BELLOWS FALLS — Canal Street Art Gallery presents Edward Kingsbury III, MC Noyes and the gallery’s newest working artist Debbie A. Barton’s solo shows, from June 19 through Aug. 9. There will be an opening reception for the artists this Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. during Bellows Falls 3rd Friday.
Barton, based in Springfield, Vermont, uses collage, quilting and journaling to reflect her love of rural New England, nature, train travel, vintage fabrics and untold stories. Many of the materials have “imperfections,” which become an integral part of those stories, inviting the viewer to imagine their previous makers, owners and histories. Barton prefers to use thrifted, dead stock or otherwise unwanted papers, textiles and other materials that were headed to landfills but have stories yet to be told.
Kingsbury, based out of Keene, New Hampshire, is a self-taught artist making large abstract acrylic paintings, intricate drawings and printed digital work of abstract studies in color and pattern. Making art is an expression of the artist’s practice of prayer while he works. The resulting painting is Kingsbury’s abstract representation of God, according to the gallery. His drawings are done by pen in India ink on watercolor paper as well as other surfaces such as canvas paper. The tiny interlocking lines create shapes, while leaving much white paper, then making the drawing itself into negative space. The artist’s acrylic paintings reflect a similar intricate line-made structure, now layered with opaque and transparent color in an all-over application creating a luminous woven surface. Kingsbury’s digital art often starts without a photograph, simple colors, shapes and lines manipulated with tools and filters, layer upon layer, flattened on photo editing software.
Noyes, based in Bellows Falls, uses watercolor paints that he makes himself, in a continuation of a series called Water Way. The abstract work is a daily observation of the Bellows Falls Canal, relying heavily on spontaneous-seeming brushstrokes, using carefully contemplated colors. Noyes uses a palette of over 50 colors, each made with multiple powdered pigments, and a honey-gum arabic solution.
All gallery events are free and open to the public. Canal Street Art Gallery is located at 23 Canal St. For more information, visit canalstreetartgallery.com, call Mike at 802-289-0104, or emails [email protected].
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