The Community Gallery is located in the lobby of the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Emory Street entrance, 86 Park Street, Attleboro, MA.  The Attleboro Arts Museum is pleased to offer this prominent gallery space as a solo exhibition opportunity for both our promising and professional artist members. 

To learn more about exhibition opportunities in the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Community Gallery contact office@attleboroartsmuseum.org or 508-222-2644 x15.

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February 2012:

The Work of Tally Forbes – Paris and Beyond, Sketches and Paintings

The gesture of land and figure gives expression to the wonder of life.  What I see with my eyes is just the half of it.  What I paint is the other half.

Most of my paintings begin as a series of small sketches.  For the most part I sketch from photos I have taken with my iPhone while I travel.   When I sketch, I am looking for the gesture of the scene, how the people and the surrounding area work together.   I manipulate and combine my iPhone images to capture a composition that emits energy and provokes conversation between the viewer and the painting.  My goal is to actively engage the viewer in each piece. What is happening here?  What is the atmosphere, the sounds, the aromas, the conversations?   What are those shadows?  Who is going where, and why?

I begin with a pen working fast to capture the action in the sketch. Shadows dancing, people and shapes in action interest me. Their gestures represent to me the energy of life in its purest form.  In my final watercolors, I add and subtract elements that contribute to the larger format, building the composition almost like a collage as I paint.

I think of my work as an “abstraction” of reality.   I am interested in the interaction of the shapes and forms taken from real life, but abstracted to fit my particular vision of the world.

– Tally Forbes