On October 5, CRAFT Gallery opens its final show of the 2018 season with “Erasing the Line Between Fine Art and Craft” in celebration of October’s National Craft Month, the show will run through November 7. It is a group show of work by Maine masters Morris Dorenfeld, Lynn Duryea, Paul Heroux, Sara Hotchkiss, Lissa Hunter, David Jacobson, Jan Owen, George Pearlman, Jacques Vesery and Dudley Zopp. These fine artists use craft materials and techniques to create their art. They demonstrate aesthetic, technical and material diversity, from age-old traditions to current technology. The techniques and materials range from drawing and painting, weaving, basketry, sculpture, glass blowing, porcelain, terra-cotta and wood.
Paul Heroux, maker of vessels, uses modern laser techniques to create surface decoration, using the ceramic vessel as a 3-dimensional painting surface referencing landscape, plant life and other ever-evolving subjects that interest him. Lynn Duryea, another ceramic artist, takes a structural approach, using construction and assembly techniques to build minimal geometric shapes with terracotta slabs and unadorned surface techniques with dry glazes in soft mellow tones. The results are simple, expressive and echo architectural forms of the past. Rug weaver Sara Hotchkiss borrows from the the rug tradition of hand manipulated tapestry technique, incorporating star, leaf, heart, flower and diamond motifs, combining the color fields of rag rugs with geometric tapestry techniques. All of the group are award winning artists who are collected nationally by major art institutions. Many of the artists will be present during the First Friday Art Walk on the evening of October 5th. The show will continue until November 7th when CRAFT closes for the season. CRAFT Gallery is located at 12 Elm St. Rockland, ME 04841. FMI please call 207 594 0167 and visit www.craftonelm.com.
