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Stu Eichel, an oil painter from Saratoga Springs,
recently moved to Saratoga from Tennessee with his wife, Greta. He has
a formal education in graphic design with a BFA from Pratt Institute
and continued design courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
At the age of 56, Eichel developed a “serious interest in fine art.”
He enrolled at the University of Tennessee where he discovered
painting to be his true passion.
Eichel paints local buildings, emphasizing their
age and imperfections, choosing “old things that are surviving." He is
driven by an interest to reveal the personality of a place so he will
develop many canvases within one community. Eichel prefers to paint
on-site, choosing old, sometimes dilapidated structures. He
refers to these types of subjects as the “underbelly” of a town.
Eichel believes it is within these old structures that the true
essence of a town can emerge, adding to their potency as images.
Eichel has exhibited locally throughout Washington County and Vermont,
as well as showing in Tennessee.
Eichel will hang his show at the Mary McClellan
Skilled Nursing Facility in Cambridge on March 11, and it will be on
display for six weeks. A small reception will follow the hanging
of the show to allow residents to meet the artist and discuss the
paintings, from 3-4pm. This reception is open to the public. For
information on the reception please call Julie Sipperly, Manager of
Volunteer Services at 252-2556.
The gallery space at McClellan is LARAC's newest
off-site exhibition space, which is open to LARAC members, free of
charge. LARAC also maintains off-site display areas at the Glens
Falls Hospital and D’Ella Auto Dealership in Queensbury. | 
