Steve Arcone joins League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Meredith Fine Craft Gallery as newest juried member

MEREDITH — The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Meredith Fine Craft Gallery recently announced Steve Arcone will become the next juried member.

Acrone creates art of ice-macro images on aluminum. Arcone’s macro-imaged subjects mix art and science using an abstract process that captures details that are too small to see with the naked eye.

Arcone uses ice formations of patterns, textures, and color variations that display a wide range of features from delicate fractals to bold crystalline structures. He also uses a laminar flow of oil over water, and spider web threads for a stunning visual effect.

Most of Arcone’s ice images are of thin pond crystals during change and decay caused by melt, sublimation and recrystallization.

Arcone enhances the photos using digital editing tools that adjust contrast, brightness, and saturation to highlight the ice’s details which are intertwined with twig, leaf or other colorful fall organic debris protruding or resting on the water surface. Arcone’s images are then printed on aluminum and finished off with a protective coating.

Arcone’s aesthetic ice-macro images aim to utilize visual characteristics such as color, composition, lighting, and subject matter that creates a visually pleasing photograph. Most of the images are from a near-shore area of a pond near Arcone’s home that were taken during the fall, early winter and early spring.

For more information, visit Meredith.nhcrafts.org.