We would love to have Jane perform at this year's fringe. FRINGE FORCE 3
Monday, January 31, 2011
Jane Leslie Southampton Sunset Piano Solos
We would love to have Jane perform at this year's fringe. FRINGE FORCE 3
Friday, January 21, 2011
Milton Avery at Nassau County Museum of Art
| Milton Avery & THE END OF MODERNISM January 22, 2011 through May 8, 2011 I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. - Milton Avery Milton Avery & the End of Modernism looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The exhibition features Avery’s intense saturated color fields, the simplification of form, and figures that emphasize the flatness of canvas surface. Milton Avery & the End of Modernism opens on January 22, 2011 and remains on view through May 8, 2011. It is organized for NCMA by Director Karl E. Willers, Ph.D. The exhibition was organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. It was funded, in part, by the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency; the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art; and the Westchester Arts Council. For presentation at NCMA, the exhibition was expanded as Milton Avery & the End of Modernism. This exhibition examines the contributions of Milton Avery as a significant figurative painter from the late 1920s through the early 1960s. Milton Avery & the End of Modernism takes a concerted look at the development of Avery’s signature paintings from his idiosyncratic drawing style that captures the essence of a person, place or time. According to Dr. Willers, this places Avery’s work within a long history of modernist practice that recognizes the artist’s sketch as a “final, complete and a self-sufficient work of art.” Within the emergence of his avant-garde style, said Dr. Willers, Avery can be seen as one of the preeminent American painters of his time, exerting great influence among both his contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists. Further assessing Avery’s place in American art history, Patterson Sims wrote in an essay for the Whitney Museum of American Art: “Early in Avery's career, when Social Realism and American Scene painting were the prevailing artistic styles, the semi-abstract tendencies in his work were viewed by many as too radical. In the 1950s, a period dominated by Abstract Expressionism, he was overlooked by critics because of his adherence to recognizable subject matter. Nevertheless, his work, with its emphasis on color, was important to many younger artists, particularly to Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, and other Color Field painters.” The museum is sponsoring several informative programs in connection with Milton Avery & the End of Modernism, among them two Tea & Tour events featuring exclusive docent-led exhibition tours with introductions by Dr. Willers; an illustrated talk by art historian Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D.; and a series of three lectures on the exhibition by Dr. Willers. For details, please visit the Events page of this site. ========== |
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The First Annual C2 Gallery LONG ISLAND ARTIST INVITATIONAL
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
Long Island Fringe Festival
For Immediate Release Contact –Long Island Fringe Festival
January 2011
The Artists Group
presents
Long Island’s best kept secret is out. Operation “Fringe Force 3” is ready to accept applications for the 2011 festival which will be September 9, 10, 11, on the Campus of Long Island University at C.W.Post in Brookville, hosted by the School of Theater, Film & Dance. Fringe festival participants are chosen on a first come first served basis, by the deadline of May 31, 2011. If the number of applications exceeds the available venue space, a lottery system will be employed.
Visual artists and artisans will have the opportunity to sell their art in a marketplace atmosphere. The public is invited to observe the art & sculpture up close & personal, along with the artists themselves.
Visual artists and artisans will have the opportunity to sell their art in a marketplace atmosphere. The public is invited to observe the art & sculpture up close & personal, along with the artists themselves.
Movie makers: apply for outdoor film screenings. Each evening rekindle the nostalgia of Long Island in the heyday of drive-in movies. Paumanok Poets, theater, music, spontaneous improv and dance complete the array of applications that are being received. If you are a performer or artisan, please send in your application by May 31, 2011 to be included in this year’s Long Island Fringe Festival.
This is the only fringe on LI. Long Island’s best cutting edge, avant-garde
entertainment happening.
Participant applications are $75.00 including 10’ x 10’ selling spaces.
Sales from these spaces will remit 10% of the gross sales.
Tables are FREE to NFPs to distribute your information
Deadline for applications is May 31 - 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Photography Club of Long Island
Photography Club of Long Island
First Juried Exhibit - Sale
January 9 Reception
4-7PM
Haven Art
29 Haven Avenue
Port Washington
944-6765
For more information -
info@portviewsphotography.com
516-944-5604
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Friday, December 31, 2010
New Years Eve
Good New Years wishes to ALL
Stay safe - New Years Eve RIDES
Free taxi rides are being offered this holiday season -
to avoid the dangers of drunk driving.
In Nassau: 516-326-9090
In Suffolk: 631-265-2727
(Lindy's Taxi)
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New Years Eve
New Years Eve at Cinema Arts Centre
Film, Light Refreshments & Champagne at Midnight!
Friday, December 31
$20 Members / $25 Public / No Refunds
Refreshments: 6pm - Midnight
Watch exciting new films!
