August 9–September 8
Reception for the Artists, Saturday, August 16, 5-7pm
Artist Talk Friday, August 22, 5-6:30 pm
Fauna art has long been meaningful in human culture, providing inspiration, symbolism, and spiritual connection. Throughout history, animals have been depicted in art across various cultures and civilizations, often representing concepts such as strength, wisdom, or the divine. In contemporary society, fauna art plays an essential role in shaping our understanding of the natural world and our relationship with it. For this show we’ve gathered three artists with wonderfully different ways of depicting Fauna in paint, glass and clay.
Childs + Clark Gallery presents Ann Getsinger, Richard Jolley, and Alison Palmer in “Fauna and Form”. The show runs from August 9 through September 8, with a Reception for the Artists Saturday, August 16, from 5-7pm.
Ann Getsinger, one of our local art stars, will grace the walls of the gallery with her paintings and drawings of observed live animals and what nature has seen fit to present to her of the animal afterlife. With skill and grace Getsinger breathes life into even the most inanimate of once animate beings. Classically painterly in technique and surreal, precise, and otherworldly in content, Ann is one of our most respected and revered Berkshire artists.
We are thrilled that Richard Jolley, a master glass artist for over 50 years, with works in the collections of Carnegie Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Knoxville Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, among others, will be joining us with a collection of his impeccably crafted birds and dogs.
Long a fan favorite of Clark’s, we are finally featuring the singularly wrought ceramic works of Alison Palmer. Palmer is a well known and beloved Connecticut artist known for her beguiling depictions of animals, whether hand-built atop a covered box or carved onto a plate. Of her work, Palmer notes, “My goal is to make unique, functional and lovable pots. Animal imagery underpins all of my work whether animals decorate the plates, bowls, platters and mugs or animal sculptures are assembled from thrown or hand built pieces”.
