MIchael Alig--Other Worlds August 9, 2008 -September 7, 2008
S. Jordan Pepper--Western Vision Artist's Reception September 13, 2008-November 30, 2008
August 9-Sept 7, 2008 Michael Alig Other Worlds
Piermont artist Michael Alig brings his unique vision of what we think we see in his beautiful and provocative collages: Reception Saturday August 9 from Noon to 7 p.m,.
Balanced Harmony Michael Alig
Michael Alig
What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them to me? And me to you? And all the six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the backward schizophrenic in another?” - Gregory Bateson “Mind and nature” pg8
My art is the recent visualization of a lifelong quest - exploring the pattern that connects. The images I work with all reflect life – the multiplicity of our world. As I prepare my material, deconstructing the whole into the parts, my mind quiets – awaiting. Out of this stillness a piece begins – forming organically – emerging from the process – the flow. I look for movement – for a spark of life – following – surprised by where it leads. When is it finished? – how long does a rain last? you know by the silence. I am trying to capture the emotions I feel – to share my questions – my answers – to make visible the unknowable.
September 12-November 30, 2008 S. Jordan Pepper Western Visions
S. Jordan Pepper, a Spring Valley native now living in Petaluma, California, comes home to Rockland with his love of the outdoors painted in oil.
Reception, Saturday, September 13, 2008 6- 9 p.m. (Gallery open from noon-9 p.m.)
Classical Trio, Shelby Yamin and Friends, from
Foothills in Fall Jordan Pepper
Jordan Pepper - oil painter
Jordan Pepper is an avid art collector who gains inspiration for his own artwork from the early American Impressionists.
This style has always been revered by Jordan, because of its connection to the great outdoors. Having drawn in his early years, he has finally come back to producing his own oil on canvas work in 2004.
For the past three years he has studied with renowned plein air artist Joan Hoffmann. He spends as much of his free time backpacking and skiing, and uses these experiences to paint landscapes from photographs he has taken, as well as painting on site. From the Sierras to the Tetons, down the Grand Canyon to the farmlands of Sonoma County, Jordan strives to put these locations on canvas. S. Jordan Pepper - The artist
Red Sky S Jordan Pepper
Past artists: Robin Lawson
For over a decade I have spent one July week in Stonington, Maine. Jon Imber, my teacher and friend, summers there and for one glorious week, a small group of us returns religiously to paint together under his mentorship. At some point many years ago, he suggested that I turn away from the “pretty scene” and look the other way, or even down, to find my composition. This recommendation brought me to my flowers. It felt so strange to be painting in the backyard of the bed and breakfast where I was staying, instead of painting the rocky shore. But I was drawn to these beautiful breaths of color. The flowers before me also merged with memories of all flowers- Grandmother’s lilies, my mother inhaling the divine smell of tea olive blossoms.
What I had never realized was that each flower is a beautiful landscape. The light hits flowers at such surprising angles. A shadowy pink flower hides under the leaves but still says, look at me, see me, paint me. I began to unite the surprise of watercolor with the surprises that nature offered me, soaking in the blue purple of a hyacinth and the creamy, sometimes gray-white of a lily. I feel lucky to have been able to absorb it and to pay tribute to it in my paintings.
This show is dedicated to the memory of my mother and fellow artist, Sarah Clayton Lawson. Robin Lawson has been painting with watercolor for 17 years. She has taken courses at the School of Visual Arts, as well as New York University. She has had the privilege of studying with the accomplished painter and teacher Jon Imber. Robin has a B.A. from the University of Alabama and an M.A. in Educational Theatre from New York University. She lives in Nyack, New York with her husband, John, and their two children, Sarah and Buster.
Balanced Harmony Michael Alig
Foothills in Fall Jordan Pepper
