FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS
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.
Gill found her passion as a young child, working with her grandmother, who taught her the early steps of fabric and thread. After growing up in the UK, her family […]
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 ample hallway allows Clarke space to skateboard on wet days when it is empty. Some of Clarke’s significant three-dimensional works hang on these walls, casting shadows and shifting patterns as […]
“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 naturally in wood, Ani Jenkins began her exploration of wood as an artistic medium in the 1990s. “I’m terrible in every other medium,” she laughed. Her mother had “high hopes” […]
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, I was curious about woodland changes and how the shifting environment may impact the places where he works and ultimately his own work.
Born in Germany, Henneberg and his family […]
