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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Michael Zansky: Paintings
Departure, by Michael Zansky
GAGA Arts Center is excited to host the premier exhibit of Michael
Zansky’s new oil paintings. The internationally recognized
artist will hang over thirty canvases-- a radical, tour de force
departure from his acclaimed multi-media Lens Installations.
“The new paintings are snapshots of an alternate reality;
our minds clutch at the jagged cracks of the subliminal cliffs
- our grasp of the real fails, and we fall willingly into the
curious mind of Michael Zansky.” James Tyler-Curator
EXHIBITION DATES: Friday, March 5th thru Sunday, March 28, 2010
Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th, 6pm to 9pm
Contact:
James Tyler, Executive Director- 845-548-8918
GAGA Arts Center thanks the Arts Fund of Rockland,
a project of the Arts Council of Rockland, for their generous
support.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Community
Arts Grants program of the Arts Council of Rockland and the Decentralization
Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.
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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
F I C T I O N S
Salon des Refuses 2K10
March 5-March 28, 2010
In an age of the all-powerful institutional mega-exhibition, the
Gaga Arts Center is pleased to present FICTIONS Salon des Refuses
2K10 (French for “Salon of the Refused’). This experimental
and innovative exhibition includes artists whose work has been
overlooked by the curators of these exhibitions yet warrants critical
attention as the avant-garde. These artists dare to develop new
language in all media that doesn’t fit into neat categories
and boundaries—simply put, their work breaks rules. The
distinguishing element running through all the work in this show
is that fiction is more real than fact-analogous to contemporary
life.
A brief description of two of the artists in this group show is
presented below.
Ezra Talmatch is so New York , so gritty, street smart, east village
that you can’t get any closer to street language but with
such enormous skill that it creates a tension with the refinement
of the Artworks. He has an outrageous amount of artistic energy
whether he is simply drawing, creating dry frescos, massive construction
material environments, or altering prints and virtual atmospheres.
He is constructing and destructing himself at the same time. These
works are so raw and yet so refined. His work is frighteningly
evocative. You’ve never seen dry-frescos like this before.
Brian Leo is a great colorist and pop-minimalist whose work creates
a surrealist’s sense of dramatic humor. His particular way
of putting colors together is totally unique. The colors are very
unusual, their qualities are irresistibly attractive and beautiful,
Brian has a very good command chromatically. These forms have
no relationship yet they do relate. If Phillip Guston lives--he
lives through this kid.
EXHIBITION DATES: Friday, March 5th thru Sunday, March 28, 2010
Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th, 6pm to 9pm
Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center
, 55 Railroad Avenue , Garnerville , NY 10923 in the Village of
West Haverstraw , Rockland County . For directions and additional
information, visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108,
or email gaga@garnervillearts.com.
GAGA Arts Center thanks the Arts Fund of Rockland,
a project of the Arts Council of Rockland, for their generous
support.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Community
Arts Grants program of the Arts Council of Rockland and the Decentralization
Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
Tamara Gayer
Everything’s For Sale
December 4, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, December 4th, 2009
6-9pm
Contact: Ursula Schneider, Gallery B Director 845-429-5636
James Tyler, Executive Director
845-548-8918
A site-specific installation by Tamara Gayer will be on view at
the GAGA Arts Center in Garnerville, NY from December 4th to January
10th.
The show, Everything’s For Sale, is comprised of ‘Skyline,’
a large scale installation that will use the windows in Gallery
B at GAGA as a substrate; and ‘Window,’ a lightbox
positioned opposite these windows. ‘Skyline’ plays
with the image of the skyline of Manhattan, depicting some of
the iconic buildings of this vista and outlining the power and
aesthetic history of the City. This piece takes this engagement
a stage further by altering some of the specifics, toying with
our perception of the generic image of the City. The light box
‘Window’ offers the complementary intimate view of
the City.
Gayer’s juxtaposition is not only a conversation about the
history of New York but a play on light, color and patterns. Gayer
uses our basic predisposition to assemble patterns to create undulating
landscapes that evoke movement and promote discovery. In this
show she will focus on plays of light and shadow both natural
and artificial. This show is a continuation of the conversation
Gayer seeks to promote about the spaces in which we live and the
ongoing changes to our environment.
