Word: leverett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Howe is the resident Leverett House arts tutor and a special education teacher at a school in the area, but, he says, "In my heart, I am a painter," This month, Leverett students (and any others who make the worthwhile trip to see the show) have an opportunity to see Howe's work...
Howe paints his immediate environment, be it the Vermont landscape of his hometown, the buildings around his old Somerville apartment or Leverett House, where he and his wife Mary Lou (an English Tutor) are spending the year. Howe doesn't "seek out idyllic beauty," but uses his painting to explore his surroundings. "Tutor's Apartment" is just that--a glimpse into the rooms where Howe lives and paints...
Howe's reason for painting representationally is twofold: first, he depicts his environment for pure convenience--a scene he sees out his window in the Leverett towers is readily accessible. Also, when he describes his cityscape, "Church Street Backyards," he points out the almost tangible but still airy atmosphere between the houses in the paintings: "It feels really good, to feel illusionality. It's one of the most beautiful things about the creative process. That's less true about abstraction--like Picasso, I need a subject...
...interest as a subject for painting; besides the fact that it is currently his immediate environment, Howe likes the spaces on campus, noting that there is a lot of room between buildings, unlike the neighborhood in Somerville where he lived before. Also, he likes the buildings themselves. Calling the Leverett Towers "repetitious inverted ice cube trays," he says he likes the way the light falls on them...