Studio is holding an open house on Aug. 15 for prospective sculptors
Inside a cozy, well-lit art studio, Bonnie Kamhi is spritzing a chalky-ooking boulder with a bottle of water. With each droplet that hits the stone, a part of the dusty exterior is washed away and a bit of color revealed. Green, gold, blue and red — the flecks are the natural variations of alabaster. Each hunk of stone is different, its possibilities hidden behind an outer crust. Kamhi, who is a partner and teacher at Cre8tive Sculpture Studio in Long Branch, is in the midst of shaping the rough hunk of rock into a graceful form where calla lilies seem to be grow right out of the stone. When she is finished shaping the piece she'll polish it to a shine and all its colors will be revealed. Behind Kamhi on another work station is a taller, …
Rebecca Harper’s Nantucket Wild features oils and watercolor wash ink drawings
Rebecca Harper received a homecoming of sorts when the Middletown Township Public Library hosted an opening reception for her Nantucket Wild oil and ink medium art show recently. Harper’s roots are in Monmouth County, as her father and mother are longtime Middletown residents. But her home and muse are now in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Harper explained that her technique, being a matter of working at a relatively quick pace, was borne out of necessity. “I was employed by Senator John Kerry; specifically I worked for Mrs. Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, which was very much a 24-hour-a-day job,” she said. “After the 2004 election, when he didn’t win, things sort of fell apart. Then I went to work with a gentleman who has Alzheimer’s, as an aid — …
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Judi Sapero Tavill
9:08 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
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