"Regal Gentleman" 16x20 pastel
"Message from Grandmother" 24x24 oil
"Scotty" 16x20 pastel
A short Biography
I was born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1961. I began to draw and paint at the age of 3 years old. There was never any doubt as to what my passion in life would be, only in the application.
After graduating school, I moved to New York and eventually migrated upstate to the Catskills, a place I had only dreamed of seeing, let alone living there.
Soon, I opened my own shop, Art By Beth, providing Fine Art work in commissioned portraits and furniture, Graphic Art in the form of printing, business signs and vehicles. All along pursuing my novel writing and doing my own brand of Magical Realism. My own art went along the realm of spiritual stories in oil, pastel and acrylic. I had a few shows and was moving along my journey to becoming a better artist.
In 2008, disaster struck, my shop of 23 years at Brookside Hardware in Margaretville, burned to the ground. All of my drawing, paintings and precious artwork was destroyed. I had saved every piece I had ever done from the time of my childhood. Other than what was on people’s walls, my lifetime of work was gone.
I just came out of a successful show at the Zoom Gallery in spring 2011 and was looking forward to moving past this sad era of my life with new art and new goals.
Review 2012 Proposals for Gallery Exhibitions
The purpose of this blog is for board members and others to review submissions for 2012 gallery exhibitions.
Please review and comment before our meeting during late July or August.
Thank you.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Derek Jecxz
Each photograph is printed on archival fine art paper, signed and hand
stamped with a special seal. I do not edition the prints, my signature and
stamp authenticate my work as original and I do not "mass produce" signed
pieces. My pricing for unframed work is as follows:
11x14: $100
14x20, 16x20, 16x16: $250.00
18x23: $350.00
26x36, 11x38, 30x38: $500.00
38x48, 13x40, 37x50: $750.00
Derek Jecxz is a fine art photographer and he has focused on the landscape since 1995. Born and raised in New
York City, he now prefers the path less traveled, the quiet and forsaken landscape that exists without witness. His
photographs are images of the world that are taken for granted or overlooked. Each photograph is made with
considerable effort and patience and he believes good photographs are made, not taken. Derek’s photographs give
him a voice that speaks without words.
Selected Juried Exhibitions
Trenton City Museum
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2011
Twenty-Two Gallery – Solo Exhibition
Philadelphia, PA, September – October 2010
Phillips Mill 18th Annual Photographic Exhibition
New Hope, PA, June 2010
Patrons’ Awards
Trenton City Museum
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2010
Monmouth Museum
Monmouth, New Jersey, April - June 2010
Artists Haven Gallery
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, February 2010
Marie L. Matthews Gallery
Princeton, NJ, November – February 2009
Salon at Artworks
Trenton, NJ, May - June 2009
New Hope Arts Center
New Hope, PA, January - February 2009
Susquehanna Art Museum
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July - September 2008
Gallery 125
Trenton, NJ, September - November 2008
Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Open XXVI
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2008
Best In Show for Photography
Sixth Street Gallery
Vancouver, Washington, February - March 2008
Artsgarden
Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2007
Arts Clayton Gallery
Jonesboro, Georgia, October 2007
Cahoon Museum of American Art
Cotuit, Massachusetts, September 2007
Viridian Artists
Manhattan, New York, July 2007
Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Open XXV
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2007
Honorable Mention
Gallery 125, Summer Exhibition
Trenton, New Jersey, June - August 2007
Susquehanna Art Museum
Art as Photography Show
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May - September 2007
Barrett Art Center, 20th Annual Photowork
Poughkeepsie, New York, March - April 2007
Foundry Art Centre, Annual Photography Exhibition
St. Charles, Missouri, March - April 2007
Gallery West
Alexandria, Virginia, February - March 2007
The George Segal Gallery
Montclair, New Jersey, January - February 2007
stamped with a special seal. I do not edition the prints, my signature and
stamp authenticate my work as original and I do not "mass produce" signed
pieces. My pricing for unframed work is as follows:
11x14: $100
14x20, 16x20, 16x16: $250.00
18x23: $350.00
26x36, 11x38, 30x38: $500.00
38x48, 13x40, 37x50: $750.00
Derek Jecxz is a fine art photographer and he has focused on the landscape since 1995. Born and raised in New
York City, he now prefers the path less traveled, the quiet and forsaken landscape that exists without witness. His
photographs are images of the world that are taken for granted or overlooked. Each photograph is made with
considerable effort and patience and he believes good photographs are made, not taken. Derek’s photographs give
him a voice that speaks without words.
Selected Juried Exhibitions
Trenton City Museum
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2011
Twenty-Two Gallery – Solo Exhibition
Philadelphia, PA, September – October 2010
Phillips Mill 18th Annual Photographic Exhibition
New Hope, PA, June 2010
Patrons’ Awards
Trenton City Museum
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2010
Monmouth Museum
Monmouth, New Jersey, April - June 2010
Artists Haven Gallery
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, February 2010
Marie L. Matthews Gallery
Princeton, NJ, November – February 2009
Salon at Artworks
Trenton, NJ, May - June 2009
New Hope Arts Center
New Hope, PA, January - February 2009
Susquehanna Art Museum
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July - September 2008
Gallery 125
Trenton, NJ, September - November 2008
Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Open XXVI
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2008
Best In Show for Photography
Sixth Street Gallery
Vancouver, Washington, February - March 2008
Artsgarden
Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2007
Arts Clayton Gallery
Jonesboro, Georgia, October 2007
Cahoon Museum of American Art
Cotuit, Massachusetts, September 2007
Viridian Artists
Manhattan, New York, July 2007
Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Open XXV
Trenton, New Jersey, April - June 2007
Honorable Mention
Gallery 125, Summer Exhibition
Trenton, New Jersey, June - August 2007
Susquehanna Art Museum
Art as Photography Show
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May - September 2007
Barrett Art Center, 20th Annual Photowork
Poughkeepsie, New York, March - April 2007
Foundry Art Centre, Annual Photography Exhibition
St. Charles, Missouri, March - April 2007
Gallery West
Alexandria, Virginia, February - March 2007
The George Segal Gallery
Montclair, New Jersey, January - February 2007
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Doug Jamieson
Church in Halcotsville, Oil 16" x 20" $400
A Road in Andes, Oil 16" x 20" $400
Peregrine Falcon, Etching 8" x 10" $200
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My home in the western Catskills, NY provides an endless range of shifting colors, light and moods. To capture the particular light I return to the same scene at the same time of day. My interest is not in the grand vista but rather in exploring beauty in the commonplace, the familiar brought to light, the intimate view, and the moment captured. My oil and watercolor subjects often come from looking out my windows, walking down a road, riding in my car, going to a park, sitting in a restaurant or my home. More recently my images of local environs include etchings.
BIOGRAPHY
Doug received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is the author of the book Draw from Your Head: A Step by Step System of Drawing the Human Figure, published by Watson Guptil. He has recently self-published The Nighttime Adventures of the Man in the Conical Hat, a book of his etchings and poetry. Before moving to Treadwell, NY Doug lived and worked in NYC. He was a freelance illustrator and courtroom artist. He now teaches classes at various venues in Delaware and Otsego Counties as well as from his studio in Treadwell. Doug is a member of the Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY; The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY, and The Main Street Gallery, Franklin, NY. He is a Signature Member of NY Plein Air Painters (NYPAP) and Founder and Leader of Catskills Plein Air Painters (CATPAP).
AWARDS
In 2006 and 2008 Doug received the “Award for Excellence in Graphics” for his etching from the Upper Catskill Community Council for the Arts, Oneonta, NY. His painting won “Best of Show” in Oneonta, NY “City of the Hills Art Festival: 2006, and “Best in Graphics” in 2008 and 2009. At the Cooperstown Art Association National Exhibition in 2008 Doug received an award for his etching. At Art & Soul of the Catskills in 2009 he received the “Best of Show” award for his etchings. Doug received an Award of Merit at the Cooperstown Art Association Essential Art Exhibition 2011 for his painting.
EXHIBITIONS
H.F. Johnston Museum of Art Cornell Univ. – ’10 Group Show
Main Street Gallery, Franklin, NY Gallery - Member Shows ’10-P
Village Hall Gallery, Sharon Springs, NY ’10-P Group Shows
MURAL Gallery, Stamford, NY – Solo Show ‘09
Kubiac Gallery, Oneonta, NY – Solo Show ’09; Two Person Show ‘05
Regional Shows ’04 – 09; Etchings at the Mansion Show ‘07
Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY – Solo Show ‘09’ Group Show ’08;
Group Plein Air Shows ’08-P
B. Sharp Gallery, Oneonta, NY – Two Person Show ‘09
City of the Hills Art Festival, Oneonta, NY ’09–06, ‘04
Heart and Soul of the Catskills Art Festival, Delhi, NY – ‘09
Viviana Hansen Gallery, Delhi, NY – Group Shows ’09-‘10
C.A.S.A. Gallery, Andes, NY Group Shows ’07-P
Smithy Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY – Member Shows ’06-P
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY – National Show ’08;
Essential Art ’04-11; Members Shows ’04-P
Word & Image Gallery, Treadwell, NY – Solo Show ’07;
Group Shows ’04-‘08
Sixteenth Mini Print Int’l Exhibition Group Show, Binghamton
Univ.,Binghamton, NY ‘08
Windham Fine Art Gallery, Windham, NY – Group Plein Air Show ‘06
Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY – Group Plein Air Show ‘05
Volcano Gallery, Oneonta, NY – Solo Show ‘05
Giraffics Gallery, East Hampton, NY – Group Shows ’99-‘00
Bronx Zoo, Bronx, NY – permanent mural ‘98
Drew Chryst Gallery, Sparta, NJ – Solo Show ’92;
Group Shows ’92-‘98
Grand Central Galleries, NY, NY – Group Show ‘92
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI – Group Show ‘91
Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY – Group Show ‘91
Player’s Club, NY, NY – Group Show ‘91
Salmagundi Club, NY, NY – Group Show ‘88
Burd House Gallery, Nyack, NY – Solo Show ’87;
Group Shows ’87-‘92
Port Arundel Gallery, Kennebunkport, ME – Group Show ‘87
A Road in Andes, Oil 16" x 20" $400
Peregrine Falcon, Etching 8" x 10" $200
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My home in the western Catskills, NY provides an endless range of shifting colors, light and moods. To capture the particular light I return to the same scene at the same time of day. My interest is not in the grand vista but rather in exploring beauty in the commonplace, the familiar brought to light, the intimate view, and the moment captured. My oil and watercolor subjects often come from looking out my windows, walking down a road, riding in my car, going to a park, sitting in a restaurant or my home. More recently my images of local environs include etchings.
BIOGRAPHY
Doug received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is the author of the book Draw from Your Head: A Step by Step System of Drawing the Human Figure, published by Watson Guptil. He has recently self-published The Nighttime Adventures of the Man in the Conical Hat, a book of his etchings and poetry. Before moving to Treadwell, NY Doug lived and worked in NYC. He was a freelance illustrator and courtroom artist. He now teaches classes at various venues in Delaware and Otsego Counties as well as from his studio in Treadwell. Doug is a member of the Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY; The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY, and The Main Street Gallery, Franklin, NY. He is a Signature Member of NY Plein Air Painters (NYPAP) and Founder and Leader of Catskills Plein Air Painters (CATPAP).
AWARDS
In 2006 and 2008 Doug received the “Award for Excellence in Graphics” for his etching from the Upper Catskill Community Council for the Arts, Oneonta, NY. His painting won “Best of Show” in Oneonta, NY “City of the Hills Art Festival: 2006, and “Best in Graphics” in 2008 and 2009. At the Cooperstown Art Association National Exhibition in 2008 Doug received an award for his etching. At Art & Soul of the Catskills in 2009 he received the “Best of Show” award for his etchings. Doug received an Award of Merit at the Cooperstown Art Association Essential Art Exhibition 2011 for his painting.
