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SUMMARY:Scripted: Carole P. Kunstadt
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nClosing Reception: September 27\, 2018 5:00 – 8:00 pm | More Info \nThrough September 30\, 2018 \n\nUnion Arts Center presents Scripted: Carole P. Kunstadt\, a solo exhibition featuring selections from Kunstadt’s Sacred Poem and Markings Series are a vehicle for the exploration of life’s vulnerabilities\, an expression of gratitude and a platform for sanctity\, contemplation and playfulness. \nOn display in Gallery One through September 30\, 2018 Gallery Hours: Tues/Wed 1 – 4 pm\, Thurs/Fri 4 – 7 pm\, Sat/Sun. by appointment only. \n \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\nI received a BFA\, magna cum laude\, from Hartford Art School\, West Hartford\, Connecticut\, with a concentration in two-dimensional studies and continued with postgraduate studies at the Akademie der Bildenen Künste in Munich\, Germany. \nAs a collagist\, painter\, book arts and fiber artist I often invoke a metaphysical quality of contemplation and timelessness. My works on/of paper reference the material of antique books\, music manuscripts\, ephemera and photo postcards – deconstructing paper\, images and text\, and using it in metaphorical ways. Through the exploration and manipulation of the antique materials\, history\, memory and time merge in a hybrid form. My devotion to books is inspired by the ability of the written word to take the reader to other places through stories\, poems and prayers. My process reveals how language can become visual through re-interpretation. \nI have been selected as one of eight yearly solo exhibitions at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum by Gallery Owner Kenise Barnes scheduled for December 2018. \nI am honored to be the recipient of the 2017 Kuniyoshi Fund Award selected by members of\nThe Kuniyoshi Fund Committee in cooperation with the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum Award Committee as well as the Medal of Honor & The Anna Walinska Memorial Award in 2017 by the National Association of Women Artists. \nIn celebration of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival’s 25th Anniversary in 2017\, the Hill-Stead Museum\, Farmington\, CT presented Boundless: Altered Book in Contemporary Art – I guest curated three unique approaches to transforming and exploring the malleability of the form\, creating new structures and experiences of the codex. Works by Erin Walrath\, Chris Perry and Carole P. Kunstadt were installed among the many rare first editions and early volumes in the Pope family’s historic personal library. \nMay – July 2018\, ArtsWestchester’s Inaugural Triennial showcases my new series\, PRESSING ON\, having been recently previewed in Paper\, Rock\, Scissors at Five Points Gallery\, Torrington\, CT.  My Sacred Poems were showcased in Books Undone: the art of altered books in contemporary art\, Penn College\, Williamsport\, PA and in WORD 2016 at The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art\, Peekskill\, NY. Numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States which have featured my work are notably\, Slash: Paper Under the Knife\, Museum of Arts & Design\, New York\, NY; The Divine and Sublime\, Drawing Rooms\, Jersey City\, NJ; PATTERNS\, Wired Gallery\, High Falls\, NY; Reader’s Art: Concealed\, Confined and Collected\, Minnesota Center for Book Arts\, Minneapolis\, MN; Materials: Hard & Soft\, Denton\, TX; Abstract Evocative and Far & Wide\, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum\, Woodstock\, NY; The Book: A Contemporary View\, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts\, Wilmington\, DE;  NEW YORK REGIONAL\, Magnitude SEVEN and Textuality\, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center\, Cincinnati\, OH; The Book As Art\, Decatur Arts Alliance\, Decatur\, GA; and in Canada\, The Art of the Book 2013\, Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild\, Calgary\, Alberta. \nThe Everhart Museum of Natural History\, Science & Art\, Scranton\, PA showcased a selection of my Sacred Poems in Between The Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art. The Museum of Biblical Art\, New York\, NY featured my complete Old Testament Seriesin the exhibition As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts. Representative works from the Old Testament Series were featured in And The Word Is…. in the Gershman Gallery at the University of the Arts\, Philadelphia\, PA and were included in Somewhere Between Creation and Destruction\, Joseloff Gallery\, Hartford Art School. Concurrent in Hartford\, CT\, in partnership\, the Clare Gallery and the Charter Oak Cultural Center presented Between The Lines: Works by Carole P. Kunstadt – two consecutive solo exhibitions from September through December 2014\, providing a survey of past and current work. \nThe PBS/OFF BOOK Book Arts mini-documentary in the series on progressive arts\, features Kunstadt in the segment\, Transforming the Sacred. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4fLk-XeeI \nPublic Collections include George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives\, Bowdoin College Library\, Brunswick\, ME; The Book Arts Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts\, Washington\, DC; The Permanent Collection of the Center for Book Arts\, New York\, NY; Montclair State University Collection\, Montclair\, NJ; Curt Teich Postcard Archives\, Lake County Discovery Museum\, Wauconda\, IL.
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LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Dreamscapes: Photographs By Qi Zhao
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Thursday\, July 19\, 2018\, 5 – 8 PM | More Info \nThrough Tuesday\, September 18\, 2018 \n\n \n \n \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nQi Zhao is an artist that discovered her artistic gift through her life long pursuit for peace. Through her lens\, she has captured the world through a dream. Qi Zhao is an arts with insight\, passion and a unique perspective. As one explores her pictures\, one begins to truly appreciate her use of colors\, compositions and the wave of calm and peace that washes over her audience.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/dreamscapes-photographs-by-qi-zhao/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
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SUMMARY:Abstraction: Eileen Karakashian
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday\, May 20\, 2018\, 6:00-8:00PM | More Info \nThrough Saturday\, June 23\, 2018 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nEileen Karakashian received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City\, majoring in Advertising Design. Since graduation she was an art director in advertising\, producing both national TV and print campaigns. Her work has been featured in Adweek and Advertising Age magazine. She continued her fine art studies at the Art Students League in NYC\, concentrating on painting\, design\, color\, composition and collage. \nToday\, Karakashian makes paintings and mixed media artworks. By emphasising aesthetics\, Eileen tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria\, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels\, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. Her paintings are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. \nMultilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives\, she creates with daily\, recognizable elements\, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/abstraction-eileen-karakashian/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
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SUMMARY:Appalachian Spring: Paintings By Ali Printz
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday\, May 20th\, 2018\, 6:00-8:00PM | More Info \nThrough Monday\, July 9th \n\n“Appalachian Spring” seeks to give agency to the women of Appalachia\, from New York to Georgia\, and highlight the rich heritage that the region has contributed to American culture\, as well as the stereotypes it has perpetuated. Despite its poverty\, religious misconceptions\, perceived political leanings and propensity to be taken advantage of for its natural resources\, Appalachia is filled with a distinction and beauty that is often overlooked. \nAli Printz uses vintage photographs and sculptural fabric to reconstruct the lives of the forgotten women of Appalachia\, while combining elements of contemporary issues facing the region that have been constants in her West Virginia upbringing. Miners\, snake charmers\, weavers\, debutants\, and shamans; all have a place for women as cornerstones in the whole of the culture. Through the traditions of folk art and craft combined with traditional portraiture and figuration\, Printz hopes to reconstruct the importance of women’s roles as caretakers\, heroines\, and constants that permeates the culture and history of Appalachia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The Artist\nAli Printz is a historical figurative painter and curator who splits her time between Brooklyn and Philadelphia. She works with various mediums including oil\, acrylic\, collage\, sewn fabric\, as well as technology based mediums. Ali runs a curatorial and artistic collective with artist and fellow Sotheby’s alum Jenna Gard\, known as NewYorkKillsArtists\, which showcases the work of unrepresented artists by challenging them to make political and social statements. Her most recent projects include “Debtfair\,” a piece by Occupy Museums in the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, “Appalachian Spring” a traveling solo show\, and a number of group shows in 2018-19. \n\n\nAli was born in Martinsburg\, West Virginia and considers herself an Appalachian artist. She has lived and worked in Spain\, Panama\, and Washington\, D.C\, before moving to New York City for graduate school in 2010. She received her BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History from West Virginia University in 2009 and an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2012. She is currently pursuing a cross disciplinary PhD in Modern and Contemporary Appalachian Art and Painting at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/appalachian-spring-paintings-by-ali-printz/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:WaterWays: Paint Works By Brooks Frederick\, Lisa Lebofsky And Elaine Su-Hui
