Woodstock Times December 28, 2006
excerpted from
Forward in all directions
In art as in politics, "staying the course" gets the boot in '06
by Paul Smart
We finally got to meet - and fully appreciate - the accomplished, Turneresque watercolorist from Mohonk, Vinnie
Connelly, who had a great show at Vassar College's Palmer Gallery in Poughkeepsie. Loved Jake Berthot's left-handed
drawings at the Guild. Thought classical landscapist Judy Abbott, of Willow, may have started making the best work of
her long career. But ditto Kingston-based Julie Hedrick, who showed a new series of white paintings in New York, and
Maverick-based Bill Mead, who finally showed the work that he has been perfecting for a lifetime now - and promises to
show more in the coming years.