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Monsters@Jacaruso!!

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“Monsters”  at Betsy Jacaruso Gallery 43 E. Market St. #2 (In the "Courtyard"!) Rhinebeck, NY 12572 open Thursday - Sunday, 11-6 and by appointment (845) 516-4435 EXHIBITION IS OPEN NOW; OPENING IS ON OCTOBER 29 FROM 4-7PM * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  Artist's statement I started doing these years ago with the kids. I think maybe it was on a family vacation on Fire Island.  It was really fun for the whole family for, like, 17 minutes, then the kids were off to something else and  I found myself here. All alone in this beautiful place.  Over the course of the years, as my art has dealt with political and social issues and language and semiotics and other things that require a lot of scratching from me and probably from the viewers of my creations as well. Along the way, through the years, it's been nice to have a couple of bodies of work that spring forth from a place of whimsy, rather than intellect or activism. These monsters on things are c...