Into the Woods, an exhibition of recent drawings by artist Gabrielle Barzaghi, will be on display at the Cape Ann Museum from November 24, 2012 through January 31, 2013. An artist reception will be held on Saturday, December 1 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.

Gabrielle Barzaghi, Catbrier, 2012. Pastel and charcoal on paper. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum. Gift of the artist, 2012.

Gabrielle Barzaghi attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and currently is a Senior Lecturer in the Fine Arts Department at Suffolk University. She is a founding member of the Brickbottom Artists' Building in Somerville and has exhibited her work at the Brickbottom Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fuller Museum, the Currier Museum and the deCordova Museum. Gabrielle has lived and worked on Cape Ann since 1995.

After focusing on figurative and narrative imagery for many years, Barzaghi's recent work concentrates on landscape and specifically the woods and wetlands surrounding her home and studio here in Gloucester. Working in pastel, charcoal, conté crayon and mixed media, and often on a large scale, her drawings portray the primordial forests and rugged terrain which she encounters each day. For Barzaghi, it is a landscape of opposites, a place of solitude and shelter and. at the same time, a place of danger and forbiddance. The rich color Barzaghi achieves with pastels and the intricate texture her skillful use of line and mixed media create, invest her works with a unique vibrancy and sense of emotion.