My paintings convey the essence of land and the formlessness of atmosphere through abstraction and minimalism. I choose not “to paint the lily”, but rather the obscurity of a horizon line shrouded in mist. Internal dialogue and environmental forces are revealed in layers of acrylic paint and mixed media. Often combining found objects with unconventional painting methods, my art explores material, change, and resilience.

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My love of Halloween and fall was my inspiration for creating the Black Cats, Witches, Pumpkin heads, Crows and Scarecrows. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them.

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My art, inspired by the Expressionist tradition, is a vibrant exploration of human emotions and experiences. I use bold colors and dynamic brushstrokes to capture the balance between chaos and introspection, delving into the complexities of life. Each painting, whether representational or abstract, invites viewers to reflect on their own personal experiences and the broader human condition.

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Housed in our East and West Galleries, the Quilt Show highlights the local quilters. This is a beloved annual event.

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I am an oil painter. I have tried other mediums but always come back to paining in oils, the way of the old masters paint. Painting in oils gives me time to blend and paint in multiple layers, building and blending as I go. It is a slow process, but quite effective.

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My art is inspired by nature. Whether working in my gardens, taking pictures of my flowers, walking my dog Maya, or just quietly observing, I am happiest when I am outdoors. When I can’t be outside, or when our long Central New York winter is looming, I reconnect with nature through painting watercolors, or weaving baskets from the organic materials I’ve gathered during the growing season. My painting and weaving remind me of the beauty of the world and that preserves my sense of well-being.

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I am a non-traditional conceptual artist working in textile forms with social and communal roots that embody both individual style and communal creativity. I combine typically feminine folk art traditions like knitting and quilting with principles from my formal education in classification and information science to humanize clinical data and surface perspectives that have traditionally been reduced or erased.

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Creating a visual history of the period through art helped me learn a tremendous amount about how important the canal was in shaping life around it. It is fascinating that so much history existed in Buffalo and along the route of the canal which then was simply buried as industrialization and modes of transportation changed.

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Prints on loan by Ron Blackmore with accompanying photographs by Wells Horton in tribute to Olaus and Mardy Murie.

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Residing all of my life in the northeastern United States, I have had the pleasure of experiencing and observing the seasonal changes. Pulling from this familiarity, while also exploring the concept of time and its effect, a series of twelve mixed media paintings on paper titled, “The Seasons”, was created.

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I'm a fiber artist working with materials and embroidery to create texture, expressive pieces. Drawing inspiration from nature and personal stories.

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As an artist my greatest joy is seeing others discover or rediscover their own creative selves. My own artistic journey has been ebbing and flowing my entire life, but it has consistently brought me joy and taught me life lessons along the way.

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As a photographer I love capturing the moment combined with creative imagination. Which has perked my interest in Composite Photography while infusing imagination within reality.

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My work, whatever the medium, is pretty much always, at it’s heart, Storytelling. My story, a story I heard, an idea expressed through storytelling–storytelling is one of the highest forms of communication, and humans have used this practice as long as we have been able to form words.

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The world is confusing. The arts can offer some clarity to what it means to be human.

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An eclectic collection of prints, photographs, and paintings curated over a period of 40+ years by Sherburne resident Chris Hoffman, who was quite possibly a cat herself in a previous life.

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Housed in our East and West Galleries, the Quilt Show highlights the local quilters. This is a beloved annual event.

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My work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with cut paper, shaping and layering positive and negative space into rhythms. 

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Myths have the power to both reflect and effect the psychology of their contributing cultures. Through a developed creative language, mythology allows the human psyche to create the world anew, showcasing the human propensity towards imagination.

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Painting is my first language. Words don't come naturally to me. A simple brushstroke says more of what I need to say than a thousand words ever could.

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What inspires me and my art is helping others. Because of my past I see the world in a different way than many of the people I grew up with and family.

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I’m fascinated by movement as it’s frozen– reaching hands and gnarled branches, their momentum clear even when they’re drawn and pinned to a wall. I draw from shadow theater, art history, and personal video recordings to conjure large shaped installations.

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 I am primarily a painter of various aspects of the rural landscape, such as trees, streams, barns, cows and lakes.  That’s where my heart is and it’s the focus of my art. 

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The human experience and my quest for meaning has been the inspiration for my sculptures.

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“Small Wonders: Intimate Landscapes in Pastel” is a series of diminutive works exploring the landscape through texture and color using a combination of various media including pastels, monotypes watercolor and linoprints.

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Bringing people or animals into these scenes further imbues the painting with aesthetic and narrative function.

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Over the years I’ve worked with charcoal, pastels, acrylics, and darkroom photography. I felt an immediate shift when I I bought myself an iPad and an Apple Pencil…I never looked back. I love the immediacy of using digital painting and collage with my images.

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In Home Body, I explore imprints of time and family on my boyhood home - and on me. This 120-year-old house in a small upstate New York village has been the family home since 1960. My parents raised my sister and me here. I lived elsewhere for two decades. In 2003, my wife and I moved back in.

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My work responds to the idealism and anxiety of endless striving, grappling with a relentless fixation on a better elsewhere. My 3D paintings and site-responsive installations invite the viewer to navigate an imagined landscape

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Housed in our East and West Galleries, the Quilt Show highlights the local quilters. This is a beloved annual event.

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