Marion Grant

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Studio 304 Clock Tower Artists 75 South Church Street, Pittsfield, MA • 13-446-7979 www.mariongrantart.com grants3@earthlink.net

I am inspired by scenic areas that have beautiful light, especially early in the morning and later in the evening before dark. Once I find a place that inspires me, I visit often, and make small plein air studies, sketches and reference photos. Some of my outdoor paintings are finished works, and some will be used as studies for my studio paintings. My technique involves using a personal, expressive style, with vibrant colors and some abstraction. I look for big shapes and patterns in nature and I try not to cover them up with too many small details.

My nature art helps me feel more balanced and less stressed. There is something very healing about going out into the woods or walking barefoot on the beach. The paintings that come out of these experiences give my collectors a sense of serenity and help them remember their favorite outdoor places. I like to use my art to bring the beaches, mountains, and forests into people’s homes and offices.

Sharon Guy - sharonguyart@gmail.com https://www.sharonguyart.com

After two decades and two different gallery spaces, the J. Damiani Gallery has left Warren Street in Hudson and is returning to its roots in the new gallery which opened April 1 in a recently renovated space just behind the IGA supermarket. According to Managing Director and gallery coowner, Juliette Crill, the return to Hillsdale has been planned for a while.

“The timing for our relocation has been optimum. We were one of the early participants in the Hudson art scene. The J. Damiani gallery opened its doors in 1998. Through the years we watched Hudson become a keystone in the burgeoning Hudson Valley gallery movement, but our roots have always been in Hillsdale. This new gallery space became available, and it just felt right to make the move. We are looking forward to becoming a member of the Hillsdale creative community.”

Artist and gallery co-owner, Joan Damiani has been painting the beauty of Columbia County for over 25 years. “I love to reimagine the rich, rural landscape of our area and scenes of everyday activities of ordinary people. I look for how shadows and light interact with its environment and capture the fleeting moments that people forget to remember.”

Reviewers have referred to Damiani’s style as that of an American Realist painter. Whether it be the quiet serenity of a seascape or barn at sunset or the examination of intricate details in urban architectural scenes, Damiani elevates and creates subdued drama out of commonplace subjects.

The gallery opening was held on Saturday, April 1. Visit the website for an on-line visit to the gallery, the opening and for more information.

J. Damiani Gallery - 8 Anthony Street Hillsdale, New York. jdamianigallery@gmail.com Jdamianigallery.com

We long for a way to be heard from the moment we are born. For some, words suffice; for others, there needs to be a deeper form of expression.

That is how artists are born. Where one might send their message through an instrument in the form of music, another might write poetry or prose. Still, others speak in something more tangible through painting, photography, pottery, or sculpting. Words only bring us so far…art is the language of longing…a longing never fulfilled.

I have always found expression through art. At age five, I began speaking through the piano that sat waiting expectantly in our den, an instrument that brought me peace throughout the years. Later I took to creating through fashion design, dreaming up and constructing costumes for the Boston Opera Company and outfits for the fashionable elite of Newport, Rhode Island. From there, my path took many twists and turns as I lived a life as a wife, mother, caretaker, and a professional career.

When my youngest son passed away unexpectedly several years ago, my longing to be heard returned with a vengeance. Words did not suffice. There are no words to express that kind of grief and hope for what is lost. On that journey of anguish, I met other women who had or were experiencing their style of pain. I marveled at their resilience and ability to go on despite different types of loss or simply dealing with the uphill complexities of life’s challenges. I began to recover my voice through paint and a bit of canvas, but it was not just my voice. The women I create in paint are a composite of the many amazing women I have met and continue to meet. I paint their humor, joy, hidden heartbreak, and longing. These women do not exist except on canvas, and their stories are yours to imagine. Hear them.

Mary Ann Yarmosky-maryannyarmoskyart.com

“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”

—Henri Matisse

I create landscape images to highlight my reverential relationship with the environment through which I walk daily. My process begins with the discovery and exploration of a subject, and then moves on to imagining what the image could become. I see landscape as an invitation to the viewer to enter imaginary worlds, ones which may suggest past or future visions, offshoots of the moment that the shutter clicked. I take natural details of streams, waterfalls, moss rocks, and decaying tree trunks and put them in new contexts building imagined landscapes and new worlds. These provide a larger perspective that emphasizes the importance of climate change to even the smallest niches within nature. I give my images an otherworldly appearance to impart distance from the ordinary reality in which these spaces are threatened by global warming and to pay them respect as places of beauty.

I use perspective and scale to magnify tree stumps into craggy cliffs and small waterfalls and streams into mountain cascades. I pause at natural wonders to make images of them to preserve their existence and enlarge their importance as records of what natural beauty can be. I wish to set apart their beauty from threats of climate change by keeping their settings pristine, their surroundings otherworldly, their scale majestic.

As I have unbound myself from representing reality, I have freely expanded the time of the image far beyond the duration of one shutter click, compositing pieces of the landscape with satellite views, stars, and galaxies. A great advantage of making art is the ability to recapitulate reality. A photograph is an opportunity not to copy nature, but to allow the imagination to take one to new places.

