Events « Trident Booksellers and Cafe

Reading with Kim McLarin

Thursday May 30, 7pm

Join the author of Divorce Dog: Motherhood, Men and Midlife for a reading and discussion. People magazine called Kim McLarin “fiercely acerbic” and “compelling” a hilarious and the book a touching meditation on what it means to be not-so-young, neurotically-gifted and definitely black while searching for love and meaning in contemporary America.

Cooking Demo with Chef Phillip Tang of East by Northeast

Thursday June 13, 7pm

We’re thrilled to have Chef Phillip Tang of East by Northeast restaurant in Cambridge here for a cooking demo! Chef Tang was nominated for Best New Chef 2013 and East By Northeast was named one of Boston Magazine’s 50 Best Restaurants 2011 & 2012. He’ll be preparing delicious food samples for all who attend.

Reading and Discussion with Tony Cape

Thursday June 20, 7pm

Diamond Highway is a candid account of the author’s ten years of household service to the Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. Join Tony Cape for a reading and discussion of the book.

Play Reading with the Vagabond Theatre Group

Thursday March 14, 7pm

Vagabond Theatre Group’s There Will Be Words is a new play reading series aimed at introducing original works. Following the reading, audience members will have the opportunity to discuss the script.

On the Walls:

Jennifer Day
March 4 - June 3

Black and White: Strange Drama
Paintings by Jennifer Day

Ten years ago, Jennifer Day put aside colorist tendencies to commit to a single pigment choice, black. By limiting her options, the artist felt freer to concentrate on imagery and composition and to follow the lead of photographers who either never had the option of color, or who were similarly drawn to the totally imaginary world of light and shade. Like early photography, the artist strives for a haunting, nostalgic emotion for a world that never existed, except in the early “grisailles” of masters who would eventually apply color glazes upon these substrata or, of course, in the world of film.

The artist achieves a wide range of greys by rubbing oil paint away with paper towels, brushes and fingers, to expose light, here, the white gessoed surface beneath. The goal is to maximize the gray scale and organize it in such a way that is impossible for photography, while still maintaining the strange drama and ineffability of the black and white construct.

Jennifer Day resides and works in Newburyport, Ma. A native to New England, she grew up in the Boston area and on Cape Cod where her summers were spent in and on the bay, hence her love of the ocean. Ms. Day was educated at Bowdoin College and subsequently at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Having taught art at St. George's School and Phillips Academy, the artist then went on to the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her MFA in painting under the mentorship of Neil Welliver. For many years, the artist has balanced the concentration on her own work with that of teaching. She is a former adjunct professor of art at Colby-Sawyer College.

Recently, Ms. Day has been the recipient of both the New Members Jury Award and the First Prize in the Summer 2006 Exhibition at the Copley Society on Newbury St. in Boston. As a Copley Artist, she will be exhibiting intermittently this year at “CoSo” and in the spring of 2013 at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston where she is also a member. Other major exhibits include a solo show of large-scale seascapes at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2009. She is represented by the Scott Bundy Galleries in Kennebunkport, Maine.

For further information and images, please go to www.jenniferdayart.com