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday\, April 22\, 6:00-8:00PM \nThrough Sunday\, May 13 \n\nJoin Union Arts Center this Earth Day in bearing witness to historic and on-going ecological deviation as depicted by the master painters Brooks Frederick and Lisa Lebofsky.  Water Ways also includes an alternative: Reach for peace and harmony that honors our Earth and all of our neighbors with hand painted linoleum block prints by Elaine Su-Hui. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\n \nBrooks Frederick is an internationally exhibited artist\, an environmentalist\, and a social activist. He was raised along the Gulf Coast\, and lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. His recent body of paintings—made with oil and tar from the 2010 BP oil spill—have been shown widely\, and have inspired community activism against unabashed environmental destruction. Brooks leads collective art making events with people of all ages to find solutions to societal challenges. Brooks Frederick is an active partner with UER (United to End Racism) and Fort Greene Peace. He is an adjunct professor at Adelphi University and the director of the Brooks-lyn Art Academy. \n“My work is created with tar from the BP oil spill that was spilled on the wetlands and in the waters near my hometown of Houma\, Louisiana. These nontraditional “oil” portraits and landscapes are attempts to represent the human cost for our dependence on fossil fuels. The paintings depict the ancient and mysterious swamps I played in as a boy\, and my friends and family that I grew up with along the gulf coast. \nIn this work\, I am trying to take an unflinchingly look at the reality of our increasingly dire environmental predicament\, while at the same time showing the dignity of folks who often aren’t given enough consideration- indigenous communities\, the working\, yet struggling fishermen and shrimpers\, and the children who grow up on houses built on fast vanishing wetlands and toxicity. The physical surface of the work shows this struggle\, this place between horror and beauty\, between the grim and the hopeful. \nI long for a day when I can no longer get access to oil greedily and carelessly extracted from my home. I’d like to have a reason to stop making this artwork. But in the meantime\, I am grateful for the opportunity to share this work and use it as a starting point to facilitate artistic environmental empowerment workshops that focus on our connection to our precious planet and its waterways.” Brooks Frederick \n \nLisa Lebofsky is a painter from New York. Her paintings explore the emotional and physical human relationship with nature She holds a BFA in metalsmithing from SUNY New Paltz\, and an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. She has earned the BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Grant from the Bronx Council of the Arts (2010\, 2014); and is the recipient of several residencies including: Terra Nova National Park\, Newfoundland (2010)\, New Bedford Whaling Museum\, MA (2013)\, Saltonstall Foundation\, Ithaca\, NY (2014)\, Jennifer Keefe Studio\, Fogo Island\, Newfoundland (2017)\, Cuttyhunk Island\, MA (2017)\, Jentel\, WY (2018). Lebofsky finds inspiration by traveling extensively to immerse herself in different environments. Recent travels include Antarctica\, Labrador\, Greenland\, and The Maldives. Currently\, Lisa is in the midst of a multiyear mission to paint across North America to better know the changes happening in our environment and the people it is affecting. \n“My paintings bear witness and memorialize landscapes facing transformation or extinction as a result of human impact\, in order to increase awareness of our changing planet\, and inspire through appreciation of the natural world a more responsible and proactive stewardship. To convey these changing and ephemeral environments\, I paint on surfaces that remain visible to permeate the entire image\, guiding the viewer through various layers of paint. When I use an aluminum surface\, the image becomes obliterated when light reflects off of it when viewed from certain positions. This fluctuating luster also mimics the subtle movements of light as experienced in nature. On canvas\, I begin with a dark and murky underpainting – often created using elements from nature such as raindrops – that influence the softly painted upper layers of the piece. The push and pull of lights and darks\, opacity and transparency\, abstract and real\, mirrors our complex relationship with nature\, while the transient quality of the resulting image enhances the fragility of these endangered scenes. By painting our depleting planet in this dichotomous manner\, nature also becomes a metaphor for our emotional struggles and encounters. In humanizing the story of climate change by revealing nature’s vulnerabilities as our own\, it is my intention for my audience to be moved to respond personally and proactively. \nI find inspiration by traveling extensively\, often to remote parts of the world\, to immerse myself in different environments and cultures. I seek out areas around the globe that are particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change\, and meet with local residents to discuss how their community is impacted. To a great extent\, these personal interactions inform what areas and what subject matter is ultimately painted. I have traveled to regions such as Greenland\, Labrador\, and The Maldives\, either staying on a ship or on the move. Accordingly\, I produced small studies en plein air in these locales\, later followed by the production of larger paintings in the studio.” Lisa Lebofsky \n \nElaine Su-Hui Chew (b. 1978\, Sydney\, Australia) makes prints and drawings about ecology and consciousness. She is also the founder of Inner Fields NY\, a roaming events project exploring Buddhist and Taoist philosophy through art\, music\, ecology and ritual. She has been training in printmaking for the past 15 years and has been the recipient of various printmaking awards\, scholarships\, fellowships and residencies in New York\, San Francisco and Melbourne\, Australia. The primary focus of her work is to nurture each viewer’s innate\, natural wisdom and offer a reminder of our interdependent relationship with each other and the planet.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/waterways-paint-works-by-brooks-frederick-lisa-lebofsky-and-elaine-su-hui/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
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SUMMARY:Channeled: Spiritual Abstractions By David Young
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nThrough Sunday\, April 15 \n\n“Being surrounded by all of this incredible art had a profound effect on me so I started painting again after taking a few years off while I wrote my books.” \n \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nInterdisciplinary Artist Composer Channels Paintings from the Spiritual Realm… \nSometimes an artists’ story is as profound as the art he creates. David Young’s new collection of soft abstract contemporary paintings are vibrant\, positive and filled with spiritual energy. David Young is also a twice Grammy nominated multi faceted musician known for playing two Renaissance flutes at one time and selling over 1\,000\,000 copies. \nHe started his company with his last $100 at Venice Beach in 1990 under the name Celestial Winds and now 300\,000 people every day are uplifted by his 60 recorded albums at healing centers around the world. He started painting in 2011\, selling his paintings at the biggest art festivals in America. His career transformed into presenting meditation events in 2015 after he wrote three books. \nDavid met his ex girlfriend Maria Del Carmen Alvarez at one of his meditation events in 2016 and had an instant connection. While spending time with her in her Miami apartment\, David was inspired by her tremendous collection of original paintings by the most famous Cuban artists: Fabello\, Oliva\, Choco\, Nelson Dominguez and Tomas Sanchez. \nhttps://www.davidyoungart.com
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/channeled-spiritual-abstractions-by-david-young/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Car Parts: Laurie Peek
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday March 18\, 6:00PM- 8:00PM | More Info \nThrough Monday April 23\, 2018 \n\n“‘Car Parts’ is a series I started photographing in the fall of 2012. Attracted to the light and abstract pattern in a reflection on a parked car door\, I began noticing these ‘paintings’ on cars everywhere and I set out to collect them. For me these dream-like images combine elements of gestural energy from Abstract Expressionism with the bright colors of Pop Art in a tribute to the glamour that American society has long associated with the automobile. They are akin to what John Chamberlain was doing with his metal sculptures of crushed cars. Coincidently\, Chamberlain lived and worked for twenty years in my hometown of Sarasota\, Florida\, and I think we both responded similarly to the intense Florida sunshine and salt-air rusted metal. \n“Looking for the extraordinary in the ordinary\, the metal hoods\, roofs\, bumpers and doors are canvases for my photographic ‘paintings.’ Their bright colors\, scrapes and dents speak to me and present enigmatic landscapes of the imagination\, refracting reality\, waiting quietly in plain sight to be discovered by those who are willing to slow down and observe these hidden vistas in a busy world.” \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nLaurie Peek is a fine art and documentary photographer with a knack for elevating the everyday. With an MFA in Photography from the Visual Studies Workshop / SUNY Buffalo\, she worked at The George Eastman House Museum in Rochester\, NY and then taught photography in Washington DC. Moving to New York City\, she became a photo librarian for Sygma Photo News and then a photojournalist covering issues like toxic dumps\, crime\, politics\, negligent landlords\, as well as anti-nuke and other protest movements for publications that included The Village Voice\, Brooklyn Paper\, City Limits\, The Progressive and NYTimes. As staff photographer for NY City\, she documented the city’s community gardens\, housing\, and Mayor Ed Koch. Peek has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley and NYC metro area where she is active in local civic and environmental causes.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/car-parts-laurie-peek/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chakras: Melissa Forbes
