just sayin' .... click through the photo to see more. She's just that good.
Thanks so much to Sabine at Mocoloco for writing about our exhibition of Lisa Congdon's work: Fragmentary Blue. Check it out here. We are off to Brooklyn right now - love the wifi but will be shutting down save for a few uploads of photos to flickr and facebook ...
Lots of plastering in store at the gallery this weekend and early next week, due to some old calcitrate paint eating away at the old plaster. Sounds all shabby chic and goth like, but honestly it was time for repairs. So we will be closed today, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week, but back in on Thursday. Saturday we are open from 10-2. I hope that everyone who can make it will get over here to see the show - it really is a beauty.
Speaking of beauty - last night's Spotlight Awards show at the Music Hall in Portsmouth was absolutely wonderful. Megan Bogonovich won the best Narrative Artist Award and the outpouring of support for the arts by Howard of SMG for pulling the entire event together was incdredible. Hats off to the evening - it was smashing!
This is the other window in the gallery which is filled with traditional crafts of New England, to compliment Fragmentary Blue's theme. We have beautiful rugs from Lisa Morrisey made from wool hooking. We have gorgeous hand made pillows from Enhabiten right over in Henniker, NH and wool penny rugs from Nancy Hubbard, right here in Rochester. What could be better than celebrating our area? Hmmm, the blooming forsythia, and the beautiful new chair I scored at the auction last friday, for a song maybe?
I asked Susan if I could be a guest writer on her blog today since it is the one year anniversary
of the loss of my husband. At the time he was in hospice, the Jen 11 show was on exhibit.
Jen Renninger's piece, "Everything is going to be okay" just spoke to me and I had to have it.
It displayed prominently on my kitchen wall where I can see it all the time. It has brought me
such peace and surprisingly everything has been okay! It is one of my most favortite pieces.
Yesterday we caught up with some house repairs and renos. We ripped out our front porch! Always a can of worms we say -- what happens next when we start one project and find four more. But it had to be done and the bonus was late in the day Sunday whilst I was painting - this little fellow and his friend were up in our tree, pecking away. A yellowbellied Sap Sucker and a little downy woodpecker. The downy was too fast for my camera, but this big guy posed for me.
Hope your weekend was full of wonder too!
Sorry for the lack of posts - but it's been a busy one. So much fun with Amy Ruppel and Lisa Congdon in the past two days here in NH! Hanging the show and heading out for an auction over in Concord last night took up blogging time *happily* and so ... here is a shot of the work part of that time. Amy was a huge help with most everything and a super fun person to have around.
Today finishing touches going on and then we are going to do a little podcasting. That will be fun as well... I will present that here early next week so keep your eye on this spot! Until then, stop by tonight to see this fun fabulous New England show filled with beautiful iconic interpretations of our part of the world. It's smashing. 5 to 7 p.m. tonight. Do come! Directions here!
Yep. It's that time again ... and this newest painting by Lisa Congdon just really sums it up. It's maple sugaring time! And time for a new exhibition!
Please join us on Friday, April 9th from 5-7 p.m. to celebrate the opening of "Fragmentary Blue" an exhibition of San Francisco artist Lisa Congdon's paintings and drawings. Along with Lisa's work we will be introducing sculptural functional porcelain ware by Kim Westad of the Bronx.
About the show in Lisa's words:
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet) Though some savants make earth include the sky; And blue so far above us comes so high, It only gives our wish for blue a whet. -“Fragmentary Blue” -Robert Frost, New Hampshire, 1923 Fragmentary Blue is an homage to New England, a place that San Francisco artist Lisa Congdon has grown to revere since she first visited in 2005. Like many before her, Lisa is drawn to its rich colors, expanses of thick forest, old signage, kind people, starkly different seasons and vast coastline. She dreams almost daily about building a very small dwelling in some small New England town in the woods and living alone there for periods of time to draw and paint everything around her. The show will include 25 paintings and 25 drawings.
All the work will be available for preview at our shop and available for purchase beginning April 5th. Visit our site for more info: www.artstreamstudios.com
