From The Dirt to The Skies: Meredith Mallwitz-Meyer
From the Dirt to the Skies is a group exhibition featuring new works in painting, drawing, and printmaking from four of Main Street Arts’ gallery artists — Pat Bacon, Chad Grohman, Meredith Mallwitz-Meyer, and Lanna Pejovic. The artwork is inspired by fog-laden lakes, wooded paths, gardens, and objects plucked from nature. Executive director and curator Bradley […]
Adriano Valeri
My name is Adriano Valeri, and I’m participating in Main Street Arts show de/composition! I was born in Milan, Italy, and when I was eight years old my family relocated to Quincy, MA, a working class city south of Boston. As a birthday present one year, my parents enrolled me in an after school art class held in […]
Meet Emily Tyman
Emily Tyman, artist in residence at Main Street Arts, during the months of October and November2018, is working in one of our two studio spaces on our second floor. We asked Emily some questions about her work and studio practice: Q: Tell us about your background. I grew up in Geneva, NY and went to college at the University of Rochester. […]
Meredith Mallwitz
The series of landscape paintings featured in the CULTIVATE exhibition is about the simple, unassuming beauty of the relationship between a horizon line, the light of an expansive sky and the changing mood of the day. When I see a landscape that inspires me it can be because of the glow of the light coming through the clouds that […]
Matt Duquette
Being a 40-year-old commercial artist and graphic designer, gallery work has always been an idea in the back of my mind. I haven’t dedicated much effort to painting and showing because most of my creative energies are spent in the day-to-day of a design and illustration studio in Buffalo, NY. The gallery seems to be […]
Cherry Rahn: Stalking the Wild Still Life
I have lived in Geneva, NY since 1981, but I’ve spent time in many other places, including the UK, and many years in Canada. My first solo show was at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1989, after taking some studio courses there. I made sculpture for the next 20 years. My medium, subject matter […]
Meet Cathryn Leyland
Cathryn Leyland is an artist in residence at Main Street Arts! She’s working in one of our two studio spaces during the months of September–October 2016 (you can stop by the gallery to see her studio and work in progress). We asked Cathryn a few questions about her artwork, life, and more: Q: Tell us about your background. A: I grew up in the […]
Denton Crawford
Most of my family is from the Southeastern U.S. My father was in the military so we moved around a lot when I was a kid. By the time I was 18 I’d spent half my life over seas. I received my BFA from the University of South Florida in 2007, and my MFA from […]
Trina May Smith: Chasing the Work
I grew up in Missoula Montana, a liberal arts college town nestled in the Rocky Mountains. As a kid I wanted to be a writer and was always writing stories and poems. In seventh grade I wrote and typed a 15 page single spaced story for fun. I read constantly, and just knew that writing […]
Karen Sardisco
Tell us a little bit about yourself. You are a professor at MCC, an exhibiting artist, guest curator of various exhibitions, how do all of these things relate? My teaching and my work as a practicing artist have always been intertwined. I am a full time faculty at Monroe Community College in the Visual and […]