Please Save the DatePlease save the date Saturday August 3. 3-6 pm
Artist Reception for Suzan Scott Nature is a State of Mind at The Souterrain Gallery 8.3.-9.29.2024 Image: Summer Fields Meadow 30"x30" acrylic & graphite wash on canvas Suzan Scott – Artist Statement "...as a painter, my language is line and color and shape. They are my tools, they are my voice...made visible. For me, the question is never ‘what am I looking at?’ the question is: ‘what do I see?’ I have created a way of art making that combines my interests in art, nature, and science. Nature informs my work and directs my eye; the effects of light, color and atmospherics feature prominently in my work. New visual information constantly presents itself to me. Close observation and awareness of the moment play a big part in my art practice. The work begins outdoors with simple observations of my environment. Elements of light, color and shape draw my eye, as do perceived patterns and relationships between objects. I often jot down simple notes on the spot to help me recall my impressions. In the studio I'll begin to work from notes and memory to explore my observations. With each sketch, I search for just the right degree of abstraction to allow me a more open interpretation. I often produce a number of small studies, working with a variety of media and a range of scales, in an effort to more fully develop what I’ve seen and experienced. As I work, I often move further and further away from the specifics of the actual subject matter and closer to the experience of being. I rely heavily on visual memory and intuition to create work that is not time or site specific but evocative, specific, only to itself.” July 2024 |
INCIPIENCE
Joseph Clarke May 25. - July 30. Artist Bio Joseph Clarke Is a Connecticut based artist living in Litchfield County and working from his Kent studio. Clarke has been creating large colorful artworks that he describes as action sculptures. Working with house paints, epoxy resin and canvas he sculpts high gloss, textural pieces that are reminiscent of something within the realm of finish fetish. Each work, usually monocramatic, is stretched on a hand made strainer that Clarke builds himself in his wood shop. Coming from a line of do it yourself builders, working with his hands comes naturally. His Grandfather Victor was an electrician, plumber, mechanic, carpenter, and antiauthoritarian. These are all attributes that were passed down to Clarke’s father Mark who additionally became an impressive boat builder, with patented designs that are still in use today. Clarke’s Grandmother Yvonne was also an artist who illustrated professionally and painted often. Joseph Graduated from the Hartford Art School in 2018 with a Bachelors in Fine Art and immediately after started working as a studio assistant for his now ex-professor Power Boothe. This initial apprenticeship had a domino effect that landed him in many artists studios over the years, Including artist Kathleen Kucka who, after founding and opening Furnace Art on Paper in Falls Village, CT, made Clarke associate director of the gallery where he works today. Being a Skateboarder, snowboarder, and artist most of his life Clarke has never been one for following the rest of the pack, he finds joy in mapping his own path in ways that allow for more innovative and creative thinking. |
Welcome to the Souterrain Gallery
a dependance of The Wish House
With our new expanded space of the Souterrain Gallery we are aiming to ad a more public exhibit space , meeting place & venue for a variety of concepts to Cornwall in particular West Cornwall's town center that with the Covered Bridge and bucolic setting is a natural attraction for visitors from near and far.
The Space is to convey what a segment of Cornwall is all about, Art and Art on all levels.
We hope and wish to exhibit works by our vast variety of area artists to share their love and pride of inhabiting this part of the world.
Please enjoy!
Souterrain Gallery * 413 Sharon Goshen Tnpk * West Cornwall CT 06796
Tel. : 860 672 2969
e-mail : [email protected]
a dependance of The Wish House
With our new expanded space of the Souterrain Gallery we are aiming to ad a more public exhibit space , meeting place & venue for a variety of concepts to Cornwall in particular West Cornwall's town center that with the Covered Bridge and bucolic setting is a natural attraction for visitors from near and far.
The Space is to convey what a segment of Cornwall is all about, Art and Art on all levels.
We hope and wish to exhibit works by our vast variety of area artists to share their love and pride of inhabiting this part of the world.
Please enjoy!
Souterrain Gallery * 413 Sharon Goshen Tnpk * West Cornwall CT 06796
Tel. : 860 672 2969
e-mail : [email protected]