EXHIBITIONS
H.F. Johnston Museum of Art Cornell Univ. – ’10 Group Show
Main Street Gallery, Franklin, NY Gallery - Member Shows ’10-P
Village Hall Gallery, Sharon Springs, NY ’10-P Group Shows
MURAL Gallery, Stamford, NY – Solo Show ‘09
Kubiac Gallery, Oneonta, NY – Solo Show ’09; Two Person Show ‘05
Regional Shows ’04 – 09; Etchings at the Mansion Show ‘07
Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY – Solo Show ‘09’ Group Show ’08;
Group Plein Air Shows ’08-P
B. Sharp Gallery, Oneonta, NY – Two Person Show ‘09
City of the Hills Art Festival, Oneonta, NY ’09–06, ‘04
Heart and Soul of the Catskills Art Festival, Delhi, NY – ‘09
Viviana Hansen Gallery, Delhi, NY – Group Shows ’09-‘10
C.A.S.A. Gallery, Andes, NY Group Shows ’07-P
Smithy Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY – Member Shows ’06-P
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY – National Show ’08;
Essential Art ’04-11; Members Shows ’04-P
Word & Image Gallery, Treadwell, NY – Solo Show ’07;
Group Shows ’04-‘08
Sixteenth Mini Print Int’l Exhibition Group Show, Binghamton
Univ.,Binghamton, NY ‘08
Windham Fine Art Gallery, Windham, NY – Group Plein Air Show ‘06
Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY – Group Plein Air Show ‘05
Volcano Gallery, Oneonta, NY – Solo Show ‘05
Giraffics Gallery, East Hampton, NY – Group Shows ’99-‘00
Bronx Zoo, Bronx, NY – permanent mural ‘98
Drew Chryst Gallery, Sparta, NJ – Solo Show ’92;
Group Shows ’92-‘98
Grand Central Galleries, NY, NY – Group Show ‘92
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI – Group Show ‘91
Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY – Group Show ‘91
Player’s Club, NY, NY – Group Show ‘91
Salmagundi Club, NY, NY – Group Show ‘88
Burd House Gallery, Nyack, NY – Solo Show ’87;
Group Shows ’87-‘92
Port Arundel Gallery, Kennebunkport, ME – Group Show ‘87
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Brian Keeler
"Winter Willow - Pittston, PA" oil 42" x 46"
"November Vineyard near Watkins Glen" pastel, 27" x 29"
"Sugar Run Winter" oil, 30" x 60"
"Front Street Flags-Winter Solstice" oil, 36" x 40"
Brian Keeler was born in 1953 and he lives in his hometown of Wyalusing, Pa. He primarily devotes his time to painting landscapes, still lifes, figures, and portraits in oil, pastel and watercolor. His teaching has included giving workshops at various schools and art associations as well courses at Keystone College. He has also been a rostered artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and conducts residencies at high schools under the aegis of this state arts organization.
Brian has made the landscape and cities of Italy one of his painting projects over the last ten years and he conducted a landscape class there in the spring of 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 in Barga, Tuscany and Todi, Umbria. In the spring of 2004 he was honored with a retrospective of his own work along with his father, William Keeler’s paintings at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA. Brian Keeler authored a book about his father’s work that served as the catalog for this show. The book titled, “The Art Work of William Keeler- Pennsylvania Regionalist Painter” and was published in the spring of 2004 by River Light Press.
Graduating from the York Academy of Arts in York, Pa in 1975 where he studied realistic painting with Tom Wise, Ted Fitzkee, Vigil Sova and Bill Faulkler. He has since studied with several other accomplished realist painters including Dan Greene, Everett Kinstler, Jack Beal and Nelson Shanks.
Involved locally in many arts projects, Keeler founded the Blue Heron Gallery in Wyalusing in 2003, and he originated the North Branch Art Trail and Festival in 1993- both continuing today.
Brian Keeler has focused on the Susquehanna River as one of his main sources of interest for many years. He derives the primary source of inspiration for his river images from the beautiful stretch of river in Bradford County, but he has also depicted the river shores in the Wyoming Valley near Wilkes-Barre and throughout the river’s course. His oil paintings are often begun with quick pencil sketches or studies done in pastel or with oil, usually in a smaller scale on location. He values the time on the river as an important part of the picture-making process. Sometimes stopping to paint while driving past a favorite location or in a kayak when he paddles out to paint these studies from direct observation, they all have their own way of contributing to studio paintings. His outdoor painting is done very much in the tradition of the Impressionists or like the original plien aire painter, the 19th century French artist, Corot. After making studies outside, Keeler then goes back to his studio and creates larger format oils based on these first-hand compositions and from photos he takes during the days on the river. He feels that there is something irreplaceable about being outside and experiencing nature first-hand while creating paintings in a single sitting. Feeling the air, hearing the ambient sounds of nature and even the background sounds of traffic, lawnmowers and people, seeing the effects of light and serendipitous occurrences of nature all contribute to an emotional connection to his subjects. One of the artist’s main attractions to any given landscape is the quality of light and the play of light on shorelines, clouds and topography. He especially enjoys the contrasts of the area’s older buildings in combination with newer more banal architecture, set against that natural beauty of the river’s edge.
Keeler is also well known as a painter of fine portraits, still lifes and figurative paintings.
Keeler’s work has won wide acclaim over the years. His paintings have been collected by many individuals, corporations, and museums. His work has appeared in feature articles in American Artist Magazine in 1992 and 2003 and in 2006 Pastelogram, a journal for pastel artists featured his art. Two books have been illustrated by Keeler in collaboration with their authors, one a children’s’ book and the other a treatise on a mystical theme.
Keeler’s work is represented at the following galleries – Laura Craig Gallery in Scranton, West End Gallery in Corning, NY, Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery in Lambertville, NJ.
"November Vineyard near Watkins Glen" pastel, 27" x 29"
"Sugar Run Winter" oil, 30" x 60"
"Front Street Flags-Winter Solstice" oil, 36" x 40"
Brian Keeler was born in 1953 and he lives in his hometown of Wyalusing, Pa. He primarily devotes his time to painting landscapes, still lifes, figures, and portraits in oil, pastel and watercolor. His teaching has included giving workshops at various schools and art associations as well courses at Keystone College. He has also been a rostered artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and conducts residencies at high schools under the aegis of this state arts organization.
Brian has made the landscape and cities of Italy one of his painting projects over the last ten years and he conducted a landscape class there in the spring of 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 in Barga, Tuscany and Todi, Umbria. In the spring of 2004 he was honored with a retrospective of his own work along with his father, William Keeler’s paintings at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA. Brian Keeler authored a book about his father’s work that served as the catalog for this show. The book titled, “The Art Work of William Keeler- Pennsylvania Regionalist Painter” and was published in the spring of 2004 by River Light Press.
Graduating from the York Academy of Arts in York, Pa in 1975 where he studied realistic painting with Tom Wise, Ted Fitzkee, Vigil Sova and Bill Faulkler. He has since studied with several other accomplished realist painters including Dan Greene, Everett Kinstler, Jack Beal and Nelson Shanks.
Involved locally in many arts projects, Keeler founded the Blue Heron Gallery in Wyalusing in 2003, and he originated the North Branch Art Trail and Festival in 1993- both continuing today.
Brian Keeler has focused on the Susquehanna River as one of his main sources of interest for many years. He derives the primary source of inspiration for his river images from the beautiful stretch of river in Bradford County, but he has also depicted the river shores in the Wyoming Valley near Wilkes-Barre and throughout the river’s course. His oil paintings are often begun with quick pencil sketches or studies done in pastel or with oil, usually in a smaller scale on location. He values the time on the river as an important part of the picture-making process. Sometimes stopping to paint while driving past a favorite location or in a kayak when he paddles out to paint these studies from direct observation, they all have their own way of contributing to studio paintings. His outdoor painting is done very much in the tradition of the Impressionists or like the original plien aire painter, the 19th century French artist, Corot. After making studies outside, Keeler then goes back to his studio and creates larger format oils based on these first-hand compositions and from photos he takes during the days on the river. He feels that there is something irreplaceable about being outside and experiencing nature first-hand while creating paintings in a single sitting. Feeling the air, hearing the ambient sounds of nature and even the background sounds of traffic, lawnmowers and people, seeing the effects of light and serendipitous occurrences of nature all contribute to an emotional connection to his subjects. One of the artist’s main attractions to any given landscape is the quality of light and the play of light on shorelines, clouds and topography. He especially enjoys the contrasts of the area’s older buildings in combination with newer more banal architecture, set against that natural beauty of the river’s edge.
Keeler is also well known as a painter of fine portraits, still lifes and figurative paintings.
Keeler’s work has won wide acclaim over the years. His paintings have been collected by many individuals, corporations, and museums. His work has appeared in feature articles in American Artist Magazine in 1992 and 2003 and in 2006 Pastelogram, a journal for pastel artists featured his art. Two books have been illustrated by Keeler in collaboration with their authors, one a children’s’ book and the other a treatise on a mystical theme.
Keeler’s work is represented at the following galleries – Laura Craig Gallery in Scranton, West End Gallery in Corning, NY, Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery in Lambertville, NJ.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Ellen Wong
12x12 - $450
"Jersey"- 16x20 - $600
Ellen Wong was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a Studio Arts major at Brooklyn College, she studied painting with Philip Pearlstein and Bob Henry. Most recently she studied painting from life with Jack Faragasso and Dan Dickerson at the Art Students League.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and recognitions, most notably the NYS Council of the Arts DEC Grant administered by the Roxbury Arts Group and sponsored by the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, a NEA fellowship, and a teacher/artist residency at Skidmore College.
She is a founding member of the Longyear Gallery, a member of the EBDRPAP, and has had many one woman, and group shows in numerous galleries and venues in upstate New York and New York City. She currently has work showing in Small Works Invitational at the Blue Mountain Gallery in Chelsea, NY, and at the Delaware and Ulster RR in Arkville with the East Branch of the Delaware River Plein Air Painters.
“No man should become an artist who is not passionate about Nature” Camille Corot
For more than 20 years Ellen has been inspired and moved by nature, particularly the Catskill landscape. As a part time resident of Roxbury, she has painted her life and the life around her. “My work is about the land and a sense of place. In my search for inspiration, I now find myself drawn to the places that many of us just move through without stopping to see – a truck stop on the thruway bathed in glorious light after a storm, abandoned industrial buildings telling stories of the working village lives, a neighbors barn at evening milking… I am interested in the intersections between nature and man, the relationships and impositions formed by roads, highways, dams, structures,
Tabletop arrangements, what is found there and what has been brought… After all it is all about relationship and connection. By stopping to observe and see, I become one with my place.
I am not searching for new materials, but rather I am trying to push the expressive qualities of paint and graphite, light, space and color -- to paint my life and maybe you will recognize yours.“
Face of Farming, a multi media exhibit at RAG (July 2009) told the story of a working Catskill landscape, through video, audio, photographs, watercolors and formal oil portraits. It documented five of the last operating dairy farming families in the area, to memorialize the art of working the land and celebrate their commitment to a fast disappearing lifestyle. She is currently co hosting The Farm Hour, a weekly talk show
about local agriculture on WIOX, 91.3 FM.
This year Ellen’s watercolor was chosen for the Open Eye Fundraiser. Raffles are sold throughout their summer season and drawn in the late fall.
Ellen’s work is in many private collections.
"Jersey"- 16x20 - $600
Ellen Wong was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a Studio Arts major at Brooklyn College, she studied painting with Philip Pearlstein and Bob Henry. Most recently she studied painting from life with Jack Faragasso and Dan Dickerson at the Art Students League.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and recognitions, most notably the NYS Council of the Arts DEC Grant administered by the Roxbury Arts Group and sponsored by the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, a NEA fellowship, and a teacher/artist residency at Skidmore College.
She is a founding member of the Longyear Gallery, a member of the EBDRPAP, and has had many one woman, and group shows in numerous galleries and venues in upstate New York and New York City. She currently has work showing in Small Works Invitational at the Blue Mountain Gallery in Chelsea, NY, and at the Delaware and Ulster RR in Arkville with the East Branch of the Delaware River Plein Air Painters.
“No man should become an artist who is not passionate about Nature” Camille Corot
For more than 20 years Ellen has been inspired and moved by nature, particularly the Catskill landscape. As a part time resident of Roxbury, she has painted her life and the life around her. “My work is about the land and a sense of place. In my search for inspiration, I now find myself drawn to the places that many of us just move through without stopping to see – a truck stop on the thruway bathed in glorious light after a storm, abandoned industrial buildings telling stories of the working village lives, a neighbors barn at evening milking… I am interested in the intersections between nature and man, the relationships and impositions formed by roads, highways, dams, structures,
Tabletop arrangements, what is found there and what has been brought… After all it is all about relationship and connection. By stopping to observe and see, I become one with my place.
I am not searching for new materials, but rather I am trying to push the expressive qualities of paint and graphite, light, space and color -- to paint my life and maybe you will recognize yours.“
Face of Farming, a multi media exhibit at RAG (July 2009) told the story of a working Catskill landscape, through video, audio, photographs, watercolors and formal oil portraits. It documented five of the last operating dairy farming families in the area, to memorialize the art of working the land and celebrate their commitment to a fast disappearing lifestyle. She is currently co hosting The Farm Hour, a weekly talk show
about local agriculture on WIOX, 91.3 FM.
This year Ellen’s watercolor was chosen for the Open Eye Fundraiser. Raffles are sold throughout their summer season and drawn in the late fall.
Ellen’s work is in many private collections.
Robin Halpern
WHITE CROSS, acrylic on canvas 24x24 inches $2500
FROM DELPHI acrylic on canvas 10x8 inches $800
PRESIDING acrylic on canvas 24x18 inches $2400
PRESTON mixed media on canvas 8x10 inches NFS
ARTIST STATEMENT
CrEaTiViTy, like the universe, is constantly evolving in unexpected ways.
