Monotype love, love, love...oh + Mixed Media Collage / Works on Paper too!
Welcome and glad you found me. And what is a
Monotype, you ask? Ink is applied using a brayer, along with other implements onto the surface of a clear acrylic plate. A moistened piece of printmaking paper is placed over the plate and run through a press creating ONE print. Each monotype print is thus unique and one of a kind. It is a magical process, full of surprises, which is part of it’s wonderful appeal and serendipity.
What's ongoing, and with an unstoppable passion —
working in
Mixed Media: Collage, Painting
— allowing me to focus as always on shape, but with more freedom in exploring color relationships, line, and intricate compositions — with gouache/acrylic painted paper. Loving this re-emergence and appreciating the expansiveness.
above:
see
'Vasto'
series
When your beloved four legged isn’t well (this photo from a few weeks back) nothing else matters except their return to themselves. It was touch and go for this 10 yr old this past week and only this morning does it look like he is getting beyond what was ailing him and hopefully an isolated blip. I’m breathing a sign of relief for this moment. In this photo he had just been sniffing the new book on the coffee table - the Art of Wifredo Lam from a recent trek to MoMA.
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I’ve let go of some ‘Mezzo’s that I’ve held onto as they were particularly pivotal - and this among them - to add to a grouping of new work that I’m really fond of - and all dropped off today @MVNDesign - along with others in this series plus it’s smaller ‘Piccola’s. And do pop in as there is art and other great curated items from the eye of interior designer, Michael Van Nort.
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‘Mezzo’ No.14 • Mixed Media - collage with painted paper • 10x10.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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MVN Design, 48 Main Street, Kingston, NY - and across from the Old Dutch Church - check @mvndesign for winter hours and available by appointment.
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#collage #mixedmedia #uptownkingstonny #hudsonvalleyny
This piece remains pivotal in my thoughts for its absence yet presence which was a marked change. There is something in its simplicity yet confident line, that I intend to continue exploring.
I think my intense focus in painted paper/mixed media collage has provided a freedom in color/shape/line exploration, continuing to fill a particular visual yearning - and as a result, has allowed me to also free my printmaking - giving room for finding a new direction within the medium, and at this moment, it’s toward simplicity.
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Monotype • 16x20 plate on Rives BFK printmaking paper • framed size 28x22 • created @_woodstockschoolofart printmaking studio
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#monotype #printmaking #contemporaryprintmaking #artonpaper #geometricart
Framing, framing, absorbing ‘Mezzo’ No.34. This is one of six ‘Mezzo’s plus six ‘Piccola’s heading to @mvndesign this week. I think this little chair by Pauline Decarmo seems to insist on photobombing the snap and that’s okay.
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Mezzo series • Mixed media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300 lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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#mixedmedia #contemporarycollage #paintedpaper #geometricabstraction #colorshapecomposition
Happy birthday, Robert Motherwell.
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repost @dedalusfoundation: 1 of 3: In 1979, Robert Motherwell created an upwards of one hundred oil paintings on paper known as his “Drunk with Turpentine” series.
The spontaneous, energetic approach that Motherwell adopted in this series would go on to inform a number of his larger works on canvas. Pictured is a selection of works from the series.
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#robertmotherwell
‘Mezzo’ No.23 - heading soon to @mvndesign along with more in the painted paper series.
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Mixed media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300 lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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#mixedmedia #contemporarycollage #paintedpaper #geometricabstraction #colorshapecomposition
A photo snap provided from last weekends storm and now for the arrival of the next. But pleased to see the banners are a bright spot amidst it all.
Design of the banners for the upcoming Byrdcliffe Annual Members’ Exhibit (and graphic for other uses) that are now hanging outside the Kleinert James Gallery. Visually, I wanted to communicate the connection we share even through our individual expressions - and a design that would feel upbeat while driving or walking through town.
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From Byrdcliffe Guild @woodstockbydcliffeguild
27 February - 12 April 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday 28 February 2026
3 - 5 PM
Kleinert James Gallery
Calling all Artists!
Byrdcliffe invites you to participate in the 2026 Annual Members’ Show, All the All. This year’s theme is inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31 and celebrates Byrdcliffe’s creative community.
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#exhibitdesign #woodstockny #designforthearts #byrdcliffe #woodstockbyrdcliffeguild |
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On my own wall to absorb - and appreciating the connections amongst the different sized body of work. On the right, Mezzo No.30, soon to head to @mvndesign (along with 5 other new Mezzo’s) - on the left, Vasto No.8, recently at Pinkwater Gallery and enjoying having some time with it.
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right: Mixed Media - collage with painted paper, indirect and direct mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
left: Mixed media collage | painting + acrylic gouache painted paper, indirect mark making | 20x16 on wood panel, wood frame.
