‘Landscape and Other Territory’, an exhibit of collage works will take place at the EMCA (Endless Mountains Council of the Arts) Gallery in Tunkhannock from July 5-26. The works of Betty Bryden, Liz Parry-Faist and Earl Lehman will be featured. Further information is available at http://emca.emcs.net or 836-3622.
Archive for June, 2009
The 24th Annual International Juried Show is being presented at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, January 15 to March 19, 2010. This critically acclaimed show is open to artists with eligible work in all media from the United States and around the globe. A distinguished member of the arts community is chosen as juror each year. Susan Kismaric, Curator, Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, will serve as this year’s juror. Best In Show award: $1,000 cash prize and Lunch with Susan Kismaric, Curator at the Museum of Modern Art. Includes roundtrip travel and accommodations with one night hotel stay in Summit, New Jersey plus travel to meet and have lunch with the juror.
Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2009. For further info, contact www.artcenternj.org.
‘An Intimate View of Nature’, an exhibit of paintings by Louis N. Pontone, will be held at the River Gallery in Narrowsburg, NY, from June 27 through July 25. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, June 27, from 6 to 9 PM.
The exhibit is a collection of Delaware Valley landscapes, done inacrylic on panel and canvas. The River Gallery is located at 8 Main St., in Narrowsburg. Further information is available by calling 845-252-3238.
STAR Gallery at the Steamtown Mall will have an Art Show enitled “Artistic Crossroads” featuring three artists that are members of the Gallery. Alex Chuplygin will be displaying his Sci-Fi Digital Paintings, Jason Niznik will be featuring his Photography from Italy, and Gerry Stankiewicz will have his Nostalgic Cartoons and Portraits on display.
We invite you to come to this event to enjoy the artwork and music with our “Musical Jamming Cafe”, played by local musicians.
The event will be held on Friday, July 3rd, from 5pm til 9pm.
The Blue Heron Art Gallery, Wyalusing, Pa., is currently having a quilt show that features Big Star Quilts with designs by Nancy Johnson Srebro. The show runs through July 13th. A student art show will begin July 17th with the opening that day from 5-8pm. Daily hours of the gallery are M-F 9-4 and Sat. 10-2.
For further information contact wchamber@epix.net.
The EMCA Gallery (Endless Mountains Council of the Arts) in Tunhannock has announced its 13th Annual Regional Exhibit 2009. There are cash awards, and the juror is Ruthanne Miller, a fiber artist in the Village of Blackwell in Tioga County, PA. She also has been an adjunct faculty member at Mansfield University in the art department since 1986. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree at Marywood University.
The deadline for delivery of entries is July 17, 18, and 19 from 1 PM to 5 PM. The opening reception is July 31 at the Wyoming County Courthouse from 4 to 6 PM and the EMCA Center Gallery from 6 to 8 PM. For a copy of the prospectus, call EMCA at 836-3622 or go to http://emca.emcs.net.
The City of Scranton is sponsoring a program to paint murals at neighborhood swimming pools in Scranton. All are invited to participate, for an hour or day or to just stop by. All ages and abilities are welcome. The schedule is as follows:
Saturday, June 20 - Saturday, June 27 - Weston Field
Sunday, July 5 - Sunday, July 11 - Weston Park
Saturday, July 18 - Saturday, July 25 - Novembrino
Saturday, August 1 - Saturday, August 8 - Capouse/Penn Ridge
Saturday, August 15 - Saturday, August 22 - Connell Park
For more information, call Sandi at 348-4186.
‘Color Matters’, a national juried exhibit at South Shore Art Center from September 18 – November 1, 2009. Deadline for entries is August 15. The open exhibition is juried by Jen Mergel, Associate Curator at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The South Shore Art Center, founded in 1954, is located in the picturesque town of Cohasset, Massachusetts, 20 miles south of Boston. The 1987 building houses two spacious galleries, two teaching studios, and a darkroom. For more information, visit the website, www.ssac.org, or write South Shore Art Center, 119 Ripley Road, Cohasset, MA 02025.
The Edward Hopper House is accepting applications for its 16th annual Small Matters of Great Importance exhibition, September 19–October 25, 2009. Submissions may be in drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, collage, wall relief, or digital art. Accepted works will address the theme and suggest import beyond their size. Interested artists should send a brief biography and artist statement, images on CD, and a $30 application fee for the first 3 entries plus an additional $5 for each additional entry. The application deadline is July 20, 2009. For additional information, visit www.hopperhouse.org.
