Marjorie Kramer “Survey of Woods Paintings and Urban Drawings”

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Marjorie Kramer will be showing seven paintings done over several decades while sitting deep in the Vermont woods. It is a series through time, similar to others the artist has done of other subjects such as self portraits and snowy landscapes. Kramer will also show recent drawings done while looking out of friends’ apartments in New York City or while sitting in the car in parking lots in Vermont looking at the wild juxtaposition of new and old buildings, rich and poor people, and vehicles and empty spaces. The artist says of her work:

These woods paintings were each worked on all one summer, in different summers from the 1970′s to 2010′s, most of them are 40″ x 48″. The woods has been logged over several times during the two hundred years of white settlement, Hard Maple, Beech, Spruce, Balsam, White Pine each being cut and carted off. The woods recovers eventually, through winter temperatures as low as minus 45 degrees and through lush short summers. There are bear, deer, and raccoon, songs of Hermit Thrushes…and the artist sitting for hours painting in the midst of so much open beauty, being sometimes subject to Northern Forest Fears. Paint tubes and glass palette are hidden at night behind trees while the canvas and brushes are taken back to the house, an idea gotten from Gretna Campbell.

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Marjorie Kramer, painter of direct experience, lived in NYC for years, now also considers Vermont home. Some history: Cooper Union days. 1963, Buying cheap land in Vermont. Helping to found the New York Studio School, studied with Charles Cajori and Mercedes Matter. Modeling for Philip Pearlstein, Lois Dodd and friends. Then sharing the running of Lucien Day’s Green Mountain Gallery, becoming a feminist, coordinating shows for women artists, “marrying my beloved Sam Thurston and raising daughter Raloon,“ teaching drawing and painting at Johnson State College and always painting. She loves cooperatives in art, in food. Spends two months per year in NYC. Subjects: flowers, landscapes and self-portraits.

From Reviews: Larry Campbell wrote in ArtNews that her work was “plucky” and “lyrical” . Ken Johnson wrote in NY Times that her paintings had “a delicate sense of touch”, Peter Gallo wrote in Art New England of “her remarkable neomodernist observational rigor.”

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from January 28, 2014 to February 22, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-01-30 from 17:00 to 20:00

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Marjorie Kramer

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