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#paintedpaper #mixedmedia #collage
And the series of three, with the middle piece likely getting mixed media incorporated. I’m still liking the sparse nature of the work to the left and right at this juncture. But it’s all intriguing with ideas popping around, which will likely get me back into the printmaking studio again soon. Using two plates to form a new size and shape, printed on a full sheet.
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24x14.5 on 30x22 Rives BFK | printmaking studio @_woodstockschoolofart
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#monotype #woodstockschoolofart #linesandshapes
Coming up soon - @68princegallery reopens on February 7 with the Opening of ‘Spot on: aka See Spot Run’ featuring in the Main Gallery, the work of @sharon_butler and @jasonatravers and in the Front Gallery, work by @murrayhochman and @empowerartist - curated by Alan Goolman |
68princestgallery.com
Delighted to continue designing for this great gallery with great folk at its helm, and since its inception - website, print, social media.
Hope to see you on February 7th.
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#68princestreetgallery #midtownkingstonny #exhibitopening #paulakucera #davidkucera
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It’s a snowy kind of weekend - perfect for framing, where the work really comes alive. Looking forward to living with newly framed work (and lots of it) for a brief moment before heading out the door soon. (On my wall next to a little Pauline Decarmo piece from her Chair Series, which makes it into these snaps).
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Mixed Media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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#collage #worksonpaper #mixedmedia #colorshapecomposition #mvndesign
Such an outstanding exhibit.
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repost @themuseumofmodernart -
How did Ruth Asawa develop her groundbreaking looped wire sculptures?
Through the “continuous form within a form,” Ruth Asawa radically reinvented what a sculpture can be.
“In the case of Asawa, this meant suspending it in space,” says Cara Manes, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture. “They’re responsive to light, to motion, to air currents.”
Plan your visit! Don’t miss “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective,” on view at MoMA through February 7.
Head to YouTube to watch more from our short documentary on Asawa’s life and practice that features family members, a curatorial interview, and Asawa’s own words. Link in bio.
Pleased to design the banners for the upcoming Byrdcliffe Annual Members’ Exhibit (and graphic for other uses) that are now hanging outside the Kleinert James Gallery. Visually, I wanted to communicate the connection we share even through our individual expressions - and a design that would feel upbeat while driving or walking through town.
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From Byrdcliffe Guild @woodstockbydcliffeguild
27 February - 12 April 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday 28 February 2026
3 - 5 PM
Kleinert James Gallery
Calling all Artists!
Byrdcliffe invites you to participate in the 2026 Annual Members’ Show, All the All. This year’s theme is inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31 and celebrates Byrdcliffe’s creative community.
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#exhibitdesign #woodstockny #designforthearts #byrdcliffe #woodstockbyrdcliffeguild |
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Because yet another tweak needed to happen, as it refines, in the many iterations of this piece.
‘Vasto’ No.9 | Mixed media collage | painting + acrylic gouache painted paper, indirect mark making | 20x16 on wood panel, framed.
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper #paintingwithpaper #colorshapelinecomposition
Kept it very sparse - exploring - used two plates to form a new size and shape. May further work into it with mixed media - or not. I was letting myself be free to have no attachment to the outcome, testing an approach, and dipping back in.
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24x14.5 on 30x22 Rives BFK | printmaking studio @_woodstockschoolofart
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#monotype #woodstockschoolofart #linesandshapes
‘Piccola’ No. 34. This always had a bit of whimsy in my view. The ‘Piccola’ series was created as an almost daily endeavor of which 43 were created. Happily, many went to collectors via MVN Design in Kingston, NY and will continue to do so. Arches 300lb is cut up and ready. I’m cycling between working in three sizes/series at this moment - ‘Vasto’, ‘Mezzo’ and soon to start back in with ‘Piccola’.
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Mixed media collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 6x6.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 11.5x13.75 • ‘Piccola’ series selections @mvndesign
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#collage #worksonpaper #paintedpaper #mixedmedia #artonpaper
It’s been a few years since I created this limited series of three unique silkscreens in these colors, but feeling ready to dip back in for another series at some point in this year. Making multiples (edition) of the same image is not interesting to me but varying how the three screens are configured does.
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Serigraph/Silkscreen | 28x22 on Rives BFK | created @_woodstockschoolofart printmaking studio. One from this grouping is with a collector.
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#serigraph #silkscreen #geometric #oneofakind #geometricabstraction
This is one I never made available because I wanted to not forget it - though some from this series were shown @pinkwatergallery and reside with collectors, and happy for that as well.
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Monotype, 2021 • 14.5x12 plate on Rives BFK • framed size 28x22 • created @_woodstockschoolofart printmaking studio.
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#monotype #printmaking #contemporaryprintmaking #artonpaper #abstractmonotype
Such a fantastic exhibit for those that can get there.
