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New Artists and New Energy Emerge at Housatonic Galleries and Artists Art Walk and Group Show, August 20-21, 2011 What:             aHa! Art Walk Where:            Village of Housatonic, Great Barrington, MA When: Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August 21, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. The village of Housatonic, the mill-strewn part of Great Barrington has long been [...]

Seeds is a delightful art, craft, and fine furnishings store located at 34 Railroad Street, in Great Barrington, and the also delightful proprietress, Robin Ban, along with her husband (and extremely talented artist and sculptor) Dai Ban, is starting a gallery program within this space. Called The Window Gallery at Seeds, Robin is producing a [...]

Timeframe would likely be summer 2012, possibly in conjunction and co-promoted with Berkshire, Massachusetts area Art Walks.  Drop me a line if this sounds interesting to you. Assemblage is now a prevalent art form, but still not well known. This show-either juried or invitational-would offer New England’s assemblagists the chance not only to present  their [...]

A dark-glazed, rough textured terracotta arch affixed to the walnut and oak base via walnut and oak wood block rests; illumination is through a ceramic incandescent socket; no lenses; in-line switch. Size: 22 in. (w) by 20 in. (h) by 9 in. (d). Price: $625

Incorporates a large half-round, dark-glazed terracotta arch that features wood bark texture. Other materials include translucent Plexiglas, with art paper and small clear Lucite hemispheres applied to one side; maple, tiger maple, walnut, walnut bark, paduk, bubinga, cherry, and plywood, pine, and masonite for the base box. The lighting fixture is three 18-watt dimmable florescent [...]

Made for a desk or table surface, with direct incandescent lighting onto the surface from round cutouts underneath the lamp. Wood includes bubinga, paduk, and mahogany, with a base box made up of plywood and pine; construction is square butt joinery, using glue and hidden screws; legs are “found” Queen Ann-style, with multi-wood free-form shapes [...]

Brown and cream ceramic arch, with waving lines along its top length for texture; it is fixed to the half-round top with # 104 square hooks. Wood is curly maple with walnut. The lighting fixture is one 60-watt incandescent with ceramic socket, backed by an aluminum reflector, with in-line hi-low switch. Size: 13 in. (d) [...]

A deep brown glaze in its terracotta arch, with pulled edges long the top edges of the arch, and with matching ceramic screw hole covers, and walnut wood base. Lighting fixture is incandescent, with in-line dimmer switch, with low arch face with a Plexiglas lenses; open in top face of arch. Size: 16 in. (l) [...]

A blue-green satin glaze with dark highlights in its terracotta arch, with lumpy texture, and with matching ceramic screw hole covers, and distressed blue-dyed maple wood base. Lighting fixtures are incandescent, with in-line switch with low arch face with a Plexiglas lenses; open in top face of arch. Size: 15 in. (l) by 7 in. [...]

Green and brown terracotta arch, with crumpled-paper texture. Wood used includes ash, multi-wood pieces, and cherry. Illumination is from an incandescent fixture, with aluminum reflector; toggle-switched. Size: 13 in. (h) by 12 in. (w) by 10 in. (d). Price: $395

A short but very wide green-glazed stoneware arch forms the top, shielding the incandescent fixture and directing the light through a cutout on the bottom of the fixture base. Plexiglas, multi-wood pieces, and cherry tapered legs form the rest of the piece. Size: 14 in. (h) by 11 in. (w) by 12 in. (d). Price: [...]

