FRAGMENTS
February 8 – March 23, 2025
Saturday, February 8
5-7pm, Opening Reception
MGFA’s first exhibit for 2025 focuses on artists who collage fragments to create new, distinctive objects. Featuring work by Paul Bowen, Karen Kamenetzky, Sharon Myers, Lauren Pollaro, Jessie Pollock, Erika Radich, and Larry Simons.
The artists gather and collage sundry, often unexpected materials to be incorporated into their work to create new and distinctive objects. Paul Bowen pairs and joins humble boxes, sun bleached boards and fabric—some gathered years ago on beaches or forest paths. Karen Kamenetsky adds dye and paint to her fiber wall hangings, and creates dimension and textures through the process of wet felting, while Sharon Myers’s cut geometric pieces of colorful cloth contrast with linear, wavy patterns in her fabric pieces. Maine artist and jeweler Lauren Pollaro fashions together wire, rusted metal and textured, painted paper into formally presented hanging wall sculpture.
Jessie Pollock is “…fascinated with stones and stonewalls”…and “the mysterious energy of stones,” and she places stones into small frames placed within her painted canvases. Erika Radich buries her “soil prints” and drawings underground, celebrating the beauty and random nature of their decay. For decades, Larry Simons has been recycling driftwood, handles, molds, knobs, finials and scraps and embedding them into sculpture and assemblages—guided, he suggests, by “a visual version of perfect pitch.”
PAUL BOWEN
KAREN KAMENETZKY
Karen Kamenetzky
Mycelium: Underground Discourse, 2024
artist dyed silks, artist designed cotton, amate fiber, cheesecloth, paper
machine and hand stitched
25” x 31.5”
$3,800
Karen Kamenetzky
The Possibilities are Endless VII, 2022
silk, wool, cheesecloth, mulberry paper, wire, yarn, embroidery thread, joomchi
33” x 24”
$3,800
Karen Kamenetzky
Recalibrating, 2023
artist dyed silks, artist designed cotton, amate fiber, embroidery thread, paper
machine and hand stitched
34” x 28”
$3,800
SHARON MYERS
LAUREN POLLARO
Lauren Pollaro
On the Vine, In the Deep, (top row)
Open Door, Origami, Kimono, (bottom row), 2025
mixed media assemblage
8” x 8”
$425 each
JESSIE POLLOCK
Jessie Pollock
Take Me to the River, 2022
cold wax, mixed media, found wood
48” x 48”
$12,000
Jessie Pollock
Reverse Corkscrew Tree, 2007
oils, graphite, river stone, photograph on plexiglass
18” x 10”
$1,200
ERIKA RADICH
LARRY SIMONS
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