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Repost from @themuseumofmodernart
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⏰ Only one month left to visit “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” at MoMA!
In Asawa’s expansive, multidisciplinary practice, forms and concepts recur in time and unfurl across different mediums and disciplines, connected by the artist’s lifelong investigations of negative space and transparency. “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” features more than 300 artworks, charting Asawa’s lifetime of artistic experimentation.
🎟️ At the link in bio, plan your visit before the exhibition closes on February 7.
This exhibition is sponsored by @uniqlousa, MoMA’s partner of #ArtforAll.
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🖼️ Installation view of “Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective” on view at The Museum of Modern Art from October 19, 2025, through February 7, 2026. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Jonathan Dorado. All artwork © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner.
Glad to see the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce using the logo I designed for it, pro bono, in 2022. Woodstock, NY is certainly filled with great art organizations, shops, service entities and a passionate community. I do love to beautify my town - even if folk sometimes don’t know who is behind the visuals they see. This is one iteration with its typography, with other configurations provided, depending on usage needs. Logos become more beloved and identified with use and time. And I appreciate the Chamber’s dedicated crew promoting the area businesses and events.
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#logodesign #woodstockny #woodstockchamberofcommerce #givingtothecommunity | logo design and more - susannaronner.com
‘Piccola’ No.9 - smaller series of painted paper work that I became enamoured with, creating 43 thus far, and many that are and have been @mvndesign and now with collectors. This one currently in my collection.
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Mixed media collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 6x6.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 11.5x13.75
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#collage #worksonpaper #paintedpaper #mixedmedia #artonpaper
Repost from @calderfoundation
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Calder made countless domestic interventions in his home in Roxbury in addition to his formal works of art. “It was common for Calder to repair an object instead of replacing it, preferring to improve on a design than depend on an unreliable mass-produced substitute,” writes Kaitlyn A. Kramer (@k888lyn). “With a deep-blue Mexican wine glass that had lost its steam, he inverted the vessel and fastened wire around the neck, where he set four glass shards to dangle, producing a divine dinner bell.”
Image: Dinner bell (c. 1942). © 2022 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
#Calder #AlexanderCalder #CalderFoundation
‘Mezzo’ No.38 - redux. Spent these last group of days in the new year reworking three pieces that kept pulling at me to be changed - and this is one of them. You just know when it’s not all the way right, and when it is.
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Mixed media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300 lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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#mixedmedia #contemporarycollage #paintedpaper #geometricabstraction #colorshapecomposition
First creating in the New Year - and in the larger painted paper series - ‘Vasto’ No.10.
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Mixed media collage | painting + acrylic gouache painted paper, indirect mark making | 20x16 on Arches 300, to be mounted on wood panel and framed.
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper #colorabstraction #newwork
Will be looking to this monotype for inspiration when I head back in to the print studio to continue expanding on what expressed itself here - and appreciating it’s sparseness and power of the drawn line via a technique that I was introduced to during the ‘Monothan’, plus my shape language, and with multiple passes through the press, one right after the other with plates ready to go.
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Monotype • 16x20 plate on 22x30 Rives BFK printmaking paper • created @_woodstockschoolofart printmaking studio
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#monotype #printmaking #contemporaryprintmaking #abstractprintmaking #abstractmonotype
As we move from one rotation to the next, all good wishes in 2026.
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Repost from @calderfoundation
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When Calder famously visited Piet Mondrian’s studio in 1930, he suggested that the cardboard rectangles tacked to one of the walls for compositional experimentation be made to “oscillate.” While Mondrian was dismissive of the idea, Calder started exploring it in his own work a couple of years later, creating a series of paintings in motion—“frames” and “panels” that consisted of moving abstract forms set in front of colored plywood panels or within boxlike frames.
Video: Snake and the Cross (1936) set in motion. © 2022 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
#Calder #AlexanderCalder #CalderFoundation
This ‘Piccola’ was a pivotal work that began its whole series, as I fell in love with its petite size and the color/line/shape conversations that occur within it. @MVNDesign - ‘Piccola’ No.2 - and this great little shop of interior designer Michael Van Nort is chock full of curated items for our living spaces. More in this painted paper series as well as mid size ‘Mezzo’s’.
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Mixed Media/Collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 6x6.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 11.5x13.75
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MVN Design, 48 Main Street, Kingston, NY - and across from the Old Dutch Church - open Sat 12-5pm, Sun 12-4 (check @mvndesign for schedule updates).
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#collage #mixedmedia #worksonpaper #contemporarycollage #uptownkingstonny
I like this snap as it somewhat replicates the feeling of art living in the spaces we inhabit - but this is @pinkwatergallery @kingstonsocialny - where it’s up on their walls only through the beginning of the new year. So much to enjoy in this great venue with cappuccino scents filling the air. ‘Vasto’ No.8 and 2 (20x16 on panel) from this new larger painted paper/mixed media collage series to make its debut.
