GREENFIELD — As the Indiana March weather wobbles back and forth between sunny warmth and blustery chill…as world events call for the cancellation of spring break travel plans, there is a place right here in Greenfield to escape all that: a place to find spring, to find the respite you seek from daily life. It’s the Twenty North Gallery, where the exhibit “Show Us Spring!” opens with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. March 13 at the gallery at 20 N. State St.
As chairman of the Gallery and Event Planning Committee, Carol Barrett and her team work together to create a full season of ever-changing art displays including “Show Us Spring,” the upcoming Will Vawter competition and a black-and-white themed show during the race-centered month of May.
“The spring show,” Barrett said, “is a nice reward to the artists who work so hard for the gallery with the opportunity to display their work and their love.”
The theme, Show Us Spring, challenged artists to submit a piece of artwork that in some way depicted spring, flowers or new life.
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Sandy Hall, a long-time gallery supporter, artist and former Hancock Arts board member, pointed out the one anomaly in the show: Steve Smith’s landscape of a building surrounded by snowy grounds.
“Leave it to Steve to bring in a winter scene,” Hall said with a shrug, “but he said that’s what Michigan looks like in the spring.”
Hall pointed out one of her two pieces in the show: “Roses and Violets,” a mixed media composition made from deli paper.
“Yes, the kind of paper they wrap food in at a deli,” Hall said. She took a workshop awhile back with South Dakota-based artist Jennifer Stone to learn her technique.
Barrett has a couple of pieces in the show as well. She points out an oil painting called “Spring Tulips.” Hall pointed out that Barrett’s other work, “Roses” was an oil painting over wallpaper.
Along with Barrett, Hall and Steve Smith, the other artists in the show are Doris Althaus, Sheila Barr, Diane Burrell, Janet Darling, Greg Geralds, Rachel Holmes, Cathleen Huffman, Bailey Murphy, Beth Schwier, Donna Steele, Gale Sturm, Kurt Vetters and Joan Yauch.
The art ranges from watercolor to oil to acrylic to mixed media to photography. Many of the artists plan to be at the reception on Friday, which is open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, visit hancockcountyarts.com.
