Mary Tooley Parker is mentioned in the New York Times!
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Press Release: Ellen Burnett: "Dream House, and other stories"
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ELLEN BURNETT
"Dream House, and other stories"
June 18 – July 13, 2019
Opening Reception Thursday, June 20, 6–8PM
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Dream House, and other stories," an exhibition of assemblages & paintings by Ellen Burnett. The exhibition opens June 18 and continues until July 13, 2019, with an opening reception Thursday, June 20, 6–8PM and a closing reception Saturday, July 13, 4–6PM. The artist will be present on Saturday afternoons during the exhibition to talk with visitors about her work.
Ellen Burnett came to Viridian as a winner in the gallery’s international competition of 2017, juried by Susan Thompson, an assistant curator at the Guggenheim Museum. In 2014, the artist was also selected for the Director’s Choice exhibit, Viridian’s offshoot of the juried shows that gives exposure to even more outstanding artists. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibit at Viridian.
The exhibit title, “Dream House, and other stories” suggests that each piece in the show contains a narrative. The title piece, “Dream House,” is one of a series that happens in the small hours of the night—a time when demons clamor to be seen and nightmares occur to the wakeful. Out of these images, Burnett has created a narrative intentionally open to reinterpretation by the observer.
One can begin to get a sense of Burnett’s point of view from the nomenclature of the works, which trace hints of her ambiguous meanings. More than the suggestive abstract images themselves, titles such as “A January State of Mind,” “The City at 2am,” and “The Season of Letting Go” allude to a state of mind, a mental space.
Burnett’s practice involves finding whole objects, as well as fragments and bits of discarded things, that inspire her. She collects and saves these pieces of rusted and broken remembrances, often for years, until they find their place alongside other repurposed items evoking memory and moments past–at times also pointing to a future waiting to be written. However, her work involves more than assemblages of discarded-now-found treasures, for painting and drawing also are a critical part of the process she uses to suggest her narratives.
For Burnett, things have potential beyond their initial existence and original utility, possessing inherent energies waiting to be unlocked. This is a critical consideration in the twenty-first century when too much is being discarded, destroying our environment and the world we now know. Perhaps it will be artists like Ellen, “upcycling” the discards of civilization, who will point the way to solutions for the future. As the artist says about her working process:
“But observe:
details emerge and
perspective shifts.
These are compositions on the edge of the abstract,
where conversation can occur;
narrative works in which stories are about to unfold.”
We look forward to seeing you at Ellen Burnett’s exhibit “Dream House, and other stories."
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12–6pm
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212-414-4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com.
Contemporary Artist Interview: Mary Tooley Parker by Angela Cappetta
Mary Tooley Parker was interviewed by Angela Cappetta about her work and her solo show at Viridian. Congratulations, Mary!
Contemporary Artist Interview
Mary’s work is magnificent. She has been on my radar for years. I finally got the courage up to ask her to be interviewed for my ongoing Contemporary Artist Series. I hope you adore her work as much as I do.
After a career in dance, and then in art production, Mary Tooley Parker left New York City to pursue a more rural lifestyle in Vermont. After her relocation, Mary then began pursuing an interest in textile art. Eventually, this led her to the indigenous American folk art of hook rugs. In Mary’s case, they weren’t exactly rugs, though. Through using yarn, thread and fabric to make her pieces, her beautiful textile compositions have been exhibited nationally. She is one of my fellow NYFA fellows, having been awarded her Fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts just a few years after mine, which I earned for my project Glendalis Subsequently, she even served as a panel juror for NYFA in 2018.
Press Release: “And Now for Something Completely Different: Textile Compositions by Mary Tooley Parker”
“Essie Bendolph Pettway, Gee's Bend Quilter”, textile, 15x15 inches
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“And Now for Something Completely Different: Textile Compositions by Mary Tooley Parker”
May 21 – June 15, 2019
No opening reception.
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present “And Now for Something Completely Different: Textile Compositions by Mary Tooley Parker.” The exhibition spans May 21st to June 15th, 2019.
It is a rare event when there is something new to be witnessed in the New York art world, but Mary Tooley Parker’s textile compositions are unique. Textile art has gained a wider visibility in recent years, and Parker’s vision, along with her experimentation and expansion of one specific traditional textile medium, has brought about work refreshingly unlike any art being shown today.
