Selected works in the exhibition are shown below. Easily portable works may be taken home when purchased.

The Gallery will host a reception in honor of the artist on Saturday, October 28th, 5–7pm.

Together with a bronze sculpture from 1983, the paintings compose her fifth solo exhibition at the Gallery.

A hallmark of Ruth Mordecai’s art is movement that is not mere activity but the record of a mind and spirit moving through life. We sense this movement as she speaks about her work, telling of its occasions and subjects, telling of the intentions, feelings, and insights which propelled her from one to the next in a series of paintings. And we see the movement there, visually, in her sculptural forms, there in her human figures, there in her layered accumulations of tokens of what is good and beautiful and loved and—as the movement itself testifies—transitory.

In the series The Kiss, Mordecai engages, for the first time as an artist, directly with the experience of loss, an experience at once universal and painfully specific. With it, her hallmark movement extends its range, sweeping us up and moving us with it. When she returns, with simple grace, in the same body of work, to subjects which have inspired her and which she has animated throughout her long career, we find renewed and deepened delight in these familiar forms of her creative vision.

This exhibition features work by Peter Lyons, Zygmund Jankowski, Diane Ayott, Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Timothy Harney, Ruth Mordecai, Ed Touchette, and Aron Leaman, and the Gallery is very pleased to introduced ceramic sculptures by Gloucester artist Andy Matlow.

The Gallery will host a reception in celebration of the artists participating in the exhibition on Saturday, July 9, 5–7pm.

Selected works in the exhibition are shown below.

We will be in booth 228. Slideshows of art and installation photos are below.

Artists in the booth: Peter Lyons, Susan Erony, Erika Marquardt, Timothy Harney, Gabrielle Barzaghi, Aron Leaman, Diane Ayott, Ruth Mordecai, and Kim Radochia.

Matthew Swift Gallery is pleased to present 21 new paintings by Ruth Mordecai in which she continues to generate and employ a vocabulary of symbols evoking the promise of shared humanity and culture. From 12″ square to 5’ x 7′ in size, the new paintings on paper and canvas possess richly-textured and often collaged surfaces, suggesting layers of personal and cultural memory informing the present moment. Acknowledging sources in prayer and dream, she has entitled many of the paintings simply “The Sign.”

Selections from the exhibition are shown in the slideshow below.

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Fair organizers have furthermore invited Matthew Swift Gallery to exhibit the work of Erma Wheeler (1915–2005) in a special exhibition program “Kabinett” that the fair has established to offer collectors the work of artists of historical importance, in Europe referred to as “Rediscovered.”

The main booth will feature a walk-in area hung salon-style with smaller and alternative works by the artists of the main booths.

The three slideshows below include the works planned to be shown the main booth, adjacent Kabinett booth, and the salon area of the main booth, respectively.

For fair passes, please contact the gallery. Our booth is number 502, to the right as you enter.

The gallery will be showing works by Peter Lyons, Susan Erony, Timothy Harney, Ruth Mordecai, Pamela Ellis Hawkes, and Aron Leaman.