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"Tree Series" Acrylic Paintings by Caryl Stone Pareja

Exhibit open now through December 13, event time listed is for the opening reception. Located in The Esther Raushenbush Library Gallery.

The artist says of her work: “After being a sculptor and stone carver for 25 years, followed by 5 more years of making constructions out of tree roots dragged from the bottoms of dried lake beds in New England, my hands rebelled and started to look like the gnarled roots that I was working on. After increasing pain, my orthopedist told me I had to give up my life as an artist. Fat chance! After considerable reflection I decided I would switch mediums and paint what I’d always dreamed of: trees! My passion and love of them has been forever. The paintings, numbered in the order of their creation, grew and evolved with each new canvas. And as you can see, the sculptor in me lives on in the thick, raised accretions of paint that are then sculpted on the canvas to capture the solidarity, strength, and beauty of trees. This is my first show of my painting from the first to my most recent, which evolved into a painting of clouds. Who knows where this may continue to flow.”

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