“Indivisibly Fluid” an exhibition at Good Question Gallery in Milford, PA features recent work by Johana Skalsky
Opening: Saturday, May 2nd, 7pm to 9pm
Exhibit Runs: May 1st to May 22nd, 2009
Good Question Gallery is located at 210 East Harford Street, Milford, PA 18337.
The gallery is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 12pm to 7pm, or by appointment.
For more information, please contact Richard Cutrona at (570) 296-5066.
www.goodquestiongallery.com
Archive for April, 2009
Camerawork gallery is pleased to announce:
“What It Is: An Abstract Art Photography Exhibition”, Photographs by Carl Berg
May 1 - June 2, 2009 - Opening reception: May 1, 5:30- 8:30pm
For more information about Camerawork gallery and the “What It Is: An Abstract Art Photography Exhibition” visit: http://www.cameraworkgallery.org/
You’ll find a map showing the gallery location here: http://www.cameraworkgallery.org/about.htm
Opening: Friday, May 1st, 6-9 pm, April 3rd - May 29th
The ART Mission and Theater, 61 Prospect Ave., Binghamton, NY 13901
For further information, contact www.artmission.org or (607)722-6914
Drawings of pensive females in ink & watercolor by Ted Michalowski, facing the fluctuations of and between romance and drawing. Exhibition runs May 1 through May 26, 2009.
Opening Reception:Friday, May 1, 6-9 pm. Live music by Chris Gratz
Windsor Studio, 408 Spruce St., Scranton, PA 18503 (570) 342-7415
Bill Chickillo is having an exhibit of paintings and pastels at Thos. Moser, Cabinetmakers, at 699 Madison Ave (2nd floor) (between 62nd and 63rd Sts.) in New york City from March 28 to June 26. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, May 16, from 3-6 PM. For further information call 212-753-7005.
‘Transformations 2008: Icons & Imagery’ runs from May 7-July 27, 2009, at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, and features studio art quilts by 32 artists from nine countries. Each of the artist members of Studio Art Quilt Associates represented in ‘Transformations 2008: Icons & Imagery’ used the idea of an icon, with its ability to elicit symbolic meaning beyond the object represented, as a starting point for the quilts in this exhibit. The artists work chosen for the exhibit feature a diverse range of imagery, all of which use what are iconic pieces, including Byzantine icons themselves, symbols from ancient world cultures, the American landscape, feminine pop culture “icons,” and cultural motifs taken from oft reproduced media imagery. The quilts included in this exhibit feature diverse styles of textile and fiber arts, reflecting time-honored quilting, sewing, and embroidery techniques as well as less traditional techniques such as printing, photography, collage and inclusion of found objects in and on the quilts. The exhibit which is on loan from Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) has toured internationally and was curated by Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer.
The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in New York is calling for entries for the 112th Annual Open Juried Exhibition at the National Arts Club, Oct 1-Oct 23, 2009. The exhibition is open to women artists. Work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, graphics and sculpture may be entered Over $9,000 in awards will be given. The postmark deadline is July 2, 2009. Visit www.clwac.org for a prospectus.
‘Pennsylvania Seasons’, an exhibit of Commonwealth Images and Poetry will take place at the MAC Gallery from May 8th to August 7th. There will be an Opening Reception on May 8th from from 6 to 8 PM.
The exhibit features photographs by Dr. Henry F. Smith Jr. and poetry from fifty-two Pennsylvania poets compiled and edited by Esther B. Davidowitz. The exhibit is in cooperation with the Schemel Forum and the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library of the University of Scranton. The opening reception will feature a Power Point presentation by Dr. Henry Smith, book signing, and poetry readings
The MAC Gallery is located at 123 Wyoming Ave., Scranton. For further information, go to 222.MelbergerArtsCenter.com
You are invited to a month of celebration dedicated to Martha Sampson, the founder of the Endless Mountains Council of the Arts in Tunkhannock. An exhibit of her artwork will be at the EMCA Gallery until the end of May. There will be an open poetry reading featuring the poetry of Martha Fray Sampson on Sunday, April 19, 2009 from 2-5 PM. And there will be a performance of Bach and Mozart music loved by Martha with Mark and Deirdre on violin and harp on Sunday, April 26, 2009 from 2-5 PM.
