CAS launches ’23 with show of 3 sculptors

By Manor Ink Staff

Livingston Manor, NY – Despite frigid temperatures, numerous art enthusiasts turned out for the Catskill Art Space’s first opening of the 2023 exhibit season on Saturday, Feb. 4. Visitors took in work by Samuelle Green, Lizzie Wright and Judith Henry and attended talks by the three artists.

Each artist has a unique approach to sculpture. Green uses thousands of pages from discarded library books to create extraordinary free-form sculptures that transform exhibit spaces. Her largest piece, evident to passersby in one of the gallery’s front windows, is one of several built on location using a wooden framework covered with inverted cones of book pages. That huge piece even has an opening that allows viewers to enter it.

Wright creates sculptures of light using steel and glass paired with scrap materials that achieve an eerily spiritual mood in their darkened gallery space.

Henry utilizes a vast array of found materials to make her clever anthropomorphic forms. Two entire walls of the CAS gallery held scores of these small figures, a testament to the artist’s productivity, ingenuity and imagination.

The exhibit continues through Saturday, Mar. 18. The CAS is located at 48 Main Street in the hamlet, and its hours are Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. To learn more, visit catskillartspace.org.