July 24, 2013 – August 17, 2013
Opening reception on Friday, July 26, 2013 from 6-9 p.m.
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| Kerry Hirth at the piano with Nella Fantasia, Pastel on canvas, 12 X 48 |
ARC Member Kerry Hirth is an artist and musician with a natural ability to hear musical harmony in color. She uses that blending of experience to convey the beauty of songs and instrumental music in long, colorful pastel paintings. The paintings in the series This Land is Your Land are her effort to go beyond the harmony, or chords, she hears to other dimensions of music such as melody and lyrics.
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| Water Lily Stems - Scarlatti Sonata in C# Minor, Pastel on paper, 12 X 36 |
The series takes its name from the well-known Woody Guthrie tune, which she has used as the basis of many of the paintings. The lyrics to Guthrie’s song contain references to the natural environment in the United States, including forests, valleys, and deserts, as well as the sunlight, sky and water that surround us. The paintings of This Land is Your Land use color, instead of words, to honor and reflect our natural surroundings. Look for the colors of sunsets, birch trees, green wheat fields and butterfly wings, as well as the Badlands, the Missouri Ozarks, the arctic and the fiery surface of the sun.
Perhaps the best way to explain how and why I created these paintings is that after studying music for so many years, I truly began to see musical patterns in nature. I could transform the experience of music and give it a sense of time and place.
See more of Kerry's work on her website at www.kerryhirth.com
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