THE ARTFUL MIND VIRTUAL GALLERY 7.2023

RUBY AVER

Ruby Aver 413 854 7007

Housatonic Studio open by appointment rdaver2@gmail.com Instagram and Facebook

Carolyn Newberger: 617-877-5672 cnewberger@me.com www.carolynnewberger.com

“It’s up to you to decide who my ladies are and what they are thinking. They only came to me with the first stroke of a brush and a little paint. I don’t know their stories or where they hale from. I only know that they now exist, and some will love them, and some will not. Such is the life of a woman.”

-Mary Ann Yarmosky

Peggy Reeves An Orgy Of Saccharine Beauty

“This new series of botanical paintings were initially inspired by the ferns in my garden, hence, the titles of the works are “Fernature #1, 2, 3” etc. The misspelling is intentional. The show at 510 Warren Street Gallery in Hudson, NY, August 427, will feature the series of gouache paintings on paper title “An Orgy of Saccharine Beauty.”

My intention is to lead the viewer over the lush threshold of abstraction and representation. Within the span from edge to edge of these imaginary gardens, there are contortions of vegetation that seems to be at play, in conversation, or neighborly interactions. The growth may bolster or support each other.

I see the plant life as a powerful, forceful agent and the title of the series “An Orgy of Saccharine Beauty” is meant to negate the normally held concept of a sweet or passive nature and delicate existence that the subject of flowers in art brings to mind. The plants are coming together in a connectiveness that also speaks of the energy, as Dylan Thomas wrote, “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower, drives my green age…” of the garden as a metaphor for the human condition. In most cases, what is immediately seen may shift, becoming richer over time with negative and positive spaces and shapes revealing themselves. The experience of sustained seeing may lead to new recognitions maintaining the sense of a liminal space and a story unfolding.”

Works by Peggy Reeves are also on exhibit at The Meeting House Gallery in New Marlborough in a show titled “Coming Together,” June 23 –July 23, 2023. See nmmeetinghouse.org

510 Warren Street Gallery, 510 Warren St., Hudson, New York, August 4 – August 27, 2023. See 510warrenstreetgallery.com

Jane Hudson Water

The light of the Universe is ever present. It falls upon the Earth as potential energy, as heat, as creative force. It touches the the magnetic energy field of Earth creating great vortexes that generate storms and water. This quintessential substance carries the memory of every living being falling as it does to form all bodies. It fills and forms according to genetic principles that adhere to climates and landscapes, families and cultures. Humans have sought to control water, to domesticate it for convenience, the consequence being that it is deadened, lacking the vitality of its origins. We must now acknowledge its brilliance, exalt and praise it, spin it back into its heightened properties and recognize its partnership with life.

Jane.video@gmail.com Http:://janehudsonpaintings.com

In The Abstract Kimball Farms Connector Gallery

In the Abstract opens July 22 with a reception from 2-4 in the Kimball Farms Connector Gallery. The show features an eclectic range of abstracts and includes lively, interesting work by several artists including husband and wife Keith and Mary Davidson, Ruby Aver, former Berkshire-ite Don Longo, and Caroline Kelly.

Also on view are three newly installed sculptures by Binney Meigs.

All are welcome to celebrate the pleasure of unexpected discoveries any day through September 5.

The Connector Gallery - 235 Walker St, Lenox, Massachusetts.

Lonny Jarrett Fine Art Photography Stockbridge Library

JULY 1 - 31

RECEPTION JULY 7, 5-7PM

My initial memory of awakening to the creative impulse was hearing the first chord of the Beatles, Hard Day’s Night, when I was six years old. I knew something big was happening at that moment, and I had to get on board! I began studying at the Guitar Workshop, the first guitar school in America. I’ve performed music most of my life and play jazz fusion with my band Redshift.

My interest in photography blossomed as an electron-microscopist publishing neuro- and molecular-biological research out of UMASS/Amherst and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in my early 20s.

As a lifelong meditator, martial artist, musician, and photographer, everything I engage with comes from the same unified intention toward engendering the true, the good, and the beautiful. I endeavor to capture the light that seeps through everything in landscape and nature photography.

Lonny Jarrett

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Marguerite Bride 7th Annual Home Art Sale

On Saturday, July 22, 2023, from 10am – 3pm, I will be holding my 7th Annual Art Sale…and this year it will be a MONSTER SALE!

There will be over 100 of my framed originals…some quite old, some pretty new and many never even seen before. Original watercolors on paper, canvas, all sizes from my Irish, Italian, Seacoast, Berkshires, New England, Shaker Village, Animals, and Bicycle series and more will be for sale. There will also be many unframed pieces as well.

These days I find my focus is more on commission work and teaching, with far fewer shows and exhibits. I have decided it is time to seriously decrease my inventory and offer my art to you at significantly reduced prices. I will put out basically all the original works I have (framed and unframed) that are not ear-marked for gallery exhibitions in the near future.

This sale will be held in my backyard, at 46 Glory Drive in Pittsfield. The gateway entrance is just to the right of the garage. There will be plenty of signage. Cash of course is always welcome, but I will also accept credit cards and Venmo.

For more details, previews, and rain date information, please see my website or Facebook page for new dates.

Marguerite Bride – 46 Glory Drive, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; margebride-paintings.com; margebride@aol.com; Facebook: Marguerite Bride Watercolors.

Mary Ann Yarmosky

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 as a wife, mother, caretaker, and professional career.

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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 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.

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