My work as both a visual artist and as a psychotherapist reflects this evolution. My portraits, as well as the rest of my work, are informed and influenced by the interior world of emotion and mood, to which as a psychotherapist, I have privileged access.
Bold color, form, shape, line and texture, as well as raw emotion inspire my interpretation of the human face and form, everyday objects and anything else that attracts my attention. My expressionist work transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Each piece lets me know when it’s complete.
ARTIST RESUME
ART EDUCATION:
1974 BFA (Painting) The College of Visual & Performing Arts,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Additional Studies:
The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
University of Vermont Fine Arts Dept. Burlington, Vermont
Adelphi University Fine Arts Dept. Garden City, New York
University of Colorado Fine Arts Dept. Boulder, Colorado
CW Post College Fine Arts Dept. Greenvale, New York
Most Recent Group Shows:
2011 Wald/Kim Gallery, NY, NY
2011 Pen & Brush, NY, NY
2010 National Association of Women Artists, NY, NY
2010 Walt Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2010 WHET PAiNT, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury,NY
2010 RAG Photography Exhibit (Best In Show Award), Roxbury, NY
2010 SUMMER SALON, OIA, New York Law School Gallery, NY, NY
2010 SMALL WORKS, Lana Santorelli Gallery, NY, NY
2009 WHET PAiNT, Roxbury Arts Group Roxbury, NY
2009 DRY PAiNT, Old Bank Gallery, Roxbury,NY
2009 RAG Photography Exhibit (*People’s Choice Award) Roxbury, NY
2009 DOORS ROXBURY, (public arts project)
Memberships:
Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
Pen & Brush, Inc., New York, NY
On-Line Galleries:
Myartspace.com
Artslant.com (featured artist March 2010)
Landfillart.org
Private Collections:
Ellis Wood & Peter Nakada, New York
Suzanne Pred-Bass, New York
Mimi Weisband & Michael Freeman, California
Michael Shelley, Florida
Faye Coleman, New York
Joseph & Jane Piasek, New York
Fern & Harvey Wishman, New York
Ronni Shelley, Florida
Henry Blumfarb, New York
Daniel Rindler & Esther Kim, New York
Judy Segal, New York
Sheila Rindler, New York
Julia Marley, New York
Marcia Weirda, California
Beth & Gary Dunn, North Carolina
Helen Morris, New York
Rosanne LoGalbo & Lorraine Egan, New York
Seth Brau, New York
Brian & Cindy Daughtery, California
Public Collection:
Landfill Art, Inc., Pennsylvania
FROM DELPHI acrylic on canvas 10x8 inches $800
PRESIDING acrylic on canvas 24x18 inches $2400
PRESTON mixed media on canvas 8x10 inches NFS
ARTIST STATEMENT
CrEaTiViTy, like the universe, is constantly evolving in unexpected ways.
My work as both a visual artist and as a psychotherapist reflects this evolution. My portraits, as well as the rest of my work, are informed and influenced by the interior world of emotion and mood, to which as a psychotherapist, I have privileged access.
Bold color, form, shape, line and texture, as well as raw emotion inspire my interpretation of the human face and form, everyday objects and anything else that attracts my attention. My expressionist work transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Each piece lets me know when it’s complete.
ARTIST RESUME
ART EDUCATION:
1974 BFA (Painting) The College of Visual & Performing Arts,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Additional Studies:
The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
University of Vermont Fine Arts Dept. Burlington, Vermont
Adelphi University Fine Arts Dept. Garden City, New York
University of Colorado Fine Arts Dept. Boulder, Colorado
CW Post College Fine Arts Dept. Greenvale, New York
Most Recent Group Shows:
2011 Wald/Kim Gallery, NY, NY
2011 Pen & Brush, NY, NY
2010 National Association of Women Artists, NY, NY
2010 Walt Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2010 WHET PAiNT, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury,NY
2010 RAG Photography Exhibit (Best In Show Award), Roxbury, NY
2010 SUMMER SALON, OIA, New York Law School Gallery, NY, NY
2010 SMALL WORKS, Lana Santorelli Gallery, NY, NY
2009 WHET PAiNT, Roxbury Arts Group Roxbury, NY
2009 DRY PAiNT, Old Bank Gallery, Roxbury,NY
2009 RAG Photography Exhibit (*People’s Choice Award) Roxbury, NY
2009 DOORS ROXBURY, (public arts project)
Memberships:
Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY
Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
Pen & Brush, Inc., New York, NY
On-Line Galleries:
Myartspace.com
Artslant.com (featured artist March 2010)
Landfillart.org
Private Collections:
Ellis Wood & Peter Nakada, New York
Suzanne Pred-Bass, New York
Mimi Weisband & Michael Freeman, California
Michael Shelley, Florida
Faye Coleman, New York
Joseph & Jane Piasek, New York
Fern & Harvey Wishman, New York
Ronni Shelley, Florida
Henry Blumfarb, New York
Daniel Rindler & Esther Kim, New York
Judy Segal, New York
Sheila Rindler, New York
Julia Marley, New York
Marcia Weirda, California
Beth & Gary Dunn, North Carolina
Helen Morris, New York
Rosanne LoGalbo & Lorraine Egan, New York
Seth Brau, New York
Brian & Cindy Daughtery, California
Public Collection:
Landfill Art, Inc., Pennsylvania
Sarah Bean
Until We Find Each Other We Are Alone 12" x 18" $120
A Bit of earth that laughed 13" x 40" $600
What A Strange Machine Man Is 36" x 80" $3600
Education:
SYMS School Of Music 1994-96
Maine School Of Science And Mathematics 1996-98
The University of Chicago (Concentration in philosophy and literature)
Art Students League Of New York 2002-04
Solo Exhibition:
Shenandoah Valley Art Center ìArchitecture of a Dreamî
Waynesboro, VA 2010
Group Exhibitions:
Virginia Contemporary Art Museum ìBest of the Bestî
Norfolk, VA 2009
Juried shows:
Miami Beach, FL 2010 -First Place
Portsmouth, VA 2010 -Second Place
Bayou City, Houston TX 2010
Bethesda Row Arts Festival 2009
Publications:
Cover Art For The Jazz Album, ìIn My Own Sweet Timeî by Pandemusicum
Public Collections:
Richardson, Whitman, Large and Badger
Portland, ME
Private Collections:
Cindy and David Fuller, Verona VA
John and Kim Gifford, Alexandria, VA
Terry and Nan Hall, Altoona, MI
Ed Bintz, Arlington, VA
Damon Rahbar-Daniels and Emily Abbot, Houston, TX
Raymond E Mattison, San Luis Obispo, CA
Alfred and Judith Osborne, Houston, TX
Education:
SYMS School Of Music 1994-96
Maine School Of Science And Mathematics 1996-98
The University of Chicago (Concentration in philosophy and literature)
Art Students League Of New York 2002-04
Solo Exhibition:
Shenandoah Valley Art Center “Architecture of a Dream”
Waynesboro, VA 2010
Group Exhibitions:
Virginia Contemporary Art Museum “Best of the Best”
Norfolk, VA 2009
Juried shows:
Miami Beach, FL 2010 -First Place
Portsmouth, VA 2010 -Second Place
Bayou City, Houston TX 2010
Bethesda Row Arts Festival 2009
Publications:
Cover Art For The Jazz Album, “In My Own Sweet Time” by Pandemusicum
Public Collections:
Richardson, Whitman, Large and Badger
Portland, ME
Private Collections:
Cindy and David Fuller, Verona VA
John and Kim Gifford, Alexandria, VA
Terry and Nan Hall, Altoona, MI
Ed Bintz, Arlington, VA
Damon Rahbar-Daniels and Emily Abbot, Houston, TX
Raymond E Mattison, San Luis Obispo, CA
Alfred and Judith Osborne, Houston, TX
Artist Statement
Art is my university education. It is a way for me to study the time
and world that I live in. I write poetry from solid ground with a clear
voice; the collage element is where I work my ideas into clarity with
experimentation, questioning and guesses. The challenge of poetry and
collage are the same: elaborate a richness for the soul from a simple
form, suppressing everything that is useless.
I come to collage by way of training in mathematics and physics,
a passion for music, a friendship with literature, and a commitment to
philosophy. These interests have a tendency to pull the imagination into
different directions, in collage however, I have found a format in which
these fields of interest can work together to speak for me.
In this body of work I am focused on creating a harmony between
discordant ideas such as calm and movement, straight and curved, odd
and even, limited and unlimited, nature and science, unity and
multiplicity, dark and light. I use classical and modern cubistic forms
which have defined the aesthetics of western culture and I combine
them with a version of Chinese storytelling in which the written word is
formed into visual art. For subjects I choose things which are fragile, but
also impossible to destroy. Fragile because they are quiet, private
moments which are easily missed in our loud, busy lives. Impossible to
destroy, because these sublime moments of clarity have existed since
the beginning of time.
Art is a way for us to seek what moves us. For me, it is things of
simplicity and authenticity. Stories that have an effect of dignity and
elevation. I seek subjects which are impossible to explain, I hold them
close to me, observe them and make art from the atmosphere that they
create. Seek what moves you. Between the one who creates a work of
art and the one who loves it, there is a shared nature and an intimate,
silent understanding. I think it is perhaps the highest form of living,
when we can reach it.
Technical Statement
I begin my collages with a poem, or piece of literature. I spend weeks of
time gathering photographs and images from old books that I feel evoke the
mood of the literature. I start by drawing one horizontal line across the entire
piece and one vertical line. This forms four quadrants which I will subdivide into
dozens of smaller quadrants, layering tissue papers and book pages, then
imagery and photographs. The aim is to create a work of art in the same
manner as I think about any story: by tiling images and words; things that I
have found and seen in the world atop things that I imagine. I am following an
architectural design in each piece, a geometrical exactness which gives an
organizing form to the work. I am literally trying to build an idea from the
building blocks of old book paper. I adhere these materials to the wooden
panel using clear acrylic paint. I then draw geometrical lines and circles and
shade them to produce the illusion of three dimensions. I re-incorporate the
original poem which inspired the work back into the piece using an acrylic
transfer technique. Finally, the work is covered in a polymer acrylic varnish
which protects the materials from UV light and preserves them from aging.
People often ask me why I use found imagery; that is paintings and
photographs that I find in books which were created by other artists. I want my
work to be like a conversation that you have in a daydream. Each of the
components have a life of their own, they speak in their own different voices.
Some elements will make sense to the viewer, some elements might be a
mystery. If I had taken all of the photographs myself, and painted all of the
paintings, they would all be speaking in my voice, they would have the same
style. There would be no conversation, but rather a monologue. There would be
no stream of consciousness between the viewer and the materials, there would
be only my intention, my view of the world. As a collage artist I think of myself
like the conductor of an orchestra of musicians and together we are trying to
play at something new and different.
A Bit of earth that laughed 13" x 40" $600
What A Strange Machine Man Is 36" x 80" $3600
Education:
SYMS School Of Music 1994-96
Maine School Of Science And Mathematics 1996-98
The University of Chicago (Concentration in philosophy and literature)
Art Students League Of New York 2002-04
Solo Exhibition:
Shenandoah Valley Art Center ìArchitecture of a Dreamî
Waynesboro, VA 2010
Group Exhibitions:
Virginia Contemporary Art Museum ìBest of the Bestî
Norfolk, VA 2009
Juried shows:
Miami Beach, FL 2010 -First Place
Portsmouth, VA 2010 -Second Place
Bayou City, Houston TX 2010
Bethesda Row Arts Festival 2009
Publications:
Cover Art For The Jazz Album, ìIn My Own Sweet Timeî by Pandemusicum
Public Collections:
Richardson, Whitman, Large and Badger
Portland, ME
Private Collections:
Cindy and David Fuller, Verona VA
John and Kim Gifford, Alexandria, VA
Terry and Nan Hall, Altoona, MI
Ed Bintz, Arlington, VA
Damon Rahbar-Daniels and Emily Abbot, Houston, TX
Raymond E Mattison, San Luis Obispo, CA
Alfred and Judith Osborne, Houston, TX
Education:
SYMS School Of Music 1994-96
Maine School Of Science And Mathematics 1996-98
The University of Chicago (Concentration in philosophy and literature)
Art Students League Of New York 2002-04
Solo Exhibition:
Shenandoah Valley Art Center “Architecture of a Dream”
Waynesboro, VA 2010
Group Exhibitions:
Virginia Contemporary Art Museum “Best of the Best”
Norfolk, VA 2009
Juried shows:
Miami Beach, FL 2010 -First Place
Portsmouth, VA 2010 -Second Place
Bayou City, Houston TX 2010
Bethesda Row Arts Festival 2009
Publications:
Cover Art For The Jazz Album, “In My Own Sweet Time” by Pandemusicum
Public Collections:
Richardson, Whitman, Large and Badger
Portland, ME
Private Collections:
Cindy and David Fuller, Verona VA
John and Kim Gifford, Alexandria, VA
Terry and Nan Hall, Altoona, MI
Ed Bintz, Arlington, VA
Damon Rahbar-Daniels and Emily Abbot, Houston, TX
Raymond E Mattison, San Luis Obispo, CA
Alfred and Judith Osborne, Houston, TX
Artist Statement
Art is my university education. It is a way for me to study the time
and world that I live in. I write poetry from solid ground with a clear
voice; the collage element is where I work my ideas into clarity with
experimentation, questioning and guesses. The challenge of poetry and
collage are the same: elaborate a richness for the soul from a simple
form, suppressing everything that is useless.
