Gourmet & Galleries

Baubles, Bangles and Patriotic Art
at Jessica Hagen Opening

One of Jessica Hagen's passions

The charming gallery owner Jessica Hagen’s passion for, and creative endeavors in, jewelry design were apparent at a recent gallery opening at Jessica Hagen Fine Art on fabled Bellevue Avenue in Newport, RI.

The jewels glittered during the gallery’s recent exhibition opening, titled “America the Beautiful”, featuring mainly landscape paintings by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Pieter Roos, and Jeanne Tangney, and the arresting canvases vied for viewers’ attention. As always, the event was well attended – actually, mobbed-- and art lovers were indeed buying. Painter Pieter Roos, whose featured landscapes are reminiscent of the Hudson River School of painting, sold three canvases. He and Ms. Bloodgood-Abrams discussed their technique with Ross Cann, Alex Allardt, Bob and Cynthia Sinclair, Carol and Allen Hodges, and other guests.

Artist Pieter Roos discussing technique with Jane

Bloodgood-Adams

Ms. Hagen’s one-of–a-kind jewelry pieces use natural elements, stones, and jewels, and were displayed in cases and on stands throughout the gallery.

So was the opening all about art, or jewelry? Well, the art and artists, obviously. Yet jewelry comprises form and shape, color and depth and perspective. and has been called “wearable art”, as Ms. Hagen’s creations are. To see the works of the three featured artists and other paintings, sculpture, and handblown glass, go to Jessica Hagen Fine Art at 226 Bellevue, Avenue, 2nd floor, in fabulous Newport, on or before August 19. You can see why the gallery was voted the 2008 Editor’s Choice by Yankee Magazine.