Four Walls and a Pedestal, is an exhibition of the work of five local artists who are members of the ever growing YoHo Artist Community located in the former Alexander-Smith Carpet Mills Building. The exhibition will feature the works of David Fischweicher, Alexa Grace, Mary Ann Hardiman, Catherine Latson and Librado Romero, and will run from Thursday May 29th to Sunday, June 29th, 2014
There will be an artist's reception on Thursday, May 29th from 5 to 7pm.
DAVID FISCHWEICHER is a sculptor who works in steel, driftwood and shards of glass and often includes found metal objects in his abstract compositions. Using the same approach and materials he also creates variations of fanciful horses, prancing, galloping and grazing.
ALEXA GRACE works as a painter, illustrator and sculptor creating assemblage, jewelry and ornament. She has published four books and her drawings have appeared in a multitude of publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Time, Newsweek and Life Magazine as well as The Village Voice and others.
MARY ANN HARDIMAN works as a photographer, exhibiting in New York, favors utilizing a Hypotactic app on her IPhone, resulting in hypnotic and dream-like images from all the many years of traveling and exploring the unusual. She retired after forty years as a photo editor for The New York Times, responsible for the images appearing in the Culture Section for the past ten years.
CATHERINE LATSON is an assemblage and installation artist. Her work is based on materials from the natural world, creating delicate objects that are sometimes practical and sometimes fantastic, such as leaf and branch parasols or children's dresses made out of moss.
LIBRADO ROMERO, while working for over fifty years as a newspaper photographer, has always maintained a studio for painting, in which he is now involved full-time since retiring from his photography career. He will be exhibiting colorful and whimsical studies of cacti produced with acrylic and oil stick on paper. He has exhibited in Europe and various cities across the United States.
