Art League of LI News

MAKING WAVES a Faculty Exhibition August 21 - September 12     "Linden Bark Red" knitted industrial wire sculpture by Joyce Goodman.  Photo credit:  Cathy Carver The heart of the Art League of Long Island is its distinguished and dedicated faculty. In advance of the fall semester, the Art League of Long Island honors them in an exhibition of their personal work.    The Art League's faculty is comprised of well-respected, award-winning artists who also share a common goal of excellence in teaching art to students of all ages and abilities.  They are dedicated to introducing new techniques and materials to their students, challenging them to root out compositional clichés and  getting them to think about their work in new ways.   In addition to its long-time group of master teachers in the classic areas of painting, drawing, ceramics, and sculpture, the Art League is making waves in presenting new classes and workshops that go beyond the traditional forms of expression.  For example, one of their newest faculty members, a professional goldsmith, takes knitting to another level as she teaches students how to create unique jewelry by knitting with metal wire.  Teaching artists also conduct classes in mosaic design, fused glass, digital photography, painting on silk to make wearable art, and other specialized jewelry techniques. Admission to the exhibit is open to the general public at no charge Monday through Friday 9am - 4pm and on Saturdays 11am - 4pm.   The gallery will be closed Monday September 6 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Join Us @ Their Newest Location 168 B Glen Cove Road · Carle Place, New York Thursday, September 2, 2010 5:00 - 8:00 pm Enjoy a Night of ART Demonstrations by Donna Harlow Moraff & Roberta Erlagen  Live DJ Music · Discounts · Refreshments  Hors d'oeuvres · Cocktails Bring your Friends and Family Please RSVP  by Monday August 23 631.462.5400 ext 233 or 227 Call for Artists: Our 47th Holiday Fine Art & Craft Fair will be held at the Art League December 4 and 5 at our spacious facility in Dix Hills.  Visit www.artleagueli.org to download prospectus. Register now for FALL Classes and Workshops! Check out the Art League's Fall class schedule at  www.myartleague.org, or click here to download a print version  Lots of new classes and unique workshops in store, here are a just a few of them! Starting in September and again in November, nationally recognized award-winning artist and local resident, Nanette Fluhr, will teach a class called Painting the Portrait & the Figure in Oil from Life Coming this October is artist Joel Spector's two-hour still life pastel demonstration, where students can learn about his approach to the "creative process" and the language of art Starting in October and again in November catch Certified Creative Coach Elizabeth Cassidy's workshop, Coaching for the Creative Soul, where artists can reinvigorate their sense of creativity The Art League of Long Island | 107 East Deer Park Rd | Dix Hills NY 11746 631.462.5400 | www.artleagueli.org

Recent Paintings of Hemraj

Hemraj

This comes to my mind when I look at the paintings of Hem Raj. His paintings help us to reach a point of thinking through meditation,

a point of wordless and unintellectual understanding, which lie behind signs and symbols. His paintings lead us on a kind of tantric path,

a path that combines meditation with consciousness. Meditation, the means of reaching a world beyond thinking, is an important concern

of the artist. His paintings are meant to bring piece for the onlooker and the painter. They should be a sublime representation of feeling

beyond thinking. Thus you could attain “Anand”, eternal bliss, spiritual joy. Then only you could reach “anyatra dharmad anyatra adharmat”,

an ex-pression from the Upanishads that was used by Nietzsche for his highly influental work “Jenseits von Gut und Böse” (Beyond good and evil).

© Ernst W. Koelnsperger

German

Art Critic & Art Collecter

With Rgds……

Hemraj

(+91) 9811132871

hemraj@hemrajartist.com

www.hemrajartist.com

John C. Kuchera to show at Armory 25th and Lexington this weekend.

Convergence Armory Art Show August 27,28 & 29th 25th and Lexington Please consider joining John C. Kuchera this weekend at Convergence. This is a huge Art Show, with over 100 Artist. john@AmericanArtGallery.info www.AmericanArtGallery.info 646-750-6184 Thank You, John About John C. Kuchera To who it concerns: John C. Kuchera is now living in Harlem, a downtown boy from the early 1980s is now enjoying the open spaces uptown. John C. Kuchera has been painting and drawing for years, his style is refreshing and enjoyable, he uses many a medium but he likes pen and Ink and oils with acrylic. A Printer, Photographer a Porter at Columbia University, Farm worker, Security Guard in Maine (guarding Mice) a Janitor cleaning banks, even a copy writer, his most famous copy was, Yes, Virginia we do toilets (for a Cleaning service) © Kuchera

