Judith Olson Gregory, Sunya (from the Vestment series), mixed media, 4'x5’. (Submitted photo)

JAMESTOWN, NY -- Celtic rock performed by Scythian will be featured during the opening reception for the “Material/Ethereal Constructs” exhibition on February 4 in the Weeks Gallery on Jamestown Community College’s Jamestown Campus.

The exhibition includes works by Judith Olson Gregory and Dianne Baker. The gallery will open at 6:15 p.m. with an artists’ talk beginning at 6:30. Scythian performs at 7, and is followed at 8:15 with music by Bill Ward and Amanda Barton during a reception featuring hors d’oeuvres and wine and beer tasting.

Tickets for the event can be obtained through JCC’s box office, 338.1187. Admission is $15 for the general public, $10 for area students and senior citizens, $8 for JCC Faculty Student Association members, and $5 for children 12 and under.

The exhibition will be displayed February 6 to March 22. The Weeks Gallery is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday. The gallery is closed on college holidays. For more information, visit weeksgallery.sunyjcc.edu.

Scythian, voted “best local band” by readers of Washington City Paper in 2009, is renowned for its Celtic and world music that features hints of Gypsy, klezmer, and bluegrass. The band performed recently for NPR’s “Mountain Stage” program.

Ms. Gregory, a Jamestown native and summer resident at Chautauqua Institution, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Alfred University. She has exhibited her work regionally and nationally, taught numerous workshops, received many awards, and served on several arts-related boards in the Rochester area and at Chautauqua Institution.

“I often work with hand-cast paper...sheets of paper I've made from a pulp of cotton linters, which are saturated with acrylic polymers to toughen and make then water resistant…and then color acrylic with washes of paint,” noted Ms. Gregory. “Found objects are frequently part of my work...anything from a scrap of rusty metal to a stem of dried roses.”

Ms. Baker earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Syracuse University and a master’s degree in social studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She also completed studies as part of Syracuse University’s Florence, Italy program and continued graduate studies in mixed media/fiber arts at SUNY Buffalo. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards and commissions.

“My art engages the viewer in looking, lingering, and responding,” Ms. Baker remarked. “I love exploring change and growth – things that look one way and turn into something else. By manipulating texture, color, line and shape, I find the final assembly contains a dialogue, which goes beyond its origin...I imbue some (artworks) with humor, nostalgia, joy, or unexpected weight, thus revealing old/new, quiet/unquiet, and soft/hard…I am looking beyond the outer form for the suggestion of an inner meaning, to capture the magic in the ‘ordinary’.”

Visit www.juditholsongregory.com or www.dbakerartist.com for more information on the artists.