COLORAMA
Whitcomb’s Gallery
January 7 through February 28
Gallery Hours
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
10am-3pm
Come hang out by the wood stove, use the wi-fi, bring your lunch, work, read, etc.
A group show that revels in riotous colors in the middle of the gray months of January and February (apologies to the sublime grays and browns of winter).
The show features seven artists from around the Adirondacks working in a wide variety of mediums - oils and watercolors, stencils and spray painting, 3D printing, hand knit and embroidered clothing, paintings on found materials, quilts, elaborate doodles and self-described “hi-fi cave art.”
OPENING PARTY
Wednesday, January 15 from 5-7pm
Meet the artists and enjoy spicy winter drinks, experimental hors d’oeuvres, music.
ARTIST BIOS
Andy Mitchell is a self-taught artist originally from Elizabethtown, currently living in Lake George. Constant drawing and creating have been a common thread throughout his life. Besides canvas, Andy paints on whatever materials inspire him – ironing boards, skate boards, furniture…. He attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City where he lived in an RV for two years to avoid paying rent.
Louise Patinelli retired to Lake Placid after a career in education and mental health on Long Island. She continues to learn and mature in many artistic mediums (oil, watercolor, pastel) through daily study and practice. For Louise, art presents new “what ifs”, “why nots”, “maybes” that make each day richer and more meaningful for her.
Caroline Thompson moved to the Adirondacks 45 years ago to live a lifelong dream of having a small farm of sheep and goats, then later llamas. She majored in Fine Arts at SUNY Cortland and served as the Executive Director for the Arts Council for the Adirondacks for 24 years. She has always been drawn to colors and studied natural and chemical dying. Color combinations in the natural world, however unlikely, fascinated her and screamed for duplication in her fiber creations.
Susan Granfors is a fiber artist living in Westport. She has shown her unique, organic embroidered textile/fiber art in the 2024 Spirit of Place Art Show, Westport, and the 2024 Small Works Show, TI Arts, Ticonderoga. Susan is “drawn to fiber: painting on it, weaving it, cutting up and putting it back together, creating wet-felted wool fabrics and, most recently with great joy, creating sculptural embroidered art.”
Kathryn Cramer took up quilt-making in the early 1980s and has recently returned to it. During the pandemic, she began experimenting with stencil spray painting and multi-color 3D printing. Her current work is a fusion of those two methods. She holds a Master of Design from OCAD in Toronto, a MS in Complex Systems & Data Science from the University of Vermont and a BA in Math from Columbia. She is an award-winning science fiction editor and lives on a 7-acre apple orchard in Westport with many animals.
Charlie Reinertsen, founder of Twolined Studio, has worked in the field of conservation and science communications for more than a decade. He is a photographer, videographer, writer, exhibit developer, naturalist guide, and drone pilot with a dual Master’s Degree in Natural Science Education and Environment & Natural Resources from the University of Wyoming. Charlie’s dramatic, large-scale photographs of peat bogs in the Adirondacks will play on a loop on Whitcomb’s large screen media player, along with a 4 minute video about his Northern Peatlands Project, a photographic journey through one of the rarest ecosystems on Earth.
Jennifer Moore began creating colorful, elaborate “doodles” as an antidote to a very busy life as a music teacher, performer and lifelong student. In her professional career, she has happily taught music to PreK-12 for 15 years in the Northern Adirondacks and has performed internationally, with a special focus on choral music. She is currently working on her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Education at Boston University, focusing on rural music education research.