Edward Hopper House "Small Matters of Great Importance: PAPER + ART " - On Exhibit through January 8, 2017

The Edward Hopper House is currently showing their 23rd Annual Juried Small Works Show, Small Matters of Great Importance: PAPER + ART. The exhibition celebrates small works that make big statements despite their size. The theme for this year’s show is paper, with all works using paper as a primary medium or support.

Carole Kunstadt, Sacred Poem Series

The juror of this year’s Small Matters show is Michelle Donnelly, Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Michelle manages the Sondra Gilman Study Center, which houses the majority of the museum’s collection of 18,000 works on paper, and assists on permanent collection and loan exhibitions.

Prior to joining the Whitney, she held curatorial positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Morgan Library & Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Heckscher Museum of Art. She received an MA in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA with honors in Art History from Vassar College.

Small Matter of Great Importance: PAPER + ART closes January 8, 2017

Edward Hopper House Art Center
82 North Broadway
Nyack, NY
845-358-0774
www.edwardhopperhouse.org

Dia:Beacon "Long-Term View: Robert Morris" CLOSES DECEMBER 31, 2016

To celebrate an important acquisition of eight works by Robert Morris, Dia's new installation, Long-Term View, opened to the public on October 8, 2016 and will be closing DECEMBER 31, 2016. The new acquisition includes pioneering works of Minimal sculpture and an iconic “scatter” of earth, which was first shown at the Dwan Gallery in 1968.

Robert Morris, Untitled (Dirt), 1968/2016. © Robert Morris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy Castelli Gallery, New York

Robert Morris - Long–term view, Dia:Beacon
Exhibition closes December 31, 2016

DIA: Beacon
3 Beekman Street
Beacon, New York
845-440-0100
www.diaart.org

ROCK AND ROLL ICONS: Photographs by Patrick Harbron, Albany Institute of History & Art

Rock and Roll Icons: Photographs by Patrick Harbron is an exhibition taken from Harbron’s body of concert and portrait photography of influential musicians and groups of the 1970s and 1980s, captured at pivotal moments in their careers.

The exhibition features many photographs that have never been published or exhibited. Mr. Harbron's work has been widely published and exhibited worldwide.

Harbron photographed artists such as Blondie, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Police, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Elvis Costello early in their careers. He followed these artists to prominence and others that were already well known including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Queen, The Who, Genesis, KISS, U2, Aerosmith, and Prince.

ROCK AND ROLL ICONS: Photographs by Patrick Harbron
Current exhibition through February 12, 2017

ROCK AND ROLL ICONS: Photographs by Patrick Harbron
Albany Institute of History & Art
125 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
518-463-4478
www.albanyinstitute.org

A Review of Victor Mirabelli's Current Show "Naked Imprint" at Argazzi Art

Published on TriCornerNews (http://www.tricornernews.com)
Thu, 11/10/2016 - 12:39pm
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A Style Evolving Into Abstract
November 10/2016
ART By Leon Graham
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A Style Evolving Into Abstract

The appeal of Victor Mirabelli’s paintings is immediate. Both impressionistic and abstract, the contrast between white structures — abandoned farm buildings, alone or in groups — and gauzy, feathery landscape draws you into the picture and its possible story.

Mirabelli’s work glows under what appears to be heavy layers of paint. Yet the paint is actually quite thin, the layers of direct pigment scrubbed and brushed on canvas to a feathery texture that gives the pictures a ghostly, haunting quality.

The artist’s current show, “Naked Imprint” at Argazzi Art in Lakeville, is the third in three years presented by owner Judith Singelis. Each has revealed an artist in development, moving toward an increasingly loose style. Buildings that three years ago were more defined are now not as strictly painted. And many are slightly out of plumb. They draw your eye in by their impreciseness, their slight tilt.

Victor Mirabelli Heritage 60 x 60 Oil on Canvas

Mirabelli has painted new work for the current show, all done in the past year. And there is not a weak picture in the group. You can see that he is moving into more abstract composition, a darker palette for landscape, a darker — yet viscerally appealing — world. In “Heritage,” the edges of a building seem to dissolve in a mist, they may not last much longer. The dark foreground encroaches on the building with feathery fingers.

Victor Mirabelli Bountiful 60 x 74 Oil on Canvas

“Bountiful” shows three white structures with solid walls facing a muted yellow field out of which gray tendrils reach into wall angles and up the sides of the buildings. There is an odd sense of movement, as if a process of decay is already underway.

Victor Mirabelli Above the Horizon 36 x 72 Oil on Canvas

“Above the Horizon” is unusual for Mirabelli: several buildings stretch across the canvas in a solid horizontal row, as if he has imagined a deserted village. And in “Afternoon Delight,” touches of yellow/orange suggest sunlight, maybe even fire, on a somber roof.

Victor Mirabelli, “Naked Imprint,” runs at Argazzi Art through Nov. 20. The gallery is at 22 Millerton Road in Lakeville, Conn., and is open Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 860-435-8222 or go to www.argazziart.com

Holiday Exhibitions at Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

Come celebrate the 2016 Holiday Member Show in conjunction with the Solo Exhibition Ashokan Reservoir by artist Amy Rie McGuire in the Crenson Gallery at the Barrett Art Center.

Amy Rie McGuire, Reservoir Sun, Late Winter, 2015

The Holiday Member Show features artworks all under 18 inches in size, while the Solo Show highlights an array of views of the Ashokan Reservoir where McGuire has lived for more than thirty years. McGuire makes and/or paints most of the frames for her paintings. Her greeting cards, calendars and a book will be available for sale during the show.  

A portion of the proceeds will be donated from these exhibitions to Holiday Helping Hands, a charitable giving program of the United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region and the Poughkeepsie Journal.

November 19 – December 17, 2016
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 19, 2016
3:00 – 5:00 pm

A prize drawing will feature note cards and artwork reproductions of works by and inspired by Thomas W. Barrett, Jr.
The reception is free and open to the public.

HOLIDAY MEMBER SHOW and
AMY RIE MCGUIRE’S SOLO SHOW ASHOKAN RESERVOIR
Saturday, November 19, 2016
3:00 – 5:00 pm

Barrett Art Center
55 Noxon Street
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
845.471.2550
www.barrettartcenter.org