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Welcoming Our Featured Artist of November 2020, Joseph Silva, to Gallery 120

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Gallery 120 would like to welcome our featured artist for November 2020, Joseph Silva. Read on to learn more about him and his work which will be on display throughout November as part of a group artist exhibit at Gallery 120.


JOSEPH SILVA


BIOGRAPHY Medina da Silva is a self taught Artist born in the Island of Terceira in the Archipelago of the Azores, Portugal.


Raised in the Azores and in Boston Massachusetts, Medina da Silva soon developed a taste for the arts, drawing geometric forms and painting abstracts while he was a student in Peabody Massachusetts.


In the 1970`s Medina da Silva studied photography in Salem, Massachusetts under the supervision of Fine Art Photographer Andrew Xenios and has been photographing since then.


In the 1980`s video became an obsession and a form of expression for Medina da Silva in the

span of nine years many documentaries and series were produced in the Portuguese language for Adams and Russell, and Time Warner cable systems for the Gloucester, Peabody, Somerville and Cambridge MA. Portuguese communities.


Medina da Silva has been engaged in various shows and presentations throughout North

Carolina. Massachusetts and the Azores.


Most recent in the Carolinas

Hart Witzen Gallery, November 2019

South End Arts, October 2019

Rotunda Rock Hill, July 2018

Mint Hill Arts Council, June 2018.

 

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Eligibility - Exhibits are open to all artists 18 and older.  Each artist can submit up to two entries to the Gallery on the specific dates listed for each new exhibit.  Artwork must have been finished within the past three years.

Specifications for Art - Only original artwork not previously exhibited at Gallery 120 will be accepted.  Works may be created in any medium, including wood, paint, pastels, graphite, ceramics, fibers, photographs, metal, and wire.  All two-dimensional pieces must be ready to hang (professionally framed, and securely wired/mounted), and not exceed 40in x 40in.  Three-dimensional pieces must weigh no more than 50 pounds.

Opening Receptions - Openings will be the first day of each new exhibit from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.  (Art Alive in Clover - August 9, 2024, A Splash of Red - October 10, 2024).

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