Larchmont Chamber of Commerce celebrates “Sleighbells on the Avenues” beginning November 30th, Small Business Saturday. A fun-packed schedule of local events is tied to this celebration, including a “wishing wall,” a community space for residents to share their holiday wishes for the entire season. The wishes will be collected and incorporated into an installation by local abstract expressionist artist Jill Krutick. Commissioned by the Larchmont Chamber of Commerce, Jill Krutick created a painting inspired by light in celebration of all the holidays that take place in the fall -Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, New Year, and the Winter Solstice. Krutick will be installing Shangri La Wishes, 2024, a 5 x 8-foot painting at Atelier Modern located at 2091 Boston Post Road, Larchmont for the celebration.

In addition to this mural-sized work, Krutick is also featuring oil paintings from her Ice Cube series and Shangri La series at Atelier Modern during the holiday season.

Shangri La Wishes, 2024, 72 x 112 inches, acrylic on canvas

Additional Holiday Paintings on Exhibition

Larchmont Chamber of Commerce President Nancy White said, "The Chamber is pleased to commission talented local artist Jill Krutick to create our Wishing Wall installation for Sleighbells on the Avenues this year. Her work will inspire the community to come together to share their wishes and dreams."

Jill Krutick added, “Shangri La Wishes imagines an idyllic, bright, and peaceful place where we dream and get inspired. I am overjoyed to share this painting for such an inspired holiday celebration.”

About the Shangri La Series by Jill Krutick

The Shangri La Series includes dream-like landscapes and has roots in the abstract landscape tradition of Monet. The materials employed to create Shangri La works often vacillate between oil and acrylic, but all contain ample texture and lively, primary colors denoting trees or leafy formations. The iterative process of layering and finding the perfect blend of colors and textures is a meditative exercise. Shangri La is a fantasy place to get lost in.