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March 4 - April 2, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 5-8pm Friends and Pets Leslie Bowen Leslie Bowen will exhibit mixed media paintings in her exhibit entitled Friends and Pets. After spending the last six years delving into memories of her childhood and her parents, she wanted to paint something that would be fun, lighthearted and humorous. Her new series focuses on her friends and their pets. Bowen uses photographs to create the compositions and embellishes the paintings with cardboard, glitter, sequins and other materials found in her studio. After Vienna...Self Portrait Mixed Media Other Places The Echo Valley Art Group The 2006 annual member exhibit for the Echo Valley Art Group is entitled Other Places. The idea behind the theme for this exhibit came about from discussions of all of the travels of the various members, and the variety of images that has been inspired by those travels. Other Places can be places outside the artist's familiar domain, either real or imagined, that inspired the artist to create. The group's intent is to present an exhibit of work that reflects new places, foreign places, places with that feeling of "otherness" that transcend the norm. The Echo Valley Art Group is an organization made up of a maximum of 25 professional artists of a broad range of ages and styles. The current roster of active members includes Carol Anspach, Dan Burns, Ann DeLaurentis, Reed Dixon, William Early, Hubert FitzGerald, Bruce Fry, Jim Gallagher, Carol Galligan, Susan Gottlieb, Caroline Henderson, Joann Hensel, Kenneth Hoak, Robert Hustead, Constantine Kermes, Kenneth Kirsten, Robert Lyon, Carol Morgan, Richard Ressel, Peg Richards, Abby Rudisill, Carol Shane, Scott Spangler, Ronald Sykes and Richard Whitson. Reed Dixon Other Places 2 Oil on canvas Ceramic Wall Work Beverlee Lehr Beverlee Lehr will exhibit recent clay wall sculptures in her exhibit Beverlee Lehr: Ceramic Wall Work. The Palmyra artist’s sculptures are crafted in modules that are individually glazed and fired. Lehr spent most of the early part of her career making functional pottery, but when the color and form she was experimenting with did not harmonize well on functional pieces, she turned to three-dimensional wall hangings hand-built with clay slabs. Lehr makes each module with slabs of stoneware clay that she presses into molds she has designed and constructed. Each module is a hollow box with the top varying in height from one to three inches. The areas where the modules interface form a three-dimensional grid creating the illusion of a continuous surface. Lotus Ceramics