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New exhibit to open in Boyer Art Gallery |
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 The Hill School will host an art exhibit titled “Reflections,” featuring ceramic artist Linda Rohrbach-Austerberry and landscape painter Robert Bitts in the Boyer Art Gallery from Friday, March 30, through Friday, May 11, 2012. The opening reception will be held on Friday, March 30, 2012 from 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free of charge and open to the public. Visitors may visit the Gallery Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., or by appointment on weekends.
Linda Rohrbach-Austerberry is an artist, potter and teacher. She received both her B.S. in art education and M.A. in ceramics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The work for her Masters degree was both functional pottery and sculptural combinations of fibers and clay. She also has studied ceramics at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and the Tokyo Designer Gaukuin in Japan, under the auspices of the Parson’s School of Design. She taught ceramics at the Boyertown Area Senior High School for 35 years. It is her love of the process of throwing on the potter’s wheel that drives most of the work and, she notes, “creating spherical canvases for the glazes to flow into landscapes that sometimes contain the reflections of my life.”
A preservationist at heart, Robert Bitts’ sweeping acrylics on canvas capture the primitive beauty of stone, twig, boulder and branch – earthly elements that surround us each day, but are often overlooked. “I’ve been experimenting with size and scale, creating variations on a single scene from near and far,” Bob explains. Diptych pieces, works comprised of two separate canvases, such as “Longs Peak – Near and Far” reflect this new aesthetic.
The two artists have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area and each have won a number of awards for their work. |
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