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Helen Corning Abstract Paintings on view through August 11


OPEN during Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk, Aug. 5, 5-8pm

Jean B. Chalmers Art Gallery Monday - Friday  9am-5pm,
Aug 5, 9am-8pm – or upon request

Helen Corning's paintings are on view through August 11.   And the artist will also be present at the gallery during Rockland’s August 5, First Friday Art Walk.

A new Thomaston transplant from Washington DC, Corning maintained studios around the world including Tokyo Japan, and Ein Hod, Israel.  For the past 30 years her studio has been in Kensington, Maryland. This past winter she moved to Thomaston, Maine, and set up a studio at the Lincoln Street Center in Rockland. 

Painting large abstract canvas’s with a spare palate of earth colors, her works have been called “poetic” and “immediately outstanding” by the Washington Post,  “prophetic and full-bodied, like Haikus envisioned” by the Montgomery Journal, and the Boston critic, Mable Colgate noted one of Corning’s shows as “Strong assurance and with restful simplicity.  She imparts a feeling of truth and rightfulness.  One will remember this.”    

Says Corning, “As I grow older, and wiser (?) I become more questioning about all things, including art. The enjoyment of doing art is very much still there. The enjoyment of the results however changes with time and place. __To me, “less is more.” A year spent in Japan reinforced that philosophy. I find overload everywhere. I strive for elements that “suggests” but do not “INSIST.” I want the person looking at these paintings to discover, at leisure what it is all about and maybe between us, we can share these ideas.  I still call the paintings, “Haiku.” Haiku being a very concise short poem that has a lot to say.”

Corning’s work has been recognized with one person and juried shows, and exhibitions among others at the Touchstone and Picasso Galleries in Washington DC, Atheneum Gallery in Alexandria Virginia, and the Glenview Mansion in Rockville Maryland, as well as The Corcoran Art Gallery and Pan American Building, in Washington DC, as well as numerous Bicentennial Exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution.   Her work is in the private collections of the Wetizman Institute, Israel; Sohio Collection, Washington DC; Bell Atlantic; Federal Bank of Baltimore; Howard Hughes Medical Center, Virginia.   She has been an artist fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, and Banff Centre for the Arts, among others. She is recognized as a master teacher who has taught art at the University of Maryland and for the past 20 years, led one of the areas most popular abstract painting classes at Glen Echo’s art colony in Maryland.

The Lincoln Street Center provides the arts for everyone. Offering affordable classes, wide-ranging exhibitions, studio space to working artists and special art-related events and performances.  Lincoln Street is a supportive environment where people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities can study, create, and present all forms of art. Through educational programs, opportunity outreach and exhibitions, Lincoln Street Center brings people together and enhances community life.


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