Susquehanna en' Plein Aire
Celebrated painters, Celebrated study
Michael Allen, Rob Evans, JD Wissler and Mark Workman
Opening Reception: September 17, 2004

  

SUSQUEHANNA WALDORF SCHOOL of Marietta and Lynden Gallery present Susquehanna en' Plein Aire; Celebrated painters, Celebrated study. Artists on exhibit include Michael Allen, Rob Evans, JD Wissler, and Mark Workman. An Artist Reception will be held on September 17th from 4:00 until 8:00pm at the gallery. The exhibit will continue from September 10 through October 2.

THE SUSQUEHANNA PORTFOLIO is a collection of limited edition giclee' reproductions, includes one image each of the four distinguished artists featured in this benefit exhibition, including Michael Allen, Rob Evans, Mark Workman, and JD Wissler (Mr. Wissler's work is courtesy of Lancaster Galleries). Sales from this exhibition, including original paintings and the Susquehanna Portfolio will benefit in part, the Susquehanna Waldorf School and the school's scholarship endowment fund. The portfolio is sponsored by the Waldorf School and Lynden Gallery. Each image is printed on 16"x20" archival paper in an edition size of 50 plus 10 Artist Proofs. Each print is numbered and inscribed by the artist. .

MICHAEL ALLEN, a Lancaster native with a Bachelors of Fine Art degree from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is earned his MFA through the University of Delaware. Michael has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions, and has received fellowships and awards. "As a painter I experience the incidents of life as a spectator, watching events unfold and moments changing in constant dependence on one another. It is my translation, my memory, and my history that unfolds in the art. The history of marks, the series of decisions, and a collection of visual experiences merge to form one work."

MICHAEL ALLEN, May/June on the Susquehana, 12 1/8 x 13 15/16 print image size

ROB EVANS is an artist and independent curator who lives and works near Wrightsville, PA. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1981 and has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the E.D. Foundation, the Eben Demarest Trust and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Evans meticulous painting and drawings have been featured in numerous solo and curated group exhibitions at such places as the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; contemporary Art Center of Virginia; Arkansas Art Center; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; National Science Foundation; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA and an exhibition of American drawings organized by the Smithsonian Institution which toured internationally.

 ROB EVANS, Launch, 11 1/2 x 14 15/16, print image size

JOHN DAVID WISSLER holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design and his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Kutztown University. Wissler has traveled and painted in France, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, German, Outer Banks, North Carolina, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Featured solo exhibitions include Penn National Insurance Company, Lancaster Galleries, Art Association of Harrisburg and Temple University, Harrisburg Center. Collections include Hershey Chocolate Corporation, The Pennsylvania Governor's Residence, The Public Schools of Korea, Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance Company, Kutztown University, Habitat for Humanity, Trout Ebersole and Groff, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Martin Art Gallery of Muhlenburg College, Parsons School of Design. He is represented by Lancaster Galleries.

  JD WISSLER, Chickies Rock Looking Toward Columbia/Wrightsville Bridge, 6 3/4 x 15 1/4 print image size

MARK WORKMAN earned his BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. His solo exhibitions include Bernarducci. Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY; Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College; Lancaster Museum of Art; Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York; and Millport Museum, Lititz. Selected Grants and Honors from Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, E.D. Foundation, Elected to the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society and Lancaster City Arts Grant. "Through my paintings I attempt to record a feeling or mood that cannot be described verbally. I make use of metaphor and symbolism to convey my message and like the romantics, I strive to merge the self and nature in landscape paintings."

  MARK WORKMAN, New From Old, 8 3/8 x 8 7/16 print image size

THE SUSQUEHANNA WALDORF SCHOOL (SWS) is located in the small rural town of Marietta, along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley. SWS is a nonprofit educational institution, licensed by the state of Pennsylvania as a private academic school offering parent/child classes from infant to toddler, as well as nursery, kindergarten and grades 1 through 8. The school draws students from the Lancaster, York, Hershey and Harrisburg areas; and, currently 165 students from 120 families attend. SWS has been sponsored by the Kimberton Waldorf School for the past several years. In September 2002, SWS began the formal accreditation process through an intense self-study. Fortuitously the accreditation fell on the heels of AWSNA's (Association of Waldorf Schools of North America) 75-year anniversary. This accreditation recognizes SWS with full membership status. SWS is pleased to be a part of this national celebration as full participants of the worldwide Waldorf movement.