Creative Edge
A group exhibit of 20 gallery artists
March 19 – May 1, 2022
Exhibit Opens – Saturday, March 19, 11am
Artist Reception 5-7pm
Susan Osgood, Red Sea 11, diptych with border, monotype print, 2018
Mitchell Giddings • Fine Arts is pleased to offer Creative Edge,
celebrating a curated group of 20 gallery artists in a variety of media.
We invite you to delight your senses and get acquainted with this selection of artists and their work.
Featuring work by:
Josh Bernbaum, Eric Boyer, Matt Brown, Lyell Castonguay, Liz Chalfin,
Willa Cox, Eric Cruze & Tomo Sakai, Jon Gregg, Tiffany Heerema, Gay Malin,
Emily Mason, Susan Osgood, Gene Parulis, Lauren Pollaro, Erika Radich,
Joseph Salerno, Deidre Scherer, Cameron Schmitz, Tim Segar, and Jen Violette
Josh Bernbaum
Kente/watercolor #1, 2022
blown and etched glass
10.25h x 5.5w x 2.5d inches
$1100
“I consider the pieces I make to be documents along the way of a life-long journey of refining the necessary skills and developing the patience one needs in order to create with this captivating and mesmerizing, but highly challenging molten material.”
Eric Boyer
Red Flower, 2016
red powder coated steel wire mesh on cherry plywood base
34h x 20 inches on a 10 inche base
sold
“My work in wire mesh is a result of over twenty years of fascination with a material I discovered quite by accident, searching for a medium that I could best express myself with.”
Matt Brown
Smarts from Lyme Hill, 2009
woodblock print on archival paper, ed. 90/200
9h x 6.5 inches
$225
“My printing approach follows the traditional moku hanga method of woodblock printing developed in Japan during the 18th century. Water, rice paste, and lightfast pigments are my printing materials. “
Lyell Castonguay
Low Rider, 2022
woodblock print, edition of 16
11.5h x 16 inches
$450
“Leafs, sticks, and camouflaged insects surround a snail cruising along on the forest floor. Snails have beautiful swirled shells. I wanted to highlight the elegance of this form by carving it in detail. I also enlarged the snail shell to a comical degree. Size matters in the animal world. No one will mess with this plucky mollusk!”
Lyell Castonguay’s Artist page
Liz Chalfin
Untitled (group of six), 2021
paper cut
17.25h x 14.75 inches
$500
“At the onset of the pandemic in 2020 I took an online workshop in paper cutting with Beatriz Caron. I spent the next few months with blade in hand, exploring this new craft.”
Willa Cox
Abstract Narrative Twenty, 2021
marbling, monotype, and acrylic gouache (book)
4½ x 54 inches when opened flat
$1200
“My work is also informed by my love of Asian ink painting, Middle-Eastern manuscript painting, European landscape painting, and Abstract Expressionism.”
Eric Cruze and Tomo Sakai
Hira black & white, 2017
handpulled glass cane, kilnformed and coldworked triptych
15.5h x 8 x 1 inches
$7500
“In our work, we are passionate about exploring the beauty of glass through experimentation and technique. “
Eric Cruze and Tomo Sakai’s Artist page
Jon Gregg
Bird Watch, 2015
oil on canvas
20h x 26 inches
$1600
“Through the build up of random marks over time, and a process similar to an image emerging in a darkroom developing tray, or to seeing images in the clouds, images emerge out of the paint … and manifest themselves on the canvas through the paint.”
Tiffany Heerema
Flying Teacup Garden Tours, 2022
collage on wood panel
18h x 24 inches
$1500
“The coolest part of being a collage artist is the thrill of discovery, finding materials at a thrift shop or by the side of the road, and witnessing the chance encounters of random images as they come together.”
Gay Malin
Falling, 2018
copper on wood
34h x 16 inches
$2250
“I believe that art is about challenging ideas and exploring our existence.”
Emily Mason
Fable, 1991
silk collagraph monoprint, chine collé on paper
16h x 20 inches
$4000
“Intuitively influenced by nature, I want to use the medium as directly as possible. Using paint and it’s inherent qualities … enables me to get my mind out of the way..”
Susan Osgood
Red Sea 13, 2018
monotype diptych with border and chine collé
22.5h x 30 inches
$2000
“For me painting and drawing are forms of travel, giving the sense of being in unfamiliar territory and the thrill of discovery.“
Gene Parulis
Mandala Evolution, 2022
framed matted archival inkjet prints
17h x 37 inches
sold
“In the quadtych, I depict the transformation of a centuries-old willow into the magic circle (the literal meaning of the Sanskrit word “mandala”) the place of unification, harmony and integration.”
Lauren Pollaro
Bridge, 2020
mixed media assemblage
16h x 16 inches
$725
“I am never bored, often inspired and find there simply aren’t enough hours in the day!”
Erika Radich
Above Blue, 2022
monotype collage
5h x 5 inches
sold
“These prints offer symbols of “shelter” to depict the recent past and the unfulfilled future. The loneliness and isolation moves to a connected and enlivening “now,” a shelter from the storm.”
Joseph Salerno
Ridgeline 8.8.17, 2017
oil on panel
6h x 9 inches
$750
“[Joseph Salerno’s] works capture not nature per se but a kind of abstraction of presence.”
Deidre Scherer
Garlic and Onion, 2021
thread on layered fabric
10h x 9.25 inches
sold
“I have nurtured the onion and garlic in our small vegetable garden. The process of studying and responding to their shapes and the air between them is meditative—especially when cutting directly into the color fields of fabric that I use.”
Cameron Schmitz
Blossomed Delight 1, 2021
oil on canvas
40h x 38 inches
$3800
“I use mark-making to express the constantly moving, changing, and morphing of life, leaving observers certain that they are witnessing merely a fleeting moment in time.”
Tim Segar
Leg Up, 1990
cast bronze
23h x 11 x 9 inches
$3500
“My work has focus on investing abstract forms with animation, posture, gesture, balance and social interaction with other surrounding forms.”
Jen Violette
Five Bottles Still-Life, 2020
blown glass (sandblasted), stainless steel and mahogany
12h x 22w x 4.5d inches
$3500
“I have always been fascinated by plant structures and enjoy studying and examining nature’s unique colors and forms. I am passionate about using molten glass to recreate these subtle details.“
MGFA offers an extensive collection of contemporary art in a variety of media by emerging and established artists. Visit our spacious sunlit gallery on Main Street Brattleboro or view and shop online.