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bau22: Beacon/Bronx 4+4
from bau: Tony Moore, Franc Palaia, Christopher Staples, Elizabeth Winchester
from Haven Arts, Bronx: Timothy Blum, Steven Fishman, Anne Humanfeld, Kay Reese
mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture
October 14 - November 5, 2006
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 14, 2006 6 - 9pm
Video Showcase
Saturday, October 28, 6pm
curated by Christopher Staples
bau - beacon artist union
161 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508
Opening Hours: Sat/Sun 12 - 6pm & by appt.
T 845 440 7584
bauinfo@optonline.net
www.beaconartistunion.com
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Beacon and the South Bronx, both communities that a few short years ago were lackluster and languishing, are undergoing a renaissance fueled by art. Who knew? Now both attract artists by droves to live and work and influence their resurgence. There are abstract-expressionists and actors, cartoonists and composers, minimalists and musicians, painters and puppeteers, playwrights and poets, singers and sculptors, weavers and writers. beacon artist union and Haven Arts, both about two years old, are galleries that serve as focal points of that new vitality, creating space for artists to find their voices and engage with the surrounding community.
bau22: Beacon/Bronx 4+4 brings together four artists from each of these innovative galleries to show their recent works in mixed media, painting, photography and sculpture. Additionally, video artists from both communities will be showcased in an evening of short films on October 28.
Tony Moore, the British-American ceramic sculptor and painter, is represented in international museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum and Brooklyn Museum, USA and Yorkshire Museum and Derby Museum, UK. He received a MFA in Sculpture from Yale University and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. He maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley near Cold Spring NY.
Image: Three Blind Mice (2004) 31½x22½x22½ wood-fired ceramic, fired 8 days.
Franc Palaia's work encompasses several media including illuminated photo-sculpture, hand-colored Polaroids, large scale color digital photography, murals, and lamp design. He also curates, teaches, and makes photo-sculptural outdoor works that incorporate solar powered energy sources. Palaia has been included in over 300 group shows and more than 35 solo shows, regionally, nationally and internationally, and has received 14 grants and curated 12 group exhibitions since 1982. He has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art annex in New York and in 2011 will exhibit in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Image: Sweet Tower Tower (2003) 15x10x96 lights, suitcases, Duratrans.
Christopher Staples is an artist who works in a wide range of media, including photography, collage, assemblage, painting and printing. Staples is a new member of bau for 2006, whose work is also shown at The Artery in Milford, PA. A resident of Carmel, she serves on the gallery committee of the Putnam Arts Council and recently completed a three-year term on the grants review panel for local arts grants through the New York State Council on the Arts. She holds a B.F.A., Magna Cum Laude from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.
Image: New Terrain I (2006) 9½ x7½ monoprint.
Elizabeth Winchester is a painter and printer whose work portrays a life of disorientation and geographic dissonance. Her paintings and prints may include fragments of maps, newspapers, collage or found objects resulting in the creation of a personal topography. There are occasional intimations of aerial landscapes or singing abstract, rhythmic movements. Following the lure of detail, layers begin to unfold, veils lift, revealing increasingly disparate details of an idiosyncratic world. After a lifetime of hi-tech in Silicon Valley, Winchester attended the SF Art Institute and has lately been haunting the Woodstock School of Art printing studio. Her work has been shown in CA, FL, NY, CT and Denmark and is in collections in the US and UK.
Image: My darkness (2006) 8x8 monoprint.
Half self-taught engineer, half wry sociologist, Timothy Blum fuses a fascination with machinery and science with his amused observation of human folly to create conceptually clean and physically blunt meditations on the social world. Both material and conceptual alchemy are central to his work. Lead turns to money, carpet into tongue, tobacco into a camel. Blum has his BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He attended Skowhegan in 1993 and studied under Tony Cragg, doing post graduate work at the Kunstakedemie of Dusseldorf, Germany. Timothy has been a recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship, the Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, George Sugarman Foundation '04 & '05, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. He has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Recently, he was selected for an artist's residency at the Kohler Foundation. He is currently a professor at Hong Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea. Image: Ode to N 12x14x10 Silver Plated Bronze.
