January 20th - February 10th, 2023
Please join us this Friday, January 20th from 6-9 PM for the opening of new work by Hadley Rampton and Jim Frazer on our Main Floor, and Sharon Shepherd in our Dibble Gallery.
Hadley Rampton's work rests somewhere between abstraction and realism. Her paintings are an amalgamation of her love of composition, color, mark-making and being present in the outdoors. “I prefer to work onsite where I not only see the scene before which I stand but feel its light, weather, and mood.” According to Michele Corriel, in Western Art & Architecture 2015, “In plein air painting, there is an immediacy that takes hold and guides the process. Rampton grabs hold of that energy but also combines it with a more contemplative studio approach. Painting with a palette knife using bold strokes, she breaks her subject matter down into simplified form, composed of value and color.” Drawing and painting for as long as she can remember, Rampton graduated with honors from the University of Utah in 1999. During her studies, she spent a semester in Florence, Italy, at the Instituto di Lorenzo d’ Medici studying studio art, Renaissance Art History and Architecture. Rampton also will display a few watercolor street scenes carefully drawn from photos taken while honeymooning in Malta last summer. Yes, she was finally “caught” by Paul Chung, the debonair math teacher at McGillis School!