City Hall `gallery'.Byline: Nancy Sheehan COLUMN: Quick Takes Arts It's the only place we know of where you can get your complaining about city governance done while at the same time admiring ad·mire v. ad·mired, ad·mir·ing, ad·mires v.tr. 1. To regard with pleasure, wonder, and approval. 2. To have a high opinion of; esteem or respect. 3. the work of some of Worcester's finest. No, not the blue-suited kind of finest. We mean some of our finest local artists, who are given exhibition space in Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes' office on a rotating ro·tate v. ro·tat·ed, ro·tat·ing, ro·tates v.intr. 1. To turn around on an axis or center. 2. basis. Since Lukes took the helm Jan. 13, 2007, the work of 15 artists, in group and solo shows, has enlivened en·liv·en tr.v. en·liv·ened, en·liv·en·ing, en·liv·ens To make lively or spirited; animate. en·liv  en·er n. the mayoral walls. The current exhibition spotlights someone who truly
is one of our finest: painter Jack Sikes Sikes can refer to: People
OK. OK. Sikes is from Holden Holden, town (1990 pop. 14,628), Worcester co., central Mass., a residential suburb of Worcester; settled 1723, set off and inc. 1741. Manufactures include electrical and metal products, plastics, and machinery. - but just over the line from Worcester, and many of the gritty-not-pretty scenes he paints are of Worcester streets, and he's a member of ARTSWorcester, and does it really matter anyway? Fitchburg and Spencer also are well-represented in the show, which runs through March 31. Sikes' unusual way with composition can stop viewers in their tracks - and show judges as well. One painting in the mayor's office is "Hurry Up and Wait," a rendering in oils of the scene outside the Fitchburg bus station. It won first prize in the annual Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft at Fitchburg Art Museum The Fitchburg Art Museum is a regional art museum based in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1925 through a bequest of artist, collector, and educator Eleanor Norcross, the museum has 14 galleries showcasing American and European paintings, prints, last summer. "We like to promote local artists, and this is the most public room in City Hall, and our door is always open," Lukes said. "We want to recognize and encourage them because it's a segment of the population that's been neglected for so long." |
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