Artists Greg Mort and Jon Mort in their Port Clyde, Maine studio.
ILLUMINATIONS - Greg Mort - OPEN STUDIO August 5th & 6th, 10am to 5pm
Fieldstone Castle 129 Marshall Pt Rd Port Clyde, Maine 04855
Or By Appointments: 207-372-8658
An artist tour and talk will take place Sunday, August 6th at 1 pm. Mort created this very unique series of twelve watercolor and mixed media works of art to take the realism genre to new heights. His concept combines craft and technology to draw the viewer into the image on an intimate level that only truly original art can achieve using state of the art materials to extend the range of luminacity. Mort’s art has been exhibited around the world including recently in CLIMATE ACTION – INSPIRING CHANGE exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum and the White House through the Arts in Embassies Program. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum, the White House and many more. A lifelong naturalist, in 2007 Mort co-founded The Art of Stewardship a nonprofit initiative that supports art and environmental partnerships.
Mort’s art has been exhibited around the world including recently in CLIMATE ACTION – INSPIRING CHANGE exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum and the White House through the Arts in Embassies Program. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum, the White House and many more. A lifelong naturalist, in 2007 Mort co-founded The Art of Stewardship a nonprofit initiative that supports art and environmental partnerships.
. For more information: GregMort.com and 207-372-8658.
OPEN STUDIO - A NEW VIEW OF THE WORLD - August 6th & 7th , 10 am to 5 pm & by appointment #Fieldstone #Castle, Port Clyde, Maine. I am pleased to join Jon Mort and welcome #friends and #family to a share the #artistic journey we have traveled and how we go forward together. Located near the Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum #OpenStudio Artist talk and tour Saturday, August 6th at 1pm.
GREG MORT-JON MORT OPEN STUDIO AUGUST 6TH & 7TH 2022
Greg Mort - “Miniature Masterworks “Open Studio
Jon Mort - “Past and Forever” - Open Studio
Greg Mort and Jon Mort will host their annual annual Open Studio at Fieldstone Castle in Port Clyde, Maine on August 6th and 7th, 10 am to 5 pm. The exhibition will feature Greg’s twelve “Miniature Masterworks” and Jon will present a collection titled “Past and Forever”
Source: http://www.GregMort.com JonMortStudio.com
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"Journey Work of the Stars Watercolor 22x29 @Greg Mort
“The Future” watercolor 13 X 13 2021 Greg Mort
Finding Light. 1 | Gallery Artists
May – June 2021
Collector’s Preview from May 2nd.
Exhibition opens May 15th.
Greg Mort, Katherine Cox, Claire McArdle, Grace Mitchell, Heidi Fowler, Zemma Mastin White, Catherine Kernan, Elizabeth Casqueiro, Kathryn O’Grady, Peter Guttmacher, Kenneth Schiano, Eve Stockton, Carol Rowan, Jon Mort, Simma Liebman, Blake Conroy, Shelley Robzen, Vicco von Voss, Jason Patterson
Although we have increased to 10 the number of guests visiting the gallery, we are still requiring masks, and strongly suggest you make an appointment.
Preferred appointment times are: Friday 11-3, Saturday 10-4, and Sunday 12-3.
As always, we are happy to accommodate your schedule mid-week by appointment only.
Finding Light. 1 | Gallery Artists
May – June 2021
Collector’s Preview from May 2nd.
Exhibition opens May 15th.
Greg Mort, Katherine Cox, Claire McArdle, Grace Mitchell, Heidi Fowler, Zemma Mastin White, Catherine Kernan, Elizabeth Casqueiro, Kathryn O’Grady, Peter Guttmacher, Kenneth Schiano, Eve Stockton, Carol Rowan, Jon Mort, Simma Liebman, Blake Conroy, Shelley Robzen, Vicco von Voss, Jason Patterson
Although we have increased to 10 the number of guests visiting the gallery, we are still requiring masks, and strongly suggest you make an appointment.
Preferred appointment times are: Friday 11-3, Saturday 10-4, and Sunday 12-3.
