The front lobby became a little more Louvre-like this week with the annual Art Show. On exhibit were hand-picked portraits and landscapes in traditional forms and challenging abstract works that revealed the complex side of their creators' minds. At a reception Monday evening, art teachers Ann Malachowski (high school) and Stephanie Peacock (middle school) greeted guests and discussed their favorite works.
CM students earned top honors from the Boston Globe's art competition this winter. The school received a special award as did Vincent Coviello '08, Dan Ruggles '08, and Michael Murphy '10. At the All-State competition this spring, John Repucci '09 and Martin Giordano '09 also earned honors.
Above: art by Jake Uminski '11
Ms. Malachowski's Advanced Placement Art students--Guilet Libby '08, John Flanagan '08, Vincent Coviello, and James Wellemeyer '08, have been busily preparing their portfolios for presentation to the College Board committee that will evaluate them. "These four boys have worked very hard," Malachowski said, "to move past their horizons and push themselves in new ways. They've honed their skills beyond realism to abstraction. I'm very proud of the work they've done."
Coviello displayed a panel of his work, mostly portraits and sketches. For his AP project, the theme was a tarot deck. "It gave me the ability to put my perspective on something old," Coviello said. One more colorful portrait revealed a man caught in between reality and fantasy. It's possibly how Coviello feels about sharing his first name with the fantastical Van Gogh, or about his prospects in leaving CM to study art at the Art Institute of Boston. His classmate Guilet Libby will also pursue art at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Senior Kyle Thompson, who elected not to enroll in AP Art but who has studied in the CM arts program for four years, pointed out his work to visitors. "Cam Dunbar ['09] painted the joker," he said. "That's pretty jazzy. And I like [junior Robbie] Kane's landscape. It's pretty cool."
Thompson himself had "Cave" on display, a surreal acrylic vision that started, he said, as a painting of a mountain. "But I didn't like it, so I turned it upside down." The result is an ominous view from the inside of a cave at the (former) mountain and a stalactite growing slowly over the millennia towards its symmetrical counterpart.
When asked what promise the underclassmen showed for the AP program in years to come, Coviello pointed to works like the observation piece Michael LaRocque '10 put together of things out of his pocket and the Atlas-inspired lunarscape of Jake Uminski '11.
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