Lapham Gallery presents the work of
Adirondack regional artists.

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Shown is LARAChairfest, an exhibition of approximately 30 artist created chairs, paintings of chairs, photographs and prints of chairs, miniature and life-sized chairs.  The juror, Darren Miller, is the gallery director at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Presented in conjunction with LARAChairfest is an exhibit of rustic chairs by nationally known rustic furniture maker Barry Gregson.  Gregson and his wife Darlene own Adirondack Rustic Gallery on Main Street, Schroon Lake.  The Gallery represents the work of fifty rustic furniture makers. “I think it’s America’s longest running rustic furniture gallery,” says Gregson, of his gallery that was begun in 1984.  Gregson has been making rustic furniture since 1981, but “everything since childhood has led me to do what I do,” he says.  Borrowing his father’s tools, he was fashioning his own toys at age seven.  When making his rustic furniture he uses mostly antique tools—hatchet, shaving horse, draw knife—and makes his own pegs using techniques from the eighteen and nineteen centuries.  Gregson’s first chair, as well as two chairs he made for his daughter, and chairs made by his son Matthew and his daughter Skye, will also be part of LARAC’s exhibition.

Rounding out LARAC’s Spring offering is work by artists Shelley Valachovic and Ken Wheeler.  Valachovic, of Lake Luzerne, presents watercolor botanicals reflecting species found in the region, as well as handmade hemlock and pine needle baskets.  She earned a BS in Art Education and has exhibited locally, is represented nationally, and her work is included in many corporate and private collections.

Watercolorist Ken Wheeler of Queensbury presents four new paintings in a series based on Great Camp Santanoni.  He has been working in watercolor since 1991 and is the recipient of numerous awards.

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