Opening receptions: Thursday, September 11, 6 – 8 pm

Each September, Labor Day marks the end of summer but the holiday is meant to be a day in which we honor and celebrate the worker. This September, Abington Art Center will present an exhibition entitled Labor, curated by Julie Courtney. In this context, Courtney has chosen artists -- Timothy Bahash, Susan Brandt, Myndi Lee Juntti, Gabrielle Kanter, Amy Kauffman, Hiroshi Kariya, Margo Mensing, Piper Shepard, and Janet Towbin -- whose work is a labor of love and for whom the process is as much a part of the artwork as its visual result.

A variety of media – pencil, thread, chalk and even hair -- are among those represented. Whether the artists take conventional pencil drawings to the very edge of repetition and tedium, use massive amounts of envelope clippings or contrast the painstaking needlework of old-fashioned quilting to depictions of new fangled technology, the common focus on building something out of nothing comes through clearly.

In the presence of all this work, the viewer will be sure to recognize the beauty found in a job well done.

Also opening September 11 in the Community Gallery is I Drift Like a Wave On The Ocean, paintings by Joe Begonia from September 6 to October 4.