Le Salon des Artistes, THAT First Friday & celebration of National Painters Day with THAT Artist ALISON SCHERR

Whittemore - Community, Culture & Conservation & The Hunterdon Art Tour (THAT)

Invite you to:

Le Salon des Artistes

THAT First Friday Open Studio & A Celebration of National Painters Day

Featuring WCCC Artist-in-Residence Artist ALISON SCHERR

Artist DEMO:

3:00pm

5:00pm

Young Artists are welcome!

I TAKE THE BEAUTY THAT I SEE AND DELIVER IT TO THE VIEWER. NO ONE COULD CREATE THE PAINTING I MAKE, NOR COULD I PAINT SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEA. I LOVE THIS ABOUT LIFE. SO I LOVE GIVING PEOPLE A WINDOW INTO WHAT I SEE. 

Before I begin, I spend time outside in nature, and inside museums. The architecture, history, stories and natural images bubble up together and create new ideas. Growing up, I spent hours in museums and pouring over art books.

Recently my process has included an awareness of my own movements and laying those in marks across a piece. This has pushed me to make paintings that are larger than I am. I interpret the movement of light and patterns in nature, images unaltered by the human hand. My work contains elements of the unfinished and abstract.

Each painting has a story, a hidden message. This is left to the viewer to discern, it's a personal inspiration, unique to each thought.

BIO

Alison Scherr is a New Jersey based artist with work in private family collections and institutions such as SJG Properties in Washington DC, where a commissioned piece hangs in the lobby of their Southern Building, adjacent to the White House. Scherr has exhibited her work in venues including Riverside Gallery, NJ, The Other Art Fair - Chicago, Bloomfield College Gallery and the Han Horse, NYC. She was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center. Scherr studied photography and received a BFA from Syracuse University. After college, she moved to New York City where she worked as a photographer then segued into a career as a prop stylist, styling sets for clients including Jameson, Conde Nast & Bloomingdales.

Scherr's experience as a stylist enhanced her natural inclination to look beyond the expected. Now a full time painter, Alison uses industrial materials as her canvas, juxtaposing them with natural graphic elements. She interprets the movement of light and patterns in nature, images unaltered by the human hand. Her work contains elements of the unfinished and abstract.

Organic Coffee & Tea by Black River Roasters

Fresh Baked Pastries from Oldwick General Store