Artists, artisans, art-lovers, craft collectors, and furniture fetishists from the Rural Intelligence region and beyond gathered at The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm on Friday, August 6 for the opening of 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft. Innkeeper and gallery owner Suky Werman (left, with her brother-in-law Chris Sallom) engaged Sarah Archer of Greenwich House Pottery in NYC as a guest curator to create a series of domestic vignettes in her 110-year-old barn. The exhibit, part of the new ArtBerkshires initiative (spearheaded by Leslie Ferrin and Sienna Patti), blends mid-century modern art, decorative objects, and furniture with contemporary pieces to create a vision of a Berkshire bohemian hideaway. The show remains on view through October 17, by appointment only.
Paula Superti and Mark McDonald of the Mark McDonald gallery in Hudson with gallerist Leslie Ferrin; sculptor Joe Wheaton with his partner, Dick Lipez, and sculptor Susan Rodgers.
Lenox dancer and Pilates instructor Karen Lee with Berkshire Living's Mary Garnish; David Schecker & Vicki Bonnington.
Lenox art dealer Denise Ulick with Berkshire Museum communications director Jeremy Goodwin.
Photographer Kevin Sprague with curator Sarah Archer; not-for-profit consultant Philip Deely & actress Hilary Somers Deely.
Amy Zuckerman & Morey Brown with their daughter, Talia Rose Zuckerman Brown; Jewelry designer Melanie Bilenker with Ryan Hancock and their son Quinn.
Photographer and color consultant Paul Mutimear with Eliza Chase.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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