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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Craftboston
4 Bridges Arts Festival 2012
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The 4th Annual Governor's Island Art Fair
F a l l E x h i b i t A n n o u n c e m e n t s f r o m A l l a n G o r m a n
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| HELLO, HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU WELL AND I'D LOVE YOUR YOU TO JOIN ME AT... The 4th Annual Governor's Island Art Fair (at the tip of Manhattan Island in the NYC Harbor) Reachable by free ferry service from the old ferry terminal at 10 South Street (next to the Staten Island Ferry) in lower Manhattan or at Pier 6 at the end of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in September from 11 am- 6 pm with a gala opening party on Friday September 2nd! Over 100 independent artists from around the world have been invited to participate in the 4th Annual Governor's Island Art Fair. Each artist is granted a room in the abandoned military barracks on Governors Island and is given free reign to design thier own exhibition space. The fair includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, sound, and object installations. With interactive creative programs, performance art and musical acts mixed in throughout the run of the fair, visitors can expect the unexpected around every corner. Come out and enjoy a great day of art and fun! For more information and directions visit: http://www.4heads.org/ _________________________ -- AND IN OCTOBER -- For my friends in South Jersey and the Philly area, 8 works work will in a major oils exhibit at Perkin's Art Center, Collingswood, NJ 30 Irvin Ave, Collingswood, NJ 08108 with Paul Duslod and Bruce Garrity October 14 -November 19th, 2011 An opening reception for the artists on October 14 from 6- 9 pm For more information and directions visit: http://www.perkinscenter.org/ Thanks for your support and hope you can make it to one of these events -- Allan -- To see my newest work, visit www.allangorman.com and click the button to join me on Facebook  |
Halifax Art Festival
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Bill Carman
| NEW YORK, NY - Animazing Gallery welcomes the critically acclaimed painter Bill Carman to its SoHo gallery this fall for an exhibition, sale and artist's reception. Carman, an enigma in the contemporary art market, is influenced daily by almost every aspect of life; from the seemingly mundane details, to the intricate works of earlier masters. His paintings feature elements inspired by the fantastical and dark images of Hieronymus Bosch, and are executed with the precision of Albrecht Durer. Carman's sense of humor is evident in this collection of nearly 50 mixd-media pieces on copper, wood, and paper. With each minute and delicate detail, he reveals his talent and genius. His pieces are nebulous, skirting and defying traditional art genres. "I live on the fringe of mainstream fantasy/sci-fi, dip a toe into surrealism, flirt with symbolism and even occasionally scratch the surface of mainstream illustration..." - Bill Carman (bio) RSVP is required for the artist's reception and exhibition unveiling from 6-9PM on Saturday October 22nd, 2011. The collection will be on display and for sale through November. Animazing Gallery is located at 54 Greene Street (at Broome). The exhibition is free and open to the public seven days a week; Monday-Saturday 10-7, Sunday 11-6. Contact 212-226-7374 or pr@animazing.com for details. Carman won several awards from prestigious organizations such as Spectrum, the Society of Illustrators NY, the Greenwich Workshop and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. In 2002 he was invited to publish a children's book with Random House. He is currently a professor teaching illustration and drawing at Boise State University "... I enter my lab where surfaces challenge and characters emerge who should probably never be born. But I keep releasing these things from my mind because it's my passion." - Bill Carman |
ABOUT THE ARTIST | Bill Carman has worked as a designer, illustrator and art director at universities, ad agencies, publishers, and large corporations. Since graduating from BYU with a BFA in visual communication/illustration and later with an MFA in painting, he has consistently free-lanced and exhibited. Carman is currently a professor teaching illustration and drawing at Boise State University of the blue football field. Prior to this, he taught in and chaired the art department at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Carman is inspired by the imagination and figurative work of illustration and image-oriented work artists such as Ben Shahn, Brad Holland, Al Cober, Ian Miller and Dave McKean, Brian Froud, and Rockwell Kent. "Hopefully those who look at my work will be touched in that mad place that lies in the corner of all brains." - Bill Carman |
Friday, August 12, 2011
Have an Old or Torn American Flag That Needs a Proper Disposal?
Give us your Tattered and Torn... American Flags
If you have an old tattered or torn American Flag
that you would like to retire for proper disposal
The American Legion
Greenlawn post 1244
In Cooperation with the
Art League of Long Island
is providing
a Flag Drop Box
in the lobby of
Art League of LI
for the month of August
All Flags will be disposed of in a ceremony that is befitting
their status as the symbol of our
Great Country
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Be the Artist You Want to Be!
Drawing, oil painting, watercolor, pastels, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry,
digital photography, fiber arts and more...
Register for FALL CLASSES Now!
Classes are now ONLINE at
John Davis Gallery
Peter McCaffrey
m a r k i n g s
On Thursday, August 18th, there will be a group of artists with individual exhibitions for the Main Galleries, Sculpture Garden and Carriage House. The work will be on display through September 11th with a reception for the artists on Saturday, August 20th from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. m a r k i n g s
Main Galleries:
Peter McCaffrey
m a r k i n g s
"A picture of the soul was a crudely drawn circle of chalk on the blackboard in my first year of parochial school. Any transgressions against God were depicted as small strokes marking the surface. A venial sin, like fibbing, was a small peck. Something more serious like murder, a mortal sin, would fill in the circle with a swirl of lines that would completely blacken the surface. I found the little cartoons of animals that my Father drew were much more interesting. They were something to keep, and I longed to imitate the way they were made. My crayon drawings of circus animals had more soul than that chalk circle.
