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Watercolours!

Watercolors will fill the main gallery at State of the Art in February. This show features the work of gallery member Margy Nelson and guest artist Shirley Hogg. Margy says she has been communing with the Elemental spirits of Earth, Air, Fire and Water to capture their voices on paper and Shirley has been invoking the voices of the underworld, the animal Shamans who protect their earthly creatures. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Gallery Night, Friday, Feb. 3 from 5-8pm with a wine tasting co-hosted by Knapp Winery and Glenora Wine Cellars. Show dates are Feb. 1 through 26, 2012.

The Salon at the gallery will feature work by other gallery artists: paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and collage.The gallery is located at 120 W. State Street in Ithaca and it is ADA accessible with curbside parking. Hours are Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. Contact information: 607-277-1626 and www.soag.org

Terry Plater and Jane Dennis

“Immigration and Biography” will be the first show of 2012 at State of the Art Gallery and it will feature the work of the gallery’s two newest members, Jane Dennis and Terry Plater. The title reflects both Dennis’s focus on immigration and Plater’s focus on portraiture and other subject matter that has narrative power. Dennis will show mixed media sculpture and Plater, a painter, will show portraits and landscapes.

A reception for the artists will be held Friday, Jan. 6, 5-8pm with a wine tasting courtesy of Bet the Farm Winery of Aurora, New York. Show dates are Jan. 4 -29, 2012. . Gallery hours: Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. State of the Art is located at 120 W State Street and the gallery is ADA accessible with curbside parking. Contact information: 607-277-1626 andwww.soag.org

December Juried Show

Sixty-seven works of art by sixty-seven artists will be exhibited in the State of the Art December 2011 Juried Exhibition. This biennial show opens November 30 and will include watercolors, pastels, oil and acrylic paintings, woodcuts, sculpture, pottery and giclee prints. At a reception for the artists, former Johnson Art Museum Director Frank Robinson awarded the following prizes:

$100 / Jessica Warner (title, Encompass)

$100 / Matthew McLean (title, Gold Mountain Hi-Way)

$100 / Barbara Page (title, Out Of Bounds)

$100 / Ji Eun Kim (title, Oneness)

$50 / Vickie Mike (title, Circling Abstraction)

$50 / Milly Acharya (title, Fushsia)

$50 / Liese Bronfenbrenner (title, Forest Spring)

$50 / Hope Zaccagni (title, Salt Mine with Yellow Train Car)

The show closes Dec. 24, 2011.

Gallery hours: Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. The gallery will be closed Dec. 25-Jan. 3, 2012. State of the Art is ADA accessible with curbside parking. Contact information: 607-277-1626 and www.soag.org

Gurdon Brewster:Awakening in Bronze

Gurdon Brewster’s show features a larger than life size bronze sculpture of Miriam, the prophet and sister of Moses, who is dancing with a tambourine. Six other new sculptures will be shown in the show along with sculptures made in the recent past. A number of these sculptures reflect human struggle for liberation and a number celebrate life in the form of dance. Through his sculptures he has confronted the pain of war, felt the exuberance of dancing and been moved by the mysterious power of the sacred. He has been working in sculpture since high school and now, retired, he finds that he is only gaining in his creative energy. He likes to say that he leans on the gift of the muse, the gift of Spirit energy, and the gift of the creativity of the angels. He is inspired, uplifted and transformed by his sculpture.

Gurdon Brewster will give a talk entitled, “Miriam and the Feminine Image”, on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 3 pm at SOAG.

He will show a video of the casting process of transforming the clay figure into the bronze figure, on Friday, Nov. 18, 7-8:30 pm at SOAG.

A Talk by Gurdon Brewster

Art Trail Show at SOAG

The State of the Art Gallery features artists from the Ithaca Art trail October 5-30th. Preview the Art Trail members’ work in one place before choosing which studios to visit. Seeing the actual work often has a greater impact than just viewing it on a computer screen, and every year many people do their “Art Trail research” at the gallery.

Location: 120 W. State St., Ithaca, NY

Opening Reception: Friday, October 7, 5-8pm

Gallery hours: W-F, 12-6pm, Sa & Su 12-5pm

Art trail weekends are October 8/9 and 15/16, 11:am-5:00pm each day.

Soag Raffle 2011

Raffle Winners Announced!

