VISUAL ARTS

As part of the “Angelo Aversa, Richard Salvucci: Right Now” art exhibition at the Brighton-Allston Heritage Museum through June 1, Artist Richard Salvucci will present an slideshow on his career beginning with his earliest budding days as an artist to the present. The presentation will take place at the Brighon-Allston Heritage Museum, 20 Chestnut Hill Avenue in Historic Brighton Center on Saturday, May 12th at 2:00 pm. It’s free and refreshments will be served.

Richard Salvucci of Brighton, Massachusetts started tracing comic book characters as a boy then drawing them freehand. After graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art, he became a freelance illustrator producing magazine illustrations with a speciality in covers for science fiction and fantasy books. For many years he has painted scenes of nature, animals and birds. He has had numerous fine art commissions, including Yankee Magazine, The New York Times, Massachusetts Audubon Society, and Wildlife Art Magazine. Richard has exhibited in many New England galleries and museums including the Bennington Center for the Arts, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and the Norman Rockwell Museum. He’s primarily a painter of realism but also enjoys experimenting in different styles and formulating new ways of “seeing”. To produce his artwork, he uses a broad spectrum of mediums including oil, pencil and ink.