I come to collage by way of training in mathematics and physics,
a passion for music, a friendship with literature, and a commitment to
philosophy. These interests have a tendency to pull the imagination into
different directions, in collage however, I have found a format in which
these fields of interest can work together to speak for me.
In this body of work I am focused on creating a harmony between
discordant ideas such as calm and movement, straight and curved, odd
and even, limited and unlimited, nature and science, unity and
multiplicity, dark and light. I use classical and modern cubistic forms
which have defined the aesthetics of western culture and I combine
them with a version of Chinese storytelling in which the written word is
formed into visual art. For subjects I choose things which are fragile, but
also impossible to destroy. Fragile because they are quiet, private
moments which are easily missed in our loud, busy lives. Impossible to
destroy, because these sublime moments of clarity have existed since
the beginning of time.
Art is a way for us to seek what moves us. For me, it is things of
simplicity and authenticity. Stories that have an effect of dignity and
elevation. I seek subjects which are impossible to explain, I hold them
close to me, observe them and make art from the atmosphere that they
create. Seek what moves you. Between the one who creates a work of
art and the one who loves it, there is a shared nature and an intimate,
silent understanding. I think it is perhaps the highest form of living,
when we can reach it.
Technical Statement
I begin my collages with a poem, or piece of literature. I spend weeks of
time gathering photographs and images from old books that I feel evoke the
mood of the literature. I start by drawing one horizontal line across the entire
piece and one vertical line. This forms four quadrants which I will subdivide into
dozens of smaller quadrants, layering tissue papers and book pages, then
imagery and photographs. The aim is to create a work of art in the same
manner as I think about any story: by tiling images and words; things that I
have found and seen in the world atop things that I imagine. I am following an
architectural design in each piece, a geometrical exactness which gives an
organizing form to the work. I am literally trying to build an idea from the
building blocks of old book paper. I adhere these materials to the wooden
panel using clear acrylic paint. I then draw geometrical lines and circles and
shade them to produce the illusion of three dimensions. I re-incorporate the
original poem which inspired the work back into the piece using an acrylic
transfer technique. Finally, the work is covered in a polymer acrylic varnish
which protects the materials from UV light and preserves them from aging.
People often ask me why I use found imagery; that is paintings and
photographs that I find in books which were created by other artists. I want my
work to be like a conversation that you have in a daydream. Each of the
components have a life of their own, they speak in their own different voices.
Some elements will make sense to the viewer, some elements might be a
mystery. If I had taken all of the photographs myself, and painted all of the
paintings, they would all be speaking in my voice, they would have the same
style. There would be no conversation, but rather a monologue. There would be
no stream of consciousness between the viewer and the materials, there would
be only my intention, my view of the world. As a collage artist I think of myself
like the conductor of an orchestra of musicians and together we are trying to
play at something new and different.
Nancy Ridenour
Work may be produced as Giclee prints or on canvas ready to hang and in sizes 8 X 10 through 30 X 30. Prices range from $25 through $325.
- Photomontage
Tree Peony Montage - Photomontage
Lotus Montage - Photomontage
Professional Preparation
B.S. Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850.
M.A.T., Science Education, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
Community Arts Partnership, Ithaca, NY
Marketing your art 2010
Facebook for marketing 2010
Classes in Glass Fusion, Corning Glass Studio
Introductory 2005
Advanced 2006
Courses in Ceramics, SUNY Cortland
Ceramics 2006
International Travels, China 2006
Courses in Art, Tompkins Cortland Community College
History of Women in Art 2005
History of Art 2006
Photoshop 2007, spring
Advanced Photoshop 2007, fall
Ceramics 2008, spring, summer, fall
Advanced Photoshop 2008, spring, fall
NYFA MARK Program
Spring, 2009
Preparation for Docent, Cornell University
Instruction in gallery exhibits and educational programs for the Cornell Johnson Museum of Art
2005-present
Docent, Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University
2005-present
Artist: photography, sculpture, glass fusion
Ithaca Art Trail 2007-present http://www.arttrail.com/
Lotus Studios owner and artist 2007-present http://nancyridenourartist.com
Cayuga Nature Photographers 2009-present http://cayugana.dot5hosting.com/index.html
Publications
Ridenour, Nancy. Lotus Studios Montages, 2007, Lotus Studios Press, Printed and available at Lulu.com
Ridenour, Nancy. Artful Cornell, 2008, Lotus Studios Press, Printed and available at Lulu.com
Exhibits
o Unitarian Church, Ithaca, NY solo show, April, 2011
o “Art Behind the Scientist” solo show, Tompkins County Public Library, February-March, 2011
o State of the Art Juried Photography show, Ithaca, March, 2011
o State of the Art Gallery, Invitational show, Ithaca, February, 2011
o Cayuga Nature Photography show, Unitarian Church, Ithaca, NY, December, 2010
o Brookton Market Winter Show, Brooktondale, NY, December 2010
o Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) Open Show, Ithaca, December 2010-January 2011
o Cornell University Plantations visitor center, artist in permanent exhibit, juried show, November, 2010
o “Digital Dialogs”, Community School of Music and Art, juried show, Ithaca, NY, November, 2010“International Photography Exhibit”, Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY, juried show, October, 2010
o State of the Art Gallery, “Greater Ithaca Art Trail Exhibit”, Ithaca, NY, October, 2010
o King Ferry Winery Art Event, September 18, 2010
o Community Arts Partnership, “Greater Ithaca Art Trail, July-August, 2010, Center Ithaca, Ithaca, NY
o “MOTE Art Exhibit”, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY, juried show, August 8, 2010
o Garden Conservancy Open Gardens and Art Show, personal gardens, July 31, 2010
o “Artists Market”, Community Arts Partnership juried show, Ithaca Farmers Market, July 30, 2010
o “Art Barn”, Grass Roots Festival, Trumansburg, NY, July, 2010
o “MARK-up” Art Show, Tompkins County Public Library, members of the 2009 NYFA MARK program, Ithaca, NY, June-September, 2010
o “Greyhound Winery Art Show”, King Ferry Winery, June 25-27, 2010
o East Shore Art Exhibit, Lansing, NY, juried show, May, 2010
o Aurora Fine Arts Gallery, Aurora, NY, group show, April, 2010-November, 2010
o Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, NY, one person show, April, 2010
o Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) juried show, March, 2010, Brooklyn, NY
o State of the Art Annual Photography show, juried, March 2010
o Community School of Music and Art, “Post Decade Show”, Ithaca, juried, March, 2010
o Kitchen Theater Auction exhibit, Clinton House, Ithaca, March, 2010
o Community Corners Gallery “Bouquet” Exhibit, juried, March, 2010
o “Living Light, A Celebration of the Finger Lakes Flora”, juried, Tompkins County Public Library, January-March, 2010
o WSKG Auction tour, juried, February-May, 2010
o Cayuga Lake Nature Photographers show at Unitarian Church, February, 2010
o “WOW” exhibit, Image City, Rochester, NY, juried show, January 2010
o Community School of Music and Art juried show, November, 2009
o Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studios, Ithaca, October, 2009
o Artists Market, Ithaca, July 2009
o Brookton’s Market solo show, Brooktondale, NY, July, 2009
o Six Mile Creek Vineyards solo show, Ithaca, May-June, 2009
o Ithaca Coffee Company at Gateway, solo show, Ithaca, March-November, 2009
o Ithaca Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center solo show, February, 2009
o Six Mile Creek Vineyards solo show, Ithaca, November-December, 2008
o Fibers on the Commons, Ithaca, Ithaca, October, 2008
o Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studio, October, 2008
o State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, October, 2008
o Clinton House Gallery solo show, Ithaca, September, 2008
o Collegetown Bagels solo show, Ithaca East Hill Plaza, August, 2008
o Ithaca Visitor’s Center group show, July-December, 2008
o Monsour Jewelers, Ithaca, Ithaca, March, 2008-present
o State of the Art Gallery, Photography Juried Show, Ithaca, March, 2008
o Clinton House Gallery, Community Arts Partnership, group show, Ithaca, January 2008
o Holiday Market, Women’s Community Center, Ithaca, December 2007
o 171 Cedar Arts Holiday Café, Corning, November, 2007
o Community School of Music and Art Photography Show, Ithaca, October and December, 2007
o State of the Art Gallery group show, Ithaca, October, 2007
o Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studios, Ithaca, October, 2007
o Ithaca Artist Market, July 2007
Artist Background
Flowers and gardening have been central to my life. I taught biology at Ithaca High School for thirty-two years and always incorporated these interests into my classroom. My family has been in the landscaping and florist business in the Schenectady area since the late 1800’s, so I grew up with the beauty and smell of flowers. This background has had a tremendous impact upon my life and photography.
While living in Laos, 1965-70, I was first given a bouquet of lotus buds while pregnant with my daughter, Sheryl. Several years ago, I obtained six lotus plants from the Farmer’s Market in Ithaca, NY. Those first plants have multiplied to over 500 plants and now fill the pond behind my home and can be viewed from my studio. The lotus flower, leaves, and pods, and the artistic interpretation of them was the initial focus for my montages.
I take digital photos and then adjust them in Photoshop to achieve abstract montages. The montages were initially primarily of the beautiful lotus flower, but have expanded to include flowers from various gardens encountered during travels. Another extension of the flower montages has been to incorporate non-flower images such as Buddha sculptures as part of the montage.
While taking Photoshop classes, I developed some surrealistic montages that incorporate cathedrals, sculptures, gargoyles, ponds, gardens, the Forbidden City in China, ceramic artists in China, Wenda Gu’s work, and many other objects into the digital canvas. The product is tasteful and unique.
Recent projects have included working with the transparency of layers in Photoshop, while combining the natural landscape and plants with architectural buildings and sculptures. The future is wide open as to subjects and designs. I view this as an evolving project in photography.
- Photomontage
Tree Peony Montage - Photomontage
Lotus Montage - Photomontage
Professional Preparation
B.S. Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850.