Meleny Peacock Janet Sherman View From Studio Window Late Fall

Barbara Shew Carol Ast May Hillside/Cornell Plantations

Donn Carroll Jan Kather Untitled

Sally Grubb Mary Ann Bowman Fish Friends

Carolyn Dillon Elisabeth Gross-Marks The Blue Circle

Mark O’Malley Patty Porter Wyers Point

Sheila Stone Diana Ozolins August: Ausable Point

Dee Alary Jim Spitznagel Horse

Caitlan Hostetter Eva Capobianco Nested

Amy Bentz Ethel Vrana Ithaca Winter

Kerry Mizrahi Barbara Mink Tree

Carol Rubenstein Yvonne Piburn Three Trees 1

Rick Schuler Mary Schuler The Tetons

John Rudan Daniel McPheeters Spiral Tree Triskele

Jennifer Gerner Terry Plater Of Red Ages

Julia Czerwinski Margaret Nelson Hnaging Basket

Mary Kane Marian Van Soest Pomegranate and Persimmon

Eric Skalwold Leslie Brill Boris

Deb Dudick Ileen Kaplan Single Rose

Kate Gefell Stan Bowman Green Hayrolls

Joni Spielholz Frances Fawcett Surface Tension

Michael Maxwell Sheryl Sinkow Yellow Rose

Stan Bowman David Watkins Jr. A Rose By Any Other..

Alison Brill Stephan Phillips Iron and Bell

September Members’ Show

PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, PRINTS, WATERCOLORS, SCULPTURE, CERAMICS AND MORE will be shown by STATE OF THE ART MEMBERS in their second group show of 2011. Show dates are August 31 through October 2, 2100. Reception for the artists, Friday, September 2, 5-8pm with a wine tasting compliments of Standing Stone Vineyards of Hector, NY.

Also in September:

SOAG to sponsor nationally known artist Jim Mott’s Itinerant Artist Project

Jim Mott first conceived of his Itinerant Artist Project (IAP) in the late 1990s, while visiting Ithaca. This summer Mott returns to the Ithaca area at the invitation of State of the Art Gallery, for an IAP residency and exhibit.

Mott and his project have received national attention, including features on the “Today” show (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22472628/ <http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22472628/> ) and in American Artist.
For one month out of the year, Mott makes a road trip somewhere in the United States, staying with voluntary hosts for two to five days and painting small location paintings, one of which is offered in exchange for the hospitality provided.

Mott will be in Ithaca from August 25-September 7, 2011. He is still looking for a host or two for his “painting stops” (contact him at jhmott@juno.com or State of the Art at 607-277-1626).

Paintings he makes during this residency will be exhibited at State of the Art in September as part of one the gallery’s two yearly members’ shows. This exhibition opens Friday, September 2, Gallery Night in downtown Ithaca.

On Sept. 7 at 7pm, he will give a gallery talk about his art and experiences. In addition, he will hold a painting workshop which, he says, will be a double feature that combines his two most popular topics: “Simple and Direct: Small Panel Painting for Artists on the Go” and “The Shadow Landscape: Painting Dusk and Night”. It will be held from 5:30-8:30pm on August 31 at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market. The cost is $35 plus a nominal materials fee for gesso panels.

An interview with Mott on “Out of Bounds” will air Thursday, Sept. 15, at 7pm on WEOS-FM and Sunday, Sept 18, at 11:30am on WSKG-FM. For more information on Jim Mott and the Itinerant Artist Project, please go to his web site: http://www.jimmott.com/

About the IAP, Mott says: “It has been pivotal for my development as an artist. Besides giving me new ways to think about my role as a painter, and as a mediator between art and place and public, the touring has stimulated unexpected productivity, and the resulting artwork has drawn local and national attention.”

The Itinerant Artist Project

SOAG to sponsor nationally known artist Jim Mott’s Itinerant Artist Project

Emergence: A New Direction

“Emergence” a solo exhibition of acrylic paintings by Mary Schuler, will be shown at State of the Art from August 3 through 28, 2011. A reception for the artist will be held on Gallery Night, Friday, August 5, from 5-8pm with a wine tasting courtesy of Americana Winery. About her painting, Schuler says: “I use color and abstraction to evoke emotions about cities and nature. These abstractions and exaggerated colors are intended to focus our attention upon these conflicting and essential realities while providing a pleasing pattern on our wall.”

State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street. There is curbside parking and the gallery is ADA accessible. Hours are Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. Contact information: 607-277-1626, www.soag.org and http://maryschuler.com

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