Yes indeed, we are BACK in every sense of the word! Yesterday’s BABY, WE’RE BACK hanging day felt...well, both energizing and cathartic. We got to exercise long-dormant creative muscles, to put art right in front of an audience that went right up to examine and experience the work from inches away...for the first time since January 2020. Imagine that! And we are certain the OPENING RECEPTION this Thursday, 7-10 PM, will strike everyone as equally inspiring. If we choose not to show the newly hung Wall in this post, it is only to spur you to join us in 96 hours. The only difference from a “traditional” Opening will be: NO hors d’ouevres. We’re not quite ready for communal food. But everything else will be business and pleasure as we know them best. Nor could we possibly ask for a better trio of artists to kick this off than RUSTY EVELAND, a fast-rising star in our community who deftly hops from medium to medium and notably projects a loop of three short films in our 3D space, and JOSEPH EGGLESTON and MICHAEL JICHA, both discoveries of BRICK BY BRICK, our summer 2019 celebration of Stonehill at 50. They are both phenomenal painters — even if Joseph wields an assortment of brushes and palette knives and Mike happens to paint with digital tools on a canvas that makes a highly art-directed photograph its gessoed base. Bottom line: THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN! It’s time to appreciate the simple things we always took for granted..
