Over the next two weeks we will be presenting features on the artists from our current exhibit, Latitude. Our first featured artist is Tara O’Brien! Learn a little more about Tara and her inspiration for the show below: For Tara, who works with old books and an artist who creates new ones, the image … Continue reading
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Latitude Opening Reception!
Our second show of the 2015 DownStreet Art season opened yesterday! We had a great turn out and a great time at the July DownStreet Art celebration. The artists,Erin Malkowski, Tara O’Brien, Erin Paulson, and Charissa Schulze, were inspired by a 1763 mathematics manuscript describing instructions for setting up a sundial, four artists respond to the … Continue reading
Preparing for Latitude!
We are so excited to have Erin Malkowski, Tara O’Brien, Erin Paulson, and Charissa Schulze here this week getting ready for their group show, Latitude. All of the artists work together at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania as conservators and have made artworks based on one of the historical documents they work with, a 1763 … Continue reading
Paper Dresses, Part Four
It’s hard to believe Paper Dresses will only be up for two more weeks! The past month and a half has flown by, if you haven’t had a chance to see the exhibit, please stop by before December 1st when we change exhibits. This week’s featured artists are PRESS founder Melanie Mowinski and Tara O’Brien, whose … Continue reading
Paper Dresses Opens!
Our much anticipated show opened Thursday, September 25, 2014 with much celebration and fan fare. Many many thanks go out to the 12 artists who collaborated and created over the past four months to design and make the wonderful work on view. They are Karen Arp-Sandel, Suzi Banks Baum, Kate Barber, Valerie Carrigan, Adrienne Gale, Anne-Maree … Continue reading
What a great opening!
What a fabulous night, one of those glorious Berkshire Summer days, not a cloud in the sky, warm enough to wear a sundress and be out in the streets, and why not at the August Downstreet Art opening!! Great shows opened up and down the street, Richard Criddle’s Compendium, Experiment in Inspiration at the Jarvis … Continue reading
What does pinocatheca mean anyway?
Postal Pinocatheca opens tomorrow, Thursday, August 30, from 6-9 p.m. We hope you can join us! Tara O’Brien, the instigator of the exchange will be there, too! Tara also came up with the title Postal Pinocatheca, by doing the following exercise, an exercise we both use in our own work and in our teaching. This … Continue reading
Postal Pinacotheca opening Thursday!
We are so excited about our upcoming exhibit at PRESS, and it seems other people are too. Check out these great articles written this past week in the Berkshire Eagle’s Berkshire’s Week and The North Adams Transcript. Big thanks to Laura Lofgren and John Seven for these great articles. Hope to see you at the opening, … Continue reading
Check out our summer line-up!
June 28-July 22 Ink in the Blood: Printed Works on Paper, featuring artists Julio Granda and Barry Sternlieb, two creative forces in the Berkshires that have joined together for a good three decades of collaboration. This exhibit shows the marriage of their specialties. For these works, Barry has done the prints and Julio the art to make a … Continue reading