BELLOWS FALLS — Three businesses in downtown Bellows Falls - Works on Paper, Vermont Pretzel and Cookie Company, and Corrine's Fine Tailoring - are joining for an exhibition of watercolor and oil pastel paintings by Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Linda Striedieck.
Striedieck's latest pieces evoke the colorful shapes and rhythms of the world around us. The forms in her paintings are organic in the sense that they emerge and evolve out of themselves. Color is used to indicate direction and structure of the shapes. A premise of the work is that shapes, by their relationship to one another, evoke a language.
Striedieck received her Master's in Fine Art from Penn State University in 1964. She exhibited in the mid-Atlantic region until 1984 when she moved to Nuernberg, Germany, and then to Berlin. The seemingly effortless use of paint in building images and the bold impact of German Expressionism have been an influence on her work ever since.
Her work has been shown in Brattleboro and Bellows Falls since 2000. Since 2008, she has been living and working in Brooklyn.
Works on Paper for an artist's reception on Friday, Feb. 18, from 6-8 p.m., as part of Bellows Falls Third Fridays. The paintings will be on display in their gallery through March 31.
Additional paintings will be on display across the street at Corinne's Fine Tailoring.
More of Streidieck's new paintings and driftwood sculptures by Phyllis Rosser will be on display at the Vermont Pretzel and Cookie Company. Rosser's intertwining pieces have been compared by New York Times critic Barry Schwabsky to “the muscular brush strokes of Abstract Expressionist painters like Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning.”
Vermont Pretzel will host an artist's reception on Friday, Feb. 18, from 5-7 p.m., also as part of the Bellows Falls Third Fridays event.
Works on Paper is an art conservation studio specializing in the preservation of artistic and historic works on paper. The front of the studio at 7 The Square was recently converted to gallery space to feature the work of local artists who also work on paper. The studio and gallery are open Monday and Friday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., or by appointment. Vermont Pretzel is open Monday-Friday from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Corinne's Fine Tailoring is open by appointment only.
For more information about Striedieck and her work, visit www.lindastriedieck.com.