As always, we are happy to accommodate your schedule mid-week by appointment only.
Somerville Manning Gallery
presents
GREG MORT & JON MORT ~ PANORAMAS
Opening Reception November 22nd, 2019, from 5:30 to 7:30
Exhibition: Friday, November 22, 2019, to Saturday, December 21, 2019
The title PANORAMAS was chosen to represent this collection because the word evokes more than a single or narrow view; it can mean a combined perspective of respective but interwoven journeys. In our case, it acknowledges the particular experience of a father and son who are creating and reflecting on each other's work in real-time. And because the word can define more than the reach of a view of the landscape, it includes the idea of a narrative panorama, further emphasizing a connection between the past and the future.
The collection of work in the exhibit reflects that variety, encouraging participants as partners in that reflection. In that sense, the title touches a deep and central motivation of the artistic process: to examine the past and question the future, and thus generate analysis and dialogue in and of the present.
LIGHT Water + Stone Exhibition
Open Reception - Saturday March 30th, 12 to 3 PM.
203 High Street Chestertown, MD 21620
410-778-7330
Thoughts from Greg Mort
With each exhibition, an artist strives to explore and discover
an unfamiliar set of parameters or inspirations. LIGHT Water + Stone has offered a most thought-provoking and rewarding challenge. The pure simplicity and distillation of the concept demand extreme focus and scrutiny. Subtleties take on greater importance even rising to the level of the sublime.
The LIGHT Water + Stone paintings have come to life with each watercolor presenting itself in a dreamlike mode. I strive for each image to balance on the very edge of the elements of pure
light and at the same time feel a connection or cohesiveness drawn from my favorite subjects in vivo. My quest is to understand the multitude of infinite tones and nearly imperceptible colors that dwell in what we often describe as the colorless pigment "white". Every painting seeks a full understanding of the play between shadow and transparency as well as direct and reflected light in this understated realm.
With each new image, my subconscious is now able to reveal the once invisible apparent form, which is paramount and equally profound and focus on the more elusive refinements. The final quest: to paint the invisible elements of Light. My hope is that the Water Light +Stone collection unveils this interplay in a universe that is confined but in its own way infinite. It is, as it should be, an experiment in perception, a quest forrevelation and a sojourn into the heart of human emotion.
Greg Mort will be a featured artist, along with his son artist Jon Mort, at the renowned Carla Massoni Gallery’s annual HOLIDAY SHOW in Chestertown, Maryland. The exhibition runs from December 5, 2018 to January 12, 2109. Chestertown’s Dickens Weekend takes place December 7th, 8th & 9th, and the gallery will be opened and welcoming art lovers.
Gallery hours are subject to change based on our exhibition schedule. When we are installing a new exhibit the gallery will be dark. Otherwise our hours are Thursday thru Friday 11-4pm, Saturday 10-5 pm, Sunday 11-2 pm. We are closed Monday and Tuesday except by appointment.
Private appointments may be scheduled at any time by contacting Carla Massoni – 410-708-4512. Of course, you are always welcome by chance – if you see the lights on – just knock!
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Carla Massoni Gallery
203 High Street
Chestertown MD 21620
410.778.7330
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Artist Jon Mort will present EVERY STORY - OPEN STUDIO showing new works of art on August 4th & 5th, 10:AM to 5PM at his Port Clyde, Maine studio Fieldstone Castle. An ARTIST TALK will take place on Saturday, August 4th at 1:PM. The studio is located at 129 Marshall Point Lighthouse Rd, Port Clyde, Maine 04855. http://www.jonmortstudio.com 207-372-8658.
Millennial artist Jon Mort has received broad acclaim for his startlingly realistic colored pencil and large-scale graphite images and is also a highly sought-after portrait artist. Captivated by design and drawing since childhood, Jon received Fine Art and Classics degrees from Franklin and Marshall College and his Masters in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design
Jon’s creations have been shown in exhibitions at the Phillips Museum, the Portsmouth Museum of Art, and recently in a one-person exhibition titled “Living Legends” at the Sandy Spring Museum in Maryland. He has participated in twenty one-person or group museum and gallery exhibitions. His 2017–18 winter show “New Horizons” at Somerville Manning Gallery is featured in November 2017 American Art Collector Magazine.
