Yonkers First Thursday Gallery Hop update news!!!

Event Details February 2, 2023 5:30-8:00 PM Enjoy Yonkers' diverse art scene by visiting downtown galleries featuring regional and world-renowned artists. During the First Thursday Gallery Hop, many downtown restaurants are providing special discounts off food and drinks to gallery visitors. List of participating restaurants listed below exhibition information. The First Thursday Gallery Hop has moved to a quarterly schedule so mark your calendars for February 2, April 6, June 1 and October 5, 2023. FEATURED ART GALLERIES   Blue Door Art Center 13 Riverdale Avenue | Yonkers Exhibition:  15th Annual Juried Members  January 21 - February 11 Blue Door Art Center invites you, family and friends to join us for the opening of First Thursday Gallery Hop of 2023. Come and enjoy our 15th ANNUAL BDAC ARTIST-MEMBER JURIED EXHIBITION. This members’ showcase is curated by Julie Cousens and Luis Perelman, Co-Executive Directors. 55 Artist-Members of the Blue Door Art Center display their work in this special juried members-only exhibition. Come and see spectacular local works of art. See which artwork won Best in Show as well as five more awards, including a prize from the Hudson Valley Arts Association. Blue Door Art Center is dedicated to bringing the arts to local communities throughout Westchester that are currently underserved by art programs and exhibition venues. We do this through exhibitions in our gallery, educational programs, workshops, public art projects, poetry readings, performances, and special events. 

Riverfront Art Gallery Yonkers Public Library  1 Larkin Center, 4th Floor | Yonkers Exhibition:  The Black Iconic February 2 - March 31 The new solo exhibition “The Black Iconic” from Newark-based artist Ricardo Osmondo Francis features a wide array of Francis’ luminous paintings and is a brooding elegiac vision of the Black visage delineated in both grand decadence and technically through densely evocative images that are steeped in multicultural symbolism. Francis’ work is inspired by the complexity of African American identity, mythology, and painting itself, and examines how Black people are perceived both socially and politically on the world stage through a spiritual gaze. The exhibition runs through March 31, 2023 and is curated by Bint-Kadi.

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Ricardo Osmondo Francis was born September 8, 1976, in Houston, Texas. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, and received a BFA in 1998 in painting. Inspired by Classical art, multi-ethnic antiquity, and present day advertisement imagery, Francis’ vivid pictorial works present a torrent of imagery culled from every possible corner of the visual culture. His lush elaborately graphic surrealistic paintings and drawings often depict the social constructs of humanity and the complexity of our existence through conceptually layered portraiture, still life, and abstract compositions.

Riverfront Art Gallery exhibits contemporary, nationally, and internationally acclaimed artwork. The mission of the gallery is to stimulate and encourage the study and presentation of fine arts and the public’s interest and participation therein; To foster and support the arts in the community and to serve as a portal to the arts for residents and community members; To create opportunities for the public to encounter and explore art that they might not otherwise be exposed to, increasing access to the arts in the City of Yonkers and surrounding communities.

Urban Studio Unbound Warburton Galerie 16 Warburton Avenue | Yonkers

Exhibition:  Winter Exhibition January 28 - March 3 US+U/Warburton Galerie is pleased to announce our Winter Exhibition Jan 28-March 3, 2023 with special guest co-curator Tommy the Animator. Tommy the Animator grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Born in 1972, he was influenced by some of the world’s most revered breakdancers and graffiti artists including the late Frosty Freeze (RSC), Charlie Rock (RCB) and George "SEN-ONE" Morillo (IBM). Tommy quickly embraced Hip Hop culture, diving in as a young breakdancer and then later as a music producer/MC. Over the years, Tommy has become a master of multiple art disciplines and his paintings have been exhibited internationally. In December 2018, One Art Space presented Lyrics, a groundbreaking exhibition that showcased a series of Tommy’s abstract contemporary paintings infused with the lyrics of Hip Hop icons, Ice T, Kool Keith, Melle Mel, Large Professor and Smoothe Da Hustler. The innovative collaboration between the six artists, a true fusion of visual art and musical art, achieved widespread acclaim.

Rafael Rodriguez| Mother Africa Protects her Black Sheep 60"x40", Oil on Canvas

Tommy worked with our co-director Roddy Wildeman to showcase a diverse group of artists for our Winter Exhibition - we invite you to come see the show and celebrate our first exhibition of 2023!  Featured Artists: Israel Acosta, Android Oi, Shanequa Benitez, Michelle Renee Bernard, Haifa Bint- Kadi, Lauren Camara, Frances S. Caro, Michael Cuomo, Miriam Hendel, Mario Idiaz, Amanda Ioco, Tyler Lea, Meredith Mulhearn, Johnny Neutrino, Rafael Rodriguez, Eric Ross, Melissa Schainker, Melissa Starke, Tommy the Animator, Roddy Wildeman, Will Woodrow 

US+U’s strength of purpose is to combine emerging and mid-career artists in a partnership to embrace a wide range of artistic approaches. This unique relationship creates a community of people who learn from each other through shared ideas and common goals. Warburton Galerie is a 4000 sq. ft. space dedicated to bringing the public exemplary art exhibitions via collaborations with curators, art advisors and creative organizations.  

Receive 10% off food and drinks during the First Thursday Gallery Hop. Stop by any participating art gallery for the code.  Participating restaurants include: La Bella Havana Dolphin Francey Brady's Giovanni's Pizza Guapo Cocina Mexicana Khangri Sushi Off the Hook TaquRio Taco Bar X20 Yonkers Brewing Co. Zuppa

Yonkers Gallery Group is an alliance of the downtown Yonkers Arts Organizations sponsored by the Yonkers Public Library. First Thursday Gallery Hop was creatively conceived by Riverfront Art Gallery curator Haifa Bint-Kadi as a way to welcome the community and audiences beyond to visit the downtown creative venues while also supporting local restaurants.  #younkergalleryhop#fieartmagazine#fienartyonkersfun