Married in art and married in life, Suzanne M. Packer and Dick McGarr are our featured artists in our continuing season series, “Coming Out, 2021”, August 18th-September 1st.
We will also be displaying work by Kate Nelson, Richard O. Perry, Hollis Fortune, Tom Wilson Jones, John Howard, Georgene Riedl, Alla Zbinovsky, Eveline Luppi, Leslie Kramer, Ellen C. Davies,and Sally S. Fine in the the other gallery rooms.
Weather permitting, please join us at our outdoor opening reception for SUZANNE M PACKER & DICK McGARR on Friday, August 20th at “Meet The Artists” 5 pm-7 pm with jazz musician, DYLAN ROUTHIER entertaining on the keyboard and refreshments served outside in the garden. Social distancing and masks will be required inside the gallery. Or please stop in at the gallery for a Preview of the exhibit, 1 pm-4 pm or anytime 1pm-5pm Wednesday-Monday though September 1st to see the exhibit.
About Suzanne M. Packer:
Suzanne M. Packer, is the recipient of the Cape Cod Museum of Art’s 2018 Artist Muse Award honoree for outstanding contributions to the Museum and art community. Packer was the first Director of the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She now serves as Honorary Trustee and is the Volunteer Archivist.
She exhibited her first work in the San Francisco Museum of Art when she was five years old. Her work has since been exhibited and collected from New England to California, Greece, and Pakistan. She has been honored with numerous one-person exhibitions, including the Cahoon Museum of American Art, 1997, the Sparrow House Museum,1999 and two at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, ”Spanning The Years: A. S. Packer & Suzanne M. Packer, 2007” and “Cape Waters Abstracted, 2018””
Packer served for nine years on the Founding Board of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, is an active member of TWENTY-ONE IN TRURO and a Past President of the Cape Cod Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. For five years she co-ordinated the Creative Arts Center Festival of the Arts in Chatham. She is a past member of the Printmakers of Cape Cod and for many years taught classes in painting and white-line print making.
Known for her colorful still life oil paintings and white-line woodblock prints, she now shows abstract oil paintings which have been inspired by her association with the TWENTY-ONE IN TRURO artists and their week of retreat in Truro exploring the Outer Cape landscape and water “Once you know the subject well the abstraction follows.”
Her paintings are in private and museum collections including the Cahoon Museum of American Art, the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
For a peek at Suzanne M. Packer in her studio:
https://youtu.be/KVijO-nknb8
About Dick McGarr:
Dick McGarr’s art interest started early with Saturday classes at The Rhode Island School of Design during his elementary school days. These were followed with private lessons by a prominent Rhode Island Illustrator. Dick became his high school newspaper's cartoonist, later the play bill designer at Holy Cross College. His artistic dreams were put into the background until his move to Cape Cod where he is now recognized for his abstract acrylic paintings and his realistic landscapes created in watercolor, winning awards at The Falmouth Art Center and The Cape Cod Art Association.
He is a juried member of The Visual Artist Cooperative, The Cape Cod Art Association, an artist member of The Provincetown Art Association and Museum and The Cape Cod Museum of Art. His painting was selected for the Festival of the Arts raffle in Chatham.
The Permanent Collection of The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. Includes his work.