A fair number of galleries are opening shows this weekend. Here are some highlights:
“Clockwork,” paintings by Aaron Brooks, at the Hess Gallery in Elizabethtown College’s Zug Memorial Hall. An opening reception and artist talk will take place 5-7 p.m. Friday evening. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m. Brooks, who teaches at Elizabethtown College, was inspired by the round, utilitarian frames of old institutional clocks and a view of time as “inconsistent, uncertain and enigmatic.”
Mitch Lyons will show clay monoprints at the Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery (stories here and here). Opening reception and Mid-Winter Bluesfest, Friday 5-9 p.m.
The Lancaster County Art Association is holding its first-ever Invitational Exhibit, featuring the work of five artists: Morris Cook, Helena van Emmerik-Finn, Sangita C. Phadke, Lauren Mulhern and painter Lois Schachter. The opening reception will be Sunday, 1-5 p.m. Morris Cook, of Coatesville, whose grandfather E. Morris Cook invented roller coasters and made merry-go-rounds in Philadelphia, is creating a miniature carousel in bronze. She has also created a series of relief sculptures of architectural fragments. Spring Mount resident Lois Schlachter, a painter for over forty years, is an abstract expressionist who works primarily in acrylic. Lauren Mulhern, a 2008 Kutztown University grad who lives in Chadds Ford, is a watercolorist. Sangita C. Phadke of Colts Neck, N.J. and Helena van Emmerik-Finn of Doylestown, Pa. both work in pastels. Also on display in the Steinmetz Gallery: work by artists who participated in the LCAA’s Plein Air Marathon in 2008. Shown at left is a work by Lauren Mulhern.
Lori Nix’s photographs of painstakingly constructed miniature worlds overtaken by mysterious natural disasters will be shown at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. The exhibit opens Friday; a reception will be held Feb. 6. Regular hours are Monday through Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Finally, the Quarryville Library’s C.X. Carlson Room will present a “Photography Open Show,” with an opening reception Saturday 1-3 p.m.
