About the Arts
Happenings at eight York Galleries
By Rose Safran
YORK - Galleries around town have much to offer during these late summer days.At Rosalind Fedeli's Mill Dam Studio, visitors find constructions and mixed-media paintings and objects.
The artist has an inventive mind, takes mundane items such as ladders, straw, tools and invests them with original purpose.
Just a few steps away is the Old York Historical Society George Marshall Store Gallery were a mix of art by New England artists and new paintings by
University of New Hampshire Art Professor Grant Drumheller are on view. (See the July 26 edition of The Independent's for details.)
In York Village, at the Village Gallery, artist Gloria Gustafson shows her lovely watercolors, oils and prints - many of local images - along with the work of other Seacoast-based artists.
Just down the block is the garden setting for Jo Ann Campbell's Powder House Gallery, where floral still-lifes literally fill up the walls. Additionally, other objets d'art are for sale here.
Also in the town center, at the Village Marketplace are paintings and photographs, some vintage, for sale.
Take a ride to York Beach. On the way, one passes Helen Hennessey's Sea Rose Gallery, which specializes in original watercolors of area scenes - York streets, vistas, buildings - all cheerfully rendered by Hennessey, who is the current president of the York Art Association.
In the heart of the bustling beach, amid all the shops and eateries, is the Blue Stocking Studio, owned and operated by artist Nancy Davison, a skilled printmaker who studied under Leonard Baskin and who re-creates York Beach and other York area streets, monuments, and activity as well as offers books, creative artifacts and work by other area artists for sale.
And in York Harbor, on Route 1-A at the York Art Association, the annual summer show has just opened, featuring the works of several of the above-mentioned artists as well as of other member artists who work in various media with subjects ranging from abstract to portraiture, including interpretations of York-specific places and architecture.
