July 11th - August 3rd, 2009 featuring
Anique Taylor (Paintings and Prints)
Lora Shelley (Paintings and Prints)
Astrid Nordness (Paintings and Ceramics)
Sally Rothchild (Pottery)

HUDSON, New York. Posie Kviat Gallery is proud to announce the opening of a new show, "Kraft-Werk", a collection of works of 4 Catskills artistes, beginning July 11th and running through August 3rd. Please join us for the Artists' reception to be held at the gallery on July 11th from 6 to 8 PM.

Anique Taylor After studying literature at the Sorbonne&Antioch College, she studied printmaking at Silvermine College of Art (AFA), Cooper Union, Pratt Institute (BFA, Highest Honors, Painting) and Pratt Graduate School (MFA, Drawing). (Post graduate studies at SVA, Parsons & BCC.) She has shown extensively in and around the Metropolitan NYC area (Bruce Museum Ct, Noyes Museum, NJ) and in her beloved Mid-Hudson Valley. Anique Taylor’s Collage Journal Series and Good Girls, delicate layers of her drawings, watercolors, prints, acrylic & oil paintings, are collaged surfaces, which she draws back into with successive layers of archival pencils to create soft gradations of color. Her faces reflect the contrast between how girls&women are perceived and how they experience themselves. Continually intrigued with abundance, detail, color and texture, she contrasts these expressions with bold juxtapositions of pattern, color and tones carefully balanced to vibrate deeply with each other.

Lora Shelley received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She spent a year abroad in the Distinguished European Honors Program of R.I.S.D. She is know for her provocative "Diner Series" -- as well as unusual perspectives and mixed media textures. Her honest portrayal of women is at once both personal and universal.

Astrid Nordness has a degree in Fine Arts from the College of Staten Island. She has been working as an artist for over twenty years. Her main focus is in ceramics, but she works in all mediums. She teaches ceramics privately. She has shown at WAAM, The Arts Upstairs, Tivoli Artists' Co-op and the Klein Art Center. Her work is known throughout the Hudson Valley.

Sally Rothchild has been a studio potter for thirty years, having participated in national juried shows. She studied ceramics at Bennington College, and from there went to New York City where for 25 years she ran a neighborhood Pottery and Studio. She very much enjoyed being part of a community business, running classes, showing and selling her work and that of others. Now working out of Woodstock, NY, she's started up a studio and is selling at local galleries and shops. She strives for her pots to convey a still beauty and meditative quality, at the same time as dynamic strength. She's greatly influenced by Japanese pottery, and her hope is that in living with her pots this quiet contemplative quality will bring joy to people's homes.