A green-glazed terracotta base supports copper tubing uprights for a beaten copper cylinder shade. An incandescent fixture, with heavy-duty in-line switch is topped with a wood veneer circle, with a magnifying lens set in the center. Size: 27 in. (h) by 12 in. (round). Price: $425

Black-glazed dimple-and-peg textured terracotta arch, with oak uprights and multi-wood top and base, and ebony trim. Illumination from incandescent fixture, with aluminum reflector; heavy-duty in-line switch. Size: 16 in. (h) by 11 in. (w) by 9 in. (d). Price: $390

A stoneware – terracotta mix blue and black-glazed cylinder with embedded wire texture forms one of three the main elements, along with a 14-inch diameter glass top and a three-legged hickory, ash, and multi-wood pieces base. Pull chain switched porcelain incandescent socket. Size: 26 in. (h) by 14 in. (round). Price: $395

Presenting a wide arch of stoneware with glaze of brown, black, and green overtones, this desk lamp uses multi-wood pieces for the top and arch holders. Illumination is a single incandescent fixture with in-line switch. Size: 16 in. (h) by 10 in. (d) by 9 in. (w). Price: $425

Blue-green copper glaze with short triangle texture in bas-relief terracotta arch. Desk/table lamp uses three 60-watt incandescent bulbs (with in-line hi-low switch) in candelabra fixtures for illumination that reflects the copper tone of the top. Wood is cherry, with copper-wrapped stone for counterweight at base. Size: 18 in. (h) by 12 in. (w) by 11 [...]

The terracotta arch is beige/brown glazed, with bone-like texture. Woods include oak, ash, hickory, and cherry; lens in faces of arch is Plexiglas with art paper; light shields made of Plexiglas. Illumination comes from two separately switched sources: an incandescent fixture within the arch, and halogen fixtures beneath, fir desktop/tabletop lighting. Size: 28 in. (h) [...]

Free – standing piece, topped with a deep terracotta arch in green/black glaze. The light from this piece is through the front face of the arch, softened by Plexiglas, and through holes in the base of the lamp structure that presents indirect light unto a second surface that presents several magnifying lens perpendicular to or [...]

CF01 (Greenwood Table) This coffee table is made of walnut and cherry hardwood, with ceramic inset elements highlighted with gold-leafing on the top surface. Legs are 3-inch cherry rounds, with walnut  round cross-pieces and walnut and cherry dowels for bottom “shelf” structure.  Particular attention was paid to walnut figuring, including selection of knot-bearing pieces.  Construction [...]

CF03 (Murphy Piano Bench What does one do with limited space but a full-sized piano keyboard?  Here’s a commission that provides one answer: a “Murphy Bed” style cabinet that presents family images when folded up, and provides correct height keyboard access when down.  The body of the cabinet is poplar, painted white; photograph collage trim [...]

L22 (Bar Noir) Incorporating a free-form black-glazed terracotta arch atop of this four-foot high, 10-degree, free-standing pyramid cabinet designed to service as a movable bar. The light is provided by two vented 150-watt halogen lamps that shine up into the arch’s underside. The front face of the arch moderates light through four adjustable tiger maple [...]

Made for a desk or table surface, with direct incandescent lighting onto the surface from round cutouts underneath the lamp. Wood includes bubinga, paduk, and mahogany, with a base box made up of plywood and pine; construction is square butt joinery, using glue and hidden screws; legs are “found” Queen Ann-style, with multi-wood free-form shapes [...]

Arch Table Lamp Floor-standing furniture piece is useful as foyer illumination or, set aside a chair, as room/reading lighting. A variety of woods, including bubinga, cherry, paduk, and mahogany is used, along with plywood and pine for the base box; construction is square butt joinery, with gluing and exposed, countersunk brass wood screws; this piece [...]

This curved teak and multi-hardwood blanks and fish-scale oak trip boasts double door fronts with a bottom drawer.  The interior is upholstered in silk with carcass made of MD and plywood and shelf of thin-planed multi-wood blank.  Green-glazed terracotta a, with wood holders is placed over a top cut-out with small fitted glass bowl for [...]

Daddy’s Girl (2000) A wall-hanging assemblage within a glass-faced blue-painted maple box, with illumination at the inside top. Materials include fragment of found frame and mirror, Polaroid proof portrait of artist and daughter, post-it note, various wood veneers and wood pieces, a low-fire terracotta piece, a lens, other objects, and copper leaf. Size: 17 in. [...]