The LOng Island NCGR hosts. Emily Waldron, September 17th 7-9 PM Levittown Hall. Levittown NY.

 Hi Hope to see all astrology lovers in person or online. See details below. 

Keep it Simple!!! Join the LINCGR where it all began on Long Island.  https://ncgrastrology.org/register/ Come explore the symbolic language of Astrology with the us!  “We need to remember that astrologers are the traditional guardians of this sacred relationship between the earth and the sky"―Bernadette Brady, astrologer. Meet Emily Waldron, September 17, Levittown hall Levittown NY  Director of NCGR Membership,  Topic Venus Retrograde: Have any questions send them to Longislandncgr@gamail.com and Emily will respond in her lecture.  In person live Levittown Hall, and on line.  Register on Event Brite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/long-island-ncgr-september-17-2026-speakeremily-waldron-venus-retrograde-tickets-1998254799898?aff=oddtdtcreator The LINCGR holds live meetings monthly on the 3rd Thursday of the month.  Members  $15 for non-members $20 !!! As Always  LINCGR serves  refreshments. Up Coming Meetings: September17, Emily Waldron: Venus Retrograde  7-9PM Levittown Hall. Join us online for an insightful session with Emily Waldron as she dives into Venus Retrograde. Discover how this cosmic event impacts love, values, and creativity. Whether you're a seasoned astrologer or just curious, Emily's talk will shed light on navigating this intriguing phase. Don’t miss out on this stellar experience!  In person live Levittown Hall, and on line.  Register on Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/long-island-ncgr-september-17-2026-speakeremily-waldron-venus-retrograde-tickets-1998254799898?aff=oddtdtcreator October 22, MaryAnn Dellinger: topic Saturn.  November 12, John Marchesella: STATIONS AND RETROGRADES AND ECLIPSES! Oh My ONTO 2027!…..AND WHAT WAS BARBAULT’S BASKET FULL OF, ANYWAY? John Marchesella is back for another look at another new year to help you organize your astrological time factors for 2027 and make your work with clients and your own life a lot easier! Learn when the stations, retrogrades and eclipses are, what they mean and how they work, and how best you can with them. We’ll also take a look back at last summer’s infamous Brbault’s Basket and what it meant. (Hint: The phenomenon of “The Odyssey”) Bring your chart and your sense of humor and we’ll prepare for the year ahead. No politics.  No judgments.  Just astrology! John Marchesella is a longtime friend of NCGR-Long Island and has made the presentation annually for the chapter. He’s a familiar speaker at astrology conferences, a contributor to many astrological publications and the author of the newly published “A Celebration of Symbols!" December 10 Annual Holiday Party: Gifts Exchanged, party goodies, and bring your astrology chart! Partial List: 2027 Long Island NCGR Astrology experts/speakers  ~Tarot~ speaker and date to be announced, ~The Emerald Tables~ speaker Gemini Brett, date to be announced, ~Ancient Texts~Anastasia, Anderson, chair person for the NCGR Chapter Presidents, date to be announced.    I thank all of the Chapter Members, and attendees for making our group-run LINCGR events and meetings open and positive. Come & Get to know our chapter community member advanced in their special fields: Mary Ann  Dellinger, Grace Lopez, Adrienne Mahoney, Sara Napuri-Moy. A special Call out to Chris Thomas, advisor to the Board, and refreshment guru!!!   Our 2026 Meetings & Speakers at Levittown Hall 7-9 PM   Our 2026 Meeting Schedule Levittown Hall Marty Nichols Room: 3/19, 4/16, 5/21, 7/23,  8/20,  9/17, 10/22, 11/12  12/10 Forrest City Park Educational Classes, and discussions. Mondays with MaryAnn Dellinger 11:30-2:00 PM Dates for Forrest City on Monday 2026,16,23,30, 11:30-2:00 PM January 12,26 February 9,23 March 9,16,23,30 April 6,13,20,27 May 11, 18 June 8,15,22,29 July 13,20,27 August 10,17, 24, 31 September 14,21,28 October 12, 26 November 9,16,23,30 Dec 14, 21, 28   Welcome to our Wednesday Evenings at Forrest City Park, 2026 6-7:30 Winter/ Summer 6:30-8-30 PM. Jamie Forbes, practicing astrologer, certified NCGR Level 1,  NCGR class Level 2, available for personal or small group chart construction classes.   Any Ideas for Astrology small group discussions? email longislandncgr@gmail.com Dates for Forrest City Park Wednesday Evening       March 11,25 April18,25  May,5, 20,  June,10, 24 August  Contact  if you would like to present to our group.  Join the LINCGR and select LongIsland membership.  https://ncgrastrology.org/register/  We look forward to seeing all members at Chapter Meetings, classes, and other presentations.  At the door: Members $15, Non-members, and on line tickets $20 & EventBrite registrations.Video link will be provided on request for on line ticket post  the event. . .  Contact us: LongIslandncgr@gmail.com  Jamie Forbes, President, Vice President, Grace Lopez (intra appointee), Treasurer, MaryAnn Dellinger,: Advisor to the Board Chris Thomas.  The Long Island NCGR : https://sites.google.com/view/longislandncgr/home The Long Island Chapter of the  National Council of the Geocosmic Council for Research meetings are a safe zone in which to discuss  astrology. No politics. No judgments. Just astrology!  The NCGR is a gateway to astrology offering a warm embrace to beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. The LINCGR offers educational classes, and learning opportunities. Any questions email info@longIslandncgr@gmail.com

