The Woodstock School of Art Instructors Exhibit
Linda Marston-Reid, Executive Director, Arts Mid-Hudson for The Poughkeepsie Journal
This month the Lockwood Gallery closes out the year with The Woodstock School of Art Instructors Exhibit, featuring over 30 Woodstock School of Art instructors exhibiting in a wide range of media. The school’s team of talented instructors are well established artists whose work and experience spans the globe. Collectively, their work can be found in museums and institutional collections, throughout the United States and internationally. The Lockwood Gallery is supporting the Woodstock School of Art by donating 25% of all sales from this exhibition.
Stepping into the gallery, visitors will immediately notice Tricia Cline’s porcelain sculpture, “Vanaliss Returns Home.” Cline’s precise details in this sculpture suggest that the artist has created a mythic figure with a deep story behind the artwork. Polly Law also exhibits her narrative based bricolage pieces in this gallery. In “What the Tide Brings,” Law has created a female figure reaching for a feather flying above her outstretched hands.
Christie Scheele paints expansive landscapes that transcend details and embrace the essence of land and light. The front gallery shows “Sundrenched,” an abstracted landscape in bronze, golds, and russet tones. Perfectly placed adjacent to “Sundrenched” is “Ritual,” a sculptural wall-mounted piece by Patty Mooney. This Mahogany sculpture has the feel of a tribal spear, but also represents a spare, modernist sensibility.
The back gallery focuses on landscapes featuring several known landscape painters including Hongnian Zhang, ES Desanna, Keith Gunderson, Jeanne Bouza Rose and Scheele’s “Catskills Walking Rain,” a stunning large landscape on the far wall. In John A. Varriano’s “Evening Light,” the artist has captured that brief moment when the sun is waning and refracted light creates a muted glow over the landscape.
The center gallery includes a mix of works including two Donald Elder abstract expressionist paintings that face each other at each end of the gallery. Elder is a master at creating a painterly universe where meditations on his artworks could transmit the viewer into a mystical space. Joan Ffolliott’s collographs have sophisticated compositions that are enhanced with the process of adding in elements of paper or old letters.
The hall gallery has a collection of botanical watercolors by Wendy Hollender featuring luscious berries, fruits, and vegetables. Further down the gallery, see Karen Whitman’s two fine examples of linoleum block prints. “Village Morning” has a birds’ eye view of the village with the community going about their business. The composition of various buildings, trees, and people create patterns with a strong graphic sensibility.
The exhibit includes fine examples of portrait painting by Les Castellanos, Claire Lambe, and Lois Woolley. Castellanos has upped the idea of the portrait by incorporating sci-fi monsters into children’s family portraits.
Jenne M. Currie exhibits two exquisite works with textured shapes painted in bold colors and embellished with texture. In this exhibit curated from art instructors, her written statement sums up just one of art’s positive impacts: “My many years of teaching art to young people and to adults has helped me to better understand the healing nature of art.”
If you go:
The Lockwood Gallery
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY 12401
Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
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Exhibit up through December 30, 2021
Current COVID precautions are observed while visiting the gallery.