Youngsville, NY – “Betty & Me, a Prelude” will open Saturday June 1st at Domesticities in Youngsville. This very local show features pastels by Elizabeth Harms and bentwood sculpture by Kevin Gref, artists who live and work in nearby Jeffersonville. The opening reception begins at 4 pm.
Elizabeth Harms received her MFA and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been exhibiting her paintings and pastels for more than 30 years in various solo and group exhibitions. Solo exhibitions include New York’s Paul McCarron Gallery, Condeso/Lawler Gallery and 55 Mercer; Jersey City Museum and Jupiter Gallery in New Jersey; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, New York. Of her work, she says, “All of my work is truly, purely abstract or non-objective or non-representational. Many times I have been stimulated by the colors or shapes in nature. The environment is always a constant source of inspiration and can be something as simple as the light and shapes of snow on the hills in winter.”
Kevin Gref received his BFA from University of Buffalo, specializing in Sculpting. After retiring from a career as a carpenter, he returned to his artwork with the opening of his studio Jeffersonville Steamworks in 2013 where he began to experiment with steam-bent white oak, cherry, and other hardwoods. His work has appeared in group shows at the Orange County Art Society, Catskill Arts Society, and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, was featured in the Broadway production of Harold and Maude and also is part of the private collection of actor Mark Ruffalo. Gref presently is working out of the studios of accomplished abstract painters Elizabeth Harms and Douglas Craft.
Their work will be on display through the end of June.