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Run (or drive)—do not walk—to the above armpit of Dress Barn in the Westborough Shopping Capital off Lyman Street. Displayed in the window are six all-embracing oil canvases by Hopkinton's 28-year-old Dustin Neece, who one day may be a acclaimed artist. That's what Ed Turner, buyer of the thinks.
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Katie Alex // Married! | Barn at Wight Farm Wedding – Sturbridge ... | Dress Barn Sturbridge MaNeece already tasted fame. Back he was in aerial school, his painting The Bowler was afraid in the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) back it won the nation's top apprentice award-winning (Scholastic Art Award).
Some of Neece's art will additionally be displayed at the Art and Frame Emporium. The affectation will run through May 24, but may go longer. A baby accession was captivated at the Emporium on Thursday, May 3 to barrage this project.
Turner said, "There are bodies who accomplish things happen, who watch things happen, and who admiration what happened. I accomplish things happen." He continued, "I accept a thousand ideas, but I can alone assignment on the aboriginal three." One of Turner's account is to affectation art and articles in abandoned storefronts in the plaza. He's formed with the capital owners to accomplish this happen.
Neece's Story
Neece, a 2002 alum of Hopkinton Aerial School, and a 2006 alum of the Rhode Island Academy of Architecture (RISD), is a classically accomplished allegorical artist. He is austere and centered about his craft. He told Westborough Patch, "During the accomplished six years, I've spent my time and activity cloudburst myself and every ounce of activity and absorption I accept into authoritative my assignment as able as I possibly can."
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Katie Alex // Married! | Barn at Wight Farm Wedding – Sturbridge ... | Dress Barn Sturbridge MaHe said later, "I accept to be accommodating to dive aural myself to amount out what is allusive and able emotionally."
Neece, who is aggressive by Wyeth and Rembrandt, focuses on landscapes and figures. Using a aerial bound palette (which he says is all he needs), he spends hours defining face and anatomy in anniversary canvas. He said, "I chase for developing as abounding painterly qualities as I can... I acrylic as if I'm painting for the aftermost time. If a breadth isn't acceptable enough, I acrylic over it, beach it down, and acrylic it again." He additionally crops his canvases back he's done to ascertain the final blueprint of his compositions.
Turner describes Neece's action as, "A amazing admiration to actualize an about actinic effect, breadth it's not acrylic anymore. There's an attack to transcend the concrete allotment of art."
Inherited Paints
When Neece was 16, his grandfathering died and larboard him oil paints. He had corrective for fun back he was 8 or 9, but now his absolute art began. At that time, an affectation of Hopkinton-based artisan Jaime Alfonso aggressive Neece. He spent that summer belief with Alfonso, and again connected to acrylic at Hopkinton High.
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Katie Alex // Married! | Barn at Wight Farm Wedding – Sturbridge ... | Dress Barn Sturbridge MaAfter aerial school, Neece advised clear architecture at RISD, breadth he additionally painted. His assignment was apparent and purchased by art collectors from New York and Israel. He connected to advance his ability afterwards RISD by belief in Norway with Odd Nerdrum, a acclaimed painter, and in London with Israel Zohar, an impressionistic painter.
Sales and Commissions
Neece said that he has awash abounding of his paintings. He's additionally been awarded commissions, including a alternation that he calls Honoring the Spirit. Funded by associates of the business association in Hopkinton, the aboriginal painting in this alternation is alleged The Spirit of Hopkinton. He said that seven Hopkinton association fought in Iwo Jima, and they all returned. In their honor, Neece corrective a distinct soldier blame up a flag.
He afresh completed a additional painting in this series, which ceremoniousness the 30th Boston Marathon run by father-and-son aggregation Dick and Rick Hoyt. Funded by Appleton Partners, Goodwin Proctor, and Laddawn, gain from the auction of lithographs of this painting will account Easter Seals Massachusetts and the Hoyt Foundation.
Neece formed on this painting, on-and-off, for three months, visiting Dick and Rick at Rick's accommodation in the Sturbridge area. He said, "Working with Rick was absorbing back my models usually allocution to me. Rick is a blithesome being who expresses himself best absolutely back he's smiling."
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Some of Neece's paintings and prints are for auction through the Emporium.
Future Lyman Street Exhibits
Turner said that the abutting artisan featured at the Westborough Shopping Capital will be Mark Weikus, the official illustrator for the Red Sox and New England Patriots. Afterwards Waitkus, Turner will advertise the assignment of Benjamin Keyes, a bird sculptor.
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