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Holiday à la maison collection - open everyday in December. Worth a trek from anywhere.
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper
As this year comes to a close, honoring and thinking about our friend and my design client, musician Jack DeJohnette. In addition to the design of his Grammy winning album ‘Peace Time’ (2007), I recently designed this logo for Jack’s archival recordings. A new release on Blue Note from Jack and Lydia DeJohnette’s archive incorporated one version of how the logo can be used. The logo needed the ability to also be used very small, as shown here, tucked into the back of the album cover designed by Blue Note. I thank both Jack and Lydia for the privilege and joy in working with them both. We miss Jack as does the rest of the music listening world, as well as his close friendship, but music lives on, and thank goodness for that.
Many know Jack as only a drummer but his first instrument was piano, and the logo makes a subtle reference to that in its letter configuration.
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I especially crave green as winter continues. ‘Vasto’ No. 6 @pinkwatergallery -@- @kingstonsocialny - (20x16 on panel) from this new painted paper/mixed media collage series to make its debut.
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Holiday à la maison collection - open everyday in December. Worth a trek from anywhere.
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper
@MVNDesign - ‘Piccola’ No. 38 - along with others in this smaller series.
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Mixed Media / collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 6x6.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 11.5x13.75
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MVN Design, 48 Main Street, Kingston, NY - and across from the Old Dutch Church - open Th-Sat 12-5pm, Sunday 12-4pm (check @mvndesign for schedule updates).
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#mixedmedia#worksonpaper #artonpaper #colorshapecomposition #contemporarycollage
Excellent and expansive exhibit @themuseumofmodernart of the art of Wifredo Lam. For those that can’t get there, MoMA’s site has several short documentaries.
“Wifredo Lam’s paintings expanded the horizons of modernism by creating a meaningful space for the beauty and depth of Black diasporic culture. Born in Cuba at the start of the 20th century, Lam forged his political convictions and commitment to modern painting in war-torn Europe in the 1930s. His exile and return to the Caribbean after 18 years abroad drove him to radically reimagine his artistic project through Afro-Caribbean histories.
For Lam, who was of African and Chinese descent, crafting his vivid new imaginary was more than a means of self-reflection. He famously declared that his art was an “act of decolonization.” His formal experiments, his transforming figures and landscapes, and his affinity for poetry and collaboration allowed him to disrupt and overcome the colonial structures he encountered in art and in life. “I knew I was running the risk of not being understood either by the man in the street or by the others,” Lam said, “but a true picture has the power to set the imagination to work, even if it takes time.” Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream is the first retrospective in the United States to feature the full trajectory of Lam’s remarkable vision, inviting us to see the world anew.”
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#wifredolam #moma
MVNDesign in Uptown, Kingston NY - a great little shop filled with perfect items and gifts, curated by interior designer Michael Van Nort. ‘Mezzo’ No. 23 - a fav - from the 2025 Dorsky Museum exhibit to @MVNDesign - open Thursday-Saturday 12-5pm, Sunday 12-4. Pop in! Plus Michael is a delight.
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Mixed Media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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MVN Design, 48 Main Street, Kingston, NY - and across from the Old Dutch Church.
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#worksonpaper #mixedmedia #geometricabstraction #colorshapecomposition
‘Vasto’ No. 2 @pinkwatergallery -@- @kingstonsocialny - 20x16 - from this new larger painted paper/mixed media collage series to make its debut. In Uptown Kingston, NY and online.
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Holiday à la maison collection through 1/6/26 - on the wall, top: ‘Vasto’ No. 8 and below, ‘Vasto’ No. 2.
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper #geometricart #uptownkingstonny
Helen Frankenthaler @themuseumofmodernart - it took my breath away when walking into the space. A handful of pieces but exceptional and potent. Incredible to see in its airy open space, and yet get close up to see the texture and subtle color variations of the washed paint on unprimed canvas.
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#helenfrankenthaler #moma #museumofmodernart
A spectacular day @themuseumofmodernart - and to finally see the work of Ruth Asawa up close, in all its intricacy, delicacy and strength, was truly moving. Beautifully curated and expansive. But also thrilling was seeing the work of Wifredo Lam and Helen Frankenthaler (more on those two in another post). And with my perfect trekking friend, @paulakaganart. We had thought we could maybe squeeze in a particular gallery hop that was in my scope, but just not enough hours in this day.
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Growing up in NYC, I started going to MoMA as a subway trekking pre-teen/teen (taking classes there for ‘young people’), and then after, when at the renowned Music & Art HS, it became a second home for all us art majors - and though the museum continues to change, evolve, expand, it holds a special place in my soul. After a long break, glad to be journeying back to it.
