Michael Metcalfe

The work of British artist Michael Metcalfe embraces the post-medium stridency manifest both in medieval art and movements such as Dada and Pop. Harkening even to the dawn of mankind’s need to make sense of his existence. Thus Metcalfe’s work incorporates the metallic pallet of a singular certain world-view projected in visceral brutality by cave-paintings and Flemish Primitives. However, Metcalfe melds this unified iconography of the distant past with our contemporary disparate icons scattered through the multi-media of popular culture. In this way Metcalfe’s work digs to the fundamental depths of human psychology that spans the ages. Consistent with the fusion of past and present, Metcalfe’s images are rendered in a reinvention of the ancient technique of decoupage. Bourgeois delicacy and precision are replaced with an industrial physicality, immediacy, chaos and sculptural dimension. The pure emotion evident at distant viewing becomes enriched and subverted on intimate inspection. Consequently, Metcalfe’s work not only reflects the human condition through horizontal time, but also its vertical complexity at every instant.

Students at Pianoberries Music School, ages 6-14, create art that expresses the music they have chosen to play for their Autumn recital. The art is projected on screen while the students perform. The visualization of music into art is powerful way for students to connet with they music they perform. The can express their emotions and ideas more creatively while also enhancing the overal musical experience for both themselves and their audience.

This is the second year the students' work has been displayed in the Coolidge Corner J.P. Licks.

Shawn Paul is a self taught artist from Worcester, Mass. He has had two liver transplants, twenty years apart, and is a cancer survivor. He has been drawing his entire life life but art become a calling in January of 2018. Shawn is the third oldest of thirteen children and he is grateful for this life.

To contact Shawn, please email [email protected] or find him on Instagram at @unclesuperman13

Nine J.P. Licks team members show their artwork in the current show. Celebrating the talents of our scoopers, ice cream makers, coffee roasters, and delivery drivers, * we're thrilled to feature their artwork.

*featured artists include Avery Bleichfeld ([email protected]), Lilac Capulet (@lilaccapulet), Wyatt Cunningham (@art_bywyatt), Andi Daneliia ([email protected]), Ian Mills (@iandmillsart), Mason Osorio (@drawoutlife), Julia Reeder (@jreed.design/juliareeder.com), Hank Rose (@greatlakeswimmer), and Conor Toland ([email protected]).