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Marsha Ginsberg at The Sheffield Historical Society
Now - September 26
Stage designer and artist Marsha Ginsberg rescued the historic Conway House, which was a station on the Underground Railroad, and relocated it from Sheffield to South Egremont, then painstakingly and lovingly restored the modest 1840 structure, updating it to make it suitable as a current-day residence. Ginsberg documented the relocation in still photography and video; this multimedia documentation, along with historical research, comprise her exhibit From Sheffield to Egremont: A House’s Journey.
The Sheffield Historical Society
Sheffield, MA
Reception: Saturday, August 28 @ 3 - 5 p.m.
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Karen LeSage at Sanford Smith Fine Art
August 26 - October 1
Connecticut artist, Karen LeSage paints dreamlike landscapes in vivid colors that she manages to make ethereal. She showed at this gallery last summer; the works in this exhibition have all been done within the past year.
Sanford Smith Fine Art
Great Barrington, MA
Artist’s reception Saturday, August 28, 4 - 7 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 08/22/10 at 05:31 PM • Permalink
Three Artists Featured at Carrie Haddad Photography
August 19 - September 26
An exhibition of works by three artist/photographers, Kim McLean, Lionel Gilbert & Harry Wilks, opens this Thursday at Carrie Haddad Photography.
Kim McLean’s layered images,such as Ume Enters the City, above, capture virtual worlds filled with incongruity—a battleship in a tempestuous sea of illegibly tiny text; a Russian Constructivist design for a Palace of Labor set amidst a dreamscape of lattices and Ferris wheels. Using architectural software and a process he calls “mapping,” the artist covers icons of cultural and historical significance with surfaces that are in stark contrast to the forms beneath.
Lionel Gilbert, born in 1912, was a prolific painter from the nineteen-thirties until his recent death. The works on display here call to mind Matisse, Braque, and Leger in their cubist sensibility and handling of space. In Suggested Figures, a collage-like mass evokes the human figure, broken down, refracted. Although this painting is thick with the legacy of progressive artists from times past, it subverts the rules by which these artists worked. Gilbert’s work exhibits a refreshing frivolity.
Harry Wilks has been hauling his cameras up to New York City rooftops for 25 years. From this vantage point, he has created an urban fantasyland which diverges from observable reality. In his rooftop photographs, he reveals an urban landscape that people wouldn’t ordinarily see on their own. Complementing his passion for architecture is an ongoing project photographing the Hudson Valley. Wilks’ photographs are included in museum, corporate and private collections.
Carrie Haddad Photography
Hudson, NY
Opening reception, August 21; 6 - 8 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 08/15/10 at 05:50 AM • Permalink
Brine Garden in Photographs & Watercolors
August 21 - September 18
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Gallery on the Green in Pawling, NY will honor the 20th anniversay of The Brine Garden, a remarkable private garden there, with an exhibition of photographs, some done by the garden’s creator Duncan Brine, others by Everett H. Scott, the renowned landscape photographer, who was also, coincidentally, Brine’s roommate at Princeton. Also in the exhibition are the delicate botanical watercolors of Julia Brine, Duncan’s wife and his partner in their landscape design firm, Horticultural Design, Inc. The Brines’ naturalistic 6-acre garden will be featured this fall in The American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine. Some of the photographs in this exhibition will illustrate the article..
Gallery on the Green
Pawling, NY
Artists’ reception August 21; 4 - 6 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 08/14/10 at 06:34 AM • Permalink
Amy Bedik’s Photographs at Germain
Now - September 7
In her black-and-white photographs, Amy Bedik seeks the eternal in both landscapes and in man-made things, often classical sculptures and architecture. Using a simple plastic camera, a piece of technological ephemera whose time has already passed, she captures images that speak of the durable and the timeless.
Germain
Great Barrington, MA
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 08/09/10 at 06:13 PM • Permalink
Guy Walker at The Re Institute
August 8 - 29
Opening reception: August 8, 7 to 10 p.m.
Henry Kilmowicz’s barn gallery a few miles north of Millerton will host Stoned, Wasted and Totaled, an exhibition of new work by Guy Walker. A selection of the artist’s psychedelic films will be projected through large blown glass lenses; the images appear within the glass forms as well as on the surrounding surfaces of the exhibition space, creating a constantly changing environment. Walker’s recent small-scale collages, tote bag sculptures and mixed-media paintings will also be on view.
