A bright and cheerful spring art show will take place at Skaneateles Artisans Friday, when photographer Tim Etter, glassmaker Gretchen Hamlin and painter Lisa Noviasky unveil new work.
Jazz pianist Larry Campanelli will play at the opening, with 10 or 15 other members of the consortium attending, store manager Sally Thompson said.
“Gretchen has a lot of new work with florals that is very bright, and Tim's work is almost as bright,” Noviasky said. They had presented together last September. All of the work shown will be new.
Noviasky, a Jordan resident, has drawn and painted her whole life, now painting exclusively in oil. She completed nine new canvases, en pleine air paintings of the flowers on display among 13 huge landscaped gardens, while exhibiting at the Central New York Syracuse Blooms Show. Some are 9-by-10 inches, others 5-by-6. Her landscapes, as large as 16-by-20, include sunflower fields in Elbridge.
She also shows a series of animal portraits - three cats, including her sister-in-law's, Blossom.
Noviasky teaches occasionally in her studio in a big, old house in the Erie Canal historic district. She calls it a “hit and miss thing,” preferring to paint along with someone who already has a knack.
“I love to have somebody to paint with,” she said. “I don't do a lot of commission work. I like to paint what I want.” She tries to provide people with affordable art, painting more popular work on smaller canvases to meet that goal.
“People are looking to fill a spot in their home for a design purpose,” she said.
“That's the oil painting of my dreams,” one girl came up to Noviasky and said. The girl's mother came by a little while later and bought it for her. A couple bought another piece for their honeymoon.
Tim Etter likes this quotation by Camille Paglia that sums up his aesthetic - “The artist makes art not to save humankind, but to save himself.”
Etter has been a photographer since he was a little boy. Some of his ancestors were photographers, beginning with his great-great grandfather on his mother's side, John Diebert, a Civil War photographer.
Etter's dad gave him a Kodak box camera as a child, and everywhere he went, there was little Timmy with his camera.
“I'm still little Timmy with his camera,” he said.
“The arts have always been an important way that my family has communicated their lifestyles, their feelings, their travels, and travails, and I follow in that tradition,” he said in his bio on Skaneateles Artisans Web site.
Etter is completely self-taught. The bulk of his work is done in color. He said in the past he sent work out to be printed, often dissatisfied with the results. Eight years ago he met someone taking photos with a digital camera and went right out and bought one of his own - a little Nikon 950 2.5 megapixel model - and immediately took a closeup of an old vintage bottle he had.
Now he only uses a digital camera and is happier with the outcome because he has total control. He does his own processing, archival printing and custom framing.
Etter doesn't limit himself to a particular theme in his presentation. He likes to do landscapes and is especially interested in photographing buildings.
“I do what I like,” he said.
Cameras, computers, printers and photo paper are Etter's tools. Beyond the skills needed for these lies the heart of his art and identity. He's not caught up in the technical stuff, he said. The magic is in his appreciation of artistic principles and a unique perspective.
“I hope that my photography establishes a relationship between who I am and the viewer. Every day, each image I create sparks my imagination and evokes a feeling about the subject that hopefully transforms the ordinary into something special,” he said.
Gretchen Hamlin, on the Skaneateles Artisans Web site, calls glass a “fascinating medium,” stressing its flow and mesmerizing qualities.
“The fact that a compact cylinder of glass can be shaped and stretched to great lengths to produce many feet of potential beads is a constant source of wonder,” she said. She's sometimes surprised at the end result.
“I select high-quality and somewhat unusual findings to add more variety to the finished product,” she said. “Sterling silver and gold-filled beads add extra sparkle to the glass, while anodized niobium enhances the whimsy of each piece.”
Kathleen Barran
253-5311, ext. 238
kathleen.barran@lee.net
If you go.
What: Artist opening featuring Tim Etter, Gretchen Hamlin and Lisa Noviasky
When: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 3
Where: Skaneateles Artisans, 11 Fennell St., Skaneateles
Cost: Free
Info: Call 685-8580
“Gretchen has a lot of new work with florals that is very bright, and Tim's work is almost as bright,” Noviasky said. They had presented together last September. All of the work shown will be new.
Noviasky, a Jordan resident, has drawn and painted her whole life, now painting exclusively in oil. She completed nine new canvases, en pleine air paintings of the flowers on display among 13 huge landscaped gardens, while exhibiting at the Central New York Syracuse Blooms Show. Some are 9-by-10 inches, others 5-by-6. Her landscapes, as large as 16-by-20, include sunflower fields in Elbridge.
She also shows a series of animal portraits - three cats, including her sister-in-law's, Blossom.
Noviasky teaches occasionally in her studio in a big, old house in the Erie Canal historic district. She calls it a “hit and miss thing,” preferring to paint along with someone who already has a knack.
“I love to have somebody to paint with,” she said. “I don't do a lot of commission work. I like to paint what I want.” She tries to provide people with affordable art, painting more popular work on smaller canvases to meet that goal.
“People are looking to fill a spot in their home for a design purpose,” she said.
“That's the oil painting of my dreams,” one girl came up to Noviasky and said. The girl's mother came by a little while later and bought it for her. A couple bought another piece for their honeymoon.
Tim Etter likes this quotation by Camille Paglia that sums up his aesthetic - “The artist makes art not to save humankind, but to save himself.”
Etter has been a photographer since he was a little boy. Some of his ancestors were photographers, beginning with his great-great grandfather on his mother's side, John Diebert, a Civil War photographer.
Etter's dad gave him a Kodak box camera as a child, and everywhere he went, there was little Timmy with his camera.
“I'm still little Timmy with his camera,” he said.
“The arts have always been an important way that my family has communicated their lifestyles, their feelings, their travels, and travails, and I follow in that tradition,” he said in his bio on Skaneateles Artisans Web site.
Etter is completely self-taught. The bulk of his work is done in color. He said in the past he sent work out to be printed, often dissatisfied with the results. Eight years ago he met someone taking photos with a digital camera and went right out and bought one of his own - a little Nikon 950 2.5 megapixel model - and immediately took a closeup of an old vintage bottle he had.
Now he only uses a digital camera and is happier with the outcome because he has total control. He does his own processing, archival printing and custom framing.
Etter doesn't limit himself to a particular theme in his presentation. He likes to do landscapes and is especially interested in photographing buildings.
“I do what I like,” he said.
Cameras, computers, printers and photo paper are Etter's tools. Beyond the skills needed for these lies the heart of his art and identity. He's not caught up in the technical stuff, he said. The magic is in his appreciation of artistic principles and a unique perspective.
“I hope that my photography establishes a relationship between who I am and the viewer. Every day, each image I create sparks my imagination and evokes a feeling about the subject that hopefully transforms the ordinary into something special,” he said.
Gretchen Hamlin, on the Skaneateles Artisans Web site, calls glass a “fascinating medium,” stressing its flow and mesmerizing qualities.
“The fact that a compact cylinder of glass can be shaped and stretched to great lengths to produce many feet of potential beads is a constant source of wonder,” she said. She's sometimes surprised at the end result.
“I select high-quality and somewhat unusual findings to add more variety to the finished product,” she said. “Sterling silver and gold-filled beads add extra sparkle to the glass, while anodized niobium enhances the whimsy of each piece.”
Kathleen Barran
253-5311, ext. 238
kathleen.barran@lee.net
If you go.
What: Artist opening featuring Tim Etter, Gretchen Hamlin and Lisa Noviasky
When: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 3
Where: Skaneateles Artisans, 11 Fennell St., Skaneateles
Cost: Free
Info: Call 685-8580
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