Kenise Barnes Fine Art~Heart Like a Drum~ Will Hutnick & Melissa Marks

 Kenise Barnes Fine Art

 September 19 – November 1, 2026

Reception: Saturday, September 19, 4 – 6 PM, public invited

Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday 11:00 – 5:30, Sunday 12:00 – 4:00

My Heart Like a Kick Drum – Will Hutnick and Melissa Marks

Will Hutnick

Slow Like Honey, 2020

acrylic, ink, spray paint, and wax pastel on canvas

28 x 22 inches

(Hutn005)

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Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to present My Heart Like a Kick Drum, a two-person exhibition

featuring work by Will Hutnick and Melissa Marks, artists whose practices channel rhythm, repetition, and

emotional velocity into visually charged, deeply imaginative worlds.

In My Heart Like a Kick Drum, Hutnick and Marks explore the pulse of interior life—its accelerations,

syncopations, and unexpected shifts—through distinct yet complementary visual languages. Hutnick’s

layered abstractions, built through collage, pattern, and improvisational mark-making, generate a sense

of movement that feels both bodily and architectural. His compositions hum with energy, revealing

structures that emerge, dissolve, and reassemble in real time.

Marks’s drawings and paintings push gesture to its expressive edge, transforming line into a living force.

Her forms twist, collide, and unfurl with a kinetic intensity that mirrors emotional states—joy, urgency,

longing, and the restless drive of imagination. Together, her works create a visual rhythm that feels at

once intimate and expansive.

Presented in dialogue, Hutnick and Marks offer two approaches to the idea of the “kick drum”—a

metaphor for the steady beat that underlies human experience. Their works share a commitment to

exuberant mark-making, intuitive process, and the belief that abstraction can hold narrative, memory,

and emotional truth.

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Will Hutnick

Will Hutnick received his MFA from Pratt Institute and his BA from Providence College. He has exhibited

widely, including solo and group exhibitions at McDonough Museum of Art and the Samuel

Dorsky Museum of Art, Wassaic Project, and Collar Works among others. Hutnick has been awarded

numerous residencies, including Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center,

Wassaic Project, and Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works. Hutnick’s work has been

featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, New American paintings, Upstate Diary, Chronogram

and ArtNet to name a few. His professional career included dozens of curatorial projects, public speaking

7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT 06757

860 592 0220 KBFA.comengagements and lectures. Hutnick was the Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn and is

currently the Director of Artistic Programming at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.

Melissa Marks

Melissa Marks earned her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA Yale University School of Art, Her

work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, The Drawing Center, The Aldrich Museum of Art, Mass MOCA

and Santa Monica Museum of Art among others. Her work has been featured in El Pais, MoMA

Magazine, The New Yorker and Diario de Almeria to mention a few. Marks is known for her expansive,

improvisational drawing practice and has completed major site-specific commissions for Rutgers Cancer

Institute of New Jersey, Wesleyan University and for private collections.

