Artist Demonstration: Dennis Sheehan

When:
Saturday, Apr 26, 2025 2:00p -
4:00p

Where:
The Guild of Boston Artists
162 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116

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This Live Artist Demonstration is hosted by the Guild of Boston Artists in conjunction with the exhibition "Of Dusk and Dawn" a solo show of paintings by Dennis Sheehan. During this two-hour demonstration, Dennis Sheehan will share his methods and process for achieving a high contrast landscape through the use of tone and color. Dennis will explain how to use soft, muted tones that offset brighter, more chromatic colors to further emphasize the focal point in the landscape.


About the Exhibition:


The Guild of Boston Artists is proud to present Of Dusk and Dawn, a solo show of poetic landscapes by renowned contemporary Tonalist painter Dennis Sheehan, at its Newbury Street gallery from April 12 – May 3rd.


Suffused with spiritual meaning and deep emotional mood, Sheehan’s twilit scenes explore the evocative dualities inherent in the moment when light meets dark. For nearly all of recorded history, painters and poets have been inspired by the ineffable qualities of twilight and the ephemerality of dusk and dawn. For Dennis Sheehan, these moments in the passage of the day, when light and dark exist as one, are the most important to his artistic goals. He explains, “My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important; for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows”.


Like the work of nineteenth-century painter George Inness, whose influence is consciously acknowledged, Sheehan’s paintings combine this search for optical truth with an exploration of the poetic resonance to be found in the profound stillness as day breaks or night falls. Deeply sensitive to atmosphere, Sheehan makes evocative use of color to infuse his landscapes with mood; his dusks are rich with feelings of melancholy and solitude while his dawns vibrate with promise and expectation. For the artist, “the purpose of art is to enhance and enrich one’s life and the lives of others” and each of the tranquil painted meditations in this show are sure to do just that

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