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#moma #ruthasawa #retrospective #arthome #museumofmodernart
Logo and packaging design for natural line of salves and great new facial oil ‘Cloud’ from aromatherapist Carol Chappell - all hand crafted in small batches in the Hudson Valley, NY. Carol will have her line available at Mt. View Studio, Woodstock, NY next Saturday, 12/20 from 10:30-1pm (drum+dance class).
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#logodesign #packagingdesign #branding
And 2025 - so pleased for the longevity of relationship with @pinkwatergallery (which began in January 2020) and to have this new ‘Vasto’ series on its wall in the gallery’s iteration within Kingston Social - a great venue to fill the senses - curated gifts galore, the best authentic Italian cappuccino and pastries, and art from a group of excellent artists. Worth a trek from anywhere.
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‘Vasto’ No. 8 @pinkwatergallery -@- @kingstonsocialny - one of three large works (the fourth sold to out of state visitors to the gallery), 20x16 - from this new painted paper/mixed media collage series to make its debut.
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Holiday à la maison collection
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper #contemporaryart geometricar
In the window of Pinkwater Gallery’s original location on N. Front Street, Kingston, 2022 (with this monotype selling at the gallery).
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Monotype • 16x20 plate on Rives BFK printmaking paper • framed size 28x22 • created @_woodstockschoolofart printmaking studio
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#monotype #printmaking #contemporaryprintmaking #artonpaper #geometricart
Opens this Saturday, 12/13 and pleased to have work in it along with 50 other printmakers - as well as having designed this postcard mailer for the exhibit’s venue.
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‘Prints, Unique & Multiple’
Curated by Anthony Kirk
December 13 - January 24
Minor Memorial Library
Roxbury, CT
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#printmaking #worksonpaper #monotype #roxburyct @minor_memorial_library @anthonykirkeditions | more design for the arts: susannaronner.com
New in the ‘Mezzo’ series - and happy to be carving time to be back at it. ‘Mezzo’ No.33.
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Mixed media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300 lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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#mixedmedia #contemporarycollage #paintedpaper #geometricabstraction #colorshapecomposition
Got a chance to pop into @pinkwatergallery @kingstonsocialny this past week - so much beautiful art, delectables, and curated gifts galore - but also enjoyed seeing this new ‘Vasto’ series combo together on the wall. Now open in December everyday.
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‘Vasto’ No.8 (top) and No.2 (bottom)- one of four large works (20x16) selected for Pinkwater (with one having sold), beautifully framed, from the new painted paper/mixed media collage series to make its debut.
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Holiday à la maison collection.
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper #geometric #colorabstraction
Pleased to have this work in the upcoming ‘Gratitude’ exhibit at WAAM @waamart - AND have it selected as the ‘icon’ image for the exhibit (thank you designer/artist @maxinedavidow).
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Exhibition:
December 5, 2025–January 4, 2026
Opening Reception:
Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 4-6pm
‘In the MAIN GALLERY - ‘Gratitude’
This broad survey of artwork by WAAM artist members celebrates the extensive range of work created in the Hudson Valley. The presentation both celebrates the season of giving and provides an opportunity for WAAM to express its gratitude to its dedicated members and supportive community. This is a festive occasion for residents and tourists to support working artists, shop locally and find distinctive gifts for the holiday season.’
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Mixed Media/Monotype collage • 10x8 on Rives BFK printmaking paper • framed size 16.5x14
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#waam #monotypecollage #mixedmedia #woodstocknyopening #worksonpaper
SUNDAY, December 7 at the Lace Mill, Kingston, NY (3-4pm) with the Tani Tabbal Quartet. Here, a solo snippet from a previous concert. @tanitabbal - for my creative and multi dimensional friends.
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The Lace Mill / East Gallery
165 Cornell Street
in midtown, Kingston, NY
3:00-4:00 pm
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The Quartet features Michael Bisio (bass), Adam Siegel (alto sax), Peyton Pleninger (tenor sax), Tani Tabbal (drums). tanitabbalmusic.com
video: Marc Greene
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#thelacemill #midtownkingstonny #musicasart #improvisedmusic #tanitabbal
‘Over Under’ - mid size No.4 - and sometimes all that remains of the monotype beneath is the plate mark and bits of the original that poke through.
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Mixed Media / monotype as first layer with acrylic painted paper over • 10x8 on Rives BFK paper • framed size 6.5x14
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#mixedmedia #collage #geometric#artonpaper #monotype
Through December 13, 2025 at Woodstock School of Art - open Monday-Saturday 9am-3pm - ‘In the Open Air: The Art Students League’s Woodstock School of Landscape Painting’ - a historic exhibit - worth a trek from anywhere.