Parker's lifelong fixation with fiber work—from basket weaving to spinning to weaving—and her 20 years in modern dance and then art production at Vanity Fair and GQ, eventually seemed to coalesce in the medium of rug hooking. This format combined the meditative, tactile quality of fiber work with the expressivity of dance and art. Her use of the densely layered, multi-faceted medium presents subject matter from portraits to landscapes to still lifes in a fresh, exciting way. Parker's artistic sensibility and unique perspective is also revealed in this innately attractive form. Textile art is received by the viewer in a different way than fine art, and there is science showing that a different part of the brain is stimulated when viewing a textile. It appeals directly to the senses with a recognition of warmth and familiarity before the brain even registers the visual image. Working in the simple medium of rug hooking affords Parker a strong connection not only to the fibers running through her fingertips, but also to the women who used this medium and other fiber mediums to express themselves during difficult times and with limited materials. She celebrates these women in her work, such as the famed Gee's Bend Quilters of Alabama. Using rug hooking as a creative expression of her 21st century experience, she carries this tradition into the contemporary art world by taking the work off the floor to be viewed as art.
“Mary Tooley Parker’s recent show of hooked rugs...reminds us how in the hands of a gifted artist the simplest materials and most prosaic themes can be transformed into an important artistic statement. Parker takes rug hooking to a new level with her vivid fabric tableaus which blend fantasy with craftsmanship.” —William C. Ketchum, author of Hooked Rugs and folk art expert
Parker is an award-winning artist whose work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums. She is a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists and the National Association of Women Artists. In 2015 she was awarded a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. This is her first solo show in New York City.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040
or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com, or Mary Tooley Parker at mparked@gmail.com, 914-243-9472
Press Release: Renée Borkow, “Step out of Time”
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Renée Borkow
“Step out of Time”
April 23- May 18, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 9th, 6-8 pm
Chelsea, NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present the recent work of Renée Borkow. This latest group of collages was completed over the last 4 years and explores ideas about women and their place in society throughout history, or as some would say, herstory.
More than the drawings of urban scenes Borkow showed in her last exhibit in 2014, these works resemble in composition her early abstract paintings of the 90’s & early 2000’s. The artist has immersed herself in history starting with the Greek Gods & Goddesses and filled her works with images & words some might think possess traditional female associations – corsets, diamond rings, bows - things that at first glance are not considered necessarily strong but which have perhaps acted over the centuries as objects of sublimation of the female- ways to woo her and overpower her.
A collage filled with stars and a girl with an arrow makes sense when you research the meaning of “uranometria” which refers to measuring the heavens for it is the name of the first Star Atlas created in 1603 by the German Astronomer Johann Bayer. But also there is the word “Indus” which is a river and the name of a Bronze Age civilization. The images are mysterious and complex as are the meanings, but one can also just enjoy making one’s associations or not, for the complexity of the work is an aspect of our fascination.
As the artist states “The research for the show was interesting historically, but also revealed the themes and differences between loyalty and vengeance, what is “God-like” and what is “mortal” and what is interpreted as power and weakness. The heroines of Greek mythology make us think about our individual and unique strengths. The gods never thought that they weren’t in complete control (especially Zeus), but the goddesses knew better.”
Renée Borkow lives and works in New York City. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. She has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Lyon and Pittsburgh.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12- 6 PM
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Two Photographs By Marco Lando Included in "Photography Series and Repetition" : at Site: Brooklyn Gallery
Two Works by Marco Lando will be included in the Photography Series and Repetition Show at Site: Brooklyn Gallery. This show extends from May 3– June 1, 2019
The Opening Reception is on Friday, May 3 from 6-9 PM
Location: Site: Brooklyn
3106, 165 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Press Release: Robert Smith: “Portraits of Point Lobos”
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ROBERT SMITH
“Portraits of Point Lobos”
March 26 - April 20, 2019
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 28th, 6 - 8 p.m.
An evening of performance & poetry: Thursday April 11, 6-8PM free
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Portraits of Point Lobos,” an exhibition of color photographs by Robert Smith. The exhibition spans March 26th to April 20th, 2019 with an opening reception, Thursday, March 28th, 6 - 8 p.m.