M.A.T., Science Education, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
Community Arts Partnership, Ithaca, NY
Marketing your art 2010
Facebook for marketing 2010
Classes in Glass Fusion, Corning Glass Studio
Introductory 2005
Advanced 2006
Courses in Ceramics, SUNY Cortland
Ceramics 2006
International Travels, China 2006
Courses in Art, Tompkins Cortland Community College
History of Women in Art 2005
History of Art 2006
Photoshop 2007, spring
Advanced Photoshop 2007, fall
Ceramics 2008, spring, summer, fall
Advanced Photoshop 2008, spring, fall
NYFA MARK Program
Spring, 2009
Preparation for Docent, Cornell University
Instruction in gallery exhibits and educational programs for the Cornell Johnson Museum of Art
2005-present
Docent, Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University
2005-present
Artist: photography, sculpture, glass fusion
Ithaca Art Trail 2007-present http://www.arttrail.com/
Lotus Studios owner and artist 2007-present http://nancyridenourartist.com
Cayuga Nature Photographers 2009-present http://cayugana.dot5hosting.com/index.html
Publications
Ridenour, Nancy. Lotus Studios Montages, 2007, Lotus Studios Press, Printed and available at Lulu.com
Ridenour, Nancy. Artful Cornell, 2008, Lotus Studios Press, Printed and available at Lulu.com
Exhibits
o Unitarian Church, Ithaca, NY solo show, April, 2011
o “Art Behind the Scientist” solo show, Tompkins County Public Library, February-March, 2011
o State of the Art Juried Photography show, Ithaca, March, 2011
o State of the Art Gallery, Invitational show, Ithaca, February, 2011
o Cayuga Nature Photography show, Unitarian Church, Ithaca, NY, December, 2010
o Brookton Market Winter Show, Brooktondale, NY, December 2010
o Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) Open Show, Ithaca, December 2010-January 2011
o Cornell University Plantations visitor center, artist in permanent exhibit, juried show, November, 2010
o “Digital Dialogs”, Community School of Music and Art, juried show, Ithaca, NY, November, 2010“International Photography Exhibit”, Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY, juried show, October, 2010
o State of the Art Gallery, “Greater Ithaca Art Trail Exhibit”, Ithaca, NY, October, 2010
o King Ferry Winery Art Event, September 18, 2010
o Community Arts Partnership, “Greater Ithaca Art Trail, July-August, 2010, Center Ithaca, Ithaca, NY
o “MOTE Art Exhibit”, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY, juried show, August 8, 2010
o Garden Conservancy Open Gardens and Art Show, personal gardens, July 31, 2010
o “Artists Market”, Community Arts Partnership juried show, Ithaca Farmers Market, July 30, 2010
o “Art Barn”, Grass Roots Festival, Trumansburg, NY, July, 2010
o “MARK-up” Art Show, Tompkins County Public Library, members of the 2009 NYFA MARK program, Ithaca, NY, June-September, 2010
o “Greyhound Winery Art Show”, King Ferry Winery, June 25-27, 2010
o East Shore Art Exhibit, Lansing, NY, juried show, May, 2010
o Aurora Fine Arts Gallery, Aurora, NY, group show, April, 2010-November, 2010
o Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, NY, one person show, April, 2010
o Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) juried show, March, 2010, Brooklyn, NY
o State of the Art Annual Photography show, juried, March 2010
o Community School of Music and Art, “Post Decade Show”, Ithaca, juried, March, 2010
o Kitchen Theater Auction exhibit, Clinton House, Ithaca, March, 2010
o Community Corners Gallery “Bouquet” Exhibit, juried, March, 2010
o “Living Light, A Celebration of the Finger Lakes Flora”, juried, Tompkins County Public Library, January-March, 2010
o WSKG Auction tour, juried, February-May, 2010
o Cayuga Lake Nature Photographers show at Unitarian Church, February, 2010
o “WOW” exhibit, Image City, Rochester, NY, juried show, January 2010
o Community School of Music and Art juried show, November, 2009
o Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studios, Ithaca, October, 2009
o Artists Market, Ithaca, July 2009
o Brookton’s Market solo show, Brooktondale, NY, July, 2009
o Six Mile Creek Vineyards solo show, Ithaca, May-June, 2009
o Ithaca Coffee Company at Gateway, solo show, Ithaca, March-November, 2009
o Ithaca Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center solo show, February, 2009
o Six Mile Creek Vineyards solo show, Ithaca, November-December, 2008
o Fibers on the Commons, Ithaca, Ithaca, October, 2008
o Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studio, October, 2008
o State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, October, 2008
o Clinton House Gallery solo show, Ithaca, September, 2008
o Collegetown Bagels solo show, Ithaca East Hill Plaza, August, 2008
o Ithaca Visitor’s Center group show, July-December, 2008
o Monsour Jewelers, Ithaca, Ithaca, March, 2008-present
o State of the Art Gallery, Photography Juried Show, Ithaca, March, 2008
o Clinton House Gallery, Community Arts Partnership, group show, Ithaca, January 2008
o Holiday Market, Women’s Community Center, Ithaca, December 2007
o 171 Cedar Arts Holiday Café, Corning, November, 2007
o Community School of Music and Art Photography Show, Ithaca, October and December, 2007
o State of the Art Gallery group show, Ithaca, October, 2007
o Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studios, Ithaca, October, 2007
o Ithaca Artist Market, July 2007
Artist Background
Flowers and gardening have been central to my life. I taught biology at Ithaca High School for thirty-two years and always incorporated these interests into my classroom. My family has been in the landscaping and florist business in the Schenectady area since the late 1800’s, so I grew up with the beauty and smell of flowers. This background has had a tremendous impact upon my life and photography.
While living in Laos, 1965-70, I was first given a bouquet of lotus buds while pregnant with my daughter, Sheryl. Several years ago, I obtained six lotus plants from the Farmer’s Market in Ithaca, NY. Those first plants have multiplied to over 500 plants and now fill the pond behind my home and can be viewed from my studio. The lotus flower, leaves, and pods, and the artistic interpretation of them was the initial focus for my montages.
I take digital photos and then adjust them in Photoshop to achieve abstract montages. The montages were initially primarily of the beautiful lotus flower, but have expanded to include flowers from various gardens encountered during travels. Another extension of the flower montages has been to incorporate non-flower images such as Buddha sculptures as part of the montage.
While taking Photoshop classes, I developed some surrealistic montages that incorporate cathedrals, sculptures, gargoyles, ponds, gardens, the Forbidden City in China, ceramic artists in China, Wenda Gu’s work, and many other objects into the digital canvas. The product is tasteful and unique.
Recent projects have included working with the transparency of layers in Photoshop, while combining the natural landscape and plants with architectural buildings and sculptures. The future is wide open as to subjects and designs. I view this as an evolving project in photography.
Roshan Houshmand
Prices range from $150 - $2600
Statement 2011
As an Iranian-American woman artist, painting is my way to live, communicate and explore. My life’s journey has been based around making my art for the past thirty years, and it is how I spend my time when I am not teaching or researching art.
My creative process is guided by ritual and the relationships of the formal elements of painting expressed on the surface, with the end goal being a purely meditative, possibly subconscious state of painting, producing work that is intricate, resolved, curious, visually engaging and continues to grow. The forces behind my work are change and experimentation, intuition and an awareness of relationships.
My current “trailscript” paintings evolved from my “Event Paintings” which can be viewed on my website at www.roshanhoushmand.com. They were originally inspired by images of particle trails from bubble chambers from Brookhaven National Laboratory and CERN, which intrigued me after attending a lecture on theoretical physics by Brian Greene, professor of physics at Columbia University in 2005. Many of these early works were featured on BNL’s website for their 60th anniversary in 2007 (http://www.bnl.gov/60th/houshmand.asp) and later in Symmetry and Cosmos science magazines (http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000499).
What began as a study of the movements of charged particles has evolved into an exploration into concepts of chance, change, space and intuition borne from a faith in the ability of the plastic qualities of painting to transform life. These are process paintings because of an aesthetic that has developed through an interpretation of time through color, tone, shape, line and movement via this organic ritual. The idea of visual markings in art being autobiographical codes; each mark created being an event in itself accumulating into a creative process that allows the painting to happen, as a code unravels, without a conscious need to be in control. The concept of multiple layers of paint, hidden and revealed, reflects states of change, in that every event in the visible world is the effect of an "image", as in Plato's notion of idea. Each layer addresses emotion and intellect, markings that correspond with incidents of life experienced, only to be covered by another experience, ritualistic in process, tactile in sense, and visual in perception.
Inasmuch as experiences are unique and cannot be repeated, the relationships of form and content, dark and light, the positive and the negative inspire synchronous progression. The exploration of color and form as a metaphor for emotions, via an organically cumulative process, crystallizes fragmentation into a visual "truth", based on the formal values of western art, and in my case, eastern art and culture. The spiritual acts in mysterious ways, empowering my work with a meaningful sense of soul, and an intelligent sense of coherence.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 “trailscripts”, Studio 106b, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX.
2009 The Slow Down, Andes, NY.
2007 “In Full Bloom”, Oneonta Country Club, Oneonta, NY.
2006 Old Bank Gallery, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY.
2005 “Lightning Paintings”, Andes Society for History and Culture, Hunting Tavern
Museum, Andes, NY. NY State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant.
2004 “Flowers”, Andes Hotel, Andes, NY.
1999 Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA.
1998 Day Star Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA.
1997 Cruz Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1996 Spirit, Santa Fe, NM.
1995 Galeria Rene Metras, Barcelona, Spain.
1994 Galeria Llevant, Mallorca, Spain.
1993 "Ritos y Gritos", Galerie Denise Levy, Barcelona, Spain.
1992 Spirit Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
1992 Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA.
1991 Galeria SIO, Calafell, Spain.
1990 R.H. Macy and Co., New York, NY. North storefront windows.
1990 Marianovich Arte, Barcelona, Spain.
1989 HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York, NY.
1987 Sadolin Inc, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1986 Jedigs Kunsthandle, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1984 Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 “Earth Stewards Coalition II: Our Priceless Planet Art Show”, Binghamton City Plaza
Gallery, Binghamton, NY.
2011 “Artists Choose Artists”, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY.
2010 “Confluences of Culture,V; East and West”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
2010 Gallery 61 Main, Andes, NY.
2010 Galerie Lamber, Eindhoven-centre, The Netherlands.
2010 “Black and White”, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY
2009 61 Main Gallery, Andes, NY.
2009 Boots 2 Heal, Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, TX.
2009 B. Sharpe Gallery, Oneonta, NY.
2009 “The Flower Show”, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2008 Mural Gallery, Stamford, NY. .
2008 Rhonda Schaller, NY, NY.
2008 West Kortright Faculty Show, West Kortright, NY.
2007 “72nd National Juried Exhibition”, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY.
2007 “Fresh and Local”, Patakan Round Barn, Kelly’s Corners, NY.
2006 “21st Century American Women Artists”, US Mission to NATO, Art in Embassies
Program (ART) of the United States, Brussels, Belgium.
2006 “Sky’s the Limit”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2006 “Flowers”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2006 “Found Objects”, The Belfry Center, Minneapolis, MN.
2005 “Symbol and Logic”, Caladan Gallery, Beverly, MA.
2005 “Art from Life”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2005 “Landscapes”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2004 Alpan Gallery, Huntington, Long Island, NY.
2003 “Artists for Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties”; www.taparts.com.
2003 “Emotional Sensibilities”, Evolving Perceptions, CP ArtSpace, Washington, DC.
2002 “The Art of Love”, SAAAIDS, Gallery ArtsIndia, NY, NY.
2002 “Color the World in Peace”, Project Palette, San Antonio, TX.
2002 “Celebrating Spirituality”, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY.
2002 "Cross-Cultural Expressions", CIMA; M.Y. Art Prospects, NY, NY.
2001 Children's Hospital, Washington, DC.
2000 Worth Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1999, 00 “Evolving Perceptions", 505 Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1999 Brick City Center for the Arts, Ocala, FL.
1999 Galeria Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain.
1998 "Evolving Perceptions", National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
1995, 96 Galeria Rene Metras, Barcelona, Spain.
1995 Galeria Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain.
1993 "II Biennial of Art for Fight Against AIDS",Palau Robert,Barcelona, Spain.
1993 "L ‘Estany del Desig", Centre Civic Carmel, Barcelona, Spain.
1993 "Arxipelag", Capella del Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona, Spain.
1993 "Maraton de les Arts", Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain.
1992 Galeria SIO, Calafell, Spain.
1992 Spirit Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
1991 Turner-Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1991 "33 Premi a la Pintura Jove", Sala Pares, Barcelona, Spain.
1991 SATA Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1991 "TOTEM", Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.
1991 Atherton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1990 "I Biennial for Fight Against AIDS", Sala Placa de Cataluna, Barcelona, Spain
1990 "Art and Design from Spain", Bloomingdale’s, New York, NY.
1990 Curzon Gallery, Boca Raton, FL.
1990 HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York, NY.
1989-91 Bennington College Alumni Exhibition, Bennington, VT.
1985 Chicago Center for the Print, Chicago, IL.
1984 Brooklyn Art and Cultural Center (BACA), Brooklyn, NY.
AWARDS/GRANTS
2010,11 The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation Grant, Hobart, NY.
2010 NY State Foundation for the Arts, SOS Grant, UCCCA, Oneonta, NY.
2006 US Govt Grant for “21st Century American Women Artists”, US Mission to NATO,
Brussels, Belgium.
2005, 10 NY State Council on the Arts, Decentralization Grant, RAG, Roxbury, NY.
2003 IVAcc; Second Place; 3B Abstract-International; Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
2003 “The Healing Power of Art”, Manhattan Arts International; Award of Excellence, NY, NY
2001 El Fumador, Sewickley, PA; First Prize and Honorable Mention, Sewickley, PA.
1982 Sandra Kessleman Slotnik Award, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
1982 Ella Woodner Macy Award, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
ART WORKSHOPS
2011 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for three-week painting workshop in India.
2011 Instructor for Children’s Workshops on Persian Art. West Kortright Center for the Arts,
West Kortright, NY.
2011 Coordinator and Instructor for Children’s Summer Art Workshops at Roxbury Arts Group,
Roxbury, NY.
2010-,11 Coordinator and Instructor for Children’s Summer Art Workshop, Andes Society for
History and Culture, Andes, NY.
2010 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for three-week painting workshop in India.
2009 Sole Instructor for multi-cultural art workshops for kids, West Kortright Center for the
Arts, West Kortright, NY.
2009 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for two-week painting workshop in Nicaragua.
2008 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for two-week painting workshop in Costa Rica.
2008-11 Kids in the Kaatskills; summer art workshops for kids at Margaretville, Andes, Pine Hill,
Phoenicia andFleischmann’s Libraries.
2004-11 CROP (Creating Rural Opportunities Partnership) Instructor for Andes, Margaretville,
Roxbury, S. Kortright, Stamford, Jefferson and Cherry Valley afterschool art programs
through Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY and BOCES.