EMCA is located at 302 West Tioga St, Tunkhannock, PA.
The glass art of Karen Reid will be featured at an exhibit entitled ‘Wanting Blue’ at the Laura Craig Galleries from May 1 until June 29, 2009. There will be an opening reception on Friday, May 1 from 6 to 8 PM.
The Gallery is located at 307 Linden St. in Scranton. For more information, call 570-963-7995.
An Announcement and Invitation from the Nutshell Arts Center to all Artists who wish to show Paintings, Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics and Mixed Media.
The 2009 Exhibition Schedule is as Follows:
Spring Show, “PRIMAVERA 2009”, will run from June 6 to June 21, 2009.
The Indigenous Show, “El Mundo Indigena”, will run from July 11 thru July 26, 2009.
The “Figure Show” will run from August 8 thru August 23, 2009.
The last show, “Art For All Seasons”, will run from September 5 thru September 20, 2009.
All artists are invited to participate in any or all of the shows at a fee of $60 per show.
The gallery hours have been extended by one extra day. We will now open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11AM to 5 PM.
All opening receptions are free and open to the public. Opening receptions are scheduled for Saturdays at 5 PM to 7 PM. Complimentary wine, juice and chips will be served.
After each reception there will be a “Pot Luck” party with music and dancing.
The Nutshell Art Center Gallery Annex, will be opened from June 6 through September 20, 2009. Pottery, paintings, drawings, photography and other mixed media will be exhibited at no cost to the artists. The works in this gallery will have a maximum price of $300.
An extensive collection of original day-glow paintings from the “Woodstock” 1969 Bethel Concert will be on display from August 8 through September 20 in our new exhibition room.
For more information contact Carmen or Juan at 845-614-5456, carmrig@earthlink.net
You may also log on to www.nutshellarts.com.
Bricolage: REBIRTH - a Visual Concepts Spring 2009 Class Exhibition a tGreenBeing
Environmentally and Socially Responsible, 334 Adams Ave. Scranton, PA 18503 April 3 through April 28, 2009.
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 3, 2009, 6-9pm
Bricolage: REBIRTH started as an assignment given by Ted Michalowski to his Visual Concepts class at Marywood University. This is an exhibition of the 14 solutions by the 14 students. The assignment was to create a bricolage dimensional work, incorporating a free-wheeling use of materials, the theme being Rebirth. This theme brought interpretations from the secular to sacred, social to seasonal, recycling to resurrection, ecological to enigmatic.
Materials were gathered ad hoc by each individual student, assorted finds such as cardboard, plastic, aluminum, wood, cloth, tin cans, nails, string, etc. These scrounged materials were manipulated so that they no longer resembled that of their original purpose, in order to create something much more beautiful. That’s bricolage.
This way of working was introduced to Ted Michalowski by his bricolage mentor at Syracuse University’s ISDP-MA Illustration Masters Program, the master bricoleur, Gene Hoffman— handy-man, tinkerer, trash-talker, dumpster-diver, pick-of-the-litter, neotoma cinerea, the conceptual blockbuster. Gene Hoffman passed away in 2005, however his life renews, as his methods, through generations of students inspired.
For further information, call(570) 341-9988
CristinKathleen@shopgreenbeing.com
http://www.shopgreenbeing.com/GreenBeing.html
Michaelangelo’s Restaurant presents…..