Tamara Gayer is an artist transfixed by Manhattan. Suspended between
the impulses of an image-maker and a builder, she creates work
that mutates from drawing to installation to video. Born in NYC,
Gayer grew up in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. She holds a BA from Sarah
Lawrence College and an MFA from Hunter College. In New York her
work has been show at Priska Juschka Fine Art, Foxy Production,
and Exit Art among others. She is represented in several prominent
collections, including that of the Museum of Modern Art.
Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Closed December 25th through 27th and January 1st through 3rd
Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center,
55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West
Haverstraw, Rockland County. For directions and additional information,
visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or emailgaga@garnervillearts.com
PRESS RELEASE
Creating the Colossus
Sculptor James Tyler has begun work on his huge sculpture, the
Groundwater Colossus, in his studio at the GAGA Arts Center in
Garnerville, New York. Formed with over ten tons of red clay,
the sculpture will be among the largest free standing ceramic
sculptures ever made. The artwork is an enormous human visage,
emerging from the earth. An underground titan revealed, the personification
of the vast freshwater aquifers that lay hidden beneath the surface.
Commissioned by the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, for it's new Union
Plaza park, the Groundwater Colossus will sit directly atop the
Ogallala Aquifer. The largest and perhaps the most important underground
freshwater reserve in the world. The aquifer supplies fresh drinking
water to much of the mid-western United States and irrigates farms
in what would otherwise be a semi-arid plain in the heart of America's
breadbasket.
Freshwater reserves in the Ogallala are declining. It is the
artist's hope that the sculpture will bring attention to this
environmentally important natural resource. When viewers come
face to face with the Groundwater Colossus they will make a personal
connection with the ecology of the mysterious world below.
Follow the process live:
Http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creating-the-colossus
Contact: GAGA Arts Center www.gagaartscenter.org (845) 947-7108
For more information: James Tyler www.tylersculpture.com
(845) 548-8918
PRESS RELEASE
Pictures
From Croatia: Through The Eyes Of Children
SEPTEMBER 11- OCTOBER 4, 2009
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 11th – 6-9PM
Contact: Ken Karlewicz, Curator- 917-578-7297
James Tyler, Executive Director- 845-947-7108
On October 10, 2008 five exemplary photography students
ages 10 -17 from Ken Karlewicz's after school photography program
, set off for an exciting and intensive nine day photography
workshop in Dubrovnik Croatia.
The students, Emma Karlewicz (age 10),Kayla Rudess (age 12), Kim
Winkler (age 13), Juan Carlos Fana (age 15), and Wilfry
Fana (age 17), were all seasoned photographers from Ken's
after school photography program, and had spent the past several
years doing street and documentary photography in the historic
river village of Haverstraw N.Y.
Shooting 10-12 megapixel digital SLR'S, the students worked much
of the time in the historic "Old City" of Dubrovnik
as well as the nearby island of Korcula, making environmental
portraits,landscape and architectural images as well
as street and documentary photographs of everyday life in Croatia.
The resulting exhibition, "Pictures from Croatia:
Through the Eyes of Children" will consist of close
to 50 images with the opening reception scheduled
for Friday, September 11, 2009 at the Gaga Arts Center in
Garnerville N.Y. from 6-9PM
The trip was sponsored by former Met Life CEO Robert Benmosche
of Wesley Hills N.Y. who graciously hosted the team for
their nine day stay at his oceanside villa on the Adriatic Sea
in Dubrovnik Croatia.
Additional support was made possible through the generous contributions from
Ken's loyal clients at Mr. K's Window Cleaning Service who shared
his vision for the project and by the Orange & Rockland Community
Investment Program.
Exhibition will open on September 11, 2009 and continue thru October
4, 2009.
Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center,
55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West
Haverstraw, Rockland County. For directions and additional information,
visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or email gaga@garnervillearts.com
PRESS RELEASE
Now, at the GAGA Coffee Bar (all day). Don’t
miss Dutch Video Art Under The Stars, an evening film/video presentation
projected on the building facades (at dark).