Steven Fishman was born in Baltimore, MD, 1974, raised in the U.S.V.I, and has been a resident of NY since 1993. He received his BFA at Parsons School of Design in 1998. It is NYC where he studied sculpture and art history and this has been the main focus of his work to date. Literally, his work begins with the idea of Art itself. Thinking about Art history, the process of making art, challenging ideas, aesthetics, and its importance are his main inspirations. All things being said, there is a certain quality and humorous undertone in his work that lighten up his arty concepts. With a humorous edge, his exploration of art history re-examines the masters from a post-modernist standpoint. Like a chef opening up a kitchen cabinet and showing off his spices, he adeptly displays a large number and variety of materials in his work. Because his work is idea based, Steven tends to work in a variety of material and techniques with little interest in a consistent aesthetic signature. His consistencies orbit around the notion of making a mark, observing his surroundings and commenting on them accordingly. He has exhibited throughout the northeast including HEREart, The Bronx Museum, Haven Arts, Mushroomarts, the 3rdward, Icebox (in PA), and the Maryland institute of Art. This fall he will be included in an exhibition at the Delaware Museum. His work is on file at the Drawing Center in NYC.
Image: underpressure 2006 4'x4'x4' stainless steel, air-hose, brass gage, pressurized air.
Anne Humanfeld was born in New York City and attended Music & Art High School with regular visits to the Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She studied painting and anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. She has maintained a New York studio since the early 1980s participating in various aspects of the downtown art scene. After moving her studio from Soho to Mott Haven in 2000, the materials of her pictures have shifted from oil and acrylic paint on canvas to the current Transfer Series.
Image: American Falls (2005) 67x47 acrylic transfer on canvas.
Kay Reese is an emerging visual artist/photographer who was born in Columbia, South Carolina and grew up in Bronx, New York. She received her B.F.A. in painting and photography from the College of New Rochelle, NY. Ms. Reese is the inventor of Scanography*, a new medium, performance based, photographic process she invented in 2005, using a digital scanner. She received the Bronx Council of the Arts, BRIO Award in 2000, in drawing, printmaking and artist's book, and has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, Longwood Art Gallery @Hostos College, the Haven Art Gallery, and at The Point CDC Art Gallery in the South Bronx. She has also exhibited at Bellevue Medical Center, NY, the New Century Artists Gallery in Chelsea NY, The Mooney Center Gallery at the College of New Rochelle, Fleet Bank at the Empire State Building, the Great Neck Public Library, NY, and at the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Corporate Library. She has many paintings and works on paper, including monoprints, in numerous private collections in the U.S. Ms. Reese, a former educator, business owner, and college counselor is a career development expert, who has given workshops on "Parenting the Artistic Child", at the Point CDC, and the Bronx River Arts Center and Gallery.
Image: hearing it (2005) 40x60 Scangraph (or K-Scan), Giclee print on canvas *patent pending.
bau - beacon artist union is an artists’ collective gallery on the west end of Main St. in Beacon that serves as a platform for exhibitions, collaborations and inter-disciplinary events. www.beaconartistunion.com
Haven Arts is located in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. In 2004 Barry Kostrinsky founded the locally acclaimed and internationally recognized gallery, which has exhibited over 200 emerging and mid-career artists. Its vision is to develop a dynamic art space that promotes and represents visual art, dance and performance, poetry and other forms of expression in a vibrant format. A haven for the arts. www.havenarts.org
from bau: Tony Moore, Franc Palaia, Christopher Staples, Elizabeth Winchester
from Haven Arts, Bronx: Timothy Blum, Steven Fishman, Anne Humanfeld, Kay Reese
mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture
October 14 - November 5, 2006
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 14, 2006 6 - 9pm
Video Showcase
Saturday, October 28, 6pm
curated by Christopher Staples
bau - beacon artist union
161 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508
Opening Hours: Sat/Sun 12 - 6pm & by appt.
