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The LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL GALLERY is pleased to present an exhibition of works by GREGORY BLUE. A First Friday Artists' Reception will be held December 5th, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm and inviting beginning or end to an evening of Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster, with Gallery Hop Happy Hour from 4:00 to 6:00. GREGORY BLUE'S landscape paintings offer a fresh, spontaneous approach to the landscape on canvas. While figurative in nature, the images depart from reality with an abstracted vibrancy of color and juxtaposition of shape and form. "Rather than a complete abstraction of the subject," he says, "my work remains representational, rendering atmosphere and form that offers the viewer a familiar point of departure to explore the canvas, the textures, and the depth of color." HE SAYS OF DREAMS and this recent body of work: "Dreams are the manifestations of the unconscious mind. They cannot be controlled or contrived, and often make little sense to our conscious, directed thoughts." From this place, influenced by daily visual experience, the imagery is drawn. Color is often applied to the canvas without any preconceived notion of what it may become, the intuitive process leading to the final composition. The push of the boundary between real and abstract provides a certain immediacy and spontaneity of expression with a life of its own. BLUE MAINTAINS A DESIGN STUDIO, alongside painting, working out of his home office/studio in Chester Springs, PA. He has exhibited his work throughout the mid-Atlantic region, and his work is included in numerous corporate collections, including Johnson and Johnson, East Brunswick, NJ, Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Lansing, Kidder and Peabody, Philadelphia, PA, Liberty Development Corporation, Harrisburg, PA, Chester Valley Country Club, Frazer, PA, The Hankin Group, Exton, PA, and the Renaissance Academy, Phoenixville, PA. THE LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL is open daily, and is a popular space for Board Meetings and Cocktail Parties. It is suggested you call the Hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure the Gallery is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County. For more information, refer to our website, www.artshotelgallery.com. COMING UP at the Arts Hotel Gallery MID-WINTER BLUESFEST with live Blues bands and the Artist's Reception THIRD FRIDAYS in January, February and March - PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE! 
The LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL GALLERY LINDA MYLIN ROSS is intrigued by her feline companions and their characteristic playful abandon. In this recent collection of work, she captures them as "they observe, stalk, and cavort in the shadowy periphery of our domestic consciousness." In this series of drawings, she says, "charcoal is used to create the world of texture, pattern, light and dark, our wild-at-heart felines inhabit." Charcoal is a Linda's specialty and she often addresses environmental issues in this medium, drawing inspiration from the Lancaster County countryside. An earlier series, "The Turtle's View" is currently featured in the Presidential Suite at the Lancaster Arts Hotel. Linda Mylin Ross taught studio art, art education and art history at Penn State Harrisburg where she was a faculty member for 25 years. There she coordinated art exhibits in two campus galleries. She holds an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Penn State and a BS in Art Education from Millersville University. In 2008 she left teaching to shift her professional focus entirely toward her own art. She has exhibited her drawings and paintings widely in museums, galleries and regional, state and national juried exhibits, winning numerous awards. The Pennsylvania State Museum, The Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, The Demuth Museum, The Reading Museum, The Susquehanna Art Museum, The Lancaster Museum of Art and The Paul Robeson Center, State College are a few of the institutions that have exhibited her work. Her work has been included in juried exhibitions, including the Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, "Images 2001" and "Images 2004;" the Pennsylvania State College, New Arts Program; "Eastern Pennsylvania Artists' Small Works," Kutztown, PA; "Pennsylvania Artists," the Governor's Mansion, Harrisburg, PA; and the "Pennsylvania Painters and Printmakers," Penn State University. She participated in "The Annual Small Works Invitational" at Blue Mountain Gallery, Chelsea, NY: and Susquehanna Artists Invitational II at Messiah College, Grantham, PA. Penn State University, Elizabethtown College, the Harrisburg Hilton, and numerous other public collections include her work. The artist lives in her restored, historic house of thirty years in Marietta, PA, with her husband Michael and several feline friends. 
The LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL GALLERY LISA MADENSPACHER isn't new to the local art scene - she has been capturing the old and new in her paintings and drawings for decades. Her commissions are found throughout Lancaster County, the most notable being her series of car portraits for the annual Lancaster Museum of Art's "Artistry in Motion Classic Car Show and Tour". She has been the illustrator of architectural renderings for the Lancaster County Parade of Homes magazine. Recently she was commissioned to create a portrait of Navy Captain and POW, Ed Davis, which now hangs in the lobby of the Lancaster Airport. GROWING UP IN A HOUSEHOLD with a father who, among other things, was fascinated by books, advertising and all sorts of paper and ephemera, it was only natural for Lisa's art to take a commercial bent. As a young adult she avidly pursued a freelance career