CHARITIES
CRAS Light for Life Annual Art Exhibit and Auction, Roxbury Arts Group Gallery | Roxbury, NY
"II Biennial of Art for Fight Against AIDS",Palau Robert,Barcelona, Spain.
"I Biennial of Art for Fight Against AIDS",Palau Robert,Barcelona, Spain.
Red Cross, Barcealona, Spain
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the Andes, NY Chamber of Commerce.
Member of ARS (Artists Rights Society).
COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC ART
2004 Apple Fest, NY, NY. Public Art.
2002 Mainline Art Center, Philadelphia, PA. Public Art.
1993 J. Iranzo, Valencia, Spain. Mural Commission.
1992 BDM Architects, Barcelona, Spain. Commission.
1991 Marianovich Arte, Barcelona, Spain. Exterior Building Mural.
1986,7 M. Termin, Boca Raton, FL. Commission.
EMPLOYMENT
2011-current Walt Meade Gallery, Roxbury Arts Group in Roxbury, NY and the Erpf Gallery,
Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Arkville, NY.
Curator.
2007- current SUNY Delhi, Delhi, NY
-Adjunct Instructor of Art Appreciation
-Adjunct Instructor of Painting
2005-08 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY. Director of contemporary art gallery
2005-06 Catskill Arts Society, Livingston Manor, NY. Painting Instructor
2001-02 Community College of Allegheny County, Bethel Park, West Mifflin, PA
-Adjunct Painting Instructor for levels I and II
-Adjunct Drawing Instructor
-Adjunct Art Appreciation Instructor
2000-02 Penn State University, Beaver, PA
-Adjunct Drawing Instructor
2000 The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
-Adjunct Drawing Instructor
-Adjunct Color Theory Instructor
-Adjunct Perspective Instructor
1998-99 Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
-Pre-college Painting and Drawing Instructor
-Director of children’s summer art camps
-Conceptual Self-Portrait in the Form of the Object Instructor
1992-93 Escola Massana, Barcelona Spain (Municipal College of Art)
Visiting artist for 2-month workshops for senior-level art students
1992 Winchester Graduate School of Art, Barcelona, Spain
Visiting lecturer at British graduate school of art based in Barcelona
1991 Marianovich Arte, Barcelona, Spain
Gallery Assistant for contemporary fine art gallery
1990-91 LEAP (Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program), New York, NY
Art Coordinator and Teacher with NPO for New York Public School System,
integrating the arts into curriculum, teaching students and training teachers
1990-91 Prakapas Gallery, New York, NY
Assistant for gallery specializing in Bauhaus photography.
EDUCATION
1985, 89 Painting Tutorial with J. Alpuy of the Atelier of J. Torres Garcia; New York, NY
1984 MFA, Rosary Graduate School of Fine Arts, now Dominican University, Ill;
Graduate Program in Florence, Italy. Painting major.
1983 MA, Rosary Graduate School of Fine Art, now Dominican University, Ill; Graduate
Program in Florence, Italy. Art History major.
1981 School of Visual Arts, NY, NY; Summer program in Morocco with Burt Hazen and
Luccio Pozzi.
1982 BA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT; Scholarship student and recipient of
two awards for outstanding achievement in the Arts. Painting and sculpture major.
PUBLICATIONS/FEATURES
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, MA, Fall 2008; Spring 2009.
COSMOS Magazine, “Primal Trails”,pp 30-33, Issue 20, April/May 2008, Sydney, Australia. http://www.
symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000499
http://www.bnl.gov/60th/houshmand.asp
http://nato.usmission.gov/dossier/Women.asp
”Unbroken Line; Writing in the Lineage of Poetry”; written by Miriam Sagan, published by Sherman
Asher, First Edition, 1999. Cover Painting.
Catskill Mountain Guide, 2005, Artist Feature Section.
New Art International 2003, Book Art Press.
“Santa Fe Poetry Broadside”; Issue #12, November 1999; paintings featured with Poetry by Miriam
Sagan. (http://www.rt.66.com/-sfpoetry).
Iranian.com, Featured Artist 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010
REVIEWS
El Periodico, Barcelona, Spain; El Pais, Barcelona, Spain; New Orleans Gambit, New Orleans, LA; The
News, Boca Raton, FL; Boca Thursday, Boca Raton, FL; La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Spain; ABC,
Madrid, Spain; Marte, Barcelona, Spain; Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Post Gazette, Pittsburgh,
PA, North Hills News Record, Pittsburgh, PA, Catskill Mountain News, Arkville, NY, Daily Star, Oneonta,
NY.
Statement 2011
As an Iranian-American woman artist, painting is my way to live, communicate and explore. My life’s journey has been based around making my art for the past thirty years, and it is how I spend my time when I am not teaching or researching art.
My creative process is guided by ritual and the relationships of the formal elements of painting expressed on the surface, with the end goal being a purely meditative, possibly subconscious state of painting, producing work that is intricate, resolved, curious, visually engaging and continues to grow. The forces behind my work are change and experimentation, intuition and an awareness of relationships.
My current “trailscript” paintings evolved from my “Event Paintings” which can be viewed on my website at www.roshanhoushmand.com. They were originally inspired by images of particle trails from bubble chambers from Brookhaven National Laboratory and CERN, which intrigued me after attending a lecture on theoretical physics by Brian Greene, professor of physics at Columbia University in 2005. Many of these early works were featured on BNL’s website for their 60th anniversary in 2007 (http://www.bnl.gov/60th/houshmand.asp) and later in Symmetry and Cosmos science magazines (http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000499).
What began as a study of the movements of charged particles has evolved into an exploration into concepts of chance, change, space and intuition borne from a faith in the ability of the plastic qualities of painting to transform life. These are process paintings because of an aesthetic that has developed through an interpretation of time through color, tone, shape, line and movement via this organic ritual. The idea of visual markings in art being autobiographical codes; each mark created being an event in itself accumulating into a creative process that allows the painting to happen, as a code unravels, without a conscious need to be in control. The concept of multiple layers of paint, hidden and revealed, reflects states of change, in that every event in the visible world is the effect of an "image", as in Plato's notion of idea. Each layer addresses emotion and intellect, markings that correspond with incidents of life experienced, only to be covered by another experience, ritualistic in process, tactile in sense, and visual in perception.
Inasmuch as experiences are unique and cannot be repeated, the relationships of form and content, dark and light, the positive and the negative inspire synchronous progression. The exploration of color and form as a metaphor for emotions, via an organically cumulative process, crystallizes fragmentation into a visual "truth", based on the formal values of western art, and in my case, eastern art and culture. The spiritual acts in mysterious ways, empowering my work with a meaningful sense of soul, and an intelligent sense of coherence.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 “trailscripts”, Studio 106b, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX.
2009 The Slow Down, Andes, NY.
2007 “In Full Bloom”, Oneonta Country Club, Oneonta, NY.
2006 Old Bank Gallery, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY.
2005 “Lightning Paintings”, Andes Society for History and Culture, Hunting Tavern
Museum, Andes, NY. NY State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant.
2004 “Flowers”, Andes Hotel, Andes, NY.
1999 Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA.
1998 Day Star Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA.
1997 Cruz Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1996 Spirit, Santa Fe, NM.
1995 Galeria Rene Metras, Barcelona, Spain.
1994 Galeria Llevant, Mallorca, Spain.
1993 "Ritos y Gritos", Galerie Denise Levy, Barcelona, Spain.
1992 Spirit Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
1992 Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA.
1991 Galeria SIO, Calafell, Spain.
1990 R.H. Macy and Co., New York, NY. North storefront windows.
1990 Marianovich Arte, Barcelona, Spain.
1989 HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York, NY.
1987 Sadolin Inc, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1986 Jedigs Kunsthandle, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1984 Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 “Earth Stewards Coalition II: Our Priceless Planet Art Show”, Binghamton City Plaza
Gallery, Binghamton, NY.
2011 “Artists Choose Artists”, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY.
2010 “Confluences of Culture,V; East and West”, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
2010 Gallery 61 Main, Andes, NY.
2010 Galerie Lamber, Eindhoven-centre, The Netherlands.
2010 “Black and White”, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY
2009 61 Main Gallery, Andes, NY.
2009 Boots 2 Heal, Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, TX.
2009 B. Sharpe Gallery, Oneonta, NY.
2009 “The Flower Show”, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2008 Mural Gallery, Stamford, NY. .
2008 Rhonda Schaller, NY, NY.
2008 West Kortright Faculty Show, West Kortright, NY.
2007 “72nd National Juried Exhibition”, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY.
2007 “Fresh and Local”, Patakan Round Barn, Kelly’s Corners, NY.
2006 “21st Century American Women Artists”, US Mission to NATO, Art in Embassies
Program (ART) of the United States, Brussels, Belgium.
2006 “Sky’s the Limit”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2006 “Flowers”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2006 “Found Objects”, The Belfry Center, Minneapolis, MN.
2005 “Symbol and Logic”, Caladan Gallery, Beverly, MA.
2005 “Art from Life”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2005 “Landscapes”, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY.
2004 Alpan Gallery, Huntington, Long Island, NY.
2003 “Artists for Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties”; www.taparts.com.
2003 “Emotional Sensibilities”, Evolving Perceptions, CP ArtSpace, Washington, DC.
2002 “The Art of Love”, SAAAIDS, Gallery ArtsIndia, NY, NY.
2002 “Color the World in Peace”, Project Palette, San Antonio, TX.
2002 “Celebrating Spirituality”, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY.
2002 "Cross-Cultural Expressions", CIMA; M.Y. Art Prospects, NY, NY.
2001 Children's Hospital, Washington, DC.
2000 Worth Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1999, 00 “Evolving Perceptions", 505 Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1999 Brick City Center for the Arts, Ocala, FL.
1999 Galeria Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain.
1998 "Evolving Perceptions", National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
1995, 96 Galeria Rene Metras, Barcelona, Spain.
1995 Galeria Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain.
1993 "II Biennial of Art for Fight Against AIDS",Palau Robert,Barcelona, Spain.
1993 "L ‘Estany del Desig", Centre Civic Carmel, Barcelona, Spain.
1993 "Arxipelag", Capella del Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona, Spain.
1993 "Maraton de les Arts", Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain.
1992 Galeria SIO, Calafell, Spain.
1992 Spirit Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
1991 Turner-Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1991 "33 Premi a la Pintura Jove", Sala Pares, Barcelona, Spain.
1991 SATA Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1991 "TOTEM", Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL.
1991 Atherton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1990 "I Biennial for Fight Against AIDS", Sala Placa de Cataluna, Barcelona, Spain
1990 "Art and Design from Spain", Bloomingdale’s, New York, NY.
1990 Curzon Gallery, Boca Raton, FL.
1990 HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York, NY.
1989-91 Bennington College Alumni Exhibition, Bennington, VT.
1985 Chicago Center for the Print, Chicago, IL.
1984 Brooklyn Art and Cultural Center (BACA), Brooklyn, NY.
AWARDS/GRANTS
2010,11 The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation Grant, Hobart, NY.
2010 NY State Foundation for the Arts, SOS Grant, UCCCA, Oneonta, NY.
2006 US Govt Grant for “21st Century American Women Artists”, US Mission to NATO,
Brussels, Belgium.
2005, 10 NY State Council on the Arts, Decentralization Grant, RAG, Roxbury, NY.
2003 IVAcc; Second Place; 3B Abstract-International; Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
2003 “The Healing Power of Art”, Manhattan Arts International; Award of Excellence, NY, NY
2001 El Fumador, Sewickley, PA; First Prize and Honorable Mention, Sewickley, PA.
1982 Sandra Kessleman Slotnik Award, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
1982 Ella Woodner Macy Award, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
ART WORKSHOPS
2011 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for three-week painting workshop in India.
2011 Instructor for Children’s Workshops on Persian Art. West Kortright Center for the Arts,
West Kortright, NY.
2011 Coordinator and Instructor for Children’s Summer Art Workshops at Roxbury Arts Group,
Roxbury, NY.
2010-,11 Coordinator and Instructor for Children’s Summer Art Workshop, Andes Society for
History and Culture, Andes, NY.
2010 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for three-week painting workshop in India.
2009 Sole Instructor for multi-cultural art workshops for kids, West Kortright Center for the
Arts, West Kortright, NY.
2009 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for two-week painting workshop in Nicaragua.
2008 Coordinator and Sole Instructor for two-week painting workshop in Costa Rica.
2008-11 Kids in the Kaatskills; summer art workshops for kids at Margaretville, Andes, Pine Hill,
Phoenicia andFleischmann’s Libraries.
2004-11 CROP (Creating Rural Opportunities Partnership) Instructor for Andes, Margaretville,
Roxbury, S. Kortright, Stamford, Jefferson and Cherry Valley afterschool art programs
through Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY and BOCES.