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday\, January 28th from 4:00PM-6:00PM \nThrough June 21st \n\nYantra is a creative visual activation tool that serves as an awakener to discover ones’ soul’s intelligence. I’m sharing seven yantra paintings that contain the Vedic symbols revealed to the Ancient’s. A study of the seven subtle power centers. The details of this model are adapted from the Satcakranirupana\, one of the source texts on the chakra model. \nMy passion for sacred geometry and yoga were unified when I discovered the subtle energetic centers of the body called Chakras – and the associated sacred symbol\, yantra and sacred mantra or bija. These are tools for concentration which serve as a path to transformation. \nWith each Chakra\, one finds the meaning of the chakra name\, location in the body\, Bija\, Petal sounds or Vrittis. These are the tendencies of the mind\, aspects\, element\, color\, shape of the form\, predominate sense\, sense organ\, work organ\, element\, Loka (plane)\, ruling planet\, vehicle of the bija and Deity. \nI hope you will enjoy my exploration. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\nMelissa Forbes has been a student of yoga since her mid twenties. Her interest in yoga became more singularly focused after finding inspiration in the tradition of the yogi scholar Shi T. Krishnamacharya and his students Pattabhi Jois\, and T.K.V. Desikachar. Melissa began her career teaching Desikachar style yoga and was the co-founder of the internationally renowned Heart of Yoga. She has taught yoga in numerous schools throughout the United States\, among them\, the Olive Leaf Wholeness Center in New York City\, where she worked closely with Dr. Rudolph Ballentine\, a student of Swami Rama\, who founded the Himalayan Institute. \nMelissa began her study of art\, as well as dance and movement in her youth. Painting and design\, along side dance and movement\, are her ongoing passions. Melissa’s art career began with her studies of textile design at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia\, followed by a five-year full scholarship in printmaking at New York’s National Academy Press. She was the recipient of an Ogden M. Pleissner Fellowship\, a Nancy O’Malley Fellowship\, a Ricky Fingerhut Fellowship and a Ralph Fabri Fellowship. Melissa was also granted the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Grant. \nShe is presently involved in an independent study of Vedic Yantras\, having studied in India with students of Harish Johari. Her Yantric renderings reflect both her artistic expression and intimate experiences of Yogic disciplines. They are quite unique as they combine Eastern and Western Sacred Geometry. Most recently\, sixteen of Melissa’s vibrational Yantra art paintings were featured in the book\, “Karttikeyan Yogic Method”\, published by Gatherinsight.com. Her art has been exhibited in galleries in New York City\, Philadelphia\, and the United Nations. She maintains a studio in New York while frequently traveling and painting in majestic locations around the world. \nFor the five years leading up to his passing in 2007\, Melissa traveled with the late sage U.G. Krishnamurti\, and made Switzerland her home. Upon his passing\, Melissa moved back to the United States\, and is currently living in the Taconic Hills of New York State. Melissa is presently an Adjunct Professor of Art at the University of New Haven\, Connecticut\, while continuing to teach yoga. \nIn addition to her interests and experiences in yoga and art\, Melissa has formally studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming under Richard Bandler cofounder of NLP\, Shiatsu (Certified Ohashiatsu Practitioner)\, Certified Divine Intervention TeacherMinister\, and Certified Teacher of Mayan Sacred Geometry\, graduate of Suluk Academy school of Sufi studies\, the Four Wind Society Light Body School and the American Viniyoga Institute EYT 500 hour program. \nShe is the author of No Teaching Yoga\, The Authentic Guide\, a work reflecting her time with U.G. Krishnamurti\, a brief history of yoga\, a collection of Vedic Yantras and Melissa’s eight Miracle Combination practices.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/chakras-melissa-forbes/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Edward Hopper House: Various Artist Members
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: January 21\, 4-6pm \nThrough March 11\, 2018 \n\nArtist Members of the Edward Hopper House are featured in this annual show. Browse some images of the show below.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/edward-hopper-house-various-artist-members/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Light Upon Light
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday October 22\, 12-4pm | More Info \nThrough Saturday November 11\, 2017 \n\nAllah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.\nThe example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp\,\nThe lamp is within glass\, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star\,\nLit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree\,\nNeither of the east nor of the west\,\nWhose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire.\nLight upon light. \nQuran 24:36 \n  \nThis short passage from the Quran is a favorite for mystics of Islam\, the Sufis. Following the idea that the source of all being is actually His Divine Light\, the traditional Islamic arts try to capture reflections of this Light by use of proportion\, harmony and balance. Our artwork offers glimpses of written wisdom rendered in proportional lettering or calligraphy\, geometric harmony in the art of illumination and paper cutting\, balance in the expansive art of marbling and scenes which are neither of earth nor of the heavens in the art of miniatures. \nArtists included in the exhibition are: \nMujgan Baskoylu\, Elinor Aishah Holland\, Zinnur Doganata\, Rabia Karakoyun Gundogdu\, Behnaz Karjoo\, and Nurdan Yeneroglu \nThis exhibit will be on display from October 1 through November 11.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/light-upon-light/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Geometric Spirits: Johnny Adimando & Catherine V. Graham
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday October 22\, 12-4pm | More Info \nThrough Sunday November 19\, 2017 \n\nGeometric Spirits features etchings and paintings by Johnny Adimando & Catherine V. Graham.  Both artists work across media between painting and printing to create a rich sense of space and complexity of pattern.  Exploration between surfaces and techniques create visual structures to explore different conceptual investigations. \nGraham employs geometry to push perceptions of the viewer’s understanding of natural and  social sciences. Adimando exploits intricate motifs\, symbols\, and patterning to expose the spirituality and socially rogue attributes of omnipresent forces. \nPatterns merge and emerge\, revealing much of the viewer as the work seeks to create or obfuscate itself. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nCatherine V Graham is an abstract painter and printmaker whose work investigates the formal aspects of color and form\, while creatively referencing the social and natural sciences.  Graham questions human fate’s relationship within the rational and irrational\, natural and constructed worlds. \nGraham is attentive to possible ways the viewer will perceive and experience the work (which is dependent both upon the lighting and physical position) and results in a perpetually shifting quality.  This constantly shifting state signifies the complexity of space and time as well as the breadth and limitations of human perception. \nThrough explorations of perception\, Graham strives to make complex patterns visible in order to explore overlapping meaning within the social and natural sciences. \n  \nJohnny Adimando grew up in a series of small but highly decorated and intricately organized spaces. Proper arrangement was paramount\, and even the slightest unsanctioned adjustments to this domestic-utopia lead to complete chaos. He quickly learned the camouflaging properties of beauty\, the navigation of claustrophobic interiors\, and the absolute virtues of order and cleanliness\, omnipresence and control. He believes that the world\, whether the creation of a god(s)\, or a network of nations tightly-monitored by ruling governments\, exists as a panopticon\, where rogue entities and ideologies burgeon in clandestine-processes of unlearning\, defiance\, and stealth. \nAdimando suggests the “otherworldly” by presenting an aggregate of information\, that in its micro and macrocosmic forms still manages to preserve a tether to the indecipherable. He is intrigued by the questions: Have I been misplaced\, or displaced…and\, what is it to be out-of-place? As such\, these graphic messages\, although filtered\, are inevitably transmitted in a seemingly tertiary “signiconic” or codex-like form; a visual-language that bridges the cosmic and terrestrial\, crystallizing all-while dissipating\, and which harmonizes as it obfuscates. \nHe explores formal dynamics related to the representation of divinity\, self-imprisonment\, and ritual (tied to both dogma and spirituality). He focuses primarily on systems/structures of authority\, ideas about armoring oneself against the world\, and accessioning primordial escapist urges. By designing\, manipulating\, and reassembling a wide variety of appropriated and original motifs and symbols\, he develops highly detailed sculptures\, drawings\, photographs\, and printed matter. The visual dynamic is one of complicated symmetries\, coordinated patterns\, and complex constructions that form a symbiosis with elaborate codifications\, spectral visions\, and occult symbology.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/geometric-spirits-johnny-adimando-catherine-v-graham/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Rene Fressola: Past\, Present\, NOW
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday August 13\, 12pm-4pm | More Info \nThrough Sunday\, October 1 \n\nThis exhibition is a living retrospective of Rene Fressola\, a painter who is predominantly self-taught. Self-expression has been modeled through his influences of Hans Hoffman\, Willem DeKooning\, Arshile Gorky and Frank Lobdell.  Fressola has in turn honed his own style through continued experimentation and the building of layers of marks upon the surfaces of his pieces.  He says “I don’t ever truly feel the pieces are ever complete\, I always know I can go back & add more!” \n  \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\n“I see my work as a continuous mix of influences and styles which are simultaneously simplistic and complex in realization. The combination of these elements have been present in my work since its inception. I am influenced by the color in the work of Hans Hoffman\, the fluid passion of Willem DeKooning\, the precision of Arshile Gorky and the originality of Frank Lobdell. I am predominantly self-taught and continue to paint and define my own style through experimentation. Painting allows me to express the beauty and ugliness which exists within each of us. I enter the studio with a commitment to create new and unusual work inspired by my interactions. Generally I work spontaneously; I just start with a mark and continue to build on it\, like when a dancer makes up new moves\, I dance & move with the canvas and just let it lead me! Pieces can take any where from three hours to three weeks. Colors set the mood for the viewers\, some serene\, some dark & chaotic. I am fully influenced by the Abstract painters of the 40’s-50’s from New York and California. My mood and the music I listen to help set the tone for my sessions in the studio.” \nRene Fressola was born in 1965 in Brooklyn\, New York. He began studying printmaking\, photography and painting in 1979 during which time he won awards for his compositions. In 1990 he relocated to Florida where he enrolled in the International Academy of Merchandising and Design to study Interior Design with an emphasis in color theory\, space planning and rendering. Fressola creates small and large-scale abstract works of mixed media on canvas\, paper and wood. He is committed to creating only original work — no prints. Fressola has exhibited in over 100 solo and group exhibits and his work is held in private collections nationally and internationally. His work has been shown at galleries in Tampa\, Atlanta\, New York\,Chicago\, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He now lives in New Jersey w/wife Tina & their dog “Rifty” and works in Westchester\, NY\, doing lighting design & interiors.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/rene-fressola-past-present-now/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Metaphysical Translation: Justin Smith