Artists Greg Mort and Jon Mort will reflect on the powerful influence Maine’s natural wonders and mysteries have had on their artistic development. This father and son artistic duo work together in their Port Clyde summer studio but each creates in a very separate universe.
Greg Mort is a widely recognized American contemporary artist whose unmistakably modern creations have the classic feel of the Dutch Masters juxtaposed with startlingly modern designs. His signature images combine his twin passions for science and nature. Founding The Art of Stewardship Project (TAOS) he took this effort to a higher level, encouraging other artists to use their talents to collaborate and support environmental organizations.
Mort’s artwork is in many prominent collections including the Smithsonian, National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Science, Delaware Art Museum, Farnsworth Museum, Academy Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Brandywine River Museum and the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. The United States
Department of State’s Art in Embassies program has selected many of his paintings for their cultural diplomacy efforts including an exhibition at The White House. Mort’s artwork has been exhibited in over one hundred museum and gallery shows around the world.
Millennial artist Jon Mort has received broad acclaim for his startlingly realistic colored pencil and large-scale graphite images and is also a highly sought-after portrait artist. Captivated by design and drawing since childhood, Jon received Fine Art and Classics degrees from Franklin and Marshall College and his Masters in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design
Jon’s creations have been shown in exhibitions at the Phillips Museum, the Portsmouth Museum of Art, and recently in a one-person exhibition titled “Living Legends” at the Sandy Spring Museum in Maryland. He has participated in twenty one-person or group museum and gallery exhibitions. His 2017–18 winter show “New Horizons” at Somerville Manning Gallery is featured in November 2017 American Art Collector Magazine.
This presentation is the 1st in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.
Greg Mort, artist, author and astronomer, will speak at the Hancock Point Library on Tuesday, July 10, at 4:30 p.m. to benefit the library.
Largely-self taught as an artist, Mort is considered one of America’s foremost contemporary painters and a pre-eminent influence on art in the 21st century. His unmistakably modern creations have the classic feel of the Dutch masters but are juxtaposed with startlingly modern designs. They are included in many prominent collections including the Smithsonian, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Academy Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art and Bradywine River Museum.
For more information, contact Lesley Robinson at lcr1109@gmail.com.
American Artist Greg Mort is a featured artist at the Academy Art Museum's AAM@60 Diamond Anniversary Exhibition Part II opening July 28th to October 14th, 2018. The AAM in Easton, Maryland is home to the largest museum collection of Mort's artwork. In 2011 by David H. Hickman donated forty Mort works of art along with $500,000. to support the collection and museum. Mr. Hickman, a Washington, DC attorney developed a passion for Morts paintings in the late 1970's and over the next thirty years assembled a collection featuring a broad range of subjects and mediums.
Please join Biggs Museum of American Art's @RyanGrover Brandywine Conservancy 's Ellen Ferretti, Jonathan Mort and me for Somerville Manning Gallery 's #Environmental Awareness Through the #Arts Panel Discussion followed by a #Cocktail #Reception. http://www.somervillemanning.com
Looking forward to WCHE 1520 AM Radio Interview with Lele Galer Vickie Manning Jonathan Mort at Somerville Manning Gallery on the Brandywine River
The Somerville Manning Gallery presents American artists Greg Mort and Jon Mort NEW HORIZONS exhibition opening reception Friday, November 17th, 2017 5:30 to 7:30.
American artist Greg Mort is featured at the American Visionary Art Museum's 2017-2018 THE GREAT MYSTERY SHOW exhibition.
American artist Greg Mort will host "Dusk Till Dawn Open Studio 2017" at his Port Clyde, Maine studio on August 5th & 6th, 2017, 10 am to 5 pm. Mort will welcome guests to celebrate his 40th summer painting in Maine with special events through both days. An artist talk and tour will take place on Saturday at 1 pm. Greg will be once again showing with his artist son Jon Mort who will present "Maine Treasures Open Studio 2017".
