By Gail McCarthy

Paintings of Cape Ann and Italy are the crux of a new show by Italian-born artist Remo Ray Gaietto, which opens next Thursday, Oct. 3, at the North Shore Arts Association.

The Oct. 3 reception for this show of 55 paintings coincides with the East Gloucester art association's second annual potluck dinner, open to the public, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Gaietto, who was raised in Genoa in northern Italy, arrived in New York City in the fall of 1968. "That was my dream," said Gaietto, who was always drawing even as a child. He liked to do comic strip cartoons. When he came to this country, for the first six months, he worked on the Archie comic strip for its publisher in New York City.

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