The Five Points Annex Gallery Proudly Presents:
Real and Imagined: Paintings, Prints and Collages
Carole Rabe and Susan Rood
Carole Rabe and Susan Rood
September 19 - 29, 2019
Located at: Five Points Annex Gallery, 17 Water Street, Torrington CT 06790
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment
Special Evening Hours: Friday, September 20, 6 – 8 p.m.
& Friday, September 27, 7-9 p.m.
Carole Rabe and Susan Rood share a similar focus on compositions emphasizing art elements, filling the canvas or paper, working directly, and narratives without people in the paintings or prints that imply a story. Both explore interior spaces. One is real, the other is an imagined place. Rabe’s interiors make you think that people have just walked out of the room. Rood’s repeating linocut imagined creatures also tell a human tale.
Carole Rabe, oil painter from Natick, MA and CT-based printmaker/artist Susan Rood of New Hartford were roommates when they attended Hartford Art School. They have kept in touch. Both continue to make and exhibit art and were teachers for many years. Their styles and mediums are as different as when in art school, but they have followed parallel paths.
Rabe is an oil painter whose interiors and still lifes are created from direct observation. Her immediate surroundings provide the imagery for her paintings. She is interested in the way light reveals and conceals forms and how it influences the color of objects. Her compositions explore relationships- between shapes, values, colors, objects and the rectangle of the canvas. Human presence is implied in her paintings.
Rabe holds a BFA from Hartford Art School and an MFA in Painting from Boston University, School of Fine Arts. She was an Assistant Professor of the Arts at Pine Manor College and also directed the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor. She is represented by Powers Gallery in Acton, MA.
Rood is a printmaker who works in linocut, monotype, and collage. She lives on the Rood family farm where she has her studio. Her work reflects this environment and includes abstract images of animals and plants, that are tied together with a narrative feel. She uses the possibilities of repetition inherent in printmaking to develop imaginary characters and stories.
Rood hold a BFA from Hartford Art School and a MS in Art Education from Central Connecticut State University. She taught elementary art for many years. Her work has been included in national and international printmaking exhibits and shown in many art galleries.
Rabe is an oil painter whose interiors and still lifes are created from direct observation. Her immediate surroundings provide the imagery for her paintings. She is interested in the way light reveals and conceals forms and how it influences the color of objects. Her compositions explore relationships- between shapes, values, colors, objects and the rectangle of the canvas. Human presence is implied in her paintings.
Rabe holds a BFA from Hartford Art School and an MFA in Painting from Boston University, School of Fine Arts. She was an Assistant Professor of the Arts at Pine Manor College and also directed the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor. She is represented by Powers Gallery in Acton, MA.
Rood is a printmaker who works in linocut, monotype, and collage. She lives on the Rood family farm where she has her studio. Her work reflects this environment and includes abstract images of animals and plants, that are tied together with a narrative feel. She uses the possibilities of repetition inherent in printmaking to develop imaginary characters and stories.
Rood hold a BFA from Hartford Art School and a MS in Art Education from Central Connecticut State University. She taught elementary art for many years. Her work has been included in national and international printmaking exhibits and shown in many art galleries.
