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!