Skin Trade at Go North, Opening June 2

The next exhibit at Go North is called Skin Trade, and it consists of a recent group of small paintings that I have been working on. There will be an opening reception on June 2 from 6-9 pm.

(A few installation shots.)

The press release:

For Immediate
Release:
Christopher Albert: Skin Trade
June 2nd – July 1st, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 6 – 9pm.
GO NORTH is pleased to present the opening of Christopher Albert’s exhibition “Skin Trade”. The work will be on exhibit from June 2nd through July 1st, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, June 2nd, from 6 - 9 pm.
Christopher Albert’s new paintings use images from pornographic magazines as the underlying structure for the formal elements of his paintings. Painting on top of the images, he transforms the graphic sexual images into a sensual blend of colors, forms textures, and lines. Leaving behind small traces of the original source material and the text associated with the sexual act. Literally and metaphorically “trading” the visual
pleasures associated with porn for the visual gratifications of painting.

Founded in September of 2006 by artists Gregory Slick and Karlos
Cárcamo, Go North’s mission is to support, exhibit, and promote art by
local, national, and international artists. Our focus is contemporary art
that is dedicated to exploring cutting edge cultural and artistic issues by
pushing the boundaries of traditional media. Staging monthly exhibitions on
a rotating basis gives artists the opportunity to expand and explore new
dimensions in their work. Enabling us to keep our exhibitions fresh and
updated, while providing a place in the Hudson Valley for contemplation,
dialog and exchange of ideas.

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art
469 Main St.,
Beacon,
NY 12508
gonorthgallery@hotmail.com
www.gonorthgallery.blogspot.com
Gallery hours: 12 - 6 pm, Friday - Sunday

Richard Bruce at LTMH Gallery

Richard Bruce's work will be included in a group show at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery located at 22 E. 72 St. in NYC (212.249.7695.) There will be an opening reception on May 30 from 6-8pm. The exhibit will continue through July.

Bulldog Studios is now Beacon Studios

The workspace formerly known as Bulldog Studios is now, rather generically, being called Beacon Studios. The space has a new website that lists all of the tenants of the building. The building will be having an open studio on June 9 from 1-5pm.

Beacon Art Salon Meeting, May 22 6pm

The Beacon Art Salon will hold its second meeting at Chthonic Clash, 453 Main St. on Tuesday, May 22 from 6-7:30pm.

Organizer Stacey Ward Kelley said that the first meeting attracted about a dozen folks. The city wide open studio event scheduled for June 9 is being organized under the auspices of the Art Salon.

By way of describing the BAS and how it came about, Stacey wrote the following:

A dozen artists and art enthusiasts met at Chthonic Clash
coffeehouse last month for its first meeting. Many of our initial members
have moved to the Beacon area within the last six months and are excited to
become part of a group that promotes art and community. Stacey Ward Kelly,
president and director of the group, explained that her original idea for the
Salon came from a meeting with a friend and fellow artist, Eric Van Bean,
(www.beanworkshops.com) with whom she's shown her work alongside for a number of years. "Eric and I began meeting once a week on Monday mornings to discuss and support one another's art process. A few months later, we had our first show, entitled
"Monday Morning Coffee" and have since produced a number of projects and art
shows in the Boston area. I wanted to bring that same idea here, to my hometown of Beacon, New York. Since I moved back here two years ago, I've noticed a number of small art groups existing side by side but with very few interactions and community-wide projects. Many artists are associated with only the galleries that show their work. I began the Beacon Art Salon to be a place where every artist and art enthusiast
could come together, once a month, to discuss, create, support and connect. Our first meeting was a great success and we had more than enough ideas to get started on. Our first event, will be an open studios, where participating artists will open their studio space and get their contact info on a city-wide map that will be distributed to the public on June 9, 2007 from 1-5pm. We will be doing this event in conjunction with the Beacon Studios open studios held at the old high school building. Other ideas that were mentioned at this first meeting include public art projects, a city-wide art
festival, visual art workshops, and creative writing opportunities."

All artists (visual, literary, musical etc.) and art enthusiasts are encouraged to attend our second meeting to be held on Tuesday, May 22nd from 6-7:30 pm at the Chthonic Clash Coffeehouse located at 453 Main Street in Beacon, NY. Membership to the group is free. Attendees for the next meeting are encouraged to bring a sample of their artwork to share with the group and one question (to ask to the group) or resource (ie: some art related information that might be of interest to others). Also, the registration deadline for the open studios event is May 22nd and registration forms will be available at the meeting.

For more information about the Beacon Art Salon please visit www.giraffeandturtle.com

May's Second Saturday in images

May's Second Saturday events brought out all sorts last week.

Homespun's anniversary picnic.

We Started the evening at Homespun's Foods first anniversary celebration where artist Gary O'Connor's band Chicken Bone Beach played.

Christopher Staples' opening at bau.

Fovea Exhibitions Beacon Gallery

From bau, I met up with A. at Fovea Exhibition Beacon Gallery for the inaugural opening there. We then crossed the street to get some ice cream at the Beacon Creamery. While munching on our cones on the street, we met Laura Mott as she was installing a mailbox outside of the Creamery. Mott's graduate thesis exhibit at the Center Curatorial Studies at Bard College "Come on Pilgrim: A 110 Mile Exhibition" is comprised of various site specific, and many experiential pieces located between Tivoli and Brooklyn. The mailbox Mott installed outside of the Creamery is part of a story based piece by Marcy Freedman. One may pick up a copy of the story can be removed from the box and read as one walks to Quinn's Luncheonette (please return the story to the box after having your experience.) I imagine the piece will be available to experience through May 27.

The "mailbox" outside of the Beacon Creamery as part of the 110 Mile Exhibition.

Kathy Feighery with visitors in her studio.

