Chace-Randall Gallery Owner/Director Zoe Randall will be speaking on behalf of Mark Pilato's Ascent, bronze, donated to the Halcottsville Fire Department, Sunday September 11, at 1 p.m., Main Street. Halcottsville, NY. The work commemorates the lives lost on Sep 11 2001. It was made here in the Catskills, out of the beauty and healing capacity of our mountains. From Ground Zero, to the Pentagon, to St. Peter's Church (52nd St. NYC), here, in the Catskills, it has returned.
"I am honored to speak about his gorgeous and so important work," Randall told Lauren Quarltere,organizer of this event. Randall had the honor of being alongside Pilato as he sculpted Ascent, from the thrown handfuls of clay on the armiture to his fine lines tooled in clay to the making of blue rubber moldings to the casting of bronze, all as his gallerist. It was healing for her, having, herself, fled NYC after September 11, 2001.
"Mark told me that I am 'in that clay,' the greatest gift any artist can give his or her gallerist," says Randall.
Mark Pilato's wonderful sculptures will once again be available through Chace-Randall Gallery, 49 Main Street, Andes, very soon.
Fall Gallery Hours: Sat & Sun and Holiday Mondays 11 - 5 and by appointment. For more information call 845.676.4901 or visit www.chacerandallgallery.com.
