Join us Sunday, April 28, from 4-6 PM, to celebrate the opening of Restless Forms, artwork by Lynn Palumbo. Using a limited palette, these multi-media artworks, including several inspired by poems, employ a visual vocabulary of recurring shapes, patterns and textures abstracted from daily observation.
The opening will include a silent auction, a raffle including one of the artist’s works, and a poetry reading featuring Tina Barry, Darcy Smith, Matthew Spireng, Sharon Israel & Bobbi Esmark.
Light refreshments. RSVP requested.
Handmade accordion book with calligraphy and painting after a passage by Margaret Atwood.
The exhibition includes three works inspired by poetry. Palumbo says “I am not a poet but have often turned to poetry as a source of connection and sustenance. I think of both painting and poetry as art forms of synthesis, extracting fragments of everyday life and re-ordering them.”
Facts of Life, by Lynn Palumbo
Facts of Life (above) was inspired by a poem by Eamon Grennan. In the opening line, the narrator states a desire to simply observe, dispassionately. Then follows a list, rather like thumbnail sketches done quickly in a sketchbook. Using cyanotypes and acrylics, Ms. Palumbo captures the immersive quality of such an ordinary/extraordinary moment, accompanied by her hand-lettered version of the poem:
Poem by Eamon Grennon, hand-lettered by Lynn Palumbo
Lynn Palumbo
Lynn Palumbo is a mixed media artist who lives and works in the Hudson Valley. Her artwork has been included in exhibits at Spencertown Academy Art Center, Dutchess Community College, Athens Cultural Center, Lockwood Gallery, Atwater Gallery, SUNY Albany Art Museum, the Hyde Collection, Roxbury Art Center, SUNY Geneseo Lederer Gallery, Starr Library and Red Eft Gallery. She taught college art classes for three decades at Dutchess Community College, Manhattanville College and East Stroudsburg University and currently teaches a drawing class at the Woodstock School of Art.
She earned a BFA in painting/printmaking from Ohio State University and an MFA in painting from SUNY New Paltz. She has done commissioned calligraphy work for a wide range of clients including Vassar College, The Culinary Institute of America, Marist College, The Hastings Center, The Roosevelt Institute and Dutchess Community College.
Complete CV and related artist information at;
www.lynnpalumbo.com
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