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Happy Holidays from GGG!
Holiday Show Dates: November 20 to January 19
Current Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
Glass Growers Gallery is currently exhibiting a holiday show featuring six different Erie-area artists and showcasing their curated collections in a variety of artistic mediums and styles. The six artists featured are Brandon Borgia, Leah Humphries, Amy Hahn, Cheryl Johnson, Sarah Brown, and Rhonda Peterson.
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Brandon Borgia works in several different mediums and is featuring a collection of his photography and metal art for this show. The “Crystal Ball Series” of his photography in the show was inspired by his brother Bobby Borgia, a magician. In these works, he uses a crystal ball to re-imagine natural landscapes found in Western Pennsylvania. It is because of his passion for nature that he works to capture the seamless beauty of the natural environment through a different perspective. Brandon’s interest in art was nurtured by his mother, a watercolorist who has won many awards and accolades for her paintings.
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Leah Humphries is a mixed media artist who focuses on fiber art, jewelry, and photography. In the current show, she is featuring a mix of signature fabric collages she creates through a process of “painting with fabric” where she carefully cuts and sews individual pieces from Batik fabrics. After a year-long battle with cancer in January of 2018, Leah found herself searching for the creative spark she felt was lost. She created a home art studio and began working on creative ideas that reflected her new lease on life, resulting in many unique and beautiful works that are regularly featured at Glass Growers.
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Amy Hahn is a talented artist in a variety of mediums and the holiday exhibit features a variety of her award-winning, hand-cut stained glass mosaics. She loves working with glass mosaic and responding to the challenges and limitations that are created by the materials. As she describes, “the glass must be carefully chosen from a limited palette, since colors cannot be mixed, and each piece must serve as an individual brushstroke working in harmony with the surrounding pieces.”
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Cheryl Johnson is a mosaic artist featuring a collection of frames, mirrors, and air plant holders entitled “My Life is in Pieces” in this show. Many of her carefully-crafted pieces integrate driftwood, beach glass, and stones from the local beaches of Lake Erie. She enjoys the time she spends at Presque Isle finding the pieces to use in her work. Other pieces use different mixes of mosaic materials with some geared toward pet-lovers. As a pet-lover herself, she works with animals in an Erie veterinary practice.
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Sarah Brown grew up in a house of artists and makers and has carried on these traditions throughout her life. She enjoys painting, sewing, sculpting, gardening and working with her hands. Her featured collection of watercolor illustrations is entitled “Very Short Stories” and she describes it as follows: “If a picture is worth a million words how many words is a painting worth.... At least five? I'm here to share with you some of my very short stories. Some are funny, some cute, some are true, some fiction, my hope is that at least one of them will bring you a smile.” She lives peacefully outside of the city of Erie with a small “zoo” of chickens, ducks, guinea hen, an alpaca, two dogs and a cat.
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Rhonda Peterson is a prolific painter and photographer featuring a collection of her oil paintings and mini watercolors in the holiday exhibit. She shares the following about her process: “When painting, I approach each piece intuitively; much of the time with little planning other than a ready collection of reference photos in hand and some vivid memories of how a place made me feel… I know I have fulfilled my objective when a viewer tells me they feel ‘connected’ to a place I have portrayed, or that they ‘want to go there’. Ultimately, I think this is my goal; to connect with others through a visual representation of my own response to life, light, and the beauty of the world in which we live.”
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We are grateful for our network of highly talented artists and thank them for featuring their work to be enjoyed by our Erie community after a difficult year. We hope you find delight in this gorgeous collection of works and that our exhibit, whether viewed in-person or virtually, will make your holidays a little bit more cheerful.
You are welcome to come see the show in person. You must wear a mask.
We practice regular cleaning, hand sanitizing, and social distancing.
We also offer curbside pick-up, delivery within a 10-mile radius, and shipping.
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Since 1974, we feature regional fine art & American crafts. We offer a beautiful selection of paintings, photography, sculpture, jewelry, glass, and pottery along with a few delightful surprises every now and then. |
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