Piece By Piece Now on View
The Piece By Piece show opened last Friday with a reception at the Steamer Firehouse Gallery. The intimate show is hung in the front Member gallery with the work of sixteen artists in a variety of mediums that include acrylic, watercolor, gouache, oil, marker, pastel, photography, and mixed media. Among the more unusual materials are Mujgan Agardici’s Water Lilies, a finely drawn example of pyrography - that is, wood burning - and Anne-Claude Cotty’s Solving the Puzzle, photography printed on silk with embroidery.
There are abstract works like Laya Joseph’s Memories of the Land, Anne Zimmerman’s Healing Trust, and Tamar Drucker’s fiber piece Synthesis, and there are representational works like Mirma Haas’ Who are my relatives? I’m puzzled., Rosemay Hocking-Sanzari’s Morning Glories After John La Farge (American, 1835-1919) and Helen Arbor Young’s Sunday Sunset.
What ties the wide range of creativity together is the original premise of the show: choose a piece from the jar of jigsaw puzzle pieces and use it as inspiration for a work of art. Each work is accompanied by the puzzle piece the artist chose, so that the viewer can imagine whether the artist was inspired by color, as in Jill Kiefer’s Puzzling Homestead, texture, as in Peg Tarnowsky’s Flowers Pieced Together, shapes in the imagery of the puzzle piece, like Alex Sherman’s Red Crane, or the shape of the whole puzzle piece, as in Sondra Haywood’s Puzzled Plants, or Allison Midgley’s The Edge.
The show can be viewed in person on Saturdays, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, through October 15th. If the work already described doesn’t pique your interest, you won’t want to miss Susan Lasky’s bold JungleLand, Livia Gus’ enigmatic Mushroom Piece, or Roberta Sokolov’s serene Glowing Blooms. If you’re lucky, the artist of your favorite work may be in the gallery during your visit - and if they’re not, you may want to return for another look. You can also view the Piece By Piece Virtual Exhibition here on our website.
