Art Gallery Exhibit

The Art Gallery at The Lodge at Woodloch encourages and celebrates the artistic endeavors of local and regional artists. Artists currently on display in the Art Gallery include:

• Claudia Mengel

  When asked to describe what inspires her creativity and influences her visual interpretations, the endlessly inventive and exuberant Connecticut artist Claudia Mengel says, “My work comes from not looking, but experiencing the world around me, and then translating these visual and emotional perceptions. With every creation, there is a new discovery, a new problem, a new solution. Every time I approach the blank white space, I take a unique journey always unlike the last, and never like the next. It is what keeps me coming back.”

• The artist’s fluidity with form and color, her placement and choice of reds that thrust and dance, juxtaposed next to quieter, cooler colors, create a dynamic harmony, the kind that works well a the Lodge at Woodloch. Claudia has an art degree from the Brainerd Art School at SUNY; her studies continued at the Art Students League in New York, the Silvermine Arts Center, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and the Darien Art Center, as well as with several noted private instructors: Robert Reed, Professor of Art, Yale University; Constance Kiermaier, a prominent New England artist; Master Printer Marina Anacona and Master Printer Anthony Kirk, who has printed with major American artists including Helen Frankenthaler and Wolf Kahn.
  
  

• Pam Connolly

  The artist Pam Connolly has always been captivated by how things age. “As a photographer, I have been looking through the lens of my cameras, attempting to capture the dark and incessant beauty that the passage of time etches on my personal landscape: objects, children, and the wilderness that surrounds me…My images reveal the essence of a place by capturing the striations left behind, whether in my backyard, a windswept ruin, or in an overgrown forest.”

• The artist graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1983 with a BFA in Photography and was awarded the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement. She has exhibited throughout the New York area including Soho Photo Gallery, the New York Camera Club and Spazio522 in Chelsea. These photographs are printed on 100% cotton rag paper fabricated in France on an Epson printer with an archival pigment ink set. The photographs are matted with an 8-ply archival museum board. They are further protected from the elements with a high quality non-glare museum glass. This collection of prints is offered in an edition of thirty.

For more information about the artists, please inquire with the concierge or contact Kiesendahl+Calhoun: Nancy Kiesendahl 914-741-2573 or Camilla Calhoun 914-332-4842 www.kandcgallery.com