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MC Noyes

June 19th through August 9th

Join us on Bellows Falls 3rd Fridays from 5-7pm for an opening reception and to meet the artist.

MC Noyes, based in Bellows Falls, Vermont, presents paintings utilizing watercolor paints the artist makes himself, in a continuation of his series called Water Way. The abstract work is a daily observation of the Bellows Falls Canal, relying heavily on spontaneous-seeming brushstrokes, using carefully contemplated colors, of which there is usually only a handful in each painting. Noyes uses a palette of over fifty colors, each made with multiple powdered pigments, and a honey-gum arabic solution.

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Edward Kingsbury III

June 19th through August 9th

Join us on Bellows Falls 3rd Fridays from 5-7pm for an opening reception and to meet the artist.

Edward Kingsbury III, based in Keene, New Hampshire, is a self-taught artist making large abstract acrylic paintings, intricate drawings, and printed digital work of abstract studies in color and pattern. For Kingsbury, making art is an expression of the artist’s practice of prayer while he works. The resulting painting is Kingsbury’s abstract representation of God. Kingsbury’s drawings are done by pen in India ink on watercolor paper as well as other surfaces such as canvas paper. The tiny interlocking lines create shapes, while leaving much white paper, then making the drawing itself into negative space. The artist’s acrylic paintings reflect a similar intricate line-made structure, now layered with opaque and transparent color in an all-over application creating a luminous woven surface. Kingsbury’s digital art often starts without a photograph, simply colors, shapes, and lines manipulated with tools and filters, layer upon layer, flattened on photo editing software.

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Kim Grall

June 19th through August 9th

Join us on Bellows Falls 3rd Fridays from 5-7pm for an opening reception and to meet the artist.

Kim Grall, based in Westminster, Vermont, creates mixed media two and three dimensional work using foraged and harvested materials. Most recently the Grallis exploring encaustic with mixed media on wall hanging wood panels. The artist uses techniques such as pyrography, painting, and collage with materials including vines, leaves, seed pods, pigments and hand made marbled papers.

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Nancy Fitz-Rapalje

June 19th through August 9th

Join us on Bellows Falls 3rd Fridays from 5-7pm for an opening reception and to meet the artist.

Nancy Fitz-Rapalje

Artist’s Statement

Why do I paint?

I paint so that tomorrow I may surprise myself with the memory of having 'looked'.

I like to be reminded of the excitement in the examined edge, of the seemingly neutral gray shadowplaced quickly on the canvas, and the surprise again in the unexpectedly many colors in the simple dark spot - just there.

I find much that is arresting in looking carefully and choosing only what seems essential for me. I make few attempts to 'copy' or to recreate carefully. I don’t aim for a precise rendition as I have neither the skill, nor the desire for minute detail. My paintings are sketches really - a quick drillingof the eye and a short alla prima battle to leavea reminder that I did 'see', for a short time.

My paintings may not work for every viewer who wasn'tpresentfor the still life - or landscape - posing so quietly in front of me. But as I look at my paintings, days or months later, I see again what I saw then; what made up a petal or a window pane, or maybe a peach, and thus I am reinvigorated. So, I paint again. Try again - amazed that a two dimensional surface brought to life by me can say, 'Here it was. And I was there.’

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Whitney Barrett

July 17th through September 13th

Join us on Bellows Falls 3rd Fridays from 5-7pm for an opening reception and to meet the artist.

Whitney Barrett

Artist’s Statement

Some of my recent work focuses on combining elements of narration and abstraction and I’ve been translating my drawings and collages into ceramics. Using pattern, mark making and collage, I have been integrating found text and hybrid/abstracted human figures in static poses. All of these pieces explore questions of identity, story, and how we present to the outside world. I am interested in the way stories are told and implied, assumptions and miscommunication, as well as the tension between expectation and desire. I am a deep lover of fairy tales and fantasy, and am interested in playing with the metaphors of animals and how we know ourselves as humans.

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