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.