Marjorie Kramer and Sam Thurston Exhibition

Blue Mountain Gallery

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Blue Mountain Gallery presents the work of two artists, Marjorie Kramer and Sam Thurston, who both use the carefully observed world as a starting point for a range of expressive works in a variety of mediums. The artists work in New York City and Vermont.

Marjorie Kramer has passed through the stages of life many women do. Marrying, breastfeeding, becoming politically active, aging. The part
that might be unusual is that she has painted her way through it all, holding her paintbrush, and has been doing so since 1970. Maybe women paint the body so often because we need to reclaim our bodies from being “the other”. See Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex.Kramer is also is showing a few new paintings such as a winter back yard with wood pile.

Sam Thurston says: This show will be the first time I will be the displaying so many of my ceramic containers and pots. I started glazing clay work over 20 years ago when making reliefs for architectural spaces. Although some of them invite use (holding pencils, displaying dried pods, etc.) these containers are not really functional ware. Similar to sculpture they require the owner to participate in siting them. Similar to architecture or furniture they define the living space.

Last show I concentrated on my wood sculpture. This show I will concentrate on glazed ceramic sculpture – figures and still life. And I will have paintings, of people and still lives mostly. I feel -hope- there is a consistent ‘me’ or idea underlying the varied styles of work I show as I do not feel obligated to force consistency.

Sam Thurston paints and sculpts, working from life and imagination. Born in 1943 he lived in NYC in the ’60’s and ’70’s, then moved to Vermont. His work has been reviewed by Jed Perl in the New Republic and Ken Johnson in the New York Times, among others.

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Schedule

from April 25, 2017 to May 20, 2017
Art Talk by Sharyn Finnegan on Thursday May 4th, 7 pm. Women Imagined by Themselves and Others, Still Urgent

Opening Reception on 2017-04-27 from 17:30 to 20:00

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