Found Again: Paintings by Elizabeth Whelan & Adriana Eftimie
On display on the lower level during regular library hours, through mid January

Recovering from a world pandemic pushes us to look for a new perspective on the old familiar ways, places, and events we might have taken for granted. Island events like the Agricultural Fair bring us together as a community. Familiar places like our cherished lighthouses attract tourists from around the world. A great golfing experience is shared with friends, surrounded by beautiful Vineyard landscapes. For a time, all these were inaccessible. Now we can cherish and appreciate them again. Adriana Eftimie and Elizabeth R. Whelan capture a few of these moments and places in paint, as a reminder to take some time, take a closer look, and reconnect with what was lost and found again.

This is artist Adriana Eftimie’s debut show. She has been studying painting for several years, and in 2021 officially launched her art career by displaying work and acccepting commissions. In ‘Found Again’, she shares a number of her works painted in her Vineyard Haven studio over the course of 2022. Elizabeth Whelan, has been using her time at the easel during 2022 to work on commissions and also broaden her painting skills to incorporate a wider variety of painting approaches and more drawing into her work.

Their art show at the Vineyard Haven Public Library ‘Art in the Stacks’ encompasses two different takes on familiar scenes from around Martha’s Vineyard. Eftimie’s work explores the detail and nuance of broad Vineyard landscape by using rich color to bring out atmospheric views. Her stunning details beautifully capture the Vineyard light, with two of the works rendering familiar views of the waterfront from interesting vantage points.

In contrast Elizabeth Whelan’s work takes on an oft-overlooked feature of the annual Agricultural Fair, the comments left by the hard-working fair judges on the Ag Hall entries. These comments are Elizabeth’s favorite feature of the fair each year, as the judges praise, cajole, and comment on the entries and entrants. in her paintings, names and entries have been changed to protect the innocent, and instead, personages of Ancient Rome are listed as the exhibitors. 

When: On display on the lower level during regular library hours, Now through mi- January, 2023.

Hours:
Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm 
Monday: 10 am - 5 pm
Tuesday: 10 am - 6 pm
Wednesday: 10 am - 6 pm
Thursday: 10 am - 6 pm
Friday: 1 pm - 5 pm 
Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm

Where: Vineyard Haven Public Library, 200 Main Street, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568

The works are available for sale by contacting the artists directly, email: Adriana Eftimie and Elizabeth R. Whelan

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