CHARITIES
CRAS Light for Life Annual Art Exhibit and Auction, Roxbury Arts Group Gallery | Roxbury, NY
"II Biennial of Art for Fight Against AIDS",Palau Robert,Barcelona, Spain.
"I Biennial of Art for Fight Against AIDS",Palau Robert,Barcelona, Spain.
Red Cross, Barcealona, Spain
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the Andes, NY Chamber of Commerce.
Member of ARS (Artists Rights Society).
COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC ART
2004 Apple Fest, NY, NY. Public Art.
2002 Mainline Art Center, Philadelphia, PA. Public Art.
1993 J. Iranzo, Valencia, Spain. Mural Commission.
1992 BDM Architects, Barcelona, Spain. Commission.
1991 Marianovich Arte, Barcelona, Spain. Exterior Building Mural.
1986,7 M. Termin, Boca Raton, FL. Commission.
EMPLOYMENT
2011-current Walt Meade Gallery, Roxbury Arts Group in Roxbury, NY and the Erpf Gallery,
Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Arkville, NY.
Curator.
2007- current SUNY Delhi, Delhi, NY
-Adjunct Instructor of Art Appreciation
-Adjunct Instructor of Painting
2005-08 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY. Director of contemporary art gallery
2005-06 Catskill Arts Society, Livingston Manor, NY. Painting Instructor
2001-02 Community College of Allegheny County, Bethel Park, West Mifflin, PA
-Adjunct Painting Instructor for levels I and II
-Adjunct Drawing Instructor
-Adjunct Art Appreciation Instructor
2000-02 Penn State University, Beaver, PA
-Adjunct Drawing Instructor
2000 The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
-Adjunct Drawing Instructor
-Adjunct Color Theory Instructor
-Adjunct Perspective Instructor
1998-99 Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
-Pre-college Painting and Drawing Instructor
-Director of children’s summer art camps
-Conceptual Self-Portrait in the Form of the Object Instructor
1992-93 Escola Massana, Barcelona Spain (Municipal College of Art)
Visiting artist for 2-month workshops for senior-level art students
1992 Winchester Graduate School of Art, Barcelona, Spain
Visiting lecturer at British graduate school of art based in Barcelona
1991 Marianovich Arte, Barcelona, Spain
Gallery Assistant for contemporary fine art gallery
1990-91 LEAP (Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program), New York, NY
Art Coordinator and Teacher with NPO for New York Public School System,
integrating the arts into curriculum, teaching students and training teachers
1990-91 Prakapas Gallery, New York, NY
Assistant for gallery specializing in Bauhaus photography.
EDUCATION
1985, 89 Painting Tutorial with J. Alpuy of the Atelier of J. Torres Garcia; New York, NY
1984 MFA, Rosary Graduate School of Fine Arts, now Dominican University, Ill;
Graduate Program in Florence, Italy. Painting major.
1983 MA, Rosary Graduate School of Fine Art, now Dominican University, Ill; Graduate
Program in Florence, Italy. Art History major.
1981 School of Visual Arts, NY, NY; Summer program in Morocco with Burt Hazen and
Luccio Pozzi.
1982 BA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT; Scholarship student and recipient of
two awards for outstanding achievement in the Arts. Painting and sculpture major.
PUBLICATIONS/FEATURES
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, MA, Fall 2008; Spring 2009.
COSMOS Magazine, “Primal Trails”,pp 30-33, Issue 20, April/May 2008, Sydney, Australia. http://www.
symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000499
http://www.bnl.gov/60th/houshmand.asp
http://nato.usmission.gov/dossier/Women.asp
”Unbroken Line; Writing in the Lineage of Poetry”; written by Miriam Sagan, published by Sherman
Asher, First Edition, 1999. Cover Painting.
Catskill Mountain Guide, 2005, Artist Feature Section.
New Art International 2003, Book Art Press.
“Santa Fe Poetry Broadside”; Issue #12, November 1999; paintings featured with Poetry by Miriam
Sagan. (http://www.rt.66.com/-sfpoetry).
Iranian.com, Featured Artist 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010
REVIEWS
El Periodico, Barcelona, Spain; El Pais, Barcelona, Spain; New Orleans Gambit, New Orleans, LA; The
News, Boca Raton, FL; Boca Thursday, Boca Raton, FL; La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Spain; ABC,
Madrid, Spain; Marte, Barcelona, Spain; Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Post Gazette, Pittsburgh,
PA, North Hills News Record, Pittsburgh, PA, Catskill Mountain News, Arkville, NY, Daily Star, Oneonta,
NY.
Ellany Gable
Ceramics by Ellany Gable priced from $40-$720
Ellany Gable, Honey Hill Pottery
Statement:
“ It is my deepest desire that we take the time to serve ourselves and each other with beauty, style and grace.
I create pieces that visually evoke a time long ago, or something very familiar.
The tactile nature of my pots speak at once to the fingertips and to human touch.
I do this to connect the innate wisdom and appreciation of beauty that we, as human beings have desired and possessed since the beginning of time, up to the present moment.
My intention is to create utilitarian items with such stunning beauty, that they may stand out as significant and help us to pause in our hurried world to thoroughly enjoy what is in front of us.
Each piece is as individual as the person who uses it is. The time in which we use them is sacred: It is time for a meal shared together and time at home. It is time for the opportunity to connect with our loved-ones and our own beauty, usefulness, individuality and style.”
Education:
Although formally educated at Hunter College in New York City, I consider myself mostly self- educated.
I have done many workshops with colleagues and have instructed workshops myself. Some of the workshops I have developed and instructed are:
“Experiencing the Fire” Three firing techniques, one weekend: Raku, Pit and Horse Hair.
Throwing Large Vessels.
Centering for Beginners.
Wheel throwing.
Surface Decoration.
Terra Sigillata.
Workshops at:
Brooklyn, NY, Quintano’s School for young Professionals. Port Jefferson, New York, Hands-On-Clay studio.
New York in Callicoon at Honey Hill Pottery,
The South Kent School, S. Kent, Ct.
The Catskill Art Society in Hurleyville, NY
Some workshops in my resume include internships as well.
Workshops that I eagerly participated in:
Bob Segall, Susan Peterson, Woody Hughes, Betty Woodman, Robert Compton, George Geyer,
Randy Blume, Pete Pinnell, Steven Hill, Joyce Michaud, Joe Bennion, Peter Callas, Jeff Shapiro, Steven Branfmann. Linda Christianson, and many more.
NCECA: ( National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts) Conferences attended: Minnesota, Nevada, Colorado, Missouri, Maryland.
As long as I am alive, my education will never end.
Shows:
2001
Beck Gallery
Sullivan County Museum
2002
American Craft Council
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, Il.
Smithsonian Craft Show
Washington, DC
2003
Samuel E Gallery
Schenectady, NY
Women Artists of the Catskills
Sullivan County Museum
2004
Paradise City Fine Art Shows
Marlborough, Ma
Northampton, Ma
Pen & Brush Gallery
New York City
Klay Gallery
Nyack, New York
Amos Eno Gallery
New York City
2005
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
Narrowsburg, NY
Sullivan County Museum
Beck Gallery
2006
Art Harlem
New York City
2007
Pewabic Pottery
Detroit, Mi.
Boston Gift Show
Interior Lighting Magazine
One page article on stoneware lighting fixtures.
2008
Pewabic Pottery
Detroit, Mi.
Bethel Woods Center for Arts
Bethel, N.Y.
2009
Jersey Shore Clay National
Pen and Brush Gallery
New York City.
Fellowships, Awards:
2005- 2006
Fellowship Grant: Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
2006
"Florabunda" bowl chosen to represent New York as a great shopping destination. The image flew on the Gateway Banner in Binghamton, N.Y. for one year.
Ellany Gable, Honey Hill Pottery
Statement:
“ It is my deepest desire that we take the time to serve ourselves and each other with beauty, style and grace.
I create pieces that visually evoke a time long ago, or something very familiar.
The tactile nature of my pots speak at once to the fingertips and to human touch.
I do this to connect the innate wisdom and appreciation of beauty that we, as human beings have desired and possessed since the beginning of time, up to the present moment.
My intention is to create utilitarian items with such stunning beauty, that they may stand out as significant and help us to pause in our hurried world to thoroughly enjoy what is in front of us.
Each piece is as individual as the person who uses it is. The time in which we use them is sacred: It is time for a meal shared together and time at home. It is time for the opportunity to connect with our loved-ones and our own beauty, usefulness, individuality and style.”
Education:
Although formally educated at Hunter College in New York City, I consider myself mostly self- educated.
I have done many workshops with colleagues and have instructed workshops myself. Some of the workshops I have developed and instructed are:
“Experiencing the Fire” Three firing techniques, one weekend: Raku, Pit and Horse Hair.
Throwing Large Vessels.
Centering for Beginners.
Wheel throwing.
Surface Decoration.
Terra Sigillata.
Workshops at:
Brooklyn, NY, Quintano’s School for young Professionals. Port Jefferson, New York, Hands-On-Clay studio.
New York in Callicoon at Honey Hill Pottery,
The South Kent School, S. Kent, Ct.
The Catskill Art Society in Hurleyville, NY
Some workshops in my resume include internships as well.
Workshops that I eagerly participated in:
Bob Segall, Susan Peterson, Woody Hughes, Betty Woodman, Robert Compton, George Geyer,
Randy Blume, Pete Pinnell, Steven Hill, Joyce Michaud, Joe Bennion, Peter Callas, Jeff Shapiro, Steven Branfmann. Linda Christianson, and many more.
NCECA: ( National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts) Conferences attended: Minnesota, Nevada, Colorado, Missouri, Maryland.
As long as I am alive, my education will never end.
Shows:
2001
Beck Gallery
Sullivan County Museum
2002
American Craft Council
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, Il.
Smithsonian Craft Show
Washington, DC
2003
Samuel E Gallery
Schenectady, NY
Women Artists of the Catskills
Sullivan County Museum
2004
Paradise City Fine Art Shows
Marlborough, Ma
Northampton, Ma
Pen & Brush Gallery
New York City
Klay Gallery
Nyack, New York
Amos Eno Gallery
New York City
2005
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
Narrowsburg, NY
Sullivan County Museum
Beck Gallery
2006
Art Harlem
New York City
2007
Pewabic Pottery
Detroit, Mi.
Boston Gift Show
Interior Lighting Magazine
One page article on stoneware lighting fixtures.
2008
Pewabic Pottery
Detroit, Mi.
Bethel Woods Center for Arts
Bethel, N.Y.
2009
Jersey Shore Clay National
Pen and Brush Gallery
New York City.
Fellowships, Awards:
2005- 2006
Fellowship Grant: Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
2006
"Florabunda" bowl chosen to represent New York as a great shopping destination. The image flew on the Gateway Banner in Binghamton, N.Y. for one year.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Robert Kozma
Platinum Palladium Photography
The prints: are approximately 9.5 inches by 7.5 inches.
Editions of 20 to 25.
They run from 800.00 to 1,200.00.
Prices rise after sales of each five ($800, 1-5 / $1200, 5-10 / $1600, 11-15 etc.).
Apples with Folded Paper in Bowl - 8 x 10 inches, $800
Cut Paper with Pear and Window - 8 x 10 inches, $800
Glass Vase with Cut Paper - 8 x 10 inches, $800
K O Z M A
born New York, October 10, 1951
education BFA, SUNY at Purchase 1980
collections The Metropolitan Museum of New York
The Brooklyn Museum
The Museum of Modern Art
The Southern Vermont Art Center
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Yale University Art Gallery
awards John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Dutchess County Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship
publications Black and White Photography,
Manifest Visions/An International Collection
Quarry Books, Rockport Publishers, Inc.
Landmarks of New York, H. Abrahms Inc./ Publisher
solo
2010 Kris Graves Projects, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2007 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, N.Y.
2006 Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y.
2005 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2002 Beacon Camera Club, Beacon, N.Y.
1995 John Froats Gallery, Cold Spring, N.Y.
Paramount Art Center, Peekskill, N.Y.
1993 Southern Vermont Art Center, Vermont.
New York Institute of Technology, N.Y.
1992 W.P. Interarts Space, Mercer Street, N.Y.
1991 DCAC Fellowship Exhibition, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
1989 Susan Schreiber Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
group
2009 +Kris Graves Projects
2007 The New York Public Library, N.Y., N.Y.
2007 Choate Hall Gallery, Pace College, N.Y.
2006 Van Brundt Gallery, Beacon, N.Y.
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, N.Y.
New Century Artists, N.Y., N.Y.
