Alvin Ouellet Shows at Images Cinema in Williamstown
Resemblances Recent Portrait Paintings
By: Images - May 25, 2026
Resemblances
Recent Portrait Paintings
Alvin Ouellet
www.alvinouellet.com
June 2, 2026 -- June 30,2026
Images Cinema
50 Spring Street Williamstown MA 01267
Reception in the Images Lounge
Saturday -- June 6, 2026 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
This exhibit features figurative paintings completed by Alvin Ouellet in weekly model sessions at Figure of the River at The Muse in Housatonic MA over the past year. Alvin Ouellet is a recipient of a 2026 grant for his ongoing series Painting the Berkshires from the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire (CCNB), a local agency, with support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), a state agency; which provided partial support for this exhibit. Alvin stated that “I want to acknowledge the support of CCNB/MCC over several years. I’m particularly honored to once again collaborate with Images Cinema because it’s a community-supported institution that has been a Berkshire tradition for over 100 years”.
Artist Statement
My paintings, prints, drawings and digital collages result from close observations of light, value, color and form. By exploring the interactions and juxtapositions of the built and natural environments I seek to create imagery that envelops the viewer. I peer into, behind, above, around and through changing scenarios to reveal their exterior and interior life. Utilizing curvilinear perspective I attempt to “take it all in” creating imagery as if I were floating through space to capture the dynamics of time, change, motion and meaning.
What fascinates me about the interactions of the built and natural environment are the narratives these relationships depict about the people who envision, construct, occupy, adapt and re-create spaces and forms over time. The juxtaposition of architectural and natural forms, in their current state of life and decay, reveal stories about the forces of time, history, purpose and meaning.
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By painting, printmaking, and digitally collaging cityscapes and landscapes from various vantage points, I intend my works to invite viewers to perceive the built environment as natural manifestations of our ideas about home, shelter, community, collective enterprise and our values about each other. Far from being opposite, the built and natural environments are part of a continuum of life in which a skyscraper is no less a part of nature than a cocoon created by a moth.
Artist Bio
Alvin Ouellet is an artist based in Adams, Massachusetts where his work studio is located and where he maintains a professional art practice. He taught painting, printmaking and drawing as adjunct faculty at the undergraduate and graduate levels for thirty-two years at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (aka: Mass Art) in Boston MA. Alvin also taught at Montserrat College of Art and Framingham State University.
He also served for thirty years as the Studio Manager at the MassArt Printmaking Department. He facilitated numerous key community outreach collaborations for MassArt over a span of fifteen years through the MassArt Center for Art and Community Partnerships.
Ouellet earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1987 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from MassArt and an Associate of Arts degree in 1976 from Becker College. In 1992 Alvin completed an intensive summer workshop on Lithography at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico.
He has exhibited throughout New England, including solo shows: “Ellipticals” at Images Gallery in Williamstown MA in 2024; “Adams Future Perfect” at Real Eyes Gallery in Adams MA in 2019; “Seven Hills of Worcester” at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1997: “Bent Spaces ”at Art Gallery at Bunker Hill Community College in 1996; “Brockton Present Tense” at Fuller Museum of Art Brockton MA in 1994; “Alvin Ouellet: Paintings and Prints” at the Masmanian Gallery Framingham State University in 1992.. Alvin has also exhibited in several juried group shows, most notably “Dreamscapes” at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens in 2025; “Artists of the Thursday Night Chinese Dinner Group” at the Berkshire Art Museum in North Adams MA in 2021; and “Art of the Hills” at the Berkshire Museum in 2022.
As a member of the Guild of Berkshire Artists, Alvin has exhibited in several group shows at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield MA and Art on Main Gallery in Stockbridge MA since 2021. He is particularly honored to have participated in “Galvanized Truth: A Tribute to George Nick” at the Art Complex in Duxbury MA in 2012 celebrating the career of George Nick the artist, professor and mentor with whom Alvin studied at MassArt.