FEATURED EXHIBITION ART FROM THE SOUL: NINE PAINTERS THE CULTURAL CENTER AT ROCKY NECK 6 WONSON STREET GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH MAY 13 Nine women painters founded “Art from the Soul,” a group led by mentor and teacher Nella Lush. Exhibiting together at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, their paintings exemplify a style I call “Romantic Abstract Expressionism.” (See Nella Lush profile, page 36.) The painting techniques employed by Lush and her students demand a new vocabulary to describe them. “Scrubbery,” “color-mash,” “scribblery,” “tombstone-shape,” “shape-butting” and “paint-mixture” seem more appropriate than the often-used terms “painterly,” “brush-work” and “overlays.” If the women would contract the name of their group to “artfromthesoul” we will have invented another new expressive word. The artists’ style, method and content combine the tenants of … [Read more...] about ART FROM THE SOUL: NINE LIVES AT ROCKY NECK