We then headed down to Spire for the open studios, and exhibition by gallery attendants at Dia:Beacon. The crowd for this gathering filled with many new faces was skewed decidedly younger than the usual cast of old artfarts that inhabit Beacon's scene.

The hallway at Spire.

Installation by Chris Gay in his studio.

We cut out relatively early - being the crochety old farts that we are - so we missed out on the revelry that was to commence later that night at Spire and the Piggy Bank.

Flying Swine reading at Philipstown Depot Theater tomorrow

It's been a challenge keeping up with events lately. I missed last Saturday's reading by Flying Swine of McNally's "Dusk" and Shanley's"Kissing Christina" at the Howland Center.

The group will be at the Philipstown Depot Theater on Lower Station Rd. (845.424.3900) in Garrison on Friday, May 18 at 7:30pm.

Reservations, call the swineline 845.230.7010

Free to the public, donations gladly accepted.

The Swines will be putting on another of their Porcine Preview Readings in early June. Details will be posted shortly.

Call for artists, Beacon Open Studios, June 9

The newly formed Beacon Art Salon is organizing a city-wide open studio event scheduled for June 9th.
If you are an artist interested in participating, you can go to http://www.giraffeandturtle.com/BASOSREG.html to retrieve a registration form. A $10 registration fee will cover the printing of a map of participating artists' studios.

Deadline for artist registration is May 22, 2007.

For more information, visit our website at www.giraffeandturtle/BAS or contact Stacey Ward Kelly at 845-401-8798.

Van Brunt reviewed at Culture Catch.com

Van Brunt Gallery's April exhibit featuring work by Stanford Kay, Steven Nicholls and D.Dominick Lombardi is the subject of a review by Elizabeth Stevens published last week at CultureCatch.com.

HVCCA reception and talk, May 12

In the last several posts, I've listed some of the things that will be happening in Beacon on this upcoming Second Saturday.
But if you happen to be down in Peekskill on Saturday afternoon, the HVCCA will be hosting a closing reception for the First Look II exhibit from 4-6pm. Newly appointed Director, Paul Brewer will be moderating a discussion with exhibition artists Justin Allen, Michael Brown, Melissa Skluzack and Bryan Zanisnik.

Beacon Dance Revolution, May 12

Beacon will be a veritable South Beach on the Hudson with deuling DJ dance parties. Spire's open studio will have Keithe Zarriello of the Shivers performing at 10pm and DJ Jeff Caramegna spinning discs late into the night. Meanwhile, over the Piggy Bank, 448 Main St., will kick off its own shakedown session with DJ Jeff Ashey at 9:30.

I'm telling you now that I won't be able to make it everywhere, so if anyone has photos of any of Saturday's events, please let me know.

Premiere Opening: Fovea Exhibitions Beacon Gallery

I just received an email regarding the premiere exhibit of Fovea Editions Beacon Gallery at 143 Main St. The nonprofit organization is focused on photography and will feature Lori Grinker's "After war: Veteran's from a World in Conflict." Grinker's exhibit opens on May 12 and runs through July 8. Saturday's opening reception will run from 4-8pm.

A panel discussion and book signing accompanying the exhibit will soon be scheduled. For information, call 845.765.2199.

Open Studios @ Spire Studios, May 12

It's been over a year, but there will be another open studio and exhibit opening at Spire Studios this Saturday.

The exhibit "What We Do" is a selection of work created by artists that work as gallery attendants at Dia:Beacon.

It seems that after a month's run at Spire, the exhibit will move over to the Muddy Cup where art exhibits are organized by bau, but I haven't found any details on this other than the dates listed in the jpg above.

I'm wrapping up a month away and will be rolling back into Beacon on Saturday, so I plan to perpetuate the delusion that this open studio was fortuitously scheduled as a welcome home party for me.

Other openings happening on Sat., as far a I know.

Hedina Cristiner's works on paper will be opening at the Rear Views Gallery located in The Paper Presence stationary store located at 296 Main St. The reception hours are 6-8pm.

I believe Christopher Staples is having an opening at bau along with a guest artist.

My recollections are a bit fuzzy, and I can't find any current info on either bau's or BACA's website, so that'll have to suffice for now.

Call For Entries: Uncanny Hudson Valley at the Samuel Dorsky Museum

This opportunity comes by way of Sara Pasti:

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art is pleased to invite
emerging and mid-career artists living in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan,
Columbia, and Greene Counties to submit artwork documentation for this summer's
Hudson Valley Artists 2007: The Uncanny Valley, opening Saturday, June 23 with a
reception from 6 - 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will continue through September
9, 2007.

This year's exhibition takes as its theme the "uncanny” that
sense of unease brought on by contact with an image or thing at once familiar
and strange. Museum curator Brian Wallace will review all work submitted in
response to this call and organize an exhibition of recent artwork from diverse
viewpoints and including a wide range of media that explores psychological,
perceptual, historical, and literary aspects of the uncanny. Wallace
notes, "As I've familiarized myself with work by artists identified with the
region ranging from the anonymous (to us) early residents of the area to
19th-century painter Ralph Albert Blakelock to former resident Gary Hill to
contemporary photographer and Catskill resident Susan Wides (whose work was on
view at the SDMA last fall), I've come to realize that there's something both
strange and strangely familiar about this part of the world and about much of
the artwork made here, whether or not it responds directly to the physical
landscape. I hope my curiosity about this sense of the uncanny resonates with
emerging and established artists in this area: I look forward to the chance to
review documentation of art in all media (photography, painting, video, sound,
installation, sculpture, etc.) submitted in response to this call for
work." Artists are invited to submit documentation of up to six (6)
works created within the past five years: all media painting, photography,
sculpture, installation, printmaking as well as audio, video, digital, film,
etc. The Uncanny Valley is open to professional artists who have not yet had a
major one-person museum show and are not currently represented by a commercial
gallery. Students and employees of SUNY New Paltz are not eligible.
Submission guidelines are in the pdf. documents below or
can be downloaded from the museum's web site at www.newpaltz.edu/museum under
Exhibitions/Future.
The completed application and other materials are due
Tuesday, May 15. Notifications of acceptance will be mailed to artists Friday,
May 25.
For additional information call (845)
257-3844.