The catalogue has an excellent deep dive essay by art historian Dr. Bruce Weber, which I happily read multiple times as I was designing. The catalogue is also available via Woodstock School of Art (see link @_woodstockschoolofart).
‘150th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York [the exhibit] explores the profound influence of its summer school in Woodstock, NY. This exhibition focuses on the pivotal early decades of the 20th century, bringing together approximately fifty stunning paintings drawn mainly from local private collections and institutions. Discover the work of artists who shaped American landscape painting, all curated by historian of American art, Dr. Bruce Weber….This beautifully designed, 76-page book by Susanna Ronner Graphic Design is a must-have companion to the show. via the link in our bio.’
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On the cover, Earle B. Winslow (1884-1969), Tannery Brook, 1928
Oil on canvas, 26 1/8 x 20”
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Gift of Zenna W. London, 1979-19-01 @waamart
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#woodstockny #woodstockpainting #artsstudentsleague #woodstockpainting @aslnyc
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Repost from @vasilikaliman
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A Mondrian painting from 1938 as stripped-down as you will ever see, and a rare glimpse into an artist’s working methods that reveal the evident fastidiousness underlying his paintings. This charcoal on canvas is among a limited body of Mondrian’s unfinished works — where each line, intersection and erasure bears the artist’s hand, a testament to his meticulous deliberation over time, and the sorts of details typically concealed by subsequent layers of paint.
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Swipe left for an image of this work in the MoMA retrospective of the artist in 1994.
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#PietMondrian (1872-1944) charcoal on canvas from 1938
Pinkwater Gallery is delighted to be showing new works by Susanna Ronner @susannaronner_art in our Holiday 2025 à la maison collection. Susanna Ronner, with whom we have had a years long relationship, is a graphic designer and artist working with monotype and mixed media/collage who resides in Bearsville near Woodstock, NY. She continues to move her artistic practice jn wonderful new directions, pushing her distinctive work to new heights with experiments in form and presentation. The handsome pieces in her ‘Vasto’ series are a testament to her mastery of craft and her ability to subtly advance her work with style. After attending the High School of Music and Art in New York City, Susanna earned her BFA with honors in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois. From there, she went on to San Francisco and worked for some of the most influential graphic designers on the West Coast.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“As with jazz, I engage with each piece as an improvisation — I meet the blank ‘canvas’ with curiosity and see where it takes me. This process is instinctive, and one that I trust fully.
The energetic relationship of shapes as they come together, pull apart, are tied and interrupted by lines, continues to fascinate me. I stay attentive to how the eye moves around the surface, directing the viewer to specific spots. I’m always amazed how one tiny dot of color or element can be exactly what’s needed, or, too much.”
The à la maison Holiday 2025 collection from Pinkwater Gallery -@- Kingston Social is on view now at 237 Fair Street in #uptownkingstonny. Featuring works by area artists selected to fit right in to an eclectic art collection, whether you’re just starting out or a longtime collector. Check out the work in person or online at pinkwatergallery.com (link in profile), and if you see something you love, don’t wait! Artworks are already going fast, and all are available to take home or ship out immediately this holiday season. #holidaygifting #givethegiftofart #artforthehome #hudsonvalleyartgallery kingstonnyartgallery
‘Quadrato’ No.3 @mvndesign - along with more from the painted paper series - plus a great selection of curated items from interior designer, Michael Van Nort.
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Mixed Media Collage • acrylic gouache painted paper, indirect mark making • 11.5x12 on Arches 300 lb paper - framed size 19x20.25
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MVN Design, 48 Main Street, Kingston, NY - and across from the Old Dutch Church - open Thurs-Sat 12-5pm (some Sunday’s 12-4 and by appointment - check MVN for schedule updates).
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#collage #worksonpaper #mixedmedia#paintedpaper#geometricabstraction contemporarycollage
I would be remiss to not honor what this day means to Native American people, and who are part of my family as well (Choctaw, Cherokee).
This is a poster series I designed some years back for Bread and Roses (the cultural arm of Union 1199/NYC), featuring 12 notable Native American Women - posters that reside in the Smithsonian, and included a study guide for the classroom. Especially at this time when our current administration works to remove our real history, it becomes even more important to not let it disappear. Photos for this series: @hulleah Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie.
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I came across a message in another post and sharing an excerpt here:
Repost core_psych: ‘November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to honor the history, culture, and resilience of Indigenous communities. As we move through the Thanksgiving season, it’s important to pause and reflect on the complexities of this holiday and its origins. While Thanksgiving is often a celebration of gratitude, family, and connection, it also has a history tied to colonization and the displacement of Native peoples.
