December 8 - January 17, 2025
Scott Beck | Mike Witmer - Drift | Antoine Adamowicz - Me, You, and Everyone | Liane Nouri - Replaced | Laura Chasman - Mourning and Melancholy
OPENING RECEPTION - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1-4pm
WAITING ROOM
Scott Beck
Scott Beck attended the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit.
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Mike Witmer - Drift
My works are an invitation for the viewer to engage and observe over time and appreciate color interactions and relationships to space and surroundings. The emphasis of all of the work is on the perceptual and optical. Most of the work is painting (oil paint on canvas) but I also like to make other objects that demonstrate concepts involving painting and seeing. The recent things explore the interaction between color and light. The surfaces are made in a way to interact in a room and register subtle changes of light, warm and cool, even the passing of a cloud.
Mike Witmer was born in 1960 in Lancaster, PA. He attended Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore,MD and PA College of the Arts in Marietta, PA where he received a certificate. He has a studio in Salunga, PA
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Antoine Adamowicz - Me, You, and Everyone
Art helps us understand our relationship to ourselves, each other and the world around us. Before graduating from art school Antoine Adamowicz studied Business Economics where he was trained in management thinking. A way of thinking where life is abstracted to the grid of spreadsheets. This grid is still visible in his paintings where it is translated to structures and patterns. Unlike the data in spreadsheets, the paint does not like to be restricted to the boundaries of its cell. It sometimes pushes against and sometimes adapts to its environment. In doing so it brings color and emotion into the abstraction of life.
Antoine Adamowicz, (1970), is a Dutch painter, who graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam after he had received a master's degree in Business Economics. He was awarded with the The Buning Brongers Award for young artists in 2000 and the prestigious Royal Award for Modern Painting in 2003. His work was shown in several group and solo exhibitions, mostly in the Netherlands, where he lives and works in Amsterdam.
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Liane Nouri - Replaced
For me art is emotional. I paint what I feel. My work is a delicate balance of the poetic landscape surrounding me and ready made construction materials. This is where I find beauty.
Liane Nouri was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from The High School of Music and Art she received her BFA and MFA from The City College of New York where she later taught drawing, watercolor and painting. She currently exhibits her work at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Carrie Chen Gallery in Great Barrington, MA. Liane has exhibited nationally and internationally including Taipei Art Fair and Expo Chicago. Liane currently lives and works in New York's Hudson Valley.
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Laura Chasman - Mourning and Melancholy
In this recent body of work, I have come to think of each one of my clay chimpanzees as my alter ego. They are meant to embody the collective zeitgeist, mirroring these highly fraught times. My goal was to create work that was raw and emotive, expressing vulnerability and our shared humanity.
After 50 years of working exclusively with paint, a three-hour clay workshop in Oaxaca in 2023, revealed to me the pleasures of working with this material. The experience was not unlike the feeling of sinking my fingers in soil while gardening, or immersing my hands in a mound of dough to make a piecrust. The physicality, the texture, how responsive the clay was to touch and the simplicity of working with one medium were all so appealing. The earthiness of the clay brought to mind the image of a chimpanzee, that species of ape that are our closest living relatives, sharing 98% of our DNA- although my clay chimps are not about scientific interest, but my empathic response to them. Their bodies are a lot like ours, and their facial expressions so relatable. I work with clay that remains unfired, or self- hardening clay. I am drawn to the raw texture of these forms. Once the clay is dry, I might sand or break off a part of the sculpture, or add color using paint in the familiar way that I work on a two dimensional surface. As a figurative artist, I have always worked to capture the physicality and the feeling of my subjects.
Laura Chasman grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, and Smith College School of Social Work. After living most of her adult life in the Boston area with her artist husband and their son, she and her husband now reside happily in Northampton, MA. Chasman has been exhibiting her work in galleries and institutions for close to 50 years. Awards and honors include: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Maud Morgan Prize and solo exhibition; recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council, New England Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting; an Artist Resource Trust recipient; a Boston Artadia finalist. Her portraits have been included in exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery. Chasman’s work has been included in art fairs. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Smith College Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, Fidelity Investments, Simmons College, and Boston Public Library.
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