Iris Osterman’s latest show at the Bowery Gallery, featuring work spanning a five-year period, returns to a favorite subject, the shoreline of New England. Taken from nature, yet transformed in the studio from sketch notes and photographs, the images evoke strong memories of the granite-edged landscape.
Using oils, with an emphasis on line, motion and shape, the work takes on an animate presence. There is a logic to the scenes of ocean and rocky borders, a puzzle of overlying shapes, evoking a feeling of harmony.
Osterman has shown her work in numerous one-person and group exhibitions in Massachusetts and nationally. Most recently she has exhibited at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA and the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
Bowery Gallery