Animals and nature have been the focus of my work. Animals seem gifted with senses that have never been lost, or guided by voices we will never hear. One drifts along with the noise of the herd unconsciously keeping up and not bumping into things. Painting pulls me out of the lockstep by concentrating my attention on the things I would pass blindly by. Spending some time in the country has brought me in closer contact with the subjects I find most interesting. Teaching an undergraduate class of painting animals at the zoo has helped me articulate the groundwork with which I need to start. The drawing is an integral part of the work. Gold leaf has the effect of "canonizing" the subject.
"They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." (Henry Beston)"
Peter McCaffrey
2011
Sculpture Garden
Ben Butler
On Making
"Everything has a source. When the order of things eludes us, we often mistake complexity for chaos, and therefore miss the wonderful sources of things.
All things, under close enough observation, will reveal the complete stories of their making. My objects simply reveal themselves much more readily than most, and therefore hope to teach us something about looking.
The spirit of science, of discovery and illumination, is central to my art. Ultimately, everything made is first found.
Yet, for both art and science, successful work must allow others not to simply rediscover what you have discovered, but to make, through the work, their own discoveries. The work then remains alive."
Ben Butler
2011
Elevator Shaft Installation
Susan Chrysler White
Yin & Yang,
Kachina (detail) 2010, acrylic and enamel on plexiglass, 14' x 8'
"My Kachinas are two of the first sculptural hanging pieces I have completed that are not site-specific commissioned installations. In these three dimensional pieces I have been researching how my paintings, in my aesthetic vocabulary of excess, have a strong connection with historical and contemporary manifestations of the chandelier. The exploration of light, space, transparency and calligraphic drawing all find a home in these elongated quasi-figural forms. Flat painted plexiglass pieces hang radially, suspended from a central rod, forming dense dimensional environments in which the viewer is both allowed to move around and, in the case of the hanging in the John Davis Carriage House Gallery, will be allowed to view from above and below on different floor levels."
Susan Chrysler White,
2011
Second Floor Carriage House
Christopher Walsh
Paintings
"My oil paintings explore a territory that suggests fractal structures, circuit boards and urban landscape. The underlying theme in my art is an exploration of how consciousness and identity are shaped by the rhythms of our everyday experience. On a daily basis, the city is a vocabulary of source material: traffic lights, overpasses, billboards, spires, windows, facades and grids, combine to create a large collage. A collage that has contradictions to it. It has a structural, man-made element, but it's unplanned. There are layers of both growth and decay. For example, I might find myself at the same stoplight every day, at a certain time, with a certain light, and I can't help but compose a picture that's subconsciously stored in my memory of that.
At the same time, this process of identifying with my environment breaks down in the studio into a formal vocabulary that is intentionally ambiguous and fragmentary. There's something neurological about my response to this vocabulary during the process of painting. I search for triggers and synapses, as I struggle to define an image. My visual memory of the city is confronted by an approach to materials that is improvisational and painterly.
With line, fragments of form and blocks of color I build compositions that contain a precarious balance of light and dark, architecture and space, gesture and geometry. Improvising off a grid or axis, I see the painting surface as an arena for a dialogue between thought and action, impulse and intent.
The images that emerge are colorful, rhythmic, and tactile."
Christopher Walsh,
2011
Second Floor Carriage House
Fran O'Neill
"The de-stabilizing of symmetry, patterns and the expected within a simple or complex composition is what I strive to find and do. It is the 'rupture' within the presumed regularity of a repetitious field that I explore. I deliberately look for these moments to build upon through painting and drawing; layering and exploring color, through dramatic or subtle shifts."
Fran O'Neill,
2011
Third Floor Carriage House
Kristin Locashio
Paintings
"In these new paintings I utilize a range of tools and methods to broaden and vary the expressive possibilities of paint. Working intuitively I develop structure through the painting process, allowing the composition to materialize and dematerialize in an effort to achieve a wholeness in the painting. Improvisation with paint and its' liquid materiality is the driving force behind these works, the result being a lasting visual reminder of the experience of making."
Kristin Locashio
2011
Fourth Floor Carriage House
Jenny Snider
"I will be showing new vehicles, made expressly for the unusual interior space in the Carriage House at the John Davis Gallery. Made of tinted and painted paper mache, they will hang on walls and stand on the floor, like the wooden vehicles exhibited in 2002 at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. In both color and surface, paper mache echoes the concrete walls of the carriage house."
Jenny Snider,
2011
Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 11:00 till 5:00 p.m. For further information about the gallery, the artists and upcoming exhibition, visit
www.johndavisgallery.com
or contact John Davis directly at 518.828.5907 or via e-mail: art@johndavisgallery.com.
or contact John Davis directly at 518.828.5907 or via e-mail: art@johndavisgallery.com.
BORDERS by Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir in Dad Hammarskjöld Plaza
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The Art of Bill Carman
Animazing Gallery welcomes the critically acclaimed painter Bill Carman to its SoHo gallery this fall for an exhibition, sale and artist's reception. Carman, an enigma in the contemporary art market, will unveil a collection of more than 40 paintings on copper and paper, comprising his largest show to date.
"I live on the fringe of mainstream fantasy/sci-fi, dip a toe into surrealism, flirt with symbolism and even occasionally scratch the surface of mainstream illustration..." - Bill Carman (bio)
RSVP is required for the artist's reception and exhibition unveiling from 6-9PM on Saturday October 22nd, 2011. The collection will be on display and for sale through November. Animazing Gallery is located at 54 Greene Street (at Broome). The exhibition is free and open to the public seven days a week; Monday-Saturday 10-7, Sunday 11-6. Contact 212-226-7374 or pr@animazing.com for details.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
John Botte - The 9-11 Photographs
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