Congratulations, Arlene Finger!
Above the Abyss
September 1–September 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, September 1st.
Van Der Plas Gallery
156 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
Alan Gaynor's photograph will be included in“BEST OF THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS 2023": A One Eyeland publication
Alan Gaynor, "Under Brooklyn Bridge". Photograph, 12”x 7” to 36”x 21” or larger on request
Congratulations to Alan Gaynor!
Under Brooklyn Bridge has been pre-selected to be included in “BEST OF THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS 2023 - One Eyeland Book Vol.12”
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Arlene Finger is showing work at Van Der Plas Gallery in NYC
Congratulations, Arlene Finger!
Press Release: Saba Besier: "STRANGE & SUBLIME"
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SABA BESIER
“STRANGE & SUBLIME”
July 18 – August 12, 2023
Opening Reception, Saturday, July 22, 4–6PM
Artist’s Talk, Saturday, August 12, 4–6 PM
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of porcelain sculptures by Saba Besier. The exhibition begins July 18 and continues through August 12 with an Opening Reception Saturday, July 22, 4–6pm and a closing reception Saturday, August 12, 4–6pm. The artist will give a talk on the last Saturday of the show at 4pm.
Saba Besier’s aquatic sculptures of porcelain were referred to as “mutant beauties” when her art was recently written about in Terrain Magazine. The artist has continued to create works that combine her interest in science fiction and her ongoing concern about what’s happening in our oceans with the sculptural objects that are being presented in her first solo exhibition at Viridian Artists.
The creation of these “mutant beauties” was first inspired when she collaborated with her father to create a collection of stylized botanicals together, mixing watercolor and photography, works which found a market in hotels and luxury design. After her father’s passing, she re-examined her artistic career and began experimenting three-dimensionally with new materials and creating imagery from her memories of the hidden worlds in the oceans of Polynesia that she had once seen through a glass-bottomed boat.
Porcelain, with its luminosity, has become her new medium. She feels it adds “an element of hope to the despondency of my subject,” the oceanic life of plants and sea-creatures.
The artist has found that the required mastery of craft techniques and a mixing of unlikely media satisfies her need to meld her formal art training with alchemy to create these “freaks of nature.” Besier has produced works which are truly beautiful and arresting in their complexity and uniqueness.
Saba Besier’s artworks continue to honor and remind us of the unique underwater creatures and flora that are being depleted in our disrupted ecosystem, for she brings to life these nearly lost organisms under the sea with her other-worldly sculptural creations. We hope that you can see these amazing works in person and meet their creator
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12–6pm
For further information please contact: Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director or Jenny Belin, Assistant Director at viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridian
Ed Ferszt: Published in ArtIDEALMagazine
Congratulations to Ed Ferszt, who has been published in ArtIDEAL Magazine, Volume 3.
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Ellen Burnett's Exhibition is featured on Meer Magazine's website
Ellen Burnett
>> No Certainties <<
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Press Release: Ellen Burnett: "No Certainties"
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ELLEN BURNETT
"No Certainties"
June 20 – July 15, 2023
Opening Reception Thursday, June 22, 6–8pm
Artist’s Talk on the last Saturday, July 15, 4–6pm
Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present "No Certainties,” an exhibition of collage and assemblage by Ellen Burnett. The exhibition opens June 20 and continues through July 15, 2023, with an opening reception Thursday, June 22, 6–8pm and a closing reception Saturday, July 15, 4–6pm. The artist will give a talk on the last Saturday of the show at 4pm and will be present on Saturday afternoons during the exhibition to talk with visitors about her work.
Many of the artworks in this exhibit are small works, created during these recent times of disruption. As the artist says, these were “times that hold the unpleasant threat of the unexpected” and
“My life feels ragged and untidy
And space is limited
So the works grow smaller…”
Ellen Burnett’s art contains narratives, and possess titles, that speak of moments both remembered and imagined. The titles the artist has assigned to each piece illustrate her interpretation of the work and how it spoke to her, and give the viewer the chance to observe the world through her gaze. For instance, “In the Time of the Virus” was created at the beginning of the Covid quarantine, with the artist painting her way out through a portal into an indistinct future. “Creation,” made during a more hopeful time before the pandemic, looks in innocence towards a season when life begins anew. “A Misbegotten Guess” speaks of general disenchantments and things saved for ages in sorrow and hope.
