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EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE invites you to attend the 2018 Annual Member Exhibition, January 21 - March 11, 2018 at a new location, the Union Arts Center in Sparkill, New York.
Victor Mirabelli, "Wrapped in Celadon," 11 x 14 inches, oil on canvas
MEMBER EXHIBITION 2018
Edward Hopper House
New Exhibition Location
Union Arts Center
2 Union Avenue
Sparkill, New York
845-358-0774
www.edwardhopperhouse.org
Union Arts Center hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 12-4, and by appointment.
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Dazzling Exhibit at Argazzi
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Dazzling Exhibit at Argazzi
Wed, 01/03/2018 - 11:48am
Art: ‘Gold and Black and White’
By: Emily Gates
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The current show at Argazzi Art, “Gold & Black & White,” brings together a collection of works centered around those three colors. What could threaten to feel like a gimmick, instead feels like anything but. Argazzi has brought together a holiday exhibit of painting, photography and sculpture that is well worth seeking out.
“Suspended Stillness,” by Victor Mirabelli.
The striking pure white of Jaq Belcher’s “Ascending” catches one’s eye because of the pure, seemingly uninterrupted field of snow white paper, but it is the precise and mesmerizing cuts that Belcher has etched into the white field that keep one’s attention. The petal-shaped incisions cast a series of fluctuating shadows which add an unexpected playfulness and depth to the piece’s seeming simplicity. Another piece in white, “Contemplation Form 463,” by the Woodbury based artist Ann Mallory also cleverly walks the line between the simple and complex. Mallory has several works in ceramic in the show, and her glazed white vessel manages to appear at once raised from the earth and otherworldly.
Gold appears in the show often and in many forms: gold leaf on panel and gold-leafed clay. The color appears in oil and wax glazes and acrylic paint, as is the case with the work of Sabine Friesicke. Friesicke, a German-born painter who lives and works between New York City and Berlin, has works of acrylic on canvas and paper on view. In particular, two large paintings, perfectly titled for the Argazzi show, “Black/Gold/White,” feature mesmerizing series of undulating waves. The ordered tidiness of the waves moving across the horizontal plane of the canvas are broken up by the way in which the painter has allowed the gold paint to drip and drift down the large square canvases.
Sculptor Lisa Breznak works with unexpected shapes and forms and on a small scale. Breznak hand forms her sculptures in her studio in Peekskill, New York, and the results are pleasingly off kilter and engaging. The works she currently has on show at Argazzi each incorporate 22 karat gold leaf, and the shining metal can suggest that one has stumbled upon a small treasure. The shapes in her “Dances for Waxing and Waning” call to mind both the structures of Japanese temples and the phases of the moon. “Pompion Prestige (Abundant Harvest)” strikes a rather different note. The abundant, swooping pile of pumpkins, a familiar site in the local area during fall, here lends itself towards some fairytale landscape.
Many of the colors in Victor Mirabelli’s large landscapes exist in the space between white and black. Mirabelli’s impressionistic paintings depict stark white barns, some with dark colored roofs, while “Unchartered Terrain Collection #8,” features a black barn, hauntingly beautiful in the midst of the silent spare land in which it sits.
A number of other artists are here with interesting and worthwhile pieces. Whether one is drawn to gold or black or white, the Argazzi show has much to please.
"Gold & Black & White" runs through January 31 at Argazzi Art, 22 Millerton Road/Route 44, Lakeville, CT.
For information, visit www.argazziart.com or call 860.435.8222.
GARRISON ART CENTER invites you to attend the 2018 Member Exhibition, January 12-21, 2018 with the OPENING RECEPTION, January 12, 5-7pm.
Victor Mirabelli, "Brushed by Twigs," 11 x 14 inches, oil on canvas
MEMBER EXHIBITION 2018
Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
845-424-3960
www.garrisonartcenter.org
Kathy Moss, UNTITLED, Daisy paintings. oil on linen, 72" x 72".
This Group Show features the work of several Argazzi Art gallery artists in addition to introducing the viewer to some new talent. The show includes paintings, works on paper, etchings, scultpture, ceramics and objets.
Argazzi Art
Argazzi Art's North Gallery featuring the work of Sabine Friesicke and Jeanne Brennan.
Lisa Breznak, Dances for Waning and Waxing, fired clay, paint and 22-karat gold leaf, 14"x 6"x 5".
Lisa Breznak, Pompion Prestige, clay, paint, wire and 22-karat gold leaf, 9"x 6"x 6".
Victor Mirabelli, Brushed By Light, oil on paper, 24" x 38".
Michael Kessler, Greywoods I, acrylic on panel, 24″ x 96″; Ann Mallory, Contemplation Form, high-fired ceramic.
Sabine Friesicke, Gold Wave, oil on canvas, 64″ x 64″.
Lenore Gimpert, White on Gold on White, oil on canvas, 48″ x 48″.
Photography courtesy of Hammertown’s in-house photographer Marie Aimi and Artform.
Kris Benedict, Sabine Friesicke, Sandrine Kern, Michael Kessler, Ann Mallory,
Victor Mirabelli, Kathy Moss and Peter Woytuk
HOURS: Saturday and Sunday from 11 until 5 or by appointment
22 Millerton Road | Route 44 | Lakeville, CT 06039 | 860.435.8222 | www.argazziart.com
After viewing the show, here are two great restaurants you may want to visit:
White Hart Inn and the Woodland Restaurant
PHOTOcentric, an international juried photography exhibition, featuring 50 works selected by juror Francis M. Naumann, will be shown in the Gillette Gallery at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, December 9 - January 7, 2018.
For seven years the PHOTOcentric Exhibition has clearly established itself as an exhibition of outstanding fine art photography. Artists from across the United States and from around the world have submitted their work.
Timothy Macy Bakersfield Cows FIRST PLACE SHOW
This year's juror, Francis M. Naumann, is an independent scholar, curator and gallery owner, specializing in the art of the Dada and Surrealist periods, including the noted photographers Man Ray and Naomi Savage. He is author of numerous articles, exhibition catalogues and books. Mr. Naumann has organized museum shows for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Craft Museum in New York.
Karen Johnson I Dream of the Pale Horse FIRST PLACE OPEN CATEGORY
Giulio Sista Speakeasy
FIRST PLACE PEOPLE CATEGORY
PHOTOcentric 2017
December 9, 2017 through January 7, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION: December 9, 5-7pm
The Gillette Gallery at Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
845-424-3960
www.garrisonartcenter.org
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