Founders Gallery: Gallery on the Green presents the August POP-UP Exhibit, an Art Tag Sale, and shows by Kate Emery and Steve Silk
Exhibit: August 9, through September 1
Opening reception: August 10, 6-8PM – Free and open to the public.
Time again for the very popular Pop-Up Show at Gallery on the Green. The Pop-Up is a wonderful opportunity to purchase member art work no larger than 24 x 24 inches and priced at $250 or less. You will find pieces to enhance the beauty of your home and office or to give as a unique gift. For just the three weekends in August, choose from these special prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, collages and fiber art by the juried membership of the gallery. At this special show you will be able to take the items at the time of your purchase.
Also on the first floor is an Art Tag Sale with priced-to-sell artwork, art books and art supplies (paints, markers, pencils, canvases, frames, paper, matting materials, camera equipment, etc.) All items were donated by member artists and all proceeds benefit the Gallery.
In the upstairs gallery Kate Emery and Steve Silk are showing “Scale of Wonders: Images of Intimacy and Awe,” depicting places from far away as well as those close to home and dear to our hearts. Both artists are long-time Farmington residents who have shared ideas, locations, and color techniques in their respective creations, whether made by paint or pixels. Different though their work may be, it highlights their shared reverence for and connection to the natural world. These artists are donating a portion of their sales to the Farmington Watershed Association.
Kate Emery began painting three decades ago as a part-time passion that grew with time and is now, after retiring, a full-time pursuit. Emery says that “growing up in New England, with a passion for walking in the woods or along the river, I love places that envelop us, shrinking us back to the small, but connected pieces of a whole. It is from that place, with reverence, that I love to paint.”
Steve Silk is a former newspaper photographer who worked many years at the Hartford Courant, and later at Fine Gardening magazine before transitioning to become a freelance photographer. His work has won scores of state, regional, and national awards. His current photographs represent a new direction: an idealized view of the natural world enhanced by use of photoshop to blend images taken over a period of time. A dedicated traveler, Steve’s images in this show include scenes from Iceland and New England. Silk says that he has “always been drawn to photographing other worldly scenes where humans are either absent or nearly so in the grand scheme of things.”
An opening reception is on August 10, 6-8 p.m. The public is warmly invited to attend this free reception.
The Canton Artists’ Guild at the Gallery on the Green, the longest continuously-running artist guild in the state, has 3 separate galleries and hosts month-long exhibitions nine times a year. The gallery is located near the intersection of Dowd Avenue and Route 44 at 5 Canton Green Road in Canton. Hours are Friday – Sunday, 1-5 pm. The main floor gallery is handicapped accessible.
