Each year, The Ink Shop launches a Members' show, giving our membership the opportunity to exhibit their newest work. This exhibit will be our first in the Fred Madden Gallery using our new 2nd floor entrance, accessible via the front stairway or the public elevator.
We'd like to acknowledge the generous gift by Taf Squires and the wonderful contributions to the Ink Shop by her late husband Fred Madden. Join us to commemorate our new Fred Madden Gallery entrance and see all the changes we've made to improve our studio.
The upcoming Lisa Mackie exhibition at The Ink Shop in Ithaca is a meditation on the phrase “The Forest for the Trees.” To not see the forest for the trees means to not appreciate a larger situation because one has focused on only a few individual details. Mackie thinks that the individual details, in art and in every context, are critically important. What is a forest without its individual trees? What is a painting without its individual brushstrokes? The individual words “the,” “forest,” “for the,” and “trees” are as much a subject matter to Mackie as the trees and animals found in forests.