BELLOWS FALLS — For this year's holiday edition of Bellows Falls 3rd Friday art night on Friday, Dec. 18, Canal Street Art Gallery (CSAG), 23 Canal St., will spotlight Corinne Greenhalgh through Jan. 2.
On that same date, “LIVE Online with the Artists,” a Facebook Live event with Greenhalgh, will take place at facebook.com/canalstreetartgallery/live.
All live events are also published to the Events page at canalstreetartgallery.com.
CSAG has launched Online Viewing Rooms, an interactive feature that streams more about each artist's inspiration and process, explores detailed views of selected artworks, and sees the artists in their studios.
Greenhalgh is presenting an installation of her prolific work encompassing her oil painting, her embroidered text on found linen, and a new series of collage: “Our Family: The Bliss Family Album.”
Her predominantly abstract paintings explore texture and color and shapes and lines, often alluding to a psychological quest or struggle.
Greenhalgh's embroidered text pieces offer a more literal subject, focusing on cultural commentary. The artist finds hand-embroidered antique linens and, in saving them, honors the cultural heritage of the women who made them and forwards them into modernity by embroidering quotes and lyrics.
In “Our Family: The Bliss Family Album,” a found-object collage project, Greenhalgh uses the original 19th-century cabinet-card portrait photos of an abandoned family album, along with pop-culture and modern imagery. This series includes artist prints presented alongside the original photo album.
This holiday season, CSAG is donating 1 percent of its profits to a fund for the restoration and maintenance of existing public art in Rockingham.