These archival pigment prints reveal a figurative narrative rarely seen as a series in the undisturbed natural landscape. At Point Lobos, just south of Carmel, California on the Monterey Peninsula, we have a magnificent natural area that has attracted photographers and other artists mostly for its vistas, scenics and many life forms inhabiting its shores and crevices. However, Smith wants you to become aware of
something else, the close-up tidal rock and sandstone that speaks a different language. That attendant and magical storytelling language translates to close-up images recognizable, principally as faces, and other portraits as seen in his mind’s eye. Although the images are labeled simply by number, can you spot the biker, the ship’s Captain, the serpent and “one-eye”?
Smith attributes his special way of seeing to the practice of Sensory Awareness, a discipline offering the gift of living more in the present moment that informs his vision. It’s been called the “Western Zen.” His insight came with the realization of the connection of living in the moment and taking a photograph in a fraction of a second. Ever since, working with minimal equipment and only one lens, a normal focal length macro, he has explored and discovered with fascination, the never ending visual potential of that which is close by and not seen, that you would just walk past.
Smith has two major bodies of work, one from Point Lobos and the other from a Maine coastal island where, at his summer studio, he leads “Steps to Seeing” Sensory Awareness walks to share his vision and give others the opportunity to see more. By offering a window onto the nearby, he illuminates the possibility that we can say “yes” to the wonder of the richness of our natural environment.
Robert Smith has had a wide range of solo and group exhibitions and his photographs are in numerous private collections worldwide, on six continents.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6PM
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212 414 4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Celebrating Viridian's Women Artists: International Women's Day is Friday, March 8th, 2019
In honor of International Women’s Day, we are featuring Viridian Women Artists on our back wall.
Women’s History Month is a great time to expand your collections of Art made by Women.
Viridian Women Artists Are:
* RENÉE BORKOW * ELLEN BURNETT * MAY DeVINEY *KIFFI DIAMOND * BERNICE FAEGENBURG *
TAZUKO FUJII * OI SAWA * MAKI HAJIKANO * KATHLEEN KING * NAMIYO KUBO * NANCY NICOL *
STACEY CLARFIELD NEWMAN * MARY TOOLEY PARKER * SRIVIDYA KANNAN RAMACHANDRAN *
BARBARA K. SCHWARTZ * SUSAN SILLS * VIRGINIA EVANS SMIT * ANGELA SMITH *
Art Review in Newsday about Vernita Nemec 's exhibit : "Treasure That Trash" at Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Educational & Cultural Center, in Stony Brook, Long Island
Just more than 100 years ago, the French expatriate artist Marcel Duchamp submitted his iconic “Fountain” — a white porcelain urinal turned upside-down and signed “R. Mutt” — to a show sponsored by the Society of Independent Artists in New York. The seminal ready-made sculpture was rejected by the Society and then photographed by American modernist Alfred Stieglitz and likely tossed in the garbage. So began a trend of fashioning art from detritus and castaways that today, in light of heightened concerns about the environment, has value-added impact.
In anticipation of Earth Day, the Ward Melville Heritage Organization is giving fresh meaning to the old saw “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” with the exhibition “Treasure That Trash!” at its Educational & Cultural Center in Stony Brook. “What would normally spend its days in a landfill is transformed into something that inspires wonder and evokes beauty,” center director Kristin Shea says of the multimedia wall works, sculpture and installations contributed by the show’s 10 participants.
“I want them to be amazed,” says artist Vernita Nemec of viewers’ anticipated response to her free-form canvasses of glued-together plastic packaging, the kind of clear casing that retains the shape of the object it is holding. “I also want to inspire consciousness about the problem, for people to say, ‘Wait a sec, I don’t have to throw this away. I can reuse it — make art or something else.’ I want to give the message that there are other ways to upcycle and recycle.”
Bellmore and Aquebogue resident Bergés Alvarez also believes that art can play an effective role in relating that message. “Art extends our outlook, thoughts and feelings, spilling into our everyday lives. It inspires us to move forward,” notes the artist, who, when not in his home studio making land- and seascapes from used bits and pieces of tissue paper, Bubble Wrap and manila envelopes, works at Mineola’s NYU Winthrop Hospital as a radiology technician.
“When they’ve exhausted their initial intent, I transform them,” he says of his chosen materials. “I couldn’t throw away packaging. I found this beauty in their reflections and began to build them up on a tabletop in different arrangements.” After photographing and printing the results of his tinkering, Alvarez uses more traditional art media to apply the finishing touches on his surprisingly painterly compositions.
Also featured in the show are mixed-media pieces by artist duo Josyph & Larkin. The works, from their ongoing “Lives of the Saints” series, are a way for the artists to canonize their own secular saints using “rescued” materials such as commercial signs, newspaper, twine, postcards, ceramics, hardware and even toys and electronics.
