Join JO’s Body Shop, Julie Overskei (aka JO), Geri Friedman, friends, family and members of the community for the third exhibit at The Gallery @ JOs Body Shop, one of Peekskill’s newest art gallery spaces. On Friday, November 1st, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Geri Friedman will have an opening reception entitled “Harriet’s Pen” artwork by Geri Friedman in her book Harriet and Her Precocious Pen: A Transformational Journey. The reception will take place at The Gallery @ JOs Body Shop located at 906 South St, Peekskill. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., there will be a conversation with the author who also happens to be the artist. Afterwards, enjoy light refreshments. If you cannot make the opening reception, feel free to stop by JO’s Body Shop Wednesday’s through Saturday’s from noon to 6:00 p.m. during shop hours.
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Harriet and Her Precocious Pen: A Transformational Journey is an adult tale of self-discovery. Through a series of beautiful and metaphorical drawings, one can follow and relate to Harriet’s powerful journey. Throughout, one can glimpse her overcoming trials and tribulations. Harriet’s path is one that any reader can identify with and be inspired by her strength and courage.
More about Geri Friedman
Geri Friedman has been a psychotherapist for the past 34 years. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychoanalyst, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and an artist. Throughout her career, she has worked with children, adolescents, adults and partnered couples. Geri still practices full time with a private practice in Peekskill.
Though Geri is not a formerly trained artist, her artistic work has been another way of expressing herself. For Geri, images sometimes express more of what she thinks and feels more than words can. After a difficult marital separation, 18 years ago, she began to express herself with drawing. Simple line drawings proved to help her relax. For years she would only draw at night, as a way to clear the mind. Yet, as the drawings became more complex, they became daylight explorations as well. After seven years of drawing, she illustrated a story, a life story. Once assembled in chronological order, Harriet’s story, and its complexities, provided clarity.
Geri’s method remains consistent. Start with a piece of acid free paper and a .38 pilot pen. Continue drawing lines upon lines and find your flow as you follow your instinct. The drawings become a metaphor for life: keep your pen moving forward, keep integrating, even what feels, yucky. Watch what shows up. Watch as you surrender to your wise self, it may speak of what has yet to be said, and what it is you need to hear.
More about JO’s Body Shop
Julie Overskei (aka JO) opened up JO’s Body Shop massage therapy studio and store over 12 years ago in downtown Peekskill. JO dreamed of creating a place that both reflected and nurtured her community. What JO envisioned became a Body Shop dedicated to nourishing both body and mind, and it is that spirit that draws people from all walks of life into her space. Upon entering JO’s Body Shop, one immediately feels a sense of calm and is met with a luxurious array of beautiful objects in the gift shop. Whether jewelry or singing bowls or stones and crystals or tarot decks, there is a dynamic array of merchandise to survey. Further down the hall, there are several treatment rooms where clients can experience the kind of personalized and professional care that JO has built her business and reputation on.
Recently, in an effort to highlight the work of lesser known local artists, JO created The Gallery @ JOs Body Shop. As an artist herself, JO has always wanted to create an inviting gallery space designed to bring residents and visitors together to experience and interact with art. The Gallery @ JOs Body Shop has become such a space. Last month, the space hosted a New York’s glamour and grit photo exhibit as highlighted by the Herald.
While visiting JO’s Body Shop or enjoying the opening reception, feel free to book a massage or a tune-up for your body & more as the Herald’s Jeannette Sanderson wrote about in November 2023.
For more information, visit JO’s Body Shop website, and follow the shop on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
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