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday July 30\, 12pm-4pm | More Info \nThrough Sunday\, September 17 \n\nJustin Smith’s works are metaphysical exploration. Utilizing the full spectrum of the human condition his use of colors\, figures\, and shapes express feelings that are in a state of raw translation. Applied to the canvas with improvisational flair like the Abstract Expressionists\, and be-bop jazz musicians the gestural renderings are then layered and edited. Hidden images are revealed and deeper meanings come bubbling to the surface. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n \n\n“My work utilizes the art of sampling\, which is a foundational technique employed in the culture of hip-\nhop. In a purely musical context\, sampling is the process of digitally encoding music or sound and reusing it as part of a composition or recording. Growing up an enthusiast of hip-hop music in its earliest and purest forms\, that adventurous spirit of sampling was unconsciously carried over into the realms of my creative expression years later when I started painting. My work draws from dreams\, conversations\, architecture\, images\, landscape\, music\, history\, and pop culture references that inspire me and organically. I am able to infuse or sample my influences throughout my art. The end result is often fresh\, colorful\, and vibrant work that comes from the heart but is edited with a keen\, discerning eye as well. The unintentionally ambiguous nature of my work is abstract\, but is made with clear and focused direction and intent. The joy that I receive when viewers of my work interpret what they see filtered through their own experiences and perspectives is unparalleled\, and often provides insight into elements of the work that even I didn’t see or notice before. This not only provides inspiration but further motivates me to create from the heart\, while allowing the viewers to connect with the art however they see fit.” \n  \nJustin Smith is an actor\, writer\, musician\, and self taught artist. He was born and raised in Rockland County\, NY. He graduated from SUNY Rockland with an Associates’s degree in communications. Focusing mainly on his musical and creative writing abilities throughout his early adulthood\, Justin transitioned into acting in 2012. That year he made his theatrical debut at the Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack NY\, performing in the stage play “A Soldier’s Play” directed by legendary local director Joe Albert Lima. The following years after\, he worked under the tutelage of the great writer/director Samuel Harps\, landing various lead roles at the Shades Reperatory Theatre in Haverstraw\, NY. Driven by an intense desire to artistically redefine himself\, he took a sabbatical from acting and began painting in 2013\, quickly developing his craft to the point of his work being accepted in group art shows in Manhattan the following year. Since then\, his work has been shown in various group exhibits\, fashion shows\, theatrical productions\, and festivals throughout NYC and the tri-state area. His current solo exhibition for The Union Arts Center Metaphysical Translation is the accumulation of his best work produced in the last three years\, and is truly representative of his talent and uncompromising vision.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/metaphysical-translation-justin-smith/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Meet Me Out In The Street (Part I)
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday July 9\, 12pm-4pm \nClosing Reception: July 16 \nThrough July 16 \n\nThis photographic retrospective is inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s song “Out in the Streets” (1980). Dan is sharing photographs from the 1.5 million mile journey through the streets of his professional life\, capturing the faces and places of his travels one frame at a time. \nDan Fiore is a life-long frustrated artist that could never draw a straight line or color within the lines. At age 16\, Dan picked up his first camera (a Minolta) and has never put the camera down. Over the past 30 years as an Account Executive\, he has traveled over a million miles. With his camera\, Dan has been able to capture the faces and places of his travels and adventures. “As a Street Photographer\, you are able to use your camera to document the real DNA of where you are and you’re able to slow the world down for a short time and really experience it.” Dan lives with his family in New Jersey. He hopes to continue his travels and reach the 2 million mile plateau while documenting the world around him one frame at a time.\n\nThis exhibit is on display from June 10 – July 16. 10% of all proceeds from the show will be donated to Table to Table\, a non-profit organization that distributes excess food to the hungry.\n\n\nMeet the Artist during gallery hours on Sunday June 11
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/meet-me-out-in-the-street-part-i/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Drawings Manifest: Carole Hallé
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday June 10\, 12-4pm \nThrough July 30 \n\nCarole Hallé creates large scaled drawings and life sized sculptures which are reminiscent of the human form.  Exploring vulnerability\, despair\, sensuality and alienation through soft visual language\, she melds these feelings across drawing\, wood carving\, forged steel\, to create an engulfing womb like sense tipping the balance between vulnerability and the power of flesh.  \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nCarole Hallé is a sculptor living and working in Brooklyn. Born and raised in France\, she started her professional career as a dancer. She then studied drawing and sculpture at the Art Students League of New York and the New York Academy. She also trained as a woodcarver with Bill Sullivan in New York City\, the Atelier Goujon in Paris\, and as an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. \nShe has been awarded a Merit Scholarship at The Art Students League of New York\, the Nessa Cohen grant for sculptors and print makers and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Grant. She has been selected for a studio residency by the Royal Drawing School at Dumfries House and just completed her first outdoor sculpture for Cary Hill Sculpture Park through a fellowship at Salem Art Works.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/drawings-manifest-carole-halle/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Vista
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday May 27\, 12:00pm-4:00pm \nThrough Sunday\, June 4\, 2017 \n\nWith: \nHilary McCarthy \nMelanie Vote \nAnnie Wildey \nThis group exhibition\, Vista\, explores the depths of the visual field and the human capacity for vulnerability.  Through different applications of paint and immediate subject matter these paintings look beyond the moment of the human condition to see what is left just beyond the surface. \nArtists’ Reception: May 27\, 12-4pm \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nHilary McCarthy is a contemporary figurative painter who has been living and working in New York City for the past seventeen years.  She exhibits internationally and her studio is located on the Upper West Side. Her work hangs in collections throughout the United States and Europe.  She earned a masters degree from New York Academy of Art and is working on a second degree in art history from Columbia University.  She has attended artist residencies in Puglia\, Italy\, Melbourne\, Leipzig\, and Johnston\, VT\, and will be teaching in Provence in August 2017.  In her work\, she incorporates nature\, water\, and animals into narratives about the vulnerable human experience and the never-ending mystery of existence. \n  \nMelanie Vote\, born in 1973\, originates from Iowa and is a painter and multimedia artist based in New York.  She received a BFA from Iowa State University\, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 1998. She teaches painting at NJCU\, the New York Academy and has also taught at Pratt Institute and The New School. Additionally Vote has been a visiting artist at numerous schools including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited nation-wide and internationally. In New York at Flowers Gallery\, The Lodge Gallery\, Sloan Fine Art and DFN Gallery where the she had her first solo exhibition in 2008.  Additionally her work has been shown at the Indiana Contemporary Art Center\, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery of CA\, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum\, The Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul\, South Korea\, and at ADAH\, Abu Dhabi while an artist in residence there. Most recent solo exhibitions have been at Galleria Farina in Miami and Hionas Gallery of New York. She was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2006 and has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Jentel in Banner\, Wyoming\, KHNC for the Arts in Nebraska and the Vermont Studio Center with a full fellowship from the Dodge Foundation in 2003.  In 2017 she will be an artist in residence in The Grand Canyon. \n  \nAnnie Wildey is a British painter and printmaker.  She moved to New York City in 1989 and worked at the British Consulate. Art remained a part of her life during those years\, but in 2006 she began a new chapter with art at the very center and enrolled in an MFA program at the The New York Academy of Art. This provided the instruction\, immersion and creative freedom to develop her skills and artistic voice and proved to be a fruitful time bringing with it several awards including a post-graduate fellowship\, Prince of Wales scholarships\, and travel awards to Normandy\, France and St Barts in the French West Indies. After the fellowship\, Annie left New York for the east end of Long Island and spent two wonderful years as Artist-in-Residence at the William Steeple Davis House. It was here that Annie met and became a studio assistant to Master Printmaker Dan Welden and continues to assist him at workshops in the northeast\, including Haystack School of Crafts in Maine\, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and Montserrat College of Fine Arts. In 2011 Annie left the Long Island and moved to Mystic CT\, where she maintains a studio at The Velvet Mill in Stonington CT.  Annie’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally\, venues include:  The National Museum of China\, The Mall Galleries\, London; The Heckscher Museum\, NY\, and The University of Connecticut. Her work is included in The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program and can also be found in the book: Drawing Space\, Form and Expression by Enstice\, Wayne and Melody Peters.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/vista/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sacred Environments
