‘Love of Color’, an exhibit by Lois Kearney and Alice Laputka
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‘Love of Color’, an exhibit of paintings by Lois Kearney and Alice Laputka, will take place at The AFA Gallery from July 3 until July 26. There will be an opening reception on Friday, July 4, from 6 to 8 PM. The opening reception will be part of downtown Scranton’s First Friday event, celebrating openings at a wide variety of art venues.
The exhibit will focus on the artists’ love of color in their works. Lois Kearney, a life-long Scranton resident, works primarily in oil and watercolor. In creating a painting, she paints on site several monochromatic sketches to establish light direction and composition. She then decides on a color palette and takes notes, photographs and videos as well. In the quiet of her studio she will then recreate the scene in her mind and on paper or canvas.
Lois received her BFA from Marywood College with further studies at Pa. Academy of Fine Arts and Studio Incamminati. She takes pleasure in painting local woodlands with particular interest in waterfalls. Her paintings are influenced by her travel, often conveying breathtaking landscapes. She has been commissioned for work in private collections in the U.S., Europe and China. She is a former Gallery Coordinator at The AFA Gallery.
Alice Laputka’s highly-composed, vividly-colored paintings uniquely express her response to the world around her. She plays with the colors and shapes that she observes in the landscape. She looks at her subject matter in terms of its abstract design - seeing shapes, line and color - even though the final result is still representational. Occasionally abstract paintings help to reinforce her abilities with composition and color and enables her to explore in directions that she might not otherwise have tried in her representational work.
Alice Laputka resides in Conyingham in Luzerne County. A native Pennsylvanian, Laputka earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the Philadelphia College of Art. She is a full member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, New York City; a signature member of Knickerbocker Artists; the Pastel Society of America; the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society; and the Philadelphia Water Color Society. Alice has had several solo shows in Pennsylvania and New York. Her work has been included in several books and magazines. She has written articles for the Pastelagram, an in-house publication of the Pastel Society of American and edited their 2006 and 2007 summer issues. She is also a member of the Maryland Pastel Society, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA), and Philadelphia Tri State Artists Equity.
