KMR Arts
2 Titus Road, Washington Depot, Ct
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april
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KMR Arts is proud to announce Margaret Garrett: Paintings and Works on Paper. Join us for an opening reception
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KMR Arts is proud to announce Margaret Garrett: Paintings and Works on Paper. Join us for an opening reception with the artist, this Saturday, May 21, 3-6 pm.
The exhibition will be at the gallery through July 9, 2022. Gallery hours are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from 11-5 and by appointment. We would love to see you and show you this exquisite exhibition!
Margaret Garrett is an interdisciplinary American artist whose abstract paintings, videos and works on paper explore movement, shape, rhythm, and the unfolding of contrapuntal patterns. Born in North Carolina and raised in Pennsylvania, she grew up training to be a dancer. At the age of sixteen, she left home to join the Pennsylvania Ballet and later danced with the Cleveland Ballet as a soloist. In her early twenties, she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color and from that time on her focus has been on visual art.
Garrett’s approach to painting is strongly influenced by her early training in dance. “When I begin working on a new piece, I see the paper or canvas as an empty stage and the line as movement. Texture, form, the way that colors interact, all are different manifestations of motion, rhythm, and energy.”
Gallery owner, Kathy McCarver says, ” Margaret Garrett’s work is captivating. Though painting and drawing are static mediums, there is a kinetic energy in her work that I find mesmerizing.”
Margaret Garrett’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States including The Parrish Art Museum and The Flag Art Foundation. Garrett’s work has been included in the Armory Show, NYC, Art on Paper, Art Miami, and the Dallas Art Fair. Her film, “Elegy” was an official selection of the London International Motion Picture Awards in 2020. Garrett has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and in Assisi, Italy. Garrett’s work is held in numerous privatae and corporate collections in the United States and Europe, including the Blanton Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, and Guild Hall Museum. The artist lives and works in Shelter Island, N.Y.
The exhibition will be at the gallery through July 9, 2022. Gallery hours are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from 11-5 and by appointment.
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Month Long Event (june)
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KMR Arts
2 Titus Rd Washington Depot, CT 06794
Organizer
KMR Arts[email protected] 2 Titus Road, Washington Depot, Ct
july
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KMR Arts is proud to announce Catherine Erb: Still Looking Up. This exhibition is Catherine Erb’s third solo exhibit with KMR Arts. The selection of works includes Erb’s signature cloud
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KMR Arts is proud to announce Catherine Erb: Still Looking Up. This exhibition is Catherine Erb’s third solo exhibit with KMR Arts. The selection of works includes Erb’s signature cloud imagery as well as a a group from her newest series, Marbles. Within the Cloud series, Erb’s goal is to encourage the viewer to “Look Up”, both literally and figuratively. By taking a moment to “Look Up”, we take the opportunity to be fully present.
Catherine Erb is literally blurring the lines between representation and abstraction in order to get to a point where, as Erb says, “All that’s left is a deeper recognition with knowing.” The origin of the Marble series are the marbles the artist’s children received for kind words actions and deeds when they were growing up. Every time they shared with another child or did a random act of kindness they would get a marble which would then be placed in the jar. One day Erb looked at this huge bowl of marbles now in her house and she was struck by the fact that each one of them represented a kind word action or deed that had taken place. Erb wanted to memorialize and honor them and pass along the acts of kindness.
During the making of the Marbles series, Erb began to explore Brene Brown’s “Anatomy of Trust”. Brown compares the trust in a true friendship to a jar full of marbles. This metaphorical marble jar is only given to people in one’s life who have earned one’s trust one kind action at a time. Thus, each of Erb’s Marble pieces represents an individual act, word, or deed of kindness. Each of the Marble works is unique, one of a kind.
The exhibition will be at the gallery through September 10, 2022. Gallery hours are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from 11-5 and by appointment. We would love to see you and show you this exquisite exhibition!
Time
Month Long Event (august)
Location
KMR Arts
2 Titus Rd Washington Depot, CT 06794
Organizer
KMR Arts[email protected] 2 Titus Road, Washington Depot, Ct