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

You can see Serious Art at Isadore Gallery, 228 N. Prince St. in Lancaster, March 3-26, featuring three artists dedicated to their craft. The artists will be present for the First Friday Reception March 4, 5-9 PM.

Jeff Geib and Isaac Pelepko bring a relentless purpose to drawing. It is rare to find art created without Photoshop programs and photographic references. Geib and Pelepko are classically trained in systematic observation and work directly from their subject matter using a variety of motifs and materials. Will Dexter is a glass artist awarded the title “American Master” who founded and operates his own glass studio in Pennsylvania. Using both traditional and modern glass techniques, he crafts elegant one-of-a-kind large-scale glass sculptures.

Isaac Pelepko is committed to the practice of studio figure drawing. He combines his personal contemporary vision with the rich art history tradition of using the human figure. Pelepko believes that “when a model takes a pose, he is playing a part; yet the real person, uncomfortable in his nudity, is still there.” The drawing is a record of an event between the subject and the artist as well as the potential viewer. As he draws, Pelepko ads layer upon layer of graphite to recreate the structure, the bones, the skin and the light that reveal the form. He drives his methodical approach with a very personal vision and result. Pelepko transforms dirt into the illusion of the material world.

Isaac Pelepko obtained his BFA from the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design where he received the Most Outstanding Student Award (2003). He graduated cum laude with an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Pelepko won First Prize in the Doctor Kienle Art Competition, the Peoples Choice Award at the Lancaster Museum of Art (2003), and the Purchase Award at the Red Dot Show of the Art Students League in NYC. His work is in the permanent collection of the Art Students League in NYC. Pelepko works as a teaching assistant at the New York Academy of Art and The Art Students League in New York City.

Jeff Geib has the same core commitment to drawing, although it is applied to a larger variety of media and subjects. This diverse show features still life objects and people using graphite, hematite, conté, silverpoint, colored pencils and drawing chalks. The silverpoint drawings were made a few years ago because they need to darken over time with oxidation. Geib has even included a few pieces done on ceramic objects. He is determined that “no drawing shall ever want for thorough investigation; that no matter how long a drawing takes, (Geib) will endure to the end, and that (he) will never hesitate to risk it all in even the most radical revision.” He is on a quest for the truth in the visual experience. Geib wants his drawings to say: “I was here. I saw this. I made this.”

Jeff Geib is a popular local artist who grew up in Lancaster and studied at Millersville University. He taught for 17 years at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. He is currently working full-time at his studio in Mountville.

Each piece of glass art by Will Dexter is a detailed expression of color, form and the beauty of material itself. Dexter uses the heat of the glory hole and the weight of the added drips to create a piece that still looks as though it is in motion. The drips contain dichroic glass that makes them sparkle. The exhibit will include both sculptural forms and vessels.

Will Dexter is an American Master. He received his M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and his B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and the world and is the permanent collections of museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the American Craft Museum, and the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection. He has lectured and taught at the world-renowned Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle; Penland School of Crafts, N.C.; Summervail, Colorado; and the Rhode Island School of Design.