The beauty of Maine has inspired artists for centuries but painter Greg Mort's experience is a bit different because he finds Maine’s star filled nights as captivating as its sun drenched or fog bound shores. For Greg each inlet and island has it’s own mysterious personality and mood bathed in sunlight or surrounded by an inky blue nocturnal sky showed with stars and a brilliant Milky Way. For the past forty summer he has been driven to capture these ever changing images ruled by the declination of the, sun, moon, constellations and shifting tides. Weather creating a landscape or a still life, he prefer to paint directly from life. This preference has bought him face to face with many adventures and challenges. Greg’s Artist Talk on Saturday at 1 pm will include details of both. Also, as a life long amateur astronomer as well as an artist he will offer perspectives and hints for observing the upcoming Eclipse taking place on August 21, 2017.
“From my first visit in 1977 the constant beauty and mystery of Maine’s costal and island communities have excited me. It has been my good fortune to witness first hand the tight knit and supportive families who, through generations of determination and tenacity, built strong foundations in Tenants Harbor, Port Clyde and our nearby islands. The hardworking fishermen of these coastal and island ports are a source of admiration as well as inspiration. During my first summer I would hitch a ride on lobsterman and friend Sherwood Cook’s boat the “Gwendolyn J” out to Little Green Island at dawn for a day of painting. When he competed hauling his traps he would pick me up and critique my artwork as we traveled back into homeport. Many evenings the Armstrong family welcomed me into their warm home and fed me my first lobster. Since then Jerry Cushman and siblings have generously shared their knowledge and experiences. Kind island folks welcomed me including the Whitehead family on Southern Island, the Porters to Matinicus, the Trevors to Mosquito, the Smiths to Grapham, the Huppers to the Brothers and many others.
It is my good fortune that Maine has not only given me artistic inspiration but our family the gift of community. “
Carla Massoni Gallery Presents:
FULL CIRCLE ~Greg Mort & Jon Mort
April 1 - 30, 2017
Opening Reception: 10-5 Saturday, April 1
Artists Talk 1 pm Saturday, April 1 April First Friday Reception Friday, April 7 5-7:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Friday 11-4
Saturday 10-5
By Chance or by Appointment Sunday-Tuesday
ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND FREE OF CHARGE
Greg Mort Artist Statement:
FULL CIRCLE
The Inspirations:
Greg Mort – eARTh – The Art of Stewardship Traveling Collection will be presented at Goucher College’s Rosenberg Gallery in the Kraushaar Auditorium from December 20, 2016, through February 22, 2017. This exhibit, which is free, open to the public, and accessible to all, can be viewed Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Art Show Partnerships:
The Howard County Conservancy
The Howard County Conservancy, a non-profit organization, reaches more than 20,000 people each year through their environmental education programs. The Conservancy offers activities for children and adults throughout the year at our 232-acre Mt. Pleasant farm in Woodstock and at Howard County’s Belmont Manor and Historic Park in Elkridge. Please call 410-465-8877or visit www.hcconservancy.org for further information.
The Art of Stewardship (TAOS)
The Art of Stewardship is the creation of The Mort Family Foundation, and its founder, internationally acclaimed artist Greg Mort. The Art of Stewardship encourages artists to display their innovation, creativity and unique perspective on natural subjects, thereby inspiring viewers to explore, appreciate and care for our Earth as stewards. www.gregmortcollection.com
Medomak Retreat Center
Medomak Retreat Center in Washington, Maine, provides a place of simplicity, restoration, and camaraderie. A place of beauty, character and antiquity, it inspires both new experiences and profound relaxation. Medomak provides an ideal setting for bringing together individuals with a common interest and immersing them in the natural world. www.medomakretreatcenter.com
Greg Mort through his Art of Stewardship Project is pleased to support MAEOE. The Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) encourages, engages and empowers the community to understand, responsibly use and promote the natural world. We provide Professional Development and resources to support providers of environmental education in schools, nature centers, and informal settings throughout the state, who encourage students to explore, investigate and act. Environmental actions improve the health of the schools and communities in which Maryland’s children learn and live.
