PAST EXHIBITION

Anne Diggory: Change of Course

October 28, 2008—November 22, 2008

Anne Diggory’s new work at Blue Mountain Gallery in November involves many changes of direction. The streams in her paintings literally change course in hair-pin turns.  Her new working methods, layering painting, photography and digital printing, allow her to take the stages of a single painting in very different directions in separate works of art.  Diggory has always used a wide range of descriptive marks and textures.  The introduction of photography extends that range and at the same time gives the viewer a slightly unsettling experience of shifting back and forth between clarity and mystery, with the painted marks sometimes giving more clarity than the “truth” of photography.

Also included in the exhibition are paintings, drawings and mixed media works based on Lake George, where Diggory has been researching the painting locations of nineteenth century painter John Frederick Kensett.  The research will be published in an article for the Metropolitan Museum

A graduate of Yale and Indiana University, Anne Diggory paints on location and in her studio in Saratoga Springs, NY. Diggory's work has been featured in Adirondack Life, American Artist and in the New York Times series on revisiting sites of the Hudson River School.  She was recently featured on a public television special (Albany, WMHT) about painting the Adirondacks.

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