Nancy Callahan: Artist Talk at Artists Obsessed Show

Cooperstown, NY—Established artist Nancy Callahan (Gilbertsville) will discuss work featured in Artists Obsessed at the Art Garage, Wed. June 17 at 4PM. The gallery will open at 3:30 on June 17. Reservations are recommended: text/call 315-941-9607 or email [email protected].
A series of free public programs accompanies the current show that highlights ‘creative compulsion’. Todd Bachman will be artist-in-residence Sat, June 20, 11-1.
The final talk in the series will focus on the 1940s two—sided drawings of Lavern Kelley, Otsego County’s famed self-taught farmer-artist. at 3:30. Parking on gallery grounds is requested, for public safety.
The gallery is open Saturdays 11-3 and daily by appointment. ext/call 315-941-9607 or email [email protected].
Area residents and visitors may have encountered Callahan’s complex and multilayered work at Fenimore Art Museum in 2023. In Obsession, two retro clock-shaped pieces offer mesmerizing tableaux with Victorian-era ephemera. Another fantastical construction, Your Goose is Cooked, presents an other-worldly creature and scenery that creates a fantastical allure. Known for her mastery of book art, she will also discuss two curious ‘built books’ on display, books that don’t open—but tell a story. Callahan regularly collects old-fashioned toys and vintage Victoriana, carefully stored treasures which she sifts through and assembles. “Like a dreamer letting down their guard for the night, I give myself over to the work in the studio day after day… as though moving in a dream.” She never quite knows where a project is going, she noted, and is guided by intuition, not a plan. The overall effect is pure magic.
. As always visitors are invited to park on the gallery grounds not on the town road.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
NANCY CALLAHAN: In her fifty-year career as a visual artist Nancy Callahan has worked in a variety of different media including painting, printmaking, artists books and sculpture. She is Professor Emerita at SUNY Oneonta where she was a full-professor in the art department. She taught drawing, design, screen printing and artists books for over twenty-five years. She has exhibited her work in countless regional, national and international exhibitions and has taught in numerous professional workshops for artists and designers at Wells College, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Women’s Studio Workshop, and The Center for Book Arts to name but a few. She has been an artist fellow at residencies both national and international. Her work can be found in many private and public collections including at Harvard, Yale, Vassar, RIT, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, the Library of Congress, and university special collections throughout the US and abroad.
Coming up next! Toddf Bachman, Sat, June 20, 11-1, DEMONSTRATION & Informal Converstaions with Visitors. Free.

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