‘Enlightened Dogma II”, an exhibit of photographs by Curtis Salonick, will be shown at the AFA Gallery from March 5-28. There will be an opening reception on First Friday, March 6th, from 6-9 PM, with an artist talk at 5:30 PM. As a special treat, you are invited to be a part of Curtis’s ‘Birthday Photo’ at 7:30 PM at the reception.
Curtis is a self-taught, freelance photographer who has always been fascinated by art, with its creativity and discipline. His artistic direction began when he received his first 35 millemeter camera at age 16. He soon moved from 35 mm. to medium format, developing his skills both in the darkroom and in the field. Not content with traditional aspects of photography, he wanted to find a more creative outlet to express himself.
His images revolve around the interaction with the model. Most of the images taken are not totally themselves; they are just one component of several images used to complete a final, dramatic image. The process - developed over the years of searching – uses black-and-white, 4″ x 5″ duplicating film to transfer individual parts of an original negative to create a multi-layered negative, from which the final prints are made. The style that results he likes to refer to as Gothic Surrealism.
Curt describes it as follows: “Photography, long seen as the depiction or reflection of what is, provides for me the starting point of what is a creative process that transforms and manipulates several simple images into a final composite. My work is an on-going exploration of what I view as the four pillars that support the Human Condition. They are:
#1 – LIFE That which defines our physical being in the present.
#2 – DEATH Defined by the end of our physical being, an unknown of which we posses no comprehension, so we can neither accept nor deny it. Therefore we mourn it.
#3 – SEXUALITY The driving, dominant force that perpetuates the species.
#4 – RELIGION The golden parachute: a means to an end, a reason for being, a flicker of hope in the Great Unknown, defining man from birth to death and beyond.”
Archive for January, 2009
The 60th Art of the Northeast USA Exhibition invites regional artist submissions.
Deadline: March 14, 2009
Exhibit Dates: May 7 - June 5, 2009
Location: New Canaan, Connecticut
Venue: Silvermine Guild Arts Center Galleries
Fees: $25
Awards: $4000 - $8000
Submit: Entry form along with one CD-Rom or DVD of your artwork(s), and the entry fee. Artists may enter one or more works of art.
Eligibility: Open to All Media. Artists must reside in CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT
Website: www.silvermineart.org
Contact: AONE, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT. 06840
Phone: 203-966.9700 x 26
STAR Gallery at Steamtown Mall invites all local Artists to join us for our Artist Market on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14, 2009, 11am til 6pm. There will also be live music.
Register at our Gallery in Steamtown Mall by making a 25$ deposit per table.
Gallery Hours are Tues Through Sunday 12noon til 6pm
We are closed on Mondays.
For inquiries call 969-2537 or 343-3048
In 1980, Jeff Russell, a New York artist, nearly suffered his own destruction when his use of sprayed molten metal resulted in a serious respiratory illness. Unable to work in his normal fashion, he produced an edition of silkscreened prints of himself in a martyr-like pose. He sent copies of this work to one hundred artist with the request that they destroy the print and return it to him. Fifty-seven artists did just that, and the result became the exhibit known as ‘The Destroyed Print”. The returned works, many from some of the most recognized and lauded artists of the era, each provide an insight into the problem of how to create something new through the destruction of something given.
The Opening Reception will take place at the Linder Gallery at Keystone College, La Plume, PA Sunday, February 8, 4-6PM. The exhibit will continue through March 8.
Borrowing its name from the bedrock of Pike County, BlueStone Gallery has opened its doors on East Ann Street in Milford. Gallery owner Robert Levine will exhibit both fine and functional art, and plans for the gallery to become a center for intimate cultural events in Milford.
Levine, along with his operating partner David Greenbaum, who is himself a nationally recognized potter, have selected 12 artists for their opening exhibition. These artists include painters, sculptors, a wood turner, a glass artist, a blacksmith, a clothing-designing couple as well as Greenbaum.
Levine, an intellectual property attorney in New York, and his wife, the writer Suzanne Braun Levine, have spent weekends in the region for over 30 years. Inspired by the creation of the Hotel Fauchere, Levine found himself spending more and more time in Milford. “I found that I wanted to become part of the Milford community, involved and committed not just a visitor” said Levine. “The gallery is an opportunity to combine my interests and abilities and to contribute to the cultural life of Milford.”
