In addition to all of the amazing things we have to offer, we’re also a fully functioning art gallery! Our extensive lobby wall space (390 sq. ft.), and prime location on the first floor of the Eastworks building, lends itself well to featuring artwork from local artists. If you’re interested in an exhibition of your work, please contact info@easthamptonmedia.org.
Feel free to stop in during our regular business hours and check out our featured artist’s work.
Our Current Featured Exhibit
Origins, by Naomi Henderson
BIOGRAPHY
Naomi grew up in upstate New York where she spent her childhood playing outside and making art. She attended Connecticut College where she studied Art History and Russian. Her love of travel led her to Switzerland for study, and to France where she worked on organic farms, including work as a shepherd in the Alps. She spent time in Kiev restoring a Soviet playground, and in St. Petersburg to study Russian. Since then Naomi has lived in Chicago, Florida, and Georgia, finally moving to Western Massachusetts to become a Waldorf art teacher.
ARTIST STATEMENT
This series of paintings arose out of a need to play and experiment with the material of oil paint. I began these paintings towards the end of the pandemic, when I was feeling a need for change in my artistic expression. The first of these works were on unprimed canvas, and I used very diluted, watery paint. I liked how the paint sunk into the fibers of the canvas, creating lively, organic shapes. Play is the central approach for this series of paintings. I found it incredibly freeing to let go of representational work, and to simply live into color, movement and form for its own beauty.
As this approach began to take shape and become a style, I was intrigued by how the images looked like organic forms seen under a microscope. I became inspired by thinking about how different objects and textures would look if they were immensely magnified, such as seeds, spores, bacteria and cells. I try to convey a sense of what you are looking at through color and form, and imagine that each painting is like looking through a microscope at a usually hidden world teeming with life.
Naomi Henderson Instagram: 9nh-art
Artist Archive
Richard Bulda, large format photography, Aug-Nov 2022
Gary Lippincott, watercolor/fantasy illustration, Dec -April 2022
Sara Gately, mixed media, April-May 2023
Madge Evers, spore print art, cyanotypes June-July 2023
Diane Savioli-Chase, photography, Aug-Sep 2023
Dawn Allen, photography, Oct-Nov 2023
Robert Floyd Gallery, photography, Dec/Jan/Feb 2024
Pat Crutchfield, photography, Dec/Jan/Feb 2024
Rosemary Polletta, photography, Dec/Jan/Feb 2024
Doris Madsen, mixed media/installation, March-April 2024
Renee Hill, photography May-June 2024
Diane Savioli-Chase, photography July-Aug 2024
Amy Dawn Kotel, mixed media, watercolor Sep-Oct 2024
Art Walk Easthampton-Update
In light of new schedule changes to Art Walk Easthampton (1st Saturday, 4-7pm) we will no longer be participating. Please see our social media outlets and website for any future events and gallery shows.
You may still access our archived musical performance recordings on our website and YouTube channel.