The January Gallery Night in the Tasting Room will feature local artist Esmé Saccuccimorano Meet Esmé and check out their artwork, and enjoy a complimentary sample of cider, and a small bite.

About the artist:

Integrating material approaches in painting, ceramics, print and glass, I seek to explore how ‘function’ and ‘meaning’ are moveable and permeable concepts, their fluidity contingent on the perceptive lens employed when approaching them. I draw on ideas of placebo, symbology, histories of ritual and talisman, and an interest in linguistic development—all of which share the common denominator of human-imposed function. As I work within this exploration, I have begun to question how our human conception of ‘function’ dictates the hierarchies of value we project onto the world, impacting how we interact with global ecologies and communities. How does our ability to recognize ‘function’ in our surroundings impact the worth we attribute to them? If our fluency in a language is dependent on our recognition of it as a functional system, what other systems of communication might we access if we expand our potential recognition of function?