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An artist cooperative in beautiful Milford PA. Our open space gallery has a diverse collection. Oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, photography, sculpture, ceramics and jewelry are some of the unique pieces you will see. Our friendly gallery has one of a kind gifts and creative works for you home. Come see us!
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Celebration of Figurative Art
Reception Saturday, August 9th from 6-9 pm
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Figurative painting is alive and well in the hands of artists Kate Horan and Laura Lippay, the featured artists for the ARTery Gallery’s month-long August show. Horan began her studies in Fine Art at the Maryland Institute of Art and continued at the School of Visual Art (NYC) and the Art Students League (NYC). She holds a bachelor’s degree in English/Art History from Trinity College, Washington, D.C. and did graduate studies in Fine Art at SUNY, Buffalo, New York. Lippay worked in technology for twenty-five years (eighteen of which were in Silicon Valley, California) before making the decision to become a full-time artist in 2024. Lippay’s art education includes studies in advertising design, graphic design, and select courses from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, PA. Both Horan and Lippay’s work can be found in collections nationwide.
Kate Horan can be labeled a semi-abstract expressionist. Her style is loose, both in her use of painted line and application of her medium. She invents and distorts. She constructs her figures using knowledge from her years of drawing experience. Never a realist, she feels knowing the basics has given her freedom to use them or discard them with conviction. Horan takes care with her titles and they may suggest a narrative at play. Her work can be political, or psychological, or social commentary, or just fun. She describes her process as creating a puzzle to be figured out. She scans for ideas and pays attention to even a random thought and asks: “Can I make something of this?”
Laura Lippay’s paintings are designed to bring out the inner sparkles of light in velvety souls, inspire introspection and contemplation, and even evoke feelings of playfulness, romanticism and fortitude. Lippay’s creative side is fueled by spending time in cities, deserts, mountain towns and small towns around the world, being inspired by rebellious and magnificent people, seeking adventures at every chance, and constantly exploring the edges. She works primarily with oil, acrylic and occasionally watercolor and ink, always exploring a variety of techniques.
You can enjoy the remarkable work of Kate Horan and Laura Lippay at the ARTery gallery from August 7th through September 8th. The public is invited to visit with them and enjoy refreshments at their opening reception Saturday, August 9th from 6-9 pm.
The ARTery Gallery, located at 210 Broad St. in Milford, PA is a cooperatively owned and operated fine art gallery located in the historic Forest Hall building. It features an ever-changing variety of fine art and crafts. The gallery is open Thursday through Monday from 10-6 pm. For more information call (570) 409-1234 or go to www.arterygallerymilford.com .
Artistic Curiosities in Milford
Reception Saturday, September 13th from 6 to 9 pm
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If you are looking for a fresh, new art experience, you’re sure to find it this month at the ARTery Gallery’s September art show featuring new work by two of its members: oil artist Barbara Alice Moir and structural design artist Bill Rabsey. Visitors to the gallery are most familiar with Moir as a representational landscape painter of scenes from the northeastern United States and Europe. But she also enjoys piecing together elements of design and texture to form interesting abstractions. In this show, Moir presents two abstract pieces based on her macro-photography of the bearded iris. The combination of Moir’s imagination and the strokes of her brush transcend the iris into a new, bold, yet serene Moir-type construct she calls “Florafusion.” Likewise, local art lovers are familiar with Rabsey’s unique standing-structures and framed art—all originating from his wide travels up and down the east coast. But this month, he, too, takes us in a new direction, farther than ever before—to local and regional evidence of unknown mysteries from outer space.
Barbara Alice Moir has painted all her life, first as a student at Eldred Central School in Sullivan County, NY; then as a mother and housewife living in the Berkshires of Massachusetts; and then as a public school band and choral director in New York and Florida, mostly during summer vacations. When Moir retired from teaching music in 2002, she was living on a secluded island in the coastal wetlands of Florida where she finally had time to begin a more serious pursuit of professional outdoor photography and oil painting. In 2005, she moved to Jackson Heights in Queens, NY where she exhibited and taught painting at the historic Jackson Heights Art Club before acceptance into the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, one of the oldest art clubs in the country. Moir creates her own reference material by taking hundreds of photos of fields, forests, winding roads, mountain cliffs—anything that catches her eye. Lately, she’s been filling her camera with images of clouds, birds, and sailboats from her travels along the Jersey Shore. These new areas of interest serve to widen the scope of Moir’s new work premiering at this autumn show.
Bill Rabsey enjoys repurposing things he finds during his earthly travels. In his view, “You have to search for and find all manner of objects and save them. Ordinary objects become much more interesting once their purpose becomes altered. Then the viewer sees the object in a totally new context.” When you look at Rabsey’s finished product, you can’t help notice that Rabsey loves and honors “old stuff,” especially extremely rare items ranging from aged and worn plumbing parts, to assorted gauges, to collections of old door knobs. There’s no doubt that Rabsey is a master at displaying his treasures in clever ways to delight the art enthusiast. But lately Rabsey is moving his art in a new direction as he has become an avid collector of objects from outer space. He is especially interested in curiosities from the 1932 Pine Bush, NY debris field resulting from the K2-18b extraterrestrial debris. Rabsey is an associate member of the secretive K-2 astrologers group called the Kidder Club. “They all have secrets,” he says. But in our favor, Rabsey will be sharing some of his cherished secrets from space in this show as new pieces of art.
The Moir and Rabsey show, Artistic Curiosities, will be a month-long exhibit starting Thursday, September 11th through Monday, October 6th, open Thursdays through Mondays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Barbara Alice Moir, Bill Rabsey and Bill’s wife Allison Rabsey (who regularly displays her beautiful collection of original hand-crafted earrings and necklaces) will be at the ARTery Gallery for the opening gala Saturday, September 13th from 6 to 9 pm. As many of you have learned from past receptions, Bill Rabsey is quite the storyteller. The public is invited to attend this free event which includes complimentary refreshments.
The ARTery Gallery, located in the historic Forest Hall at 210 Broad St. in Milford, PA, is a cooperatively owned and operated fine art gallery, serving the regional artists and art lovers since 1996. The gallery features a wide array of artistic talent ranging from traditional oil, watercolor, and photography to sculpture, jewelry, textiles, pottery, and collage. For more information, call (570) 409-1234 during gallery hours.