DESCRIPTION:shanti working on earth starburst\n \nAbout The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday May 21\, 2-4pm \nThrough December \n\nSusan Shanti Gibian’s Earthworks reflect the ephemeral and transient qualities of life.  The photographic documentation of her site-specific installations conveys the inevitability of change\, death and decay. Honoring her relationship with the environment she engages in a collaborative dance with nature. Her offering of love and gratitude for the Earth is reciprocated with peace and serenity. This process creates openness and vulnerability\, allowing the beauty and fragility of life to become visible. \n“An attitude of curiosity develops\, and a willingness to live in a place of uncertainty\, where the outcome is unknown…It is from this space that I allow forms and images to emerge. The heart is a form that repeatedly presents itself in my site-specific work. It arises from a feeling of gratitude and love for the earth\, and for the peace and rejuvenation I receive when I am in the forest. It is here that I experience a profound connection and sense of oneness with nature. It is here that I am aware of my intimate relationship with the earth beneath my feet\, the trees that silently bear witness to my presence\, the stream that flows below the hill\, as well as the birds\, animals\, and plants that reside here together in this fragile ecosystem. \n“The grasses that I sculpt with are invasive grasses\, which prevent more delicate native species of plants from thriving. Pulling these invasive grasses is a small act that I perform to restore balance to this environment. As I create a form I am struck by a sense of wonder and awe to see what precious treasure lies hidden beneath the grass. The forms that have emerged from the forest floor speak in a primal and universal language. They are symbols that resonate within the heart.” \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\nSusan Shanti Gibian has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in California and New York. Her site-specific installations were exhibited in two solo shows: For the Earth\, at Teatown Lake Reservation\, Ossining\, NY and Ephemeral Wonders\, at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation\, Cross River\, NY. These works were created by removing invasive species of plants to form sculptures\, and incorporated natural objects from the forest floor. Photographs of these works were exhibited at the Teatown Lake Reservation Gallery\, the Marin Community Foundation in Novato\, CA\, and the Unframed Artist’s Gallery in New Paltz\, NY.New to this collection is a series of works that document the passage of time of the Ephemeral Wonders installations in the forest\, including images of the environment before the artist began her work\, as well as the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. \nThe juried four-person exhibit\, Sticks\, Stones\, Fiber and Skin\, at Gallery Route One\, Point Reyes\, CA\, featured Gibian’s installations constructed from stones\, beach sand\, and other natural objects. Photographs of her site-specific and sculptural works were displayed at the juried group show Elements: Earth\, Water\, Fire\, Air\, Ether at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts\, Sebastopol\, CA. \nSharing her passion and enthusiasm for the creative process\, Susan has been teaching art for 20 years. She developed and facilitated the workshop: Earth Art: Co-Creating with Nature\, sponsored by Teatown Lake Reservation and the Westchester Community College. She currently teaches classes in painting and meditation at the Westchester Community College. \nSusan has given public lectures on the topics of environmental art and the creative process at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts\, the JFK University Arts and Consciousness Gallery\, Sky Lake Lodge Meditation Center\, Teatown Lake Reservation\, and Ward Pound Ridge Reservation. \nThe recipient of a Puffin Foundation Artist’s Grant and four Innovative Curriculum grants from the Greater Capital Region Teacher Center\, Gibian is also a member of the Women Environmental Artists Directory and the ArtsWestchester Artists Directory. \nSusan Shanti Gibian was born in Mount Kisco\, New York. She received a BS in Visual Arts from the State University of New Paltz\, as well as a New York State Teacher Certification in Art Education. She received an MA in Arts and Consciousness from the John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/sacred-environments/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Awakening: An Illustrated Search For Meaning With Drawings By Delia Tolz
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nThrough May \n\nDelia Tolz shares her own spiritual journeys\, thoughts\, and meditations in this series of colored pencil drawings. “They are the tangible expression of my inner journey and a way to share it with others… May you find in them your own questions and answers that nurture your participation in the current of life.” \nBy focusing on and contemplating the author/artist’s stunning imagery and use of color\, as well as following the suggested daily exercises\, we are encouraged to transcend ordinary rational and conceptual approaches to these questions and be open to the wisdom that can be realized through inspiration\, intuition and grace. By observing ourselves and making choices to be realized through concrete thoughts\, feelings and actions\, we actualize these illuminations into the reality of daily life. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\nDelia Tolz is a dedicated spiritual seeker committed to helping others find and unfold their own inner path. Her work as an artist is a visual expression of the way she embraces life. During the past forty years\, Delia has had many solo and group exhibitions of her work\, in the US\, Argentina\, and Europe. She has led spiritual discussion to accompany some of her shows. For over thirty years\, Delia has given workshops and guided teachings on the principles of Cafh\, a path of spiritual unfolding.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/awakening-an-illustrated-search-for-meaning-with-drawings-by-delia-tolz/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Organic Light
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, April 15\, 12-4pm \nThrough \n\nOrganic Light features Bob Capazzo (photographer)\, Jane Cowles (sculptress)\, and Mahtab Pedrami (installation). This trio will be transforming Gallery One with whimsical and botanical inspired works which blend sculptures with fanciful function.   \nThrough May 27 \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nBob Capazzo: I am a photographer\, owner of a photography business and senior photographer for Moffly Publications. Over the last thirty years\, this role has given me the privilege of shooting events\, celebrities\, musicians\, top chefs and many fascinating people. These images have been on over 100 magazine covers and featured in countless articles. My photography and the people meet in my travels\, inspire me to pursue other interests. I play guitar in my own rock\, pop & funk band\, not to mention I build most of the guitars I play. I study dance and have a black belt in the martial arts of Tae Kwon Do & Hapkido. I also enjoy golfing and skeet shooting. I volunteer for with many charity organizations as photographer or as a lending hand. Business wise\, I currently sit on the board of The First Bank of Greenwich. I have been married to my wife Georgine for 32 years and our daughter\, Ashton is a graduate of Skidmore College. \n  \nJane Cowles: I consider myself a self-taught artist\, even though I received a BA in fine art from Drew University. My desire to create began long before then with my need to reconstruct the images I imagined while reading fanciful stories as a child. The processes I use are methodical\, thoughtful and intentional. Like the plot of a novel unfolds\, each design evolves detail by detail. My idiosyncratic\, sometimes overly ordered style is influenced by growing up in a chaotic household and my training as a tax attorney. Organization is my way of making sense of it all. So most\, if not all of my work\, is done in series\, a set of squares and reflected on stark white backgrounds. \n  \nMahtab Pedrami: My interest in art and design began in the suburbs of Tehran\, Iran. I was 8 years old\, serving as a very enthusiastic assistant to my geologist father\, who was working with microscopic fossil specimens. He would extract iron-rich clay deposits\, soak them in water for days\, then pour the resulting mud onto a sieve and gently rub it until only the microscopic sediments remained. Regardless of the weather\, I would sit with him in the yard to “wash dirt.” It was an arduous and time-consuming task – I had to be careful not to damage the delicate fossils – and my family and friends often wondered why I was so interested in helping. While part of the allure was simply spending time with my father\, there was also a very real attraction to the feel of the clay in my hands\, between my fingers. I relocated to the United States in 2003 and settled in Baton Rouge\, Louisiana. I enrolled at Louisiana State University and was majoring in jewelry design when I had to take a ceramics class for the first time. The first day of class\, I opened my bag of terra-cotta clay and cut off a section with my wire cutter. I carefully removed that piece\, stared at it\, then started forming it. I immediately felt the same softness I’d felt in my dad’s fossil-rich clays. From that point on\, I was more and more drawn to ceramics. It was during this time that I began to understand the importance of my relationship with materials and their inherent properties\, and how to trust my intuition and allow myself to be guided. As a ceramicist\, I’ve made a lot of ceramic dish-ware\, much of which ended up in people’s china cabinets as precious objects rather than kitchen cabinets as everyday tools. This was interesting to me: the distinctions that arise between objects of beauty and objects of function. I did not think they had to be mutually exclusive\, and I began to consider ways in which I could design pieces that were both functional and pleasing to the hands and eyes.These reactions led me to pursue a graduate degree in industrial design at Pratt Institute. After matriculating in 2010\, I became increasingly interested in patterns and designing furniture and home goods. Since graduating\, I have worked with various brands such as Giorgio Armani\, Yves Saint Laurent\, and Anthropologie as well as working on personal projects. In 2016\, I founded Albesque\, a multi disciplinary company that focuses on creating unique and one of a kind objects and spaces.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/organic-light/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Hanged With Roses: Hiba Schahbaz