There are two groups of works presented here. One is a series created while the artist was based in St Kitts and experimenting with PLA (polylactic acid), a bioplastic used in 3-D printers. The rejected pieces from the failed prints generated a great amount of material, and inspired the creation of these colorful and dynamic pieces.
The other collage and assemblage works are composed of gifts from friends and objects found; things which the artist feels have potential beyond their initial existence, and which become the basis of complex and deeply satisfying narrative works that speak to one another, and to the observer.
Ellen Burnett came to Viridian as a winner in the gallery’s 2017 International Competition, juried by Susan Thompson, an assistant curator at the Guggenheim Museum. In 2014, the artist was selected for the Director’s Choice exhibit, Viridian’s offshoot of the juried shows that gives exposure to outstanding artists. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibit at Viridian. In addition, she has been invited to participate in Art Week 2023 at the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum in Japan in August.
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.
Steffani Bailey Is Exhibiting Work at SITE: BROOKLYN GALLERY
Congratulations to Steffani Bailey who is exhibiting work with SITE: BROOKLYN
in an online exhibition titled New Painting, Juried by Rachel Gugelberger.
Lauren E. Cassidy will be exhibiting work at The Painting Center in NYC
Congratulations to Lauren E. Cassidy, who will be showing work at The Painting Center.
Here are the Details:
"Volume UP"
June 20-July 15 2023
Opening reception: Thursday, June 22: 5-8pm
The Painting Center is located at: 547 WEST 27TH STREET, SUITE 500, NEW YORK NY 10001
May DeViney's Exhibition is featured on Meer Magazine's website
May DeViney: "social studies"
(the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, culture, geography and political science)
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May DeViney "social studies" : Reviewed in Gallery & Studio Arts Journal
May DeViney’s current show has been reviewed by Mary Holahan for the Gallery & Sudio Arts Journal.
Congratulations, May!
Arlene Finger will be showing work at Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City
Congratulations to Arlene Finger who will be showing work at Van Der Plas Gallery!
Van Der Plas is located at 156 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
Check out the show: May 26th–Jun 4th
Opening Reception: May 26th, 6–8PM
Alan Gaynor's Photograph Included in the "My World in Black & White" Virtual Exhibition
Photograph by Alan Gaynor
Alan Gaynor’s photograph is included in the
"My World in Black & White” Virtual Exhibition.
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Congratulations, Alan!
Arlene Finger will be exhibiting work at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Arlene Finger will be exhibiting work at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition:
This exhibit runs from Saturday, May 13th through Sunday June 18th
Opening Reception: Sat 5/13, 1-6pm.
BWAC is Located at:
499 Van Brunt 2nd Floor, Brooklyn New York
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Press Release: May DeViney "social studies"
May DeViney
”Betty Crocker Madonna: (Detail)
Acrylic on Canvas over wood, Antique lighted frame
May DeViney
"social studies"
(the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities,
including history, culture, geography and political science)
May 23–June 17, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 25, 6–8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 10, 4pm
Proceeds will be donated to Women in Need NYC.
Chelsea: Viridian Artists Inc. is pleased to present the exhibition "social studies"(the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, culture, geography and political science), a mixed media exhibition by May DeViney. The show opens May 23 and continues through June 17, 2023 with an opening reception on May 25, 6-8pm. The artist will present an informative talk about her work on Saturday, June 10 at 4pm.
May DeViney continues to explore and expand visually her ideas about the environment, women’s lives, gun violence and an area that she calls “personal power” struggles. In the past as now, politics has been a critical aspect of her motivation for artmaking. Creating with no holds barred, no subject is taboo to her.
Our environment feels doomed as those in power prevaricate and procrastinate, leaving future generations the insurmountable task of dealing with what we have been unable to solve. In this exhibit, her pieces such as “Uncertainty” and “The Gleaners” are an attempt to cry out that so much more needs to be achieved for climate normalization. Advances have been made, but we have so far to go…
Her Madonna Series continues, humorously exploring the idea of the “working saint” as if she were an ordinary woman, beset with the drudgeries of daily life and the subservience ever-present in attitudes towards “women’s work.”Though there have been many advances in attitudes towards women, DeViney is distressed by “how many parts of women’s lives remain in contest; a push-and-pull against antiquated limitations on women’s freedoms and rights to determine the paths of their own lives. The blame heaped on women for societies’ ills reflects thousands of years of indoctrination. A new ‘replacement theory’ about women has emerged that, like the racial ‘replacement theory,’ posits that anything gained by women emasculates men and deprives them of their god-instilled authority.
