Riverside Galleries, Garrison Art Center, 2 Opening Exhibitions: "Some Stories" Melinda Stickney & "BassWood Bodies" Victoria Thorson

The Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center in Garrison, New York, announces Two Exhibition Openings, August 11 - September 9, 2018 with a public reception for the artists on Saturday, August 11 from 5 -7pm.

The artists include Melinda Stickney-Gibson and Victoria Thorson.

Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Smooch,  60 x 80 inches

Melinda Stickney-Gibson's paintings and painted “tapestries”  involve a diaristic, personal and often graphic approach. Her paintings and sculptural pieces literally incorporate tiny bits of writing from her own journals, favorite fragments of writing by others and universal words such as “yes," “maybe," “no?," “her,” “ummm….,” etc. This aspect of the work is absolutely in relationship to her longtime love of the physical act of painting and her visceral love of the paint itself.

One work that will be featured in the exhibition is LOSING LARSEN C, a painting that is a personal commentary on a gigantic ancient ice cap, named Larsen C, which is rapidly losing mass.

Stickney-Gibson has been living and working as an artist in New York for over 25 years. In addition to painting, she creates sculptural work incorporating steel, glass, concrete and wire often resting on steel wall-mounted ledges or installed on the floor itself.

Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Losing Larsen C

Victoria Thorson’s sculptures tread a line between recognizable form and pure abstraction. She has been seduced by basswood. Its softness of touch when smooth, evokes the human body. Starting with lumber or recycled wood, Thorson sees potential shapes and feels her way along the cracks, knots and grain, following the lines of energy. She carves and refines to create slits of light between masses and discovers abstract forms to express life’s silences and vibrations.

Her work is often anchored by a re-purposed metal industrial find that is the right weight, proportion and aesthetic to be part of the piece, not a separate base. Most pieces can rotate 360 degrees or swing out to recompose, while the initial core and plumb line stay intact. This exhibition will also feature several ceramics Thorson created in the 90s working with sculptor Peter Gourfain, who taught her to sharpen a wood tool and cut clear planes when the clay was right to the touch. Gallery visitors will see the evolution as Thorson brought her fluid form-language from clay to wood.

Victoria Thorson, 05 Red Surge

Victoria Thorson, 08 Bosnia Wood 1

Two Exhibition Openings:
Some Stories, Melinda Stickney-Gibson and BassWood Bodies, Victoria Thorson

August 11 – September 9, 2018
Public reception for the artists: Saturday, August 11, 5-7pm

The Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
845-424-3960
www.garrisonartcenter.org

Garrison Art Center in Collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art Presents Remo Salvadori, Marco Bagnoli, Domenico Bianchi, Saturday, March 10, 2018

This is a special collaborative curated opportunity with Magazzino Italian Art to experience selected works from these artists on exhibit at The Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center. The exhibition will be on view March 10 -April 8, 2018, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 10 from 5 - 7pm.
 

Remo Salvadori (b. 1947) Origine 1982-83, Colors, wax, gold on lead, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches

Marco Bagnoli (b. 1949) L’anello mancante alla catena che non c’è 1989, Steel, glass and alabaster, Height 72 inches x 28 3/8 inches. Base height 31 7/8 x 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches

Domenico Bianchi (b. 1955), Untitled 2013, Watercolor on paper, 14 x 9 1/4 inches

Remo Salvadori, born in 1947 in Cerreto Guidi, near Vinci in the province of Florence,  currently lives and works in Milan. Salvadori’s important solo exhibitions include those at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2005); Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (1997); Magasin,Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble (1991); and the Italian Cultural Institute and The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1987).

Marco Bagnoli, born in 1949 in Empoli, has long been a presence at major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennial (1982, 1993, 1997), Documenta in Kassel (1982 and 1992) and Sonsbeek in Arnhem (1986).

Domenico Bianchi, born in 1955 in Rome, lives and works there today. Bianchi attended the city’s Accademia di Belle Arti, and at age 22 made his debut with a solo exhibition at Salvatore Ala Gallery in New York. In the years that followed, his work was shown at the Galerie Swart in Amsterdam, Yvon Lambert in Paris, Gian Enzo Sperone in Rome and New York, LA Louver Gallery in Los Angeles and Galleria Christian Stein in Turin and Milan.

