South Hamptons E-news letter for March.

March is here and in honor National Women's History Month, we are excited to celebrate the many local women artists in our current exhibition, East End Collected7. To learn more about their work and what inspires them, please join us for our upcoming programming of panels, films, and studio workshops. We are also excited to partner with AIA Peconic for a screening and panel, of Gray Matters which explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture.  Please tour our virtual 3D gallery HERE where you can learn more about the art and artists of East End Collected7. Here's what’s on for this week as SAC! Studio: Figure Drawing Workshop Friday March 10 @ 1 PM Working from a live model, artist Linda Capello will guide students through the basics of figure drawing using a variety of mediums. Talk: Curator Tour  Friday March 10 @ 3PM East End Collected7 curator Paton Miller will offer a tour of his own studio in Southampton.    LEARN MORE + REGISTER In celebration of Women's History Month, join us March 23rd @ 6PM for a screening of the documentary Gray Matters about architect and designer Eileen Gray, followed by a brief panel discussion featuring local architects. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building persistently and perversely credited to her mentor–her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications.  But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling. Reflection panel led by AIA Peconic President Lori K. Beppu, AIA who will be joined by AIA architect members Pamela J. Glazer, AIA and Viola G. Rouhani, AIA. Co-presented by Southampton Arts Center and AIA Peconic, a chapter of The American Institute of Architects. Proudly sponsored by Pella. Licensed architects are eligible for two learning units for attending this program. Join Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Jazz Fest on March 25, as we present Will Bernard Quartet for an evening of jazz! The concert will begin at 7 PM. Guitarist Will Bernard, a Berkeley, CA native and Brooklyn NY transplant studied guitar and piano from an early age with Dave Creamer, Art Lande and Julian White later developing an interest in classical music composition. He received a degree in music from UC Berkeley where he studied with Andrew Imbrie and others. He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble, who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made three albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book. LEARN MORE + REGISTER Janet Culbertson (b. 1932) grew up in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She loved nature, canoed through the Allegheny Mountains, and raised baby owls and released them into the wild. Janet Culbertson has been a using art as activism for years. Common themes in her work include global warming, extreme weather, overpopulation, and the diminishment of the earth. Her work is fueled by the constant news barrage of both natural and/or contrived disasters of the day. When possible she takes trips to experience first-hand the sustaining power of nature amidst the evidence of humanity's destructive impact.  I feel that art, whether beautiful or provocative, can be a force for creating a greater ecological awareness of our threatened world.  Her first exhibition was called Elegy to Nature, an eco series inspired by tankers wiping out coastal life and oil companies dumping oil waste into the sea. Soon after completing Elegy to Nature, she took a course at The Foundation for Mind Research which introduced her to Joseph Campbell's monomyth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1948). Culbertson in response, created a Mythmaker suite of drawings (1973-76) that chart the course of a woman's struggle to follow her own path through a maze of seemingly insurmountable hurdles presented by male-dominated society. During the seventies she had four one-woman shows in New York City at the Lerner Heller Gallery; received a C.A.P.S. New York State drawing award and exhibited in a number of group and museum shows; proposed and worked on the HERESIES Ecology Issue #13 along with a group of other concerned women. In 1987, Culbertson began a series of billboard paintings contrasting the beauty of nature with our destruction of it. She searched for beautiful sites as well as the ubiquitous polluted areas–to paint, to photograph and to absorb. She was invited to have solo shows at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, the University of Nebraska, the University of Bridgeport, Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA., (her home town), The Museo de Los Ninos in Costa Rica, The Accola-Griefen Gallery, NYC and more recently, a forty-year retrospective, "Paradise Gone" at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. Janet's work can be viewed in our current exhibition East End Collected7.  DISCOVER THE EXHIBITION Looking for more at SAC?

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Hi All, Happy Worm Full Moon at 7:40 Am EST. Wishing you awareness of the beauty, and healing in your  environment. Below images captured of the beauty surrounding me on 3/6/20 : Seals on a Sandbar, Cupsogue Beach,  Westhampton Beach 12:40 PM,  The Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek, Jupiter and Venus in Aries, my BackYard, and The  Full Moon Against a Darkened Sky. All images ©Jamie Forbes/SunStormArtsPub.Co.Inc. 

 Enjoy your day!

Seals on a Sandbar, Cupsogue Beach,  Westhampton Beach

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The  Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek

Jupiter and Venus in Aries, my BackYard,

I, The Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek

II, The Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek

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Emilie Louise Gossiaux, presented by Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY) at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022, has been awarded the inaugural Pébéo Production Prize.