May 5th gallery openings at Go North and Van Brunt

Go North Gallery and Van Brunt Gallery will be hosting opening receptions for their new exhibits this coming saturday.
Go North is featuring the work of Monica D. Church.

Van Brunt will be showing the work of Grace Knowlton, Stephen Spacarelli and John Allen.
Both openings will be happening from 6-9pm.

1 Degree of Simon Draper

Late last year, Simon Draper mentioned that he had a friend that was about to open an art materials store in Denver. This past Saturday, As I was leaving the Denver Art Museum, I was given a card by a man promoting a new art supply store that was holding a grand opening over the weekend. I continued on my way, but then I returned to the man, and asked if the owner of the store might be from NY. He said, not directly and that she moved to Denver from Steamboat(Springs, CO.) I told him that I now live in NY state, and blah blah blah. He asked whereabouts in NY. “Beacon”, said I. He said “Oh, do you know Simon Draper?” And I was like, “Tchyah!”

Tony Moore talks tomorrow in Brooklyn

"In The Age of The Innocents" photo by Tony Moore

Tony Moore will be giving an artist's talk tomorrow, April 28 at 4pm at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski to coincide with his exhibit there through May 5. The gallery is located at 205 Norman Ave in Brooklyn.

There is a review of Tony's exhibit by D. Dominick Lombardi at culturecatch.com.

"For Artists Only" at The Aldrich, April 28

The Aldrich Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT will be hosting its For Artists Only event Saturday April 28 from 6:30 to 8:30. The open house mixer for artists is the kick off for the 10th annual program of Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York.
Peter Iannarelli, Elia Gurna, Angelika, I and soccer mom Curry Mendes piled into Curry's Mom's minivan and headed over to last year's For Artist's Only event. We had an excellent time - we didn't mix with as many folks as we should have, but it was a chance to get to the museum, which we don't do enough. Last year's event was very well attended, and there is an opportunity to show your portfolio, and see the portfolios of many regional artists.

Beacon Art Salon's first meeting tonight

Chthonic Clash Coffeehouse at 418 Main St. will host the first meeting of the Beacon Artist's Salon tonight from 6-7:30pm. The Salon will be a monthly opportunity for artists to get together, discuss their work and connect with other artists. For more information on the salon, contact Stacey Ward Kelly at 845-401-8798.

I am in the middle of a month long stint out in Denver currently, so if anyone is able to attend the salon tonight and wants to report back on it, I would welcome that very much.

The same holds true for the events of the April Second Saturday. If anyone has images of openings or events, like the Cafe Chronogram held at the Muddy Cup, or Keisendahl and Calhoun's return to Beacon with an exhibit at the Next Level Gallery at Hudson Beach Glass, let me know.

Encore Performance of "Rounding Third" by TrueNorth Theater Project

The TrueNorth Theater Project has announced an encore performance of Rounding Third by Richard Dresser, on Saturday April 28 at 7:30 at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries at 199 Main St.

Gallery Talk at Dia:Beacon this Saturday at 1pm

Photo: Louise Bourgeois, Spider, 1997. Collection of the artist. Photo: Michael Govan.

This month's Gallery Talk at Dia:Beacon on April 28th will feature Clair Barliant speaking on Louise Bourgeois.

Claire Barliant is an associate editor of Modern Painters. Her writing has appeared in a number of publications including Artforum, Art on Paper, ArtNews, and Food & Wine. A 2004 graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, she has curated exhibitions at CCS, the Glassell School of Art in Houston, and, most recently, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in New York ("The Fact, Abstract," April 23-June 30). From 2004 to 2005 she was a critic-in-residence at the Core Program of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Current hours at Dia:Beacon are 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday through Monday (closed Tuesday, and Wednesday). Admission to the museum is $10 general, $7 for students and seniors, and free for Dia members and children under 12. The museum is easily reachable via Metro-North Railroad (the MTA's Hudson Line station in Beacon is within walking distance of the museum). On Saturdays, the 10:51 am train from Grand Central arrives in Beacon at 12:17. Full schedules are available on the MTA's website at http://mta.info. The museum is also reachable by major roadways. Driving directions are available on Dia's website at http://www.diaart.org/dia/visitor/index.html.

This series is made possible through the generosity of The Dyson Foundation, The Karan-Weiss Foundation, Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

NYTimes reviews Sol Lewitt's Wall Drawings at Dia:Beacon

In today's NYTimes, art critic Roberta Smith has penned a rightly enthusiastic review of the selection of 14 of Sol Lewitt's wall drawings on view through Sept. 10 at Dia:Beacon.

On a different Sol Lewitt tangent, it's been several months since the artist's cinderblock forms were deinstalled from the lawn of Max Protetch Gallery's 'Sculpture Beacon' location. Some time back, I inquired via email whether the gallery planned any future installations, but I received no reply. The webpage dedicated to the Beacon outpost on the gallery's website no longer exists, although there is a mention of the 2003 creation of the site on the gallery's history page

Images: Karlos Carcamo at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

Karlos sent in some image of his work included in the "It's a Jamaica Thing..." show at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
I'll see if Karlos will send me the titles and such for the work.

