Exhibition Opening: LIC-Artists “Made In New York” at Maison des Arts, Lavelanet, France

The Long Island City Artists exhibition “Made In New York, curated by Nancy Gesimondo, held the opening reception Friday 6th September. The show looks wonderful in the charming Maison des Arts Gallery, in the town of Lavelanet, France. Lavelanet is a former booming textile town which has transformed into a lively arts community. The below photos (courtesy of Nancy Gesimondo) provide a nice sense of the event; a great turnout with people having a nice time engaging with the artworks and one another.

Congratulations to my fellow artists who participated in the show and Nancy Gesimondo for a successful show in this lovely town! So excited to share this event with you :)

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Opening reception for LIC-Artists “Made In New York” exhibition at Maison des Arts Gallery

Opening reception continued… exhibition curator Nancy Gesimondo (middle left image)

Upcoming Exhibition! Made In New York, at Maison Des Arts de Lavelanet, France

Excited to share four watercolor paintings from my “Portraits of Nature” series were selected as part of a group exhibition in Southern France, along with eleven other NYC artists. The exhibition opens Friday 5th September and closes October 4th.

Painting From Series: On the Horizon 

The select paintings are part of the body of work “Portraits of Nature”. These works individually and collectively seek to evoke a sense of quiet and serenity, and capture the intimate experience of specific landscape experiences, through use of color, day-light-time, and sense of movement or stillness. 

Each painting is the culmination of many hours, days, and years spent observing daily or seasonal patterns of my immediate landscape. For example, the watercolor painting “Parallel Winds (2019)” comes from many cycling journeys along the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. Many times these trips begin early - as dawn stretches its glow across the horizon, and end in quiet dusk with the backdrop of racing beams of light passing from various directions. This painting captures a quiet moment riding along a dynamic corridor of the city and a strong connection to elements of the natural world. It provides the opportunity for quiet, stillness, and reflection amongst the hectic frenzy of urban movement and life.

This series includes landscape scenes covering a spectrum from urban New York to the country side of Tuscany. In each there are lyrical moments which speak to experience of place, and our connection to the natural world. The inclusion of trees throughout the series signifies a long duration of time, and incredibly dynamic connections within the landscape scenes. They indicate a fundamental connection between even the most disparate landscapes.

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Opening Reception for “Escape-ISM” Exhibition at the Atlantic Gallery

A few photos from a wonderful night of art viewing and conversation at @atlanticgallerynyc!

Painting Selected for the Atlantic Gallery's 2019 Juried Exhibition, "ESCAPE/ISM"

Juror and gallery curator, Katharine Dufault, has invited selected artists - “…to join their fellow Fugitives from Reality in their Desperate Flights (of Fancy). Recalling the famous saying:
“In Dreams Begins Responsibility,” artists may consider Escape/ism as a staging ground for renewed engagement with the Real World.
(… Or not!)”

Please join us to celebrate at the Opening Reception on Thursday, 19th February to see works that will make you contemplate or possibly even question your reality!

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Through the Trees, Oil Painting on exhibition at the Atlantic Gallery soon!

Color + Light: To evoke stillness, energy of the city and connection to the natural world

These works individually and collectively seek to evoke a sense of quiet and serenity, and capture the universal yet intimate experience of specific landscape typologies, through use of color, day-light-time, and sense of movement or stillness. The horizon line plays an important role serving as an anchor within the image, and additionally in several paintings provides a datum for continuity between the image set.

(Above) Color + Light: Magic Carpet Ride (2018)

I began with a series of abstracted color studies, created as digital images, which are based on a collection of landscape photographs. These are labeled based on “time of day” or “light descriptions” in an attempt to categorize and group the photos into series.

(Above) A series of digital color studies taken from photographs (from left to right): night/dusk/daytime, stormy palette, sunset palette, sunset color study for individual painting.

Each painting is the culmination of many hours, days, and years spent observing daily or seasonal patterns of my immediate landscape. For example, the oil painting “Urban Lights: blue orange grey” comes from many cycling journeys through the heart of New York City up to the Palisades in New York and New Jersey. Often times these trips begin early - as dawn stretches and glows across the horizon; the journey then ends in quiet dusk with the backdrop of racing beams of light passing from all directions. This painting captures the multifaceted energy of the city and connection to elements of the natural world. It provides the opportunity for quiet, stillness, and reflection amongst the hectic frenzy of urban movement and life.

(Above) Color + Light (left to right): Confluence, Through the Trees, Urban Lights: Blue Orange + Grey

The series includes abstracted scenes covering a spectrum from urban to deep forest. In each there are lyrical moments which speak to life and human connection. A horizon line across the works provides a consistent datum, and indicates the fundamental connection between even the most disparate landscapes.

(Above) Color + Light: Color palettes showing seasonal change within an urban forest