Current Exhibit
Flower Child #72, 15 x 11, hand cut paper montage
Trophy 1, 27 x 14” ink and gouache on paper
Spring 2024 Show at The Lodge
When: March 14 - June 11, 2024
Where: The Lodge at Woodloch
Artists: Paul Plumadore + Dale Emmart
PAUL PLUMADORE We welcome this wildly imaginative artist back to the Lodge Gallery for the third time to launch us into the Spring season with his Flower Child series. Plumadore has created collages since1975. His work has been chosen for book jackets and record covers. In his 20’s he was on the faculty of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Dance Department where he received a BFA. He performed with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, headed up the dance department at Sweet Briar College and formed his own company and his own choreography. He later started Center44, an antiques mecca in New York City., with his partner. They now live in a house they designed on the Delaware River in Milanville, Pa.
Over decades the artist has created a myriad of collage series that reveal his wit and sense of irony. His work is fueled by his love of movement and dance and a fascination with bygone eras. Paul says: “For over 30 years, I’ve been repurposing ephemera to create images that play with scale and content, disregard norms, and manifest the inner life of characters. If your mind is plunged into unknown territory and your imagination sparked with shock and humor, I feel I have succeeded.”
After exhibiting at the Alliance Gallery in Narrowsburg, NY, Paul was chosen to be in the 2015 Northeastern Biennial at Hope Horn Gallery at the University of Scranton where he was awarded a solo show at Scranton’s AFA Gallery. He has been included in The Art of the State show for the last three years held at The State Museum of PA in Harrisburg, and has shown at Ceres Gallery in NYC’s Chelsea art district.
DALE EMMART A rural Pennsylvania and urban New York City artist, Dale Emmart’s paintings of rolling dairy country and her large abstract drawings reflect both of her home environments. Landscape painting is Emmart’s means of closely observing and recording the historical, eternal, agrarian land that is under environmental change. Her large drawings’ use of cage-like structures, tangled ribbons, shadows, and smoke-like washes suggest additional causes of unrest and tenuous balance. Horizons suggest a place where change occurs. Both Emmart's landscape paintings and abstract drawings puzzle over a perceived cusp of change, a transition between different states.
Born in New York City, the artist’s resume includes an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art. She has been awarded many fellowships and grants and currently works as the head of the art department at the Brearley School in New York City. Her work has been shown in numerous New York City galleries, including The Painting Center,A.I.R., and Kouros Gallery, as well as solo and group shows at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York and in various venues in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and in France. The artist also runs a plein air program in Portugal (pleinairportugal.com).
We are excited to show Emmart’s work at the Lodge Gallery for the second time. Witness the poignance of loss and beauty infused in layers of land, sky, and cloud formations, in farms, fields, and streams near the artist’s rural Pennsylvania home.
Past Exhibits
