Stacie Speer Scott (Bucks County)

Stacie Speer Scott



"I like a rough surface. I do molding, printmaking, sewing, and embossing. I seek to mesh the disjointed into a smooth flow through color, theme and composition."

Stacie Speer Scott's is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Her main interest is paper and the endless possibilities of working in paper. Collage with painting is her primary medium, and she expresses herself both two- and three-dimensionally. Her techniques include molding, embossing, printmaking, and sewing. The primary themes that have interested her over the years are people- their feelings and relationships to others and to their objects as well as landscape and its organic symbols. Scott is an art educator and has taught at Bucks County Community College, Chandler Hall Health Services, and trained teachers in the area of the fine arts at George School. She is also active in theater set design at the Annenberg and Touchstone Theaters. Scott has exhibited widely in the area, from Phillips Mill to the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and has earned significant awards.

Bradley Hendershot (Bucks)

Artist Bradley Hendershot is primarily a painter of coastal Maine and rural Pennsylvania--regions that he knows well, regions that have special meaning to him. "My Pennsylvania paintings depict the rural community and a way of life that is quickly fading into the past. Many of the timber and stone barns and mills, the houses and outbuildings, which are part of the Pennsylvania heritage, are rapidly disappearing. I'd like to feel, in a way, that I have preserved them in my paintings."

Suzanne Opton (Bucks)

Soldier
July 7 - October 21, 2007
Betz Gallery-James Michener Museum

New York based photographer Suzanne Opton presents an unusual, thought-provoking perspective on a complex and emotionally-charged subject. Beginning in 2005, Opton received permission to make portraits of military men and women shortly after each soldier's return from Iraq or Afghanistan. These soldiers were living at Fort Drum, New York, and had been overseas for at least a hundred days; they had come back for additional training and possible reassignment to Iraq or elsewhere. Using a 4 x 5 view camera, Opton devised several strategies for these portraits, including traditional views with face and upper torso as well as more unusual images in which she asks the soldiers to lay their heads down on a table. She also includes wives and sometimes other soldiers in the portraits, often focusing on close-ups of heads and hands. These unusual and moving images put a human face on the people who are literally on the front lines; as Opton says, "In making these portraits of soldiers, I simply wanted to look in the face of someone who'd seen something unforgettable." Suzanne Opton's work has been exhibited internationally, and has been featured in such publications as The New York Times and Newsweek. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Francis di Fronzo (Philadelphia)

The Devil May Be Here (Part I)
Oil on panel, 32 x 48 in. (82 x 122 cm.)
March - April, 2006
Private Collection, Wilmington, DE



Don't Leave Me Now (Part II)
Oil on panel, 24 x 78 in. (61 x 198 cm.)
April - July, 2005
Private Collection, Wilmington, DE



Crows
Oil on panel, 48 x 96 in. (122 x 244 cm.)
July - November, 1998
Private Collection, Philadelphia, PA

Represented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Rosenfeld Gallery. www.therosenfeldgallery.com

Represented in Greenville, Delaware by Somerville-Manning Gallery. www.somervillemanning.com