Newsletter

Fall 2011 - 10/01/2011

New Artists: Jain Tarnower & Joe Gitterman

Angus Calf, Oil on Canvas, 20 x 26

Jain Tarnower is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with a degree in painting. Born in nearby Pittsfield, MA, Tarnower now resides in Boston. Formally a portrait painter, Tarnower now uses animals as her subject matter. Her paintings are large scale, life sized depictions of wildlife and the nature that surrounds it. The animals in her pieces face the viewer and are meant to be seen as monumental.

Movement 3, Bronze, 8 x 8 x 6

Joe Gitterman is a bronze sculpture from Connecticut who is greatly influenced by the shapes and momentary poses created by a dancer. The lines of a dancer’s body are often the source of inspiration that he sets out to capture in his work. Through observation and sketches, Gitterman conceives a visual image of motion. His sculptures are an abstraction of gesture frozen in mid flight.

New Works by Anda Style

White Doors, Oil on canvas, 16 x 20

Anda Styler has 2 new lovely paintings here! In these pieces, Styler continues to capture the hidden places that are not often seen in our everyday life, with scenes of country dirt roads and barn houses nestled where nature has been allowed to overgrow.

Gracia Dayton is Best in Show!

A big congratulations to Gracia Dayton, who was recently awarded “Best in Show” in the New England Regional Juried Exhibition hosted by Westfield State University for the New England Watercolor Society. 

Judging the exhibition was Nava Grunfeld, a juror for the 2011 cover contest for “Artist’s Magazine” and was recently featured in a 10 page spread in “American Artist Magazine”.

Grunfeld had the difficult decision of selecting 66 watercolors from 600 watercolor entries for the exhibit.

When speaking of first place winner Dayton, Grunfeld says, “I was immediately drawn to Dayton’s ‘Mountain Pines’ for the confidence and skill the artist demonstrated with the use of the medium. The colors are exquisite, the image abstracted from nature but in an original way with spontaneity and excellence.”

Dori Csengeri's Unique Jewelry is a Hit!

Dori Csengeri’s jewelry has visitors fascinated with her ancestral technique of needle work created out of silky cotton cord, leather, and often Swarvoski crystal.

We recently received new pieces from Csengeri’s fall collection. These pieces of jewelry make for the perfect statement piece with their beautiful, intricate designs and bold colors for the fall season, and as always, they are lightweight to wear.

So, if you are having trouble finding that special gift for someone special, or that perfect piece of jewelry to finish an outfit, look no further!

Exciting Upcoming Show at The Clark

Starting November 13th the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present the exhibition Rembrandt and Degas: Two Young Artist. A selection of portraits by the two great masters will be on view as this exhibition explores Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn’s influence on Edgar Degas. The selection of portraits and etchings will include Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait as a Young Man from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Self-Portrait as a Young Man from the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, and Degas’s Self Portrait from the Clark’s collection.