Date: August 30-October 5
Gallery Discussion with Dan Mack: September 13, 3pm
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Hours: Monday, Friday, Saturday 10am-6pm; Sunday 10am-5pm
Information: 518 263 2060

The newest exhibition at the Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery is an eclectic mix of sculptural forms in all media. The show features new work by the region's top emerging and established artists, including Nancy Azara, Brinton Baker, Barneche Designs, Dan Mack, Jesse Reimer, Diane Savona and Kaete Brittin Shaw.

Dan Mack is best known for his rustic furniture and for the many books he has written or edited on the subject of rustic building. Lately, his own work has turned more to the sculptural and, one might say, the ephemeral. Using found materials he has carved a series of human-like figures, called "anima". They are primal, amoral, dreadful and magical.

Kaete Brittin Shaw and Brinton Baker both work in clay, with similar aesthetic approaches to the form. Baker, owner of the Stone Window Gallery in Accord, makes teapots and platters that seem animated--ready to dance the instant one turns one's head. Shaw creates larger-than-life ceramic and wooden sculptures, often site-specific, that seem to blend seamlessly into the natural environment that surrounds them. In her "Domestic Archaeology" series, Diane Savona combines salvaged needlework with instructional text, deconstructed images and ceramic impressions to create work that is both quilted art and textile archaeology. Her art seems of the past yet instantly contemporary. Stephanie Barnes, textile artist and clothing designer, and David Seche, electrician and furniture maker, pool their talents as Barneche Designs to create sculpture that combines fiber, wood and electricity! Nancy Azara is a sculptor whose work is carved, assembled and painted wood with gold and silver leaf and encaustic. The wood, the paint and the layers that make up the sculpture record a journey of memory, images and ideas. Known locally as the genius behing the annual Woodstock Santa Claus extravaganza, Jesse Reimer also constructs fanciful mobile sculptures using old tools and found metal. These creatures from another dimension flap their wings, take flight and circle around one another in a crazy race to nowhere.