“The Graphite Pencil” – An Exhibition of Recent Drawings by John Fleming

March 20th through April 11th, 2008 at the Rockport Art Association, 12 Main Street, Rockport MA 01966

You are invited to attend the Artist’s Reception Sunday, March 30th, 2-4pm in the Marguerite Pearson Room at the RAA

Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday, 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 12pm-5pm, closed Mondays and Tuesdays. For more information on the Rockport Art Association, visit http://www.rockportartassn.org, email rockportart@verizon.net, or call (978) 546-6604.

About the Artist:

After working as a commercial artist and jewelry designer, John Fleming moved to Rockport in 1994, where he pursues his sculpting, drawing and painting.

“When drawing, I explore the way that we humans and nature have existed together. We build and use, destroy and replace. We have created relationships that can be visually exciting, harmonious or disturbing. Drawing becomes my meditation when I try to capture this interaction, this sense of place and timelessness.

My sculpture primarily involves the human figure. To work on a sculpture, building and shaping the surface only to cut parts away and rebuild again, is to try to impart the same sense of growth, neglect, breaking down and recovery that we all experience.”