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: January 14\, 2017\, 12p-4p \nThrough Monday\, March 27 \n\n“I speak an ancient language in a contemporary feminine voice. Trained in the centuries-old traditional Indo-Persian painting technique\, working with imagery developed by men to tell the stories of antiquity\, I aim to challenge the inflexible rules of miniature painting and recontextualize the art form to accept and embrace a female perspective. \n“In my work\, I am both the artist and the performer. I photograph my body and use these images as references for my paintings. Through the stories I create I contemplate what it means to be a woman. These works addresses issues of personal freedom\, destruction\, sexuality and censorship by unveiling the beauty\, fragility and strength of the female form. \n“I use the female figure to unfold a narrative that transcends cultural and political boundaries. I tell my own story while heavily embellishing it with imagination and metaphor. And although the protagonist in the work is me\, she also carries a dual\, existential meaning. I often use the female form as a tool\, portraying thoughts and concerns from socio-cultural and political realms. \n“Meticulously ornamented and vividly colorful\, the miniature draws the viewer in. I pursue the world of the beautiful in my work\, resulting in visually appealing paintings. This delicate allure is underscored\, however\, by an unsettling tension. Things are not quite what they seem.” \n9 Artists to Watch ~ Hyperallergic \nRead about Ms. Schahbaz in Verve Magazine \nHiba Schahbaz is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in the centuries-old art form of miniature painting. She trained in miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore\, Pakistan and received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York City. In addition to exhibiting her work internationally in galleries and fairs including the Vienna Art Fair and Scope NYC\, Schahbaz has curated exhibitions of miniature paintings in Pakistan and India. She was an artist-in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and The Wassaic Project and has taught miniature painting as part of the Alfred Z. Solomon Residency at the Tang Museum. She is a teaching artist at the Art Students League of New York.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/hanged-with-roses-hiba-schahbaz/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Full Circle: Grace Knowlton And Haile Binns
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nThrough Friday January 6\, 2017 \n\n\n\n\nOpen Gallery With Grace Knowlton: 11/27 and 12/17 \nOpen Gallery With Haile Binns: 11/12\, 11/26 and 12/17 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\n\n\n\nHaile Binns is an American artist whose wooden canvases shows the beauty of nature through color\, texture and movement. The foundation of her work is the welding of natural and industrial materials. Through earth and rock texture\, contrasting color\, and sharp emotional marks her work discovers the variegation within nature\, and strives to express the possibility of balance in precisely those places we tend to fear and marginalize as a culture. What emerges onto her canvas is all soil and movement – textural stories of brutality\, decay\, ferocity\, and change. \n  \nAfter Grace Knowlton graduated from Smith College in 1954\, she moved to Washington and studied painting with Ken Noland. Unsatisfied with that surface\, she started pouring rubber into flower pots to make relief forms for the paintings; the forms gradually evolved into free-standing\, round clay sculptures. The closed form’s sealed–in space suggesting hidden-away mysteries fascinated her. Then it became the form itself. She began to place different sized spheres in groups which could be moved around\, changing the relationships. Her early clay spheres were acquired by Storm King Sculpture Park in 1965. When Storm King expressed an interest in work of a larger scale\, Ms. Knowlton shifted to concrete\, which enabled her to create larger and more durable pieces. \nIn 1970’s the Newark Museum bought out her first gallery show in New York City – seven large concrete spheres\, which they placed in their sculpture garden. She has shown in various galleries such as Hirschl and Adler\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Lesley Heller Workspace\, Bates College Museum\, Neuberger Museum and the Katonah Museum\, among others. \nIn the ‘70s Grace began photographing white interior corners and printing the images in platinum. She went on to photograph subjects as diverse as seeds\, bones\, chairs\, and sawhorses\, looking for the abstract values of line\, form\, composition and structure. \nHer work is in the collections of (among others): The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art New York\, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, TX; Corcoran Gallery of Art\, Washington\, DC; Newark Museum\, Newark\, NJ; Storm King Art Center\, Mountainville\, NY; Victoria and Albert Museum\, London\, England and the Yale University Museum of Art\, New Haven\, CT.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/full-circle-grace-knowlton-and-haile-binns/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Paintings By Fred Cohen
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday October 23\, 2016\, 12:00pm-4:00pm \nClosing Reception: December 3 \nThrough December 4 \n\nStatement from the artist: “I paint because I have to.   It has become my pathway to relating to the world around me and inside me. It enables me to share. \n‘Some years ago I was taught a design system\, originally from Europe\, that changed my life. This system helps one break down visual arts to more basic elemental designs\, then reassembling them according to the artists particular vision and abilities\, never forgetting the original underlying structure of the system. It was suggested that I use paint in the system\, as my medium\, which I was very reluctant to do: I had never used paints before. It immediately seemed natural. I found my artistic voice and have painted ever since. I cannot help but view things within my system\, as it has become integral to my aesthetics and me. It always comes back to design and color\, in a never-ending exploration and evolution. \n“I have most enjoyed doing larger scale murals for children’s hospitals in the past. I am currently finding ways to do more murals locally\, thru grants and other opportunities. It is a goal of mine.” \n  \nMr. Cohen will be present during the opening reception on October 23\, and open gallery hours on November 20 and December 3. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nFred Cohen studied architecture at the University of Miami before attending Pratt and the City College of New York.  He has been featured in group and solo shows for over thirty years\, and received the Prix de Paris Award in 1980.
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LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Earth Impermanence
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, September 3\, 2:00-5:00pm \nThrough Monday\, October 3 2016 \n\nOPENS SEPTEMBER 3 \n  \nFeaturing ten American and international artists \nThe Earth is in a way forever\, but forever impermanent.  Changing\, shifting\, growing\, exploding\, substantially different with each rotation. Green and lush\, blue and vibrant\, throughout each revolution. What is Earth\, Impermanence?\nThis exhibit grew from a few artists in curious a group into a full-on cohesive discourse. The ensuing dialog surrounding the tension perched between permanent and impermanent is poignant yet alluring. Through a feminine lens\, climate change\, co-habitation\, and perception are re-examined. The resulting exhibit challenges social\, behavioral\, and global norms in ways that are beauteous\, while begging deeper self-analysis from the audience. This invitational of American and international artists is a sensuous exploration through a myriad of materials\, medias\, and meditations\, lending voice to the subtle exuberance of Earth\, Impermanence. \nPlease also join us on September 18 for a very special lecture and panel discussion with Dr. Lucy Spelman\, founder of Creature Conserve.  Learn more here. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nRoya Amigh is an Iranian artist who earned a BFA and MFA in Tehran before completing a Master’s in Fine Arts degree in 2012 at Boston University. Roya’s work has exhibited throughout Colorado\, New York and Massachusetts. She has been attending in a different Artist-In-Residence such as The Millay Colony for the Arts\, Art Omi\, Vermont Studio Center. She was a recipient of Ruth Katzman Scholarship in 2014\, and Constantine Alajalov Scholarship in 2010-2012. \nZsuzsanna Ardó is human by inclination\, humorous by nature\, and an award-winning visual artist\, art director/curator and writer by profession.To investigate contemporary society and culture creatively and critically\, out of the box and at times out of the white box\, she founded Ateliér A\, and curates international arts projects as the Art Director of Creatives without Borders. She has worked in many artist residencies around the world\, from France\, Italy\, Macedonia\, Turkey\, UK to the Deutsche Börse at the Frankfurter Kunstverein\, the High Arctic\, and the Art Students League NY at Vyt. As a writer she has collaborated with composers and performers\, and her work has been published internationally. Her visual art and curatorial projects\, featuring strong\, relevant concepts and a wide variety of artists from six continents\, have been featured at galleries\, museums\, festivals\, from the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Google NY to the British and the European Parliament. Polar self Portraits\, Ardó’s personal as well as curatorial art project about the landscape of the face (self portrait) and the face of the Earth (landscape) is featured in venues literally across the planet\, including England\, France\, Morocco\, Arctica and Antarctica. Earth Impermanence at UACNY grew out of Ardó’s Polar self Portraits\, and her climate change/Hudson Valley curatorial concept proposed to and discussed with UACNY during her residency at Vyt. The next chapter of her climate change through art project\, PlanetBody\, shifts the focus from the face to the body. Interested artists and organisations can get in touch via Creatives without Borders and SynergySync Arts. Her public engagement work in the arts has been carried out in English\, French and Hungarian\, and includes  sitting on international juries\, portfolio reviews\, workshops\, talks\, pop up art and flash mobs. Awards and fellowships include two Arts Council England awards. www.ardo.org \nCharis J. Carmichael Braun grew up in New Ulm\, MN. After an exchange year in Switzerland\, she earned her BA from Bethany Lutheran College and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She is currently the Director of Communications and Caretaker at The League Residency at Vyt\, the international artist residency of the Art Students League of New York. She has served on two NYC not-for- profits: as a board member for Spark and Echo Arts and also as the President of the Alumni Association of the New York Academy of Art. