Beth Shoenfeld, ‘Textured Connections’ exhibit, at the Wired Gallery in High Falls

A new season and a new show opens at Wired Gallery, 11 Mohonk Road, High Falls. “Textured Connections” is a solo show of 20 mixed media works by Beth Shoenfeld, on exhibit through May 21.

Local mixed media artist and ceramics instructor, Beth Shoenfeld was born in the Bronx and raised in the metropolitan area of New Jersey. She has been living and creating art in the Kingston area since the late 1980s.

She makes her art by pushing and pulling clay, paper, paint and glue, or whatever the materials are available; layering, ripping and rebuilding elements from one piece to the next. The results are often richly textured, intimate compositions full of small details and pasted imagery that wonders and intrigues.

January of this year while creating a large volume of new mixed media works and ceramic jewelry, Shoenfeld began teaching ceramics at Cornell creative arts and business center in Kingston. “I have been blessed with amazing art teachers throughout my life. They instilled in me a desire and passion to show up and create, and now that I am teaching, I have the opportunity to give back.”

The Wired Gallery is open, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Ring the doorbell at other times, as owner and operator, Sevan Melikyan lives in the building. For more information, visit thewiredgallery.com or call 682-564-5613.