Will Hutnick

Slow Like Honey, 2020

acrylic, ink, spray paint, and wax pastel on canvas

28 x 22 inches

(Hutn005)

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Will Hutnick

The Wind Throws Out Gossip, 2023

acrylic, sand and wax pastel on canvas

60 x 50 inches

(Hutn007)

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Melissa Marks

Flash Gordon, 2023

colored pencil on paper

22 x 28 inches (unframed), 25.75 x 31.75 inches (framed)

(Marks003)

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Melissa Marks

Knee Spin Slide, 2026

pencil and gouache on paper

30 x 44 inches (unframed), 33,5 x 47 inches (framed)

(Marks008)

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Lani Ming Holloway, associate director
Direct line: 860 560 3085

K E N I S E B A R N E S F I N E A R T

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Kent, CT 06757 860 592 0220
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Cooper Cole Exhibits Julien Ceccaldi~Selebu-Swan~ September 18-October 31,2026. Well it's different!

 My Opinion: Transitioning language, physical forms and meaning:  In looking up the word ~Selebu~ when connected to Swan as in the artist work I extrapolated the meaning as three fold. A signet becoming a swan, a possible connection to Marie Antoinette?, or a call to change. It appears Selebu~. in certain culture is reflective of.youth and comic books. Having lived through a vast cultural revolution and change I had a hard time connecting the dots of cultural significance and call for anything displayed in the above image. Having seen (liked) watched subway Graffiti Art speed by, Tattoo's meant to call out individuality or connect group belonging , and the vast subterranean landscape of the art world emerge over time to make statements of personal:  I am not sure any artistic comic connection to "Bomb-Shell " worth or concept was necessarily displayed the work above of the  Artist Julien Ceccaldi. Julien did good"Disney- Esque" job in his painting of what I saw as a ~New but the Same~ version of  Cinderella.  I did not see the underplay of hope, or  the macabre in the work. Words carefully crafted were used to define the image below.  Jamie Forbes/Publisher FineArtMagazineblog.blogspot, SunStormFineArtmagazine.com

Julien Ceccaldi Celebu-Spawn September 18 - October 31, 2026 Opening reception: Friday, September 18, 6-8pm Artist in attendance    For all other inquiries please contact the gallery: info@coopercolegallery.com +1.416.531.8000     COOPER COLE is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Julien Ceccaldi. Titled Celebu-Spawn, this marks the artists first show with the gallery as well as his first solo exhibition in Canada. The summer the French Revolution begins, Prince Louis-Joseph dies of tuberculosis at seven years old. He is spared from having to face the wrath of the people, unlike his younger brother Louis-Charles. Separated from his mother, the second Dauphin is psychologically conditioned into becoming a commoner, and forced to sign a false letter accusing her of abuse. The child’s deposition serves as the ultimate pretext for her trial and public execution by guillotine. Months later, he lies in bed malnourished and ill. The ten-year-old boy murmurs to his jailer that he heard beautiful music and saw his mother, and passes away from tuberculosis, as his older sibling did years earlier. Like a budding rose set on fire, his promised life of elegance ends as ashes from the blaze of history. During the autopsy, a royalist physician slices Louis-Charles' heart out in secret, and slips it into his coat pocket while the body is thrown into a mass grave. Preserved in a crystal jar filled with wine, the mummified heart changes hands for two centuries until DNA tests confirm its authenticity in 2000, and it can finally be interred alongside the bones of his brother and parents in the royal crypt. For two hundred years, the heart of the Prince exists as both relic and evidence. What survives is not the prince himself, but the story of splendour cut short. Hidden from the authorities, and passed secretly from thief to archbishop and dukes, the organ calcifies over time as the alcohol evaporates. Protected in its glass casket, the shrivelled heart has become an impenetrable stone full of memories, suspended in time.   Julien Ceccaldi (b. 1987, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is an artist whose paintings and drawings depict androgynous characters influenced by Shoujo manga, including The Rose of Versailles, known as Lady Oscar in France and Quebec. Exploring themes of intimacy, aspiration, and freedom, Ceccaldi’s work finds moments of hope and humour within macabre and unsettling situations, such as the quest for love within patriarchal structures. Ceccaldi received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, and has exhibited in galleries since 2007. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including MoMA PS1 and MoMA, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Genève, Switzerland; Consortium Museum and Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; amongst many others. His work has also been exhibited extensively at galleries internationally and featured in publications including Artforum and Frieze. Ceccaldi lives and works in New York, USA.     Image:  Julien Ceccaldi Reign of Terror, 2026 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 x 1.5 inches 121.92 x 91.4 x 3.81 cm    Julien Ceccaldi Celebu-Spawn September 18 - October 31, 2026