Images from Momento Mori Opening at Go North

Dakin Roy and Karlos Carcamo sent in these images from the opening reception on April 7 of Dakin's exhibit with his wife Sonia

Karlos Carcamo in Jamaica Queens

Karlos Carcamo is participating in a group show at the Jamaica Center for Arts Learning.
The exhibit, "A Jamaica Queens Thing: Rap and the Crack Era in South Jamaica, Queens" is curated by Herb Tam, Associate Curator at the Queens Museum.
The show runs from April 14-June 2. There will be a reception this Saturday from 4-7pm, and an artists and curator talk will take place on June 2 from 4-7pm.
Other participating artists are: Corey D'Augustine, Jocelin Donahue, Joshua Abram Howard, Daragh Reeves, Greg Santos, Sol'Sax, Xavier Simmons, Nick Stillman.

Tony Moore at Galerie Janet Kurnatowski in Brooklyn

Tony Moore's installation "In the Age of Innocents" will be on exhibit beginning tomorrow through May 5 at the Galerie Janet Kurnatowski.

“Tony Moore: Sculpture, In the Age of the Innocents” at Galeria Janet
Kurnatowski from Friday April 13 to Saturday May 5, 2007.

The
opening reception is Friday April 13 from 7 – 9pm. There will be an
Artist’s Talk on Saturday April 28 at 4pm. The public is invited and
admission is free.
Gallery hours are Thu/Sat 1 – 7 and by
appointment.
Galeria Janet Kurnatowski is located at 205 Norman Ave. Brooklyn, NY
11222.
Directions: G Train to Nassau Ave. Walk to Norman Ave. and SW corner
of Humboldt St. Gallery on lower level. For information contact
Janet Kurnatowski at (718) 383 9380 or GaleriaJanet@gmail.com

Cremaster Film screening at Vassar College

Tonight is the first of a series of screenings of Matthew Barney's Cremaster film cycle. Tonight's screening feature Cremaster 1 and 2.

If your interested, Cremaster 3 will be screened tomorrow, thursday the 12th at 7pm.
Cremaster 4 and 5 will be shown on Sunday, the 15th starting at 7pm.
Screenings will be held at the Blodgett Auditorium on campus.

I don't know where Blodgett Auditorium is - I couldn't find any location info on Vassar's website, but I'm sure it's not hard to find.

Peter Iannarelli exhibit at Albany Center Gallery, Albany

Peter Iannarelli's most recent work is currently on exhibit in the three person show, "Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational 2007" at the Albany Center Gallery in Albany. The exhibit opened April 3 and will run through May 12. There will be an opening reception at 6-8pm on Friday April 13.

TrueNorth Theatre Project's staged readings in April

The TrueNorth Theatre Project will be holding two staged readings of Rounding Third by Richard Dresser. The readings will be presented on Friday April 20th and Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm on both evenings at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries at 199 Main St.

The story of two mismatched "Little League Dads" with opposing philosophies
toward competition and success, Rounding Third is a comedy about parenthood and
America's cultural values.

Playwright Richard Dresser began writing Rounding Third when his son's Little
League coach suggested that a slower player fake an injury as part of the team's
strategy for winning. "I was horrified," Dresser wrote in an Introduction to the
play. "Is this how our children are being trained to deal with competition? How
many future Enrons are brewing on our Little League fields and in our school
gyms under the watchful eyes of over-zealous coaches? What about building
character and encouraging fair play? Or are such notions laughable in this
country at this point in history? At that moment I knew that I had to write
Rounding Third."

TrueNorth Theatre Project was founded in February of 2005 by professional
actors, writers and designers who wanted to bring theatre to their own
backyard. The co-founders are Brad Bellamy and Suzanna Hay of Beacon, Lynn
Hawley and Michael Heintzman of Cold Spring, Kurt Rhoads and Nance Williamson of Garrison and resident designer David Birn of Cold Spring. The company has
been performing staged readings at various venues in and around Beacon and
Garrison. They will be producing an original festival of short plays this
Fall with their 1st Annual River Play Festival. All plays will embrace the
theme “river.” The contest attracted works from 76 playwrights from around
the country with three being chosen as winners. The other four plays were
commissioned by TrueNorth and were written by celebrated playwrights, John
Pielmeier (Agnes of God), Irene O’Garden (Women on Fire), Quincy Long (Lively
Lad, Joy of Going Somewhere Definite) and resident playwright Michael Heintzman.

For more details on the readings, please email True North at info@truenorththeatre.org

Van Brunt Gallery opening on April 7, from 6-9 pm.

"First Saturdays" in Beacon have become a mini cross-curb "Second Saturday" of recent months, as Van Brunt Gallery and Go North have, as of late, been holding simultaneous openings on those evenings, thereby smashing to bits the notion that there's only enough cultural life in Beacon to fill one evening a month. It's now clear to see that we can easily sustain two solid nights of going out per month.

Van Brunt Gallery's next exhibit will be opening this coming Saturday, and include shows by Stanford Kay, D. Dominick Lombardi and Stephen Niccolls. The opening reception runs from 6-9pm.

Opening April 7: Sonia Roy and Dakin Roy at Go North

Sonia Roy

Dakin Roy

Memento Mori
Sonia Roy - Works on paper
Dakin Roy - Photographs
April 7 – April 29, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday,
April 7th, 6 – 9pm.

GO NORTH is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of
Sonia and Dakin Roy’s show “Memento Mori”. The exhibition runs from April 7th
through April 29th, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday,
April 7th, 6 - 9 pm. In Memento Mori, Sonia and Dakin Roy explore issues of
mortality and the way various people from different backgrounds, ethnicities,
religions, and demographics deal with death. Through photographs and works on
paper, the Roy’s have taken pieces of the past and combined them with the
present. Creating new memories and homage’s out of the remnants of those who
have come before us. To re-examine, and re-define what it is to be alive and how
we choose to remember those that are gone. Sonia and Dakin Roy live and work in
Beacon, NY.