The Re Institute
1395 Boston Corners Road
Millerton, NY
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 08/05/10 at 05:23 PM • Permalink
Mark Shapiro’s “Bottles and Other Muses”
Now - September 6
In this, the artists’ third solo show of new ceramic work, Shapiro stretches the various parts of his bottles—neck, handles, body—adding to their already exaggerated size—some ending up as tall as five feet. He then scratches their surfaces with abstract patterns that suggests calligraphy and antiquity.
Ferrin Gallery
Pittsfield, MA
Artist conversation: Thursday, August 5 @ 5 - 7 p.m.
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Inappropriate Appropriations at Lauren Clark
Now through September 13
The latest work by conceptual artist Geoffrey Moss, Inappropriate Appropriations, blends elements of 18th and 19th century Japanese erotic prints with the saturated colors of 1940s comics.
Lauren Clark Fine Art
Housatonic, MA
Opening reception: Saturday, August 14 @ 5 - 8 p.m.
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Posted by Bess Hochstein on 08/04/10 at 09:39 AM • Permalink
20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft
Now - October 17
Catapult Prototype Table, Rob Bristow
The newly formed ArtBerkshires collaboration, a partnership including Ferrin Gallery, Sienna Gallery, and The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm, kicks off this weekend with a series of receptions and events under the umbrella 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft, tracing the influence of mid-century modernism on contemporary design. The Barn Gallery’s show features a blend of vintage and up-to-the-moment work by artists and artisans, connecting legendary designers such as Alvar Aalto, Vladimir Kagan, and Nana Dietzl to contemporary furniture makers such as Rob Bristow of Poesis and Peter Superti. Guest curated by Sarah Archer, director of Greenwich House Pottery. By appointment only.
The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm
Lenox, MA
Conversation and Brunch with Sarah Archer: Saturday, August 7 @ 10 a.m - noon
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Posted by Bess Hochstein on 08/03/10 at 07:27 PM • Permalink
Ida Wyman Opening at Joie de Livres
August 7 - September 25
Ida Wyman, Girl with Curlers, 1949
When Ida Wyman began taking photographs for magazines in the 1940’s, the field was dominated by men. Starting out in the mailroom at Acme Newspictures (later UPI), Wyman soon began getting assignments from Business Week, This Week, Collier’s, Life, Fortune and other major publications.
As she progressed from a box camera to Speed Graphic, her first professional camera, to a Rolleiflex, she says, “I stopped thinking about the mechanics of film speed, f.stops, shutter speed and began focusing on subject matter that interested me—ordinary people and their everyday activities, first in my own Bronx neighborhood, then in Harlem, Chinatown, and lower Manhattan.”
Wearing the camera as a shield against her shyness and appearing unthreatening in her saddle shoes and bobby socks, Wyman never had to hide from her subjects, often engaging them in conversation before she started to shoot. “I did not consciously think about why I wanted the photo at that moment except that it pleased something within me. I have thought about this many years later as a certain synchrony of heart, eye and brain.”
Her career has been devoted to promoting honest documentary photography and exploiting its power to improve society by exposing the living and working conditions of the powerless.
Joie de Livre at Salisbury Wines
Salisbury
Ida Wyman, 84, will fly in from her home in Wisconsin to attend the opening reception on Saturday, August 7, 4 - 6 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 08/03/10 at 01:17 PM • Permalink
Leonard Nimoy’s “Secret Selves”
Now - January 2
Photograph: Seth Kay Photography
Aristophanes had a theory that man’s woes stem from the day that Zeus cleaved man in two and left him forever struggling to be whole again. Prior to that fateful day, the comic playwright of ancient Athens speculated, humans were double-sided creatures with two heads and multiple limbs. For his latest series of black and white photographs, Secret Selves, the actor-turned-art photographer Leonard Nimoy explores this theory, inviting 100 subjects to reveal the side of themselves that no one knows, perhaps the half they, too, have always been searching for. Working out of R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA, in 2007, Nimoy and Richard Michelson sought businessmen and bus drivers, social workers and house-husbands, clergy and members of their congregations. They even recruited passersby willing to be posed, and dressed as either their true or their imagined secret selves.
