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Karen Halverson | Elisabeth LeCourt | Leslie Enders Lee The ArtistsBefore leaving Los Angeles to move to the Berkshires, I asked five California artists to exhibit their work. Since then, The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm has grown to include the work of emerging and established artists from the US and Europe.
Karen Halverson Karen Halverson, along with William Wegman, Annie Leibowitz and Sally Mann, was one of a select group of eminent American photographers commissioned by the Nature Conservancy to take photographs for the book, In Response to Place; Photographs From the Nature Conservancy’s Last Great Places, published in 2001. She is one of America’s few women landscape photographers. Among the numerous public collections in which Karen’s work appears are the Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., and The Brooklyn Museum. View Karen Halverson's Gallery
Elisabeth LeCourt Elisabeth LeCourt’s reflections of childhood are the material for her series of map dresses. As the cartographer creates maps to chart the world we are living in, the artist folds the maps to symbolize the innocence of childhood. In these graphic shapes and the names attached to each dress, there is an overlap of vestment, habitat and identity forming an intimate connection with the wearer. Born in France, Elisabeth has remained in London after graduating with degrees from Central St. Martin’s and the Royal College of Art. View Elisabeth LeCourt's Gallery
Leslie Enders Lee Leslie Enders Lee works effectively in a variety of media, selecting the materials best suited to the expression of a particular thought. Her sculpture and works on paper evoke Sumerian cuneiform characters and the ancient role of the artist as “picture writer”. In Horseplay, her sculptural series of horse heads, Lee welcomes us to her stable of horses from history, legend, sport, popular culture, language and literature. Throughout Lee’s work, there are hints of her concern for the delicate balance of nature and humankind. The leaf installations and leaf prints on wood panel, created in her recent artist residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, are a delicate balance between the beautiful architecture of the leaf and the power of artistic placement. View Leslie Enders Lee's Gallery
Luna Garcia Cindy and Curtis Ripley have created “Luna Garcia”, a production pottery and gallery in Venice, California. The table settings, serving platters and vases used in the breakfast room and displayed throughout the house are examples of Luna Garcia. A full range of Luna Garcia colors and vessel forms is catalogued in a folder in the brochure room.
Karyl Sisson Karyl Sisson’s work is part of the public collections of the American Craft Museum, New York, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Renwick Gallery at the National Museum of Art, Washington DC. She is a renowned fiber artist who received her MFA from UCLA, where she studied with Bernard Kessler. View Gallery There is a copy of American Craft with a Karyl Sisson tape measure vessel and feature article displayed in the Stonover Farm library. Karyl’s faux pots series is inspired by turn-of-the-century plastic dresser sets in which she uses old cloth tape measures to create vessel forms. She has also experimented with clothespins and zippers. In 1999, she created “Change”, the sculpture in the living room.
Leslie Thompson Leslie Thompson lives in Ojai, California, where she designed and built her own kiln. She uses high-fired porcelain, coating it with black slip (a thin clay medium that creates surface color), and then carves through the black to reveal the white surface. Her geometric images are inspired by the repeating patterns of M.C. Escher as well as by Native American weaving and basketry patterns, and American quilting traditions. Leslie minored in art at the University of Chicago and received a diploma in Ceramic Design from Caulfield Institute in Melbourne, Australia.
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