KENT, Conn.—Kenise Barnes Fine Art, 7 Fulling Lane, is exhibiting “On this Fresh Morning,” new drawings by Margot Glass.
Glass focuses primarily on drawing, using various traditional methods and materials as a foundation for her work.
This exhibition features 12 homemade organic walnut ink and shell gold drawings made using fine point crow quill pens.
The exhibit continues through Sunday, July 26. Gallery hours are Thursdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.
Glass is inspired by the tradition of idealizing nature in art and design as ornaments across cultures while seeking to observe and represent her subjects as accurately as possible in all their irregularity and imperfection.
Central to her work is the exploration of ephemeral, fragile subjects, focusing primarily on weeds, “waste plants” and other plants generally considered to be undesirable, to recognize their beauty in their imperfection and asymmetry.
Her focus on these marginal plants is guided by the question of what we value, what we consider “belonging” to mean, and to highlight the beauty of what is present in the disrupted landscape that we find ourselves in today.
Margot Glass grew up in New York City, and studied at The Art Students’ League, Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Fashion Institute of Technology. Her educational and professional immersion in decorative arts history, applied textile and decorative design techniques inspired her exploration of the dynamic relationship between stylization and imperfection in representations of nature in her subjects.
Her paintings and drawings widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and internationally. Glass’s work is in private and public collections including Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon, the Weatherspoon Museum, The Del Coronado Corporate Collection, Midwest Museum of American Art, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, The Mark Parker Collection, and Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.
Her work has been published in a variety of publications and she was the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural CouncilSTARS Artist Residency. She is currently working on a site-specific commission for the Arts in Embassies program for a new US embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.
Margot Glass lives and works in Western Massachusetts and has been a visiting lecturer at Smith College in addition to other colleges and museums.
For more information, call 860-592-0220.