From the 2009 Open
Studios Tour:
What a wonderful, profoundly emotional experience it was to travel
throughout the county and visit the studios on Saturday and Sunday.
The event is simply perfect: well-organized, fascinating,
instructional and a gem for the area. I also learned that artists
are some of the nicest people on the face of the planet.
Joe Donahue, co-host
of The Round Table
WAMC,
Northeast Public Radio
www.wamc.org
Check out the articles and radio interviews from the 2009 Open
Studios:
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Serena Kovalosky
Organic Sculptor
Founder & Executive Director,
Open Studios
Photo Credit:
Rob Barendse
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Leslie Parke
Painter
Publicity Director,
Open Studios
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Leslie Anne Peck
Painter
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Organic Evolutions
by Doug Gruse, Post Star
Article Photos: Erin Reid Coker, Post Star
Strips of crackled bark, seed pods, dried pomegranates, and
abandoned bird nests inspire Serena Kovalosky. The artist uses bits
from nature to guide her as she turns dried gourds into intricate,
modern works of sculpture. Cubbyhole shelves in her studio...hold
natural treasures - from pine cones to a fragment of bone - she has
collected during hikes through the woods. Kovalosky describes the
studio as more of a warehouse - a place to hold her stash of gourds,
tools and organic curios.....
(Click to read more)
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Living in France
by Meg Hagerty, Post Star
Leslie Parke can fly to France, sans jet lag, every time she steps
into her pied-a-terre in Shushan.....The artist has replicated works
by French artists to live out her childhood fantasy of living inside
a painting. Parke describes her cohesive wall murals as an artist
interpreting another artist and by covering her walls in the style
of another painter's composition, she can live in his world......
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Painter Inspired by Country Farms
by Doug Gruse, Post Star
Artist Leslie Peck is driven by animal instincts. It started more
than 20 years ago when Peck started painting lusty, bodice-ripping
illustrations for romance book covers. These days, her subjects are
more domesticated. After moving from New York City to Greenwich,
Peck segued from Fabio to farm animals.....
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Beyond the Boundaries
by John Ross, Sporting Classics
Imagine for a moment that you and I are with artist Adriano
Manocchia, relaxing on Adirondack chairs under the eave of the
porch at his house in Cambridge, NY.....We've just come out from his
studio. Inside, he just added a layer of color to a painting of his
favorite reach of the Firehole, which is upstream from Yellowstone's
Middle Geyser basin. Set in September, looking downstream, one sees
the mud pots and fumaroles that scent the air with brimstone. To the
right, a train of bison ambles down from the height at Muleshoe
Bend.....
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to read more)
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