as an illustrator and commissioned painter, finding gratification in her art being used for utilitarian purposes. WITHOUT WARNING SOMETHING CURIOUSLY SHIFTED - Lisa became impassioned with the idea of exploring her own expression of art, rather than being stuck within the confines of a client's vision and graphic design. There was "an uneasy period of letting go of professional restraint," says Lisa, but the public's enthusiastic reception of her work has encouraged her artistic renaissance. She still accepts the bread and butter of commission work, but when time allows, prefers to paint. "I paint... and paint... and paint..." THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM BOARD commissioned Lisa to do a pen and ink illustration of the historic port in Erie, PA, which is now in the collection of the former Governor, Tom Ridge. Franklin and Marshall College have commissioned numerous portraits over the years. Lisa's extensive career has included project illustration, brochure and logo design, newspaper and magazine advertising. She illustrated a children's book for Veritas Press, entitled "Runs With Guns." She has worked extensively for hundreds of individuals, creating portraits of homes, businesses, animals and people. She says of her work, "Sometimes it crosses my mind to give up my art for the opportunity to pursue something else...to approach the world from a different perspective, or just kick back and relax. But moments later I toss the notion of quitting aside like a spent tube of paint, and forge ahead with ideas and the paint brush. Art is my oxygen." DOWNTOWN LANCASTER'S ARTWALK will be held Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19. Lisa will make a second appearance at the Arts Hotel Gallery on Saturday, from 1:00 till 5:00. Visitors will be pleasantly entertained by Lisa - her culinary wit in action as she paints in her characteristic fashion - striking colors, well-executed techniques, and enticing subjects. THE LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL is open daily, and is a popular space for Board Meetings and Cocktail Parties. It is suggested you call the Hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure the Gallery is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County. For more information refer to our website, www.artshotelgallery.com. September: Brad Stroman The LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL GALLERY BRAD STROMAN'S WORK BEGS US TO LOOK - really look. Like a portrait artist, Brad views the single leaf as "an individual with it's own identity to be recorded with a respect based on an intimate observation." He feels the study of a leaf's shape, subtle color variations, defects, impurities, and veins that create ridges and valleys on the surface offer an opportunity to understand the importance of the single as part of the whole. "In the quest for the perfect and ideal in our short human lives, we've brushed aside the gift of life in both the human community and the natural world. In our rush to satisfy daily needs, we find ourselves distanced from the intricate and delicate web connecting all living sources on earth." STROMAN has been painting his message of environmental concern for decades. The common leaf has become his symbol of choice, reflecting all that is overlooked, trampled and disregarded. In his own words he states, "For many of us, a fallen leaf imparts thoughts of raking, bagging, burning or simply ignoring. But a leaf is more than an autumn nuisance, rather it is a single element of a mass of shapes and colors that make up the form of a tree - it is significant. It represents the process of life and death and the cycle of living matter on earth. It represents man himself. Alone from the masses, the individual cannot survive apart from the larger group - the community." AN INTIMATE LOOK at Brad Stroman's work, this exhibition celebrates the process of discovery, offering drawings and sketches, words and world views, that are integral to the finished paintings. The gentle rhythm of line, and careful credence to detail accentuate the artist's purpose - experience the delicate web - be aware, watchful and mindful. Under the surface, find the edge in his voice, the indignation, of selfish, solitary living. The dichotomy of life clearly rendered, imploring your own personal introspection. BRAD STROMAN holds a BS in Art Education from Kutztown University and has pursued graduate studies through the Penn State University and Millersville University. Recently retired, he taught Art for 34 years at Lower Dauphin High School and was revered as a teacher. He received the esteemed Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Teacher as Artist Award, and taught and worked at the Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nominated by his students, he was also named to the Who's Who Among America's Teachers several times. A Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, his work most recently was awarded the Colored Pencil Society of America, Five-Year Merit Award in Ft. Worth, Texas, and the Strathmore Paper Company Award for Excellence, Ft. Worth, Texas and the Honorable Mention in Acrylics, Hilton Head National Juried Art Exhibition, Hilton Head, South Carolina. His work has been published in American Artist Magazine, The Coming of Age of Colored Pencil by Linda S. Price, and The Best of Colored Pencil, Volumes 2 and 5 published by Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Not satisfied to rest on the achievement gained through his colored pencil work and feeling limited by the medium, Brad sought a new format of expression. His desire to work larger led to an exploration of acrylic on panel as his current medium of choice. His first complete body of acrylic work, Sticks and Stones - the Millstone Series, premiered in 2001. SENDING HIS MESSAGE NATIONALLY, Stroman's works have been exhibited at