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May 10 - June 28, 2002 |
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Twins: Gregory Palestri
Suburban Wood: Betty O'Brien
Raku Pottery: Susan Larkin
Floral Designs: Meg Southerland
The Lapham Gallery is open
Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Summer hours will include Saturdays from 10 a.m. - 3 .m. |
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Gregory Palestri of Chestertown presents more than
20 new paintings in a series entitled Twins. An architect by
training, Palestri works with consciously designed layouts, proportions
and intent. Twins is a completely different approach in style
for Palestri and is marked by paintings that are free and spontaneous and
allow randomness and chance to be a factor in the final outcome.
Twins is a personal investigation into Palestri's own
twin nature. "Diverse cultural mythologies around the globe since
ancient time coincide remarkably with the latest theories as they pertain
to the universe's inherent tendency towards duality; what I am
calling twins," said Palestri in his artist's statement. The
Twins series is an attempt at understanding this mysterious connection
in myself and in my art. It is at once a stark contrast to my
earlier work yet retains an eerily familiar quality of having come from
the same source. The dialogue between my twin natures is at the core
of my work and my choice of materials and techniques reflect this."
Palestri holds a degree in architecture from Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art, New York City. |
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Twins, Series I |
Twins, Series V |
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Elizabeth O'Brien of Queensbury presents Suburban Wood, an exhibition of more than 25 paintings completed
within the past two years. Primarily a watercolor painter,
O'Brien has been inspired by the romanticism of pristine Adirondack
settings. This new exhibition, however, presents a clear
departure and juxtaposes natural and man-made environments to capture
the local region's changing landscape.
"Most of these works were inspired by the areas
which lie within a few minutes (or miles) of my residence located off
Bay Road within the town of Queensbury," said O'Brien. "After my
husband and I moved into our new home about three years ago, I began
to examine more closely my immediate environs, especially those
man-made elements which in reality have transformed the bucolic byways
of my youth into today's suburbia. I felt challenged to see
beauty in sites I passed everyday. While riding or walking down
Bay Road, I began to see possibilities in subjects that were so
commonplace--a convenience store, a construction site, a subdivision,
a surviving barn--that their artistic value could easily be missed."
O'Brien holds a BS in art education from SUNY Buffalo and a MS in
curriculum and instruction from SUNY Albany. |
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Bread, Milk, and Ice Cream |
Sunset in the "Burbs" |
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Susan Larkin, of North Bennington, Vermont,
presents recent ceramic work. Larkin uses a combination of wheel
thrown and hand building techniques to produce unique vessels in the
Raku glaze and firing process. Her quiet pieces have a
mysterious, ancient simplicity, evocative of the Vermont landscape.
Says Larkin, "I am always attempting to find a sense of ritual in my
vessels. Some of my pots have their own personality or sense of
humor. I don't know where some of the ideas come from; I work
almost always from intuition, with a vague idea of what I want the
finished piece to look like, but when you fire Raku, you have to be
ready for surprises."
Larkin holds a BFA in Ceramics from the Main
College of Art and has been a working ceramic artist for twenty-five
years. She has exhibited widely throughout Vermont, including
the No B.I.A.S. Gallery in North Bennington, the Vermont State Craft
Center in Frog Hollow, and the Left Bank Gallery in Bennington.
In New York State, she has shown at Valley Artisans Market in
Cambridge and was featured there in a two-person exhibition with
Cambridge artist Caroline Hooke this past fall. |
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Raku fired vessel |
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Meg Southerland of Salem presents wreaths,
centerpieces, and other decorative accessories. Southerland holds a
Bachelor's Degree in plant science from Cornell University and a Master's
Degree in botanic garden management from the University of Delaware.
As a student, she apprenticed at the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens in London
and the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens in Scotland. Southerland is a long
time LARAC festival favorite and hails from Gardenworks at McClan Farms,
where the family farm's big red barn features thousands of dried flowers
for purchase and hosts craft and educational workshops. |
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Samples of work by Meg Southerland |
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Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council
7 Lapham Place
Glens Falls, NY 12801
(518) 798-1144 • Fax: (518) 798-9122
information@larac.org
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