Korongo: April 2012

Friday, April 27, 2012

Artist's Reception at Korongo Today

Tree Line, acrylic on canvas, 24x32

Hardwick artist Marie LaPré Grabon has been painting the Vermont landscape for over 30 years. She writes: “As we humans push the land to the brink of disaster, I have begun to think of my paintings as small prayers, small pleas to the world to remember, to love.” "Love Songs," an exhibit of her work, runs through June 3. Join us today for the opening reception from 5 to 7 pm. Hors d'oeuvres by Black Krim Tavern, our neighbors on Merchants Row.

The Randolph Herald on Korongo

From Herald writer Dian Parker: "Living in the East Village in Manhattan in the late '60s and all through the '70s, I’d often hang out with artists at a street café and we’d talk about our work incessantly. Bongo drummers lined Second Avenue and the small alcove of my eighth-floor walk up was often a place for bums to sleep. Artists opened their apartments as tiny makeshift art galleries. On one wall hung a tie-dyed sheet and on the floor a double mattress. Not much else except art. And more art. It was everywhere, some of it not very good, but it was an outpouring nonetheless; a place to be seen. We never thought the East Village would become what it is now, one of the hip places to live in Manhattan, still filled with art, only much more expensive.

"Along comes the Korongo Gallery to Randolph, and we have promise again of a beginning that could very well burgeon into something hip and wonderful, a place for artists and writers to display and read their work, congregate and hang out. At the opening on March 17 there was a feeling of excitement and expectation that we might just be on the verge of a new happening, right here in downtown Randolph. The gallery was packed. Patrick Texier, the owner, schmoozed with the folks and Laurie Sverdlove Goldman, the painter, and talked about her work which hung on three of the walls. Jack Rowell took photographs and everyone was smiling and milling about. The food was delicious. This was a real opening in a new little gallery that has a big and bright future." To continue reading Dian's article on the Herald website, click here.