SNOW SHOW featured artist: Karen Walter

Beginning with basic tools and organic forms, Karen Walter has been building an ongoing grid of mixed media drawings for several years.  While still cleaving to the same 7"x7" format, the drawings have evolved in complexity, materials, and technique; now incorporating diverse elements including letterpress, antique papers, and etching.  Her mark-making has also evolved and diversified, integrating scratch-work and gouges alongside lyrical, flowing ink washes.  We are especially pleased to include Karen in the show, since she had originally worked on the grid drawings during a residency at the former Contemporary Arts Center, which was housed in the loft next door.  Now based in her studio in Waltham, this show presents an almost poetic opportunity to return Karen's work to the Beaver Mill at a later state in their evolution, as well as North Adams'.

SNOW SHOW Featured Artist: Frank Bruckmann

So, Monhegan Island has been a picturesque lobstering and fishing community since who-knows-when.  For about the past 100 years, it's been a haven and inspiration for artists like Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, all the Wyeths you can think of, and George Bellows.  But, perhaps wisely, they've treated it as a summer escape. It takes a special kind of artist to haul yourself and your young family up to remote Monhegan in the winter time! That artist is Frank Bruckmann.  These paintings are on their way to studio21south!  Also, you can follow this painter's progress (and that of his lovely family) on their blog!