Korongo: The Art of Travel: Opening Reception June 8

Sunday, June 3, 2012

The Art of Travel: Opening Reception June 8

Girl With Blue Shawl, photograph by Wink Willett

Join us this Friday from 5 to 7 for the opening of The Art of Travel. The exhibit will feature photographs and paintings by Wink and Bonny Willett, reproductions from artist Susan Abbott's travel sketchbooks, and travel souvenirs collected by local globetrotters. We'll display some of the artifacts and put others on the blog, so check back often during the next six weeks to see what turns up. We'll also be scheduling some fun travel-related evenings at the gallery, including a presentation by Karen Kane, a travel consultant who specializes in Paris and Montreal, and a talk with some of the Facebook friends who organized Sara's trip to Paris for Condé Nast Traveler in May.

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The Randolph Herald on Korongo

From Herald writer Dian Parker: "Living in the East Village in Manhattan in the late '60s and all through the '70s, I’d often hang out with artists at a street café and we’d talk about our work incessantly. Bongo drummers lined Second Avenue and the small alcove of my eighth-floor walk up was often a place for bums to sleep. Artists opened their apartments as tiny makeshift art galleries. On one wall hung a tie-dyed sheet and on the floor a double mattress. Not much else except art. And more art. It was everywhere, some of it not very good, but it was an outpouring nonetheless; a place to be seen. We never thought the East Village would become what it is now, one of the hip places to live in Manhattan, still filled with art, only much more expensive.

"Along comes the Korongo Gallery to Randolph, and we have promise again of a beginning that could very well burgeon into something hip and wonderful, a place for artists and writers to display and read their work, congregate and hang out. At the opening on March 17 there was a feeling of excitement and expectation that we might just be on the verge of a new happening, right here in downtown Randolph. The gallery was packed. Patrick Texier, the owner, schmoozed with the folks and Laurie Sverdlove Goldman, the painter, and talked about her work which hung on three of the walls. Jack Rowell took photographs and everyone was smiling and milling about. The food was delicious. This was a real opening in a new little gallery that has a big and bright future." To continue reading Dian's article on the Herald website, click here.