Berkshire Museum is delighted to present a selection of large-scale paintings by Roberto Juarez. Inspired by his world travels and influenced by traditions of Hispanic and non-Western art, these works range in style and subject-depicting flora and fauna as well as employing geometric abstraction. Among the five pieces on view are two new works, commissioned [...]

January 21 – May 22, 2011

This world premiere exhibition provides a full-on experience, including an up-close look at several rarely-displayed works, original woodblocks, watercolors, preparatory drawings and hard-to-find prints of many of Escher’s iconic images. Hands-on interactive stations provide the chance to find the fun in Escher’s technique through personal exploration. This eye-opening experience also takes a look at Escher’s impact on popular culture, from the cover of The New Yorker to black-light posters, and even some very creative tattoos.

I was beyond honored when recently, the Berkshire Museum asked me to be an Artist in Residence this spring. I took the opportunity to make something larger and more complex than what I have made before. I took inspiration from triangles, geodesic domes, zomes, crystals, minerals, platonic solids, Lou Reed, facets & geometry. I sought [...]

Clutural Pittsfield went over to the Berkshire Museum and caught up with the wonderful Maria Mingalone and Jeremey Goodwin. A video tour of the Escher and the Henry Klimowicz show is nice….. but you should go check it out in person 100% !!!!!!!! And here is the said video of the installation of the Klimowicz [...]

A compilation of 3 photos from 3 blogs of one peice of art. A portrait of ‘Bright Star’ from three views… Clockwise you can read their entries at • Berkshirestrails.com • Greirhorner.com • Ruralinteligence.com Or just go over to the Berkshire Museum and see it for your self! the exhibition will be open till March [...]

So I was not able to make it by the Museum and take some photos of Eric Drury with his 2nd annual Festival of Trees installation. (last years coverage) This year Ben Garver of the Berkshire Eagle did make it over to catch up with Eric.

The beauty and inspiration of the outdoors comes inside for Woodland Style, a new multi-artist exhibition on view at Berkshire Museum September 4 through January 2. Woodland Style is curated by local author Marlene Marshall, based on her new book of the same name, published by Storey Publishing. A series of related programs that are [...]

Berkshire Museum is pleased to present Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships, an installation of new sculpture created specifically for this exhibition. Running July 1 through October 11, Spatial Relationships brings together two Berkshire-based artists who worked extensively in other materials before gravitating toward metal. Coincidentally, both gained their affinity for working in metal [...]

Finally had a few minutes at the right time… Friday at about 3pm.   Took a minute to swoop down to the Berkshire Museum and distract Ven from his current project on the floor of the Crane Room. Since his residency started I had been meaing to catch-up but I was always in the wrong [...]