Maggi Randall is a Bennington artist who works in a wide variety of mediums, including ceramics, wood, fabric, oil paint and pastels. She describes her work as “darkly humorous… an expression of how strange it feels to live in such tumultuous times.”
In exploring ideas like climate change, surveillance and the global arms market, she searches for the “balance between angst and humor.” Much of her work is in clay. She says it “connects me to one of the oldest artistic mediums.” In her figurative work, she creates both tension and harmony between believable anatomy and distortion to evoke a sense of “the forces tugging us through the universe without our volition.” She finds her imagery in her subconscious and childhood dreams. In all of her art, Randall visualizes a response to the world that is both critical and optimistic.
Maggi’s work has been exhibited in both group and one-woman shows in a number of galleries in and around New York City, including the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan. Her artwork can be found in private collections as well, including a wooden alter piece commissioned by an Episcopal Church in New York and a fabric creation purchased for the Fermi Labs Art Gallery in Chicago.
Hoosick Artist Guild Exhibiting “The Metamorphosis Of Seven Chairs”
Members of the Hoosick Artist Guild have taken seven matching chairs and transformed them in imaginative and creative ways. The artists have painted them and added things to them, deconstructed them and used the parts to create works of art unrelated to chairs or made a different kind of furniture out of it. Some hang from the ceiling or the wall, or sit on the floor or a pedestal. The show is a creative exploration of form and function, definitely a different kind of artistic experience.
The opening reception for both of these exhibitions is Friday, April 25, from 6 to 8 pm. Both the art show and the musical performance are free and open to the public.
At The Owls Nest
Performing live downstairs in The Owls Nest from 7 to 8 pm that same evening will be members of the Hoosick Falls High School Senior Chorus. Bill Brown will accompany them on keyboard and Martha von Schilgen will play the violin. HFCS Chorus Director, Ambigay Yudkoff, will conduct the group.