A Rare Experience

Looking for a rare experience? Wendy Harris, the August featured artist at Gallery 54, here, is worthy of all your effort to the Skaneateles gallery during the month of August.

With a heritage dating back to her grandfather's paintings in the 1930s, Wendy creates her Plein Air pastels as well as mixed media paintings motivated by “The loss of the family farm, the collision of corporate interests and healthful agricultural practices and the shrinking landscape to urban sprawl,” she says.

Wendy’s award-winning paintings are nationally collected and internationally published. In her first exhibition she captured the Judge's Choice Award, and the awards have continued over the years “making her quite a treasure for our community,” according to Gallery 54.

"I’ve had no greater honor than being selected as the only painter (among more than 80) to receive the one painting commission from Upstate Medical Center’s new $74M Cancer Treatment Center,” Harris said recently.

Her work has been recognized as Best of Show at the Women Artists of the Finger Lakes in 2011; Country Living 2^nd place at the 4^th annual Northeast National Pastel Show inn Old Forge, NY; Outstanding Landscape Award at the 3^rd Northeast National Pastel Show, Old Forge, NY; First Place in the Plein Air contest at the Portage Hill Gallery, Westfield, NY; and the Judge's Choice at the Old Forge Art Center.

Opened July 2009, Gallery 54 is an artist owned and operated gallery. The member/owner artists are all local to the Finger Lakes/Central NY area and offer customers a wide variety of high-quality and unique fine art and fine craft, including paintings, mosaics, pottery, art quilts, jewelry, photography, stained glass, handbags, scarves, and more. More information on Gallery 54 and its upcoming artist shows is available at www.gallery54cny.com or by calling 315-685-5470.