Paintings by Nick Finelle on view at Gallery on Main, Somerville

Gallery on Main's "Artist of the Month" series features an exhibition of paintings by NJ-based artist Nick Finelle, on view through November 30.

Admission is free, and the artist’s works are available for purchase.

Finelle has been a multi-media artist for many years. He has had a wide range of influences, from Dalí and Picasso to Ed Roth and Von Dutch. He enjoys today's lowbrow and pop art. While a large percentage of his work is in oils, Nick also does sign painting and pinstriping, and he enjoys creating hot-rod art from a variety of objects.

Born and raised in Westfield, New Jersey, Nick began creating imaginative works before the age of 10. He started by drawing on T-shirts with a laundry pen for his friends. In school, he enjoyed graphic arts class in linoleum block printing and silk screening. He studied commercial art at Union County Vocation School. He received most of his art education, including pictorial illustration and fine art, at the Newark school of Fine and Industrial Arts, from which he graduated in 1976.

He has shown his work for the last few years at the Somerville Art and Jazz Festival and several other local shows. A Somerset county resident for over 30 years, he enjoys attending meetings of the Printmaking Council of New Jersey.

To see examples of his work, and for more information, visit http://www.galleryonmainst.com... .