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How to Become an Artist

Painting. Drawing.  Building.  Those were the tools Barry Mason practiced as a kid growing up in Snow Hill, Maryland. These were also the genesis of his sprawling shaped canvases which can be seen March 13th  through mid-June, 2012, at The Horizon at Fleetwood, a beautiful contemporary development with numerous amenities.  Mason’s work will be on […]

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The Tree People

Joe Wheelwright is a big guy. He thinks big. He acts big. He sculpts big. Like I said, he’s a big guy. No surprise that his sculptures in the courtyard at the Katonah Museum are at least three times his six foot three size. They are actually totem-like tree people, certainly worth a trip to […]

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Curator’s Choice

I never before saw a gold (actually brass) diaphragm, but there it was enshrined center stage at the Katonah Museum of Art winning first prize in Art to the Point, their juried show of artists’ works from around the region. This conceptual work is by Beacon artist Robert Brush who made it as part of […]

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Westchester Fish Tales

Although 2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar, for ArtsWestchester it is the year of the Fish.  There are two reasons for this.  The first is that the Chinese believe that the fish brings in wealth, and we at ArtsWestchester hope they are right. We need an infusion of arts funding […]

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If the Face Had Wheels

The paintings are scary, unreal and grotesque. There are the imaginary people who consume their own bodies or parts thereof such as the “Face Eater.” There is the “Gouged Girl,” in which a girl picnics nonchalantly on the beach. Her face and body are partly singed. You might for a moment react in disgust to […]

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