This duality invites us to hold space for both gratitude and accountability. We can celebrate what Thanksgiving means to us today while also acknowledging the stories and experiences of Indigenous communities that are often left out of mainstream narratives. Taking time to learn about Native history, amplify Indigenous voices, and honor their traditions is one way to foster understanding and healing… This month—and always—let’s strive to move beyond performative gestures and into genuine respect and action. Whether it’s educating ourselves about the real history of Thanksgiving, supporting Native-owned businesses, or donating to causes that uplift Indigenous voices, there are countless ways to honor Native American Heritage Month meaningfully. Together, we can create a space where gratitude and respect coexist.’
#nativeamericanheritagemonth #knowtherealhistory #nativeamerican #thanksgiving
‘Over Under’ No.2 - mid size series. Working over a monotype. The challenge is how to deal with what is on the paper to transform into something else - and I’m always up for a challenge.
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Mixed Media / monotype and acrylic painted paper • 10x8 on Rives BFK paper • framed size 16.5x14
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#mixedmedia #collage #geometric#artonpaper #monotype
Inside Ellsworth’s sketchbook from the years 1968 and 1969. Inside, the pages are filled with his sketches in pencil, colored ink, ballpoint and felt-tip pen. He was living in New York City and working on the Upper West Side when he started these pages, though in these years he traveled to Switzerland, Paris, and all along the East Coast of the U.S.
If you’re in New York City, stop by @themuseumofmodernart’s Gallery 416. MoMA added more than two dozen of Ellsworth’s sketchbooks to its collection last year, and a selection are on view along with related drawings and paintings.
Images: Ellsworth Kelly, “Sketchbook 61,” 1968-69, © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation.
@MVNDesign - and open this week 11/25 - Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 12-5pm. So many good things to check out!
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‘Mezzo’No. 24 • Mixed Media - painted paper collage, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300# paper • framed size 17x17.25
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MVN Design, 48 Main Street, Kingston, NY - and across from the Old Dutch Church - (check MVN for schedule details).
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#collage #worksonpaper #mixedmedia #artonpaper geometricart
Getting my space ready for another round of painted paper ‘Mezzo’s and putting some previous ones up on the wall that I’ve held onto for the moment to reflect on - along with an ‘Over Under’ (monotype+acrylic+painted paper). Then after this, more larger ‘Vasto’.
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Mixed media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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#collage #worksonpaper #paintedpaper #mixedmedia #contemporarycollage
A great Opening and a fantastic exhibit of work by these three @68princegallery - and pleased to continue designing all things for this great gallery with three good folk at its helm. Don’t miss it!
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November 22nd - December 21st
@evansjuli
@murrayhochman
@catherineahowe
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#contemporaryart #contemporaryartgallery #contemporaryartcurator
#contemporaryartcollectors | see more design: susannaronner.com
Pleased to learn that this work, ‘Mezzo No.25’ went to a collector who has two other ‘Mezzo’s and wanted to display them as a trio - all three from @mvndesign. More in this series and it’s smaller ‘Piccola’ at this great little shop/office of interior designer Michael VanNort along with other great finds for the spaces we inhabit. Great items for the holiday table and festive vibe.
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Mixed Media - collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 10x10.5 on Arches 300lb paper • framed size 17x17.25
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MVN Design, 48 Main Street, Kingston, NY - and across from the Old Dutch Church - open Thurs-Sat 12-5pm and by appointment (check MVN for details).
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#collage #worksonpaper #mixedmedia #colorabstraction
Avance #Chillida100:
Este viernes, 14 de noviembre, se inaugura “Eduardo Chillida. Soñar el espacio”, comisariada por Alicia Vallina, en la Sala de exposiciones La Lonja en Zaragoza (@zexposiciones).
Reúne más de 120 obras que recorren las distintas etapas de la trayectoria de Chillida. Un viaje por su pensamiento y su forma de entender el espacio, marcado por la honestidad que le caracterizó en vida, pleno del misticismo y de la estética personal que imprimió en sus obras.
La exposición está organizada por la Fundación Ibercaja (@fundacionibercaja), en colaboración con Zaragoza Cultura (@zcultura) y Fundación Eduardo Chillida y Pilar Belzunce.
🗓️ Abierta desde el 14 de noviembre al 1 de febrero de 2026
🔗 Más información en link de BIO
#EduardoChillida #FundaciónIbercaja #Zaragoza #ArteContemporáneo #FundaciónEduardoChillidaPilarBelzunce
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Advance #Chillida100:
This Friday, November 14, “Eduardo Chillida. Soñar el espacio”, composed by Alicia Vallina, in the Sala de expositions La Lonja en Zaragoza (@zexposiciones).
It brings together more than 120 works that resort to the different stages of Chillida’s trajectory. A journey through his thought and his way of understanding space, marked by the honesty that characterized him in life, full of mysticism and the personal aesthetics that he printed in his works.
