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February 20 - March 29, 2010
Collector's Reception - Saturday March 27, 2010, 6-8pm - with Pat Horner and John Eric Byers; live music, light refreshments and super fabulous art
John Eric Byers
With Pat Horner
Newfield, NY
John Eric Byers, who studied with the legendary sculptor and furniture designer Wendell Castle, has been making and exhibiting his one of a kind functional and non-functional work since 1986. To date, he has exhibited his work in 24 solo and 100 group exhibitions. He has been honored by numerous awards and grants, including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and two New York State Foundation of the Arts Awards. His works are in the permanent collection of several museum, including the Museum of Arts and Design and The Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2004, the Fuller Art Museum honored him with a mid-career survey. Since 2008 he has focused all his attention on his incised and carved paintings. His paintings are an exploration in the repetition of surface and color. The art critic John Perreault has written " He is offering a new perspective on the dialogue between the optical and the tactile."
Seven Colors Orange Field, by John Eric Byers, Materials: casein milk paint, varnish, wax, Dimensions: 59" x 49"
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Willow, NY
Pat Horner has exhibited in numerous galleries, museums and publications worldwide. She received a BFA in fine arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and attended graduate school in Fine Arts at the University of Minnesota. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Center of Photography at Woodstock. Horner recently received the Towbin award at the Woodstock Artists Assoc. and Museum and has lived in Woodstock, NY for 15 years.
"Circle Responses", 2003, oil, 10.5x10.5 inches, by Pat Horner
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