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Members’ Show

 

State of the Art holds its second and final Members’ Show of 2012 during November.  Members will exhibit paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs, collage, ceramics, sculpture, and other three dimensional work.  Show dates are October 31 through December 2.  A reception for the artists will be held Friday, November 2, 5-8pm width a wine tasting by Sheldrake Point Winery. Gallery hours:  Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm; Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm (closed Thanksgiving).  SOAG is ADA accessible with curbside parking at 120 W. State Street.  Contacts:  607-277-1626 and www.soag.org.

Complements/Harmonies

 

 

Yvonne Piburn will show new paintings in an exhibition called “Complements/Harmonies” at State of the Art Gallery during August.  She states:  “ The content of the paintings began to emerge as a response to a color search. I found that memories of joy, awe and contentment had connections to colors from past experiences. Each painting evolved and became an independent idea but remnants of the original color inspirations remain. ” 
 
A reception for the artist will be held Friday, August 3 from 5-8pm.  Gallery hours are Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.  Show dates are August 1-September 2, 2012.  The gallery is located at 120 W. State Street and it is ADA accessible with curbside parking.  Information:  607-277-1626, www.soag.org and www.yvonnepiburn.com

Timelines

I have chosen a radical new direction for my current work. My previously muscular, vigorously chromatic, and heavily layered paintings have evolved in the direction of the spare, the muted, and the geometric. Using unprimed canvas and linen into which the paint soaks, as well as floats above, I am taking a new measured and mathematical approach in which the neutral palette complements natural linen; the intentional shapes and less intentional color masses speak to decisively black lines. Juxtaposing the large with the small, line with color, square with circle, intuitive with cerebral, I strive to construct a new world of inventive and playful, but always purposeful, content.

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Members’ Work Elsewhere- October

Daniel McPheeters will have a solo show in the CAP Artspace, Center Ithaca, titled “Bubblescapes: Dance of the Spheres.” The show is for the month of October. The opening is First Friday, Gallery Night October 6, 5:00 – 8:00p.m.  
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Jan Kather is exhibiting two digital photos of her favorite flower, the peony, at the Arnot Art Museum for “Homecoming,” the museum’s biennial Gallery Gala silent auction. Bids are being accepted now through the fall; the gavel will come down on all sales at 8 pm on November 17. More info at this link.
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Nancy Ridenour will have three pieces from the New York City Abstracts at the Yates County Arts Center in October.
Nancy will also have several pieces from her August show at the Unitarian Church through October.
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Mary Ann Bowman, Stan Bowman, Eva Capobianco, Barbara Mink and Ethel Vrana are participating in the Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studio Weekends coming SOON! 

October 7,8 & October 14, 15
      11:00 to 5:00
Over 30 artist studios are open. No fee. No appointments! Just go visit artists. You’ll find painters, photographers, printmakers, potters, sculptors, a blacksmith, a glass blower (new this year), and more!   Learn all about the artists and download the brochure/map at ARTTRAIL.COM
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Terry Plater. Planning is now underway for Terry’s 5th annual workshop to France for artists and art lovers, scheduled for mid- to-late May. Exact dates TVB.  Contact Terry at tdp3@cornell.edu for more information or to express interest.
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Patty L. Porter is showing local landscapes at the Franklin Street Gallery, 209 N. Franklin Street, Watkins Glen 14891, www.arcofschuyler.org for hours.

Kather/Bowman

“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.

More information and imagery from these artists: www.jankatherphotography.com // www.stanbowman.com

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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

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

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