Focusing on the theme of Gun Violence, the artist has created works to address this frightening aspect of American life. Incorporating spent bullet casings and a children’s game board “Go to the Head of the Class – If They Let You” is a painful reminder that violence has become an everyday matter for children as does “Joey’s Last School Day.
DeViney is always creatively inspired by politically tinged issues and opens up whole new worlds of thought for viewers to consider as they meander through her provocative artworks. The artist sees our personal politics as deeply ingrained in our thinking and with her works “Power Plays” and “Last Judgment/Disco Inferno” she hints at the day-to-day attempts we make to impress “important people,” climbing up the ladder of achievement while kicking those below.
About her artistic powers, the artist says, “I am basically a cartoonist. My focus is to get my point across directly; the themes of my works are clearly expressed in simple forms – deep investigation is not warranted – and any grace or eloquence is realized later. I adorn the simple themes with notes from antiquity, and from societal detritus that lend the work a hint of the past that spawned the underlying ideas.” Still, the seriousness behind all that DeViney creates must be heard and seen so that we can safely consider better paths to follow as we deal with the issues of the day
A native Mid-westerner, May DeViney attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she absorbed the influences of the Chicago Imagists and iconoclastic art movements such as the Hairy Who, where Hairy Who icon Jim Nutt, was her instructor. She now resides in New England, studying art most recently at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Along the way she also earned a degree in Computer Science from Boston University, reflecting her detail-oriented, analytical eye. The experiences she has gained and her trenchant observations on the human condition are constantly reflected in her work.
DeViney's art has been exhibited in New York and at university galleries and museums throughout the United States and is in many collections. It has also appeared in national publications including Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street International and the cover of Prism magazine. We hope that you enjoy this show and gain some insights on where we should go from here.
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12–6pm
For further information please contact: Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director or Jenny Belin, Assistant Director at viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Wally Gilbert will open his studio as part of Somerville Open Studios on Saturday, May 6th and Sunday, May 7th: 12 to 6 pm
"Blue Tree" By Wally Gilbert: 36" x 24" panel on a Flush Mount. Digital Sublimation Print on Aluminum with a Satin finish.
Wally Gilbert will open his studio as part of Somerville Open Studios
on
Saturday, May 6th and Sunday, May 7th: 12 to 6 pm
One Fitchburg Street
Somerville, MA 20143
Wally Gilbert's Studio is C319
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Alan Gaynor will be showing work at the Jadite Gallery in NYC
Alan Gaynor will be showing work at the Jadite Gallery’s International Photography Exhibit.
Here are the details:
NYC4PA Presents
The International Photography Exhibit
April 18–April 29th
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 20th, 6–8PM
At
Jadite Gallery
660 10th Avenue
New York, NY
This work was also shown at Red Dot Miami.
Congratulations, Alan!
Photographs by Alan Gaynor
WAKING by Celia Gilbert has been published as a paperback and is available for purchase on Amazon
WAKING by Celia Gilbert is a novel describing a young mother's experience as she matures during a family's year abroad in Paris.
Recently published by Viridian Artist, Wally Gilbert and available for purchase on Amazon:
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Steffani Bailey will be exhibiting work at the Marblehead Arts Association, in Marblehead, MA
“Thicket” by Steffani Bailey
Steffani Bailey will be exhibiting work at the Marblehead Arts Association, in Marblehead, MA
Here are details about the show:
”Variations 2023”
April 22 - June 18
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 23 • 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
At
The Marblehead Arts Association
8 Hooper Street
Marblehead, MA 01945
Variations is the Marblehead Art Association’s annual national exhibit which features the artwork of artists from across the country. Since 2021, artists from across the country, representing a diversity of styles and media have been invited to participate in this eight-week, juried exhibit of 2D and 3D work.
Congratulations, Steffani!
Shawn Marshall is exhibiting work at the Capacity Contemporary Exchange, in Louisville, KY
Shawn Marshall: “Blame it on my Youth”: 2023
Shawn Marshall is exhibiting a series of paintings at Capacity Contemporary Exchange, in Louisville, KY. Congratulations, Shawn! Here are the details:
Imprints and Abstraction:
A Series of Paintings by Shawn Marshall
March 17th - May 7th
Opening Reception 3/17 from 5-8:00 pm
Capacity Contemporary Exchange
641 W Main Street | Louisville, KY