kate, staats and mike at halfmoon
Staats Fasoldt
Subject: staats, kate and mike at half moon
Date: June 29, 2004 8:21:22 AM EDT
First Monday!
Staats will be speaking at the Woodstock Artists Association
July 12th at 7pm on Watercolor painting and show slides of his recent
work.
6 bucks at the door, snacks and good conversation inside.
http://www.ulster.net/~staats/MainFrame.html
http://www.woodstockschoolofart.com/
If you've ever been up to the Platte Clove and watched, captivated, as
the waters of the Plattekill tumble, sparkling, over the rocks and
boulders ancient glaciers dragged through the clove, then you won't
want to miss Kate McGloughlin's paintings inspired by this wild and
beautiful ravine in West Saugerties. Kate, along with her friends and
colleagues from the Woodstock School of Art, Staats Fasoldt and Brother
Michael Dundin, will be exhibiting watercolors beginning July 2 at the
Half Moon Studio in "The Watercolor Show." There's a connection among
the three: Staats, watercolorist extraordinaire, has taught both Kate
and Michael at the WSA, and over the years they have become fast
friends. Kate, a prolific and multitalented artist is an instructor of
printmaking at the school, and Michael Dundin resides in a cabin on the
Woodstock campus each summer to paint and help with grounds work. All
three have mastered the watercolor medium, and all three have been able
to translate their love of the landscape and spirit of the Catskills to
paint and paper.
Any fan of watercolor in Ulster County has heard of Staats, and nearly
everyone who paints watercolors in Ulster County with any success has
studied with him at the Woodstock School of Art, where he has been
teaching since 1978. Staats' paintings are poetic intrepretations of
nature that stress spontaneity as method. Fasoldt is vice president of
the school's board of directors and an active member of the Woodstock
Artist's Association. Originally from Albany, he moved to the area
with his wife Eileen to pursue his MFA at New Paltz, where he became
the first student to receive the degree based on his watercolor
paintings. In his popular Hudson River Painting workshop each summer,
Staats' students can expect to climb the heights of the majestic
Kaaterskill Falls or tramp the fields of Olana in search of sublime
views of the valley.
Brother Michael Dundin is a member of the De La Salle Christian
Brothers, a religious community that maintains schools in 30
countries. He received his undergraduate degree in Latin and Greek,
and his MFA in painting and sculpture at Catholic University in
Washington, DC. He has also studied at the Art Students League in NYC
where he was a scholarship recipient. He has taught Latin at a school
in Rhode Island where he makes his home and has also taught in Africa.
Michael has mastered brushwork in watercolor--his short, transparent
strokes speak to the emotion with which he paints and perfectly convey
the sparkling light which shines through the treetops to illuminate a
Woodstock stream or wooded glade.
Kate McGouglin's work in this show was either completed in or inspired
by the "miraculous condition of Nature that is Platte Clove." Kate was
an Artist-in-Residence at the Platte Clove Cabin last year. Her time
there proved pivotal--and led her to a new approach in landscape
painting. Remaining in one spot to paint, "long after smarter painters
would have retired," she painted and repainted the same passages over
and over. This allowed her to "stay with , then let go of realism and
to get so intimate with form that I could see the jut of a stone and
the vein of the water with my eyes closed."
In Kate's words, "every painter should get some good time alone with
Nature to straighten themselves out now and again." Visitors to the
Half Moon Studio during "The Watercolor Show" will get to do just
that--through the eyes of three of the Hudson Valley's most inspired
painters.
The Watercolor Show opens with a meet the artists reception on Friday,
July 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
noon to 5. The Half Moon Studio is located at 18 Market Street.
845-246-9114.