Exhibits
2nd Annual Vintage Motorcycle Exhibit
October 6th through October 31st
The 2007 Vintage Motorcycle Show features an all new roster of interesting, obscure and classic motorcycles. View the Opening Party slideshow! Photos of the wrap-up celebration featuring a beer-tasting by local brewers Buzzards Bay Brewing coming soon...
There’s a tinge of fall in the air and if you listen closely, you can hear the roar of twelve rare motorcycles making their way to the Tatlock Gallery in New Bedford for the second annual Vintage Motorcycle Show.
In Oct 2006, the gallery opened their first major show with a dozen iconic motorcycles on exhibit. The show was a hit, drawing nearly 2000 visitors. It put the gallery’s name “on the map” and motorcycle enthusiasts who missed it having been asking all year “When’s the next one?”
The 2006 exhibit featured such notable bikes as a 1974 yellow Ducati Twin Sport and the 1968 Velocette Thruxton, with it’s bubble shaped gas tank and gleaming fishtail muffler. The rarest bike in last year’s show was surely the 1971 Seeley Condor, one of seven still in existance.
This year’s line-up promises to be just as exciting as 2006. One star is a 1949 Vincent 'Rapide', the younger brother of Britain's legendary 'Black Shadow'. It’s a monstrous 1000 cc. vee-twin lashed to seat and wheels. As fabulous and perfect as it is daunting and a collector’s dream.
Our centerpiece bike of the 2007 show will be a 1946 Indian 'Chief' complete with bullet-nosed sidecar. A red blur of vintage plumpness with swooping fenders and snazzy lettering fore and aft. This bike is "unrestored, orginal", meaning no one took it apart and put it together incorrectly or with after-market "goodies". Pure Americana right down to its’ fringed leather saddlebags. It doesn’t get any better than this.
Viewing Portugal from The Tatlock Gallery
September 13th through September 30th
Tatlock Gallery owner, David Tatlock, has had a nearly lifelong affection for and affiliation with Portugal and the Portuguese culture.
Bilingual in Portuguese and Spanish, David has traveled extensively in Portugal, mastering the language and recording his travels and adventures in his book, Dreaming Portugal, published in 2002.
Having recently acquired several rare and beautiful antique books dealing with Portuguese history, it follows that an exhibit focused on Portugal would be a natural conclusion.
Fruits of the Sea by Paula Santos Dias.
In the show will be paintings and prints by Paula Santos Dias. Ms. Dias, born in New Jersey to Portuguese parents, spent summers in Portugal and observed a romantic way of life that finds its way onto her canvases. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, she teaches drawing at New Jersey Institute of Technology and created for Royal Caribbean Cruiselines a series of murals using Portuguese navigational instruments as her theme.
David Tatlock’s colorful photographs of Portugal will also be a feature, as well as his book.
The gallery has obtained several prints of the late Victor Camara. Camara was born in the Azores in 1921 and started painting when he was 17 years old. His impressionist paintings were always connected to the Azores by the green and ultramarine blue that he used.
Other books about Portugal, ethnically embroidered T-shirts and beautifully rendered note cards of Portuguese architecture will be available.