Good Purpose Gallery – 40 Main Street, Lee, MA (in the historic Baird/Benton Building)
The Good Purpose Art Gallery in Lee, Massachusetts features the work of professional artists who are supportive and embrace the mission of the not-for-profit Student Educational Development Fund (SEDF). Proceeds from the sale of art works benefits the foundation.
Currently On Exhibit
“Expressionistic Landscape: The Light of Nature” / “Of the Earth: Explorations in Wood & Copper”
Come into the warmth of our gallery and enjoy the work of Kayla Corby and Joe Katz!
Kayla Corby’s landscape series represents the beauty of nature with its mystery of light, shapes and depth. Her work surrounds and fills every wall in our beautiful gallery space.
Joe Katz’s wood and copper sculptures weave Appalachian hard woods into heart and body warming shapes and textures, all relating to New England’s industrial and entrepreneurial heritage. His sculpture shines through our front window and creates a maze of intrigue on our floor space.
Join us for First Friday Gallery Night – February 3 (Friday) from 6 to 8 PM.
and Meet and Greet the Artists – February 26 (Sunday) from 4 to 6 PM.
Nov 9 2011 – Jan 2 2012
“Reflections on Color / Color upon Reflection”
This show featured Terry Wise’s works and concurrently showed the impressive glass sculpture of Nathan Hoogs and Elizabeth Crawford!
Terry Wise: “My paintings hover somewhere between reality and fantasy. Still life remains my favorite, though not only, genre. My love of textiles, and training as a textile designer, is often apparent, especially in my use of block printed repeat patterns throughout my paintings as a means of creating texture and warmth and depth of color.
There is so much in our contemporary world to make us feel terrible, and yet there is so much beauty, as well. I want my paintings to make me and all viewers feel some joy.”
Learn more at www.terrywisestudio.com, for Terry Wise
and at www.hoogsandcrawford.com for Nathan Hoogs and Elizabeth Crawford.
Nov 5 – November 7, 2011
The Art of Autism
The Art of Autism presented the works of several international artists with Autism at the Good Purpose Gallery, which currently has works on display from Esther Brokaw, a autistic savant, Michael McManmon, Trevor Aycox from Oklahoma, as well as students from the College Internship Program (CIP).
September 23 – October 30, 2011
“Visions on the Spectrum”
This show featured the work of renowned artist Esther Brokaw and the work of the College Internship Program (CIP) student artists. The gallery also presented the work of the 2011 SEDF National Student Art Contest winners.
Esther Brokaw: “I am an untrained artist who has created a collection of oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels. Each painting I do reflects an unusual focus to color and detail. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 2004. I recently went public with this information in order to share my work and my process for creating art more fully with others. My work has been shown in galleries and in other venues throughout the US.”
August 12 – September 20, 2011
Michael McManmon, Tracy Squires, and Robert Rombiero present: “Awakenings”
Michael McManmon: “My art symbolizes my personal transformation since I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome eight years ago. Prior to diagnosis, I was unable to step out of the box, had been doing pen, and ink drawings my entire life.
“After the diagnosis, I started to work on my cognitive flexibility and allowed myself to experience new things and one of them was color! All the work in this show was accomplished in the last three years and shows my experimentation in different styles and elements.”
Tracy Squires: “ My passion is painting and photography. The inspiration for my paintings often comes from the photographs I take. When I draw and paint from my own photographs, a strong connection occurs, allowing an innate inner creative process to surface.
“The focus of my work is nature; drawing flowers and birds as captured by my camera lens. I refer to myself as someone with a passion and desire to “create” and rarely use the actual word “artist” to describe what I do.”
Robert Rombiero: “I taste, see, feel, love, and share life with everyone and everything! It is all connected in some way or some form. In spirit, everything is one.
This is the philosophy that I try to portray through my artwork. As I create metal sculptures from of my paintings, a third dimension emerges. All my work comes from within and portrays a strong life force.
As you view my work, I hope you will experience these strong emotions too! I have had several gallery shows throughout Berkshire County and my works sells throughout the US.”
July 1 – August 9, 2011
Kayla Corby presents “Lucid Nature: Incandescent Reflections”
Kayla Corby: “I have been painting and exhibiting my artwork in the Berkshires for past fifteen years. My work incorporates the beauty of nature in the Berkshires as I portray the flowers found on country roads, mountains, meadows, and fields.
“The hope portrayed in this show is one of comfort and peace. “I have exhibited my work in Boston, Nantucket, New York City, Mystic, CT, New Haven, CT, and New Bern, North Carolina. “I am delighted to be chosen as the first artist to exhibit work at the July “grand opening” show of the Good Purpose Gallery.”
Ongoing Events
Sunday Musical Brunch
Join us every Sunday at the Starving Artist Creperie and in the Good Purpose Gallery from 10AM to 1PM for a musical brunch featuring made to order crepes and great music by local musicians.
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Monday: 9am-5pm.
Closed Tuesdays.
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