paint and poetry: pam rajpal, edison dupree, james kinny

Slow down and look: Painters Pam Rajpal and James Kinny and Poet Edison Dupree each work from their heart, soul and guts. In the Poetry School Blog, Smears & Caresses: The Poetry of Abstract Art (July 2020), Peter Hughes wrote: “It makes us look and it makes us think, and it makes us think about our thoughts.” 

Painter Pam Rajpal—whose group shows include the Concord Art Association; Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA; and the Boston Drawing Project at Carroll and Sons—says,“Intuitively, a conversation begins, and I follow my curiosity… the painting develops… over weeks and sometimes months of improvisation and revision… to speak like poetry—to invite contemplation, evoke feeling, and offer connection.” The visual “history of marks and layers invites the viewer to resist the immediate response of an Instagram feed, and connect to something handmade.”

Painter James Kinny who showed with Nielsen Gallery, Matter & Light Fine Art, and the Drawing Project at Joseph Carroll and Sons says, “My paintings are my effort to quietly present my soul… Image is unimportant; color is not planned in any significant way. My work is akin to poetry rather than prose. I love a dialogue between beauty and discomfort, and I find satisfaction when a painting takes months or even years to find its completion… Archeology fascinates me, whether it’s a Sumerian dig or delving into my own history and finding a passage in one of my paintings that came from my 5-year-old self.”

Poet Edison Dupree grew up in Kinston, North Carolina. He is the author of one full-length collection Prosthesis, Bluestem Press, 1994, and two chapbooks A Rapid Transit, North Carolina Writers’ Network, 1988; Boy With A Ball, Seven Kitchens Press, 2019. He has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the MacDowell Colony. Ed’s poetry comes from filtering a Southern Gothic childhood through an adult’s sensitivity and emotion. It packs a punch.

These two painters and one poet will surely make you “look and think and think about your thoughts.”

On view: March 1- 29, 2025

Opening reception: Saturday, March 1st, 1 - 4pm

Gallery hours: Thurs. & Sat. 1 - 4pm