The Keystone Art & Culture Center in Lancaster, PA, has announced ongoing exhibition opportunities for 2009 - 2011. Keystone Art is a nonprofit arts educational gallery and foundry located at 420 Pearl Street, Lancaster, PA . The 1800 sq. ft. gallery features local, regional, and international artists working in all media. The gallery features exposed brick and white wall space, track lighting and hardwood floors. Submissions are accepted on an open basis. Applications are reviewed every 3 months. No fee. Sales subject to PA state tax and a 30% commission. Submission information is available for download by clicking on “Call for Artists” at www.KeystoneArt.org
Seeking Contemporary Artists who desire representation in our new Harrisburg Area gallery. Gallery opens in August. Submissions will be reviewed in June and July. Please email five images of your work, vita/resume and biography.
There are no fees for representation. The gallery will operate on a commission-only basis. We seek only the best quality!
Local artists - get in on the ground floor!
Contact:Tammi | | www.westshoregallery.com | info@westshoregallery.com
DEADLINE: Sun, August 02, 2009
The Butternut Gallery and Second Story books in Montrose is having an exhibition featuring artists who work with wood. The exhibit will run from June 19 through July 26. There will be an opening reception on Friday, June 19, from 6 to 8 PM.
The exhibit will feature the following artists: Akir Blount, who makes dolls; Tom Canouse, a woodcarver; Benjamin Hobbs who creates furniture; Tom Noone, a creator of unique furniture; George Manns, a woodworker; and Ben Manns, his son, also a woodworker.
The Butternut Gallery is on the 2nd floor at 42 Church St. in Montrose, and is open Wed-Sat, 11 - 5 and Sunday 12-4 PM. For further information cal 278-4011.
The Sordoni Art Gallery will open the exhibition, Hard Coal Mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania: A Look Back on Monday, June 15. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, October 4, 2009.
Anthracite coal, the land, and its people have been a prime source of energy in these United States and an influencing factor in its economic development as an industrialized nation. Today, with the kaleidoscopic changes in energy sources, the land and its people are our heritage. This exhibition was first installed in 1976 and opened to the public for the bi-centennial celebration. A portion of the photographs depict the era of anthracite mining from the early 1900s to the late 1930s with emphasis on the miners – their lives, homes and families. Other photographs depict the mines, with emphasis on the mine machinery during these growth and expansion years.
The Sordoni Art Gallery is open to the public and is located at 150 South River Street in the Stark Learning Center on the Wilkes University campus. The Gallery is open daily from noon until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (570) 408-4325.
“Color Magic in Silk Painting” will be taught on Saturday, July 11, from 10-3 at Windsor WhipWorks Gallery in Windsor, NY (near Binghamton) with Marianna Ross. All materials are included in the $55.00 fee. Workshop will be held at the Gallery, 98 Main Street,Windsor. For info: Johanne Pesce,Co-Director, WWW: (607) 655-2370 or www.WhipWorksArtGallery.org.
Marianna’s work is included in: AAA Nat. Headquarters; Bank of America; Daytona Beach Regency Hotel,FL; Renaissance Hotel, US Virgin Islands; South Carolina State Art Collection; and, Walt Disney World, Orlando,FL. . She has been teaching and painting for over 35 years in watercolor, acrylic, and silk painting.
‘Natural Constructs’, photographs by Amy Ahearn-Gray and Michael Nathaniel Meyer will be featured at an exhibition at the AFA Gallery opening on July 2rd and continuing through August 1st. There will be an Opening Reception on First Friday, July 3rd, from 6-9 PM, with an Artists’ Talk at 5:30 PM.
As a photographer, Amy Ahearn-Gray’s main attention is toward the natural world. She uses her photographs as a way to share her visual perception with others. The beauty and simplicity of nature provides her with a sense of comfort and relaxation in what is, at times, a stressful world.
The title of her series is “Found Objects of Nature”. Each image is an abstracted micro-photogenic botanical, found in nature. The subjects photographed were objects she came across throughout her daily journeys. She envisions photographing the objects outside their natural environments, singularizing their unique structure. Each object is abstractedly photographed with a macro lens, meant to obstruct the viewer’s thought or to delay the viewer’s comprehension of the subject. All objects were photographed from a variety of angles to capture and emphasize their texture and form. Various images are then grouped to allow the eye to flow among the objects within the complete photograph. The series of photographs is cohesive by similar sizes and color. Each photograph has neutral tonality, consisting of warm blacks and shades of browns. Some of the work of Joyce Tenneson, Karl Blossfeldt, and Tom Baril inspired the basic idea for the series. Using their botanical images as references, the images are created using Ahearn-Gray’s personal touch and style.
