New exhibit ‘Two Painters, Two Friends’ coming to Marion Art Center

MARION — A new exhibit is coming to the Marion Art Center to begin the fall.

“Two Painters, Two Friends,” featuring Kim Barry and Pamela Hoss will run from Sept. 28 to Nov. 1, with an opening reception Saturday, Sept. 28 from 3 to 5 p.m.

Barry is a painter, potter, sculptor and art educator who graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in sculpture and from UMass Dartmouth with an MFA in painting. She has lived in the South Coast most of her life andis a member of Hatch Street Studios and The Drawing Room in New Bedford, South Coast Artists, Providence Art Club, Rogers Gallery in Mattapoisett, Westport Art Group, Marion Art Center and Cape Cod Cultural Center. She is also owner of Clay Trout Pottery in Mattapoisett.

Barry’s art “is informed by the beautiful, south coast environment and the natural objects she encounters,” according to a Marion Art Center news release.

Barry said she is “compelled to articulate,” when painting, “ a fierce passion for life, female strength, and fecundity,” according to the release.

My subject matter such as fruits, flowers, veggies, shells can often reference the human form, gesture, memory, emotion, sensuality,” she said. “My landscapes simply capture the energy of a time and place. When I work from the natural world, I ingest this experience and then synthesize it into my own expression. My use of paint is visceral.”

Pamela Hoss received in 1972 a BFA from Southeastern Massachusetts University and an MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 1984. Hoss taught drawing at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University and Montserrat College of Art. She taught at UMass Dartmouth for 30 years, from 1989 until retiring in 2018.

Hoss has received an award from the Boit Competition, the Tomaso Travel Award to Italy, a trip to the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain from Eleanor Sayre, a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Artist’s Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant and an ARTnet Grant from New Bedford Creative, among other awards.

She has also served as a juror or curator for the Marion Art Center and Gosnold Cultural Council's Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival, “Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections” for the New Bedford Art Museum, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grants, and the National Figure Show at the North River Art Society in Marshfield.

Hoss has several pieces of her work in the collection of prints and drawings at the Boston Public Library and has exhibited in commercial and university galleries and museums. Exhibitions include the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, the Fitchburg, the Danforth Museum in Framingham, the Fuller Museum in Brockton, the Attleboro Art Museum, and the New Bedford Art Museum.