The exhibition is organized by the Ibercaja Foundation (@fundacionibercaja), in collaboration with Zaragoza Cultura (@zcultura) and Fundación Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce.
🗓️ Open from November 14 to February 1, 2026
🔗 More information in BIO link
#EduardoChillida #FundaciónIbercaja #Zaragoza #ArteContemporáneo #FundaciónEduardoChillidaPilarBelzunce
*** NEW TIME - 3:00-4:00 PM ***
Dec. 7th
The Lace Mill
165 Cornell St.
Kingston, NY 12401
Hope to see you and those that know, know it will be hot, hot, hot! And those that don’t know, will find out!
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@tanitabbal | tanitabbalmusic.com @thelacemillartscouncil #midtownkingstonny #kingstonnyevents | design (+art detail): susannaronner.com
At WAAM through November 30, in the Founders Gallery / Small Works @waamart . ‘Piccola’ #24
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Mixed media collage with painted paper, indirect mark making • 6x6.5 on Arches 300# paper • framed size 11.5x13.75
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#collage #worksonpaper #paintedpaper #mixedmedia #colorabstraction #abstractart #artonpaper #geometricart #woodstockny #geometricabstraction #livewithart #colorshapecomposition #contemporarycollage
This was on my own wall to absorb for a short moment before it headed over to Pinkwater Gallery. ‘Vasto’ #8 @pinkwatergallery -@- @kingstonsocialny - one of four large works (20x16) from this new painted paper/mixed media collage series to make its debut. ‘Vasto’ #2 and 6 are currently up on its wall (looks great on white walls too) - you can ask to see this work as well, waiting in the wings. 237 Fair Street in Uptown, Kingston, NY and online at the gallery site pinkwatergallery.com.
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Holiday à la maison collection
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper #contemporaryart #colorabstraction #abstractart #geometricart #geometricabstraction #livewithart #paintingwithpaper | in photo on right ‘Piccola’ #17, currently in my collection.
Repost from @landkidzink
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Happy 100th Birthday Gate Hill potter Karen Karnes (November 17, 1925)! These beautiful cups and lidded vessels made just a couple years after she moved into the Pot Shop at Gate Hill Cooperative (in 1954) after a two-year residency she shared with her husband (David Weinrib) at the fabled Black Mountain College in North Carolina. At Gate Hill she and David and fellow BMC faculty member M.C. Richards, established a production pottery, where Karen spent the next 25 years of her life.
#karenkarnes #gatehillcooperative #Landkidzink #blackmountaincollege #bmcmuseum #WomenOfBMC #westernregionalarchives #davidweinrib #MCRichards
Photo Credits:
1. Karen Weinrib (Karnes) working on a large vessel in front of her studio window looking out over the front field at the Gate Hill Cooperative. Photo by Ross Lowell (1957).
2. Karen Weinrib (Karnes) pottery, made in her studio at the Gate Hill Cooperative. Photo by Ross Lowell (1957).
Happy birthday, Karen Karnes!
Karen Karnes covered lid jar with her signature salt glazing that she gifted me way back, which has moved with me from NYC, to San Francisco to Woodstock, NY (and multiple cities in between the two coasts). A sheer delight to be connected to Mark Davenport @landkidzink who grew up living in the Gate Hill Cooperative community (outside NYC) that his parents founded along with Karen and other alumni of Black Mountain College (NC), continuing the creative, progressive roots of BMC (with creative links to the Bauhaus). See Mark’s work documenting and preserving the history of the Gate Hill Community, which Karen Karnes lived in for 25 years, then relocating to Vermont.
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#gatehill #gatehillcooperative #markdavenport #blackmountaincollege #firstmentor #ceramics #ceramicsicon #karenkarnes | ‘Piccola #25’ in my collection from the painted paper series - see more at susannaronner.art
‘Vasto’ #6 and #2 @pinkwatergallery -@- @kingstonsocialny - two of four large works (20x16) from this new painted paper/mixed media collage series. And thanks to a friend who came to the Opening and snapped this photo. I’m really pleased to be debuting this larger painted paper series at Pinkwater Gallery. And if you are in the area, do stop by - lots of great work to see. Kingston Social is a great venue - intermingling art with curated items and authentic Italian delectables - because art lives in our personal spaces, and Pinkwater Gallery within Kingston Social reflects that concept. 237 Fair Street, Kingston (in Uptown/Stockade District).
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Holiday à la maison collection
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Mixed media collage | painting + acrylic gouache painted paper, indirect mark making | 20x16 on wood panel, framed.
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#mixedmedia #collage #paintedpaper #contemporaryart #colorabstraction #abstractart #geometricart #geometricabstraction #livewithart #paintingwithpaper #hudsonvalleyhappenings | thanks to @annesanger_abstract and @artbyhelenapalazzi for their support and advocacy. 🩷
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