Artist Inness Hancock announces Co-Curates and Exhibits at the 40th Annual Bedford Art Show

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Artist Inness Hancock announces Co-Curates and Exhibits at the 40^th Annual Bedford Art Show

Bedford, NY Jan 09, 2014 – Well known painter Inness Hancock is honored to announce being both an exhibitor and co-curator at the Bedford Art Show that will be in Bedford on January 24 through January 26, 2014.  This is a celebration of art and the proceeds benefit local charities.

The art show starts off on Friday, January 24^th, 2014 with a Gala to kick off the weekend.  This is the 40^th Anniversary of the annual art show and in addition to the festivities will also include an exhibition and sale, children’s art workshop and sculptural instruction.  The exhibition will be judged by Walter Leidke, curator of European art at the Metropolitan Modern Museum of Art.

The art show includes work from over 40 artists and will benefit 20 local charities ranging from children, senior and animal outreach programs.   This is St. Matthew’s Fellowship Hall event and will be held there in Bedford, NY.  To find out more about the event visit http://artshowbedford.wordpress.com/.

Most recently Inness was invited to be a featured guest artist for the Buck Hill, PA Artist Association Auction.  Her work is also featured in the “3000 Years of Portraits” in the Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY.  She also has done instructions that incorporate relaxation techniques with art. She also accepts commissions when she is not traveling to find her next painting location.

To reach Inness Hancock directly via email Inness@InnessHancock.com, or at 917.207.7697.

About Inness Hancock the artist

Inness Hancock is a widely collected painter of landscapes and abstracts.  Her soulful approach to capturing the beauty of the sky meeting the horizon, the clouds meeting one another or the skyline meeting its own glimmering reflection has become her vernacular to communicate connection, solitude, and the human spiritual experience.

Inness’s fascination with light and landscape developed very early while growing up in Maine.  Drawing and painting the dramatic coastline, capturing the ever brilliant reflections, and strong linear quality of the jagged rocks soon became the painter’s own search for identity.

In turn, this became a lifelong pursuit of her interpretation of humanity’s evolving state of being.  In the landscape there is a reflection of us all.  Connecting with the ground under our fee and the soil from which we grown heals our very souls.  Light illuminates our journey toward enlightenment and the path on which we walk.

Lately her landscapes have evolved as well. They are more abstract symbols of experience, rather than a direct reference.  Shapes that emerge from the strong foreground may evoke a sense of spires rising from their mosque, or a steeple towering over its church.

Inness has painted the desert of the Southwest extensively, all along the East Coast, and in such countries as England, France, Italy and Turkey.  She resides in Bedford, NY and Northeast Harbor, Maine.

Inness studied painting at the University of Southern California, the College of Charleston in South Carolina, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts.  She is a member of the Arts Student’s League of New York for 20 years and was the youngest member to be inducted.  Her work was the subject of a thesis at Yale Divinity School in 2005.

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