A New Art Exhibit Opening Reception
Organic . People . Clay
By
Linda Lee Nicholas, Marylou Chibirka, and Nan Burti, respectively
When: April 24,2009
Time: 5:30-7:00
Cash bar and complimentary small bites
The Artery, Milford’s perennial cooperative gallery, welcomes its past members for a special alumni showcase throughout the month of April. Twenty-two featured alumni from PA, NY, and NJ join current artist-owners for a fantastic range of work including paintings, photography, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, and wearable art. This is the first alumni showcase in the 10-year history of the Artery, so it’s something not to be missed!
Returning alumni include glass artist Barbara Arrindell; painters and mixed media artists Jennifer Bauser, Claudia Bocker, Mary Ellen Campbell, Linda Holmes Richichi, Susan Hope Fogel, Earl Hoyt, Sharon Nakazato, Jim Palmer, Jeffrey Parker, Frank Shuback, Christopher Staples, Ellen Cardella-Tedesco, Mella Tusinean and Lisa Zukowski; sculptor George
Fedoruk; photographers John Kiersten and Steve Polatnick; jeweler Karen L. Cohen; and ceramicists Kim Lust, Ayla Maloney and Laura Orvieto. Additionally, artwork by the Artery’s current members complement the vast array of creative media on display for this special event.
The exhibition of more than forty artists will run from April 9th through May 4th. Please feel free to stop by and meet the artists, view their new works, and enjoy some light refreshments during the artist’s reception on Saturday, April 11th between 4:00 pm -8:00 pm.
The Artery is located in historic Forest Hall at the corner of Broad and Harford Streets in Milford, PA., and is a proud participant in the ART AFTER DARK program. Milford’s streets come alive during this town wide, second Saturday art walk event.
Regular gallery hours are Thursday – Sunday, 11am - 6 pm & Monday 11-3 pm.
For more information call 570 409-1234 or visit us atwww.arteryonline.com
“WHAT IT IS” - An Abstract Art Photography Installation at Camerawork Gallery, located downstairs at the Marquis Gallery, 513 Center Street, Scranton, PA 18503
Fine Art Photography by Carl Berg
May 1st, 2009 thru June 2nd, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, May 1st, 2009 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“My artistic task is to notice and reflect: finding the artful in the ordinary, the depth and complexity in the superficial and the detail in the unnoticed, a parallel process to my professional psychological pursuits. My photographic images are intended to diminish the distinction between the world of the photographic image and that of other visually artistic productions. Through the freezing and recording of a moment in time between the documenter and the subject, my images intend to evoke a narrative about the subject, which the viewer can identify, engage or perhaps intuit in a uniquely interesting and individualistic way. The task for me is to identify elements of expression in subjects not ordinarily seen as communicative and thereby project and impose the observer’s understanding and relationship onto this otherwise blank and unexpressive screen. My images are not premeditated, constructed or creatively lighted, but are expressive of the spontaneous nature of that instant opportunity, unlikely to be presented again. ”
Carl Berg www.nonationimages.com
Opening May 7, 2009 ‘Transformations 2008: Icons & Imagery’
Icons & Imagery is composed of 32 contemporary quilts from nine countries. The exhibit is traveling internationally and was previously shown in England and South Africa. Each of the artist members of Studio Art Quilt Associates represented in Transformations ‘08: Icons & Imagery used the idea of an icon, with its ability to elicit symbolic meaning beyond the object represented, as a starting point for the quilts in this exhibit. German textile expert Rudolf Smend, who served as the sole juror of this exhibit, chose work he felt “focused primarily on artistic originality, perfect craftsmanship and innovation,” while providing a new take on the meaning of iconography through the use of fresh imagery and interpretations. The exhibit was produced by Studio Art Quilt Associates. For more information on the exhibit, contact the Everhart Museum at 570-346-7186 or email: general.information@everhart-museum.org.
The Blue Heron Gallery in Wyalusing is presenting an exhibit inspired by the light of Italy. This exhibit is to showcase contemporary artists’ and poets’ interpretations of all things Italian. This exhibit will embrace the Greco-Roman tradition and neo-classic thrust of Renaissance artists, humanists, writers, sculptors, architects, politicians, and scientist.
