August 9–September 8
Reception for the Artists, Saturday, August 9, 5-7pm
A natural artistic fit, painters Susan Dibble and Jim Youngerman have been in the same orbit of creativity for much of their respective professional lives. On the faculty of the Theater Arts Department at Brandeis University for over 30 years, Susan is also a founding member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA where she has worked for the past 43 years as a teacher of movement and dance for actors, movement director and choreographer.
Jim Youngerman has participated in over 60 art shows locally, nationally and internationally from the 1970’s to the present, and is in many prominent collections. Well known in the theater world, Mr. Youngerman is also an award winning stage and set designer having worked with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA for almost 20 years.
Says Dibble of her work, “When I paint, these people, places, objects, furniture, animals, landscapes, water and flowers all become my friends, and provide me with a link to language that is often very satisfying. My eye is drawn to movement and groupings, lines and shapes, and how bodies take up space and fill the arena with action and meaning. Painting provides me with the opportunity of fill the space of a canvas instead of a stage. I see the world inside and outside, and yet the world of the unknown takes charge and I am propelled into the mystery of imagination and new stories and images that are revealed to me when I put brush to paper or start a dance with a dancer in an open space.”
Known locally and nationally as a fine artist working primarily in watercolor, ink and graphite on paper, Youngerman’s work has been recognized as brilliant, lyrical, surreal and often humorous. His work is deep yet whimsical and employs visual commentary on everything from politics to the environment and to our relationship to the animal kingdom.
