CLICK Presents: Paintings by Heather Gendron
Paper Works | Greta Kessler & Marguerite Belkin
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10th 2021, 5-8pm | Live piano by Ken Forfia and Cello by Vernon David
Heather Gendron was born in upstate New York in 1972, grew up in southern New Mexico, and in 1994 received her BFA from Purchase College in New York. She has been a professional arts librarian for over twenty years heading arts libraries at three large universities. After moving to New Haven, CT five years ago, she established a regular studio practice in her home studio.
“My work typically begins with an image that is generated intuitively through smaller sketches or paintings. Sometimes it starts with a word or a phrase, or a story from a dream. I draw inspiration from a wide field: gardens, feminist thought, comic art, and the work of self-taught and folk artists. I use color to express experience, feeling, and alternate worlds. The figures in my work are often in different states of becoming. They exist at the beginning of the world or after the end, both places for re/generation.”
Paper Works | Greta Kessler & Marguerite Belkin
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10th 2021, 5-8pm | Live piano by Ken Forfia and Cello by Vernon David
Greta Kessler attended the Rhode Island School of Design and studied printmaking, collage, textile history, design, and graphic arts. She was trained as a jewelry designer at Coro, the world renowned costume jewelry designing and manufacturing company in Providence, Rhode Island. Kessler is a consummate craftsperson and continues to create in textiles and weaving; embroidery and basketry; woodworking; beading, collage, origami and papercutting.
Marguerite Belkin is a paper sculptor whose work has been shown and sold nationally, including Fuller Craft Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts , Click Workspace and Forbes Library. She began by studying origami with Japanese and American masters, and created a wide range of popular origami jewelry sold in numerous local and national venues. Her interests later expanded to paper sculpture, assemblage and relief.
