The exhibition’s focus is earthy by design but its reach extends into a new ethereal dimension as the artist combines his love of the land with his mastery of painting, drawing and sculpting using a unique mix of natural materials – vines, leaves, dirt and clay among them – with acrylics.
Bracken, whose lifelong career as an artist has taken him from San Francisco and University of California at Berkeley, to New York City – where he was an artist-in-residence through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in the World Trade Center – has put down roots in the Housatonic River Valley, where today he finds inspiration in its bucolic landscapes.
The Lionheart Gallery will exhibit a representative variety of Bracken’s most recent works in the artist’s six-week show, from the monochromatic paintings of predominantly reds and grays that highlight his earthy paintings to the clay formulations that play out on bright painted canvases to his free-wheeling hanging sculptures and sculpted vine conversations.
The Lionheart Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
For more information, visit the gallery’s website here or call 914-764-8689.
The Lionheart Gallery is at 27 Westchester Ave., Pound Ridge.
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