September 5 - 28

Opening Reception: Sept. 5, 2008 5-8 PM

Also Showing:	Around Town
Artwork from Brattleboro and Beyond
Trudy Crites	Walter Meyer
Steven Meyer	Leonard Ragouzeos

"Is This Really Art?"
Lectures by Professor Susan Wadsworth
Thursdays, 5:30-7:00 PM. Tickets $5 per lecture.

Aug 21 - Abstract Expressionism: Is this Pollock Really Art?
Aug 28 - Minimalism to Earthworks: Serra to Maya Lin

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The Windham Art Gallery is pleased to present the work of Featured Artist, Tim Wood, in the front gallery and a group exhibit, Around Town, featuring the work of WAG artist-members Trudy Crites, Steven Meyer and Leonard Ragouzeos, and well as invited artist, Walter Meyer in the back gallery. This exhibit runs Friday, September 5-Sunday, September 28, with an opening reception on Friday, September 5, 5:00-8:00 PM during Gallery Walk. Both of these exhibits highlight the simple beauty of everyday things one sees living in southern Vermont, including the gardens, barns, streets of town and faces of local people.

Tim Wood is a self-taught artist who paints in watercolor and acrylic. His paintings often capture a particular mood or feeling unique to life in this area, such as an empty, snowy street in Brattleboro on a winter's evening. “My goal when I paint,"Wood said, "is to have the painting not only please my eyes, but more importantly, to invoke the other senses. They may have a soundtrack or feeling specific to the image." His favorite subjects are Vermont, fishing boats, and trains; occasionally, he makes custom finishes on guitars and basses. He and his life partner Dee Gibson in live Brookline with their two sons David and Cameron. They started a candle company which became Creamery Bridge Candles.

Tim Wood, "Main Color Study," watercolor on paper

Trudy Crites, who lives in Brattelboro, will show paintings of lilac blossoms, which grow in her garden, in full bloom in elegant vases, while Steven Meyer will exhibit landscapes that he has painted in oil, en plein air, with a pallet knife. "Color and space are important to me," Meyer explained. "With the [pallet] knives I lay down strokes in a clean, committed way that brushes seldom allow." His father, Walter Meyer, who, like his son, is a life-long resident of the West River Valley (and the descendants of Mary Meyer, the woman who founded the well-known family run stuffed toy company in 1933), took painting lessons from Burn Robinson in the late 50s and 60s in Brattleboro. Walter Meyer has worked in oils and acrylics, but has favored pen and inks since the 1990s. He will show pictures of trees, horses, barns, stone walls and bridges. "I love to draw White Birch trees. My latest work is Scott Covered Bridge in Townshend with hills in the background and the old dirt road and wooden guardrails in the foreground done from a 1920 photo." Leonard Ragouzeos of Newfane decided on one Gallery Walk evening to do ink paintings based on people he met up with or saw "around town." His India ink on yupo paintings feature the faces of two visual artists and a musician.

Walter Meyer, "Brookline Barn "