REBECCA DOUGHTY
Rebecca Doughty (b 1955) draws, paints, and sculpts her comic and tragic characters (often animal characters) as they navigate a world of human predicaments. She writes: "They're my companions, comrades, clowns, heroes. I see them as stand-ins, for me and for all of us, bearing the weight of our anxious world.”
Rebecca's work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, NY, The Boston Drawing Project, DeCordova Museum, and The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and she has received fellowships and awards from The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ucross Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Artists Resource Trust Fund. Rebecca lives in Cambridge, MA, and works at Miller Street Studios in Somerville, MA.
CLAUDIO PEDRAZA
..the boy watches his father as he comes back from work in his railway uniform. He sees him eat without a rest. He sees him go out with his tools to his other job, as a bricklayer. The boy stares at him. Looking how he uses his tools, the same ones he uses to make tin and wood toys for him. He watches him hammer the rivets and nails and the boy learns. Nowadays, many years later, the boy, now an adult, uses the tools, he hammers, draws, paints... he plays. I was born on October 18th 1961, at José Mármol, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
MATT NECKERS
“I started carving creatures in March of 2019. I’m sure everyone reading this will remember, but it seemed like the world was ending. Everything was closed - except for my studio. To keep myself sane, I challenged myself to create at least one of these carvings a day, using only materials I had on hand or things I could harvest from our property in rural Vermont. I kept up this pace for several months, making well over a hundred before the end of last spring. I continued making them with less frequency through the summer and fall. Each figure represents something about the day it was carved, and the way I was feeling at the time. As a whole, the collection represents a visual journal of time, place and emotion.” Matt’s work has been featured by Hyperallergic, Art New England, Vermont Public Radio and more. He has had a varied and amazing career, created an interactive museum inside a 1940’s refrigerator, had work installed on the facade of the Bennington Museum, and has received honors for his teaching.
MARYANNE BENNS
Known primarily for her surrealist ceramic sculpture, Maryanne Benns uses art to present her peculiar visions and unique observations, some tangible, some fantastical, on what it means to be human, at odds with the orderly natural systems of the world “From childhood, I’ve been compelled to make things with my hands, as an adult I’ve grown to appreciate and recognize this as my existence–simply making things.” Maryanne’s studio is 2 doors down from Pulp.
ALAN DOYLE
Alan Doyle is a self taught artist who lives in Wicklow , Ireland. His charcoal works on paper, inhabited by elongated figures and animals are drawn from his subconscious and provide a portal into a world that exists beyond time and just below the surface. This is Doyle’s 2nd exhibition in the U.S. (both at Pulp) His work is represented in the UK by the Henry Boxer Gallery, home of artists Madge Gill & Adolph Wolfi and other European Art Brute masters.
MARK BROWN
Late last year Mark was gifted a piece of roofing tin by a friend and the surface contours and topography suggested architecture, cliffs, and rocks. Using simple drawing tools- colored pencils and China markers, the unlikely surface becomes an industrial canvas. Textures are exaggerated and enhanced, crevices are defined and slowly the images emerge. They are visions of a restless energy inherent in the material that is brought into being through the imagination of a creative artist.
Mark describes them as “not made up, just realized”. It’s as if he has tapped into a signal on the radio. At first it is indistinct and scratchy, barely discernable. It becomes stronger and more powerful the closer he gets to the source. Mark says that he is simply uncovering what is already there. The recent works are the result of his persistent archeology.
MARK TIMMINS
Disillusioned by his work as a professional illustrator, a family tragedy, and a diagnosis of ADHD, Mark took a creative hiatus. When the pandemic hit, it fueled his need to make again, and kickstarted his love of drawing and collage. Mark lives in South West London with his children, and the art keeps him going. This is his first exhibit in the States.