Painting with Light
Linda Fishman is a Maryland artist and owner of Fishman Stained Glass Studio which has specialized in customized residential glass commissions since 1997. Her work has been seen in many shows in the Mid-Atlantic region and is in numerous private collections. Her training includes a degree in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and studies at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.
Linda considers her stained glass pieces to be paintings in glass. "Working in stained glass is like painting with light. I love the luminous quality of color in glass and the way it changes the atmosphere of a room."
"Currently, I am creating pieces using the techniques of sandblasting and painting on glass in an exploration of relationships in form, pattern, color, and texture. I am intrigued by the juxtaposition of the flat color of the glass, the three dimensionality of the shapes that are cut from it, and the textures and patterns that play on the surface of each piece."
Some of her work is inspired by the natural world and some by the shapes and colors of objects she sees around her every day. Recently, she has been drawn to the genre of the still life, a classic form of artistic expression, permitting a broad range of influences and interpretations. "As I was working on these pieces, I realized that although the form is centuries old, the choices of objects that I make today are a result of my experiences as a person and my creative vision as an artist. These glass designs include dishes from my grandmothers, souvenirs picked up in travel, everyday objects from around my house, and statues and patterns that stem from my love for the art of India and Tibet."
"They are almost like self portraits to me," she says. "The objects I have chosen to represent what I love, where I've been, and who I am."
Gallery 2 - Gene Kroneberg Digital Art
Gene Kronberg began creating his digital compositions two years ago when his home office ate his painting studio. He turned to the computer as a means of making rapid color and compositional decisions within a short period of time. Gene's source photographs were taken in Double Trouble Park. He used Photoshop to select photographic elements and distort them to hide their original nature: a barn door would be selected; its hardware edited out, several layers of the image superimposed and modified to create a new image with a greater range of color. This would be placed on a background similarly created: a side of a building so distorted only textured color remained; then, smaller elements were placed on these to create a composition.
At first the compositions were simple - something pleasing to look at: flowers on the wall. As more pictures were created Kronberg began creating new figures by taking small patterns created in the distortion process and reassembling them into a new, larger pattern. These were then juxtaposed in a composition to create meaning.
As the distortions piled up, the original photographs were ignored, a library of shapes accumulated, and these became the actors within a composition; each library of shapes became a family of related distortions derived from an original distortion. Over time Gene investigated the interaction of these actors to create a visual "music": the viewer's eye would be led through a composition to interact with color and imagery relationships.
Just before his last pieces were created, Kronberg had a conversation with Richard Kushinsky wherein he mentioned a musical term-the "diminished fifth"-and its emotional power. This resulted in a continuing investigation into the concept and a revisiting of Goethe's color theory. Also, it meant investigating the concept of color chords: the interaction of a major chord with a minor.
Upstairs Gallery
Children and Teen Exhibit
Studio Gallery
Juried Membership Show
The Juried Membership Show will take place this September from the opening reception on September 7th until the end of the month. The prospectus for the show was included in our August newsletter. The opening reception begins at 1 pm. Awards will be presented at 2 pm. The annual AAPL award will also be presented at 2 pm. Refreshments will be served!
Our judge for the show is Dorothy Ganek. Dorothy is a graduate of the New York School of Interior Design. She works in watercolor; creates metal and precious stone jewelry and has an Interior Design business in South Orange.
She is an elected member of the American Watercolor Society and of the National Association of Women Artists. Dorothy is also in Who’s Who in American Art as well as many other publications. She is represented in corporate collections, group exhibitions and also in solo exhibitions.
We are happy to invite her to come to the Ocean County Artist’s Guild as the judge for out Juried Membership Show.