Modern and Contemporary Editions: Invitation to Consign

American Art Gallery Press Announcement

2010 Art Season American Art Gallery - 131 Christopher St. · NYC

New York, NY - 8/24/2010 - American Art Gallery - 131 Christopher St. · NYC Welcome to the Wonderful 2010 ART season at American Art Gallery. We have some great Solo Art shows this Fall. December we have "The Grand Holiday Art Fair" Featuring some of the best loved art from the past year and introducing some new art. Please consider making American Art Gallery part of your Art Fix for the fall and beyond. www.AmericanArtGallery.info Sept 7 -       Lisa DuBois: Solo Show Sept 21 -     Hans Wolf: Solo Show Oct  5 -        Rachel Wilkins: Solo Show Oct 19 -       Dan Olda: Solo Show Nov  2 -       Ben Louria: Solo Show Nov  16 -     John C. Kuchera: Solo Show Nov  30 -     Colleen Blackard: Solo Show Dec 14 -     Group Show                   (Grand Holiday Art Fair)   Rings-oil on canvas-36" x 48" by John C. Kuchera

Mark Borghi Fine Art

Mark Borghi Fine Art will host the exhibit and opening reception of “The Dogon: A limited-edition series of photographs by Stuart Franklin” on Saturday, August 28th 2010 from 6-9 pm at 2426 Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY.  100% of sales will go to the Voss Foundation, whose mission is to help provide rural African villages with access to clean water.

SunStorm Arts Publishing Co. Inc Mail - Grand Opening - info@fineartmagazine.com

Students & Members of the Art League of Long Island are Cordially Invited to the Grand Opening of

Join Us @ Their Newest Location

168 B Glen Cove Road · Carle Place, New York

Thursday, September 2, 2010
5:00 - 8:00 pm


Enjoy a Night of ART
Demonstrations
by
Donna Harlow Moraff
&

Roberta Erlagen


Live DJ Music · Discounts · Refreshments
Hors d'oeuvres · Cocktails

Bring your Friends and Family

Please RSVP 631.462.5400 ext 233 or 227

Fine Art Magazine - Interview With Kenneth McClure & Juliann Giurelo

BIAGIO CIVALE

The Multipurpose Building, located in Anthony F. Veteran Park, at 11 Olympic Lane, Ardsley, NY houses program activities for Senior Citizens. 

Along the side of the building a rock with a plaque commemorates the lives lost in the September 11 attack on New York. Until the end of August 2010, one can also see, inside the corridors of the building, a painting by Biagio Gino Civale that stresses the smoke coming out of Ground Zero.
(See image)

This work is part of a mini one-man exhibition by this Westchester artist, including thirteen paintings, oils, woodcuts and serigraphs.  The variety of the subject matter is also reflected in the interest for decoration per se. (as per other image). 



Marines, human figures and human activities are also depicted in the other works. 

This exhibition is open to the public during the hours of operation of the building.  For confirmation of access please call 914 693 8985.  The Multipurpose Building is part of the Parks & Recreation Department, Office for the Aging.

Biagio Gino Civale's website is: www.Civale.org

Rappel RSVP du Vernissage pour l'Artiste Daniel Merriam

RAPPEL RSVP

Vernissage

________________________________________________________________________________________ Daniel Merriam | Biographie Plus d'informations Site du Château de Belcastel CHATEAU BELCASTEL | Bâtie voici 1000 ans sur un solide éperon rocheux, cette magnifique forteresse surplombe l'un des plus beaux villages de l'Aveyron. Né sur une chapelle du 9e siècle, le château de Belcastel vit son histoire façonnée au cours des siècles par des générations de chevaliers, de nobles et de hors-la-loi. Mais la fin du 16e siècle marqua l'arrêt brutal de cette ascension lorsque le château fut abandonné et laissé pour ruine. En 1973, le célèbre architecte Fernand Pouillon en découvrit les vestiges qu'il décida de restaurer afin de rendre au château sa gloire d'antan. Il se consacra huit ans à la restauration de l'édifice, dont il fit plus tard sa demeure. Bien que privé, le château est ouvert à la visite et le public invité à découvrir ce qui est à la fois un monument historique et une galerie d'art. L'idée de cette cohabitation unique est l'oeuvre d'Animazing Gallery à Soho, New York. Depuis 1984, en effet, Animazing organise avec succès des expositions dont la beauté ludique est un plaisir pour les sens. Vous verrez d'authentiques armures médiévales, les douves d'origine, de magnifiques expositions, de superbes points de vue. Vous admirerez au plus près l'extraordinaire travail de restauration. Vous découvrirez cette histoire et cette architecture de génie qui font de la visite du château de Belcastel une expérience remarquable et inoubliable.

