Contributed by Sharon Butler / This month, the Two Coats of Paint Residency Program welcomes Cozette Russell from Lee, New Hampshire. Russell, who is the Graduate Coordinator in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University, works out of a barn studio near the land where she grew up, and the proximity to her roots matters. She borrows the Welsh phrase y filltir sgwâr – the square mile – to encapsulate how the place where we’re born shapes who we become. Much of her work is an ongoing conversation about that particular patch of ground.
Tag: A.I.R. Gallery
Ann Schaumburger: The shape of home
Contributed by Jonathan Goodman / Ann Schaumburger is a disciplined and systematic painter. She uses basic geometric motifs (triangle, rectangle, and square) to develop permutations of a core set of four brilliant colors that elaborate the intuitive resonance of a single structure: the gabled roof house. Works recently on view at A.I.R. Gallery draw on miners stone houses in Cornwall, England, and prefabricated metal sheds in Amherst, Virginia. The idea of a home, however schematic, evokes real-world associations, establishing a rich and subtle balance between form and content.

























