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Archipelago Fine Arts Gallery, 386 Main Street in Rockland, will open its spring show, Islands: Everyday Details, with a reception for featured artists Susan A. Cooney and Stephanie Bartron-Miscione from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 14th. The show will run until June 21st.
Susan's Maine island drawings, painstakingly crafted using graphite pencils, capture the view from the deck of Kainui, her 25-foot wooden sailboat and year-round home in midcoast Maine. Not surprisingly, her many years of working and living on the sea have had a strong influence on the direction of her art. "By living on a small sailboat, water and coastline become daily companions," she says. "This continuously changing view draws me to the medium of pencil and paper; I concentrate on breaking down the features into shade and line in order to define artistically why it is so captivating."
Stephanie lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Sunset, Maine, and uses a combination of gouache, pastels and dry-brush watercolor techniques to define the layers of color, texture and detail that comprise her subject matter. She explains that her intent is "for the objects in my paintings - shells, rocks, flowers, foods, marine creatures, buoys and tools of past generations who fished the sea - to be hyper-realized and glowing against the contrasting colors, textures and media used around them."
Islands: Everyday Details showcases the fascination that Susan and Stephanie have with the layers of complexity found in simple landscapes and still-life subjects, detailed so beautifully through the media unique to each artist. Please join us on March 14th or visit the gallery during regular business hours. For more information on gallery hours, Archipelago's unique collection of art, craft, design and publications, and to view an image gallery of Susan and Stephanie's work, click on the links below.