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An artist cooperative in beautiful Milford PA. Our open space gallery has a diverse collection. Oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, photography, sculpture, ceramics and jewelry are some of the unique pieces you will see. Our friendly gallery has one of a kind gifts and creative works for you home. Come see us!
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My Curious Mind
Opening Reception on Saturday, August 10th from 6-9 PM
For August, the ARTery Gallery celebrates The Curious Mind by bringing together the work of two extremely curious and creative artists: acrylic painter Kate Horan and eclectic sculptor Bill Rabsey. What draws the viewer into Horan’s work is the obvious confidence she displays as a figure artist. Her fairly large pieces capture unusual scenes and characters that refreshingly fill the frame in a strong but relaxed manner. Rabsey expresses his curiosity through unusual “found” objects that he honors by featuring them in their own unique sculpture formation. And if you catch him at the right time, there’s always an interesting tale to go with each of his creations.
Kate Horan says she doesn’t know where her ideas come from as she scans her mind to find a kernel of something to work with. The title for each painting is an integral part of her art. Her goal is to apply paint in such a way that it looks fresh and easy, not letting the difficulty of the process show to the viewer. “It’s a tricky task” she says. However, the bonus for Horan is her ability to arrive at a place of total focus. Once she is able to push through the initial planning stage, she enters that place where the work comes with ease, time disappears, and she is completely absorbed inside the piece. “Every artist knows this place,” she says. “It’s called ‘the zone.’”
Bill Rabsey creates art simply because it gives him pleasure. He works out of his Lost and Found Gallery in his hillside barn in Greenville, NY. When creating sculptures, he uses objects found either on his travels or bought at yard sales. Ordinary objects such as old plumbing parts, assorted gauges, crushed copper from the Hudson River and even old door knobs are transformed through his creativity because their context is altered. The viewer sees the object in a totally new, artistic light. In addition to working with three-dimensional works, Rabsey enjoys creating two-dimensional paintings on large canvases. He throws, dribbles and splashes paint, including real 14 karat gold powder and powdered chalk to achieve interesting and unique effects.
You can meet Kate Horan and Bill Rabsey at their opening reception on Saturday, August 10th from 6-9 PM, which includes refreshments. The ARTery welcomes the public to this free cultural event.
The month-long exhibit will be on display from Thursday, August 8th through Monday, September 9th. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays.
The ARTery Gallery, located in the historic Forest Hall, is a cooperatively owned and operated fine art gallery, serving the regional artists and art lovers since 1996. The gallery features a wide array of artistic talent ranging from traditional oil, watercolor, and photography to sculpture, jewelry, textiles, pottery, and collage.
Artistic Brush and Knife
Opening Reception on Saturday, September 14th from 6-9 PM
The ARTery Gallery's September exhibit is titled "Brush and Knife: Vibrant Visions in Oil and Acrylic," bringing together two of the gallery’s prolific oil painters: Laura Lippay and Barbara Alice Moir. While both of these artists create large as well as small works, Lippay’s color palette is often, though not always, characterized by pleasing aqua blues and pinks that evoke a feeling of unharnessed joy. In contrast, Moir primarily starts out with a more traditional palette of colors that historically have been associated with representational and realistic themes. However, it’s their choice of painting tools and variety of paint thicknesses that makes this show especially unique. While many oil painters prefer to work either with brushes or with painting knives, Lippay and Moir seem comfortable using both styles of painting, affording them a wide range of textures and expressions on the canvas.
Laura Lippay interprets the world around her with mysticism and fascination. Her work encourages the viewer to glimpse our surroundings with exaggerated color and curiosity. Lippay has been called "all the colors in a Crayola box" and her art referred to as "beautifully macabre," "colorful," “bold,” and "eclectic." As she emphasizes the inner sparkles of light in her velvety souls on canvas, Lippay’s work inspires introspection and contemplation alongside playfulness, romanticism, and sometimes even fortitude. Lippay has received a variety of art instruction via advertising design studies at Northampton Community College, graphic design studies at The Art Institute of Philadelphia, and select courses from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She works primarily with oil, acrylic, and ink but also experiments with a variety of techniques and other mediums including jewelry and resin. In addition to being a working member of the ARTery gallery, Lippay is associated with Go Collaborative, a non-profit that brings artistic life to Stroudsburg, PA; the Gamut Art Gallery in the Pocono Mountains; the Wayne County Arts Alliance where she is a member; and the Up Front Exhibition Space in Port Jervis, NY.
Barbara Alice Moir became an artist the day she first borrowed her mother’s oil paints for a high school project at Eldred Central School in Eldred, NY back in the 1960’s. From then on, Moir continued to paint and study art on her own even though she chose music teaching as her full-time occupation. The books and tapes of artist Helen Van Wyk (1930-1994) of Rockport, MA became her favorite source for information. After retiring from music teaching, Moir finally immersed herself in art by moving to Jackson Heights, Queens where she joined the Jackson Heights Art Club as a photographer and oil artist. Within a year, she was accepted into the Salmagundi Art Club in Manhattan, the American Artists Professional League, Audubon Artists, and Flushing Town Hall, in Flushing, Queens, NY. While participating in their exhibits, she studied painting with John Foote, (Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, NYC) whose work is in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Today Moir is pleased to be back in the Tri-states area as a working member of the ARTery Gallery. “Every time I walk in the door, I am tremendously energized by all the creativity and comradery among the artists here,” she says.
The ARTery Gallery, located in the historic Forest Hall, is a cooperatively owned and operated fine art gallery, serving regional artists and art lovers since 1996. The gallery features a wide array of artistic talent ranging from traditional oil, watercolor, and photography to sculpture, jewelry, textiles, pottery, and collage.
You can visit with Laura Lippay and Barbara Alice Moir while enjoying complimentary refreshments at their opening reception on Saturday, September 14th from 6-9 PM. The ARTery welcomes the public to this free cultural event. The month-long Lippay-Moir exhibit will be on display from Thursday, September 12th through Monday, October 7th.
