Opening Reception with Guest Artists Jessilyn Dearborn and Yvon Kennon

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Sean McCusker

Examples of art by Jessilyn Dearborn and Yvon Kennon

Jessilyn Dearborn and Yvon Kennon will be showing their work at Gallery North, 9 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA. The exhibit will accompany new work by permanent gallery artists Marilyn Cavallari, Barbara Patton, and Carol Shumans from June 3 to June 27, 2026. Artists will attend an opening reception Friday, June 5th from 5-7pm.

Jessilyn Dearborn is a mixed media artist creating work that exists somewhere between 2D and 3D. Her work is inspired by texture, nature, art history, and children’s book illustration. Her process involves finding colors and textures in nature to paint on paper that will be used in future pieces. While her primary medium is cut paper, she also enjoys sculpting with clay. Jessilyn holds a BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Adams, MA.

Yvon Kennon creates functional wares by hand. These are then fired in a kiln stoked with wood, a process that takes many hands over many days. At the end of this journey, these pieces find their way into new hands, encouraging day to day moments of quiet reflection on the beauty of human-made utilitarian objects. In a busy, overstimulated world, she strives to create minimalist pieces that play with the tension between the deliberate act of creation and the unexpected spontaneity that results from the wood firing process.

Marilyn Cavallari, founder/owner of Gallery North, lives in Williamstown. She is a contemporary landscape and seascape artist. She works on several paintings simultaneously, distributing to each canvas her choice of bright and joyful colors.

Barbara Patton’s alternatively fired ceramic work is fired quickly with a rush of flame, smoke and excitement. The fiery chaos of smoke-firing, using natural and chemical materials combined with elements of form and surface, create both fragile yet hardened objects from the earth.

Carol Shumans’ work emerges from a primal connection to the natural world, an intimacy with earth, light, water and memory that has a sense of the ancient and divine. Most pieces become a dialogue between the seen, imagined or felt.

Gallery North is located at 9 Eagle Street, North Adams, MA. Open Wed-Sat 2-7 pm Sun-Tues by appointment call (413) 663-1509. This show will be on display from June 3 to June 27, 2026. www.gallerynorthadams.com