FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS
Ryan Frank Likes His Space
I first met the visual artist Ryan Frank last summer during a show titled Baggage at the Icehouse Project Space in Sharon, CT. The concept of the show stemmed from the great shift of people from their lives in New York City to the Hudson Valley and elsewhere. Baggage featured works by 18 artists who had all uprooted their lives and asked them to examine how that transition of space affected them and their work. Each artist produced a “suitcase” to use as a container […]
Art Exploration: Mary Belliveau
Artist Mary Belliveau has spent the last few decades globe-trotting to destinations around the world. She arrived behind her easel for a professional career as an artist later in life, after raising her children and enjoying a career in healthcare. “I’ve always been curious. My father was a traveler,” said artist Mary Belliveau.
Her work will be on display from December 10, 2022, through January 8, 2023, at Art Gallery 71 In Rhinebeck, NY – the artist-owned and operated cooperative that is host to 23 area […]
Alden “Trevor” McWilliams
Alden “Trevor” McWilliams grew up as a faculty child on the Millbrook School campus in Millbrook, NY. His artistic expression was influenced by his grandfather, a professional illustrator, as well as his father who taught photography, drawing, and printmaking. Trevor’s love for the visual arts was solidified on trips to New York City’s museums, viewing atmospheric Hudson River School masterpieces, and studying drawing and painting under Millbrook’s longtime art director, painter, and mentor, Bill Hardy, from 1997-2001.
After studying English and Art at Colby College, in […]
Frances Palmer
Reading Frances Palmer’s brilliant Life in the Studio, published in 2020, was for me three parts exhilaration, one part exhaustion. The good kind. It may look like a modestly sized, more-of-same coffee table book, but it emphatically is not. It is a treatise creativity and inspiration as the subtitle announces, a manual on technique, a workplace journal, a studiously considered collection of still-life color photography, and a comprehensive narrative about throwing, glazing, arranging, documenting, parenting, cooking, and laughing. Here you will discover the eager Barnard […]
