April 2003 Show -

Jump into Spring with the Invitation to Spring 2003 Exhibit which runs from April 4-27th at the Windham Art Gallery, 69 Main Street. There will be an opening reception during Gallery Walk on Friday, April 4th, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. This show highlights the work of Featured Artist Karen Adamour Iglehart, who presents abstracted landscapes in oil on canvas. The show also features participating members: Marilyn Buhlmann (small-scale color sketches of Spring), Stuart Copans (paper players in light and dark), Deborah Lazar (cloudscape digital images), Susan McDormand (visions in lines of oil color), Cary Nelson (landscapes, real and imagined, on paper) and Linda Striedieck (Spring watercolors and mixed media). Of her work, Iglehart says: "My work is about color, space and the movement of paint, rather than particular subject matter. I am using the landscape as reference and structure, to create a feeling or atmosphere of a place. In not representing many specifics of a particular place, viewers may relate to the work more easily from their own experience. I would like people to feel drawn into a painting, as if into a completely different and separate place, and creating this sense of space and openness through color. I would also like to present the landscape as part of a larger whole, as if the land/view/space continues in all directions. I am connected emotionally to the use of oil paint - its texture, its depth and its movement on the canvas."