Sonia Roy

Dakin Roy

Founded in September of 2006 by artists Gregory Slick and
Karlos Cárcamo, Go North’s mission is to support, exhibit, and promote art by
local, national, and international artists. Our focus is contemporary art that
is dedicated to exploring cutting edge cultural and artistic issues by pushing
the boundaries of traditional media. Staging monthly exhibitions on a rotating
basis gives artists the opportunity to expand and explore new dimensions in
their work. Enabling us to keep our exhibitions fresh and updated, while
providing a place in the Hudson Valley for contemplation, dialog and exchange of
ideas.

GO NORTH - A Space for Contemporary Art 469 Main St.,
Beacon, NY 12508

gonorthgallery@hotmail.com

www.gonorthgallery.blogspot.com
Gallery hours: 12 - 6 pm, Friday - Sunday

Images: Simon Draper at Van Brunt Gallery

Here's a sampling of images sent in by Simon Draper from his exhibition that just finished it's run at Van Brunt Gallery this weekend.

Will Walker in Bronx Museum's AIM exhibit

Will Walker is participating in this year's Artists in the Marketplace exhibit, "Here and Elsewhere" at the Bronx Museum. The exhibit opens on April 1 and runs through August 19, 2007. The museum is hosting an open house on Sunday April 1 from 2-6pm.
The 36 artists participating in the exhibit are:

Bami Adedoyin • Becca Albee • Fanny Allié • Jesse Alpern • Dorthe Alstrup •
Gabriela Alva Cal y MayorJill Auckenthaler • Gail Biederman • Hector Canonge •
Christine Catsifas • Jillian ConradVince Contarino • Jon Cuyson • Caroline Falby
• Tracey Goodman • Patrick Grenier • Emily HallJoseph Hart • Ketta Ioannidou •
Elaine Kaufmann • Jayson Keeling • Taeseong Kim • Joseph Maida Amanda C. Mathis • Amanda Matles • Megan Michalak • Hiroyuki Nakamura • Alison Owen Chihcheng Peng • David Politzer • Emily Puthoff • Jenna Ransom • Rashanna Rashied-Walker Jason Reppert • Joseph Eli Tekippe • Will Walker

Call for artists: Beacon Hat Parade

Two hatboxes from 2006. top: Alexis Elton, bottom: Catherine Welshman

For the second year, artists are invited to decorate a hat box as part of the annual Beacon Hat Parade.

Interested artists can pick up undecorated boxes at the store, Jacqueline, at 478 Main Street. They need to be finished and returned to Jacqueline Wiessner at Jacqueline or Carl at Van Brunt Gallery by May 5th. You will receive 25% of the selling bid. And the opening bids this year will be $75.00.

Any questions please call Jacqueline Wiessner at either, 845-838-1737.

Gallery Talk at Dia:Beacon March 31, 1pm

Whitney curator, Chrissy Iles will be giving the next talk in Dia:Beacon's monthly series of guest speakers. Micheal Heizer will be the subject of Iles' talk.

On April 7, Dia will be opening the final installment of a series of exhibits of Agnes Martin's work.

Upcoming Flying Swine Readings

Flying Swin will be holding two readings of the play On "The Verge" by Eric Overmyer:

Whack the bush with three intrepid Victorian lady explorers to Terra Incognita,
beset by a German-speaking cannibal, a Yeti, a Dragon Lady and a swingin'
Lounge Show Singer!

Join us for this first in a series of PORCINE PREVIEWS
(pre-production readings of a plethora of plays)

Friday, March 30 at 8 in Garrison:

Phillipstown Depot Theatre, Lower Station Road.

Saturday March 31 at 8 in Beacon:
Theatre Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street

Free to the public, donations gladly accepted
Reservations, call the swineline 845.230.7010

Angelika Rinnhofer exhibition images

Here are a few installation images from Angelika Rinnhofer's exhibit at Paul Kopeiking Gallery in LA. Over on my personal blog I'll be posting images from some other gallery exhibits we saw while out west.

Jill Reynolds installation in Kansas

Working with art students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, Jill Reynolds has created an installation called "Big Bang." The installation will be on exhibit through April 2, 2007 in the Eppink Art Gallery on the University's campus. There is a photo-montage of images from the installation here.

Call for proposals: Yonkers garbage trucks

This opportunity was forwarded by Sara Pasti:

JMC Art Partners/Segal Fine Arts, NY, NY are seeking proposals
to create unique designs to transform garbage trucks into "mobile art
galleries". These trucks will be a fun, attractive"vehicle" to promote
environmental awareness and educate the public aboutthe importance of sustaining
a clean and safe environment. Six designswill be selected and printed on outdoor
vinyl and wrapped around the bodyand cab of each truck. This project is being
undertaken by the City of Yonkers' Office of Economic Development. The Art
Trucks will be launchedat Business Week in May 2007.

For a
complete version of the RFP, please email mail to:
YonkersArtTruckQues tions@gmail.
com

Averting Winter, for a few days

I’m currently in LA for A(ngelika Rinnhofer)’s opening tonight at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery. I’ll be posting images of the installation, and opening reception in the coming week.

Angelika tying up loose ends in preparation for her exhibit.

I did not make it out for Second Saturday last weekend, and the post I had intended to post on that day was lost. I want to mention that last week brought the opening of a new gallery in Beacon. Rear View Gallery located in the back of the Paper Presence stationary store at …..Main St. The gallery’s first show features works on paper by British based artist, Wendy Yeo. Also, the Beacon Art Supply hosted a party celebrating it’s 4x5 club, an instore permanent installation of 4x5” artworks created by local artists on canvas boards provided by the store. All members of the club receive a 10% discount on purchases. For anyone interested in submitting a piece, contact BAS.