2004 SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, N.Y.
2003 Collaborative Concepts, 100X100, Beacon, N.Y.
2001 Beacon Camera Club, Beacon, N.Y.
2000 Bonnie BenRubi Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1998 Beacon Camera Club, Beacon, N.Y.
1997 The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y.
1995 W.P. Interarts Space, Mercer Street, N.Y.
1993 John Froats Gallery, Cold Spring, N.Y.
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont
1992 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
1991 Klarfeld Perry Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1990 W.P. Interarts Space, N.Y., N.Y.
1989 Schreiber Cutler Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1988 Forbes Magazine Galleries, N.Y., N.Y.
1987 Starret City Art Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1986 Light Song Gallery, University of Arizona
1985 Carimar Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1983 Frank Marino Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
reviews 2006 - Staten Island Advance, 2/05/06
2005 - Catskill Mountain News, 8/31/05
1997 - The New York Times, 7/13/97
1995 - The New York Times, 1/29/95
1993 - The New York Times, 6/27/93
1990 - The Village Voice, 1/02/00
teaching Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
SUNY at Purchase, N.Y.
Pace University, N.Y.
Manhattahville College, N.Y.
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Pratt Manhattan, N.Y., N.Y.
workshops SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, N.Y.
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
New School for Social Research/Parsons, N.Y.
guest lecturer/visiting artist
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), 2006, 2007, 2009
Wagner College, Staten Island, 2006.
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y.
Visiting Artist/Summer Lecture Series. 1997
The prints: are approximately 9.5 inches by 7.5 inches.
Editions of 20 to 25.
They run from 800.00 to 1,200.00.
Prices rise after sales of each five ($800, 1-5 / $1200, 5-10 / $1600, 11-15 etc.).
Apples with Folded Paper in Bowl - 8 x 10 inches, $800
Cut Paper with Pear and Window - 8 x 10 inches, $800
Glass Vase with Cut Paper - 8 x 10 inches, $800
K O Z M A
born New York, October 10, 1951
education BFA, SUNY at Purchase 1980
collections The Metropolitan Museum of New York
The Brooklyn Museum
The Museum of Modern Art
The Southern Vermont Art Center
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Yale University Art Gallery
awards John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Dutchess County Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship
publications Black and White Photography,
Manifest Visions/An International Collection
Quarry Books, Rockport Publishers, Inc.
Landmarks of New York, H. Abrahms Inc./ Publisher
solo
2010 Kris Graves Projects, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2007 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, N.Y.
2006 Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y.
2005 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2002 Beacon Camera Club, Beacon, N.Y.
1995 John Froats Gallery, Cold Spring, N.Y.
Paramount Art Center, Peekskill, N.Y.
1993 Southern Vermont Art Center, Vermont.
New York Institute of Technology, N.Y.
1992 W.P. Interarts Space, Mercer Street, N.Y.
1991 DCAC Fellowship Exhibition, Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
1989 Susan Schreiber Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
group
2009 +Kris Graves Projects
2007 The New York Public Library, N.Y., N.Y.
2007 Choate Hall Gallery, Pace College, N.Y.
2006 Van Brundt Gallery, Beacon, N.Y.
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, N.Y.
New Century Artists, N.Y., N.Y.
2004 SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, N.Y.
2003 Collaborative Concepts, 100X100, Beacon, N.Y.
2001 Beacon Camera Club, Beacon, N.Y.
2000 Bonnie BenRubi Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1998 Beacon Camera Club, Beacon, N.Y.
1997 The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y.
1995 W.P. Interarts Space, Mercer Street, N.Y.
1993 John Froats Gallery, Cold Spring, N.Y.
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont
1992 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
1991 Klarfeld Perry Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1990 W.P. Interarts Space, N.Y., N.Y.
1989 Schreiber Cutler Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1988 Forbes Magazine Galleries, N.Y., N.Y.
1987 Starret City Art Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1986 Light Song Gallery, University of Arizona
1985 Carimar Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
1983 Frank Marino Gallery, N.Y., N.Y.
reviews 2006 - Staten Island Advance, 2/05/06
2005 - Catskill Mountain News, 8/31/05
1997 - The New York Times, 7/13/97
1995 - The New York Times, 1/29/95
1993 - The New York Times, 6/27/93
1990 - The Village Voice, 1/02/00
teaching Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
SUNY at Purchase, N.Y.
Pace University, N.Y.
Manhattahville College, N.Y.
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Pratt Manhattan, N.Y., N.Y.
workshops SUNY at New Paltz, New Paltz, N.Y.
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
New School for Social Research/Parsons, N.Y.
guest lecturer/visiting artist
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), 2006, 2007, 2009
Wagner College, Staten Island, 2006.
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y.
Visiting Artist/Summer Lecture Series. 1997
Sarah Harris
Sara Harris recommended for Erpf.
Oil on canvas
"Golden Field" - 18x18 - $1300.
"Red Sunset" - 22x30 - $1900. (oil on paper)
Passing Hillside - 12x16 - $950
Awakening - 24 x 30 - $2700
Early Morning Light - 30x36 - $3900
Eternal Path - 30x40 - $4300
Orchard Interior II - 18x24 - $1800
Shadow & Light - 16x20 - $1300
Where the Blue Heron Flys(sic) - 24x36 - $2900
Woodland Pond - 18x20 - $1600
Silhouettes - 30x40 - $4300
Artist Statement
I must paint- it is my work and my pleasure. Painting for me is challenging, centering, exhilarating, frustrating and joyous...it is all encompassing.I live in the country, close to nature. My surroundings intially stimulate and inform my imagination...the light, color, spirit and the energy of a moment. I reimagine the natural world with hues more vivid and forms perhaps more fluid than nature's own.
I paint entirely in my small,cozy studio.Sometimes I tone the canvas; other times I prefer the bright white of the primed canvas. I rarely make preliminary sketches, I might have an intention or an image in mind, or I may just start putting colors down until something appears. Because of my fascination with the relationship between colors, I do alot of layering and scraping of paint, staying alert for interesting harmonies. By selection,elimination,and emphasis, I express my inner self through my art.
EDUCATION
1965 Corcoran Museum School, Washington, D.C.
1967 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1970 The Art Students League, New York, NY
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2009 Phizer Corp.Gallery, NYC.,NY.
2009 Group Show, Be Gallery, High Falls, NY.
2008 Group Show, Mountain Shadow Gallery, Tucson,Arizona
2007 "Zen of the Artist," Broome St. Gallery,nyc
2007 "Celebrating Land & Sea," Wheelhorse
Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2007 "Group Show," Be Gallery,High Falls, NY
2007 "Works on Paper," Wheelhorse Gallery
Greenwich, CT
2007 "Color, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2006 "September Show, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2006 "Group Show, be Gallery, High Falls, NY
2006 "Of This Earth, Pearl Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY
2006 "The Inner Eye, Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "Group Show, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "Flower Show, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2005 "Gift Show, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2005 " A Sense of Place, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY
2005 "New York Society of Women Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition,
Betty Baker Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2004 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2004 "Art and Environmentalism, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2004 "Art to the Avenue, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Enchanted Forest", Wheelhorse Gallery, Greenwich, CT.
2008 "In Connection", Livingroom Gallery, St. Peter's, NYC.,NY.
2007 "Healing Art", Ellenville Regional Hospital, Ellenville, NY.
2007 "Color", Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2006 Holiday Show, Stone Window Gallery, Accord, NY
2004 Trees / Spirit, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2003 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2003 Ellenville Library, Ellenville, NY
2002 Recent Works, Northlight Gallery, Accord, NY
2002 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2001 Recent Landscapes: Celebrating Light and Colors,
Hasbrouck House, Stone Ridge, NY
2000 Mohonk Mountain House Barn Museum, New Paltz, NY
1999 Meditations on the Landscape, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2003 A.S.K. Artist Open Studio Tour, Kingston, NY
2003 Marbletown Tri-centennial Exhibition, Marbletown, NY
2003 Baba Ram Das Library, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2003 Art Harvest, Marbletown Arts Association, Marbletown, NY
2002 Trees, North Light Gallery, Accord, NY
2002 Group Show, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2001 Winter Exhibition 2001 - Celebrating America, Pomana Cultural
Center, Pomona, NY
2000 Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artitsts Association, Woodstock, NY
2000 Nature Scenes, Eliza Pritzker Gallery, New Paltz, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kingston Hospital, Kingston, NY
Woodstock Physical Therapy, Woodstock, NY
Compassion Heights Veterinary, New Paltz, NY
Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Hill, NY
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Ronald Nyswaner, Nina Shengold, Shelly Wyant, John and Tinka Finn,
Elizabeth Benedict, Len and Marge Shengold, Katharine L. McKenna,
Barbara Arum
ASSOCIATIONS
New York Society of Women Artists - Member since 2003
Arts Society of Kingston, NY - Member since 2000
Gallery Representation
be gallery, High Falls NY.
Wheelhorse Gallery, Greenwich, Conn.
Mountain Shadow Gallery, Tucson AZ.
Oil on canvas
"Golden Field" - 18x18 - $1300.
"Red Sunset" - 22x30 - $1900. (oil on paper)
Passing Hillside - 12x16 - $950
Awakening - 24 x 30 - $2700
Early Morning Light - 30x36 - $3900
Eternal Path - 30x40 - $4300
Orchard Interior II - 18x24 - $1800
Shadow & Light - 16x20 - $1300
Where the Blue Heron Flys(sic) - 24x36 - $2900
Woodland Pond - 18x20 - $1600
Silhouettes - 30x40 - $4300
Artist Statement
I must paint- it is my work and my pleasure. Painting for me is challenging, centering, exhilarating, frustrating and joyous...it is all encompassing.I live in the country, close to nature. My surroundings intially stimulate and inform my imagination...the light, color, spirit and the energy of a moment. I reimagine the natural world with hues more vivid and forms perhaps more fluid than nature's own.
I paint entirely in my small,cozy studio.Sometimes I tone the canvas; other times I prefer the bright white of the primed canvas. I rarely make preliminary sketches, I might have an intention or an image in mind, or I may just start putting colors down until something appears. Because of my fascination with the relationship between colors, I do alot of layering and scraping of paint, staying alert for interesting harmonies. By selection,elimination,and emphasis, I express my inner self through my art.
EDUCATION
1965 Corcoran Museum School, Washington, D.C.
1967 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1970 The Art Students League, New York, NY
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2009 Phizer Corp.Gallery, NYC.,NY.
2009 Group Show, Be Gallery, High Falls, NY.
2008 Group Show, Mountain Shadow Gallery, Tucson,Arizona
2007 "Zen of the Artist," Broome St. Gallery,nyc
2007 "Celebrating Land & Sea," Wheelhorse
Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2007 "Group Show," Be Gallery,High Falls, NY
2007 "Works on Paper," Wheelhorse Gallery
Greenwich, CT
2007 "Color, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2006 "September Show, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2006 "Group Show, be Gallery, High Falls, NY
2006 "Of This Earth, Pearl Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY
2006 "The Inner Eye, Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "Group Show, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "Flower Show, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2005 "Gift Show, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2005 " A Sense of Place, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY
2005 "New York Society of Women Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition,
Betty Baker Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2004 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2004 "Art and Environmentalism, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2004 "Art to the Avenue, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Enchanted Forest", Wheelhorse Gallery, Greenwich, CT.
2008 "In Connection", Livingroom Gallery, St. Peter's, NYC.,NY.
2007 "Healing Art", Ellenville Regional Hospital, Ellenville, NY.
2007 "Color", Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2006 Holiday Show, Stone Window Gallery, Accord, NY
2004 Trees / Spirit, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2003 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2003 Ellenville Library, Ellenville, NY
2002 Recent Works, Northlight Gallery, Accord, NY
2002 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2001 Recent Landscapes: Celebrating Light and Colors,
Hasbrouck House, Stone Ridge, NY
2000 Mohonk Mountain House Barn Museum, New Paltz, NY
1999 Meditations on the Landscape, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2003 A.S.K. Artist Open Studio Tour, Kingston, NY
2003 Marbletown Tri-centennial Exhibition, Marbletown, NY
2003 Baba Ram Das Library, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2003 Art Harvest, Marbletown Arts Association, Marbletown, NY
2002 Trees, North Light Gallery, Accord, NY
2002 Group Show, Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY
2001 Winter Exhibition 2001 - Celebrating America, Pomana Cultural
Center, Pomona, NY
2000 Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artitsts Association, Woodstock, NY
2000 Nature Scenes, Eliza Pritzker Gallery, New Paltz, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kingston Hospital, Kingston, NY
Woodstock Physical Therapy, Woodstock, NY
Compassion Heights Veterinary, New Paltz, NY
Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Hill, NY
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Ronald Nyswaner, Nina Shengold, Shelly Wyant, John and Tinka Finn,
Elizabeth Benedict, Len and Marge Shengold, Katharine L. McKenna,
Barbara Arum
ASSOCIATIONS
New York Society of Women Artists - Member since 2003
Arts Society of Kingston, NY - Member since 2000
Gallery Representation
be gallery, High Falls NY.
Wheelhorse Gallery, Greenwich, Conn.
Mountain Shadow Gallery, Tucson AZ.
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