Artist Amy Furman will be featured in an exhibit this month at Gladstone in Manchester. Furman attended Massachusetts College of Art and graduated in 1975 with a B.F.A. in painting. During the summers of her sophomore and junior years, she studied with James Gahagan, a former student of Hans Hoffman, in Vermont. This experience led her to the decision to become a painter.
In 1978 she earned a M.Ed. in Art and Expressive Therapies from Lesley College and began a professional career as an art/recreational therapist, continuing on to teaching art at private and public schools and art education at Wheelock College.
Inspired by the work of Hans Hoffman, Jackson Pollock, and the school of Abstract Expressionism, Furman’s action paintings are bold, fluid and reflective of nature’s colors, rhythms, and sounds.
Amy resides in Needham, Massachusetts and currently works full time as an artist.
An artist reception will take place Saturday, February 29, 4-6 p.m.
GLADSTONE
36 1/2 Union Street, Manchester