Call for Artists

This call was forwarded by Karlos at Go North Gallery:

OPEN CALL to All Artists!
AG Gallery is accepting entries for its
exhibition:"Neo-Abstraction"Opening May 25th, 2007 Theme of the exhibition
The theme for this Open Call is "Neo-Abstraction". Artist
is asked to re-think about the history of Abstract Art and create his/her own
artwork of its own concept/vision about Abstraction. It would be a response to
the traditional Abstract Art, transforming its idea to the contemporary art in
21st century.
Open for all mediums.
Eligibility
The exhibition is open to all artists, 18 year old or
older, working and living in US. Work must be original and executed within the
past three years. Media It is open for all media including painting,
drawing, sculpture, photography, video, performance, clothing and
installation.
Award
3-8 accepted artists will be included in the group
exhibition opening on May25th, 2007.Important DatesSaturday, April 14th, 2007
Entries dueSaturday, April 21st, 2007 Notification of acceptanceFriday, May
25th, 2007 Exhibition opening and receptionSunday, June 24th, 2007 Exhibition
closesFor more information, please visit our website at http://www.aboutglamour.net
If you have any questions, please contact the
curator:
mokomoko@aboutglamour.net_

AG Gallery
103 N.3rd Street, #2R
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-599-3044
http://www.aboutglamour.net

Collaborative Concepts seeks proposals for Saunders' Farm Project

COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS: THE SAUNDERS' FARM PROJECT

After an extremely successful exhibition last season, Collaborative
Concepts has been invited by Sandy Saunders to create an exhibition of outdoor
art on his 140 acre historic farm on Old Albany Post Road in Garrison for 2007.
COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS is a not-for-profit arts organization, which has
presented exhibitions at four different sites over the past 7 years. Technical
support is provided by the Putnam Arts Council, Joyce Picone, Executive
Director.
Members of the exhibition committee for the Saunders' Farm Project
include: Herman Roggeman, Sheilah Rechtschaffer, Robert Brush, Nancy Bauch, Eric
Arctander, Sarah Haviland, Thomas Faulkner and Kirsten Kucer

EXHIBITION
CALENDAR
Proposal Due Date: Postmark 31 March
Response to Proposals: 30
April via your e-mail (please include your address).
Installation Period: 23
July to 25 August. Artists will have 24/7 access during this period.
(Art
not installed by the conclusion of the Installation Period will not be
accepted).
Opening Reception: Saturday 1 September 2-6pm (Rain Date: Sunday
2 September).
Mid Run Reception: Saturday 6 October (Rain Date: Sunday 7
October).
Close of Exhibition: Tuesday 31 October, with a seasonally
appropriate closing.
Removal of Art: 12 November.
SITE DESCRIPTION:
Saunders' Farm is located on the historic earthen highway
of the original route between New York City and Albany. Entering through the
main gate one passes the 18th century farm house and working out-buildings. The
property begins with rolling pastures and culminates on a majestic ridge with
360 degree views of the Hudson Highlands. Black Angus cattle roam free. Sites
for art range from intimate woody glens to open fields and dramatic large scale
expanses defined by stone farm walls and forest.
To present a proposal you are first required to visit the
site. Please make arrangements with a C.C. contact person.
YOUR ART: You may propose art of any size or medium.
However, the art must be "cow friendly": the cattle live here, so nothing that
they could trip over or in (no holes), or harm themselves by bumping into (no
sharp edges), or become trapped or entangled in (no cables) will be accepted.
Your art must also be “cow resistant”. The cattle are very curious about new
events in their environment. They will examine, push, bump, knock over art. Your
art cannot be made of fragile materials. Protecting such art is virtually
impossible; think of them as massive SUV’s. Such art must not be accessible to
them either sited where they do not range or significantly above their heads
Weather must also be a consideration- rain and extremely high winds are
common in the Hudson Highlands. Your art must be structurally sound and
anchored. Grass can grow quite high on this working farm. Mowing is not done on
Collaborative Concepts schedule/ Because of the aforementioned site conditions,
C.C. can assume NO RESPONSIBILITY for your art. We have learned that cows and
weather rule and, in fact, that has become a condition of the art that can be
aesthetically enriching. THE SITE MUST BE RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION AT
THE CONCLUSION OF THE EXHIBITION; i.e. all materials must be removed. Grass will
grow back and is not a condition of this clause.

Site specific art is encouraged. The committee will make
every effort to secure your desired space. The committee has the final
determination as to the selection and placement of the art. Collaborative
Concepts recognizes that art is a creative process and that artists may wish to
modify or change their art during the course of this project. However all such
modifications and changes must be approved by the curators."
Please notify
C.C. if any modifications or changes are considered. Works of art that are not
approved by the curators will be removed from the site (your deposit will be
applied to the removal). Every effort will be made to assist you in the
installation of your art through collaboration with other artists. However,
installation is the responsibility of the artist.

YOUR
PROPOSAL
Your proposal may be in any format.
Mail proposals to:
Collaborative Concepts
126 Bryant Pond Road
Putnam Valley, N.Y.
10579
Fax to: 845-528-0026E-mail/jpeg attachments to: aerica@optonline.net
Questions-
please call: Herman Roggeman: 845-265-3945
Eric Arctander: 845-528-1797

EXPENSES
There are no fees to participate in the exhibition. All
art must be funded independently. Collaborative Concepts does not fund art. The
art is not insured by Collaborative Concepts. Collaborative Concepts
accepts no responsibility for damage to the art by whatever cause.
Collaborative Concepts will create and print an announcement card; each artist
will receive a limited number. Collaborative Concepts will issue press releases
and advertise locally. Artists may create their own publicity with text
approved by the committee. A commission of 30% to Collaborative Concepts
is expected on all sales from the exhibition.

