Opening Reception of Irmari Nacht PhotoCollages Saturday, May 17 from 5 - 7

Irmari Nacht PhotoCollages at Art on Main Gallery during May-June

Irmari Nacht of Englewood, NJ and South Egremont, MA is showing photocollage assemblages from her "Facades/Background" series and "Pages " series at Art on Main, the Gallery at Barnbrook Realty in Great Barrington, MA from May 3 through June 26.  In this show, the artist uses one or more photographs to create compound or fragmented images exploring the concepts of altered realism, segueing of colors, and multiple imagery.

Irmari Nacht’s art is in many corporate and public collections, such as AT&T, PSE&G, ADP, Newark Museum, International Museum of Collage, Mexico, Bowdoin College, Jimmy Carter Museum, Cleveland Institute of Art, Rutgers University, and Yale Art Museum. She has exhibited internationally, as well as nationally, and received two NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Sculpture. She received a second Puffin Foundation Grant for “Who Am I?” an interactive project where the viewer becomes part of the artwork.

Her work has been recently exhibited in the Newark Museum, NJ State Museum, Berkshire Museum, Belskie Museum, NJ, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, MA, Doverodde Book Arts Festival, Denmark, Westport Library, Conn, WAH Center, NY, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, ME, Univ of Northampton, UK, and in solo shows at the Atrium Gallery, Bard College at Simon's Rock, MA and the Intermezzo Gallery, BergenPAC, NJ.

The “Facades/Backgrounds” series, uses small round raised pictures to tell a story that relates to the larger images. Nacht explained, "Because the work appears on two planes, you can see the images in details or fragments, as well as viewing it as a larger, complex picture."  In “Cellphonia” and “Glitterati” Nacht depicts celebrities as well as everyday people in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. The “Sunset Segue” pieces explore the relationship of color placement - the changes of light, tone, and mood as one color is placed next to another. 

The photo collage series "Pages" incorporates the ancient technique of encaustics, the traditional media of painting, photography, photogram, recycled objects, with the contemporary methods of computer enhancements. The inclusion of written materials from books - words, sentences, fragments, and slivers - add another dimension imparting information and new ideas.  The images of shadows and reflections through windows, clouds on a beautiful sunny day and during the deepening skies of sunset, artifacts of murders, money from around the world, fasteners and unfasteners, tiny watch parts and metal shavings are unified by slivers of cut-up book pages and the grid format.

The public is invited to the opening reception Saturday, May 17 from 5-7pm at Art On Main, the Gallery at Barnbrook Realty, 271 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA. The gallery is open from May 3 to June 27 during Barnbrook's regular business hours, usually 10 - 5 everyday. For further information, contact irmarinac@aol.com or check her websites: irmari.com, or for book works, irmarinacht.shutterfly.com

photo caption3: "Pages19Reflections" (detail), a photocollage by Irmari Nacht showing at the Art on Main Gallery May - June, opening reception May 17, 5-7pm

photo caption1: "Pages3Bookmarks" (detail), a photocollage by Irmari Nacht showing at the Art on Main Gallery May - June, opening reception May 17, 5-7pm

photo caption2: "St Michael's Sunset", a photocollage by Irmari Nacht showing at the Art on Main Gallery May - June, opening reception May 17, 5-7pm

Cuba has arrived at Art On Main



"Cuban Odyssey: Photography by Elaine Radiss" Now Showing at Art On Main

“Cuban Odyssey: Photography by Elaine Radiss”

March 1 – May 1, 2014

Reception for the artist: Saturday, April 5, 2014, from 5 to 7 pm.

Art On Main, The Gallery at Barnbrook Realty

271 Main St., Great Barrington, MA 01230

Contact Information: Peggy Reeves, Curator, (413) 528-2446

Open during regular business hours of Barnbrook Realty, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily

 

Great Barrington, MA – Art On Main is very pleased to present “Cuban Odyssey: Photographs by Elaine Radiss ”during the months of March and April 2014.  While love of nature was her initial portal into photography, Radiss’s vision has expanded with experiences away from her garden toward life in far away cultures such as Tanzania and Mexico.  This latest body of work marks a departure away from her usual focus on the natural world and presents her photographic impressions of the people of Cuba as well as the rich, colorful culture of the country which has kept its doors only slightly ajar for travelers from the USA.

Happy to invite you into their homes, Radiss found the people of Cuba warm and open. The gorgeous colors inside and outside their houses and the textures of crumbling facades provide a wonderful backdrop for the images. “Cuban music was heard everywhere and the whole trip was a feast for the senses. Of all the bodies of work I have produced thus far, Cuba has been my favorite.” Though vicarious, there is no doubt that the viewer will feel some of the visual and emotional thrill of the Cuban experience while viewing these works. Travel along with us to Cuba at Art On Main.

