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

Other Hours Available
by Appointment

Presenting

Two long-time friends with parallel backgrounds as painters, potters, and educators will be displaying their work together at Isadore Gallery for the month of May. Regis Brodie and local artist James Gallagher are both painters that became potters that now paint again. Gallagher says Brodie got him interested in pottery years ago when they met at Tyler School of Art of Temple University. Brodie showed him that potters could draw, paint, sculpt as well as make functional art. This show includes examples of all of these by two artists that are talented in both two and three-dimensional art.

Regis Brodie is inspired by architect Louis Sullivan whose buildings unite classical architecture with its ornamentation. Brodie commits himself to the task of combining strong drawing and painting components with vessel forms. His ceramics are traditional wheel thrown shapes or sculptural forms that are decorated spontaneously, contrasting the elegant with the organic. When he does not have access to his pottery studio, Brodie paints to continue creating art. His paintings, like the decorations on his pots are out of the Abstract Expressionist and Post Modernist Schools.

Brodie is emeritus professor of art at Skidmore College. He received his B.S. and Masters in Art Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. He Taught at Skidmore College for 41 years. Has published widely and is in the permanent collections of more than 25 national and international universities and museums.

James Gallagher’s paintings and pottery are both about mark making. He is interested in ancient stoneware marks and carvings. In his paintings and pots you can find the same spirals, chevrons and lozenge shapes. Potting itself is a spiral technique. The surface decoration is part of the process.

Gallagher felt a strong connection when he visited Stone Age structures in Ireland. The symbols carved in the stones at these ritual structures were not just “art for art’s sake”. They also tried to explain the prehistoric view of the cycles of life and nature. In an attempt to better understand their thoughts, Gallagher decided to explore the power of some of the ancient symbols used in their Stone Age structures. “Spirals, chevrons, crescents, cross forms, and linear patterns began to emerge in both my ceramic work and my paintings. I continue to try to understand connections that Stone Age people had to their world experiences and I envy their pure and informed acceptance of their place in nature.”

Gallagher has won many local honors for painting and pottery including First Place in last year’s Lancaster Museum of Art Open Award show. He was former head of the art department at Manheim Township High School and is currently an instructor at Millersville University. Gallagher is a member of Lancaster’s Echo Vally Art Group.

The show will be on display May 6-28 at Isadore Gallery, 228 N. Prince Street. Hours are 10-6, Thursday and Friday, 10-5 Saturday, and by appointment. First Friday reception will be held May 6, 5-9PM. The show will also be on display for ArtWalk: May 7 10-5 and May 8 12-5.