Opening March 21 from 6 to 9 pm at the Gallery at Le Shag-
   
It’s about to be Spring, and it’s also time for the Gallery at Le Shag to change up the walls. This season we are welcoming

Kirby Crone

and her collection called “Shimmer”. Her art will be a blast of color, filling the walls with texture and movement. I love how the walls shapeshift through the seasons, and this installment will be a glorious breath of Spring air.

The loveliness of having a salon gallery shows itself in many forms. On one hand, clients love the surprise of new art and a new       arrangement on the walls. For the stylists, it gives us something new to talk about, especially when our careers revolve around    conversation all day. The art also serves as input for inspiration as providing a backdrop for our hair photos or just as simple as a comparison for some fantasy hair color. 

Kirby Crone, born in 1989 in Houston, Texas, now lives and works in Hudson, New York. She received her BA from Southwestern University and her MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Cloud gazing, long walks, meandering drives, people watching, and travel are all integral parts of her practice, and these moments and observations make their way into abstracted landscapes.

Kirby has shown widely in the region, including a mural in Sharon, Connecticut, and participation in The Hudson Eye, Basilica’s Back Gallery, The Fireplace Project in Hudson, CREATE Catskill, and Gallery 495. She works from her home studio, assisted by her greatly adored felines, Egon and Toulouse.

Light, color, texture, and play are lifelong passions for Kirby. Her work emerges from the collision of nature, travel, and memory, ranging from childhood to yesterday. Drawing on both Impressionism and Expressionism, Kirby employs a flurry of small, individual marks that exist somewhere between pointillism and automatic drawing, building dense, richly textured surfaces.

Over time, her painting practice has become intertwined with meditation, each brushstroke acting as a quiet reflection of joy and beauty. Through this slow and attentive process, her paintings become spaces of contemplation, inviting viewers to linger and move through color as one might move through a landscape. What begins as an intuitive act ultimately resolves into a deeply felt record of presence, sensation, and lived experience.

Kirby’s work “Shimmer” will be on view at Le Shag for the next three months. We will be celebrating the opening on March 21st from 6 to 9 pm. If you have ever been curious about the gallery nights at the salon, this is a good one to start with.

Let’s make Spring the time to gather and connect. We hope you will join us.

Color Moving Through the Room: Spring Shimmer with Kirby Crone

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