Michelson recalls, “As each subject walked into the studio, some eagerly, most nervously, Leonard approached each for a short conversation. The goal was to put them at ease, find out their ‘real life’ identity, and what inner self they hoped Leonard might capture. At the last moment, we decided to video the proceedings, more as a method of archive documentation than with the idea of enlarging the project. But it became apparent immediately that these exchanges were illuminating, and would have a greater role in the final exhibit than anticipated. Within a few minutes, Leonard was able to bring the subjects deeper inside their own selves than they’d intended. What began as a lark for many turned into a truly revealing and emotional experience. And at just the moment they were most themselves—and often off-guard—the shutter snapped. And snapped again.” Accompanying the large, life-size photographs in the exhibition is the video documenting the artist’s conversations with his subjects and the poignant, personal moments he masterfully elicits from his muses.
MASS MoCA
North Adams
MASS MoCA members opening reception Saturday, July 31; 4 - 7 p.m.
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Victoria Sambunaris’ “Terra Firma”
Now - September 4
For the past ten years, Victoria Sambunaris, whose work is in the photography collection at MOMA and other major museums, has driven, backpacked and hiked her way across America with a 5” x 7” large format camera in the tradition of 19th-century landscape photographers Timothy O’Sullivan, Cartleton Watkins and William Henry Jackson. In her most recent work, Sambunaris directs her lens toward the geophysical and manmade upheavals in the landscape of the American West, phenomena such as the Yellowstone hotspot, an active super volcano, and the talc mine “benches” in Cameron, Montana (above).
Nicole Fiacco Gallery
Hudson
Opening reception July 31, 6 - 8 p.m.
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Maggie Mailer’s “The Balloonists”
Now - September 18
Maggie Mailer, The Balloonists, 2010, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 30”
In her fourth solo exhibition of new paintings here, Mailer draws on her experience last summer as the first resident artist at The Berkshire Museum of Pittsfield, the paintings in this show incorporate elements from the museum’s collection of 18th-century landscape and portrait paintings. Portraying a post apocalyptic world, in which beings live above the earth suspended by balloons, distant threats loom in Mailer’s portraits of women and children, dreamy landscapes and romanticized views.
Ferrin Gallery
Pittsfield, MA
Artist’s reception, Saturday, July 31, 4 - 6 p.m.
On Tuesday August 24,, 6:30 - 9 p.m., Mailer, who is the daughter of author Norman Mailer and jazz singer Carol Stevens, and the painter Nanny Vonnegut, the daughter of writer Kurt Vonnegut, will be guests of honor and featured speakers at a Ferrin Gallery Dish & Dine; seating is limited, advance reservations required.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 07/27/10 at 05:43 PM • Permalink
Revisit: New Work by Gallery Artists
Now - August 29
Minivan in Pool #1, by Christopher Haun.
A new show, at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center revisits the work of ten artists who have exhibited there before. Curated by Gwenn Mayers and Nancy Van Deren, “Revisit” grew out of a curiosity to understand how artists’ work evolves, becomes refined, or changes direction over time.
The ten artists included in this show includes James Burnett of Spencertown, Lois Dickson of North Chatham; Anthony Garner of Troy, Christopher Haun formerly of Hudson, now living in Los Angeles; Terrence Lavin from Hartford, CT; Mona Mark of Malden Bridge; Victoria Palermo of Queensberry, NY; Marcella Stasa from Upton, MA ; New York City-based Ilene Sunshine; and Jacqueline Wilder of Ancram.
Spencertown Academy Arts Center
Spencertown, NY
Artists’ reception: Saturday, July 31; 5 – 7 p.m.
Following the reception, at 8 p.m., will be “A Collaboration of Light and Sound,” featuring violinist Eva Ingolf performing Bach’s Partita No.2 in D Minor to artist Ektoras Binikos’ digital video abstract images.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 07/27/10 at 06:11 AM • Permalink
Marine Combat Artist at Norman Rockwell
Thursday, August 5 @ 5:30 p.m.
Chief Warrant Officer Michael Fay, one of two official combat artists currently serving in the Marine Corps, will share stories of his experiences in the field through powerful artworks reflecting personal observations of military life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Norman Rockwell Museum
Stocbridge, MA
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 07/21/10 at 03:58 PM • Permalink
Group Show at Carrie Haddad Gallery
Now - August 8
Altered Ego 1 by Monica Mechling
New works by David Konigsberg, Joseph Maresca, Shawn Snow, who gets inspiration for his mixed oil and acrylic paintings from stains, stones, rust, erosion and decay, and Monica Mechling’s sculptures (fired clay burnished with graphite—a ringer for bronze)—torsos and heads that are incomplete, as if portions had been ripped away, while other parts have been masked with wrappings.