Emilie Louise Gossiaux and her Guide Dog, London. Courtesy of the artist and Mother Gallery. Emilie Louise Gossiaux, presented by Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY) at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022, has been awarded the inaugural Pébéo Production Prize.  The Pébéo Production Prize is a hybrid cash and in-kind materials award to an artist working towards an exhibition at an institution or non-profit organization in 2023/24. This year's prize will support multidisciplinary artist Emilie Louise Gossiauxtowards her first major solo exhibition at a large American institution, The Queens Museum, in the Fall of this year. Emilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989 New Orleans, LA and based in NYC) received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2014, and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2019. Since losing her vision due to a traffic accident in 2010, Gossiaux’s altered experiences have influenced her practice's trajectory — drawing on inspiration from dreams, memories, and non-visual sensory perceptions. Gossiaux connects to landscape and body without sight. As such, her drawings and ceramics pertain deeply to bodily autonomy, exploring themes such as love, intimacy, and the interdependent relationships between humans and non-human species. Much of her work is inspired by the interspecies bond she has with her Guide Dog, London, and celebrates disability pride. Simultaneously, she disrupts the Anthropocene understanding of agency and the hierarchic ordering between humans and animals. Gossiaux's recent solo shows include Significant Otherness at Mother Gallery (New York, NY); Memory of a Body at Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY); and After Image at False Flag Gallery (New York, NY). Her participation in group shows, both domestic and internationally, include the Wellcome Collection (London, UK, 2022); 1969 Gallery (New York, NY 2022); The Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT, 2022); Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL 2022); MoMA PS 1 (New York, NY 2021); Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany, 2021); The Krannert Art Museum (Champagne, IL, 2021); The Shed (New York, NY, 2021); SculptureCenter (New York, NY, 2020); and The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, NY, 2018). This Exhibitor Prize is furnished by Pébéo — A benchmark in the field of graphic art, the Pébéo family business has specialized in creating colors for many years. Striking the balance between innovation and an educational approach, the company promotes development and creativity through the practice of art. Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Peanut Butter Licking (2022). Courtesy of the artist and Mother Gallery. Congratulations to all the winners of our 2022 Exhibitor Prizes, and thanks to our Premier Prize Partners— 21c Museum Hotels, CCA Andratx, Colección Solo, Pébéo, Vortic, and The Last Resort Artist Residency. For more information please visit our website.  #untitledart#mothergallerybeacon#fineartmagazine#fineartfun

Catch the Lehman College Art Gallery offers a Free Concert Series!!

Free Concert Series VISITORS MUST PRESENT FREE TICKET AND  PHOTO ID AT THE GATE FOR ADMISSION. Join us for FREE concerts! Concerts in the Heights Presents Tasting Menu Monica Bauchwitz, Robert Meyer & Mihai Marica Thursday, March 23 1:00 PM Concerts in the Heights presents “Tasting Menu” – a program for string trio of 4 short works from Finland, Hungary, France and Germany. Each composer is representing a distinct and separate style of music which will whet your appetite! Music by Jean Sibelius - the noted Finnish symphonist, Jean Cras – an unjustly forgotten French composer who was also a career naval officer, Zoltan Kodaly -the Hungarian composer and musicologist, and Max Reger – the brilliant German composer, pianist, organist, teacher and conductor. Our Artistic Director Monica Bauchwitz will be joined by Robert Meyer on the viola – a seasoned chamber musician who has been hailed as an “outstanding musician” by the Boston Globe, and Mihai Marica on cello. Mihai is a prize-winner from several international competitions and appears frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS Brilliant and Bombastic Monica Bauchwitz, CJ Camieri, Karl Kramer & Mike Lormand Thursday, April 20 1:00 PM Concerts in the Heights presents “Brilliant and Bombastic” – a program for brass trio with a special appearance by our Artistic Director in the role of Narrator! Multi-instrumentalist and trumpeter CJ Camieri – a Juilliard-trained member of Paul Simon’s band, trombonist Mike Lormand – one of the most versatile and experienced freelance trombonists of his generation, and hornist Karl Kramer will take you on a journey of jazz and fanfares, Native American chants and Hollywood ballads. CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS Obsession Music by Bach, Ysaÿe and Kramer for six violins, with dancers and actor Special guests: String Orchestra of New York City with actor Jack Clark, dancers Angelina Laguna and A’lia Martin. Thursday, May 11 1:00 PM The Violin section of String Orchestra of New York City will perform special arrangements of the music by Ysaÿe and Bach, as well as new music by Karl Kramer. Ysaÿe was a world-renowned Belgian violinist who as a composer took his inspiration from Bach. His solo-sonata “Obsession” is re-arranged for six violins, exploring the structure and sonic potential of the score. This work inspired Karl Kramer to write a one-man play for the young actor Jack Clark - currently a student at Fordham University. Bach’s Second Suite for solo Cello will be presented in Karl Kramer’s new arrangement for the same instrumentation of six violins. He has also written his own suite in direct response to Bach’s score. Young dancers Angelina Laguna and A’lia Martin have provided choreography and will dance to these movements. String Orchestra of New York City has released several CDs, and performed across the US to great acclaim, and have been called “a composer’s dream” by Pulitzer-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis. CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS We are located in the Fine Arts Building. Our Address is : 250 Bedford Park Blvd West Bronx, NY 10468 For more information please contact: lehmancollegeartgallery@gmail.com or 718.960.8731 Annual Gallery programs are supported in part by: NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund, Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation.  ‌  ‌