Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald, January 24, 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts Dan Keegan and Scott Kilgour, the artists featured in the January/February Exhibition at Green Kill , Friday, January 24, 2025, 7 PM.
Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts Dan Keegan and Scott Kilgour, the artists featured in the January/February Exhibition at Green Kill, Friday, January 24, 2025, 7 PM. Read about Dan Keegan and Scott Kilgour below the ticket information.
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Dan Keegan
I work with nature. It's complexity and subtlety represent long-standing challenges to me. My drawings reflect an influence of the "wabi sabi” aesthetic and the recognition of the infinite beauty and forms of nature as well as its fragility. My drawings are not straightforward observations. Working from photographs I combine images, multiple viewpoints, inversions and even duplicates to create views of nature not wholly sensible but almost believable. The Shadow Series of works is an ongoing study of light and shadow patterns on forest paths and trails; abstractions that are literally at our feet but also suggest the vast universe beyond. The Climate Change Series is based on the 4 elements of earth, air, fire and water. I hope the works speak for themselves. Black and white? I enjoy an emphasis on form, value and intensity.
Scott Kilgour
When walking through a field of sunflowers I feel the biodynamic energy of nature. I see anonymous flowers with humanlike dimensions expressing moods and personalities. This society of botanical actors, found performing in random fields in the countryside of the Hudson Vally as well as in Nizza Monferrato in Piedmont, convey narrative and emotion visually. For me, this relationship between art and nature is a form of alchemy – a process of transformation – that changes natural forms into works of art. I involuntarily read my emotions into sunflowers and its these emotional projections, these impressions of sunflower expressions, that I have slowly developed into a series of paintings that reflect our human nature in mother nature.
Betty MacDonald
Writer/actor Betty MacDonald contributed to the writing of and performed in TMI’s What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting. Her essay “Before Roe v. Wade” appears in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch! Her work is included in the anthologies 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, Better With Age, and Lightwood, Betty presented her essay “First Love,” at the Cell Theatre in New York City and at Vassar College. Videos of her essays “First Love”, "Daughter of Twins", "Not Jewish Enough”, and "I'm Not a Woman of My Age!" are available at WritersRead.org.
Betty hosts Words Carry Us, a livestream show of readings and interviews from Green Kill in Kingston, NY. Words Carry Us videos are available online at YouTube.com.
Following her early career as radio personality Tiny Lee, Betty became a travel industry correspondent. Presently, she finds travel exhausting and prefers staying home in New York’s Hudson Valley. For close to 40 years, storytelling has influenced her work as a performer with Community Playback Theatre.
All My Monsters are Dead or Why I Love Being Old, Betty’s book of poems and essays is available from Codhill Press. Also available at Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY and The Blue Heron, High Falls, NY.
Looking forward to this!!