State of the Art will host its first Members’ Show of 2012 during May. The show will include paintings, watercolors, drawings, collage, photographs, prints, sculpture and other three-dimensional work by the gallery’s artists. A reception for the artists will be held Friday, May 4 from 5-8pm. Show dates are Thursday May 3 through Sunday, May 27, 2012.
When you come to our May reception, you will walk on our brand new, beautiful floor and our art will be illuminated by our new, energy-efficient lighting!
State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street. Hours: Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. The gallery is ADA accessible and there is curbside parking.
“On the Leading Edge,” a two-person show of work by artists Jan Kather and Stan Bowman will open at State of the Art April 4 and run through April 29, 2012. A reception for the artists will be held at the gallery Friday, April 6, Gallery Night in downtown Ithaca, from 5-8pm with a cider tasting hosted by Bellwether Hard Cider of Trumansburg.
Spanning the gamut from traditional silver prints to incorporating digital video as a sculptural element, Kather will be “testing the waters” with abstract photographic imagery and sound in this installation. Bowman, although a long time photographer, is exploring new technology in the form of iPad images. These are abstract images created and drawn by hand on the iPad, augmented with a variety of iPad apps.
Lesley Williamson, director of the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, awarded the following prizes in the State of the Art 23rd Annual Photo Show:
$100 / Ray Helmke / Train to Nowhere
$100 / Jari Poulin / Peter
$100 / Sarah Carman / The American Home
$100 / Fernando Llosa & Werner Sun / The Physicist’s Cow
$50 / Angela Possemato / Forest Fire
$50 / Mark Larsen / Cluster of Trees, Chenango County
$50 / Randi Millman-Brown / Thingvellir, Iceland
Ninety photographs by seventy-five photographers filled both galleries at State of the Art for its 23rd Annual Juried Photo Show.
The show will close Sunday, April 1, 2012.Gallery Hours: Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street, Ithaca. The gallery is ADA accessible with curbside parking. Contact information: 607-277-1626 andwww.soag.org
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
“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
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.
Barbara Page
Carol Miller
Milly Acharya
Steve Carver
Ronald Faris
Steve Marstall
John Whiting
Laura Glenn
Ji Eun Kim
Jessica Warner
Vickie Mike
Hope Zaccagni
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’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.
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.
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.”
