Artwork auction benefits Colorscape
NORWICH – Time is running out to buy a raffle ticket for your chance to win an original signed painting from nationally-renowned abstract expressionist painter Jonas Gerard. The raffle benefits Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival.
Gerard’s work has been exhibited all over the United States and abroad, and is in numerous collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, World Bank, Siemens Energy, Worldwide Nissan, Price Waterhouse, and Sassoon Fashions, among others.
The 30x30 framed acrylic painting, “Lavenderous,” is currently on display at Made In Chenango on 20 South Broad Street in downtown Norwich. The drawing will be held during NBT’s “Business After Hours” on Dec. 8. You need not be present to win.
Tickets are on sale at Made In Chenango, and NBT offices in Norwich, New Berlin, and Sherburne. You can also call Colorscape at 336-FEST.
Tickets are $5 each, five for $20 or 15 for $50.
“This is a great opportunity for art enthusiasts and collectors to buy a painting from a nationally-renowned painter that could possibly only go up in value as time goes by,” said Peggy Finnegan, Colorscape’s Executive Director and Visual Arts Coordinator.
Wrote William Zimmer in The New York Times, “Jonas Gerard’s work is filtered through his Mediterranean sensibility. Who’s afraid of color? Certainly not Gerard, whose paintings evoke the sunset, the ocean and the meandering of tropical vines. The grace and cosmopolitan ease of Gerard’s art lies in his witty linking together of disparate elements.”
“For me, freedom of expression creates happiness which is in the pulse of every brush stroke. The freedom to express produces inner sensations that allow my spirit to take risks. I create happy accidents that open the non-judgmental space for letting the painting go where it wants to go. The whole concept is to allow energy to direct you,” Gerard says.
Gerard was born in Casablanca, Morrocco in 1941, of French and Brazilian ancestry. He is basically self-taught. His medium is acrylics on canvas, mixed-media and found objects collage.
Colorscape is a free outdoor festival held in downtown Norwich the first weekend after Labor Day, with over 90 juried artists and crafters selling their wares in an interactive atmosphere that features artist demonstrations, literary and arts activities for all ages, student art exhibits, a competitive poetry slam and the finest in creative food, all accompanied by the rolling rhythms of professional musicians from across the U.S., Canada and Europe.
This project/program is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Chenango County Council of the Arts.
Gerard’s work has been exhibited all over the United States and abroad, and is in numerous collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, World Bank, Siemens Energy, Worldwide Nissan, Price Waterhouse, and Sassoon Fashions, among others.
The 30x30 framed acrylic painting, “Lavenderous,” is currently on display at Made In Chenango on 20 South Broad Street in downtown Norwich. The drawing will be held during NBT’s “Business After Hours” on Dec. 8. You need not be present to win.
Tickets are on sale at Made In Chenango, and NBT offices in Norwich, New Berlin, and Sherburne. You can also call Colorscape at 336-FEST.
Tickets are $5 each, five for $20 or 15 for $50.
“This is a great opportunity for art enthusiasts and collectors to buy a painting from a nationally-renowned painter that could possibly only go up in value as time goes by,” said Peggy Finnegan, Colorscape’s Executive Director and Visual Arts Coordinator.
Wrote William Zimmer in The New York Times, “Jonas Gerard’s work is filtered through his Mediterranean sensibility. Who’s afraid of color? Certainly not Gerard, whose paintings evoke the sunset, the ocean and the meandering of tropical vines. The grace and cosmopolitan ease of Gerard’s art lies in his witty linking together of disparate elements.”
“For me, freedom of expression creates happiness which is in the pulse of every brush stroke. The freedom to express produces inner sensations that allow my spirit to take risks. I create happy accidents that open the non-judgmental space for letting the painting go where it wants to go. The whole concept is to allow energy to direct you,” Gerard says.
Gerard was born in Casablanca, Morrocco in 1941, of French and Brazilian ancestry. He is basically self-taught. His medium is acrylics on canvas, mixed-media and found objects collage.
Colorscape is a free outdoor festival held in downtown Norwich the first weekend after Labor Day, with over 90 juried artists and crafters selling their wares in an interactive atmosphere that features artist demonstrations, literary and arts activities for all ages, student art exhibits, a competitive poetry slam and the finest in creative food, all accompanied by the rolling rhythms of professional musicians from across the U.S., Canada and Europe.
This project/program is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Chenango County Council of the Arts.
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