Born in Pennsylvania, Amy Ahearn-Gray began her college career as a Graphic Designer at Pennsylvania College of Technology. After a year studying Graphic Design, in 2002 Amy moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she began her life as a photographer. She studied at the University of the Arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. In May of 2008, she received as Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Marywood University. During the final months of her graduate education she worked for the Himalayan Institute / YOGA+ Joyful Living magazine as a photographer. Currently, Amy is employed by FILA, USA working a Product Photographer in Maryland.
The photographs of Michael Nathaniel Meyer are from his ‘Journeys’ series, recording spans of time through which he has passed. Though each of these photographs represents a span of time that he has passed through, they are not meant to be specific passages, nor are they memories or documents. Rather, each photograph is the experience of a forward trajectory through a landscape of time that is hurtling past. He says, “Our experience of time is limited to the present moment, our recollections of moments gone by and our anticipation of moments to come. We cannot re-live the time that has passed, freeze the present, step ahead to a future moment or alter the speed at which one becomes the next. Our level of awareness of, or obliviousness to, that constant passage, though, alters our perception of our velocity.”
The photographs were created with regular 35mm cameras: the film was wound forward through the camera unexposed and then exposed as it was rewound past the open film gate (with the shutter on T). This creates roll length negatives that are then cut to 8” lengths, scanned and printed as 4″x40″ inkjet prints.
Michael was born in Auburn, Maine. He is currently a Brooklyn-based photographer who splits his time between his personal projects, freelance assignments and teaching workshops exploring the power and potential of photography. Running throughout his work is an interest in the passage of time and the process of perpetual shift that is remaking the world moment by moment. His photographs have been widely exhibited in the New York Metro area and New England. His work has been called “distinctive” by Susan Danly, Curator of Photography at the Portland Museum of Art, and “accomplished” by Marilyn Kushner, former Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum.
He has studied at Fordham University and Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC, receiving a Mentoring Supervision Certificate, 2006. He graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA with Honors 2002, majoring in photography. He also attended the School for International Training in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2001 in a program entitled “Arts, Culture and Social Change”.
One Point Design is having a Photo Opening at its Scranton Showroom (101 Pittston Ave)
with John Levandoski, a native of Wilkes-Barre. John has been involved in photography for approximately 30 years. From 1983 to 1997 he owned and operated Camera Pro Inc., a retail camera store and studio. In 2003, he created John Levandoski Fine Art Photography. John shows and sells his work at local venues throughout northeast Pennsylvania and also at art festivals in PA, NY and NJ.
John’s medium of choice is traditional b&w silver halide photography processed and printed by hand in a wet darkroom. For the last few years, this has been done mostly with a large format camera.
Date: July 3rd 5-8 pm, and the artist will be on hand
If you have any questions, feel free to contact 570.207.5139.
The STAR Gallery at Steamtown will have an opening on June 5th for the First Friday entitled “Summer Blues Tones”. The artists in this show will be current STAR Gallery Members and Guest Artist, Carol Gressell. There will also be a “Musical Jamming Cafe” where local musicians are welcome to join in and play music.
The premiere exhibit of ‘Pennsylvania Hands’, Sally Wiener Grotta’s newest photographic portrait project, will be unveiled at Muhlenberg College’s Galleria Lobby of the Baker Center for the Arts. The opening reception will be during Muhlenberg’s annual Alumni Weekend, on Friday, June 5th, at 4pm.
Pennsylvania Hands is Sally Wiener Grotta’s visual celebration of those individuals who keep alive the traditional crafts that built our country’s dynamically diverse culture and established the underpinnings of our present-day society. In this ongoing project, she is creating narrative portraits of people who use their hands in traditional ways, making functional objects that are, today, typically done by machines.
The eight panels of this exhibit will display sizable canvas portraits. In addition, each canvas will be surrounded by storyboards (made of hardwood floor planking) with a total of about 50 sepia-toned digitally hand-colored smaller photographs. The storyboards depict the creative processes behind each artisan’s craft.
This Muhlenberg College showing of Pennsylvania Hands is the launch exhibit of Sally’s project, which will next move to the Trolley Museum in Scranton, PA, then onto various venues throughout the east coast and, eventually, around the country. Sally will also be giving lectures associated with the exhibits, visiting schools, senior citizen centers, community organizations and so forth. Pennsylvania Hands will ultimately evolve into American Hands,as she focuses her camera on artisans beyond the borders of her home state. She will also be developing a book on American Hands in the near future.
