Date: Fri 03-Sep-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: MARION

Quick Words:

Macdonald-Huibregtse

Full Text:

The Paris-New York-Kent Gallery Exhibits Macdonald, Huibregtse

(with 2 cuts)

KENT, CONN. -- The Paris-New York-Kent Gallery will open a new exhibition in

the caboose, on September 4. The gallery owners had to borrow from their

native French language the title that best fitted this exhibition ( Random

House Dictionary : without equal).

Caroll Macdonald is a significant landscape artist. In a wonderful view in The

New York Times , Viven Raynor wrote: "Mrs Macdonald's subject is Connecticut,

but her color is not Connecticut. Cumulus clouds tinged with pink hang in

skies of cerulean, turning violet over fields that range from green through

yellow to cadmium red. The artist may be inspired by the land, but her

imagination dictates the painting of it."

Besides showing in The Paris-New York-Kent Gallery for the last eight years,

Carroll Macdonald has also exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in New

York City, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Anne Huibregtse started her career in The Paris-New York-Kent Gallery. In a

recent statement, she wrote, "I sculpt cows. My work is about cows and it is

not about cows. I try to express `cowness.' That which is not about cows is

about how we see. I play with perspective and changing point of view, peeking

behind the surface while watching time flatten, layer, stretch."

The show will run through October 3. The Paris-New York-Kent Gallery is

located in the Kent Station Square and is open Friday and Sunday from 11 to 5

pm and by appointment. For more information, call 860/927-4152.