There is no need to travel far for Places We Inhabit at the Zach Gallery in Easton, MD. The gallery held an artist talk on Saturday, April 26. Gallery Manager Aynsley Schopper had curated an excellent, invitational exhibition in this new white space of the Zach Gallery in Easton, a refreshing new asset to our Eastern Shore community.
Cid Collins Walker
Schopper had organized a mini-symposium with the four women artists in the exhibition Places We Inhabit. The title of the exhibition was inspired by the artist Elizabeth Casqueiro’s artist’s statement. She is a visual artist who lives in Washington DC and in Easton, who is always fascinated by the complex interplay between nature – frequently referencing her mother’s “overgrown” flower garden in Portugal – and the built environment, and the meanings inherent in this connection. Her artwork explores, through an expanded definition of painting, the ways in which these two environments intersect, shaping the places we inhabit, the experiences we have within them, and the people we become.
Elizabeth Casqueiro
Also in the exhibition is Amy Wickersham, born in Chicago. She received her BFA from Denver University and studied painting and drawing at the Spannocchia Foundation in delicious Tuscany. Both the sunlight and warm colors of Italy are certainly noticed in her work. After New York city, she moved full time to Sag Harbor in 2010.
Cid Collins Walker is not only an excellent visual artist but also the founder, executive producer and director of Black Opal Productions LLC. In addition to documentary filmmaking, she is an awarded expert in television and film production, creative direction, animation, print design and brand management. She earned a B.A. in painting from Scripps College in Claremont, CA, followed by Whitney Fellowship in New York. She serves as Artistic Director at Chesapeake Film Festival which takes place annually in Easton.
Amy Wickersham, Spring Rumba, dyed silk on canvas, 40” x 40
Erica-Lunn Huberty did not attend the artist talk, but her work can be admired. She uses embroidery to create artwork that is replete with intricate detail, often incorporating textiles, trim, and lace. Her use of diverse materials links her practice to collage, although Huberty considers her work to be more indebted to the Dutch and Flemish Old Masters., music to Dutch art-historical ears.
With some 15 people attending the prosecco event on a Saturday afternoon, the three artists present shared their work and their inspirations. Amy discussed her dyed-silk two-dimensional “paintings,” Cid described here “risks and joy, representational combined with abstract works and Elizabeth her background as an architect and interactions with nature. The overall theme seemed to be their artwork as “containers for their respective narratives.”
The exhibition is on view from March 8 – May 10, 2025. See https://www.zachgalleryeaston.com/
Anke Van Wagenberg, PhD, is Senior Curator & Head of International Collaborations at the American Federation of Arts in New York and lives in Talbot County, MD.
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