‘Small Faces’ opens Saturday at Hunter gallery
The Catskill Mountain Foundation will bring its 20th anniversary celebrations to a close with an exhibition titled “Small Faces” at the Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery.
The exhibition opens Saturday, Dec. 8, at 5 p.m. with a public reception at the gallery, located in the Hunter Village Square building at 7950 Main St., Hunter.
Director Robert Tomlinson said in a press release that the focus of the exhibit is on portraits, one of the cornerstones of the visual arts world. “During the last 150 years, portrait painters have forgone exact likeness in favor of emotional truth,” he said. “Photography fostered a freedom to paint with individual distinction, using unusual colors, wild brushstrokes, deeply personal settings and a wide variety of materials. Painters have often set self-imposed restrictions that have frequently resulted in new, expansive ways of seeing.”
Tomlinson added that the artists participating in “Small Faces” celebrate this notion by working on a re-
duced scale, creating intimate but emotionally powerful work with distinctly different methods, mediums and outcomes.
The exhibition will feature the work of portrait painters Julie Chase of Catskill, Catherine Haley-Epstein of Camas, Wash., and Robert Schlege of Portland, Ore.
“Small Faces” runs through Sunday, Dec. 6. Gallery hours are Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Call (518) 263-2060 or visit catskillmtn.org for more information.