Last weekend I headed north to Newtown, PA to the Art at King’s Oaks show. Arriving there the sun was almost gone from the sky and the farm had this wonderful powerful twilight feeling. I drove around the barn and parked in a field with all the other cars. There were lots of and lots of people there for the opening. The moon sat above the field and everything smelled crisply of autumn.
I walked into the barn and saw Ben King’s invented landscapes towering above my head. They looked majestic and celebratory. The barn was divided into compartments that succeeded in feeling both intimate and open. Along one wall I saw the work of Younghee Choi Martin. Her pictures reminded me of paintings by Titian and Poussin while still being very modern and I felt sort of windswept looking at them. There was so much beautiful work in the barn it would take pages to write about it all. I felt like I had stepped into a little piece of art heaven.
Speaking of heaven, the other exhibit space at King’s Oaks was an old stone chapel. The work shimmered and there was a quietness in the room even thought there were lots of people visiting. Paintings by Alex Cohen hanging on the stone walls made me think of portals to subconscious worlds and the egg sculptures of Wells Vissar had a sort of holiness that brought to mind the book of Genesis. It was quite something to be surrounded by so much excellence.
The exhibit is open through October 20, 2019- it’s worth the trip!