Levine and Greenbaum intend to edit their exhibition regularly and to continuously add new artists. They are offering regional artists an opportunity not just to show their work but to become part of the new BlueStone community. “What most surprised me,” said Levine, “was that of all the artists we selected for our first exhibition, none of them knew any of the others.”
BlueStone Gallery is located at 104 East Ann Street in Milford and will be open Friday through Sunday every week from 11:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.
‘DRAWINGS’ at the EMCA
The Endless Mountains Council of the Arts (EMCA) in Tunkhannock presents: ‘DRAWINGS’ by Trudy Gerlack, John Bromberg, Edie Suydam, Pat Knecht and Ted Michalowski from February 1 through 22nd. There will be an Opening Reception on Sunday, February 1st, from 2 PM - 5 PM. For further information call 836-3622 or http://emcs.net
The Windsor Whip Works Art Gallery , one of the regionʼs most celebrated art galleries, is looking for accomplished artists to exhibit this summer and spring 2010. Impressionists, expressionists, traditionalists, abstract painters, sculptors, ceramicists, multimedia are welcome to apply. Send pdfs/jpgs to Johanne@WhipWorksArtGallery.org , or send CDs with images and resumesʼ to
Windsor Whip Works Art Gallery
PO Box 7
Windsor , NY 13865-0007
For more information call Johanne or Bill at the following numbers
Phone: 607-655-2370
Cell: 516-509-0099
Website: www.WhipWorksArtGallery.org
Red Shoes Dance Company
The Red Shoes Dance Company is going to be modeling for the Tuesday Night Drawing Group at the AFA Gallery on February 17th. The hours are 7-9 PM, as usual. There will be several of the dancers modeling. The artists will have the option to display their work from this night at the Red Shoes fundraiser that will be at the Scranton Renaissance Center on Pittston Ave., Scranton, at the end of March.
For February’s First Friday, STAR Gallery at the Steamtown Mall is inviting you to a Book Signing- Alyssa Amori’s Pictoral Book “Scranton-The Electric City”. You are also invited to see Alyssa’s photography and the new artworks of current STAR Members.
Gallery 125 invites artists to submit works for ‘Threads’, March 13 through May 2.
THREADS is an all media juried show on the theme of clothing in all of its shapes, sizes and manifestations. From wool to leather, spinning wheel to closet, Dorothy’s slippers to Elvis’s blue suede shoes; it’s what we wear, what covers us, displays us, exposes us. It’s conformity, self expression, an attraction, a deterrent. It’s a cover up and yet a revealing insight into who we are.
Entry fee $20 for 5 images.
Please call the gallery at 609-989-9119, visit www.gallery125.com or email gallery125@trenton-downtown.com with any questions.
The Very Nearly Perfect Comedy of Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare and Zuppa del Giorno
A clown and commedia love story.directed by David Zarko with Angelo Crotti and Mark McKenna
and featuring Tila Paris Angley, David Berent*, Pat Brogan, Andrea Brugnera, Angelo Crotti, Conor McGuigan*, Teresa Mastrobuono, Heather Stuart*, Jeff Wills*, and David Zarko *members of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States
ETC’s international commedia troupe, Zuppa del Giorno, is joined by internationally recognized commediani Andrea Brugnera (from Italy) and Angelo Crotti (from France) as they take their own special look at the greatest love story ever told.
Pay What You Can Previews: February 4, 5 & 6
Opening Night (with a post show party and beer tasting): February 7
The Very Nearly Perfect Comedy of Romeo & Juliet plays through February 22
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 8, and Sundays at 3
Tickets start at $7
Wednesday, February 11 and 18 are Cheaper Than a Movie Nights, all tickets $7
The Opening Night Party is $5 plus any ticket to The Very Nearly Perfect Comedy of Romeo & Juliet (past, current, or future)
Valentine’s Day Special!
SBA Members and Employees
Purchase two tickets for the price of one for Romeo & Juliet on Valentine’s Day
Saturday February 14 at 8 p.m.