(The King’s Speech, Black Swan, Rabbit Hole)
Enjoy tasty light refreshments in the Sky Room Cafe,
& share a Champagne Toast while we all watch the big ball in
Times Square drop at midnight on the Cinema giant TV screen!
Enjoy a Champagne Toast While We Watch the Ball Drop at Midnight!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
NEW ASSOCIATE CURATOR AT THE PARRISH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Mark Segal
631-283-2118, ext 22
PARRISH ART MUSEUM ANNOUNCES
NEW ASSOCIATE CURATOR
ANDREA GROVER
SOUTHAMPTON, NY 12/22/10—The Parrish Art Museum announces the appointment of Andrea Grover as Associate Curator. A native of Long Island, Ms. Grover will begin her position in January 2011.
Holding more than ten years of experience in media arts curating, Andrea Grover is well known for her innovative media arts exhibitions and pop-up cinema events produced as founder of the nonprofit cinema, Auora Picture Show, in Houston, Texas. In her new role at the Parrish Art Museum, Ms. Grover will initiate a series of associative public programs designed to stimulate a new kind of engagement with the museum. She will work extensively with Cara Conklin-Wingfield, Deputy Director, Education, Alicia Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, and Mark Segal, Director of Adult Programs, to integrate curation, education, and local culture via workshops, readings, performances, and screenings. A major focus of her work will be to translate the Museum’s East End Stories online database into live events that will further illuminate the history and status of the region as an art colony.
“We are enormously pleased to welcome Andrea to the Parrish curatorial team,” Parrish Director Terrie Sultan said. “Andrea brings a depth and breadth of creative thinking, and a wealth of ideas on how to fully integrate special exhibitions, our East End Stories digital archive, and our world-class permanent collection within the context of a broader cultural engagement. She will make a wonderful addition to the Museum’s team.”
“As a native of Long Island, I have long admired the Parrish and am delighted to be returning to the region to serve this historic institution. It is particularly auspicious to be joining the creative staff at a moment of transformation, during the construction of the new building,” Ms. Grover said.
In addition to bringing extensive experience in media arts curating to the Parrish, Ms. Grover has extensive experience working at the intersection of art, technology, and social practice. She curated the first exhibition exploring the phenomenon of crowdsourcing in art (Phantom Captain, apexart, New York, 2006), and, with artist Jon Rubin, organized an exhibit in which worldwide participants created a photo-sharing album of their imaginings on Tehran (Never Been to Tehran, Parkingallery, Tehran, Iran, 2008). She has programmed an evening of films for Dia Art Foundation at The Hispanic Society of America, New York (Lessons in the Sky, 2009), and inaugurated a new semiannual screening series, From the Menil Film Archive, with The Menil Collection. In 2009 she curated an exhibition that continued her research into cooperation and distributed thinking across disciplines (29 Chains to the Moon, Carnegie Mellon University, Miller Gallery). She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Syracuse University and was a Core Fellow in residence at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Ms. Grover is presently a Warhol Curatorial Fellow with the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
About the Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum is an American art museum located in Southampton, New York. Founded in 1897, the museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End, one of America’s most vital creative centers. Since the mid 1950s the Museum has grown from a small village art gallery into an important art museum with a collection of more than 2,600 works of art from the nineteenth century to the present. It includes such contemporary painters and sculptors as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses among of the world’s most important collections of works by the preeminent American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and by the groundbreaking post-war American realist painter Fairfield Porter. A vital cultural resource serving a diverse audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and engaging public programs including lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. On July 19, 2010, the Parrish broke ground on a new building designed by internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple the Museum’s current exhibition space and allow for the simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions and installations drawn from the permanent collection.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The Three Wise Animals
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News Release on Receipt
For Information
Walter E. Harris, IIIAllbook BooksPO Box 562Selden, N.Y. 11784Phone: 631-716-1385Just published is “The Three Wise Animals,” a Christmas- Epiphany read-aloud story in verse about Enrico the Screech Owl (“who does not screech, but trills softly),” Blue Scream the Blue Jay and Ferris the Red Fox who also follow The Star like the Three Wise Men in the Bible story.Author is Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr., of Freeport, first Poet Laureate of Nassau County. Illustrator is Alice Melzer of Hicksville, instructor for the Professional Studies Program of Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and Continuing Education Program for Hofstra Univesrsity. With her sketches she follows the caricatured animals “mountain after mountain/ valley after valley/ icy brook after icy brook.” Always “The Star higher in the sky” and "farther away” until Bethlehem.The story is published as a chapbook, a small book of poetry. Epiphany, the last day of Christmas, is when the Three Wise Men” arrive in Bethlehem to welcome the newborn Child.The chapbook is printed on recycled paper, processed without chlorine.The book is available, $10 plus $2 shipping from the publisher
Allbook Books, PO Box 562, Selden, NY, 11784.E-mail is: mankh@allbook-books.com
Website is: www.allbook-books.com
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