M Gallery of Fine Art Upcoming Events

NORTE MAARpresents

NORTE MAARpresents

DOUBLE FEATURE! Two art exhibitions open with receptions for the artists

 

Wednesday, August 4, 5-7:30PM (see below for details)

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ART @ PINE HARBOUR   GHARAN BURTON paintings + sculpture     opening reception: 5-7PM     Pine Harbour Assisted Living 15 New Hampshire Street Plattsburgh

 

ART @ EVERGREEN   ITA BULLARD recent paintings   reception: 6-7:30PM   Evergreen Valley Nursing Home 8 Bushey Blvd Plattsburgh

 

These exhibitions highlight new art by two of the North Country's great artists in two venues on the same night.  Begin the evening with paintings and sculpture by Gharan Burton at Pine Harbour from 5-7PM then meet up with painter Ita Bullard at Evergreen to see her new paintings from 6-7:30PM.

 

Spend an evening talking to the artists and seeing their diverse work!

 
Norte Maar presents in collaborative partnership with Pine Harbour Assisted Living + Evergreen Valley Nursing Home

a series of rotating art exhibitions. In a variety of themes and works including paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture,

these changing exhibitions allow visitors to enjoy the diversity and multiplicity of the contemporary world.

Norte Maar continues to work to enhance the environment for many long-term patients and residents

at these facilities offering visual enjoyment while enhancing a physical environment.

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NORTE MAAR

...encouraging, promoting and supporting collaborations in the arts.

646-361-8512          www.nortemaar.org

Pakpoom Silaphan

Pakpoom Silaphan

10 September – 23 October 2010

Private view Thursday 9 September, 6 - 8pm 

Scream Gallery is proud to present Pakpoom Silaphan’s  solo show, featuring new works from his Coca-cola series. 

 

Using vintage Coca-cola and Pepsi advertising signs as his canvas, Silaphan creates portraits of influential people using collage and illustration with marker pen and emulsion.  High-profile figures including John Lennon, Che Guevera and The Queen populate the signs, making a clear connection between icons and the advertising industry.  Silaphan takes Warhol’s elevation of everyday brands to high art, and combines it with his adoration of famous figures.  The power of advertising and corporate branding is demonstrated by the infiltration of Coca-Cola, Pepsi etc. to countries outside Western culture.  

 

As a child in rural Thailand, Silaphan amassed a collection of advertising signs, which he found in the street. The rediscovery of the collection as an adult was the seed of this new collection.  During his childhood, Silaphan came across Western icons such as Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol and Muhammad Ali, but had little knowledge of them, initially thinking Warhol was a scientist because of his messy hair.

 

In a world obsessed with superficial looks, where Warhol’s prophecy of ‘15 minutes of fame’ has become a reality to millions of YouTube ‘stars’ and X Factor contestants, Silaphan’s emphasis is firmly on the true contemporary icons, the people who made a significant impact on our culture.

 

Celebrity is really just a word.  The people who not only find fame, but also learn the power of influence, and in doing so, make a huge impact on our culture - these are the icons to me.                                             Pakpoom Silaphan, July 2010 

Silaphan studied fine art at Silpakorm University in Thailand, and worked in advertising for a period, before moving to London to continue his studies.  He took a Post-graduate course in print making at Camberwell College of Art, and an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art.  Silaphan has exhibited internationally with shows in the USA, France and Italy, and featured in ‘My Private Collection’ with Grayson Perry, David Hockney, Shephard Fairey and Banksy, at the Paul Smith Gallery in Tokyo in 2009.  He has had three solo shows at the Apart Gallery, and an exhibition ‘Establishing Establishment’ at Salon Gallery in 2009. 

Address:                                Scream Gallery, 34 Bruton Street, London W1J 6QX 

Telephone:                           + 44 (0) 20 7493 7388

Opening times:                     Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-5pm

 

http://www.screamlondon.com

 

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+ 44 (0) 7814 862 834 or lee@lee-johnson.co.uk

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