the Columbus Museum of Art, Newark, Ohio, the Art of the State Exhibition, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Tatum Arts Center, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, the Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, Colorado, the Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, Virginia, the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington, the Hess Gallery, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania and the Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the country, including Boulder, Colorado, Asheville, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and Park City, Utah. He is represented locally by the Lynden Gallery in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. THE LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL  August: Ruth Bernard The LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL GALLERY NEW YORK MAGAZINE recently featured Ruth Bernard in the insider section of it's magazine, geared to the "eclectic collector of art, antiques and stylish finds." Following is an excerpt of that article: As a girl in New Haven, Connecticut, artist Ruth Bernard often visited the Yale University Art Gallery, where Vincent Van Gogh's painting, "Card Terrace at Night," impressed her with the strong use of color and brushwork. These days, the Pennsylvania-based painter employs similarly vibrant hues in her own body of work. "I've always been drawn to rich colors," she notes. "They're active, passionate and appealing. Working with drab tones really depresses me." Even so, the messages behind Bernard's paintings of lush, plentiful flowers and fruit, are not necessarily upbeat. "The Dutch used still life to suggest the wealth of the earth and it's gift to mankind," she says. "I hope to paint a still life that expresses a world of excess, abuse, decadence and greed. I want to depict the overuse of the land and its resources, and the unfortunate gluttony that exists in our society." TRAVELING FROM CHELSEA, New York City, New York, earlier this year, this exhibition features large paintings in oil on canvas in Ruth's characteristic, juicy style. Prior to it's arrival at the Bowery Gallery on 25th Street, the exhibition traveled to the Oxbow Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts after it's premier at the Lynden Gallery in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. A PAINTER AND A TEACHER, Bernard was born in 1951, in New Haven, Ct. She has taught at numerous colleges and universities throughout Central Pennsylvania, including Lincoln University, Lincoln, PA, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, and Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA. Prior to moving to Pennsylvania, she taught at Queens College, Flushing NY, and at Massachusettes College of Art, Boston, MA. BERNARD BEGAN FORMAL ART EDUCATION at the School of the Worcester Art Museum, and the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where she earned honors in painting. She chose to continue her education at Queens College, CUNY, in New York City where she graduated sum cum loud with an MFA in painting in 1989. Bernard studied with Gabriel Ladderman, Louis Finkelstein, Rosemarie Beck and Benny Andrews at Queens College and with George Nick at Massachusetts College of Art. EARLY INFLUENCES for Bernard were the work of Van Gogh, and then de Kooning and Frankenthaler. Later influences are artists such as the British painters: David Bomberg Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach and the American Stanley Lewis. Frequently the paintings start with a brilliant red ground that pulsates through the work and activates the surface from the first phases. The thick textured surface is progressively built up representing the physical embodiment of this world and the quagmire of our time. THE LANCASTER ARTS HOTEL is open daily, and is a popular space for Board Meetings and Cocktail Parties. It is suggested you call the Hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure the Gallery is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County. For more information refer to our website, www.artshotelgallery.com. COMING UP AT THE ARTS HOTEL  CHARLES HEISTERKAMP Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is pleased to present photographs by Charles Heisterkamp,III, M.D. in a premier exhibition titled "As I See It". A First Friday Artists' Reception will be held July fourth, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm and inviting beginning or end to an evening of Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster, with Gallery Hop Happy Hour from 4:00 to 6:00. Charles Heisterkamp's grandfather was a talented, amateur photographer. As a teenager, Charles often took the Long Island Railroad to visit his grandparents who lived in Hoboken, New Jersey. During these visits, he and his grandfather often toured the docks and rode the ferries to New York. When his grandfather gave him a Leica 3C camera of his own, Charles Heisterkamp's love of photography was born, seamlessly blending his artistic abilities with the good times and great vistas that the pair enjoyed together. Boats and tugs in New York harbor, the Fulton Fish market, the ferries that they road back and forth repeatedly, the hustle and energy of the city—all were captured by his lens. He began doing portraits of friends and family, and remembers a small bedroom closet that he made into a darkroom. He recalls ruining a roll of his aunt's film by exposing it to light, an early lesson that instilled patience and concentration. Never putting the Leica away, Charles continually honed his eye and skills through his college years and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Army Reserve at Penn, he interned at Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu and returned to Penn for his residency in General Surgery. He served