Collaborative Concepts is pleased to announce that we
have formed a partnership for this exhibition with The Studio, Armonk,
Westchester which is also a not-for-profit, non-membership, 501c3 organization.
Artists who have shown with C.C. or are part of this year’s Farm Project have
the opportunity to exhibit in The Studio’s sculpture garden. Selected artists
from The Studio will participate in the Farm Project. The Studio exhibition will
run for one year~ opening Saturday,
8 September one week after our opening.
To participate in The Studio exhibition call their curator, John Pindyk-Miller
at 845-279-8976.

Building appraisal information for Bulldog Studios/Old high school building.

On Friday, I received an email from the Bulldog Studios Tenants Association that included notes from the Beacon City School District meeting of last week detailing the appraisal of the old high school building, and the process by which that amount had been reached:

Dear Friends and Fellow
Tenants,
Hank Dutch, Peter Iannarelli, Susan
Magnus, and
Alison Moritsugu took notes at the recent Board of Education
workshop regarding
the appraisal of the old high school. Dr. Jean Parr
has the appraisal
document available for review in her office if you are
interested in checking
the accuracy of our notes or learning more about the
appraisal. To the
best of our recollection, these are the
figures...
APPRAISER: Valuation Consultants,
Inc., Newburgh,
NY
CONSIDERATIONS:
-Scale: The building is large (122,000 sq. ft.) in
relationship to 2.5 acre lot size.
-Location: The
building is in a residential neighborhood.
-Mechanical issues: Old heating system.
-Condition: Portions of building are semi-below grade and
less
desirable.
-Layout: Formerly a school, a large
portion of the
building cannot be leased due to layout. Possible to lease
approximately 64,000
sq. ft. or about 53-55% of the
building.
-Vacancy: 30% of the building is currently
leased.
-Expenses: Higher expense ratio when
compared to other
buildings of similar size. Estimated $500,000 in
annual expenses (this
includes $80,000 in estimated property taxes).
DETERMINING MARKET
VALUE:
1. SALES
COMPARISON APPROACH: Compare to other
comparable buildings sold in the
area to determine market value. The
buildings used for comparison were on
the market from 18-24 months. 3 were
vacant, 1 was 30%
leased:
-Broadway Elementary School, Newburgh.
Located
on a major intersection with superior parking.
-Bank of NY Headquarters. Large open interior spaces
similar to 211 Fishkill and 30% leased.
-Other
schools in Chester and Rhinebeck. Both
schools on larger parcels.
Based on this approach, 211 Fishkill is valued at 3
million.
2. INCOME APPROACH: Use current
rental income or
future potential rental income to determine market
value.
A) CURRENT RENTAL INCOME Current rents
are within
range of market rates. At present, 30% of the building is
leased. Based on
this approach and using current rent roll, 211 Fishkill is
valued at 1.5
million
B) POTENTIAL RENTAL
INCOME (STABILIZED RENT ROLL)
Allow 3-4 years to fully rent building,
keeping rents level during this time to
make leasing attractive and draw new
tenants. Assumes lower floors, which are
semi-below grade and less
desirable, would rent for $11.5 annually and upper
floors $14.25 annually.
Increase rents once building is fully occupied.

Based on this approach and a stabilized rent roll, 211
Fishkill
is valued at 2.3 or 2.4 million."

March 3: Opening of Draper, Jennis, Rausch at Van Brunt Gallery

March 3, will offer a one stop taste of Second Saturday on first Saturday as, Van Brunt Gallery and Go North Gallery will be hosting opening receptions on both sides of the street. The receptions at both joints run from 6-9pm.

New Boots and Panties opens at Go North, March 3.

Kit Keith, Kiss, 2006, mixed media

GO NORTH – A Space for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening
of Kit Keith's first solo show with the gallery. "New Boots and Panties" will be
on view from March 3 through April 1, 2007. A reception for the artist will be
held on Saturday, March 3, 6 - 9 pm. The reception will also premier a new score
of prerecorded music by Jack Krause, specifically commissioned for this
show.
In "New Boots and Panties," Keith's signature style of sign
painting from the 1950s combines with found materials, some decades old, such as
maps, wallpaper and pieces of vinyl. The resulting series of insightful
portraits is freighted with emotion, longing and memory. Her portraits, many of
women, consider the nature of “normal” and the struggle of outsiders who wish to
find their place within mainstream America. Contemporary questions of conformity
and identity—all from a feminist perspective—are central to her
practice.
Keith was born in St. Louis and learned graphic lettering
while apprenticing
with her father, who was a professional sign painter. She
studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and also performed for six years as a
trapeze artist with the Sailor Circus of Sarasota, Florida.
Gallery
hours: 12 - 6 pm, Friday - Sunday

Beacon Cultural Foundation responds...

Earlier today on the Beaconite Discussion Board, Beacon Cultural Foundation President Sam Yanes responded to the claim that the Beacon City School District received no further payments from BCF after the initial down payment and offered an explanation to the financial arrangement made BCSD and BCF in the sale of the old high school building:

[...]Take the issue of how much compensation the School District received
from the Beacon Cultural Foundation, for example. It's been suggested that the
Beacon Cultural Foundation had not compensated the School District after making
a $250,000 down payment in 2003 towards the purchase of the old Beacon High
School. This is not true. Over the past four years, the Foundation has paid the
District over $750,000 in principal and interest.

