A wonderful show of the work of artist Barbara Ensor opens on September 9th  (running through December 31, 2010) at the Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, a lovely space in the parlor floor of a brownstone on 8th Avenue in Park Slope (62 8th Avenue near Berkeley Place).

And who knew there was such a cool gallery in Park Slope?

Ensor, the author of Cinderella, As if You Didn’t Already Know the Story and Thumbelina, Tiny Runaway Bride is well known for her paper silhouettes. But this show takes her work to another level with brief narrative captions that are at once funny, strange, spooky and fanciful.

The above picture is from another show of Ensor’s work.

Just back froma trip to South Africa, the artist has been “feverishly” putting the finishing touches on this exhibition. Here is a note from Ensor inviting the public to this must-see show:

I was a very long way away in Africa for two weeks and now I am home and getting ready to put up pictures for my upcoming exhibit.   The mud houses in Africa  reminded me of the houses inside each of our heads when we were very young—the ones that didn’t have any straight lines and were just made up somehow of  hardened dirt.  And then of course there was  that amazing African light, not to mention the  giraffes and elephants and monkeys. But I digress.

Take Me Home, an exhibit of  paper silhouettes with handcarved frames and furtive inky inscriptions by myself, opens on September 9th at

Phyllis Stigliano Gallery (62 Eight Ave, in Park Slope, Brooklyn.) The gallery is a hop and a skip from Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza subway station. Near the Montauk Club. On your way to somewhere.

There are so many country songs about going home.   I want my pictures to be like good songs— rhyming reminders that we are all part of the same story.

COME TO THE OPENING!  on Sunday September 12th from 3 to 5. THERE WILL BE COOKIES. There will be wine. I will have copies of my books, because if you are a fan of silhouette images you are going to like those too. Yes the art is for sale.

Or come and check it out some other time—on your way home maybe.