Artist Greg Mort and the Rosenberg Gallery at Goucher College invite you to respond to the question, What does earth stewardship mean to you?
Submit a visual answer in the form of a 4” x 6” color photo or digital image. Beginning January 3, 2017, the images collected up until that point will be used to create a large-scale, site-specific photo collage installation which will continue to expand for the duration of the exhibition through February 22, 2017. This exhibition is being presented in conjunction with the MAEOE conference and the exhibit Greg Mort – eARTh – The Art of Stewardship. An artist talk and reception will be held Friday, February 3, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Rosenberg Gallery.
On view October 15, 2016 to September 4, 2017
Located in the: Art & Nature Center
As Earth's closest celestial body and only natural satellite, the moon has engaged our curiosity and imagination over millennia and across cultures. Contemporary artists use the moon as both a source of inspiration and investigation. Lunar Attraction features artworks and interactives that explore our longstanding fascination and connection with the moon, ranging from myths about the connection between werewolves and the full moon to the gravitational pull that controls Earth's tides to the 21st-century international race to build a base on the moon.
Lunar Attraction features works by Michael Benson, Adam David Brown, Craig Dorety, Fred Espenak, Foster + Partners, Sharon Harper, Beth Hoeckel, Mike Libby, Scott Listfield, Vera Lutter, Greg Mort, Takashi Murakami, Young Sook Park, Adrien Segal, Reel Water Productions, Sputniko!, Peter C. Stone, Brian Thomas, Philip Weber and Joseph Wheelwright.
Susan and Appy Chandler, the East India Marine Associates and the Art & Nature Committee of the Peabody Essex Museum provided support for this exhibition.
Greg Mort: Moon Man
2:15-3 pm | Morse Auditorium
Recommended for ages 8 to adult
Meet NASA artist Greg Mort as he talks about his lifelong passion for the night sky. Learn about common moon misconceptions, how Mort's art ended up in the White House and the circumstances that led him to meet some Apollo 11 astronauts.
Greg Mort at the Peabody Essex Museum Art and Nature Center Board presentation showing his celestially inspired watercolor "The Sun, the Moon and the Stars"
Artists Greg Mort and son Jon Mort will host ISLAND WONDERS - Open Studio Exhibition on August 6th & 7th at Fieldstone Castle in Port Clyde, Maine. The theme of the show focuses on Maine's island communities and will feature recent colored pencil creations by Jon Mort and large scale oils by Greg Mort.
An Artist Talk will take place on Saturday, August 6th at pm.
The Starry Skies of Art is the first review in Finland at the Serlachius Museum in which the distant cosmos is brought closer, both in old realistic depictions and in recent works of contemporary art.
The sky and its phenomena can be much more than the dramatic background of landscape paintings. Space, stars and the entire universe may be an integral part of the symbolism, theme and narrative of a work.
Art and science perceive the same world, but in different ways. In some cases, astronomy is an aid to interpreting symbolism, sometimes even a means to determine accurately the time when the artist sketched a painting. Sometimes the artist uses scientific discoveries and means in the service of imagination.
The exhibition Starry Skies of Art presents both Finnish and foreign works. Works of traditional art and fascinating contemporary art are included. Some of the works are being exhibited in Finland for the first time. Among them are works by American artist Greg Mort including his "ZERO - G Apples" that was exhibited aboard the International Space Station in the First Art Exhibition in Space. The exhibition gives a new perspective on art history and at the same time establishes connections to views of the universe that humankind has held at different times in the past.
The exhibition is curated by Helena Sederholm, Professor of Art Education at Aalto University, and Markus Hotakainen, a science writer, who have for a long time worked to combine art and science. They have published many articles on the theme in books, magazines and newspapers, and have given lectures at a number of conferences.
The Starry Skies of Art exhibition runs at Serlachius Museum Gösta until 8 January 2017.
