soft quilts are perfect for baby to use for many years. As an infant it makes a great place for tummy time and as they grow older they can cuddle while reading bedtime stories. Have to be touched to be believed.
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LET THERE BEE LIGHT by Theresa Berryman
Hand poured natural beeswax candles: tapers in many colors, little bear hugging a hive, angels, columns, more and more…this high quality batch of beeswax features the bee parts you find in unfiltered honey. The smell of beeswax is addictively warm and relaxing.
but wait . . .there’s more . . .did you know that paraffin (most) candles are toxic to you in the burning and to the environment in the processing? Natural Beeswax can clear the air of undesirable particulate. 100% pure beeswax candles might seem expensive compared to the paraffin tea lights at $5 for 100 at Ikea. But when you find out the pro and cons you will be sold on candles made by bees. For more on the benefits that come with natural beeswax click here…
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You can still get some Vital Signs gear for babies, kids
or yourself here at Pathways.
Here is Tino Garnier rockin’ his VS outfit from ’09.
That is pretty durable!