The materials utilized by Marco Bagnoli, Domenico Bianchi and Remo Salvadori do not stray far from the commonplace pre-industrial objects that defined the “poor art” movement, but these pieces seem to transcend - adding allusions to the spiritual, the cosmic and the soul.

This exchange is the first between the two Hudson Valley arts organizations. Garrison Art Center and Magazzino Italian Art are dedicated to promoting the exhibition and enjoyment of art through educational and cultural experiences. This exhibition will feature select works on loan from the Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection. Olnick and Spanu founded Magazzino Italian Art, which opened in 2017, and is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of Post-war Italian Art and Design in the United States.

Salvadori, Bagnoli and Bianchi represent the next generation, following the Arte Povera movement, and are examples of the artistic talent flourishing in Italy today. These three artists were featured during the Magazzino Italian Art inaugural season. This exhibition at Garrison Art Center is an opportunity to view additional works by these prominent contemporary artists.

Garrison Art Center Presents Remo Salvadori, Marco Bagnoli and Domenico Bianchi in Collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art
March 10 through April 8, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION: March 10, 5-7pm

Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
845-424-3960
www.garrisonartcenter.org

Garrison Art Center | Member Exhibition, January 12 - 21, 2018

GARRISON ART CENTER invites you to attend the 2018 Member Exhibition, January 12-21, 2018 with the OPENING RECEPTION, January 12, 5-7pm.

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Victor Mirabelli, "Brushed by Twigs,"  11 x 14 inches, oil on canvas

MEMBER EXHIBITION 2018
Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
845-424-3960
www.garrisonartcenter.org

PHOTOcentric—National Juried Photography Show - Garrison Art Center, Saturday, December 9, 2017

PHOTOcentric, an international juried photography exhibition, featuring 50 works selected by juror Francis M. Naumann, will be shown in the Gillette Gallery at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, December 9 - January 7, 2018.

For seven years the PHOTOcentric Exhibition has clearly established itself as an exhibition of outstanding fine art photography. Artists from across the United States and from around the world have submitted their work.

Timothy Macy Bakersfield Cows  FIRST PLACE SHOW

This year's juror, Francis M. Naumann, is an independent scholar, curator and gallery owner, specializing in the art of the Dada and Surrealist periods, including the noted photographers Man Ray and Naomi Savage. He is author of numerous articles, exhibition catalogues and books. Mr. Naumann has organized museum shows for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Craft Museum in New York.

Karen Johnson I Dream of the Pale Horse  FIRST PLACE OPEN CATEGORY

Giulio Sista Speakeasy
FIRST PLACE PEOPLE CATEGORY

PHOTOcentric 2017
December 9, 2017 through January 7, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION: December 9, 5-7pm

The Gillette Gallery at Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
845-424-3960
www.garrisonartcenter.org

Riverside Galleries, Garrison Art Center Opening Exhibition: The Other Side of Things: Women in Abstraction

The Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center in Garrison, New York, announces a Group Exhibition curated by Petra Nimtz, August 12 – September 3, 2017, with a public reception for the artists on Saturday, August 12, 5-7pm.

Curator Petra Nimtz presents 6 internationally and nationally known female artists representing a cross section of contemporary abstract art. The artists include: Diane Dwyer, Meg Lipke, Fran O’Neill, Christina Tenaglia, Julie Torres and Sabine Tress.

Sabine Tress, Echantillon Deus

Each artist has developed her own individual, yet related style of working. Color, gestural mark making and bold shapes are combined by each artist across different mediums, materials and tools.

Fran O'Neill, Moving Beneath

The exhibition includes painting, drawing and sculpture that incorporate shape, form, color and line—the visual language of true abstraction.

Christina Tenaglia, Untitled

Julie Torres, Untitled

Diane Dwyer, A Handful of Earth. 

Meg Lipke, Speed Spirit

Petra Nimtz is a painter and curator living and working in Woodstock, New York. Her work has been exhibited extensively in North America and Europe and can be found in several collections in the United States, Canada and Germany. Nimtz studied at the Art Students League in New York.

The Other Side of Things: Women in Abstraction
August 12 – September 3, 2017
Public reception for the artist: Sunday, August 12, 5-7pm
 

The Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center
23 Garrison’s Landing
Garrison, NY 10524
845-424-3960
www.garrisonartcenter.org