Gallery Hours - Fri 4to 8, Sat 2 to 6, Sun 1 to 4
FLOTILLA WEEKEND HOURS:
Saturday, June 6th 12 noon-8pm; Sunday, June 7th 10am-6pm. DVideo
Art Under The Stars commencing at Dark, Sunday, June 7th.
Garnerville, Village of West Haverstraw, Rockland County, NY 10923.
Call: 845-947-7108, email: gaga@garnervillearts.com or visit gagaartscenter.org.
Gaga Arts Center is speaking to partners to organize al
GAGA by bike, car, and boat.
Directions southbound Palisades Parkway
Exit 13- Turn left and then left again at the first light onto
Thie
Then follow directions below.
Directions northbound Palisades Parkway
Exit 13- Turn left onto Thiells-Mt. Ivy Road.
Continue past the golf course to the end and tur
(Suffern Lane becomes Railroad Ave. after 2nd traffic light).
Go 1/10 mile past light. GAGA’s Main entrance is on the
righ
Local: 9W to Railroad Avenue, West Haverstraw. West for ¼
mile. GAGA is on the left
Flotilla Weekend - Shuttle Bus and
Alternate Parking
AREAS located in Stony Point at the former Stop & Shop on
Route 9W and the James W. Farley Middle School on Route 210; and
in Haverstraw at the Knights of Columbus Parking Lot on West Broad
Street. BUS PASSENGERS WILL BE DROPPED OFF AND PICKED UP AT GAGA
ARTS CENTER, THE HAVERSTRAW MARINA AND EACH DESIGNATED PARKING
AREA.
*Light on New Netherland has already
traveled to the New York State Museum in Albany and to the
Museum of Connecticut History in Hartford. Following its stay
at the GAGA Arts Center, Light on Netherland will travel to the
Society of Preservation of Long Island Antiques in Cold Spring
Harbor, andlater to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and
Museum in Hyde Park, Federal Hall in New York Cityand the Historical
Society of Delaware in Wilmington, among other destinations.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Art Exhibition at: GAGA Arts Center
plumgoneperhapsfar
Works by Joe Fusaro at GAGA Arts Center
JUNE 12- JULY 7, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 2009
Contact: Melissa 845-947-7108
Drawing, painting and mixed-media by Joe Fusaro will be on view
at the GAGA Arts Center in Garnerville, NY from June 12- July
5, 2009.
The exhibit, titled "plumgoneperhapsfar", will feature
two rooms of Mr. Fusaro's work- one dedicated to figurative drawing
and painting, and a second gallery space featuring an installation
of "sloped" drawings on scroll paper that reach as high
as 15 feet and descend to the floor.
Mr. Fusaro has exhibited on both the east and west coasts, and
most recently held exhibits at Kickstart Gallery in New York City,
the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Manna Gallery
and Café in Nyack, New York.
For more information on Joe Fusaro’s work, go to: joefusaro.com
Joe Fusaro is the Visual Arts Chair for the Nyack Public Schools
in New York, Senior Education Advisor for the PBS series, Art21:
Art in the 21st Century, and a member of the adjunct faculty at
New York University.
Exhibition will open on June 12, 2009 and continue thru July
5th.
Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center,
55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West
Haverstraw, Rockland County. For directions and additional information,
visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or email gaga@garnervillearts.com
GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL -
2009
'Art World to Converge on Garnerville, New York'
SOHO Reborn in the Hudson Valley
“This event is like no other art exhibition.” says
GAGA President Robin Rosenberg, “Our complex of buildings
is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their
art for a living. The public gets a chance to see museum quality
art, while wandering the back alleys and alcoves of a historic,
Civil War era textile mill. There will be open studios, music,
food, and live demonstrations of a variety of artisans. The GAGA
Arts Festival has become a hot destination point drawing nearly
5000 visitors from the Tri State region including more and more
who make the short journey up the Hudson from New York City.”
Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd - 11 AM to 6 PM [ rain or
shine]
Admission is $5 - children under 14 accompanied by an adult are
free.
Open Studios - Art Exhibitions - Children’s Workshops
Film - Dance - Delectable Foods - Live Music
This year’s exhibitions include:
59 X 59 Exhibition [PREVIEW]
Ken Karlewitz
Ken Karlewitz and 40 other photographers captured digital images
on May 9th [5\9] along Route 59 in Rockland County, New York.
