EARLVILLE – Fall is a great time to visit the Earlville Opera House galleries.  Visit the Earlville Opera House East Gallery for a new exhibit “The Red Cross Series” by Lynette Stephenson of oil paintings that opens on Saturday with a reception for the public.  Artist Lynette Stephenson relates that the work became a connection to the loss of her family home in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.  

In her words: “This body of work deals with issues that I have been concerned with throughout my life as an artist: beauty in the mundane, the absurdity of reality and the nonlinear aspects of existence. I am interested in the ambiguity implied by the placement of the odd looking figures and the common everyday objects. The narrative suggests a tension in the unknown, as if something has happened or is about to.”  Stephenson teaches painting at Colgate University.

In the EOH West Gallery, visit our TeensArt show with hundreds of pieces by local teens from Cazenovia, Sherburne-Earlville, Hamilton, Oneida, Unadilla Valley, Madison, and Waterville schools.  There are individual entries by local teens as well as 268 pieces in The Water Project from Madison, Brookfield and Morrisville schools organized by Dierdre Purdy.