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally and may be found in both private and public collections. With her husband Andrew Braun\, a woodworker and cabinetmaker\, Charis lives and works in the Hudson Valley\, New York. \nChloé Bulpin is an illustrator and artist born in Canberra\, Australia. She spent her childhood living and drawing in France\, England\, Scotland\, Georgia (US)\, and Massachusetts. She attributes her love of drawing to her French grandfather\, a painter himself\, who used to keep her busy with stacks of paper and pencils. During those visits to her grandfather’s\, she would draw tomatoes in the garden and became fascinated with botany. Her obsession with nature and line work continued as she studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. During her time at RISD\, she aimed to combine her loves of art\, conservation and biology to create work which highlighted the beauty of nature\, encouraged conservation and showcased means to help. She graduated in 2015 and now lives and creates art in Brooklyn\, New York. \nAngela Gram received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art.  She has done mural work for the American Museum of Natural History and her paintings exist in many private collections.  Angela has been accepted as an artist in residence by the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny France and by the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation at Mana Contemporary in NJ.  Her work has been shown in New York\, New Jersey\, Connecticut\, Florida\, Rhode Island\, and internationally with Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen\, Denmark.  She has also recently been published by Skira Rizzoli in “The Figure: Painting\, Drawing\, and Sculpture” a book showcasing figurative art by established and emerging artists.  Angela currently lives and works in New Jersey. \nHeraa Khan is a contemporary visual artist from Lahore\, Pakistan. After being awarded a scholarship at National College of Arts (NCA)\, Lahore\, she completed BFA in 2012. Heraa has specialized in the traditional techniques of Mughal and Persian miniature painting. Miniature painting requires immense technical skill\, attention to detail and discipline. She uses natural pigments\, handmade paintbrushes (Kalam) and paper (wasli). She has shown her work extensively in group and solo shows around the globe. She was awarded the Ruth Katzman scholarship at ASL Residency at Vyt. \nLisa Lebofsky is a painter living and working in New York City. She holds a BFA in metalsmithing from SUNY New Paltz\, and an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. Her work is in private collections\, and has been exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Prince of Wales Scholarship travel grant to the Château de Balleroy\, France (2005)\, Terra Nova National Park artist in residence (2010)\, the BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Grant from the Bronx Council of the Arts (2010\, 2014)\, New Bedford Whaling Museum artist in residence (2013)\, and Saltonstall Foundation artist in residence (2014). Ms. Lebofsky finds inspiration and collects source material by traveling extensively to immerse herself in different natural environments. She primarily paints onsite\, but also takes digital photos to cultivate a library of images for studio work. Recent travels include Antarctica\, Newfoundland andLabrador\, Greenland\, and the Maldives. \nElena McCabe works collaboratively with natural objects and metal. Using silversmithing techniques\, the metals and natural “gems” create adornment objects. Setting ephemeral items in a traditional context of cultural value\, these miniature monoliths give form to a desired but sensitive environment in a dialogue balancing sustaining life and living comfortably. She was born in Poughkeepsie\, New York\, completed Pratt @MWPI fine arts foundation\, attended Parsons New School University and studied Product Design for the Other 98%.  Ms. McCabe graduated from Pratt Institute in 2008 with a BFA in Sculpture and Jewelry. \nChar Norman is an accomplished fiber artist specializing in papermaking and fiber sculpture. She received a Master of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Art from Scripps College. She has lectured and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has developed and conducted workshops for all ages\, worked as a consultant to area schools and community arts organizations and has held the position of Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty at Columbus College of Art & Design. \nNatalie Tyler is an internationally exhibiting artist\, whose work has shown in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe. Drawing inspiration from nature\, she casts its essence into the elements of metal and glass. She combines masterly cast bronze and glass sculpture to make truly inventive and original artwork.   She has been a US Embassy sponsored artist twice\, once in Dublin\, Ireland and again in Tallinn\, Estonia exhibiting at the Estonia Museum of Applied Art and Design. She has received numerous grants and awards from art institutions like Mass MOCA\, Art Students League of New York\, Vermont Studio Center\, and Cornell University. In addition to her artwork she has curated large-scale exhibitions.  Originally from California\, she moved to the Berkshire Mountains inspired by its’ natural beauty\, vibrant arts\, culture\, and friendly people.
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LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
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SUMMARY:Photographs By Barbara Sandson
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nThrough September 1\, 2016 \n\nBarbara Sandson has been concentrating her efforts in capturing the color and texture of the small forgotten villages throughout Europe. She looks for and portrays the subtleties and fragile beauty she sees around her and captures the timeless quality of these areas. There are almost no people in these images\, but unlike traditional architectural photography in which people seem irrelevant\, one senses here that they hover near\, just outside the frame. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n \nNew York City native Barbara Sandson now lives in Piermont-on-the-Hudson\, just south of Nyack\, New York. Recently she has purchased a house on Martha’s Vineyard and now divides her time between the two locations. \nHer interest in photography came at an early age when her father brought home a Brownie camera and an enlarger. Her training became more formalized over the years and she has studied extensively in the fields of photography and painting. After working for twenty-two years in black and white she became seriously involved with color. She now enjoys the freedom and control of doing her own darkroom work. A great deal of time\, care and precision go into printing each photograph. \nWhile Barbara has traveled extensively throughout Europe\, North Africa\, Asia\, and South America\, she developed an early passion for the French language and France itself. She was a French major in college and studied at the Université de Nancy\, France\, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Barbara has been drawn back dozens of times ever since for her photography (and of course the food and wine!) \nA great number of Barbara’s photographs are now on permanent display in many galleries in the metropolitan New York area and Martha’s Vineyard. In addition\, her work is in numerous private and corporate art collections\, and the image\, “Rainy Day Roses\,” had a home for several years at the White House.
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LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Norman Galinsky: Seen / Unseen
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday July 23\, 2pm-5pm | More Info \nThrough August 28\, 2016 \n\nNew and selected works by Norman Galinsky \n“I see my artwork as an embodiment and transmitter of healing energy- healing in the broadest sense of the word: physically\, emotionally\, and spiritually.  The compositions are created through an intuitive\, meditative approach\, a practice of focused attention and intention.  By using a vocabulary of abstract geometric forms\, patterns\, and repetitive marks\, I create images that portray vibratory fields and networks that contain the energy and facilitate its emission.  I often use sacred geometric shapes and converging circular forms to construct a central focus\, a ‘stillpoint’ that represents the unity of consciousness\, a merging of subject and object.” \nSeen / Unseen presents works that were created recently as well as a number of pieces created forty years ago which have never been exhibited. \n  \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nNorman Galinsky’s artwork has been inspired by his background in science and engineering and his ongoing studies of metaphysics and spiritual issues. \nHis art studies began with a focus on traditional renaissance oil and egg tempera painting techniques\, followed by classes with Henry Pearson at the New School and with Will Barnet and George Tooker at the Art Students League in NYC. In the late 1960’s\, he participated in the Experiments in Art and Technology program developed by Billy Kluver and Robert Rauschenburg. After a seven-year career in chemical engineering\, he left industry and turned fully to art\, earning an MFA degree from Columbia University in 1973. At Columbia he studied painting with Philip Guston\, Jack Tworkov\, and Stamos\, and printmaking with Bob Blackburn and Tony Harrison. \nIn addition\, his artwork has been shaped by his 30 year experience in the practice and teaching of Chinese healing exercises and martial arts\, including qigong\, Taiji Quan\, and other meditative and energetic healing disciplines. He has taught these forms in his studio as well as in area hospitals\, including: New York Presbyterian (under the direction of Dr. Mehmet Oz)\, Englewood Hospital\, Nyack Cancer Center\, and St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers\, NY. \nBy synthesizing and translating the seemingly disparate worlds of the quantum sciences and spirituality into compelling images\, Galinsky’s art depicts the evolving dynamic order underlying our world today and forecasts possibilities for the future.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/norman-galinsky-seen-unseen/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Soul Argonauts: Paintings By Cate Whittemore
