Living Architecture: The Materiality of Community
New Group Exhibit at IMAGO Gallery
Featuring IFA Exhibiting Artist Anne Marie Rossie
Spotlight Artist Dot Bergen | Guest Artists: Lynda D’Amico and Lincoln Pollock
Including other IFA Exhibiting Artists
October 1–November 7 | Free Reception Saturday, October 3, 5–8 PM
IFA Exhibiting Artists include Dot Bergen, Jim Cain, David Clarke, Eileen Siobhan Collins, Mary Dondero, Stephen Fisher, Philip Gruppuso, Gary Heise, Carl Keitner, Lisa Lowenstein, Eileen Mayhew, Linda Megathlin, Catherine Moylan, Rina Naik, Mercedes Nuñez, Anne Marie Rossi, Howard Rotblat-Walker, Lenny Rumpler, Duff Schweninger, Suzanne Taetzsch, Pat Warwick and Meredith Wolf.
"The five sculptural communities and the wall of masks and hands move between shelter and exposure, individuality and interdependence. The materials are not illustrations of those ideas. They physically enact them." — Anne Marie Rossi
Anne Marie Rossi | Featured Artist
Every community has an architecture.
I build forms by wrapping, binding, weaving, casting and exposing their structures. Some parts are opaque and protective; others remain transparent enough to reveal what holds them together.
Across the installation, the same question returns: How can difference become structure rather than division? Strength does not come from sameness. It comes from varied parts staying in relation—supporting, yielding, carrying weight and remaining visible to one another.
Dot Bergen | Spotlight Artist
IFA artist Dot Bergen uses encaustic and fresco painting techniques to create paintings replete with fractals, known as craquelure. The paintings navigate scale, seeming microscopic and cosmic all at once. She says,” This touches on the idea of self-transcendence, feeling that we are part of something much larger than ourselves. It reminds us of what it means to be human, and of what connects us rather than what separates us.
Ground Zero, 8x8” encaustic and fresco, 2025
Espresso, Oil,18x22"
The Watering Can, Oil, 18x24"
Linda D'Amico | Guest Artist
Though her paintings are representational, they are first and foremost paintings—built from line, tone, and form. Whether the inspiration is a cityscape or the objects of a still life, the finished work is never simply an illusion of the real thing. Shadow becomes solid, part of the geometry of forms organized into a motionless rhythm. The subject is transposed into a plastic equivalent, taking on a reality of its own, independent of what inspired it. I sometimes use the Golden Section, a mathematical system of proportion, to bring even greater unity to my work—a system believed by many ancient cultures to reflect the harmonic order of the universe, relating each part to the whole.
D'Amico was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and received her BFA from UMass Dartmouth and her MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. While working as a master printer in New York City, she met the late Uruguayan artist Julio Alpuy, a member of the original Joaquín Torres-García workshop, El Taller Torres-García—the most significant art community in Latin America between 1943 and 1962. She studied privately with Alpuy, and over the years the two became close friends; she considers him one of the great mentors of her life. This relationship set her on the path to becoming a painter.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, and is held in numerous private and corporate collections, including Delta Air Lines, Johnson & Johnson, and Olympus America. She has also created site-specific work for corporations and hotels.
When painting expresses the essential truth of its subject, it becomes both inventive and poetic, revealing a metaphysical and spiritual dimension.—Lynda D'Amico
Lincoln Pollock | Guest Artist
Largely self-taught, Pollock approaches jewelry through a combination of woodworking, metalworking, and traditional techniques, allowing the character of each material to influence the final form. His work is rooted in simplicity, craftsmanship, and the idea that meaningful objects can emerge from unexpected combinations of materials.
Based in Warren, Rhode Island, Pollock creates each piece by hand with an emphasis on authenticity, thoughtful construction, and timeless design.
“The Polaris”: Inspired by the North Star, “Polaris” explores the ideas of navigation, direction, and a fixed point of reference. A central pearl becomes the focal point of this circular form, evoking a star surrounded by the geometry of a navigational wheel. The combination of natural materials and precise geometric structure reflects Pollock’s interest in finding balance between organic character and contemporary form.
“The Tesseract”
This Tesseract explores the relationship of geometry interacting with different materials through a series of geometric squares that progressively decrease in size as they rise. The repetition and gradual reduction in size of each “link” creates depth in the structure, turning one shape into a dimensional composition.
The Polaris, 1 3/8 x 1 5/16", Akoya Pearl, mother of pearl, wood, sterling silver, aluminum
The Tesseract, 4x3.5”, Wood, sterling silver, aluminum
IFA Exhibiting Artists
 Eileen Mayhew |  Phil Gruppuso |  Stephen Fisher |
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 Linda Megathlin |  Catherine Moylan |