Works may include contemporary and widely disparate sources of inspiration, such as images based on our Greek Revival buildings here in the USA or portrayals of the landscape of
Tuscany/Umbria, etc., or works inspired by Renaissance and classical artists. The exhibit will present a catalog of the show along with the written work of regional poets.
The visual art submissions should be sent in j-peg form via e-mail to bkeeler@epix.net, or on a disc or with 35 mm slides. The entry form available on the gallery web site should be completed and sent in with the $30 entry fee, check payable to Blue Heron Italian Light Show.
The poets may submit up five works as well, via e-mail to bkeeler@epix.net. The fee for poets is $20 and that should be sent by mail or dropping it off at the gallery. The deadline for submissions for both artists and poets is June 15, 2009. but early entries are encouraged to facilitate the compilation of the catalog. A special opening and poetry reading will be at the gallery on Friday August 20, with live music and dancing too.
For information about the show visit the gallery web site at www.blueheronart.org or call 570-746-4922. Blue Heron Gallery, 121 Main St- PO Box 813, Wyalusing, PA 18853.
There is a Call for Entries for photographers for ‘Current Exposures’, Photography Show at Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ. The deadline is June 17. The exhibit will take place September 11 through November 7, 2009.
Juror: Michael Dalton, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Photography, Mercer County Community College. Michael Dalton is an associate professor and the Coordinator of Photography at Mercer County Community College. He has exhibited his work over the last 20 years in a variety of galleries and other locations. His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in the Yavne Center for the Arts in Israel. He has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia University. More about him and some of his work can be seen at www.mcdalton.net.
This juried show seeks to showcase the many forms of photography: traditional film, digital, alternative, computer enhanced and manipulated. Entry fee $20 for 5 images.
For further info: 609-989-9119, or visit www.gallery125.com.
The STAR Gallery at the Steamtown Mall will be hosting an art show for the First Friday in May titled “Survivor Masks”, made by the Women Resources Center. In the background, we will also have a “Musical Jamming Cafe” with local musicians.
The Annual Susquehanna River Canoe Trip (originally an AFA event with Gary Grossman in 1992) will be on the July 25-26 weekend this year. We will be doing the traditional route between Ulster and Wyalusing (Terrytown Access). We start sometime around noon on Saturday at the bridge in Ulster and spend the night at the mouth of the Towanda Creek. Then we paddle on down to Terrytown the next day with a stop for lunch at French Azilum or Standing Stone. The total distance is about 25 miles with most of that distance done on Sunday. We usually finish late in the afternoon on Sunday. You may come for just Saturday or Sunday or do the whole trip. Bring your instruments for playing around the campfire and art supplies for painting and drawing. We leave some of our instruments etc near the campsite so our boats are not overloaded. Of course bring all your own gear, food and
camping stuff if your spending the night.
You can bring your boat or rent canoes and kayaks from David and Melody Buck at Endless Mountain Outfitters in Sugar Run, PA. Call them to reserve your boat at 570-746-9140 or kayaks@ptd.net or http://endlessmountainoutfitters.com/
A slide lecture on the Sistine Chapel of St Peter’s in Rome will be the subject of this presentation given by Brian Keeler Tuesday, May 12, at 7 p.m., at the Blue Heron Gallery, at 121 Main Street in Wyalusing in the T/W Community Room Gallery. $5 donation requested to benefit the Wyalusing Community Corporation (WCC).
The paintings of Michelangelo, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel encapsulate the ethos and energizing myth of the entire Renaissance- which was to unite the classical past with Biblical teaching of the Catholic church of the 1500’s (cinquecento. This lecture will simplify the structure, process of creation, the immense challenge, the controversial restoration, the revealed color and much more. The lecture is designed to acquaint those who visit the chapel with Brian during the June or September tours.
The presentation is open to all. Light refreshments served. Please callfor information - RSVP requested. 570-746-1187 or 746-4922 or bkeele@epix.net
