Gallery Seven | Frame Shop & Fine Art Gallery | Maynard, MA

A native of Massachusetts, Iris Lee Marcus was educated at the Massachusetts College of Art. Iris has been busy for the past two decades painting murals and decorative faux finishes in homes, restaurants, and businesses across the continent from California to North Carolina to Maine. Iris uses the many techniques involved in this work to create the fine art pieces for which she is also known. Secco fresco, graffito, gilding, and multi-layered glazes all feature in her evocative works of art.

Lisa Marder has been a professional painter and teacher for twenty-five years and also has a Masterʼs degree in landscape architecture. She currently teaches art and photography at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, MA and at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, where she is a gallery artist and serves on the Advisory Board and Education Committee. She is also a member of the Concord Art Association. Her landscape paintings reflect her affinity for color, light, and space, and many are influenced by the beauty and variety of the New England landscapes near her home on Massachusetts South Shore. Her work can be found in various private and corporate collections.

Robert Moll is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in English and Education, and he is also a graduate of the Los Angeles Art Center School (now called the Art Center College of Design) with a degree in Art. He is a member of the faculty of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. Robert is drawn to the unexpected and abstract. He looks for different, alternative ways to view ordinary objects and scenes, and his teaching tends to gravitate towards abstract photography and what he calls “alternative landscapes” – ways of looking at our ordinary world from unusual and occasionally quixotic points of view.

David Phoenix has been expressing his personal vision with photography since his college years. Photography has also been an integral part of his professional career as a graphic designer. “Capturing the ‘perfect image’ is a combination of skill, patience, serendipity and [particularly with digital] taking lots of shots. It’s always been satisfying to get the shot I was after, but lately I’ve been taking my photography to another level. I see the shot as a beginning, something I can get ‘painterly’ with – to bring the image to something more conceptual or abstract. As darkroom technique has always been an essential part of the photographer’s mastery of his images, Photoshop is my darkroom. My intent with its use is to enhance the image without changing its original integrity. This process of enhancement with Photoshop gives me as much satisfaction as capturing the perfect image.”

Lois Tonnessen Andersen studied at the Pratt Institute, the Art Studentʼs League of NYC and Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo, Norway. She taught studio art for 21 years at Lexington Christian Academy in Lexington, MA and at the Imago School in Maynard, MA. From her earliest memories, making something has been her deep delight, and engaging in a way unlike anything else. As a teenager she first experienced working in oil, and quickly identified with the medium. She loves the history of it, and the feel of the experiment of each attempt. Even the sense of never fully reaching an inner goal is compelling, always inviting her to try again. Each painting is a finite attempt to know more; a particular time of day, idea or feeling; to savor and to save a little of what is true about it.