GreenStar Food Co+op
Located at 770 Cascadilla St., Ithaca
Megan Shay: Recent Works
Megan Shay is a sculptor, painter and photographer born in Ithaca, New York in 1965. She resides in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida and Ithaca. Shay works in photography, iPad, pastels and gouache, documenting natural areas, painting en plein air and doing larger scale studio paintings. Her art photography is poetic portraiture of natural elements, often in series such as Naturerotica (™) where natural forms take on connotations of human sexuality; or On Pavement, where she chronicles the beautiful pathos of plant material at the end of its life cycle. She also explores the interaction of nature and human structure through series on factories, public gardens and art in cities and light in ecclesiastical spaces.
GreenStar Food Co+op at Collegetown
Located at 307 College Ave., Ithaca
For more info https://thefiberpainter.com/
Sarah Lopez: Recent Works
Sarah Lopez is a gifted, emerging fiber artist who specializes in hand-dyed and hand-spun art yarn on canvas (fiber painting.) Lopez began her artistic journey knitting scarves to feel a connection to her grandmothers who used different plant and animal fibers to knit clothing for their families.
When she moved to the Finger Lakes in 2020, Lopez learned the art of hand-dyeing & hand-spinning wool into art yarn. She used her handmade art yarn to knit a variety of dresses, skirts, and sweaters that sat unworn in her closet for years.
Eventually, Lopez decided to unravel hundreds of hours of work so she could repurpose the yarn. She deconstructed her handmade garments, cut the yarn up, and began glueing it onto canvas in order to create an illusion of brush strokes. Lopez’s extraordinary fiber paintings are composed of hundreds of pieces of handmade art yarn and have a sensational ability to invoke wonder. Sarah Lopez, also known as The Fiber Painter, is based in Trumansburg, New York.
