Garrison Art Center

Opening Reception on Saturday, September 15th, 4-7pm:

When you enter the Balter Gallery, you will discover Streaming: Wind & Water, a sculptural installation created on site by textile artist Pat Hickman. Deeply rooted in nature, history, and her profound interest in indigenous textiles, Pat Hickman’s work makes visible the overlooked and unseen. Her sculptures trace the invisible and flowing natural forces of both wind and water. Using materials like river teeth and animal membrane, Hickman draws with decaying materials to indicate movement. Her use of plant and animal membrane emphasizes the impermanence of time, aging and mortality.

Hickman’s net, with its lines, knots, and eyes, floats above this river. What will pass through it? What will it catch?  Hickman’s river of river teeth, given new skin, lies below it. Flotsam and jetsam? Memory as hard as a tooth?

Garrison Art Center / Color Compositions

Garrison Art Center / Marylyn Dintenfass

May 27 through June 18, 2017: Ocular. Echo by Marylyn Dintenfass (read more here)

Public reception: Saturday, May 27, 4-6 pm

Ocular. Echo is the lens through which Marylyn Dintenfass explores her own emotional and psychological engagement with the fragile natural world. She sees her paintings as metaphorical macrocosms and microcosms of natural circular systems: her images echo personal visual sensations of solar systems and ecosystems. Dintenfass uses color, shape, and transparency as expressions of change; metaphors for water, earth, air, flora and fauna, the incalculable finite planet we are striving to preserve.

In conjunction with this exhibition there will be a workshop with Marylyn Dintenfass and master printer Lisa Mackie, called Key Matrix, which will be held on Saturday, June 10, 2017. Space is limited: contact the Art Center for details.