Cotuit Center For The Art's Founder Jamie Wolf Hosts First Solo Exhibit At The Center, Opens 8/8

Cotuit Center for the Arts' founder & Sr. Artistic Director, Jamie Wolf, presents his first solo exhibit at the Center featuring spontaneous and vibrant abstract works, full of mood and atmosphere while having a serenity about them. The exhibition features technically proficient and imaginative watercolor works presented in an array of forms and formats including sculpture and wearable art.

The exhibit will open on Saturday, August 8th with a reception filled with Art, Wine, Music, and Dancing from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Falmouth Road, Rte. 28 in Cotuit.

The WDZ or Wheatley, Duckham, Zinno Trio will create jazz improvisations on the spot based on the art on exhibit followed by a short concert of swing music at 8:00pm. Hors d'oeuvres will be served and guests will be treated to an open beer & wine bar.

Admission to the opening and the concert is $15, and $10 for members. Purchase tickets online at www.CotuitCenterForTheArts.org or call 508-428-0669. The exhibit will be on view through September 5th. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday from 10:00am - 4:00pm and Saturday from 10:00am - 2:00pm.

James Wolf grew up in a semi-rural township just outside of Detroit, Michigan. Nature and his father's industrial commercial art studio, and formal courses at Cranbrook Academy formed his earliest artistic experiences. He closely studied the French Impressionists and Chinese and Japanese painters while at Oakland University, although his sculpting instructor, the renowned European artist, Morris Brose, most acutely influenced his studies. During the late 1970's and early 1980's he traveled throughout Central America, where his time in Honduras and Panama most directly influenced the color, light and representational elements of his work. Soon after his move to Boston in 1982 and throughout the 1980's, he exhibited in various Boston galleries. In 1990 he moved to Cape Cod with his wife and two sons where he opened the James Wolf Gallery in Cotuit 2 years later. In 1994 he founded Cotuit Center for the Arts, an artist's work and exhibit space, offering workshops in various 2- and 3- dimensional art media, writing, photography, and computer graphics. In 1995 he was invited to sit on the board of DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) Boston chapter, and to direct and curate their 2 galleries at the Boston Design Center. Cotuit Center for the Arts continues to be his primary art focus, where he is the Artistic Director.

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