Wayne County Arts Alliance announces new exhibit

The Wayne County Arts Alliance announced the opening of a new art exhibition: “Earth Echoes.” The show will be on display from April 3 to May 3 at the WCAA Gallery (959 Main Street Honesdale). On April 5, the gallery will hold an artist talk at 3 p.m., followed by the opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

Naomi Teppich, curator of this exhibition, would like to present the Wayne County audience with unique views of nature as experienced by four artists: Robyn Almquist, Pamela Casper, Naomi Teppich, and Alice Zinnes. These artists have been selected because of their talent, how they experience nature as it contends with climate change, and their political activism.

Robyn Almquist, who lives and works in Livingston Manor, NY, paints trees and mountains and makes lenticular printings showing the change in the landscape from a calm scene to a raging wildfire. She often adds linoleum cut images collaged to her casein paintings.

Pamela Casper, based in Brooklyn, NY, and Masonville, NY, offers intricate pencil and charcoal drawings of tree branches and nests, oil and watercolor paintings, as well as abandoned three-dimensional nests in barbed wires and mixed media. She is fascinated by the subterranean life below the ground.

Naomi Teppich responds to mushrooms, both drawn and colored, and floral-like stoneware sculptural fungi. Her work beckons this organism to recycle our soils, enter symbiotic relationships with trees, and to save our forest environments. Her studio and home is in Damascus, Pa.

Alice Zinnes, based in Brooklyn, NY, and Milanville, Pa., in her oil paintings and watercolors responds to myths and stories that transform mysterious worlds, where the boundaries between underworld and waking earth are traversable. Terror coexists with joy, and loss yields to renewal.

The gallery’s regular hours are Thursdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, visit waynecountyartsalliance.org.