Buster Levi Gallery is pleased to present Wood and Water, woodcut prints by by Ada Pilar Cruz and Ursula Schneider at 121 Main Street in Cold Spring, New York. The exhibition will run from January 8 through January 31, 2021. The Gallery will be open for limited viewing on Saturdays from 1:00 - 6:00 pm and by appointment.

Each artist will will exhibiting one print and the wood blocks used to create the prints made during event at the Garrison Art Center in the summer of 2012 that involved a master printer and a steam roller to create large scale prints. Below is a statement by each artist.

Ada Pilar Cruz’s print is titled Mangrove. My print is a carving of mangrove roots from a beach in north part of Puerto Rico. I find mangroves to be incredibly beautiful and mysterious. It is a tangle of arching roots interwoven with each other much like a huge basket. It also left a breathtaking impression when I learned that it was a place where slaves and indigenous people would hide from the Spanish during times of slavery. I remember trying to imagine people being courageous enough to live a hidden life with crabs and water snakes among other sea swamp creatures in order to avoid the cruelty of the Spanish. I tried to get as close as I could.

Ursula Schneider’s print is titled My Barge. The inspiration for my image are the boats passing by on the Hudson River, their shapes and sizes, their humming sound and the expanding pattern in the water they leave behind. There are three hands, one is my sisters, one my brothers, and the third is mine. To get the effect I wanted, I traded to get an old weathered play wood window cover in exchange for a new one. I made sketches, then cut out the shapes and drilled the holes to represent stars. It was a great experience to see the prints being created and having them hang to dry as a group of diverse images.

For more information or an appointment: busterlevigallery.com, adapilar@yahoo.com or

ursulapaints@optonline.net.