The result is a remarkable photographic distillation of a single
day in the life of a diverse fifteen mile stretch of America.
Exhibition will include over one hundred 16x20 photographs documenting
the 24 hour encounter. [Exhibition will continue thru June 6,
2009]
Dye Works Bazaar
Indoor Art Fair \ Coffeehouse featuring the beautiful [and affordable]
artworks of over 25 talented outsider artists, craft artists,
and artisans. Plus music and seating in the GAGA Coffee Bar, all
under one roof in our unique 8000 square foot Dye Works Gallery.
Many of the artists will themselves be present at the fair.
CUBEHEAD Interactive Video Installation
Cubehead at GAGA is an interactive video installation created
by MIT professor Ed Moriarty and sculptor James Tyler with the
participation of a group of secondary school students from the
Rockland County, New York, region.
Art and aesthetics meet engineering and technology 
Additional attractions for 2008:
- GAGA Creekside - Nature Walk and Sculpture Trail. New trails,
new sculptures along the Miniceongo Creek. Including Ted's Giant
Head, the largest Stonehead ever made by nationally recognized
'outsider artist' Ted Ludwiczak.
- Indonesian “Monkey Chant” - Costumed Indonesian
performers who engage community participation.
- Vagabond Puppets - Life-size puppetry performance.
- Marta Renzi Modern Dance
- Student Art Show.
- Youth Workshops - Musical instrument building, painting and
crafts.
- High School Video Art Installation
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Art Exhibition at: GAGA Arts Center
BETWEEN THE LINES
The use of line is the central element in this exhibition, which
includes drawings, paintings and sculptures by Ursula Schneider,
Ann Pachner and Pat Hickman.
Ursula Schneider’s paintings are based on observations
of the Hudson River. With a keen eye for formal concerns, the
artist translates water and reflections into intercepting bands
of color, basing each painting on a specific time and season.
The architecture of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant and intrusion
of industrial barges on the river’s serenity are common
subjects in these contemplations on the interactions between man
and nature.
Ann Pachner’s sculptures and drawings are based on her
experience of sitting in meditation and on her observations of
nature. In the drawings, a rainstorm appears as a great cord of
water flowing from an infinite source. Hair becomes a ritual mirroring
of what is outside and what is inside. Her sculptures, carved
of wood, resemble seedpods on which the artist scribes small repetitive
sinuous lines, creating a sense of movement and delicate vibration.
Pat Hickman works with flexible linear elements, manipulating
them into a structure and its skin. Whether drawing with thread
or working with animal membrane, Hickman’s marks explore
the passage of time and the power of memory, allowing for the
possible disintegration and change of material. Using weathered
metal and useless scraps of paper, the artist transforms these
found objects, giving them new life.
[This Garnerville Gallery Exhibition was given as the first prize
by Gde Arsa Artha to Ursula Schneider in 2006.
The exhibition will run from March13 to April 4
-Gallery hours: Fridays 5 to 8 PM and Saturdays 2 to 6 PM.The
opening reception will be on Friday, arch 13th, from 6 to 9 PM.
Call 845-947-7108 for more information.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Art Exhibition at: GAGA Arts Center
LAND OF THE LOST - Andrea Stanislav
November 7th- December 7th (Fridays
5-8PM; Saturdays 2-6PM)
Opening Reception: November 7th
6-9PM
Andréa Stanislav's new solo exhibition -- Land of the
Lost -- is a site- specific multimedia installation created for
the Main Gallery at GAGA. The installation is a dystopic “encampment”
consisting of a sculptural formation of silver military tents.
Each tent has its own sonic and lighting element that creates
a rhythmic pattern of light and sound emanating from within each
sculpture.
There is a large scale video projection of a spectacular explosion
of sculpture that the artist staged in the Great Salt Flats at
the Bonneville Speedway in Utah -- creating a fireball that rose
hundreds of feet above the salt desert. (See Image Below)
About the Artist
Andréa Stanislav is multimedia artist who lives and works
in Minneapolis and New York City . Stanislav's body of work is
inspired by the language of film, architecture and pop culture,
and includes installation, sculpture, video, photography and sound.
