Artist of the Month

February 2021

Meet the Whistler House Museum of Art's February Artist of the Month:

Michele Boll

Michele is a graduate of Brandeis University and holds an MA from Tufts University. She has studied painting under renowned Boston School artist Henry Schwartz at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including the Rose Art Museum, the Decordova Museum, and the Whistler House Museum of Art. Michele is a past recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, now the Mass Cultural Council. In 2016, she was inducted into the National Association of Women Artists. Michele is also a long-time art educator.

The focus of Michele's paintings has always been to create mood and emotion through the use of light and shadow. Her work spans from urban scenes to the suburban, seaside and rural. Locked down during the pandemic, she focused on the unexpected beauty of her Billerica neighborhood. Her still life paintings often have a story behind the subject matter. Sometimes this may simply be ordering take out after a busy day, or a study of a long-time marriage throughout many years. Regardless of the subject matter, the human presence will always be implied.

The WHMA is excited to share with you a collection of Michele's work. If you are interested in purchasing any of these paintings, contact the Whistler House

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Take Out

Acrylic on canvas

9" x 12"

$400

Twilight

Acrylic on linen

11" x 14"

$500

Walking Home

Acrylic on canvas

9" x 12"

$450

Sarah's San Francisco

Acrylic on canvas

12" x 16"

$650

Season's End

Acrylic on linen

11" x 15"

$600

Shirley Station

Acrylic on linen

9" x 12"

$400

Love Song

Acrylic on linen

10" x 10"

$400

Milano's

Acrylic on canvas

12" x 16"

$600

Of Tradition and Exploration

Acrylic on canvas

10" x 10"

$450

Love Letters Through Time and Space

Acrylic on canvas

SOLD

January 2021

Meet the Whistler House Museum of Art's January Artist of the Month:

Lisa Kovvuri

Lisa Kovvuri is a contemporary realist painter working in the genre of portraiture. Born in Oakland, CA and raised on Cape Cod, MA, she received a BFA in printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991. When her interest later turned to oil painting, she attended various workshops including an intensive painting course at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, PA. She eventually went on to study the methods of the Boston School for four and a half years, as taught at Ingbretson Studios, under the tutelage of ARC Master Mary Minifie.

In recent years Lisa has developed an approach to painting which lets her create the subtle qualities of form and surface for which she is becoming known. Using a process of direct, opaque layers of paint carried through to a refined finish with sensitively considered detail, she can delve beneath the

appearances of her subjects, and explore and express the substance of an inner emotional world which we all share.

Lisa’s 2017 solo exhibition, The Portrait Experience was held at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA. She was a resident studio artist at the museum from 2014 to 2019 where she also taught drawing, painting, and printmaking classes in the museum’s Youth Summer Art Program.

Her work has been featured in American Art Collector, Southwest Art, Artscope Magazines, the Portrait Society of America’s quarterly journal,

The Art of the Portrait, and has been exhibited nationwide in major juried exhibitions including Oil Painters of America, The National Oil and Acrylic

Painters Society, Salon International, and The Salmagundi Club, NY.

Recent honors she received in 2020 include Finalist in The Art Renewal Center 15th Annual Salon, Select 50 in The Portrait Society of America International Portrait Competition, and 10th Place in The Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition. She was a Portrait Society of America Members only Competition Finalist in 2019, and in the same year received The Whistler Award in The Whistler House Museum of Art Juried Members Exhibition, and The Ridgewood Art Institute Award in the Salmagundi Club NY Open Exhibition.

Working full time in her Southern New Hampshire studio, Lisa currently shows and sells her work through invitational, group, and juried exhibitions locally and nationally, and on commission.

The WHMA is excited to share with you a collection of Lisa's work. If you are interested in purchasing any of these paintings, contact the Whistler House
Museum of Art at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call (978) 807-6699.

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