Come Take a Workshop!
September 15th and 29th, October 13th and 27th
$30 individual session, $100 preregister for all four, Cost includes basic materials
In these handsCo-on workshops, you will create SoulCollage® cards with deep personal meaning and discover a creative way to know yourself. Explore an art form that anyone can do – no prior art experience is necessary. Newcomers will learn all the basics needed to create surprisingly wonderful cards. Experienced SoulCollagers, will continue to build their deck and find new ways to spark their imagination and deepen their process. Perhaps most importantly, SoulCollage® workshops are an opportunity to connect with a community of supportive and creative travelers on a journey to know their Self better. Seena Frost, founder of SoulCollage® says “that sharing your deck of SoulCollage® cards to another person can be a profound experience. ” (www.soulcollage.com)
Fall into SoulCollage® workshops are led by licensed SoulCollage® Facilitator and SOAG member Patricia Brown. To register or gain more information about SoulCollage® email at wildspiritartstudio@gmail.com.
Drawing Space
Spitznagel and Vrana
The prints and paintings that make up Vrana & Spitznagel create personal moments that give visibility to emotions and the psyche. By applying abstraction, both artists develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based on imagination and subjective thought. This artwork invites the viewer into a conversation between the conscious and the subconscious.
Ethel Vrana has been an artist in the Tompkins County area for over 30 years. “My paintings,” she comments, “continue to explore color, form, and space using an abstract approach, evoking meaningful fictive worlds for viewers to experience.”
James Spitznagel has been living and creating art in Ithaca for nearly twenty years. Regarding this exhibit, Spitznagel states, “I am happy and honored to be a member of State of the Art Gallery. I am excited about sharing a show with Ethel; it will give both of us an opportunity to have our art seen locally, in the place where we live and work.”
The reception, Friday, August 7, 5-8pm, free to the public, will be part of First Friday Gallery Night, a monthly, walkable tour of downtown Ithaca art galleries. Gallery hours are Wed.– Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.
Vrana & Spitznagel will be on view until August 30, 2015. In addition, the exhibition will be supported by new artwork from State of the Art Gallery members, including paintings, drawings, and sculpture. For more information, contact Mr. Spitznagel at james@levelgreen.com or 607-200-4046 or Ms. Vrana at ev12@cornell.edu or 607-273-9252. SOAG info: 607-277-1626 and www.soag.org.
Brill and Newton
Daniel McPheeters
Dreamscape: Landscapes and Skyscapes Reimagined
“My works represent a synergy between my two great passions: art and science. My formal training is in science and engineering, but I have been drawing, painting and sculpting for as long as I can remember. My appreciation of nature comes from experiencing the beauty of natural forms while understanding the underlying structure and the laws that govern and unify them.
My Dreamscapes tend to be landscapes and skyscapes in which I include structured elements such as circles, lines and grids. These are there to suggest the underlying laws of nature, mathematical beauty that the scientist experiences. These works attempt to combine the beauty of nature as both lyrical and scientific.”
Show dates: June 3-28, 2015. Reception for the artist, Friday, June 5, 5-8pm, Gallery Night in downtown Ithaca
May Members Show
Paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, collage, sculpture, mixed media
April 29-May31
Opening reception Friday May 1, 5:00pm-8:pm
Soag workshop
Elisabeth Gross-Marks
Photo Show
State of the Art holds its twenty-sixth Annual Juried Photography Show this month. This competition has become a major exhibition event for photographers in the central New York area. This year 63 photographers from Rochester to New York City will show work that ranges from abstract to landscape to portraits and traditional to digital photography. “As the state of photography continues to evolve at a staggering pace,” show director David Watkins says, “so does the work exhibited by these talented artists.”
Up to $600 was awarded by prize judge photographer Douglas Holleley from Rochester, NY, at the reception Friday, March 6, 5-8pm.
| Rachel Philipson
$200 for String 9287 and String 9286 March 6, 2015 |
Joleen Mahoney Roe
$50 for Stairway to Beginnings March 6, 2015 |
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| Susan Larkin
$50 for Phaseolus vulgaris (Pole Bean) March 6, 2015 |
Ron Faris
$50 for Untitled March 6, 2015 |
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| Ray Helmke
$50 for Jantar Mantar Observatory March 6, 2015 |
Donna James
$50 for Threshold March 6, 2015 |
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| Mark Larsen
$50 for Eucalyptus Trees, La Jolla, CA March 6, 2015 |
Werner Sun
$50 for Constellation RG and SC March 6, 2015 |
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Show dates are March 4-29, 2015.