January 2016 Wotiz Gallery Art Exhibit with Miranda Updike

The Milton Public Library will host the work of Ipswich artist Miranda Updike in the Wotiz Gallery during the month of January 2016.

The exhibit will consist of colorful paintings inspired by the “Occupy” movement and here is what she says about them: “This series of paintings…is on the subject of crowds. In our times of technology, there is little online substitute for a public gathering of bodies and souls uniting in a common cause. My paintings represent human bonding and interacting in a high-tech era that tends to foster isolation: people joining together to share ideas, physical space and sentiments. Many of my crowd paintings are viewed from the aerial perspective. I use photographic references to abstract the idea of human movement. I’m attracted to the decorative quality of clustered people or when they are haphazardly separated, like dropped gems, confetti or beads. There is loveliness to the accidental placement of people in the streets seen, say, from the fourteenth floor of a skyscraper – a littering of colored shapes and shadows, which move above asphalt and street lines, expressing a brand of contemporary splendor.”

Please come and enjoy these fine paintings and visit the Milton Public Library, which is located at 476 Canton Avenue, Milton and for more information about displaying your art, call Jean Hlady, Adult Services Librarian, at 617-698-5757 ext. 3.