Her installations create experiential environments exploring
worlds we can see and worlds we can’t—but know intuitively
are real. Stanislav’s work has been featured in numerous
solo and group exhibitions around the world, including Shenyang
, China ; Iksan , Korea ; Belfast , Ireland ; London , England
; San Diego , Miami , Minneapolis and New York City .
In Gallery B, Brooklyn- based, emerging artist Gail Heidel presents
her installation -- Converge.
Converge is a two-part installation composed of 1123 modular
bricks. The work references the contemporary condition of interconnectivity,
the reliance on systems and the dualities found within these ideas
through the metaphor of the cityscape.
The opening reception will be on Friday, November 7th,
from 6 to 9PM,
with a special live performance
by Gamelan Son of Lion
Gamelan Son of Lion is a new music repertory ensemble based in
downtown New York City specializing in contemporary pieces written
for the instruments of the Javanese gamelan. Gamelan Son of Lion's
instruments were built in village style by Barbara Benary using
steel keys, cans for resonators, hubcaps for kempul, etc. There
are about one hundred active gamelan ensembles in the United States
at the current time. Gamelan Son of Lion now rates among the oldest
of these, having performed continuously since 1976. It is also
one of the few in this country which operate independently of
institutions as a professional music ensemble.
For more information or directions, call: 845-947-7108,
or go to: www.gagaartscenter.org
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Art Exhibition at: GAGA Arts Center
GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL - 2008
Art World to Converge on Garnerville, New York
Record crowds from the Tri-state region are expected to attend
this year’s
GAGA Arts Festival at the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center.
Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th
11 AM to 6 PM [ rain or shine]
Admission is $5 - children under 14 accompanied by an adult are
free.
Open Studios - Art Exhibitions
- Children’s Workshops - Short Film Series
Dance - Delectable Foods - Live Music
This year’s exhibitions include:
OUTSIDE IN - 2008 Outsider Art
Expo -Curated by James Tyler
The paintings and sculpture of fifty self-taught ‘outsiders’
and American folk artists will be on display at the GAGA Arts
Center as a part of this year’s GAGA Arts Festival. Exhibition
will include new works by: Matt Sesow, Bob Justin, Mike Conner,
Ed Kirkland, and Ross Brodar.
This is the second year that GAGA will be featuring outsider
art. Over fifteen thousand square of gallery space will be made
available. "It’s just a natural fit for GAGA. People
loved last year's Outside In show, so we are making it even bigger
and better for 2008.”says Executive Director James Tyler.
This year GAGA is being joined by HAI of New York City. The HAI
exhibit will include works by renowned outsiders: RAY HAMILTON,
MERCEDES HAMILTON, ADAM HINES, IRENE PHILLIPS, CARL GREENBERG,
OSCAR BROWN, DAVID KIME, JOE SIMMS, MATHEW ROBERT GOAD X, EVERETT
BALL, DAVID BLAISDELL, JIM BLOOM , JEREMY BURLESSON, JULIUS BUSTAMANTE,
HARPER DEERING HAIR, GAETANA MENNA, FRANCES “LADY SHALIMAR”
MONTAGUE, GILDA LERNER
[ The OUTSIDE IN - 2008 exhibition will continue thru July 13th.
Gallery Hours are Friday 3-7, Saturday 1-6, and Sunday 1-4]
Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center
55 W. Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY, 10923 - www.gagaartscenter.org
- tel. 845-947-7108
Additional attractions for 2008:
- Farmageden - Artist Mike Conner's quirky installation about
the true nature of agri-business.
- Welder's Jamboree - Lee Tribe, Bill Hochhausen, and friends
will present a creative performance in welded steel.
- GAGA Creekside - Grand opening of GAGA's new sculpture park.
- Rivertown Film- short film series and student films.
- Marta Renzi Modern Dance
- Student Art Show.
SOHO Reborn in the Hudson Valley
“This event is like no other art exhibition.” says
GAGA President Robin Rosenberg, “Our complex of buildings
is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their
art for a living. The public gets a chance to see museum quality
art, while wandering the back alleys and alcoves of a historic,
Civil War era textile mill. While considering a possible acquisition
for their art collection, they can enjoy the food music, and live
demonstrations of a variety of artisans. The GAGA Arts Festival
has become a hot destination point drawing nearly 5000 visitors
from the Tri State region including many who make the short journey
up the Hudson from New York City.”
