RAG spring art show opening March 20

Roxbury — The Roxbury Arts Group is starting its spring gallery season on March 20 with opening receptions from 2 to 4 p.m. for Janice DeMarino and Fawn Potash in The Old Bank Gallery on Main St. and for Diane Powell and Ariel Delacroix Dax in The Walt Meade Gallery on Vega Mountain Rd.
Janice DeMarino, a member of The Longyear Gallery in Margaretville, is well known in the local art scene and in New York City. She holds an M.F.A. from Hunter Col-lege, and has been the recipient of several awards that have allowed her to study papermaking, paper casting and encaustic techniques regionally and in Italy. The work in the current exhibit is called” Underlying Causes,” and DeMarino says “For each of these paintings, objects were placed beneath the canvas surfaces and prints or rubbings were taken from the objects. Using literal or concrete connections for causes that are underlying a surface has become an important concept for me.”
Fawn Potash is an artist, arts administrator and art educator whose work has been shown by Gallery Ehva in Provincetown, MA, The Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City, the Anne Reed Gallery in Sun Valley and the Elena Zang Gallery in Woodstock. Her imagery has appeared in national and regional publications and for 15 years she has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She pioneered a series of workshops for 6-18-year-olds at the Catskill Community Center, teaching camera and darkroom skills as well as conceptual and visual literacy. The work in this exhibit are gathered under the title “Winter Garden Series,” and Potash says. “I think of the earliest works here as Visceral Landscapes, land that embodies the emotional terrain. Hopes and wishes appear in the light and in the drawings of plants reaching with out-of-season blooms. As global warming becomes a part of our everyday consciousness I see the plant realm and ours becoming one. I am combining anatomical elements with the leaves and weeds flourishing around me. These pieces are a combination of photographs and oil drawings inscribed on encaustic surface.”
Diane Powell was born in Ohio and earned an M.F.A. from Ohio State University. She has studied Ukiyo-e printmaking in Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan and painting and sculpture in France, Italy and Holland. Powell works in a former train station in South Kortright. Be it surrounded by the lush Catskill Mountains or the busy time she divides in New York City, she finds inspiration in all aspects of humanity.
Ariel Delacroix Dax was born in Manhattan and studied at Fashion Institute of Technology. She has worked in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum and divides her time between NYC and the Catskills. She is exhibiting her work in bronze.
The exhibits will be on display through April 16.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment.