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Red in Downsville, 2008, mixed media, 46" x 48"

Inverna Lockpez: "Covered Bridges and Railroads"

October 2 - November 8, 2009

Opening Reception
Saturday, October 3, 5-7 pm

Chace-Randall Gallery
49 Main Street
Andes, NY 13731
845-676-4901

Gallery Hours
Thursday–Sunday, 11am – 6 pm

Book Signing at Chace-Randall Gallery, August 31, 2008.

The Noble Barn:
Paintings by Inverna Lockpez

60-page full-color book with 35 paintings, 4 essays. Summer of 2008.

Barn & Silo, 36" x 48", mixed media, 2007

Inverna Lockpez: "New Works"

Chace-Randall Gallery
49 Main Street
Andes, NY 13731
845-676-4901

Gallery Hours
Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 6 pm

Inverna Lockpez: "Journeys"

Journey, Wawaka Lake, 24" x 36", mixed media, 2006

July 1 - August 15, 2006

Chace-Randall Gallery
49 Main Street
Andes, NY 13731
845-676-4901

Gallery Hours
Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm

In this vital exhibition, every canvas becomes an event, a theme of oppositions, as the road and the countryside are manifested in energetic brushwork and confrontation between abstraction and representation.

"Lockpez's paintings embody the current circumstances in the Catskills in which the dynamic uncertainties of modern life penetrate an idyllic landscape. The scenes evoke the tension that exists between the speed of change so characteristic of contemporary life and an enduring desire for stability. The paintings hold these opposed values in equilibrium so that her latest work captures an exhilarating sense of space and movement within its affirmation of the timeless beauty of nature."
— Professor Hertha Schulze, Barnard University.

Inverna Lockpez: "The Last Barn"

The Last Barn, 24" x 36", mixed media, 2004

October 9 – November 2, 2004

The Hunting Tavern Museum
288 Main Street
Andes, NY 13731
(845) 676-3775

Gallery Hours
Tues, Wed, Sat, 10am – 3pm

In this exhibition, "The Last Barn," I continue paying tribute to symbols of farm life, which I began in my previous show, entitled "The Noble Barn," where I explored the relationship between the simplicity of man-made barns and the rugged, textural irregularity of the natural world. The barns are depicted in diverse settings, seasons, and counties, and speak of individuality and the stamp of ownership.

I use the quality of light in my pieces as a mediator to dramatize the architecture and fuse the barns with the natural world. In some paintings, like the "Hay Barn," juxtaposition and symbiosis is very present. The landscape is the source of the hay while the barn serves to meet human needs furthering mutual beneficial co-existence. In other paintings, red architecture intrudes in a muscular fashion into the blue calming softness of the sky, while still others show the old barns echoing the contour of the mountains. In restraining the voluptuous landscape, I use it as a counterpoint to communicate the barns' submission to nature. In this exhibition, the barns' endurance, with its markings of age as it begins to break down, humanizes its own shape, making us feel that we belong to something larger than ourselves; that we are part of something that goes on forever.