Ashley Norwood Cooper "Down from the Hills"

First Street Gallery

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"Down from the Hills," an exhibition of paintings and works on paper of life in the Catskill Mountains by Ashley Norwood Cooper, will be on view at First Street Gallery.

"Sometimes the country is scary" said the artist's six year old son, staring out the car window one moonless night at crooked houses, abandoned barns and ancient hills. The feeling that he was expressing has been noted by artists and writers going all the way back to Washington Irving. The Catskills are strange, mystical and, frankly, a little creepy.

Ashley Norwood Cooper's quirky, narrative paintings of rural family life capture that strangeness. In this exhibition families raise their children, weed their gardens, and go about their business while nature looms close and the skeletons of the past lurk never that far away.

[Image: Ashley Norwood Cooper "Deer in the Headlights" casein on wood (2012) 24 x 36 in.]

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from April 24, 2012 to May 19, 2012

Reception For The Artist on 2012-04-28 from 15:00 to 17:00

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