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Salon.comArt walk with a purpose in Ipswich
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What: South Main Street art walk
Where: Suzanne Crocker Gallery, Hall Haskell House, Ipswich Museum
When: Thursday, Sept. 11, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
By Dan Mac Alpine
Ipswich@wickedlocal.com
The Image has hung on a wall of its own at the entrance to Suzanne Crocker’s South Main St. gallery for more than a month. Daytime. At night, when it glows through the lit gallery’s windows. People stop and stare. Walking by they pull up and turn to it. Cyclists riding across the street have stopped and crossed.
They press their faces to the glass and shield their eyes for a better look.
And whoever looks, the eyes stare back. Sharp. Dark orbs set in a round, white eyeball. The wings, stretching about 72 inches tip to tip, span the nest, as if protecting the osprey inside. A slight blur at the wing tips gives the life-size photo its only sense of motion.
The Kate Griswold photo will be the centerpiece of a South Main art walk Thursday, Sept. 11, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The walk will include The Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main, featuring landscapes and nature photos by Argilla Road resident Dorothy Kerper Monnelly; a more extensive display of Griswold’s bird photographs at the Hall Haskell House, 36 South Main, and Crocker’s contemporary color-saturated abstracts, images of barns and people on the beach at her 39 South Main gallery.
"I wanted to put up a piece by her in my gallery," said Crocker. "I love her work. And it worked out for her to have a full show at Hall Haskell. She had idea of doing an art walk. Everyone can come and enjoy art either before or after dinner. We’re just trying to get that vibe going."
The walk also means much more than a stroll past work by three Ipswich artists, especially for Griswold who will donate all the sales of her work to her family’s charity, The Chet and Will Griswold Suicide Prevention Fund.
Both her sons loved animals and bird life in the marsh and Griswold has dedicated the work in this show of bird images she took in South Carolina to them.
Brehon and Kate Griswold’s daughter, Kitty, is also passionate about animals and rides horses competitively at the world-class level.
"The photos are not meant to symbolize Chet and Willie," said Griswold. "Their presence is pretty strong. I felt both my sons were right there helping me. There’s a very, very strong personal connection that was going on. Birds are messengers of the sprit world and I swear they were performing for me."
The Griswold’s oldest son, Chet, committed suicide in 1998 when he was just 13 and Will committed suicide in 2011, at 24.
Page 2 of 2 - "Chet was put on Zoloft (an anti-depressant drug that can have a reverse effect on children and teens) and we think that is what happened," said Griswold. "Will idolized his older brother and he had a hard time. We thought he was in pretty good shape and that is the sad thing about this kind of death. It takes you by surprise."
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta site suicide as the third leading cause of death among youths 10 to 24.
That’s where the suicide prevention fund comes in.
Griswold cited the work of Families for Depression awareness based in Waltham as the type of support families and those suffering from depression that needs to become more available.
"They guide toward hospitals," said Griswold. "They provide a lot of information for families. That is such a valuable resource. So many times families and friends don’t know where to go. "
The Hall Haskell show has been a long time coming. Griswold has been photographing animals since 16 and in the last several years has been shooting animal portraits in formal settings similar to historic human portraiture.
"I am trying to create a beautiful image to be hung on someone’s wall," said Griswold. "Composition and motion. Color or black and white. I think these are pretty strong images."
That strength of image unites the work included in the art walk.
Monnelly has been called the "Ansel Adams of the salt marsh," although her work ranges far beyond the images of the Ipswich marshes. Monnelly often discovers the art in the natural landscape. Almost abstract images in ice. Patterns in grass or rock. Unlike Griswold, any wildlife in Monnelly’s work fits into its natural setting, without becoming the central image in her photos.
"The work all kind of relates to an appreciation for nature and for peaceful things," said Crocker. "I invent color. Sometimes I exaggerate color. For me I want you to have a feeling, feeling the warmth of the barn, or holding a child’s hand in the water. It makes you pause for a minute and reflect on what’s being presented to you."
Such moments of reflection unite the artists and their work, even at the emotional depth Griswold taps in this show.
"Both nights it happened, I thought I can ruin my life over this or do something positive. This is extremely painful obviously for us and any way can reach out and help someone, to help them understand and support them, that would be a gift."
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