'Inside My Battle' Exhibit Reflects Artist's Cancer Experience
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Art Gallery at Bagels Too, 166 North St., for the month of July, will be showing the most recent series of artworks by beloved and powerful Berkshire artist Anne Pasko of Lanesborough.
Last summer, Pasko was diagnosed with and told she had inoperable pancreatic cancer. After her immediate shock, disbelief and despair, her feelings drove her into her studio to experience, express, work through and, ultimately, emerge as herself with new depths from the life-altering digression she was now enmeshed in.
As her feelings surfaced, she created collages to make them visible, one by one, for herself, the people most closely surrounding her, others who have gone or are going through fearful illness and everyone else who loves Anne's art.
The order of the paintings is the order she felt and documented each feeling: starting with "Out of the Blue, She Fell Into Despair," which moved into "Fear and Uncertainty" that brought her to "Why?" and led to "Acceptance" and on, finally, to her "Sequence of Dreams."
Each painting is titled with a feeling and a commentary Pasko has written to clarify how each arose in her.
These collages and mixed media pieces resonate with the vividness and beauty Pasko is known for. Even the darkest collages/paintings are quietly arresting, colorful and intimate. The edges are burnished with gold.
"I do gold on almost all my paintings. I like to put it on," she said.
Just enough gold. Head-turning but not loud. Pasko's bits of gold encourage her works to vibrate with energy and richness.
Come, see the works.
The Art Gallery at Bagels Too is open every day from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. except on Sundays when it closes at 2.
Tags: art show,
