'Texture Crossover' Features Four Artists, Four Mediums

Texture is the word that Arlene Hecht used to describe the similarities of four artists on display in the Falmouth Art Center’s Landrau-Partan Gallery this month.

That is why Ms. Hecht, who served as guest curator for the show, titled the show “Texture Crossover: Work by Viktor Guyetsky, Will Kirkpatrick, Leslie Kramer and Frances Vaughn Merton.”

Ms. Hecht is the owner of the former Gallery 333 in North Falmouth, which she ran for more than 25 years.

“Texture Crossover” is on display through February 1.

The four artists in the show have diverse backgrounds, and they all specialize in a different medium.

Viktor Guyetsky, whose evocative figurative sculptures are on display, was born in Kiev in the Soviet Union. The son of a famous painter, by age 10 Mr. Guyetsky had begun his formal art training. He attended The School of Visual Arts for gifted young artists in Kiev and in 1966 received a master of fine arts degree in monumental sculpture and architectural design from Stoganov Academy of Industrial Art, Moscow.

After graduating, Mr. Guyetsky designed and produced sculptures for city parks and historical sites in Russia and Ukraine. In the 1980s he came to the United States, where he was an antiques art restorer for museums and collections, including the White House collection. He was also a
senior industrial designer and sculptor for Hasbro Industries. Mr. Guyetsky has had numerous one-man shows in New York and New England. His current figurative work in fired clay, resin and bronze is very expressive of the human condition.

Will Kirkpatrick is a realist oil painter whose interests span landscape, still life, seascape, marine, animals, floral, sporting, portrait and figure subjects. He maintains a working studio at his home in Hudson and regularly paints in his Boston studio.

Leslie Kramer of Brewster is a printmaking artist who makes original prints inspired by nature, the landscape of her travels, real and imagined stone structures, and letterforms of many alphabets. She is interested in creating a dialogue between the past and present, representation and abstraction.

Frances Vaughn Merton of Centerville has been working in stained glass for about 20 years, mostly in more-traditional types of pieces, such as small panels, boxes and mirrors. She realized that there is potential in recycling discarded and found pieces of glass—the “heads and tails” of art glass and hand-rolled glass—that could be combined into collages. This seemed to be a natural extension of her paper collage work and a new challenge. Her glass collages are on display in the art center show, rounding out the texture crossover apparent in all four artists’ work.

The Falmouth Art Center at 137 Gifford Street in Falmouth is free and open to the public daily.