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
GAGA ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL SPRING SHOW
“THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ARTISTIC DIVERSITY:
A CELEBRATION OF 4 YEARS OF THE CRIT GROUP”
March 29 – May 4 2008
Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-5 PM
Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29 5-8 PM
Main Gallery
GAGA ARTS CENTER
55 Railroad Avenue
Garnerville, NY 10920
845-947-7108
The exhibit will feature the diverse works of nine exceptional
local artists whose critiques of one another’s work during
studio visits has resulted in this fascinating and inspirational
show of shared growth and sensibilities. The media ranges from
reverse paintings on glass, to ceramic and paper sculptures, to
works on birch panels. Familiar media images, playful creatures
and works that explore gender and human development and past and
present form the imagery of the exhibit. The artists include Joanne
Howard (Mrs. Jonathan Demme), two GAGA-based artists Pam Marchin
and Chris Randolph (co-curator), Lynn Stein (Exhibition Director,
Rockland Center for the Arts), Joel Carreiro, Polly King, John
Rosis, Jackie Shatz (co-curator) and Laurie Steinhorst (Adjunct
Professor, Westchester Community College). The artists have been
meeting, supporting and critiquing each other’s works for
the past 4 years.
PRESS
RELEASE
Large scale photographic
works are a genre in their own right and the GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville,
NY, with its
6000 square feet of open exhibition space is one of the few
galleries in the northeast large enough to mount a group exhibit of this scope. LOOKING
AT THE BIG PICTURE
is the title of the large-scale group photography exhibit
to open at GAGA this April and the first of this scale to occur
in the region.
The
show, organized by photographer
and curator *Marcia Gerardi, will be exhibiting a broad selection of images from ten accomplished and emerging
photographers, most of whom have not
exhibited in GAGA before. The
exhibit will attest to the visual power and impact a group show
of large scale works will produce. If there is a theme in the curatorial
process it would be in how each photographer sees the “Big Picture”
and uses their camera in expressing their relationship to and
perspective of our modern global environment and exploding popular
culture.
The
artists' diverse interpretations of these issues are expressed
in fundamentally different ways from the down-to-earth functional
(literal) to whimsical leaps of fantasy and total abstraction.
These are not just blow-ups; these images were incepted to be
large; on a cinematic scale, and they convey a common ground here
in their passion and unique perspectives. This is the “Big Picture” and the camera becomes a tool or
perhaps a weapon against the constant onslaught of our mass culture.
Among the ten photographers selected to exhibit will be the newest work
of acclaimed artists *Grace Knowlton and *Michael Zansky
who are extensively exhibited and collected in major museums throughout
the world including, respectively, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art and the Whitney Museum.
In
Gallery “B” noted photographer Ned Harris will
be exhibiting a large installation of his photography including
three-dimensional dioramas. This super-sized production will focus
on the people of New York City against the backdrop of the city
from the 60’s to now titled; New
York Street Theater.
April
1- May 6, 2007
Artists
Reception: Friday April 6, 6-9pm.
Featuring award winning musician Joe Delia and the Joe Delia Jazz
Trio
Gallery
Hours: Call or go on-line at www.gagaartscenter.org
Location and Contact Information
GAGA is located at 55
Railroad Avenue, Garnerville,
NY 10923
in the Village of West
Haverstraw. For directions and additional
information, visit our website at www.gagaartscenter.org, call 845-947-7108,
or email GAGA@garnervillearts.com.
Selected Bios
Grace
Knowlton is an award-winning artist who has traveled freely
through various art forms, methods and materials. Her work includes
photographs, drawings, paintings and sculpture made from both
natural and synthetic materials. She has exhibited extensively
and her work is represented in many public collections, including
the Smith College
Museum, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the
Newark Museum,
the Victoria and
Albert Museum
and others.
