An image of a sunset on Straight Road.
The Barker Library Gallery will host an opening for “Transformations: Time, Place, and Light,” a solo exhibit of 18 oil paintings by Fredonia artist Thomas Annear, on Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Featuring more than a dozen new and recent works, “Transformations” presents Annear’s yearlong engagement capturing views of and from the Pomfret and Arkwright escarpment. Painted on location in “plein air,” the works catalog the changing light and weather conditions that transform the hills and Lake Erie throughout the course of the year.
Annear, an award-winning plein air painter and twenty-three-year resident of Fredonia, has been completing a broader series of landscapes celebrating Western New York’s natural beauty, history, and unique agricultural features. With “Transformations,” he specifically explores a vital geological feature–the escarpment–that shapes local micro climates and the land but that we often take for granted.
“My usual views of the escarpment are from Fredonia,” said Annear. “The show is giving me the opportunity to explore and to meditate on what it is to live high up on the hills, to experience weather, the sky, and light in a very different way,” he continues. “It gives you the perspective to see systematic movements of weather and the inter-play of light that is occurring every second of every day.”
“Transformations” will run from November 2nd through December 22nd, at Darwin R. Barker Library, located on 7 Day Street in Fredonia, and will be viewable during normal library hours. In conjunction with the exhibit and “Miracle on Main Street,” Annear will host a special, free holiday card-making workshop on December 2nd, from 10am-noon.
For questions about the opening reception and other special library events, please contact the Darwin R. Barker Library at info@barkerlibrary.org. For more information about the exhibit or the artist, please visit ThomasAnnear.com.
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