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PEPPER GALLERY HOSTS KATY SCHNEIDER

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BOSTON, MASS. — Pepper Gallery hosts an exhibition of Katy Schneider’s original oil illustrations for Newbery Medal winner children’s book, Once I Ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest. The exhibit opens September 7 with an artist’s reception from 6 to 8 pm. The oil illustrations will be on view to October 6.

The exhibit will feature working sketches, final pencil drawings and paintings, which will demonstrate Schneider’s bookmaking process. Inspired by their first book collaboration, Painting the Wind, in which dogs make a big appearance, MacLachlan, Charest and Schneider set about dedicating an entire book to dogs.

Schneider’s paintings uncover her affection for her subject matter. Her illustrations are realized using her characteristically loose yet confident brushstrokes. These, like her paintings, uncover the luminosity of character, while integrating a superb representational technique. Her paintings’ interest in light, form and space is evident. Schneider’s oils always go beyond mere observation.

“My paintings are about light first and foremost, and how it reveals a subject,” says Schneider.

As in all her work, viewers see Schneider’s ability to capture the immediacy of man’s best friend and his surroundings in a way that offers an intimate and personal interpretation of the story being told.

Schneider has been honored with numerous awards, including a 2004 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the 2002 Thomas B. Clark Prize at the National Academy of Design Museum and a 2000 Massachusetts Cultural Council. She holds a BFA from Yale University, an MFA from Indiana University and has received fellowships from the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Skowhegan School of Painting. She currently teaches at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.

Pepper Gallery is at 38 Newbury Street. For information, 617-236-4497 or www.peppergalleryboston.com.