“That doesn't mean we've had to dive into dumpsters to find things,” notes Peter Josyph. “The unused, the idle, the ignored, the discarded and disregarded are everywhere in every home.”
Josyph understands some people might not even see the assemblages as art. “That's OK,” he says. “If, for some viewers, they sing a little, or feel like a kind of odd-angle poetry, or somehow create a little magic — that's satisfaction enough.”
WHAT “Treasure That Trash!”
WHEN | WHERE Saturday, March 9, through Saturday, March 30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Educational & Cultural Center, 97 Main St., Stony Brook
INFO $5, 631-751-2244, wmho.org
Ellen Burnett's Work at Art Fair 14C in Jersey City
“Colonel Mustard” by Ellen Burnett
“Colonel Mustard” by Ellen Burnett will be included in Art Fair 14C from March 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency on the Jersey City waterfront. Click here for Early Bird Discounted Tickets by March 10th. Use code EARLY BIRD
Three Artist Books by Namiyo Kubo Will be Exhibited in Brooklyn
Congratulations to Namiyo Kubo! Three of Namiyo’s hand-made books will be exhibited in
the “Lil’ Radicals: Multicultural and Social Justice Publications for Kids in the 21st Century” show
at Booklyn, Inc.
Lil’ Radicals: Multicultural and Social Justice Publications for Kids in the 21st Century
April 6, 2019 – May 31, 2019
Booklyn, Inc. at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220.
Press Release: "30 Under 30"
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"30 Under 30"
Juried by Donna Gustafson, Curator of American Art and Mellon Director for Academic programs, Zimmerli Art Museum
February 26- March 23, 2019
Opening Reception Thursday, february 28th, 6-8PM
Closing reception Saturday, March 23rd, 4-6PM
Matthew Adelberg * Blake Lenoir * In Kyeong Baek * Maria Barrientos * Dan Brenton *
Danqi Cai* Brigitte Caramanna * Ashley Carroll * John Catania * Haoran Chang *
Tracy Shih-Tung Cheng * Landon Clay * Darcy Edwin * Rachel Fishman *
Jessica Ghyvoronsky * Danny Glass * Marcos Gonzalez Cutre * Ana Guraieb *
Alexander Harlan * Amorelle Jacox * Sarah Jarrett * Julia Justo * Joseph Kameen *
Junyi Liu * Stephanie Martin * Sienna Martz * Emily Quinn * Samantha Resendez *
Rachel Rosenfeld * Dareece Walker *
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of artists who are all under 30 years of age. “30 Under 30“ continues from February 26th to March 23rd, with two receptions to meet the artists. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 28th, 6-8PM and a closing reception Saturday March 23rd, 4-6PM.
In a world changing culturally and politically more rapidly than ever, these artworks perhaps offer a clue to ways artists will look at their lives and times through art making in the future. The artists in this exhibition were selected from a “call for art” the gallery sent out to discover what young artists are thinking and creating art about in these times.
From a wide range of applicants, the art of 30 artists, all under 30 years of age, was selected by Donna Gustafson, Curator of American Art and Mellon Director for Academic Programs at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University.
In her curatorial statement, Ms. Gustafson says: “The themes that repeatedly appeared in the full range of submissions included surveillance, privacy, and private life in a digitally mediated world; interior landscapes and abstract expressions; and the politics of our current moment --civil rights, gentrification, and sexuality in a post binary world. This selection of 30 artists, culled from a much larger group of 174, suggests that artists continue to be “the antennae of the race,” as the poet Ezra Pound described them in 1918.”
No longer are there large workspaces or showing spaces without huge rents available to artists. The struggle to be an artist full time is a dream few can afford and making art in shared spaces is the rule rather than the exception. Consequently, Viridian has created an affordable membership program for young and gifted artists for we realize not only how expensive space is today both for showing and working, but also, how important it is for artists to live and show their art in a competitive and supportive environment.
In addition, Viridian Artists is offering a fellowship in the name of Barbara K Schwartz, a founding Viridian Artist. It will be awarded to one of the exhibiting artists committed to joining Viridian and will be chosen by current gallery artists. The Barbara K Schwartz Fellowship covers the cost of their dues for one year.