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Monica Ikegwu returns to exhibit `Rea in Red~ At Band of Vices. September 19-October 17, 2026. Changing up the color landscape of viewing another others1

 My Opinion: Monica Ikegwu removes color as the identifying premise in her portraits. She presents "Faces" to be discovered as the landscape she in her subjects. though a red lense.  This interesting and innovative concept allows the painter and viewer to exchange a spontaneous connection with each personality displayed. Jamie Forbes, Publisher Fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com, and SunStormfineartmagazine.com

MONICA IKEGWU Read in Red 19 September — 17 October 2026 Opening & Artists Reception Saturday, 19 September, 2-5pm Exhibition Walk-through with Monica Ikegwu Saturday, 19 September, 3:30pm (no rsvp required) Monica Ikegwu, RED JOSHUA, Oil on canvas, 12 x 8.8 in, 30.48 x 22.35 cm, 2026 Band of Vices welcomes Monica Ikegwu back for Read in Red, her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Monica first exhibited with Band of Vices in 2018 as part of & Introducing. Since then, she has participated in several BoV exhibitions, including We’ve Always Been Here (2019), Masterpiece (2020), GAZE with Tommy Mitchell (2021), They Might Be Giants (2022), Duo (2023) and New Growth (2025). For Read in Red, Ikegwu presents 43 portraits rendered almost entirely in shades of red. “For these works I wanted to know what happens when others see Black people not for their race, but just as a person,” Ikegwu says. “No focus on skin color, just the person.” Monica Ikegwu, RED MILDRED, Oil on wood panel, 5.5 x 4 in, 13.97 x 10.16 cm, 2026 By moving away from natural skin tones, Monica removes one of the first visual distinctions we often use when looking at another person. “You can’t see who has dark skin, who has light skin, all you see is their face,” she says.  Red then takes on another role. For Monica, the color carries a wide range of emotional associations. “Red is one of the few colors that has a vast spectrum of emotion,” she explains. “Love to hatred, passion to anger.” Many of the subjects are presented with restrained or neutral expressions, leaving room for viewers to bring their own associations to each face.The exhibition consists primarily of intimate 5.5 × 4 inch oil paintings on wood panels, along with three larger oil-on-canvas portraits. Together, the works create a series of individual encounters connected through a single palette. Monica Ikegwu, RED TRAE, Oil on wood panel, 5.5 x 4 in, 13.97 x 10.16 cm, 2026 “We’ve known Monica’s work since 2018, and it has been meaningful to see how her practice has developed over the years,” says Terrell Tilford, Founder and Creative Director of Band of Vices. “There has always been a strong sense of discipline in the work. With Read in Red, she is approaching portraiture from a slightly different place and asking us to think about what we see first when we look at another person.” Ikegwu earned her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Cincinnati Art Museum and Art Gallery of Toronto. Her work is also held in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Petrucci Foundation and Muskegon Museum of Art. “With these 43 portraits, we hope you are able to experience these individuals not through the lens of race, but through the full range of emotion found in color.” Read in Red is presented concurrently with the group exhibition, Hey, Sis.   Checklist Request - Read in Red Press Release - Read in Red Please Note Our Location   Band of Vices is located in the Historic Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Located at 1700 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 371, south of the 10 freeway, ample free parking is available in the south parking lot (1800 S. Santa Fe Avenue), adjacent to the building. Our neighbors in the building include Vielmetter, Nicodim and Patricia Sweetow galleries.  For all sales & media inquiries, please contact HELLO@BandofVices.com   Band of Vices - DTLA 1700 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 371, Los Angeles, CA 90021

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