Stockade Arts
Stockade Arts features samples of the creative arts of or by residents from the Stockade and links to the artist's websites. Artworks are displayed with the permission of the artists. Send submissions to Jennifer Wells
Catherine Norr
Stockade Neighbors
Catherine Norr's whimsical pen and ink line drawings invite us into her secret garden
to see, with fresh immediacy, the delightful faces, figures and spirits of the everyday
natural world around us. Sometimes mischievous, sometimes poetic and tender, her
black and white visual "short stories" capture a moment in time, communicate
a simple, personal emotional energy and leave the viewer smiling.
Catherine DeSalle
Sometimes the paintings are reflections of places I've been, and at other times I let the paint take me wherever it wants to go. In winter, I buy flowers and put them in bowls all over the house. I look at them for a long time, and at some point make an attempt to capture their tender fragility on paper. I don't always succeed, but I always learn more about the subject, and more about the paint as well. In summer I like to do sketches outdoors, and also to memorize things I've seen, and then go back into my studio to paint them. Sometimes inspiration comes in just a glimpse of color. A doorway. A red kite. The blazing gold of rudbeckia in the garden, the pure cobalt sky of a cloudless sky.
The images seen in my paintings are merely fleeting bits of memory, filtered
down through my brain onto paper. In the process, I use watercolors, water
color crayons, India and sepia inks, pencils, papers I've saved for decades, and
scrapes of yarn or fabric. Many of these items have been used in the collage
that is depicted here. I also delight in using oils on pure linen, and straight
forward watercolor on very wet rag paper.
Trine Glaever
Moon & River Cafe, 110 South Ferry Street
A native of Niskayuna, inspired by high school art teacher Frank Vurraro,
Trine Giæver went on to major in illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and
for her senior year, attended RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. Moving to
New York City she worked as a computer graphic artist/illustrator at the Associated
Press, The New York Daily News while finishing graduate school at the New York Academy
of Art with a masters in painting. She also attended various classes at the Art
Students league, the National Academy of Art, Pratt, and Parsons. Now married with
children she paints at home, freelancing in illustration and exhibiting paintings
whenever possible.
Her goal in her paintings is to capture a certain light that gives one
a feeling that you can't quite put into words, without being sentimental. Much like
music or a scent can send you somewhere that you can't quite recall, all you know
is you like being in that place.
"A work of art is the artist at the time he creates it. When the artist goes to a medium it is confidence and life that is reflected. The assimilation of life, their education, their experiences, their appreciation of the Old Masters as well as the excitement of the work yet to come."
Human Rights activist of renown, Mabel has traveled to Cube where she photographed Fidel Castro and the glories of this island nation. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2006, she spent weeks aiding the clean up effort. Her photographs display a side of human nature that bring empathy and understanding to a world too often ready to respond with irrational violence.
Reflex-ions
Interpretive photos, photo reductions and drawings of places and
people of the stockade.
Reflex-ions is an interpretive photo reduction of stockade neighbors as viewed through
the window of the former Arthur's market. Available as limited edition signed
prints in black on white, black with sepia highlights on white, or as full tone
sepia photographic print.
My art is all about mood and atmosphere....The mood I'm in when I'm creating and
the atmosphere of the finished piece....
I let the fluid movements of brush and paint take me away to wherever I need to
go at that moment. I do not plan a direction for what a piece may look
like. It really is a dance of unconscious energy.
I usually only paint during the winter months when the cold just won't let
go and I crave the teasing warmth of spring. There is something about swirling a
brush around on a snow white canvas and filling it with warm colors that let's me
shake the cold.
I'm also very selfish when it comes to my artwork. I have a hard time letting a
piece go. Although I like to share the creative experience, I never intended for
my art to be made for financial gain. I make it for the enjoyment of the creative
process. I make it to decorate my home and I make it to lift my spirits and
to enhance my life. Basically it's that simple.