As in the case of our juried exhibit open to artist of all ages and persuasions, Viridian has instituted a digital presentation of 30 artists selected by the gallery director, Vernita Nemec, giving an opportunity to 30 additional artists and giving gallery visitors a chance to see the work of more artists of merit. In actuality however, only 21 additional artists were selected, since 9 artists’ works were selected by both curators.
Just how difficult is it now is for young artists to achieve their dreams of fame, respect and possibly fortune? What are their concerns? What materials do they work with? How have social media, astronomical rents, and less space changed the way in which artists just beginning their careers express themselves creatively? To learn the answers to some of these questions, gallery visitors are invited to look at the art itself & also to meet some of the artists at the opening and closing receptions.
"Director's Choice" to be presented digitally
Matthew Adelberg * Lucy Clark * Remelisa Cullitan * Gina DeCagna * Grace DeWitt * Darcy Edwin * Stephanie Fenner * Alexandra Galiardo * Jessica Ghyvoronsky * Victoria Gu * Ana Guraieb *
Nicholas Harvilla * Amorelle Jacox * Sofiya Kuzmina * Sena Kwon * Rachel Litton * Junyi Liu *
Ania Mininkova * Tanner Mothershead Natalia Pas * Rozahira Pena * Emily Quinn *
Rachel Rosenfeld *Holly Ross * Matthew Simon * Emily Sortor * Gray Swartzel *
Kelly Villalba * Dareece Walker * Sara Wallach *
Toto Takamori's Opening Reception Part Two: Filmed by “Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging
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“Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging came by Toto Takamori’s opening and made a wonderful video for us! (Posting video in different sections) Thank you so much, Manny!
Here is more information about Spectral Masters Digital Imaging:
website: spectralmastersdi.com
Instagram: @spectralmastersdi
Toto Takamori’s Opening Reception: As filmed by “Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging
Hello, World!
“Manny the art blogger” from Spectral Masters Digital Imaging came by Toto Takamori’s opening and made a wonderful video for us! Thank you so much, Manny!
Here is more information about Spectral Masters Digital Imaging:
website: spectralmastersdi.com
Instagram: @spectralmastersdi
Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad : Artwork Included in are included in Dabart's first quarterly art journal and book
Two works by Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad are included in Dabart's first quarterly art journal and book, Click-Bait.
Click-Bait will be added to the permanent catalog at LACMA ‘s (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Balch Art Research Library.
Jenny Belin Wins Voices Of The Year: Art As Impact Award From BlogHer.
Jenny Belin was given the "Art As Impact" award from BlogHer's Voices of the Year Award Ceremony.
Congratulations @jennybelin for winning the #VOTY Art as Impact Award #BlogHerHealth19 pic.twitter.com/U7RVDx7K4a
— BlogHer (@BlogHer) January 25, 2019
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Press Release: "UNTITLED" : Recent Paintings by Toto Takamori
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“UNTITLED”
Recent paintings by
Toto Takamori
January 29 – February 23, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 31, 6–8PM
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by Japanese painter Toto Takamori. The show extends from January 29 – February 23, 2019 with an Opening Reception on Thursday, January 31, 6–8PM.
Toto Takamori spends months creating his tiny 4x6 or 5x7 paintings. His paintings consist of layers and layers of oil paint, sometimes as many as 70 layers says the artist, but we must take his word for it. The paintings often take months to dry, but the wait is worth it.
These tiny gems are extremely colorful, sometimes with touches of glitter added, but most fascinating are those in which he mixes matte color with a greyish underpainting to mimic the surface of rocks altered by time and weather.
The artist is interested in continually exploring various paint media and combining them with pieces of found metal, plastic and other materials to create a textural surface.
Though he resides in Tokyo, he visits NYC often and is interested in studying both Eastern and Western approaches to creating art. He began as a figurative artist as many artists do, but now what is more important to him than depicting people or objects are the properties of the paint medium.
This is the first solo exhibition that Takamori is having at Viridian. We hope that you are able to attend this exhibition of captivating artworks.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12–6pm
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212-414-4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
View the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Press Release: “COMPLEXITIES II”
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“COMPLEXITIES II”
Viridian Affiliates
January 2- 26, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 6-8PM
Performance by N’Cognita 7PM
JULIETTE GORDON * JOSHUA GREENBERG * ROSEMARY LYONS * MICHAEL RECK * SARAH RILEY * MEREDETH TURSHEN
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by six artists who are part of Viridian Artists' Affiliate program. The art of Viridian’s January Affiliates’ all display a complexity derived from both a political impulse as well as a creative impulse. All these artists create with the aim of going beyond the simplicity of pretty pictures, using their art to make visual statements in reaction to the various realities of today’s world. Some art speaks about the abuse of sexuality or uses the female form as the starting point while others abstract the realities of their experiences. The show extends from JANUARY 2ND TO 26th with an opening reception on Thursday, January 10, 6-8PM with a performance by N’Cognita at 7PM.