part of his military service with the Army Medical Corps in Tokyo. The Japanese culture and landscape further honed his photography skills and strongly influenced his art appreciation and perceptions. There is ample evidence in his East Lampeter Township home of those early immersions. But far more often during his years in the Eastern culture, his lens was trained on work related to his medical career, recording such groundbreaking procedures as the first two double heart valve implants at Sapporo University Hospital. "I became more of a documentary photographer during this time, " Heisterkamp explained, "and during these surgeries the head Japanese surgeon, Juro Wada, wanted me to teach his people English well enough to come to the states." The army brought him back after three years to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C but within a year the war in Vietnam was escalating, and he was named the head of a special surgical team 40 miles south of Saigon in Dong Tam, where the 9th Infantry Division was headquartered. His documentary skills were well utilized again, providing other surgeons with pictures of the wounded that were published by the armed forces to detail the improving techniques for treating severe shrapnel injuries. After a year of wartime surgical duty, he came home just before the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. He began his general surgery practice in Lancaster in 1960, and was a member of the active staff at Lancaster General till his retirement in 2002. More than 50 years and a dozen cameras later, Dr. Heisterkamp's love of photography continues to engage him. It has been his companion across the U.S. and abroad. Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is open daily, and is a popular space for meetings and cocktail parties. It is suggested you call the hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure it is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County.  EVA STINA BENDER Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is pleased to present Eva Stina Bender, Part Two: New Work, the second half of a one-woman exhibition—Part One: Eva's Inspiration is currently being exhibited at the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Lebanon, Pennsylvania. A First Friday Artists' Reception will be held June 6, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm and inviting beginning or end to an evening of Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster, with Gallery Hop Happy Hour from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Born in Sweden, Eva Bender grew up in Umea, near the Baltic Sea just below the Arctic Circle. "The winters are dark, the summers blindingly sunny," she says. This contrast honed her characteristic sensitivity to light and dark, infusing her paintings with life. Her life long experiments with putting water and pigments on paper have allowed for the open-ended and unpredictable, which Eva cheerfully states, suits me perfectly." Further explaining, she goes on to say, "I start with reality, moving towards something more mysterious and abstract. My work has come to deal more with the quality of light and shadows - with reflections." Part One: Eva's Inspiration, on display at Lebanon Valley College, features a collection of Eva's work from 1981 to the present, alongside works of those who inspired her. Among the great watercolorists of the last century, Charles Demuth, Mats Gustafson and Carl Larsson—the last two of Swedish origin—works by Charles Burchfield, her mother, Stina Carlsson, and dear friend Cindy Dixon are included. The exhibition draws a thread of recognition and discovery thru works past and present, lending uncommon insight to this contemporary artist. Part Two: New Work, features the Eva's favorite subjects, ranging from serene trees and colorful perennials, to sun-filled interior spaces. Her summer jaunts to the Sweden on the Baltic Sea coast every summer to visit family provide the inspiration of an endless play of shadow and light. "We have a small cottage where my whole family gets together every summer. We live a simple life, play cards, pick berries, drink cider I never tire of painting the same motifs—the moss, the trees, the water, the sauna." Bender's work was included in a recent exhibition "Picturing Pennsylvania: Architecture in the State Landscape" at the Pennsylvania Govenor's Residence in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her work at the Demuth Foundation, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the Galleri Perols, Galye, Sweden, Lilla Galleriet, Umea, Sweden, and the John H. Hess Gallery, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Educated and trained as a journalist, she attended art school briefly while attending Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. She has written a column for the Swedish newspaper, Vasterbottens-Kuriren for over 30 years, commenting on life in America, called "Evastinas USA". She says of her chosen life work, ""Most of my successful work does not involve much time, but I seldom get it just right. Painting reminds me of writing: looking for the right tone, the right word - perhaps one out of twenty paintings work out." Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is open daily, and is a popular space for meetings and cocktail parties. It is suggested you call the hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure it is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County.  FLORENCE STARR TAYLOR Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is pleased to exhibit the work of the late Florence Starr Taylor, and her contemporary, Fran Williams Wagner. An Opening Reception featuring their sketches, circa 1950, will be held First Friday, May 2nd, between 5 and 8:00 p.m. