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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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I've titled this show "A Tale of Tangled Textiles" Like my writing, my felt pieces speak to the varied experience of magic: from a vivid dragon who'd love to snare you in a conversation, to landscapes of subtle enchantment.
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“Face to Face: Portraits from the Precipice” seeks to explore and acknowledge the diversity and richness of our upstate community through portraiture. It is also a subtle reminder that as the voices of hatred and intolerance seek to divide us, that as a community, we share much more that unites us than separates us.
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Steph is an artist and researcher gathering moss in Leipzig, Germany. Through situated encounters and installations with material and temporal elements, such as textiles, objects, performances, videos, or audio pieces, Steph centers the aesthetics and affects of subjective and interdependent relations.
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I have been taking pictures and studying photography since I was eight years old with an old Brownie. I graduated to a Kodak Duaflex and then in high school to a 4 x 5 Speed graphic which was used for the school newspaper and yearbook. I used the Speed Graphic in college and finally, in my senior year was able to graduate to a Kodak Retina IIc – a 35 mm gem. During this time, I loaded my own film cassettes and developed and printed my own prints.
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One reason I like to paint these dark rides is because of the paintings on the outside of the rides. They are done with a lot of color and movement to attract customers. I also like that they are self contained trucks that unfold into a ride. I enjoy the home made creatures that light up and pop out of the dark rather then the more professional animatronics. I like the cars on the rides and how they move on the tracks. One of the best times on the ride is just as the car pushes open the doors and total darkness hides what awaits inside.
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I believe that natural beauty is all around us, no matter where we live. We just need to learn to see, appreciate, and enjoy what I call "beauty in the ordinary". It doesn't need to be an exotic animal or a rare plant, beauty is present in our everyday lives, but we need to change our way of looking for and seeing that beauty.
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Bill McLaughlin is a contemporary American Tonalist landscape painter. Largely self-taught,
Bill works in oils, pastels and watercolors on a variety of surfaces. His landscapes are explorations of Nature's most subtle moods. Bill lives and paints on his organic homestead in New Berlin, NY, where he tends his heirloom apple orchard and weedy gardens.
In many of the paintings, my intention was to give the viewer a glimpse into a peaceful moment in the Italian sense of capriccio. In others, particularly those which make use of funerary statuary, one is left questioning aspects of human solitude.
The Earlville Opera House will be hosting its coveted annual Quilt Show from September 11 through November 13, 2021 to celebrate Central New York’s rich regional and contemporary quilting culture combined with the talents of interested national and international quilters. We invite you to participate!
Studio Yates is a collaboration between husband and wife. Artists Robert and Elizabeth Yates have been working with copper as their primary medium for over 25 years.
Julian has exhibited widely and has won numerous awards. His one man shows have included: EOH Gallery, NBT Corp. North, South and Main Offices, Chenango Memorial Hospital, Chenango Country Council of the Arts Gallery, the Eaton Center and The Sherburne Inn. Group shows have included: Kirkland Art Center, Munson Williams Proctor Inst. outdoor show, Norwich Fine Arts Guild Show, CCCA Gallery, South Dakota State University, Yankton, SD, Central Adirondack Art Show Old Forge (Masters Show Award). Numerous outdoor Art and Fine Craft Shows.
Lucy Tower Funke is a resident of Madison County, currently living Bouckville, NY. Lucy began her tenure as an arts administrator as Executive Director for the Chenango County Council of the Arts in 1981, and by the time of her retirement in 1999, had become a venerable and distinguished member of the New York State arts field involved in numerous statewide efforts.
D. Michael Price is a fantasy artist whose works have graced the walls of hundreds of galleries both nationally and internationally. Well-respected as a successful fine artist as well as published children's book author/illustrator, Michael's works of fantasy art in the acrylic and oil mediums on canvas are sought after by private collectors worldwide. Their extensive detail and magical atmosphere transport the viewer to another realm, and children and adults alike are spellbound by their humor and originality.
The landscape of central New York inspires my work. Time, weather, and seasonal change affect the appearance of this landscape and create fleeting moments that catch my attention. Responding to the visual and emotional impact of these moments imbues my work with feeling and sense of place.
For the past 19 years, Kathy Glavin, from Norwich, has been creating all types of seat replacements including cane, rush, splint, binder cane, rawhide, Shaker tape and willow.
This highly anticipated show features new exhibitions celebrating the rich heritage of New York State’s quilting culture. Contemporary and regional quilts will be on display in the East and West Galleries, with featured quilt artist Ron Stefanak exhibiting his amazing quilt talents in the Arts Café, including a Trunk Show (patterns available for sale)! Ron will also teach an “Americana Adventures Quilting Workshop” on Saturday, September 21 from 1-3pm based on his upcoming book “Beyond the Block, Magical Transformation”.
Nature has been my inspiration, my sanctuary and my guide throughout my life as an artist. Though my art has evolved and changed with the different roles I have played and the different work I have done, the underlying theme has been our return to a healthy relationship with “mother nature”; one that honors and holds her sacred.
I make art to enforce the value of creativity as a human activity. Art is a practice as old as humanity itself and in my studies as an art historian I have come to know art as an expression of social, economic, political, spiritual and emotional experiences of being a human. I choose collage because it is my belief that all life is essentially a collage of moments in time.
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. It is through this creative process that a single species utilizes its imagination to attempt to understand its environment, regardless of cultural or external contexts.
The annual TEEN Art exhibit features the colorful artwork of 7-12 grade students in the Central New York region. This exhibit celebrates freedom of expression and the unparalleled joy that comes so readily from youth, and is a unique opportunity for teens throughout the region to display their work in a professional setting. This multi-media show features the most brilliant and vibrant artwork from area young adults!
My goal is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty in unusual places. I am enamored by all things, as they are beautiful in their element, but are often overlooked. Photography is a journey for me, a quest to capture elements of nature and the beauty around me. - Britni Irons
"I take pride in the quality of my craftsmanship. It provides a framework for my creativity and is like my signature.
While my work reflects my training and expertise in industrial techniques, I draw my inspiration from the shapes, balance, and forces of nature."
“I am an artist, teacher and nature lover. These strands of my life weave together and provide continuous creative inspiration."
