Arts & Leisure
BlueStocking Studio's final miniature show opens Friday
YORK BEACH - Come to the 16th and Final Miniature Show at BlueStocking Studio this weekend and enjoy an event that has been expanded to include eight days in a local landmark that will close at the end of the current season.
The Miniature Show is an exhibition of small paintings, graphics, sculptures and photographs will be on display May 18 through 20 and again the following weekend, from May 25 through 29.
The Miniature Show has been the traditional art season opener at the studio since 1993. Over 75 artists have shown works that measured 80 square inches in any shape. These small works of art are as lively and engaging as pieces 10 times their size, according to Nancy Davison of BlueStocking Studio.
As James McNeill Whistler said, "A perfect thing is a perfect thing, whether large or small."
This will be the last Miniature Show at BlueStocking Studio, Davison noted in her announcement of the upcoming event. After 23 years in York Beach, the gallery will close at the end of the 2007 season.
"Join us for the Final Miniature Show and one last exciting summer of art at BlueStocking Studio!" she said.
This year the exhibition includes painters Edward Betts, Linda Franklin, Panos Ghikas, Gloria Gustafson, Patience Haley, Helen Rose Hennessy, Brigitte Keller, Norma Machado, Peter Moak, Polly Moak, Evelyne Harper Neill, Suzanne M. Payne, Rose S. Theriault, Norman West, Elizabeth Whiteley, Russel Whitten and Helen Winebaum, printmakers Nancy R. Davison, Gayle Fitzpatrick, Carol T. Lummus, William Mitchell and Deidre O'Flaherty, sculptors Jeffrey Briggs, Lindley Briggs, Rosalind Fedeli and Sumner Winebaum, and photographer Stuart Nudelman.
Some are Miniature Show veterans. Some are new. All will show fresh, exciting work to start off the season.
The gallery will be open this Saturday, May 19, noon to 8 p.m. with a "Meet the Artists" event and festive reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
BlueStocking Studio is located at 5 Railroad Avenue in York Beach. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, call 363-7336.