I print my own images using archival methods to last, with technical excellence, and in limited editions to increase its value.

My work is exhibited in national and international galleries and has been acquired by noted collectors.

Richard Alan CohenRichard@richardalancohen.com www.richardalancohen.com

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Kimball Farms Life Care Retirement Community is hosting the “Rock Paper Scissors” art exhibit in its beautiful Connector Gallery from March 16 – May 8, 2023.

The exhibit proudly features three granite sculptures by Binney Meigs, unique and charming scherenschnitte (paper cuts) by Pamela Dalton, and beautiful paper sculptures, some of which light up, by Preeti Kedia. Additionally, there are collage works by Ruby Aver, Scott AG, Roselle Chartock, and Karen Arp-Sandel, whose whimsical and fun display also includes a pop art dress, a clothesline full of miniature paper dresses, and robots assembled from bottle caps and found objects. Geoff Young contributes meticulous abstract colored pencil drawings, and Hideyo Okamura has seven very beautiful drawings on display, some bold and colorful, some very delicate. Patricia Frik features her unique drawings suggestive of woven metal.

As well as some collage pieces. There is even handmade paper by Alan Papscun.

About 70 people attended the Opening Reception on Sunday, March 12th, which included music from keyboardist Karin Tchougourian.

ABOUT KIMBALL FARMS AND INTEGRITUS HEALTHCARE—

Kimball Farms Life Care Continuing Care Retire- ment Community is the only Life Care community in Western Massachusetts. Based in Lenox, Kimball Farms includes Independent Living, Assisted Living, the Life Enrichment Memory Care Program, and the Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center. Kimball Farms is owned by Integritus Healthcare, a leader among not-forprofit, post-acute care organizations in Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.kimballfarms.org

Integritus Healthcare (IHC) (www.integritushealthcare.org) is a national leader among notfor-profit, post-acute care organizations in Massachusetts. IHC operates 14 skilled nursing facilities in Berkshire County, the Pioneer Valley, the North Shore, South Shore, and Cape Cod; Kimball Farms Life Care in Lenox; Linda Manor Assisted Living in Northampton; Day Brook Village Senior Living in Holyoke; East Longmeadow Memory Care Assisted Living and HospiceCare in The Berkshires as well as Pioneer Valley Hospice & Palliative Care (Greenfield) for those with life-limiting illnesses.

The exhibit runs until May 8th. Visitors are invited to see the wide range of work any day between 8 am and 8 pm in The Connector Gallery, which joins the Independent and Assisted Living wings of Kimball Farms located at 235 Walker St, Lenox, MA 01240.

BERKSHIRE ROLLING HILLS ART Clock Tower Studio 302, 3rd floor 75 South Church St, Pittsfield, MA

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“Spirits of the Trees!” Acrylics, 36”

36”

“My days in the Berkshires, walking through the woods. I think back now on those fond memories and here is what came from it.” rdaver2@gmail.com | 413-854-7007

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Studio appointments, please call 413-528-6945

KEITH AND MARY ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR SALE STUDIO/GALLERY, SOUTH EGREMONT, MA

Practicing art for 60 years and psychoanalysis for 40, Dr. Mark Mellinger’s careers concern what can be spoken of and what transcends language. In painting, collage and constructions of wood and iron he is drawn to the physicality of materials.

Avoiding predictability of style, Mellinger explores the possibilities of matter and media. Our lives and our world are transient. We must seek meaning in truth, creativity and connectedness.

Mark V. Mellinger, Ph.D.-

71 S Church St, Pittsfield MA / 914 260-7413

Painter, educator, and art historian, Marion Grant, is also a member of the recently formed Clock Tower Artists in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her new work in mixed media on canvas combines textural materials, hand-painted papers, and acrylic paint in abstract compositions that that explore colors, patterns, and shapes.

Grant says, “My recent pieces reflect my ongoing interest in the interplay of geometric shapes, color relationships, and embellishments such as texture and drawing. Viewed as a whole, the paintings have unity; viewed up close, every element stands on its own as a unique passage.”

Marion Grant - 413-446-7979, grants3@earthlink.net www.mariongrantart.com IG: @marion.hgrant

Pastels, oils, acrylics and watercolors…abstract and representational…..landscapes, still lifes and portraits….a unique variety of painting technique and styles….you will be transported to another world and see things in a way you never have before…. join us and experience something different.

Painting classes continue on Monday and Wednesday mornings 10-1:30pm at the studio and Thursday mornings out in the field. These classes are open to all...come to one or come again if it works for you. All levels and materials welcome. Private critiques available.

Classes at Front Street are for those wishing to learn, those who just want to be involved in the pure enjoyment of art, and/or those who have some experience under their belt.

Front Street, Housatonic, MA. Gallery open by appointment or chance anytime. 413-5289546 at home or 413-429-7141 (cell) www.kateknappartist.com