 

 

Marilyn Orner Cromwell: Recent Paintings opens today

Marilyn Orner Cromwell: Recent Paintings

December 28, 2013 – February 28, 2014

Reception for the Artist: Saturday, January 4, 2014 from 5 to 7

Art On Main, The Gallery at Barnbrook Realty

271 Main St., Great Barrington, MA 01230

Contact Peggy Reeves, Curator, at (413) 528-2446 for more information

 

Great Barrington, MA – Marilyn Orner Cromwell will be exhibiting her recent paintings at Art On Main, The Gallery at Barnbrook Realty, through the months of January and February 2014.  A resident of Egremont, MA, the artist is also an art educator at Berkshire Country Day School and has taught art there for over 30 years.  She has a Masters in Creative Arts in Teaching from Lesley University.

Having raised her own children and juggled a committed teaching schedule for so long, Orner Cromwell is now more focused on her own studio practices.  With her children grown, she has moved her attention to creating oil paintings that concentrate on readily available still-life subjects.  Working with inanimate domestic objects as her main theme, she is able to work on aesthetic problems which she intentionally sets up to challenge herself.  Placement, light, color, compositional weight, spatial relationships and textural surfaces are combined to form an interesting problem for which she is drawn to paint a solution. 

Orner Cromwell’s work has been seen in solo and group shows throughout the country and locally at the Lenox Library and the Image Gallery in Stockbridge.

Art On Main is open during the regular business hours of Barnbrook Realty.  It is located in the center of downtown Great Barrington at 271 Main Street.  Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 5 pm.  Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

Last Week of Deborah Hanson Greene: Watercolors

Don't miss the charming watercolors by Deborah Hanson Greene which are being exhibited until Friday, December 28, 2013 at Art On Main. 

Art On Main is open during the regular business hours of Barnbrook Realty at 271 Main St., Great Barrington.

Deborah Hanson Greene: Watercolors

Deborah Hanson Greene: Recent Watercolors

November 2 to December 27, 2013

Reception for the Artist: Saturday, November 16 from 5 – 7 pm

Danish Bowl with Lemons

 

Animal Mineral Vegetable

 

New Marlborough Farm

 

 

Great Barrington, MA – Art On Main is pleased to exhibit the recent watercolor paintings of Deborah Hanson Greene at the office of Barnbrook Realty on Main Street in Great Barrington.  The spacious walls will showcase Berkshire landscapes and still-lifes which are matted, framed and under glass.  A reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, November 16, from 5 to 7 pm.  All are welcome to attend.

Greene, a Lenox native who returned to the Berkshires from the Washington-Baltimore area after a long hiatus, paints in-between her full-time development job with the Norman Rockwell Museum.  Her work has been accepted into juried exhibits in Annapolis, MD and Alexandria, VA and was represented by several galleries in the that area.  In 2009, The Marketplace Café in Sheffield hosted a solo show of her paintings.

A graduate of Vassar College, majoring in anthropology, Greene worked most of her life in the Midwest and Washington – Baltimore corridor.  She also spent a transformative nine months camping across Africa, and two months in Nepal, trekking and camping in Everest National Park.

Despite these world adventures or perhaps because of these experiences, Greene’s paintings reflect her intimate relationship with the local landscape and the everyday objects of her home and personal collections.  Appreciating the north light and familiar landscapes that inspired her to paint as a child, she returned to her childhood roots in the Berkshires where she shares her Victorian home with her boyfriend and two cats.

"iphone Artistry" an annual event?

Great Barrington, MA – Art On Main presents “iphone Artistry” an exhibit of cell phone photography by local artists of Berkshire Co. through October 2013.  A reception for the artists will take place on Saturday, August 31 from 5 to 7 pm at the gallery of Barnbrook Realty, 271 Main St., Great Barrington.

 

Smart phones, in particular Apple’s iphone have been around for less than a decade. In that short period of time they have become ubiquitous as the easy-to-reach, simple to use camera of choice for sharing images with friends as well as fine art photography.  With access to free or inexpensive apps for shooting, resizing, distorting, stylizing, framing, blending, texturizing, stitching panoramas, and painting, these self-contained units are also miniature darkrooms where creativity is unleashed using the many tools in a very big toolbox.

This exhibit explores the various approaches to iphonography by nine Berkshire artists.  Many of the photographs are created from images taken with the iphone camera but later put through one or more  post-processing steps.  Some use the basic iphone’s built-in lens while others utilize options most people are surprised to learn are available as options such as HDR (High Dynamic Range) and panorama.   Most clearly demonstrated in this exhibit, is that in the hands of an artist, a camera phone can be an expressive vehicle, lots of fun and inspiring for the viewer.