Artist Shows Recent Work

Boston artist Kate True began her career as a filmmaker before turning her attention to fine art. She is exhibiting through Sept. 18 at the Albright Gallery + Craft Store on Main Street.

The work is recent, she said, from the last year and a half. True started painting portraits about ten years ago, and still takes portrait work which supports her other creative output.

"I became interested in the intersection of figures crossing with the horizon," said True.

Her work started small, she said, and both the larger scale canvases and the addition of landscapes are new for the Roxbury painter and mom.

She works a lot with oil on paper after she spent several years in printmaking.

"I love the feel of paper," she said. She experimented with oil on paper and painting with gouache so that it looks like watercolor on canvas.

She is enjoying the current crossover between landscape and portraiture. In one work, she painted a landscape at Point Judith, R.I. after the death of a friend. She found a spot near a lighthouse with nothing in the way and painted a sunset in memory of her friend.

Then, in another work on display at the Albright Gallery, she has the same basic Pt. Judith scene, yet in a much darker version which she painted as she contemplated the oil spill in the Louisiana Gulf. She said she has been in the gulf and was saddened at the thought of the beauty of the shore potentially ruined by the oil.

"My work is all about freezing a moment in time," she said.

Her landscapes are of places she has either been to, or seen photos of. She can paint from a good iPhone shot, although she prefers to be on site.

True is having her work in a show that opens Friday, Aug. 6 in Boston's South End along with other artists. The show, called "Shine, Women's Caucus for the Arts" opens at the Bromfield Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The public is invited.

To contact True, email her at kate_true@yahoo.com