Artist, poet to present Stone Gallery exhibition

CHESTER >> Artist and poet Gray Jacobik is combining paintings and her literary work for the first time in a solo exhibit during August in the Stone Gallery at Maple and Main.

A wine and appetizer opening is Friday, Aug. 5, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

“Lines Spoken: In Paint, in Wax, in Words” will feature broadsides of poems paired with paintings so that these two major modes of expression can talk across lines. The formal written lines of verse, where meaning is in the foreground and the visual or graphic element recedes, will be displayed in conjunction with paintings where the visual message dominates and meaning is no less significant, just less determined.

Gray’s paintings in oil, acrylic and encaustic will be on display along with images of corresponding text from her published books including her latest collection of poetry, The Banquet which is being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Gray, who lives and works in Deep River, will give a reading of selected work reading from The Banquet Thursday, Aug. 25 from 7 to 8 p.m. at Maple and Main.

Maple and Main, at One Maple Street, is open Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 6p.m.; Friday and Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.