Icons from Nature: Gilded Images by Karen McLean
Conference Room Art Show
Karen McLean has lived and worked for over thirty years in the Princeton area where she is well known as an artist, photographer, and teacher. In 1980, McLean founded Highland Studios in Hopewell, New Jersey, offering classes in art and digital photography. McLean graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. Having completed her first oil painting at the age of five, she has continued to produce fine art images in various media to the present day.
She states, “my work is inspired and influenced by a combination of early icon painting, medieval illuminated manuscripts, 16th century Flemish painting, and details of Japanese screens from the Edo period. Using subjects found and photographed in Nature, I first make archival prints on heavy Watercolor paper, later working individually on the prints with a mixture of pastels and metallic & other acrylic paints, especially gold and copper. The original photograph provides the naturalistic and realistic detail I am seeking to contrast with the abstracted space and surface movement rendered in gilding. For the viewer, the gilding provides the possibility of a constantly changing experience of light on the pictorial surface.”
Westminster Conservatory Noontime Series
Thursday, October 20, 12:15 PM
Westminster Conservatory at Nassau will continue at 12:15PM Thursday, October 20, with a performance by the Dulcian Reed Trio. Melissa Bohl, oboe; Kenneth Ellison, clarinet; and Zachary Feingold, bassoon, are all members of the Westminster Conservatory faculty. The recital will take place in the Niles Chapel and is open to the public free of charge.
The program on October 20 comprises Rustiques by Joseph Canteloube and an arrangement of music from Giuseppe Verdi’s Traviata for reed trio.
On the November 17 Westminster Conservatory at Nassau recital Carol Comune will perform her own compositions for solo piano.
Mark Loria in Recital
Sunday, October 30, 2:00 PM
Our organist, Mark Loria will be presenting an organ recital at Nassau on October 30, 2PM, in the Sanctuary. His program will include the works of French and German masters, including the Suite for Organ, op. 5 of Maurice Duruflé.