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm, inviting beginning or end to an evening of Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster. Florence Starr Taylor, 1904 to 1991, an artist for the Lancaster Newspapers in the 1920's, is well known locally for her portrait painting and free hand sketches eloquently capturing a personality in a few deft strokes. Graduating from the Stevens (Girls) High School in Lancaster in 1920, she received a full scholarship at the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art as an Illustration major. She was invited to study with Louis Comfort Tiffany at his Oyster Bay Estate in the mid-twenties, whose influence of color and composition can be seen in her paintings. She became seasoned as an artist and reporter for the Intelligencer Journal from 1926-1929, then took on clients such as Hamilton Watch Company, New Holland Machine, Pennsylvania Electric Company, Franklin and Marshall College and the Lebanon Steel Foundry. In 1964 she worked as a staff artist for WITF, Public Radio and Television of Central Pennsylvania, and in 1986 was awarded the Red Rose Award in Lancaster for her tireless volunteer work for the USO, the Blind Association, Meals on Wheels, and the North Museum. Fran Williams Wagner, born in 1916 in San Francisco, California, currently lives and works at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown. Having an illustrious and prolific career behind her, she was commissioned to do dozens of ceramic, sculptural murals across the country, many of which still stand. Colorful and vibrant, a few smaller pieces indicative of her ceramic work can be viewed at the Lynden Gallery, along with the working forms in her journals. Ms. Wagner studied in Oakland at the California School of Arts and Crafts, in San Francisco at Rudolph Schaefer School of Design, in Miami with Byron G. Newton of Miami Art School, at the University of Miami with Lee Dickens, and in Eugen Massin's Studio. Additionally, she studied sculpture with Al Vrana and wood block with Larry and Carol Summers. Her works have been shown in numerous Florida galleries, the Syracuse Ceramic Annual and the Tampa State Fair. A few of her public commissions included murals for the VIP Room, Pan American Airways Clipper Club, International Airport panels in Biscayne Kennel Club, Saxony Hotel (Ivory Tower), Pompano Beach First National Bank, and Ryder Trucking Penthouse in Grove Bank, all in Miami, Florida, and the First Federal Savings and Loan in Key West and the Lady of Rosary Church, Perrine, Florida. Additionally her work was commissioned at the Prescolite Manufacturing Corporation in Arkansas, the Bacardi Bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Transportation Consultants, Inc, Washington, DC, and Furnco Construction Company in Buffalo, New York. Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is open daily, and is a popular space for meetings and cocktail parties. It is suggested you call the hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure it is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County.  NED WERT Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is pleased to host Ned Wert, in an exhibition of small works - paintings in acrylic on paper. The exhibition opens First Friday, April 4th and continues thru Wednesday, April 30th. An Artist Reception will be held during the Downtown Lancaster Spring ArtWalk, Friday, April 18, between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm, inviting beginning or end to an evening of Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster. Ned Wert is known for his gestural, abstract renditions of the colorful places he has visited all over the world. Nudging beyond literal representation, Ned manages to elementally capture the form, texture and space of a place or an object. He writes of this particular piece, "I was inspired by my sketches of views on the shore, while crossing Cook's Strait between the North and South Islands, New Zealand. Leaving Picton, there were entirely different images than what was seen as we approached Wellington." Held in corporate and private collections throughout the world, Ned is still painting, having turned seventy in 2006. A work from his 2005 solo exhibition at Lynden Gallery is currently on display with the Art in the Embassies Program at the U.S. ambassadorial residence in Skopje, Macedonia. Lessons for the Soothsayer" will remain on tour for two and a half years at the request of Honorable Gillian A. Milovanovic thru December 2007. Ned Wert taught in the Elizabethtown Area School District until 1970 after graduating from Indiana University in Indiana, Pennsylvania with a BS in Art Education and a Masters in Art Education from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. He returned to Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the early seventies as Assistant Professor of Art, then as Director of the University Museum until his retirement in 1995. An esteemed leader in the arts community, Wert has served as juror for Long's Park Art Festival in Lancaster, Central PA Festival of the Arts in State College, Lancaster Community Gallery, Mount Gretna Arts Festival, and the Lancaster and Dauphin County's Scholastic Arts Awards. For six years he was an Arts Consultant with the PA Department of the Arts Education and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. In the spring of 2004 he taught and exhibited in Stuttgart Germany and in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is open daily, and is a popular space for meetings and cocktail parties. It is suggested you call the hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure it is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County.  