Robert Stark has had solo exhibits at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Philips Collection, and in museums in Nashville, Augusta Georgia and Dallas Pennsylvania, among others. His work has traveled with the U.S. State Department to 140 world capitals. Stark’s connection to art was sparked as a child by his grandmother, a decorative painter. His formal training was in high school. Always renewing his visual perception, Stark looks at art every day. Early on he was influenced by the work of Hans Hofmann. Like Picasso, he has re-invented himself many times, from photography to landscape painting, an example which we show here at the Lodge. After returning from a visit to Hong Kong in 1985, Stark began to focus on abstract art that is, however, still rooted in landscape painting. Within that genre the artist continued to explore form, line and color, creating an astonishing body of diverse work. His work draws us in and out with infinite complexity. While recent work reveals horizons with elements of sky, rivers, earth, his latest work is a joyful dynamic of vibrant squares and rectangles, (as the above example) a series that seem to defy space, reverberating beyond the canvas. The artist, born in 1939, lives and works in his Susquehanna Studio, in Union Dale, Pennsylvania. He and his artist wife spend winters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Anne Crowley - Born in Dublin, Ireland, Crowley’s love of art was ignited by her grandfather, Liam O’Rinn, a painter renowned in Ireland and Europe. Crowley earned a BA at the National College of Art and Design in Ireland, and after coming to New York City, received a Masters in Fine Art from Hunter College. The artist has exhibited in Dublin, Ireland, San Francisco, in various New York City galleries, at the WFG gallery in Woodstock, in Kingston and here with Kiesendahl+Calhoun Fine Art. She has received numerous awards and scholarships and has been reviewed in the Woodstock Times, the Irish Arts Review and the Irish Times. In 2000 Crowley moved from New York City to the Hudson Valley where the Ashokan Reservoir, Catskill Mountains, deer, birds and flora serve as her ongoing muse. The artist’s painterly landscapes are an exploration of her surroundings, of a landscape and wildlife she has grown to cherish. Rich layers of colorful compositions carry us into her expressive world.