Carrie Haddad Gallery
Hudson, NY
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“Spatial Relationships” at Berkshire Museum
Now - October 11
The Ellen Crane Memorial Room is being turned into a contemporary art gallery this summer with Joe Wheaton & Susan Rodgers: Spatial Relationships, an exhibition of sculpture by two Berkshire-based sculptors with an international following who were given complete creative leeway to produce new work for this show. Longtime friends, both Susan Rodgers and Joe Wheaton worked extensively in other media before gravitating to metal, and have created monumental outdoor, site-specific comissions; their work shares a mutual focus on line, form, balance, and shadow.
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 06/30/10 at 04:38 PM • Permalink
Monica Miller’s, “Diary of a Trespasser”
Now - July 31
“And so I came to land alongside a creek that is larger than most rivers where I come from. The Kinderhook is a waterway all at once constant and variable. Always ‘never the same river twice.’ I look to find the patterns. What lies on top, and under, what travels though, what is pushed aside. I study the colors bent by light and shifted by wind, the strokes of form and shadow.”
The painter Monica Miller’s most recent work, “based on nature, but filtered through an abstract and postmodern sensibility” is oil on barn board, done from memory, following daily walks through other people’s land near her home in Malden Bridge, NY
Joyce Goldstein Gallery
Chatham, NY
Opening reception July 3; 3 - 6 p.m.
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“At Home/Not at Home” at the Hessel Museum at Bard College
June 26 - December 19
Photo by Letitia Smith
While everybody knows that Bard College has a world-class theater designed by the architect Frank Gehry—the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts—few seem to know about Bard’s Hessel Museum and Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), which brings the energy and sophistication of the global, contemporary art world to the Hudson Valley. Founded in 1990 by collectors Marieluise Hessel and Richard Black, the CCS’s original 1991 building by architects Jim Goettsch and Nada Andric was completely renovated in 2006, and it’s now a stunning, expansive, and welcoming space to view art—at once avant garde and Zen.
On Saturday, June 26, CCS Bard opens two new exhibitions in the Hessel Museum: At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg and Philippe Parreno a retrospective of work by the French artist. The Parreno exhibit focuses on the artist’s work with moving images, including June 8, 1968, a documentary piece about the funeral train of Robert F. Kennedy, which is being shown in the United States for the first time,
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At Home/Not at Home features artworks by more than 100 contemporary artists whose work normally hangs salon style in every room of the Eisenberg’s unprepossessing suburban home in Westchester County. Curated by White Columns director and Bard Faculty member Matthew Higgs, the exhibit includes an idiosyncratic assortment of work—by artists such as Kai Althoff (above), Francis Alÿs (below), Jeremy Deller, Peter Doig, David Hammons, Mary Heilmann, Elizabeth Peyton, and Rirkrit Tirjvanija—that the couple has amassed over 25 years.
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“The threshold between the private domain and the public realm is at the heart of exhibition, which temporarily displaces artworks from a private suburban residential setting and re-stages them in the form of an exhibition in the public galleries of the Hessel,” according to the curator who worked with gradate students on the exhibit. Still, the Eisenbergs, who normally invite a large group for a bagel brunch annually to see how their collection has evolved over the year, will offer the same hospitality by hosting a free “Bagel and Art” reception at the museum on Saturday afternoon, and several of the artists represented in the collection are likely to be present.
June 26, 1 - 5 p.m.
Opening “Bagels and Art” reception for
Philippe Parreno and At Home/Not at Home
June 27, noon
Screening of Philippe Parenno’s Zidance A XXIst Century Portrait
at Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY
June 27, 2:30 - 4 p.m.
“Things Which Do Not Yet Exist”
A discussion between Philippe Parreno, Maria Lind, and Simon Critchley at the CCS Bard Library.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; 845.758.7574
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Sean Bayliss’ “You Said Something?” at the Palmer Gallery at Vassar
Now - August 5
“Billboard Access” by Sean Bayliss
The titles of Bayliss’s paintings often describe mordantly funny situations and function, according to the critic Michael Wilson, writing in the exhibition catalog, almost as “explanatory captions or narrative speech bubbles….”.
Palmer Gallery at Vassar
Poughkeepsie
Wednesday - Saturday, noon - 4 p.m.
Artist’s reception Thursday, July 15, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
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