Pati Braun and Carolyn Ann Steward: Opening Reception

Our friend Jack Rowell stopped by Korongo Friday evening and got these shots of the party for Pati and Carolyn. We met lots of new folks, including some from Gifford Hospital and Vermont Castings, a couple who had driven up from Bennington, and some very cute kids who came with their dad from Randolph Center. The show will be at Korongo till mid-April.

A young art appreciator . . . 

 Carolyn's work . . . 

Chips and salsa . . . 

Pati and Patrick . . . 

Patrick and Carolyn . . . 

Pati and friend . . . 

Welcome to Korongo . . . 

Making a sale . . . 

A striking redhead . . . 

Sara with Kevin Harty, of the White River Craft Center.

Pati's laptop slide show . . . 

More cute kids . . . 

Eyeing the snacks.

Pati Braun and Carolyn Ann Steward

Moonlit Birches, by Pati Braun, pen and ink, 14 by 20 inches framed

Spring comes to our corner of Merchants Row with an exhibition by Randolph artists Pati Braun and Carolyn Ann Steward—opening today (Friday, March 16) at 5 o'clock. Come on by, say hello to Pati and Carolyn, and put a red sticker on the wall. Then cross the street to Black Krim and have Sarah pour you an IPA while Emilie makes you some fish cakes or beef dumplings. Next, head down Main Street toward Chandler, where our friend Nancy MacDowell is singing with the Ground Hog Opry. Ten bucks gets you in; show begins at 7:30. (We'll be heading over to Chandler after the gallery closes, then to Black Krim for a late supper.) The reception for Pati and Carolyn is from 5 to 7 p.m. Their work is on view through April 22. Pati's exquisite greeting cards and Carolyn's lovely children's book are available here at the gallery; so is Nancy's new CD.

View of Floating Bridge, by Carolyn Steward, oil on canvas, 20 by 24 inches

Opening February 10: Seth Tracy, Matt Riley, and Travis Dunning

Graffiti, comics, and skateboard culture are among the influences cited by a trio of young artists whose show opens this Friday at the Korongo Gallery in Randolph. The exhibit includes some 40 works in various media and will be on display until March 11. The opening reception is from 5 to 7.

Untitled, by Seth Tracy

Seth Tracy says he doesn’t do art; art does him. “For as long as I can remember, I have been surrounded by art. Nowadays, I am bound by the skateboarder and graffiti cultures,” influences that show in various ways, including the usage of graffiti tools and old skateboards. Seth’s artwork is usually abstract. “Ink is my favorite medium because it drips.”

Untitled, by Matt Riley

“I see things in places where others see nothing,” Matt Riley says: “Dogs in scraped-up paint on old concrete walls, characters in the cracks of the road, and faces everywhere, eyes, noses, jawlines, and teeth.” Matt enjoys things that are where they should not be but that fit in anyway. That’s what he tries to create: “Nonsense with a sci-fi feel. Gizmos and gadgets of a mind-wanderer.” 

Untitled, by Travis Dunning

“I have many sources of inspiration,” says Travis Dunning, “from scary movies, from comics, also from stress and the environment. Most of the time, I just pick up a pen or a brush and start with what comes to my mind.” Travis’s emphasis on black outlines is inspired by comic books. He says that he has been drawing for as long as he can remember, and has taken it seriously for the past five years. 

Photography Workshop with Naturalist Bryan Pfeiffer

Leaping Gray Jay

Naturalist Bryan Pfeiffer has accumulated a dazzling array of images during three decades of a life outside. His upcoming exhibit at Korongo (October 14–November 23) will feature a three-part workshop aimed at helping nature lovers capture better results with their digital cameras:
Tuesday, October 18
, 5–8 pm: Photography Fundamentals. Learn the universal rules of photography: shutter speed, lens opening, metering, focusing and flash. With these fundamentals you will begin to understand how your digital camera thinks. This session is a tune-up for greater things to come.
Tuesday, October 25
, 5–8 pm: Know Your Camera. 
You can’t take great photos unless you and your camera communicate beyond AUTO mode. You’ll learn to set your camera for the photo you want. And you’ll recognize when your camera is plotting against you, to misbehave and sabotage your work. Think of this workshop as camera couples counseling.
Tuesday, November 1

, 5–8 pm: Get Your Best Shot. You and your camera can have a great relationship, but only if you two cooperate. We’ll use our cameras in exercises designed to help you capture great images indoors and outside: people, pets, wildlife, flowers, landscapes, tricky lighting, macro photography, composition and your own photographic “issues” or creative aspirations.
To register: Send Bryan an email at bryan@wingsphotography.com or call the gallery (802-728-6788). Cost is $40 per session. Hurry, space is limited. For more about Bryan, check out his blog The Daily Wing.

"Listening/Vermont" Is 7 Days' Pick of the Week

Bunny Harvey's "Listening/Vermont" is the No. 1 item on 7 Days' "Magnificent Seven" list of must-see, must-do events this week. For Kevin Kelly's review ("Why shouldn't paintings be able to depict sounds?") click here. And for Dian Parker's write-up of Bunny's show for the Randolph Herald and Artzine, click here. Listening/Vermont will continue through Wednesday, October 12.

Listening/Vermont: Paintings by Bunny Harvey, opening September 2

Frank Gave Me a Blue Mountain, 2000, oil on canvas, 44" x 44"

Join us on Friday, September 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. for the opening of Listening/Vermont, a selection of large- and small-scale paintings by artist Bunny Harvey. A Prix de Rome winner and a professor at Wellesley College, Bunny paints in her Vermont studio, where, she says, “everything around me animates my awareness; shifting winds, the songs of insects and birds, the scent of hay and manure, even the interruption of a distant chainsaw, all find their way onto the canvas. Watching and waiting for dragonflies helped me focus on sounds of the pond as they merged with my awareness of the huge variety of shapes and lights at water’s edge. The feel of my feet in the water, the aromas of changing layers of air, the sounds of the grasses—all these textures make the wait into a reverie.” Listening/Vermont will be on view through October 12. To see more of Bunny's work online, go to her website (click here).

Opening Friday, July 22: Watercolors by Sally Penrod

Join us on Friday, July 22, from 5 to 7 pm for the opening reception of an exhibit of watercolors by Vermont artist Sally Penrod. Catered by the Black Krim Tavern. Air-conditioned. 18 Merchants Row in Randolph.