Leora Armstrong: An Engagement with Place

By Emma Defries 

Emma Defries is based in London and works at the Lisson Gallery; she is also opening a UK residency in collaboration with the Public Statue and Sculpture Association. We had a lovely natter about her work over a cuppa.

Could you share the earliest influences that shaped your creativity?

I grew up on the […]

By |2025-03-25T09:43:05-04:00March 27th, 2025|Featured Artist|

Jeff Joyce: Embracing the Everyday

Jeff Joyce brings place into his art practice, pulling from his experience of walking through the landscape as the genesis for his drawings and paintings.

When did you decide to become a painter?

I grew up in North Carolina and knew at an early age that I wanted to be an artist, without a clue what […]

By |2025-02-26T09:54:09-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Featured Artist|

Rowena Gill: Dumpster Queen

When you walk into Rowena Gill’s Millbrook atelier, you are most likely to find her in the garden, at her table, intricately cutting fabrics, sewing silk thread, or attaching 50 small buttons to a boned corset. As she greets you, she tilts her head, sizing you up for an idea of fabric and style. […]

By |2025-02-03T09:48:50-05:00February 3rd, 2025|Featured Artist|

Substrate with memory — Joseph Clarke

Joseph Clarke’s studio is in an old firehouse in Kent, CT. His immaculate light-filled studio is where he disrupts surface and structure, bringing to life significant abstract works that shift in the light, each angle providing the viewer with an alternate image. Clarke shares this building with an art restoration business and art storage; an […]

By |2024-12-23T11:56:32-05:00December 30th, 2024|Featured Artist|

“Visions” by Ani Jenkins Opens at the Kearcher-Monsell Gallery at Housatonic Valley Regional High School

“Visions,” a solo exhibit featuring whimsical wood carvings by local artist Ani Jenkins, will open in The Kearcher-Monsell Gallery at Housatonic Valley Regional High School on Friday, December 13. 

This is the gallery’s first show that will feature exclusively three-dimensional pieces. 

About the artist 

Intrigued by the patterns, colors, and inclusion found […]

By |2024-12-30T10:39:47-05:00December 13th, 2024|Featured Artist, Main Street News, The Arts|

A Walk on the Wild Side – Tony Henneberg

I first met Tony Henneberg in 1993 when he was an artist in residence at Mashomack in Pine Plains, NY. His sometimes-life-sized watercolors stand alone as majestically as the subject he has chosen. I caught up with Henneberg in his Pine Plains studio to discuss his current season’s mycology work; given this unusually arid fall, […]

By |2024-12-03T10:10:49-05:00December 3rd, 2024|Featured Artist|

The Curiosity of Collage – Vincent Inconiglios

Stepping into Vincent Inconiglios’s light-filled stone barn studio on Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT, reveals multimedia collages, gathered objects, and paintings. His curiosity and passion are infectious. He constantly considers his work and maneuvers pieces of recycled paper, as though he is forming thoughts on paper. Collage is the seed of his practice. […]

By |2024-10-29T11:31:16-04:00October 29th, 2024|Featured Article, Featured Artist|

Silo Gallery presents “Thread and Canvas” on November 16

Silo Gallery in Middleburgh, NY, presents “Thread and Canvas,” in collaboration with artist Clare Watt, on November 16. Silo Gallery is housed in a 19th-century barn nestled in Upstate New York, a “region where quilting has been a long-standing tradition and cultural staple.” 

“Thread and Canvas” is Silo Gallery’s fifth exhibition and […]

By |2024-10-07T11:10:12-04:00October 7th, 2024|Featured Artist, Main Street News, Out and About, The Arts|

Skating, Theater, and Art Mix with Mixed Media Artist David Tankersley

What do an ice-skating competitor and instructor, roller skating coach, theater performer and choreographer, floral arranger, singer with a country album, and mixed-media artist have in common? They’re all together in one talented man, David “Tank” Tankersley.

Tankersley is originally from New Orleans. After a move to Tennessee, he started ice skating at age 13 and […]

By |2024-09-30T11:39:35-04:00September 30th, 2024|Featured Artist|

Art is the Seed of Everything: A Conversation with Artists, Designers, and Architects Pilar Proffitt and Rob Bristow

What initially brought you to this area?

PP: The connection is a good friend whose family has a house in Norfolk, CT; Lucy and I went to college together. Her father, Pete Anderson, an architect, connected Rob and me. I went on a sailing trip with Pete and his family and was somewhat seasick, so […]

By |2024-09-30T10:51:15-04:00September 30th, 2024|Featured Artist|
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