Rosemary P Miller Gallery

The Outliers
Artists: Amy Brier, Ariana Berman, Bert Gilbert, Dave Diegel, Jeff Hartenfeld

On display June 5-28, 2026

About the Exhibit:
We are all outliers. It just depends on the environment. Our group stretches more than a dozen miles but we all have one thing in common, the need to create and connect. With this show, we hope to encourage other groups of artists to try to find each other and support each other through regular meetings. Finding a group of other artists you can trust is so important in learning about how to define and talk about your work. Artistic growth becomes multiplied when you have the chance to visit other’s studios and address your fears, doubts, and elations. We want everyone to know they can be supported whatever their artistic endeavors. Sometimes you may have to search a while to find your group out there. Sometimes you just have to create that group. But the community that becomes created is well worth any effort. Though each of us works in our own way, there is no doubt that this show is the manifestation of that effort.

The Outliers are a group of artists, living in rural Greene and Monroe counties who have connected through a shared passion to create. We meet monthly at each others’ studios to commiserate and provide thoughtful commentary on one another’s works in progress. Our group is multidisciplinary and we support each others’ explorations in sculpture, painting, printmaking, and graphic arts, as well as works beyond categorization. Our connecting thread is a desire for communing with like-minded souls whose need to create is a major force in their lives. Each of us makes art because we cannot not make art.