Magic happens in the kitchen with “Domestic Alchemy”, a two person exhibition featuring contemporary realist painters Kate Gridley and William B. Hoyt. The kitchen is the heart of our domestic life. It’s where we gather to create the food that sustains us, and where we share news of the day, and moments of joy and sadness with family, and friends. There is intimacy in the shared experience of planning, cooking, and cleaning and time for contemplation if one is working alone. Contemporary realist painters Kate Gridley and William B. Hoyt interpret the theme, conveying the connections created, and the warmth and familiarity of the kitchen.

Join us for an opening reception on Saturday September 21, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Tour the exhibition, enjoy brunch fare and live music with jazz trio Deep Think.

About the artists:
Kate Gridley has her studio in Middlebury Vermont. She calls herself a conceptual realist painter and focuses on still life painting and portraiture. Her still life paintings depict exquisitely rendered objects such as antique tools from rural farm life, fruits and vegetables and most recently kitchen tools. Her compositions depict connections between objects that mirror human relationships and their complexities.
Awarded a Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship from Williams College in 1978, Gridley pursued her studies in New York City before moving to Florence, Italy for a year and a half of study of Renaissance painting techniques in the Atelier of Ben Long, former student of Pietro Annigoni. After a short stint in Boston Massachusetts on her return, she began exhibiting regularly in New York City and throughout New England.
Her portraits hang in public and private collections; her landscape and still life paintings hang in private collections here and abroad. She completed the official state portrait of the Honorable Governor Jim Douglas of Vermont in 2010, which hangs in the Vermont Statehouse, and the official portrait of the Honorable William K. Sessions lll in 2012, which hangs in the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, Washington D.C.

To view Kate Gridley’s available work, click here.

William B. Hoyt is a contemporary realist painter whose subjects include marine, landscape and domestic life. His love of detail helps him to celebrate the beauty of the ordinary in today’s rural landscape, people, and home.

William Hoyt graduated from Yale University in 1967 with a major in fine art. In 1968 he was commissioned at the United States Navy Officer Candidate School. Hoyt served on the staff of COMSIXTHFLEET where he was recognized for his artistic abilities. Consequently the artist was detailed to paint portraits of admirals and create a portfolio of paintings of fleet activities for the Naval Art Collection. In 1970 he returned to civilian life and came to Vermont.
William Hoyt’s work is included in many private and corporate collections including Steven and Dayna Bochco, John and Gwen McCaw, Senator Claiborne and Nuala Pell, Laurence and Mary Rockefeller, Charles and Anne Sincerbeaux, Beth Webster, Bank of America, and many others.

To view William B. Hoyt’s available work, click here.

For more information on “Domestic Alchemy” visit edgewatergallery.com, call 802-989-7419 or email [email protected].