Green Room

The sleek white space of Furnace - Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, Conn., is now striped in verdant swipes of paint as “Cut to Length” opened last weekend, featuring Janis Stemmermann’s viridescent prints. The series by the Brooklyn-based artist, which blends rich broad strokes of green — from the warm hue of an avocado skin to sea glass emerald to a chilly British racing shade — takes printmaking from the flat surface of the canvas to three-dimensional ceramics. Her sculpted objects printed in the signature stripe are installed with heavy wooden stumps, showcasing both their strength and delicacy, and creating a little forest that gallery-goers wove through at the opening reception.

On view in Furnace's Vaulted Project Space are the graphic ink point landscapes by Jimbo Blachly, who finds arbor inspiration in Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan, just above The Met Cloisters. His other series, prismatic works on linen canvases, with washes of oil paint colors, take on the mountainous, mysterious traits of fantasyland illustration — the swirling clouds and looming woods the mind might conjure reading Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.”

Janis Stemmermann's solo show in Falls Village. Photo by Alexander Wilburn

Hangout Hollow by Jimbo Blachly  Photo by Alexander Wilburn

Janis Stemmermann's solo show in Falls Village. Photo by Alexander Wilburn

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