Spinning a tale of Nature
Just a quick note to let you all know about a beautiful exhibit that will not be around for a whole lot longer. Sarah Prochownik is showing gorgeous new paintings at Art Dialogue Gallery on the corner of Linwood Avenue and North Street. For this exhibit her work is paired by works on paper by her late husband, Walter Prochownik in the second gallery. Walter was a beloved professor at the University of Buffalo for many years. The exhibit includes works on paper that have never been exhibited before. He commissioned a number of murals while he was alive, and there are a number of sketches for murals on exhibit.
Sarah Prochownikis work is particularly interesting to me though. She and I have been appreciating each otheris work since we first met at Buffalo Arts Studio in 2001. We both look for movement and use line to sculpt the space of a painting. Sarah and I are separated by a generation or two age wise, but amazingly enough, we have a teacher in common. Leonard Baskin was a master printmaker. She had him at Smith College, and I later at Hampshire College (both in the iHappy Valleyi in western Massachusetts). Baskin was all about drawing. I can remember him yelling at me, iIim not interested in your color studies!i about a landscape painting I was trying to show him. He kept pushing the drawing. Sarahis work tells us that draftsmanship was his emphasis for the more than 50 years he taught.
Donit miss Sarahis paintings, evocative of nature with calligraphic marks spinning a tale about the movements of nature. The exhibit remains through Friday, June 3. Gallery hours are Saturday 11 am to 3 pm and Tuesday through Friday 11 am to 5 pm. Art Dialogue is located at One Linwood Avenue, at North Street.
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