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”Obsessed: Ink Drawings By Jim Haller”

Cost: Free

As a part of our continued “Wine and Art Series”, Links Bridge Vineyards is hosting an exhibit by Jim Haller. Haller is a graduate of Edinboro University of PA and is now an art educator. 

This is a unique exhibit featuring beautiful, bigger than life renditions of old medicine bottles. In college, Haller was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, which led to his obsession with old medications and remedies. In 2016, he started collecting vintage and antique medicine bottles and pill tins, of which he now has close to 400. In 2021, he began using his collection as the subject of his work; lighting, photographing, and then meticulously drawing each bottle. He works in pen and ink, using a stippling technique- that is dabbing dots of paint onto a surface, creating texture and depth, layering colors for gradients, and building up patterns for a textured finish. He describes this very painstaking procedure as meditative and therapeutic– much like what those old patent medicines tried to offer. 

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