Hushed: newworks by Eustacia Marsales and Christine Rodin

Autumn, encaustic, by Eustacia Marsales

Pear, sepia-toned silver gelatin, by Christine Rodin

The Chace-Randall Gallery presents Hushed, new works by Eustacia Marsales and Christine Rodin March 30 – May 6. The exhibition includes works in encaustic by Marsales and sepia-toned silver gelatin prints, as well as landscape photography, by Christine Rodin. A reception for the Artists is Saturday, Mar 31, 5 – 7 p.m.

Christine Rodin has been a professional photographer in New York City for 24 years. She specializes in still life and landscape, shooting in black and white and in color. Her limited edition still life prints are shot with a Diana camera, rendering a wonderful hushed vagueness of subject. They are sepia-toned and printed on warm photographic paper. Her “grainy” landscape photographs are all taken in upstate New York. They were shot with a 68 year old small negative camera, rendering tiny color prints that are scanned and then printed on digital watercolor-type ink jet paper. The frames are one of a kind antique frames bought in flea markets and antique stores in and around New York City, giving each print a unique quality.
 
Ms Rodin attended Boston University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where her work is a part of their permanent collection. She had a one person show at the Nicholas Davies Gallery in New York City in 1997 and was part of two group shows at the Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York, in 1995 and 2003. She has been featured in articles in Idea Magazine (Japan), Popular Photography, Zoom Magazine, and Art Matters, (the magazine of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Eustacia Marsales uses the ancient medium of encaustic, a hot wax process, to create expressive figurative images that are both personal and universal. “Wax is additive and subtractive, a push-pull of opposites that echoes the struggling rise to consciousness. Drawing, erasing, re-drawing, scraping, overlaying, incising, building up and pairing down, encapsulating the essence of life. The questions are ancient and universal. The visual responses hopefully resonate with the viewer and reveal the common thread that binds us together in the human experience," says Marsales. Her evocative paintings work on many levels, at once visually powerful and hushed.

Eustacia Marsales has exhibited her work in numerous solo exhibitions in New York City and Texas, including The Art League of Houston and 494 Gallery, NYC. Locally her work has been exhibited at the Delaware Valley Arts Center, Narrowsburg, NY. Her group exhibition history is equally impressive, including the Alternative Arts Mueum and Pulse Art Gallery, NYC, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, and Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston. She received her MFA degree from New York University and her BFA degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

The Chace-Randall Gallery is located at 49 Main Street, Andes, NY. Summer gallery hours: Thursday - Sunday and Holiday Mondays 11-5; and by appointment. For more information please call 845.676.4901 or visit www.chacerandallgallery.com.