Opening Reception September 21st from 3-5PM

John Parker After 40 years of designing and building houses, John Parker is now focusing on a lifelong passion of creating sculptural wall pieces. Curious, mechanical and often with a story, these works represent the timelessness of old found materials. Often using only the original color and patina of the wood and objects, Parker’s art is elegant and finely crafted.

Mark Dixon A found object, in an artistic sense, indicates the use of an object which has not been designed for an artistic purpose, but which exists for another purpose already. The camera, by its nature, removes context, often leading to disappointing results. The challenge for the photographer is to realize, and take advantage of, this characteristic. The goal is to create new ways to look at objects; to discover shapes, colors, patterns, and textures. It is the blending of recognizable and new that I hope you will find interesting.

Opening Reception Saturday, July 20h from 3-5PM

I still like the use of reuse of materials. My method is trash-picking and curating. All the forms, textures, and colors are chosen, reimagined, reorganized, revalued. These constructions and the layering of these elements reflect my interest in time, the continuing process of existence, and the coalescence of events in the past, present, and future.

The remains of the past, the seasons, the time of day, the magic moment, the eternal cosmic clock, and the endless river of times inspire my images. I intend that the bits and pieces of life convey some feeling of the odd, uneven moment in time, familiar but slightly unsettling.

Opening Reception May 18th from 3-5PM

My goal in painting is to capture the ways light transforms the landscape, turning the familiar scene into a new more intense reality.  The light that streaks out from beneath clearing storm clouds, the dazzling light of early morning, the deep shadows of late summer, the milky light of a foggy day; all these make us see our everyday, taken-for-granted landscape with fresh eyes, and heighten it with feeling.  Light in painting expresses my love for the land, for our earth.

Due to incoming weather, the Opening Reception for the Fritz Gross Exhibition at The Tunbridge General Store will be postponed until Wed. March 27th 5-7pm.

There will also be live music that evening as well. Please spread the word.

Art is a form of communication which stands by itself. When asked to explain my work, I feel like I am translating my English to English and I am a little lost. In a restaurant if the waiter explains that the wine has notes of chocolate and tobacco and finishes with a burst of citrus, I do not want to drink it. I do not need an explanation, the experience of drinking the wine tells me enough. In the same sort of way, I want my work to explain itself. I believe that all good art comes from a place of honesty without pretention or over intellectualizing. That is what I strive to achieve. To me the question is the important part, not the answer.

Opening Reception January 27th from 3-5PM

I am often asked, “Why do you paint on glass? Isn’t it too fragile?” I use a piece of glass as a palette, and after years of scraping off the dried paint to clean it, it dawned on me that paint sticks to glass well. Glass is inexpensive, available, and durable. I like to be able to paint on both sides, and I can get an illusion of space within the thickness of the glass and the reverse painting. If I don’t like the painting, I can scrape off the paint and either recycle or reuse the glass. Although I have only broken one or two of these paintings in the past 20 years, the fragility of the glass has meaning for me.