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Current Exhibit
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The Lodge at Woodloch Winter 09 - 2010
Nov 21 - Mar 12, 2010
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The current seasonal exhibit at the Lodge at Woodloch in Hawley Pennsylvania features Claudia Mengel and Helga Olsson, whose story is below.
CLAUDIA MENGEL
The endlessly inventive and exuberant Connecticut artist Claudia Mengel says: “My work comes from not looking, but experiencing the world around me, and then translating these visual and emotional perceptions. With every creation, there is a new discovery, a new problem, a new solution. Every time I approach the blank white space, I take a unique journey always unlike the last, and never like the next. It is what keeps me coming back.”
The artist’s fluidity with form and color, her placement and choice of reds that thrust and dance, juxtaposed next to quieter, cooler colors, create a dynamic harmony, the kind of that works well at the Lodge at Woodloch.
Claudia has an art degree from the Brainerd Art School at SUNY; her studies continued at the Art Students League in New York, the Silvermine Art Center, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and the Darien Art Center, as well as with several private teachers. Currently she is studying with Robert Reed, Professor of Art at Yale. She also studies and works with Constance Kiermaier, a prominent New England artist, Master Printer Marina Anacona, and Master Printer Anthony Kirk, who has printed with major American artists including Helen Frankenthaler and Wolf Kahn.
HELGA OLSSON
The light and reflections on water, together with the few dry, stubborn leaves remaining on the trees, remind us of how one season folds into another. Winter is clearly upon us, and with the cool and warm colors of this image, we find a sacred quality and mystery that makes our eyes wonder and wander through this solemn stream along the woods, reminding us of continuity and timelessness.
Helga Olsson was born in Syrau, Germany one week before the start of WWII. At the age of 10 she came to America. After graduating from Teaneck High School and Beloit College, Wisconsin she moved to Closter in 1963 where she founded an art school in her home and taught for nearly 35 years. She has worked artistically with portraiture of children and then moved to still life and flower paintings. It was only after the death of her beloved dog Julie that she began to paint landscapes such as this image, at the Closter Nature Center where they took many walks together.
The artist says: “My strength has always been realism and I continue to feel true to this fundamental point of view, modernizing and reinventing the genre as I grow”.
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