2025 New Members Exhibition:
Mary Burke, Craig Frederick,
Sean Kernan, and Dganit Zauberman.
September 4 - October 5, 2025
Reception: September 7, 2025
2 - 5pm, with Artists’ Talk at 3pm
The work of four new artists has achieved a dynamic undeniable alchemy through their unique vision and materials: watercolor, wood, metal, photography, silver bromide and pigment rich oil paint to communicate through their hands how our humanity and environment is connected. Snippets from their artists’ statements below.
Mary Burke, watercolor: “My artistic process is as fluid as the materials I use…I am not trying to capture the physical image precisely but try to express the mystical experience…or the mesmerizing quality of the sea.” Mary graduated with honors from Crawford College of Art and Design in Ireland, specializing in printmaking. She has also enriched her skills through classes at Rhode Island School of Design, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, and Warehouse Studios. Her work has spanned a variety of mediums, with a particular fondness for watercolor, and has been showcased both nationally and internationally. www.maryburkestudio.com
Craig Frederick, sculptor: “The work I do is my way of attempting to understand an increasingly complex world, the human experiment, and my own existence by documenting my time here in the creation of sculpture.The substance of my meditation is the experience of life: spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical. Each piece evolves as alchemy of personal interests, observations, and passions. Sculpture is how I can combine what is real with that which is imagined. In a world where order, as we perceive it, is a mere illusion, the work of my art becomes the ability to navigate the churning of many tides. Ultimately, I emerge with a better sense of self, manifested in sculpture.” www.craigfrederick.com
Sean Kernan, photographer, polaroid film: “This series, Pura Cara Mexicana (pure Mexican face), is the outcome of hours of observing stranger’s faces in Mexico” Kernan says this all sprang from an encounter with the powerful and psychologically penetrating portraits of Hermenegildo Bustos in the Ahóndiga Museum in Guanajuato. During his life Bustos’ had painted portraits of the inhabitants in and around his small town of Purisima del Rincon. “With a love for making photos that surprise me”, Kernan set out to follow in his footsteps where the great-grandchildren of his subjects still live. During the course of three trips to Mexico Kernan set up his old-fashioned view camera. Through his assistant, Norma Suarez, they spoke to anyone who looked interested in the little make-shift studio and offered to do their portrait. Of the hundred or so people they spoke to, perhaps three said no. Kernan used a special Polaroid film, now discontinued, that made a negative from which to print. The completed work became an exhibit that traveled to several museums and galleries in Guanajuato State. https://seankernan.com/
Dganit Zauberman, oil paint: “I paint what I feel.My process of painting are both the reflection and reaction to the world around me; My paintings are in constant dialog with the time. As the effects of climate change become more pronounced, the earth’s cycles and habitats are changing in many (unexpected) ways. [I’m] exploring the visual conversation about both earth and human ecosystems with reactions to the challenges, warnings to our shared future.I focus not only on “being” — the form, and texture, along with the process by which it forms, moves and erodes—but also as a source of emotional and psychological mood.” www.dganitzauberman.com
According to several in the KLG community, “this exhibition is a powerhouse of talent kicking off a new school year in the uncertain terrain of the United States of America in 2025. It is essential that artists keep creating and people find time to soak in the arts. Our gallery has always welcomed the entire public, free of cost. Come out to KLG, grab a coffee, bring your friends and experience the rich enduring balm of art.”