Church Street in Lenox was hopping early Saturday evening, thanks to a well-attended gallery crawl that had crowds spilling out of the galleries onto porches and sidewalks. Church Street Gallery was featuring the work of outsider artist James Martin, an 81-year-old Seattle recluse who, regrettably, was not present for his first East Coast show. Sienna Gallery's show of inspired knitwear and jewelry by the Northern California-based artist Raissa Bump drew art lovers, fashionistas (including Church Street Gallery co-owner Denise Ulick, left, whose own ensembles never fail to entertain) and an extensive network of friends-and-family of the artist, who, when she lived in the Berkshires, worked at none other than Sienna Gallery.
Church Street Gallery owner Michael Ulick with fellow "Backwater Boy" Jerry Cannoy, owner of the Lenox Gallery; Bart and Ute Arnold
Nancy Kalodner with Doug Shufelt; Amy Zuckerman and Valerie Locher
Maura Ryan, Kurt Martin, Karl Zahn, the Sienna Gallery's honored artist Raissa Bump, and Ryan Dunn
Mitchell & Rose Foster; Harry Galinsky & Rosalie Delvillar
Bob Weltzman, Debbie Anzalone, Hollie Kalkstein, and Caitlin Bump; Sienna Gallery owner Sienna Patti with her father Tom Patti
You can never be too well-prepared for a storm, even if it is hours off: Viola Sophia Quiles, Catalina del Villar Bump, and Dylan Bump
David Schecker and the always beautifully turned-out Vicki Bonnington, who came to Raissa Bump's show wearing a pair of earrings by the artist
Denise Ulick trying on a dress by Raissa Bump; Leo and Roman Quiles
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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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