In fact, the original financial agreement executed between Deborah Sheers,
the past president of the Beacon City School District Board of Education, and
the Beacon Cultural Foundation was specifically constructed to ensure that the
District received their interest and principal payments. And at the same time,
ensure that the District would receive the space they required for their own
programs at a reasonable rate. As part of the contract, the District leased
space from the Beacon Cultural Foundation at rates equal to interest payments
due the District from the Foundation. The contract called for the rent per
square foot that the District paid to increase in step with increases in
interest payments due. And when increases in interest payments exceeded the
maximum income from the space the District occupied, the District rented more
space in the building to cover the difference. Once the District's initial
three-year lease expired, they remained in their space as a tenant-at-will. From
an accounting point of view, rental income was booked as income to the
Foundation and interest payments were booked as expenses paid to the School
District. [...]

Sam's full message can be read on the discussion board..the posting is #9920

Call to artists: Beacon Art Supply's window space

Soar by Marnie Hillsley, an installation at Beacon Art Supply

as part of Windows on Main St. August 2006.

The Beacon Art Supply is seeking proposals from artists for use of their window spaces:

Wanted: Window Art

If you have a concept and want to create it
in our window—
If you have existing work you’d like to display—
Simply
contact us!
Send jpegs or slides, or stop by with examples of your work, and
we will give you a mini-gallery in one of our windows here on Main Street, for 2
weeks to a month.
We encourage all kinds of creativity---except mimes.
BEACON ART SUPPLY
506 Main Street
845-440-7904
http://www.beaconartsupply.com/

Goin' to the fair

Kathy Feighery's work will be represented by the Brenda Taylor Gallery. at the Red Dot Art Fair

Dia Foundation announces new director

Late this afternoon, NYTimes.com reported that the Dia Foundation has appointed Jeffrey Weiss to be Michael Govan's replacement as director of the organization. Weiss has been the head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art since 2000.

From the Press office page of the National Gallery's website:

Jeffrey Weiss has been a curator in the Department of Modern and
Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington for seven
years. He was appointed department head in 2000. Prior to that, he
was a doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
Weiss holds a Ph.D from the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. His
book, The Popular Culture of Modern Art, was published by Yale University Press
in 1994. He is also the editor of exhibition catalogues on Mark Rothko and
Pablo Picasso, for which he was the primary author. Weiss has published
articles, essays and reviews on modern and post-war art in various periodicals
and journals, including regular contributions to Burlington Magazine and
Artforum. New essays will also appear in books forthcoming from Princeton
University Press and the Getty Research Institute. Weiss has served on
various public art committees, including the General Services Administration in
Washington. He is currently preparing exhibitions concerning Jasper Johns
(the work from 1955 to 1965) and Barnett Newman (the period of the Stations of
the Cross).

The Times report quotes Dia Board chairwoman Nathalie de Gunzberg as stating the first priority of the foundation is to reestablish a presence in Manhattan.

One busy week

This week will be a full one with many events happening both in town and along the stretch of the river.
First of all, it's fair week in Manhattan. The Armory, Red Dot Fair, LA Art, Scope, Pulse , Fountain,
Art Show, and who know how many others will be open from mid to late week through the weekend.

Today's NYTimes had a story relating to the proliferation of private museums created by collectors to house their own collections. The article stated that Tom Eccles the director of the Hessel Museum at Bard, one of several such institutions in our area, will serve as moderator of a panel discussion sponsored by the ADAA held at MOMA on Saturday that will deal with the subject of "The museum as collector." I haven't been able to find any details on the discussion.

Further upstream in New Paltz on Wednesday, Feb 21 at 7:30pm, sculptor, Ursula Von Rydingsvard will be giving a lecture at Suny New Paltz Lecture Center 102.


On Saturday:

at 1pm at Dia:Beacon, Molly Nesbit will give a gallery talk on Robert Smithson.

From 5-7pm at World's End Books will be hosting a book signing and art reception featuring the words of Bruna Mori, and the images of Matthew Kinney.

Down in Garrison from 4-7pm, the Garrison Art Center will be holding an opening reception for new exhibits of work by Grace Knowlton, and Ivy Dachman. The two exhibits will run through March 25.

On Sunday:

From 4-6pm at the HVCCA in Peekskill, there will be an opening reception for First Look II, an exhibit of 16 graduate students from universities from across the country.

Also at 4pm in Beacon, bau will be hosting a panel discussion on featuring participants in the current exhibit. The talk titled "The Shifting Center" will be moderated by Christopher Staples and will focus on issues facing artists today.

A plea from HV Materials Exchange

I received an email today regarding the impending eviction of the Hudson Valley Materials Exchange from its current home at Stewart Airport. Hudson Valley Materials Exchange Community Warehouse is a Non profit resource for used/surplus Arts, Education & Building Materials rescued from the commercial wastestream. They are located at1101 First Street, Stewart Intl Airport, New Windsor, NY 12553 ph: 845 567 1445.
The eviction is scheduled to happen in July. The exchange is seeking help on a variety of fronts, particularly in finding a new space to house the materials. You can visit their website to see in what ways you can help.

As I was packing up my studio a couple of months back, I was faced with a multitude of materials that would seemingly be useless, but to the right person, they could be essential, and given the space and time, I too could find have found a use for them....honestly. It also occurred to me that as concerned for the environment as the artist community tends to be, as a whole, we don't deal with the detritus that results from our creative process in as sound a manner as we should.
I was able to sensibly whittle much of the stuff down without dumping it in the trash, but it still irked me to toss out what I did. The intention of HVME is great, and it can be a source of great and odd finds (although I wonder if some of the construction materials, particularly the clunky lighting fixtures, would be better used by scraping them out for the raw material than reselling them intact.)

I've thought of starting a small material resource/material exchange bulletin board that would be focused more toward the needs of the individual artist... We'll see if that gets off the ground. In the meantime there is Freecycle, which helped me jettison some items that I had difficulty getting rid of. It's a great way to get or get rid of things for free and extend the usefulness of items that are becoming all too disposable nowadays. The Dutchess county chapter of Freecycle exists as a Yahoo group and you need a Yahoo ID to join.