A free craft beer tasting will follow the performance.
For details and to purchase tickets: 570/558-1515 or www.electrictheatre.org (Season: Romeo & Juliet)
Electric Theatre Company
Professional Theatre in the Heart of Scranton
326 Spruce Street, Second Floor (in the old Hotel Jermyn)
Downtown Scranton
First Friday Mixer
Happy New Year!
First Friday is taking a break from it’s usual monthly event in January and hosting a mixer on January 15 at the Radisson from 5:30-7:30 pm. I hope you can join us! We will be creating a collaborative mural with Heart to Art sponsored by Keystone College and Marywood University.
We’ll have great food, cash bar and lots of great mixing and mingling! Admission is $5 or FREE if you have a Friends of First Friday card (also available at the door).
Please forward to ANYONE and EVERYONE you think is interested in supporting the arts in Scranton!
Thanks! I hope to see you on January 15!
Lisa Sauder
Executive Director, First Friday
www.firstfridayscranton.com
The AFA Gallery will be having its 2009 AFA Winter Member Show from Thursday, February 5th, through Saturday, February 28th. The Opening Reception will take place on First Friday, February 6th, from 6 to 9 PM.
It is expected that more than 40 works will be exhibited in all media, from paintings to ceramics and photography. The artworks of AFA members reveal a wide variety of artistic styles. AFA members come from throughout the northeastern Pennsylvania region.
The AFA Gallery is located at 514 Lackawanna Avenue in downtown Scranton. Normal Gallery hours are Thursday-Saturday, noon to 5 PM. Further information may be obtained by calling 570-969-1040 or visit the website at Artistsforart.com or the blogsite at http://afa.jgrabowski.com.
‘Landscape and Industry’ is a juried exhibition of artwork created to depict and explore the relationship and interaction between the natural and manufactured world. The term “landscape art” often calls to mind pastoral scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. “Industry” introduces technological change into the environment, describing manmade structures and artificial constructions. Each artist’s work explores the complex relationship between natural landscapes and deliberate creations. Landscape & Industry gives artists the opportunity to explore their own interpretation of how modern industrialization has changed the way artists view the traditional natural landscape scene. In the first floor Cohen Gallery.
The entry deadline is Monday, Feb. 2. The exhibit will be May 10, through June 14, 2009
Juror:Matthew Daub
Matthew Daub’s watercolor paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited throughout the United States for over three decades. He has had more than twenty one-person exhibitions at galleries and museums in New York, Chicago and elsewhere, including the Reading Public Museum and the Demuth Museum in Pennsylvania. Daub works have been included in numerous curated and invitational exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 1991, The Metropolitan Museum featured a Daub watercolor in their annual engagement calendar, American Watercolors. His work is currently featured in the literary magazine, Ontario Review. Daub is the juror for the Michigan Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition in 2009. He has been a Professor of Fine Art at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania since 1987. He is also the director of ARTS SOJOURN; an arts/travel company specializing in Italy.
The GoggleWorks is an exciting multifaceted community art center located in downtown Reading. Built in 1871, Thomas A. Willson & Co. manufactured eyeglasses and safety goggle equipment at the building until May, 2002. This 140,000 sq.ft. complex opened as an art center in September 2005 featuring 34 studios for working artists, hot, warm and cold glass studios, ceramics and pottery facilities, a wood shop, photography dark room facilities, a 131-seat art film theatre, dance and music studios, gallery space, gift shop and café. Visitors have an opportunity to visit resident artists in their studios in addition to viewing the art exhibition and enjoying all the GoggleWorks facilities. For driving directions call 610.374.4600 or visit www.goggleworks.org.
Send all application materials to GoggleWorks Center for the Arts at:
201 Washington Street, Reading, PA 19601
AFA member Bill Tersteeg will be exhibiting at Allentown Art Museum as a part of the 30th Annual
Juried Show. The exhibit will be showing in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition, “Monet to Matisse” Feb. 1 through April 26, 2009. The Allentown Art Museum is located at 31 Fifth St.,
Allentown, PA 18101. For additional information, call (610)432-7409.