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Sunday June 12\, 2:00-5:00pm | More Info \nThrough July 15\, 2016 \n\n\n\n\n\nSoul Argonauts is a collection of figurative watercolors\, etchings\, paintings and writings spanning the past few years\, which explore physicality. Working between figurative and non-objective imagery\, Whittemore cultivates a spontaneous use of materials to convey cathartic meanings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n \n\n\n\n\nCate Whittemore is an artist and a long time yoga practicer. Her work investigates how the body manifests\, and how art evidences\, emotions\, and how both bodies and art can be read for meaning. \n\n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of numerous awards and artist residencies\, among them @ La Scuola Di Grafica in Venice\, Italy and The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts in Red Wing\, MN. In 2011\, she had the honor of designing a poster for the World Peace Kalachakra of the Dalai Lama in Washington DC. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a member of the International Alliance of Stage and Theater Employees\, she was a professional set painter\, creating scenery for movies\, television\, and theater hits\, including “Spiderman; Turn On the Dark”\, and “The Book of Mormon”. \n\n\n\n\nShe holds a a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Connecticut College\, a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts/ Drawing & Painting from the University of Minnesota\, and was a full-time apprentice at The Studio and Forum of Stage Design\, in NYC 1977-1979. \n\n\n\n\nShe divides her time between Red Wing\, MN and Skyros\, Greece\, where she teaches creative watercolor painting. She also teaches yoga\, Pilates\, and is a Thai Yoga Masseuse. More work and info available at www.artztruk.com.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/soul-argonauts-paintings-by-cate-whittemore/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Drama Of Light: Photographs By Michael Garber
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nThrough April 30\, 2016 \n\nView Michael Garber‘s exhibit Drama of Light\, where the artist showcases local landscapes in his signature style. \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nMichael Garber\, a landscape\, nature and portrait photographer\, is intrigued by the subjectivity of light and is drawn to objects as they are transformed in changing light. He employs light as a design element in shaping and capturing his images. Dramatic scenes attract his attention especially where color and texture add depth and intensity. He has a special affinity for clouds with their visual power.He has travelled extensively to photograph diverse landscapes in their unique light. \nMichael studied photography at the International Center for Photography in New York City with Bobbi Lane\, noted photography teacher and educator. As a guest teacher for Bobbi Lane’s portraiture classes\, he taught the process of how to create a photo essay. \nHe is completing a book\, Vince\, Portrait of an Aging American\, a five year visual story of his friend\, Vince\, who died in 2009. The book documents the diminishing world of an aging American and his struggle to maintain dignity and self worth. \nHe also is the photographer for the forthcoming Timber Press book tentatively titled The History of Landscape Design in 100 Great Gardens by Dr. Linda Chisholm due to be published in the spring of 2017.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/drama-of-light-photographs-by-michael-garber/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Paintings By Anne Bell
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nThrough Saturday\, April 16 \n\n“I am interested in painting as a visual language. As a former student of Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League in NYC\, I was trained to use abstraction as a means of expression. Throughout my career I have been exploring ways of using color\, line\, form\, space\, and rhythm to express what it is to be alive. \n “My subject matter sometimes starts with plants and flowers. I am painting their movement and rhythm. That is what interests me most- the way they present themselves and their gallant enthusiasm for life. Different kinds of plants have different ways of moving. Some are voluptuous and unfold with care. Lilies on a single plant often reach out and caress each other as they bloom. Their leaves take up a circular movement and their berries form a musical counterpoint to the whole choreography. Quite amazing. By contrast\, a zigzag cactus grows in spurts and jumps\, and then reaches out in a big sweeping movement with its mature arms to find the sun. The cyclamen are extraordinary because their leaves undulate almost like waves\, while their flowers – some like pinwheels – some like birds\, fly in a group seeking their light. \n“As a painter\, with all of this going on in front of me\, I try to capture this sensation with line\, form and color. The challenge is to convert my means – charcoal\, paint\, and linen – into a visual language which will express my response to what I see. We are all dazzled by the beautiful colors in flowers\, and the way their colors sometimes float on top of each other. By using\, layered color and line\, and variations of value\, chroma and intervals\, I seek to convey rhythm and movement. \n“I often use a large scale even for plants that are in reality quite small. I do this because I want to take the viewer into their dance\, to sense them physically\, as if one is a participant in their seduction. \n“The last fifty years\, of abstract art have opened up new ways of creating a visual language.  At this point I am working with abstraction and inspired by realism\, always trying to capture a life force.” \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn\, New Orleans\, La \nEDUCATION \nSarah Lawrence College\, Junior year Abroad\, Paris \nArt Student’s League\, NYC;  Studied with Marshal Glasier\, Vincent Malta\, Vaclav Vytlacil\, Knox Martin \nAmerican University\, summer painting course\, Washington\, DC \nCorcoran School of Art\, Washington\, DC \nVermont Studio Center \nSOLO EXHIBITIONS \n2006-8 TOAST Open Artist Studio Tour\, Tribeca\, NYC \n1976 AAMES GALLERY\, Soho NY \nGROUP EXHIBITIONS \n2015 THE ELIZABETH V. SULLIVAN  GALLERY Summer Exhibition\, \nCurated by Naomi Campbell\, THE LEAGUE RESIDENCY AT VYT\, Orangeburg\, NY \n2015 BELL-ANS CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS\,\nGallery opening\, Anne Bell paintings\, Tom Artin\,  Photography\, Rockland County\, NY \n2014 BELL-ANS CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS\, Open Studios\, Rockland County\, NY \n2012-15 THE  CENTURY ASSOCIATION\, Members Exhibition\, NYC \n2011 THE HOPPER HOUSE\, Members Show\, Nyack\, NY \n2008 CULTURAL CENTER\, NYC \n2007-8 ART GOTHAM\, NYC \n2007-8 SYNAGOGUE FOR THE ARTS\, Curated by Veronica Nemic\, NYC \n2006 RIVER STONE ARTS\, curated by Rachel Yarmolinsky\, Haverstraw\, NY \n2005 JACKSON ART CENTER\, Open Studios\, Washington\, DC \n2003 THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON\, Members Summer Exhibit\, DC \n1998 COVINGTON & BURLING\, 2 person show\, Washington\,DC \n1992 PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION and MUSEUM\, Members Show\, Mass. \n1991 PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION and MUSEUM\, curated by John Imber\, Mass. \n1983 JUST ABOVE MIDTOWN\, “ART BIZ”\, NYC \n1974-77 AAMES GALLERY\, Soho\, NY \n1972-3 ART STUDENT’S LEAGUE\, Concours\, Exhibit\, NYC \n1969 ROCKLAND FOUNDATION\, NY \nREVIEWS \n1976        THE NEW YORK TIMES\, by John Russell\, Solo Show\, Aames Gallery\, Soho\, NYC \n1976         THE JOURNAL NEWS\, by John Dalmus\, “Soho Meets Artist From Grand View” \n1969         THE JOURNAL NEWS\, by Marietta Campbell\, ROCKLAND FOUNDATION EXHIBIT \nAWARDS \n1979          New York City\, C.A.P.S\, semi finals \, NY STATE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS \n                 acceptance V.A.R.S File ( Visual Artist Registry of Slides) \n1972          ART STUDENTS LEAGUE\, Thelka Bernays Merit Scholarship \n1972          ART STUDENTS LEAGUE\, Concours\, Exhibit Award
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/paintings-by-anne-bell/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Femme Eternal: Paintings By Ivan Pazlamatchev
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, March 6\, 1:00-4:00PM \nClosing Reception: Saturday\, April 16\, 3:00-6:00PM \nThrough Saturday\, April 16 \n\nPlease join us for a wine and cheese reception on April 16. Meet the artist and view his striking paintings of the eternal feminine spirit. \n  \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nIvan Pazlamatchev was born in 1968 in Bulgaria. He currently works and lives in New York.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/femme-eternal-paintings-by-ivan-pazlamatchev/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Listening Fields: Paintings By Sharon Falk
DESCRIPTION:About The Exhibit\n\nThrough December 13\, 2015 \n\nSharon Falk’s paintings are inspired by the fields and wetlands where she lives. Walking through them is a journey of expanded time surrounded by the images and sounds of the seasons evolving. I paint wild things: birds\, and botanical forms\, as though I can see time and energy moving through them\, lifting upward and vibrating outward. I seek to observe the patterns and rhythms that are created in nature\, and to portray the aura of a subject with a glow from an unknown source. I think of these wild things as mirrors of us\, spinning their world\, in the language of cornfields and birds; they sing the world into being around us. \nRead more \n\n\nAbout The Artist\n\n\nSharon Falk is a New York based wartist hose expressive paintings evoke the gesture of a moment in time\, and the power of that moment to expand\, timeless in memory. Her images are those of the natural world: wild creatures and landforms painted with a sense of motion that radiates the space around them. Light glowing from within and around the forms erases boundaries\, creating an energy and aura that transcend time. \nFrom an early age\, she had a desire to experience the world from many different regions and cultures; and has traveled in Egypt\, Greece\, Peru\, Italy\, Mexico\, and the caves of the south of France filling sketchbooks with images inspired by the art of those civilizations. She is intrigued by the effects of time layering over the ancient frescoes\, with artifacts made and covered over and found again; and her work seeks to express the energy and power existing in all things. \nGrowing up in Arizona\, and living in New Orleans and Los Angeles for several years before moving to New York\, she was surrounded by a rich sense of light and color and the space of wide western lands. Falk also worked as a courtroom sketch artist for CBS News covering historic court proceedings for broadcast; and having to travel on short notice to be at a trial\, and drawing every day reinforced her instinct to capture a figure quickly while it was in motion. With her interest in history and its fragments of the past\, she seeks to portray the potential in each of us: the divine side of us running parallel with fleeting time. We are each on a journey of discovery\, ultimately alone\, that expands in our perceptions and shared knowledge. \nFalk has also taught painting and drawing at Pace University\, and Bergen Community College; and has been the recipient of artist residencies in Santa Fe\, New Mexico; Woodstock\, New York; and Gatlinburg Tennessee; and received the Paula Rhodes award from the School of Visual Arts. Her work is in numerous collections nationwide.
URL:https://roostinsparkill.com/event/listening-fields-paintings-by-sharon-falk/
LOCATION:Roost Union Arts Center\, 2 Union Street\, Sparkill\, NY\, 10976\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibition
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