JULIETTE GORDON was a trailblazer, an important member of the feminist art movement in New York and a respected artist in the inner-circle of radical anti-war politics in the early 70’s. She suffered a stroke in 2001, but still would undoubtedly have taken her rightful place among more well known feminist contemporaries had her life not been drastically changed in 2003 by a disastrous fire in which she was seriously burned and nearly died. The artist, now 84, has been living in rehabilitation and nursing facilities since, but her spirit is not diminished. For the past 6 years she has been nurtured through bouts of self-doubt to continue creating by the artist Sharon Wybrants who continuously encourages her and visits her weekly. Dr. Andrew Hottle, who is an art historian and a specialist in feminist art of the 70’s, has created an inventory of Gordon’s oeuvre with the hopes there will be a retrospective one day of her work. Viridian is pleased to be showing collages in this exhibit that are a part of her body of work.
JOSHUA GREENBERG uses photo-based imagery to create abstract art. In The Secret Life of Leaves, he draws abstraction from everyday objects and events, in this case autumn leaves. The leaves are transformed through reflections and highlights into abstraction, and begin to organize themselves into new compositions. Shades of various colors, shadows and textures highlight movement and provide the framework to view the busy and secret life of leaves. His work in this series illustrates how photo-based imagery may help extend the use of less explored dimensions of photography to create contemporary art.
Because ROSEMARY LYONS was so shocked and appalled at the stories of the #me too movement and having had her own harassment experiences, a creative response seemed imperative to her. She states, “My own talents include being a good listener and a painter who specializes in egg tempera paintings of the exquisite flowers from my garden. Flowers seem to be a wonderful metaphor for what women are expected to do: be strong and beautiful through all storms and drought. I know that this work is important...the only sadness is that there are so many stories.” The works shown in this exhibit are her response.
MICHAEL RECK, though primarily an abstract artist, uses NYC and urban living for his inspiration in this new series of drawings/ paintings. In almost Haiku like phrasing, the artist states the following about the urban imagery that stimulated his visual response and was the foundation for these works:
“The graffiti covered subways I grew up riding.
The stripes of painted crosswalks underfoot.
The constant sight of buildings coming down and rising.
All of this has found it's way into my recent work.”
Artist and former chair of the art department at Southeastern Missouri University, SARAH RILEY, is a printmaker who incorporates many different techniques into her work. The original inspiration for DeCode/ReCode was one of her own life drawings, transformed into a series of twenty-five limited edition prints. The head of the figure and other photos were scanned, digitally manipulated and layered. She sees the process of allowing the image and successive variations to build and change spontaneously and organically with each added layer “to mimic the human condition, one woman/many women, issues of identity and history, especially women’s history.”
Meredeth Turshen creates intriguing oil paintings on paper that can be interpreted as summery landscapes or read as abstract works. Starting with drawings of live models, Turshen explores the use of the female figure as the basis of layered work. Her gestural abstractions use colors that are rich and subtle, giving the work tension and depth. Studies began at age ten at the Art Students League in New York with Saturday classes for children and continued, after majoring in studio art at Oberlin College, in workshops at Pratt, the Printmaking Council of NJ, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, the CT Center for Graphic Arts, and for the past ten years at Vermont Studio Center. Turshen joined Viridian in 2007. She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists.
We hope to see you in January at this exhibition of captivating artworks.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12–6pm
For further information please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director at 212-414-4040 or viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Alan Gaynor is showing two works at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY
Alan Gaynor is showing two works at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY
LIMNER GALLERY
Holiday Small Works Exhibition and Sale
December 1 - 29, 2018
Reception, December 1, 5-7pm
123 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534
518-828-2343
TheLimner@aol.com
Gallery Hours
Thurs - Sun 12-5
Mon-Wed by appt.
Artists Talk on Art presents : "When the Artist is the Art": Panel & short videos & performances curated by Vernita N'Cognita and Coco Dolle
