Open all winter!

Winter, Downtown North Adams by Thor Wickstrom

Due to the generosity of a kind landlord, studio21south will maintain its downtown storefront all through the winter months!  Check in with us here and on facebook for news + shows through the winter and mud season...which will be here before we all know it!

Our first show, "Four Seasons" will open December 15th, featuring great work from our gallery artists.  Look for our exciting show "Cabinet of Curiosities" opening March 2nd.  (..and if you're an artist and know what we mean by that, we'll be accepting open submissions for the first time. Email us for info, or wait for the announcement.)

Featured Artist: Karen Walter

Karen Walter is the only abstract artist currently showing at studio21south.  We are lucky to be showing an impressive installation of 150 of Karen’s small works on paper in "Black and White (More or Less)"

Karen lives in Boston where she works in paper conservation at Harvard, but she comes to the Berkshires to draw at North Adams' Natural Bridge State Park, whose rock formations and rushing water influence her multi-layered abstractions.

Karen constantly experiments with new media and compositions.  Her playful approach defines her style and makes each one of her pieces truly singular.  Layers of mediums (which may include watercolor, egg tempera, graphite, and charcoal), as well as her subtle use of color, lend depth and mystery to her art.

It took two days for Karen to assemble her installation in the gallery, composing it so that the individual works of art are also striking altogether.  The pleasure of Karen's work really comes alive by spending some time with it, and following the connecting thread that leads from one piece to the next, and back again to nature.

Black & White (more or less) opens Thurs., 7.26

Black and White (more or less) at studio21south

Opens July 26th, Artists' Reception 3-6pm

Thor Wickstrom, "Jacks on Eagle Street"

Featuring paintings, drawings, and prints in a generally, if not exclusively, monochrome mood.  Featuring Karen Walter's ambitious installation from her ongoing "Nature Unbounded" project, and Bob Lafond's vibrant Brooklyn streetscapes.  The show also features a survey of Frank Curran's strong, graphic prints of interiors, industrial landscapes, and rock formations that verge on abstraction.  We are also pleased to present a selection of Eric March's work, including paintings completed at his residencies in the Hudson Valley and Provincetown.

Karen Walter, selection from "Nature, Unbounded"

New digs!

Paintings of downtown North Adams are right at home!

We love our loft, but couldn't turn down the opportunity to move the art gallery this summer to historic Eagle Street in downtown North Adams.  We'll be keeping the loft for art classes, life drawing sessions, and of course, our own nefarious art-making purposes.  However, having our art gallery downtown will enable us to participate more fully in all the nifty seasonal goings-on in North Adams, including the Berkshire Food Festival, Downstreet Art, and the Eagle Street Beach Party. It's a great time to see art in the Berkshires. Please visit us at 40 Eagle Street, just a short walk from Mass MoCA!

North Adams' newest art gallery.

 

We love our new neighbors, including Martha Flood Textiles right next door!

That's a peek of the interior, with paintings by Thor Wickstrom, Eric March, and Susie Tarnowicz. Assistant gallerist Irene in the foreground.

Nice.

If there's an upside to rehanging an entire art gallery, it's the opportunity to find new ways of appreciating the great art we have on hand.  We are particularly taken with the unexpected synergy between Suzie Tarnowicz's (top) piece together with Eric March's oil painting (below).

Katy Schneider at APE Gallery, Northampton

Katy Schneider was 1/2 of the awesome duo from our "Inside/Out" show last year (her husband, David Gloman, being the other half of that equation) and she's got a show up, Feb 5-29, opening Feb 10, in Northampton at the APE Gallery, 136 Main Street.  Her figure and portrait work are not to be missed.

Last two days for "Re/Imaging New York"!

"Cement Park, the Bronx" Valeri Larko

The gallery will be open Sunday, 9/5 and Monday, Labor Day, 9/6.   Last chance to see "Re/Imaging New York", featuring paintings and drawings by Jaye Fox, Valeri Larko, Eric March and Thor Wickstrom.

"Queens Boulevard" Eric March

one painting's journey from a Brooklyn street to a North Adams gallery

One thing the painters in "Re/Imaging New York" (and, come to think of it, all of our other shows...) have in common is a tendency to paint on site. Along the way, they occasionally meet interesting people, mostly forklift drivers. Last week, however, Jaye Fox was working on a late addition to the gallery, and a Williamsburg art blogger snapped a shot of the infant piece, here, re-posted entirely without permission from it's original source at http://hragv.tumblr.com/post/977539226 : The final piece, "Landmark",  is the iconic Russian Orthodox church that presides over this little corner of Brooklyn.

It's conceived as a wry companion piece to "What Smell?", of the digester eggs at the Greenpoint sewage treatment plant, featured in an earlier post. Here's an installation shot of the two together:

comin' right up..."The SNOW SHOW"

Opening Friday and Saturday night!

February 12 to March 14:  "The Snow Show", Featuring works either relating to, or in direct defiance of, the season at hand.

Opening reception:  Saturday, February 13, 6-9pm.
(Note: if you're headed to the Clark reception that same evening, stop by afterwards! We'll still be here!)

Hours:
Sat.-Sun. (plus Presidents Day, Mon. 2/15) noon-4pm,
Friday evening cocktail hours, 6-9pm
Or by appointment or by chance.

Featured artists include Frank Bruckmann, Frank Curran, Karen Kane, Sylvie Kantorovitz, John Leavey, Eric March, Eric Michelson, Bobbie Puttrich, Karen Walter, Rodney Wilkinson, and Thor Wickstrom.

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!