Rehoboth Art League exhibits to open with receptions April 1
The Rehoboth Art League will open three new exhibitions in the month of April: Susan Callahan: Kitchen Stories; Kate Meyer Fitzpatrick: The Abstraction of the Eastern Shore, Land & Sea; and Brandon Hirt: Monochromatic Delaware.
The art league will host receptions for all three exhibitions from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, April 1, inviting anyone interested to visit the Corkran, Tubbs and Ventures galleries to see these new shows.
The Corkran Gallery will be displaying Susan Callahan’s work. Callahan worked as a professional chef for 30 years, combining her passion for culinary arts with three-dimensional craft. Callahan’s kitchen landscapes are made from digital photographs printed on cotton, then hand-painted and machine stitched. The series starts early in the day and illustrates the daily activities of working on a kitchen production line. The collection is primarily black and white to resonate with the stainless-steel landscape of a commercial kitchen.
Works by Kate Meyer Fitzpatrick will populate the Tubbs Gallery. Fitzpatrick approaches her work by inventing from nature, combining a variety of textures and shapes blended with quick brush strokes to achieve a sense of lost and found. “While I have a vast fascination with the changing seasons, I like to push the boundaries of realism to abstraction. My work will move from loose realism to the more abstract aspects of each piece's composition,” said Fitzpatrick. She is constantly drawn to the sea, salt marshes and coastal lands, with the Eastern Shore’s natural beauty being the perfect place for her to find inspiration.
Finally, the Ventures Gallery will turn black and white with a collection of photographs by Brandon Hirt. Pulling away the colors brings more attention to the things that are basic and mean the most to people, with nature being the most basic and most essential. Spending the past year and a half as a volunteer photographer for Delaware State Parks, Hirt has been able to spend quality time in nature, seeing the changes in the environment from the sands at Cape Henlopen to the big trees at Brandywine Creek.
The exhibitions are free and open to everyone during the regular gallery hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday. The Rehoboth Art League will continue to follow all local and CDC COVID safety guidelines for operating.