Michael
Zansky, a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, exhibits worldwide,
most recently at Fieldgate Gallery
in London, Konsthall in Stockholm, Art Basel in Basel and ARCO in Madrid. He is represented
in the collections of The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum
of Art, The Berkeley Museum of Art and Prudential Life New York, among others. Zansky’s numerous
exhibitions include: White Columns, Universal Concepts Unlimited,
The Norton Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Drawing
Center and SooBac Gallery,Minneapolis.
Ned
Harris is well-known
in Rockland County for his skills as a photographer and as a curator for fine art exhibitions.
His passion for photographing the dynamics of social change reflected
in the streets of the New York City, as well as the contrasting natural scenes of rural
Rockland over the past 40 years has resulted in the creation
of an immense body of work which led to the commission of an award-winning
book, Form and Texture,
published by Van Nostrand-Reinhold.
Harris was long time Chairman of Exhibitions for the Rockland Center for the Arts and while there established the Center
for Photography. He has lectured and taught photography at the
Visual Art Center, the Art Directors Club and Parsons School of Design
in NYC. His photos are collected and exhibited widely including
galleries in New
York City
as well the Corcoran in Washington and most recently at Yale University.
*About
The Curator
Marcia
Gerardi is an accomplished commercial and fine art photographer.
Establishing a studio in the Chelsea District of Manhattan, Gerardi
created images for many Fortune 500 accounts such as Revlon, Avon and Warner Communications. Her work has appeared in Vogue,
Architectural Digest, W., Elle, House and Garden, National Geographic
and more. She was instrumental in the formation of the Garnerville
Arts and Industrial Exchange and continues to help promote and
organize the annual GAGA arts festivals. She has also worked as
a photojournalist for Gannett Publications. Gerardi’s work is in private collections and has been in
numerous solo and group shows including The Museum of Modern Art.
Gerardi’s curatorial experience includes group exhibitions
for Rockland Center for the Arts, West
Nyack, NY, Imaging
Arts Photography Gallery, Tappan, NY and GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville, NY.
www.gagaartscenter.org,
call 845-947-7108, or email GAGA@garnervillearts.com.
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Amistad Exhibition
and Artifacts at GAGA October 2006
Event Date: 10/1/2006
End Date: 10/31/2006
Location: GAGA @ Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center
The Freedom Schooner Amistad will be at the Haverstraw Marina
in West Haverstraw on October 7th - 10th and again on October
22nd and 23rd. In conjuction with the docking of the Amistad,
its accompanying exhibit which documents the history of the historic
slave ship will be shown at GAGA along with African masks, baskets,
quilt replicas including symbols of the underground railroad,
and other artifacts. Call 845-947-7108 for more information.
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GAGA is pleased to
present "Petroglyphs of Rapanui" the first comprehensive
collection of petroglyph rubbings to be exhibited in the "outside"
world...
Event Date: 3/9/2006
End Date: 10/1/2006
Location: Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, Bldg. 19
The only known comprehensive collection of petroglyph
rubbings from Easter Island, the civilation that created the monolithic
stone statues, the Moai, in on exhibit for the first in GAGA.
The exhibit will remain open through September by appointment.
Please call 845-947-7108 or 845-371-2100.
Santi and Susan Hitorangi made these rubbings while
filming a documentary for National Geographic on Rapanui, Easter
Island. The images carved into bedrock tell the story of past
generations. The rubbings of these images include extinct dolphins,
cosmic images, various fish, birds and boats, a goddess of the
sea and other anthroponorphic representations. Rapanui means the
"navel of the world." Viewing the images has been said
to connect us with the umbilical cord of the world.
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Annual GAGA Arts Festival
to be held on June 10th & 11th, 2006 will feature "Once
A Tree", a juried fine wood furniture and sculpture show
sponsored by Sutherland Welles, Ltd. and the Garnerville
Arts and Industrial Center. On display in the Dye Works Gallery,
"Once A Tree" will feature the work of some of the finest
woodworkers in the Northeast. Visitors can appreciate the craftsmanship
of country tables to Adirondack furnishings to wood sculpture
to old English style cabinetry. Festival-goers can also watch
wood finishing demonstrations and observe the raw tree planks
from which the furniture is made.
For jurying and application information, please
go to "News and Events" on this website.
For more information about GAGA Arts Festival 2006,
please go to "News and Events" on this website.
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