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Gallery shows Residencies

SG & AG Gallery: The Handmade’s Tale

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Most artists participating in the prestigious Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts 2025 Artists in Residence Program in New Berlin, New York, make art the old fashioned way. During the residency, each is afforded ample studio space, the free run of the generous Golden supply closet, and expert technical help. This year’s result is the uniformly striking “Made in Paint 13” at the SG & AG Gallery, comprising the work of 18 artists. It is distinguished by the integration of material and process with labor intensity and personal and cultural history. Each artist has a penchant for craftsmanship and savors the slow process of making work by hand.

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Gallery shows

Conversation: Sharon Butler talks to Marion Wilson and Louis Block at The Floating Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard

Contributed by Sharon Butler / On August 8, I visited Marion Wilson in Vineyard Haven at The Floating Gallery – a studio and gallery she created on a wooden boatbuilder’s mini-barge – to talk about the gallery project and the current show, “Catastrophe,’ on view through August 15. Louis Block, who has work in the show, joined us to talk about his painting.

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Gallery shows Upstate Art Weekend

Idyll and crisis at The Re Institute

Contributed by Lawre Stone / The Re Institute – a dairy barn built in the 1960s that Henry Klimowicz has repurposed as rustic art gallery – seems to arise sublimely out of nowhere, exuding the freedom and wonder of the open road. Presently installed on the ground floor is “Seven Women Chase Icebergs” – paintings, drawings, and works on paper by seven women convened by Brenda Zlamany for a residency at Pouch Cove in northern Newfoundland in spring 2025 to respond to the remote landscape. The thrill of yielding to an unknown environment permeates the exhibition.

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Group Shows

Chromatic propulsion at Frosch & Co.

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “Out of the Blue” at Frosch & Co boasts a tight concept and adds real snap to the conversation presumed suspended until after Labor Day. The idea is to explore how the color blue ramifies through the lenses of different painters. That might seem like a merely modular survey, since other colors too have distinct connotations. But blue’s, as the gallery’s press statement notes, seem to swing more dramatically – between cool and warm, masculine and feminine, obscene and pure, barbaric and royal, stormy and serene. This quality makes for an unusually rich array.

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