There fourteen artists making up the Massoni Gallery’s spring show in Chestertown entitled Beginnings.
Deborah Weiss, Heidi Fowler, Joe Karlik, Susan Hostetler, Blake Conroy, Katherine Kerr Allen, Marc Castelli, Alessandra Manzotti, Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern, Larry Schroth, Elizabeth Casquiero, Rob Glebe, Sara Bakken, Katherine Cox and introducing James Tatum.
Spring is a time of renewal. In planning this exhibit, MassoniArt reached out to gallery artists to learn what was currently capturing their attention.
Katherine Kerr Allen’s garden collages welcome visitors as they enter the gallery.
Birds, birds, birds – fly up the stairs and into the beams in a project created by Susan Hostetler. Hostetler. Hosteler an award-winning Washington, DC artist, collaborated with gallery artist Blake Conroy who created the cloud like frames in laser-cut metal as a means of suspending Hostetler’s sculpted birds in mid-air.
Gallery artist Deborah Weiss has delivered a new series of oil on panel works. Her work is an exploration of the fleeting effects of the atmospheric conditions on the land and on water.
Katherine Cox has created large-scale graphite and color pencil skyscapes. Cox who is the Director of Education at the Huntington Museum of Art has exhibited throughout the United States.
James Tatum is new to the gallery. He was born in the US but resided in Canada and Britain, Tatum currently lives in Devon, England. His oil and acrylic landscape paintings begin en plein air with a series of drawings, watercolors and acrylics, and are completed in his studio in Exeter.
Other gallery artists featured in the Beginnings exhibition include Heidi Fowler, Larry Schroth, Alessandra Manzotti, Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern, Vicco von Voss, Rob Glebe and Elizabeth Casqueiro.
For the artists participating in this exhibit, part of the process of beginning anew or changing direction is experimentation. Beginnings are simply the point of departure.
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Gallery hours are Wednesday thru Friday 11-4pm, Saturday 10-5 pm.
A closing reception will be held on May’s First Friday, May 4th, 5-8 pm
Private appointments may be scheduled at any time by contacting Carla Massoni – 410-708-4512. Of course, you are always welcome by chance – if you see the lights on – just knock!
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Information for this article was received in a Press Release from MassoniArt. Photographs by SG Atkinson. Additional photographs of the exhibition can be seen on our facebook page