wAteR waTer exhibition
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wAteRwaTer
Gallery 66 NY is pleased to present wAteR waTer opening September 2nd, 2016.
What do you get when 4 artists take on water? Sounds like the beginning of a joke right? All joking aside, water rules our lives and our planet. It’s essential, it’s beautiful, it’s political, it’s calming, it’s environmental, and so much more. It comprises most of our body’s building blocks. It keeps us alive and can even kill us with too much or too little. So what do you get when 4 artists take on water? You get beautiful liquid rhythm. You get four very different approaches in different materials incorporating water in their personal visual language. How does a sculptor who works in hard and static stone take the viewer on a water journey and how does that compare to the soft sculptural surfaces of a Fiber Artist? How strikingly different yet complimentary are materials like fused and mosaic glass, resin, Plexiglas and ink in conveying water? Well come by and see for yourself how these materials in the hands of artists Carla Goldberg, Bob and Karen Madden and Barbara Galazzo turn solid materials in watery goodness.
Opening Reception First Friday September 2nd from 6-9 pm and runs for the whole month of September.
The Artists are donating a percentage of proceeds from all sales to The Hudson River Watershed Alliance.
Carla Goldberg is already well known for her water work. Her textural resin pourings, drawings and painted layers on Plexiglas bring to mind dreamy memories of water in moments of movement. Her drawings and paintings become sculpture as light passes through the acrylic panels throwing a translucent glow and shadow on the wall behind. The effect is a deep dimensionality to her work as if you could dip your finger in and give it a swirl. Her art is an experience in person. A consummate experimenter, Carla believes each exhibition and series builds upon the last. She explains, “I’m pulling from memory, a comfortable place to be and pulling ideas about an abstracted version of waters texture and light and shadow. Trying to figure out how to get that effect across to the viewer is the fun stuff”. Carla has participated in over 200 national and international exhibitions including Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, The Tabernacle MoMA Wales, Brooklyn Waterfront Museum, NY and currently in The Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY and coming soon The Aiken Museum, Pawling, NY. Permanent collections include South Western Minnesota State University Museum of Art, the Marriott Marquis Waikiki Beach, The Children’s Hospital Cincinnati, OH and the outdoor solarium on Royal Caribbean Cruisline’s “Harmony of the Seas” among others. She is the winner of the 2014 “SeaGrant”, a partnership between the University of Connecticut and the nation’s primary ocean agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Bob and Karen Madden are the dynamic duo behind Rock and a Soft Place. Partners in life and work, the Madden’s artworks while full of diametric opposites, still manage to flow with ease side by side.
Bob Madden generally works alternately between two major themes; works which explore our place in the universe such as concepts of space, time, destiny, and chance. His second major theme explores interpersonal relationships and the connections that bind people together. For this exhibit, Bob chose to create a new series of sculpted fish in stone for his own take on water. Each fish was given a name with a different letter of the alphabet, which calls to mind a real or fictional person who can be connected to that fish name. Some are obscure while others are fairly obvious. It’s up to the viewer to decipher the puzzle. Bob explains, “The underlying tone of any specific works of mine may be designed to provoke amusement or serious reflection, but it’s during those moments that the mind opens up to new perspectives. This is the objective of my work.” Stone is an unforgiving material. The natural processes that create stone can take millions of years but if the artists patience turns to impatience, their efforts can destroy the natural beauty and character of the stone with a single careless hammer strike. The reward for Bob is taking this raw hard material and turning it into something that reminds the viewer of softness, of curves and motion. Bob Madden has been sculpting for over 30 years. His work was recently included in Attleboro Art Museum- Attleboro MA and Wide Open 4 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Brooklyn NY. His work “MAGGIES RIBBON” was permanently installed at the Capital Region Health Park, Latham NY.
Karen Madden’s fiber art often combines abstract ideas inspired by nature as her subject matter.She moves past the boundaries of some of the more traditional forms of fiber art gravitating to new and imaginative ways of utilizing fibrous materials and techniques. Each of Karen’s designs begins initially with wool because of its versatility and ability to take color and to be textured. Occasionally she incorporates synthetic materials as unique elements to the wool, making for engaging designs. Karen’s favored technique is felting but it’s when fiber takes on a mind of its own that the greatest and most rewarding surprises take place. The unexpected is to be expected. The works she created for this show were inspired by the mystique of water within and surrounding lakes, rivers, and oceans. For some pieces, says Karen, “I envisioned myself beneath the surface and exploring the environment of life that is unseen on the surface. In others, it is what I see when observing a body of water negotiating its space with the environment around it.” Karen has worked in one form of fiber or another her whole life, first in fashion and now in fine art. Her unusual use of fibers have garnered her many accolades including work in Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY winning Best In Show – Fiber, The Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE and the Attleboro Art Museum- Attleboro MA, The National Clock Museum, Columbia, PA and The Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO
Barbara Galazzo’s work is a celebration of color. Her current series of sculptures are based on the erosive forces of water on sand and rock at the shoreline and in the depths of rivers and oceans. By combining the liquid of glass and solids of clay she interprets these undulating patterns. She laboriously creates dozens of pattern bars, which are sliced and fused into multi-layered sculpture to create a suspended underwater environment. Melding light and color, Barbara creates a kaleidoscopic window of movement exploring the depth and fragile inner beauty that exist in and around us. For wAteR waTer Barbara says, “Color and shape are the beginning of forming the concepts of this show. I have to think about turning a concrete concept into something liquid and then solid again.” Barbara has been shown nationally and internationally in numerous galleries, museums, and commercial installations. Galazzo is an artist, art promoter, curator and gallery director. She has participated in Glass Now, Urban Glass, New York, and S.O.F.A. Chicago, as well as the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, Chicago, ILL, The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY. In 2003 her “Boat – Collage Series” was a Niche award nominee and in 2004 the “Ribbon Sculpture – Collage Series” won a Niche Magazine Award. A few of the permanent corporate settings her work can be found in include Kaiser Permanente, Washington DC; Mayo Clinic, MN; Northwestern Hospital, Chicago, Il; the Fairmont Princess Hotel in Scottsdale, AZ; and Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Knoxville, TN.
Andre Voumard will be exhibiting in the sculpture garden. Voumard is a self-taught artist with an in-exhaustible imagination using found objects. He is known for his large mobiles but is also an avid painter. His favorite materials are driftwood, paintbrushes, tin, wood, flowers. We are thrilled to have his mobile in the garden this month.
Gallery 66 will be donating a percentage of sales to the Hudson River Watershed Alliance. The Watershed Alliance is a non-profit, education organization formed in 2005 to support local watershed and stream protection groups that are focused on protecting smaller streams that are tributaries to the Hudson River. The Watershed Alliance was formed specifically to fill the need to help incubate and assist these watershed groups, many of which are composed entirely of volunteer citizens. Their educational work addresses land use issues relevant for water quality, the protection and use of drinking water sources, best practices for storm water and wastewater management, strategies for protecting stream buffers, and many other issues. www.hudsonwatershed.org
Exhibits will be on view from Sept. 2nd through Oct. 2nd, with an opening reception with artists on Friday, Sept. 2nd from 6-9 pm. The gallery’s regular hours are Friday through Sunday, 12 pm to 6 pm. Gallery 66 NY is located at 66 Main St., Cold Spring, NY. For more information call 845-809-5838, or visit us at www.gallery66ny.com . Event is free.
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