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"Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen,
and thinking what no one else has thought."
~ Albert Einstein
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At the beginning of each New Year, we often think we are heading into the "quiet season" at Edgewater. However, once again, the start of the year has been anything but quiet. One of the most exciting aspects of this time of the year for us is the opportunity to select new artists for the gallery. Works from some of these artists have started to make their way to Middlebury, and we think they are quite stellar. Please read on to learn more about the painters and sculptors that are now on display in our two locations.
This Thursday, February 9, Porter Medical Center Auxillary will be hosting their annual fundraising event at Edgewater at the Falls. The gallery has donated a Rory Jackson painting, which will be raffled off. Tickets for the raffle (just $10/each) and the event are available by visiting
the Auxillary's web page.
February 15 - 26, the event space at Edgewater at the Falls will be host to a
Student Art Show & Competition featuring the works of students from Orwell, Ripton, Salisbury, and Weybridge. The community is invited to join us for a special reception on Saturday, February 18, from 4-6pm.
We are also busy planning for participation in the spring edition of the
Affordable Art Fair in NYC, which will take place
March 30 - April 2. Stay tuned for details and an opportunity for free passes to the fair.
In April, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of confederation for our
Northern Neighbors with an exhibit across both galleries with the works of five Canadian artists. This group show will feature the works of Scott Addis, Donna Andreychuk, Sherry Czekus, Holly Friesen, and Susanne Strater.
By popular demand, this June we will be hosting another 3-day
Painting Workshop with TJ Cunningham
. Read below for more details. Last year's workshop filled up quickly and this year will be limited to just 12 participants in order to afford even more individualized instruction. Act fast to reserve your space for this special opportunity to hone your own painting skills.
If you are a fan of Instagram make sure to follow both the @edgewatergalleryvt feed and the photos from @edgewater_at_home, where we regularly post images of new artwork and home shop items.
Stay warm and we hope to see you soon!
above: detail from William B. Hoyt "Snowy Breakfast"
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J A Y L A G E M A N N
a t E D G E W A T E R o n t h e G R E E N
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Jay Lagemann has been making sculpture since 1950.
Lagemann is recognized for the animated, playful characters he creates from metal. From small table-top pieces to larger than life outdoor pieces, the whimsy and personality of his works instantly call to you and it is hard not to associate his characters with someone in your own life.
I make sculpture that people want to be around, pieces they want to live with and enjoy over time. I start with a thought or emotion and then try to actualize the idea. The more complicated the process, the more stimulation I get from figuring out how to make the piece work the way in which I envisioned it.
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J A N E D A V I E S
a t E D G E W A T E R a t t h e F A L L S
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Jane Davies is a full time artist, working in collage, painting, and encaustic. Beginning as a potter in the early nineties, selling her colorful hand-painted ceramics at craft shows, Davies gradually transitioned into freelance art, designing tableware, fabric, paper goods, and stationery, using painting and collage as her medium. Formal elements are the first and foremost source of inspiration in Jane's creative process. Color, shape, line, texture, are the things that excite her visual sensibility.
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n my own art practice, focus on process is an essential component of developing work that feels authentic and personal. My process involves a back-and-forth play between spontaneous, intuitive mark-making, and careful deliberation and intention: I think of it as letting things happen, and making things happen. I make a move, and then the painting reveals something new to respond to.
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J O N A T H A N D. E B I N G E R
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A skilled sculptural artist, Jonathan D. Ebinger
graduated from the Art Institute of Boston with a degree in fine art.
After college, he returned home to New Jersey where he took a job as a union construction worker and took advantage of free welding classes. Shortly after, he combined his new skill with his training as an artist, and began welding sculptures out of nuts, washers and other metal materials. He is able to transform these common items from simple, hard pieces of metal into graceful and intricately textured works of art, primarily of animals.
To me they are not just construction materials, but rather pieces of a puzzle that I am able to fit together to create whatever kind of sculpture I can imagine. They are metal shapes; hexagons and perfect circles of all different sizes. When I bring together all of these geometric shapes, they have an intriguing and inviting look and feel.
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W I L L I A M B. H O Y T
a t E D G E W A T E R o n t h e G R E E N
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Edgewater welcomes realist painter William B. Hoyt. Born in Connecticut and raised in Newport, RI, he moved to Vermont in the 1970s. His work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums throughout the northeast and has been collected internationally. In 2015 he was awarded the
Alden Bryan Memorial Award. Equally enamored by the sea and the rural landscapes of New England, his work precisely details the scenes and places that move him to paint.
There is a challenge and a joy in seeing something ineffably beautiful or moving and resolving to make a painting of it. The threads of the canvas, the sea, Vermont, family, friends, and Maine have woven themselves inextricably into my psyche and my work. Sometimes I go looking, early in the morning or toward the end of the day, after the harsh light softens. Other times a subject recommends itself unsolicited with the realization that a painting is staring me in the face. No matter the motivation or the circumstance, to me painting is a kind of meditation that helps me focus on the simple joy of rendering well a chosen subject.
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T J C U N N I G H A M
P A I N T I N G W O R K S H O P
a t E D G E W A T E R o n t h e G R E E N
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Join Edgewater Gallery artist
TJ Cunningham
for an extensive, three-day painting workshop from
Friday, June 23rd - Sunday, June 25th
. TJ Cunningham will begin each day with a lecture on the basic elements of landscape followed by a demonstration at our Mill Street location. This will give attendees insight into his process of simplifying the landscape in an expressive way. Paint quality, pattern, and abstraction will all be discussed as valuable tools when used in landscape painting. Following the demonstration, students will be free to choose a scene that interests them and spend the rest of the day painting while receiving one-on-one instruction from TJ. The setting of the
workshop
will be the beautiful farmland surrounding the village of Middlebury, Vermont. The fee for the workshop is $395/person and includes catered lunch on the last day. Space is limited to 12 people and there is a $100 non-refundable deposit.
For more information or to register, email Rachel at rachel@edgewatergallery-vt.com or call the gallery at 802.989.7419.
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edgewater gallery | now at two locations:
6 merchants row, on the green and 1 mill street, at the falls
middlebury, vt | 802.989.7419 and 802.458.0098
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