PAUL FLURY Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is pleased to host Pau Flury, in an exhibition of oils reminiscent of days gone by. An Artist Reception will be held First Friday, March 7, 2008, between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm, inviting beginning or end to an evening of First Friday Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster. The Downtown Red Rose Trolley makes regular stops at the Arts Hotel all evening. Reviving an era when life ran at a slower pace, Paul Flury sets his focus on family heirlooms, contrasting light, and old world charm to create his period based paintings. Having started painting in a more impressionistic style, he now finds himself entranced with the intricacy of detail reflecting classical realism. Still life paintings influenced by seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painters, including Vermeer and Van Dyke make up this collection of Paul Flury's works. He developed techniques in the spirit of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Thomas Cole. "I want the viewer to capture a sense of the time period, a sense of tranquility, life at a slower pace. I choose objects that represent nineteenth-century Americana...many are family heirlooms that bring forth a feeling of nostalgia," says Flury of the work. Paul Flury graduated from York Academy of Art, York, Pennsylvania, in 1975. He has been awarded the Best of Show and First Place in the Professional Division, Lancaster Open Art Show, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the Robert Fuller Award at the Art Association of Harrisburg. He currently lives and works in Elizabethtown and is represented by Lynden Gallery. Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is open daily, and is a popular space for meetings and cocktail parties. It is suggested you call the hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure it is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County.  ROBERT PATIERNO Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is pleased to host Robert Patierno, in an exhibition of relief prints and charcoal illustrations. An Artist Reception will be held First Friday, February 1, 2008, between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm, inviting beginning or end to an evening of First Friday Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster. The Downtown Red Rose Trolley makes regular stops at the Arts Hotel all evening. Artist and printmaker Robert Patierno has been well received throughout the art world with constantly evolving universal themes and tireless expressions. His works are often striking solutions to the chaos of existence and provide commentary on everyday occurrences in a light that may not be evident within superficial thought. Patierno often seeks to identify pockets of reality that may pass by unnoticed, or become more interesting when taken out of context. At times portrayed in a way curious or even alarming to the viewer, the charcoal drawings exemplify this thought process and inform the printmaking. Robert Patierno's work has a cyclical nature; it has the ability to lead an audience on a journey from one point to the next and back to the beginning again without pause. Although Patierno works with various media, he is most commonly identified as a master printer, specializing in relief, or woodblock printing. He has exhibited extensively in Europe, and is represented by galleries from Seattle, to the East Coast. The relief printing process, says Patierno, is a "print taken from multiple original images from the surface of a cut block. Ink is rolled onto the surface area of the prepared block and paper is applied to the inked surface. The image is then printed with the application of pressure to the back of the paper." Of his work, he comments: "Art, for me, is an attempt to make order of chaos and in this sense, my work is observational in nature. What I perceive must be simplified and readjusted, until a personal image surfaces. The Art object itself is not as important to me as the resulting conversations that occur with my audience." Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is open daily, and is a popular space for meetings and cocktail parties. It is suggested you call the hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure it is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County.  CONSTANTINE "GUS" KERMES The Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is pleased to host Constantine "Gus" Kermes, in an exhibition of paintings, People/Places - a reflection on the human condition. An Artist Reception will be held First Friday, January 4, between 5 and 8:00 p.m. Adjacent to John J. Jeffries Restaurant, the Hotel offers a warm, inviting beginning or end to an evening of First Friday Gallery events in Downtown Lancaster. Gus Kermes has been delivering intrigue and creativity to the art world for over sixty years. Well-traveled and always open to new techniques in painting, his versatility is quite remarkable. "The human figure as a part of the world around us has long been the source of paintings for generations of artists," says Gus of this series or works which are of contemplative nature and embrace universal themes. Kermes graduated from Carnegie Tech's School of Fine Arts at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has devoted extensive time to travel and continuing study, participating in workshops and studios in the United States and in Europe. A signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, he has received numerous national awards and exhibition opportunities, including a long-term relationship with the Jacques Seligmann Gallery in New York City. The Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery is open daily, and is a popular space for meetings and cocktail parties. It is suggested you call the hotel prior to your visit if you are making a special trip to be sure it is not occupied at 717.299.3000. The Arts Hotel Gallery endeavors to expose the work of established Artists to a broader audience and promote the rich fabric of the Arts in Lancaster County. |