Gallery Hours:
 Thursday and Friday 10-6
 "First Friday" 10-8
 Saturday 10-5
 "Second Sunday" 12-4

Other Hours Available
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Presenting

The Inhabited Morphology, paintings by James V. Freeman, paintings by Dorothy Frey, and drawings by Jeff Geib, will be on display at Isadore Gallery from October 2 through November 1.

James V. Freeman is overwhelmed with Lancaster’s scenery and its brilliant art scene. “This show celebrates nature’s architecture, and how, as artists we mentally “inhabit” the subjects that we paint.” Freeman’s paintings are a combination of landscape and still life, real and imagined. For example, Heart of the Glen is a view from inside a log tube. The external wilderness is inspired by a recollection of waking at dawn, peering from a tent, and adjusting his eyes to the stunning glow of a sunlit cottonwood glen that descended to a misty swamp. The scenery within the log is imagined.

Freeman’s work was awarded Best of Show by the Lancaster Museum of Art and Trenton City Museum juried exhibitions and won the Grand Prize in International Artist Magazine. He is included in New American Paintings (vol. 63) and Doris Brandes’ book Artists of the River Towns.

Artist Dorothy Frey grew up on a dairy farm in Lancaster County. She is profoundly inspired by nature. “This collection of paintings comes from observing two trees—one from the farm where I grew up, and other from the farm where I now live. They are descriptive of life situations, people, and feelings.” She delights in the physicality of oil paint with its colors and textures.

Frey studied painting and drawing at Millersville University and American University and now teaches painting and drawing at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. She won second prize at the Art of the State show in Harrisburg this year.

Jeff Geib’s graphite drawings are all about looking very long, hard, and close at still life compositions. “The images have a slightly enlarged and detailed feeling. Zooming in and entering the work close up serves as a metaphor for the way we as artists visually enter and inhabit the detail of the motif and the image.”

Jeff Geib is a popular local artist that grew up in Lancaster, studied at Millersville University, and taught for 17 years at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. He is currently working full time at his studio at the Keppel Building, drawing, painting, and trying to establish an atelier atmosphere.

Geib sums up the feelings of these three artists: “I’m pleased and proud to be presenting my drawings in the context of this show with two artists whose work I admire so much. There is something, maybe a little elusive, that we share. All of our work involves long, slow looks at biomorphic structures. We have a common love for plants and animals, living and dead, the bones of the world. We live for extended periods in the shapes and colors of our picture world. Our observation is accurate to the level of scientific study. Our experience and art thus become an Inhabited Morphology.”

The artists will be available on First Friday, October 3, 5-9 PM, and Artwalk, October 18 19, to discuss their work and share their sketchbooks. Isadore Gallery, 228 N. Prince Street, is also open Thursdays and Fridays 10-6 PM, Saturdays 10-5 PM and by appointment called 717-299-0127.