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

Other Hours Available
by Appointment

Presenting

For the month of November, Isadore Gallery will display Landscape paintings by five of our favorite landscape artists. All artists shown are currently living and working locally in Pennsylvania.

David Bottini is a Pennsylvania local artist and instructor. He received his BA in Fine Art and Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's College. He then went on and received his MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design. He has exhibited in numerous state and national exhibits, and also earned the title “Master Teacher” while teaching at a top-tier prep school the DC area. Bottini wanders through the forest for hours sometimes, looking for the perfect compositions for painting. His work begins on sight, from direct observation, and is gradually built up with layers of paint. His paintings capture the play of light and shadow, helping the viewer visualize a moment of solitude.

Stephen Brehm is a local artist in Pennsylvania who focuses purely on his art making. He received his Bachelors of Art degree in painting and figure drawing at Millersville University. Stephen paints what he loves, with such inspirations as a meadow glowing with the suns light or a sunlit tree against a sky. With palette knives and brushes, he pushes around oil paint to create the perfect colors for his landscape paintings, forcing the viewer to meditate in his serene environments. Brehm has won first place at painting shows in New Hope, Lititz, Chadds Ford and Mt. Gretna and was featured in Philadelphia Style Magazine.

Aaron Brooks, a local landscape oil painter, received his BFA from University of Michigan, and his MFA at the University of Pennsylvania. He presently teaches at Elizabethtown College as well as Millersville University and Harrisburg Area Community College. His landscapes are done on canvas, on site, and are finished in one sitting. Unlike some of the Impressionist and Post-impressionist painters whom have influenced Aaron, his paintings do not depict one particular time of day. His paintings gather all the light, movement and life of one day and record it in a painting. Combining his two passions of art and nature, Aaron meditates as he paints, taking in as much as he can. This way of painting seems to relate to another one of his influences of Chinese landscape painting and its meditative movements and rhythms throughout the surface. Aaron Brooks paintings inspire us all to take in and enjoy nature and all its complexities.

Dorothy Frey works and lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where she is also an instructor at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. She received her BFA at Millersville University and her MFA at American University. While traveling after graduation, Dorothy discovered her deep connection to her own family farm as well as family dynamics and land usage. Through observation and invention, Dorothy creates vast, deep landscapes. The towering trees often found in her paintings offer scenarios for creating forms and space. She looks for configurations existing in nature that become visual pathways in the picture plane.

Charles Swisher lives and paints in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Charles received his MFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC, and was honored with many residencies and fellowships. Among numerous honors are residencies and fellowships at Chateau Rochefort-en-terre in Brittany, France, the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Bavaria, Germany, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont studio Center, and the Millay Colony. His landscape paintings of the places he lives, gravitate towards the contrasts of hard edged geometry enveloped by brilliant, organic nature and its light. His medias of choice are gouache and oil paint, which both allow him to stay with a painting for a longer amount of time. Charles's paintings are a moment in time that allows us to gasp at the beauty of nature.

Landscape Painting will be at Isadore Gallery in Lancaster, 228 N. Prince Street, for the month of November. The works will be presented during the First Friday reception on November 5th from 5pm to 9pm.