Artists’ Cooperative Opens THIS & THAT,
a “Neo Post-Modern” Exhibit
Prepare to have your eyes opened. The Washington Street Artists’ Cooperative mounts an exciting mixed media and installation exhibit, THIS & THAT, at the gallery from January 12 through February, 2012 with a reception on Jan. 21, 2012 from 3 – 6 p.m. at 235 W. Washington St., Charles Town, WV.
This collection of “neo post-modern” works created during the last five years by Co-op members Malcolm Hally and Gary Bergel challenges our standard way of seeing, making and engaging with art.
By Gary Bergel
Born and raised in the lakeshore area of Wisconsin, Charles Town artist Gary Bergel has long been drawn to nature, landscape, skies, solitude and observing the “is-ness” of things. He finds delight and meaning in viewing and recording commonplace objects from fresh angles and in detecting the extraordinary in the ordinary. His work is about seeing and noticing reflections, nuances, transparencies, levels, dimensions, layered meanings and refracted realities.
Bergel earned a B.S. degree in Biology and Secondary Education with minors in Natural Science and Art, and an M.A. degree in Fine Art / Mixed Media from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has exhibited widely in regional and national competitive exhibitions, mounted solo exhibitions, the most recent being a “Shaping Room” mixed-media installation in December, 2010 at Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC. He is also represented at The Bridge Gallery in Shepherdstown.
By Malcolm Halley
Shepherdstown artist Malcolm Hally studied at the world-renowned Glasgow School of Art and at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland. His work used to be concerned with kinetic sculpture but he is now concerned with molten wax and plastic pictures and the intricacies of pop up book mechanisms.
Hally has a teaching certificate from the Maryland School of Art in Baltimore and substitutes as an art teacher in Montgomery and Washington Counties. A resident of Rockville, MD for more than 10 years before moving to Shepherdstown in 2009, Hally exhibited in Washington, D.C. with the Washington Sculptors Group and was a member of their board of directors.
