People, Places, and Patterns
Irene Fairley
In this exhibit, Fairley is featuring her printmaking.
Some of the monotypes and solar etchings are based on freehand drawings from life, while others derive from landscapes she observed or photographed on her many walks around New England or her travels abroad.
The works on display show her focus on both natural and urban landscape, as well as her continued interest in the human figure.
Fences and Other Landscapes
Patrick Ford
The landscape of the Antrim Coast and Glens in Northern Ireland is at times so wild and forbidding as to seem devoid of human life.
But there are signs that its human inhabitants are close at hand.
There are fences that keep people and their animals in (or out); gates through which they may pass; telephone poles and wires through which they maintain their contacts with others; roads and paths that enable their passages.
These paintings develop that theme: essentially, the landscape, rugged and compelling as it is, but bearing the unmistakable signs of human habitation.