The Brothership Building North Gallery Window curated by Berkshire Art Center (formerly IS183 Art School of the Berkshires) will feature 2023 Berkshire Artists-in-Residence: Noah Beauregard and Kelly Potter for the month of September.
Introducing the work of two local artists participating in Berkshire Art Center's Artist Residency Program. Uniquely situated in a county that is rich in history and culture, Berkshire Art Center has coordinated Artist Residencies that pair local visual artists with cultural institutions and historic landmarks across the Berkshires since 2012. Whether they are selected to create work inspired by Chesterwood’s grounds, the historic Red Lion Inn, or Berkshire Art Center’s own historic Citizens’ Hall building, the heart of each residency is to give artists the opportunity to create new work inspired by their home county. The 2023 Artists have been creating work inspired by their site locations since the end of May. Work from their residencies will be exhibited on site at their host locations in September.
Kelly Potter, Chesterwood Artist-in-Residence, is a painter and a ceramic sculptor based in the Berkshires, MA. She received her Undergraduate BFA degree in Studio Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Talent Award, George M. Wardlaw Scholarship, and Second Place Juried Junior Senior Show Award. Her visual art is based on preliminary studies of plant and animal activity within semi-natural locations in the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley. Using oil painting and wall mounted ceramic relief sculpture, she investigates a dynamic between the tamed and the untamed.
Noah Beauregard, Red Lion Inn Artist-in-Residence, is a painter working out of Berkshire County, MA. Drawn to painting and design and as a child, Beauregard’s art focuses on abstracting common images through form and color. Beauregard pushes recognizable scenes into a bright bizarre world of saturated color and mythic design. The human form and unworldly plants are common motifs in his work.