The Everyday: Oil Paintings by Michael McSorley

The Rehoboth Art League opens five new art exhibitions this May as the summer season nears. From May 10, RAL will display two shows featuring works from their permanent Fine Art Collection — “Sitting Pretty,” which is curated by Le Rowell and Denise Clemons, and “Self-Taught” — two oil painting exhibitions — “Sea Change: Works by Stephen Estrada” and “The Everyday: Oil Paintings by Michael McSorley” — and one art quilt show — “From River to Ocean: Textile Art by Anne Bellas.”

On the evening of May 10th from 5-7 pm, the art league will be hosting an opening reception for these new exhibits, inviting anyone interested to visit the Corkran, Tubbs, Ventures, and Homestead galleries to see the displayed work.

Images of everyday objects will populate the Ventures for Michael McSorley’s show “The Everyday.” Michael’s oil paintings are a continuation of his childhood fascination with the visual world. As he has grown, his personality and outlook on life have matured, as has the way in which he perceives the everyday. Every subject has a spirit; there is a spark of the designer within it. In the process of painting something, Michael is respecting that fire of creativity, while giving the painting its own artistic force. His paintings show the passing of time, with the subject being painted and repainted. Changes occur and time lapses. He paints over the subject and makes changes. Prior elements of the subject may remain as a memory or shadow. The painting becomes active.