Pink Arrow Arts
35 Pine St. Montrose PA - Thurs-Sat 12-5 pm
On View Now:
One Vast Breath
New Paintings by
Melissa Jennings Sordoni
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday 10/25 3-5 pm
Born beneath the shadow of Mount Fuji and raised beside a waterfall on her family’s wooded campground in rural Pennsylvania, Melissa’s life has always unfolded in dialogue with nature. From her earliest experiences with piano, dance, and clay, the creative impulse has been her constant companion—an echo of the landscape’s quiet vitality and a mirror for her own inner world.
Her path as an artist has been as organic and exploratory as her work itself. After studying studio art at Kutztown University, Melissa sought a more intuitive education, traveling to France where she spent over a decade immersed in artistic and spiritual practice. There she learned the Japanese art of Raku, taught pottery to children and adults, apprenticed with painter-sculptor Florian Diarra, and found another voice as a singer-songwriter and musician. Her studies in Ayurveda and Hatha Yoga at Tapovan University deepened her understanding of the body as a vessel for both energy and awareness—a sensibility that continues to infuse her creative process today.
Now based in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains, Melissa creates from a place where silence, rhythm, and reverence converge.
In One Vast Breath, she invites us into the threshold between the seen and unseen—where root meets cosmos, where the stillness within a seed mirrors the stillness of the night sky. Each work carries the pulse of both the intimate and the infinite, tracing the invisible currents that bind all living things.
To stand before these pieces is to pause, to listen, and to remember that creation itself is a single, continuous exhale—one vast breath shared between the earth and the stars.
THE SHIFTING PALETTE: PURPLE
Opens SATURDAY 10/11
reception 3-5pm
Featuring works by:
Betty Bryden
Michael Celbar
Amanda D'Agostino
Paul Knorr
Merri J. Markovitch
Barbara Merritt
Randy Sandlin
David Shanton
Kim Sheinbaum
Maureen Van Nostrand
Eric Van Tassel
Bob Smith Paintings
September 27-October 20
Opening reception 9/27, 2-4pm
"My paintings are references to my life …. an evidence of passage. These are images of my world, the people I know and those I’ve observed. Background:I was born in the Bronx in 1945. Manhattan’s museums were also my home. I felt a sense of place in its quiet spaces. I learned how visual images could tell a personal story. As a result of these museum encounters I began to make paintings of my own experiences and people. I refined my technique and thought process throughout college and graduate school. I then spent more than three decades creating a Fine Art Program at Montrose High School, providing a home and space for young people to reflect on art as part of their own human experience.In retirement, I continue this journey daily, a reflexive movement of a life committed to creative expression.
I’m sharing this journey with you … a selection of four decades of people, places, memories and observations, between 1980 and 2025."
--Bob Smith
Past Exhibitions
Where the Light Falls
selected works by Mark Mclychok
Mark Mclychok's paintings serve as lyrical snapshots of a quietly vanishing America. With a distinct sensitivity to place, light, and atmosphere, Mclychok captures the humble poetry of the everyday: faded motels, rusting Airstreams, lonely beach roads, and rural intersections that feel like memory made visible. His work invites the viewer to pause—to notice the beauty in the overlooked, the ordinary, the in-between.
Each piece is a study in restraint and reverence, rendered with a palette that evokes nostalgia without sentimentality. Whether it’s the shimmer of morning sun on a coastal wave or the gentle shadows cast by telephone poles stretching across an empty road, Mclychok’s brush holds space for stillness in a restless world. These are not just landscapes—they are meditations on belonging, impermanence, and the quiet architecture of American life.
This new collection of small-format paintings offers an intimate window into the artist’s process and vision, revealing a world that is both familiar and fleeting.
On view through 9/20
ZOOM OUT
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY 6/21, 4-6 PM
In Zoom Out, Kellianne McCarthy invites us to look beyond the immediate—into the spaces where meaning drifts, shifts, and almost comes into focus. Her layered compositions, rendered in oil, acrylic, and collage, move between the seen and the sensed, drawing on the rhythms of music, the language of dreams, and the vast, unknowable sweep of the cosmos. Color-saturated and texture-rich, her paintings balance accident and intention, echoing the emotional tone of a favorite playlist or the flicker of an idea glimpsed from the corner of the eye. Zoom Out is less a directive than a way of seeing: expansive, intuitive, and deeply felt.
The Shifting Palette: Orange
OPENS SATURDAY JULY 19
Featuring works by:
Michael Celbar
Demcsaks
Brenda Gadow
Tim Jag
Jennifer Joseph
Randy Sandlin
Kim Sheinbaum
Maureen VanNostrand
The Great What If
New Work by Andrea Wood
Artist Andrea Wood explores memory, imperfection, and transformation through digital collage, photography, found objects, and digital painting. Her layered, intuitive process weaves together fragments of what was, what is, and what might be—embracing the beauty of the unfinished and the unexpected.
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY 5/10, 3-5 PM
The Shifting Palette: GREEN
We are pleased to feature the work of seven artists who are exploring the color green and its associations in their work.
Featured artists:
Colette Chermak
Amy Hsiao
Lilli Millon
Randy Sandlin
Maureen Van Nostrand
Eric Van Tassel
Rachel Van Tassel
Opening Reception
APRIL 26, 3-5pm
WESTERN LIGHT
selected works by
Nancy Silvia
March 29 - May 3, 2025
Opening reception 3/29, 4-6pm
The subject of landscape is complex and engages my interest throughout a range of aesthetic and spiritual concerns. In choosing to represent the natural world I seek to evoke a “sense of place” and the evanescent sensations of light and weather. There is active choice involved in observing, selecting, transforming, and often inventing elements of the view that I present. In depicting natural landscape scenes in partnership with abstract pictorial composition, I hope to convey an intense and poetic impression.
--Nancy Silvia
Nancy Silvia is an accomplished artist renowned for her evocative landscape paintings that capture the essence of diverse terrains. Growing up near the Connecticut shoreline, her early fascination with the horizon profoundly influenced her artistic vision. She pursued formal education in the arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Yale University. Her senior year at RISD was distinguished by participation in the European Honors Program in Rome, further enriching her artistic perspective.
Throughout her career, Silvia has exhibited her work extensively across the United States and Japan. Her professional affiliations include the American Society of Marine Artists and signature memberships in the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Society of New Mexico, and the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. She has also been awarded artist residencies at esteemed institutions such as The Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, The Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, Acadia National Park in Maine, and Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico.
Currently residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Silvia continues to draw inspiration from the region's unique landscapes, translating their beauty into distinctive works. The artist will be present for the opening.
