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EXHIBITIONS AT CIDER GALLERY
EXHIBITIONS
This Side of the Mystery: Paintings by Ann Trusty
Opening Reception 3/28/2025 5-9PM. Show closes April 18th.
There is a great intelligence in Nature. It is a mysterious intelligence whose language is hidden in the sounds of wind and bird song, the colors of flowers, the repeating patterns of life—in uncountable ways, at every scale. It is a language that we may not be able to hear or see or translate unless we are very still and take the time to listen and watch. It is a language of soul-stirring beauty.
Nature provides glimpses and delights of dazzling beauty that inspire me in my paintings. My work is to whisk away the buzzing bees of distraction in my head, to see beyond the clatter, to listen, to honor, to celebrate the beauty and to try to translate these impressions and feelings into paint.
Flowers are one of those voices of Nature. There is something powerful about their beauty, fragrance, color and seemingly infinite variation. They create a personal connection with us and bring a much needed glimpse of beauty into a confusing and sometimes not so beautiful world.
They seem to me to be emissaries—here to remind us of the greater beauty that we can sense perhaps, but are not equipped to see in all its interwoven magnificence, on this side of the mystery. Are they reminders to keep us balanced as we work through this impossibly enigmatic life? Perhaps they are a reminder to celebrate living in the moment. Their spring arrival can fill us with hope and an appreciation of the eternal cycles of life in which we, too, play an integral part. Their ephemerality and fragility, from bud to scattered brown petals can be a prompt to appreciate our own brief lives. We’ll never know the answers to why beauty exists or why it speaks to us. Perhaps the best we can do is to enjoy the gift.
About the Artist:
Ann Trusty is a third-generation artist whose oil and watercolor paintings celebrate the mysteries and beauty of Nature. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, France and Turkey, in both museum and gallery exhibitions and has received favorable reviews by the New York Times. With John Hulsey, she founded and publishes the educational website, The Artist’s Road.
She has exhibited her work in one and two-person exhibitions at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Fine Art, St. Joseph, MO; the Louise Jones Brown Gallery at Duke University, Durham, NC; the Westchester Gallery at the State University of NY, White Plains; the Hemisphere Club, Rockefeller Center, NY; and the Alice and Hamilton Fish Library Gallery, Garrison, NY.
Her paintings and contemporary quilt work have been included in juried and group exhibitions including the Tradition of Audubon Invitational Exhibition, Cincinnati Museum Center, OH; American Women Artists Exhibitions; Between the Miamis Invitational Exhibition, Great Parks Foundation, Cincinnati, OH; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Exhibitions, NY; Museum of San Diego History; the Islamic Arts Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; the Turkish American Society, Ankara, Turkey; in France at: the Union des Maisons des Métiers d’Art Français, Paris; the Musée de l’Impression sur Étoffes, Mulhouse; the Musée-Chateau d’Anneçy, Anneçy; the Musée des Beaux Arts, Angers; the Galérie des Tanneurs, Tours. She is a Signature Member of the American Women Artists.
Trusty’s art has received the American Artist Professional League Award; Merit Awards from Richeson 75; the Merit Award from the American Craft Awards, NY; and has been featured in many publications, including Gakken Art Books, Tokyo; Lark Books; International Artist Magazine; and Artists Magazine.
Ann Trusty and her husband live outside Lawrence, Kansas, with their two dogs and working cat.
Visit Ann Trusty's website at: www.anntrusty.com.
FRAMING
FRAMING SERVICES
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Cider Gallery offers personal one-on-one assistance in our galleries or in your home or office. We would like to make your experience working with Cider Gallery Framing as convenient as possible.You can also send a digital picture of the item you would like framed and we can email you design suggestions along with a quote. We will be happy to pick up your artwork and deliver and/or install it once it is ready.
CURATION SERVICES
CURATION SERVICES
Cider Gallery is excited to offer curation services for real estate agents, hotels, restaurants, salons, banks, retail and office spaces. Enhance the look of your space with one of our curation programs.
We provide creative and successful solutions to a vast array of specific display concerns. Our team of trained, professional art handlers provides detail-oriented, white-glove artwork installation service for works in all dimensions.
Proper installation of your artwork is essential, as it affects the viewing experience of your art. Whether you're hanging small or large pieces, placement and well proportioned spacing can affect viewing greatly. We have dealt with a large number of different hanging surfaces, such as drywall, cement, plaster, brick and stone walls.
Cider Gallery can even curate and lease art for your home. Reach out today for a consultation.