I applaud my colleagues and their creative spirit alongside the deft hand of Zoe Randall. In memory of pictures this past year and in sight today, I see a wider orbit of vigor evident in every exploration. Our exuberant faith in creativity speaks.

I note that a "New Blue" was discovered and produced by one Mas Subramanian, Chemist at Oregon State University. An addition to the color wheel and in short order, a pastel will be made. I await its arrival on my drawing table with great curiosity.

Based upon my reading of "The Little Prince" I continue a Series of Drawings, now six. Shapes arise to form as the atmosphere evolves. The value of the Series Structure is that it propels my abstract drawing story about a particular idea or family of ideas, over a period of time. Evolution is exhilarating. I write my ideas in my composition notebook, otherwise known as The Drawing Galaxy Guide. The Guide serves as a repository of forms and marks, thoughts and ideas, color combinations and automatic drawings.

Perhaps the Little Prince will appear in abstract life this springtime.

Meredith Rosier

Dear Artists

Dear Artists: This blog, truly a need for our visitors to hear your voices, invites you to respond. I'm ready to dismantle waterfalls by Mariella Bisson and Meredith Rosier, always sad to close a show. Yet I am simultaneously excited to see the walls pop with Inverna Lockpez's Covered Bridges--hanging tomorrow. So you see, with all the prep, I won't be blogging anytime soon. I will breathe after Inverna's opening reception, 3 Oct, 5 - 7, to which you are all invited. So what do you think, you brilliant bunch of artists?

Artist Blogging and Queens Museum Visits

Okay, perhaps you are tired of my voice alone? Not to worry. Exchange ideas with Chace-Randall Gallery Artists, who now have my password to initiate blogs for your artistic and intellectual pleasures. Share with them ideas about their work as they post and comment on each other's work.

To close Perspectives, a few photos from our last Monday's bus visit from the Queens Museum, including Executive Director Tom Finkelpearl, posing before Christie Scheele's Contrasting Shapes, oil on linen, 24" x 72", as the Queen Museum recently acquired River Crossing with Skyline, 30" x 50", oil on linen, for their permanent collection.

45 wonderful and appreciative museum directors, curators and staff peopled the gallery, enjoying the art work--curious about the Catskill Mountain art scene, in general. Lemonade and chocolates were served. See QM Education Director Lauren, CR Gallery Director Zoe and QM Executive Director Tom break intense conversation for a group shot.

Perspectives closing already!

I thought turning exhibitions over every 4 weeks would keep the gallery fresh, hopping. Yet, this one-woman band can hardly keep up. And my initial idea that folks have so many social and cultural options in the western Catskills, that 6 weeks is really needed to see a show, was, indeed correct. Here I sit, on a too gorgeous afternoon for anyone to leave their garden or pond to gallery hop, especially after all the June rain and chill, with Perspectives, new paintings by Christie Scheele, closing next weekend! I'm not ready--of course, excited about the incoming exhibition, but just not ready. Next season back to the old ways.

btw, Christie will be here in the gallery Saturday, 11 Jun, for a closing reception, 3 - 5 p.m. So many of you were disappointed not to meet her on the day of her opening--a deluge of rain.

The work is gorgeous!

Living in place

Surrounded by Alberto Rey's Biological Regionalism, Trout, Catskills, series, I am permeated with the idea of living in place, so much so that I need to adopt/steal the concept for this gallery as a whole. Indeed, if each of our artists did not live in the place of their light, subject matter, intellect, technique and emotion, the work on these walls would not sing true (and would not be so highly sought after, by collectors and museums, alike). For the artists at Chace-Randall, however, it is bigger than the Catskills. Our street photographers, Keith Cardwell and Ira McCrudden, for example, could not render--what did Vince Aletti say about McCrudden: worthy of Lisette Model...?--such brilliance without living in place, be it Havana, Cuba, NYC or Hong Kong.

Living in the place of my tiny garden today, digging at the nondescript bush that had to go (I have poppies and want more flowers in my only spot in the sun), I fell back, for a moment, into living in my so different place of 20 years ago. I loosened the bush, and tied it to the tow bar on my Volvo. I pulled it across the street. A NYC firefighter watched the rope break. He dug for me: Tom, now retired to Margaretville.

Tom retired from the 25 ladder truck, W. 77th Street, where my children slid the pole, set the siren, and whirled with the lights within the firehouse. I had a school girl's crush on one of the men. "Dead," Tom told me: World Trade Center.

I moved to another place momentarily. I watched the towers fall and remembered my flight to the mountains. Yet, this living in place, always mindful of past places, builds. It allowed me to build this gallery.

I still mourn the lives lost.

"Trout" opened last evening! 10 gorgeous paintings by Alberto Rey. I feel like I could cast my rod in the gallery parlor (that's if I could tie a fly). Runs through 7 Jun. Please visit.

Spring

Finally spring in the mountains! And a new season: Alberto Rey's gorgeous Trout paintings positioned on the floor--all speaking to the issue of Biological Regionalism, of living in place, of these streams, these mountain creeks, our wild brown and brook trout. So painterly, very much about the peace of the environment and the fly fisherperson who ties and casts. Monday I hang, unless I can't resist Sunday night. A a bit sad, however, to dismantle our current show, a group exhibition, in which hang my personal favorites, one piece playing against the next, completely subjective...Trout reception 2 May, 5 - 7. See you there!