T 845 440 7584
bauinfo@optonline.net
www.beaconartistunion.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beacon and the South Bronx, both communities that a few short years ago were lackluster and languishing, are undergoing a renaissance fueled by art. Who knew? Now both attract artists by droves to live and work and influence their resurgence. There are abstract-expressionists and actors, cartoonists and composers, minimalists and musicians, painters and puppeteers, playwrights and poets, singers and sculptors, weavers and writers. beacon artist union and Haven Arts, both about two years old, are galleries that serve as focal points of that new vitality, creating space for artists to find their voices and engage with the surrounding community.
bau22: Beacon/Bronx 4+4 brings together four artists from each of these innovative galleries to show their recent works in mixed media, painting, photography and sculpture. Additionally, video artists from both communities will be showcased in an evening of short films on October 28.
Tony Moore, the British-American ceramic sculptor and painter, is represented in international museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum and Brooklyn Museum, USA and Yorkshire Museum and Derby Museum, UK. He received a MFA in Sculpture from Yale University and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. He maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley near Cold Spring NY.
Image: Three Blind Mice (2004) 31½x22½x22½ wood-fired ceramic, fired 8 days.
Franc Palaia's work encompasses several media including illuminated photo-sculpture, hand-colored Polaroids, large scale color digital photography, murals, and lamp design. He also curates, teaches, and makes photo-sculptural outdoor works that incorporate solar powered energy sources. Palaia has been included in over 300 group shows and more than 35 solo shows, regionally, nationally and internationally, and has received 14 grants and curated 12 group exhibitions since 1982. He has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art annex in New York and in 2011 will exhibit in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Image: Sweet Tower Tower (2003) 15x10x96 lights, suitcases, Duratrans.
Christopher Staples is an artist who works in a wide range of media, including photography, collage, assemblage, painting and printing. Staples is a new member of bau for 2006, whose work is also shown at The Artery in Milford, PA. A resident of Carmel, she serves on the gallery committee of the Putnam Arts Council and recently completed a three-year term on the grants review panel for local arts grants through the New York State Council on the Arts. She holds a B.F.A., Magna Cum Laude from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.
Image: New Terrain I (2006) 9½ x7½ monoprint.
Elizabeth Winchester is a painter and printer whose work portrays a life of disorientation and geographic dissonance. Her paintings and prints may include fragments of maps, newspapers, collage or found objects resulting in the creation of a personal topography. There are occasional intimations of aerial landscapes or singing abstract, rhythmic movements. Following the lure of detail, layers begin to unfold, veils lift, revealing increasingly disparate details of an idiosyncratic world. After a lifetime of hi-tech in Silicon Valley, Winchester attended the SF Art Institute and has lately been haunting the Woodstock School of Art printing studio. Her work has been shown in CA, FL, NY, CT and Denmark and is in collections in the US and UK.
Image: My darkness (2006) 8x8 monoprint.
Half self-taught engineer, half wry sociologist, Timothy Blum fuses a fascination with machinery and science with his amused observation of human folly to create conceptually clean and physically blunt meditations on the social world. Both material and conceptual alchemy are central to his work. Lead turns to money, carpet into tongue, tobacco into a camel. Blum has his BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He attended Skowhegan in 1993 and studied under Tony Cragg, doing post graduate work at the Kunstakedemie of Dusseldorf, Germany. Timothy has been a recipient of the Jacob Javits Fellowship, the Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, George Sugarman Foundation '04 & '05, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. He has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Recently, he was selected for an artist's residency at the Kohler Foundation. He is currently a professor at Hong Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea. Image: Ode to N 12x14x10 Silver Plated Bronze.
Steven Fishman was born in Baltimore, MD, 1974, raised in the U.S.V.I, and has been a resident of NY since 1993. He received his BFA at Parsons School of Design in 1998. It is NYC where he studied sculpture and art history and this has been the main focus of his work to date. Literally, his work begins with the idea of Art itself. Thinking about Art history, the process of making art, challenging ideas, aesthetics, and its importance are his main inspirations. All things being said, there is a certain quality and humorous undertone in his work that lighten up his arty concepts. With a humorous edge, his exploration of art history re-examines the masters from a post-modernist standpoint. Like a chef opening up a kitchen cabinet and showing off his spices, he adeptly displays a large number and variety of materials in his work. Because his work is idea based, Steven tends to work in a variety of material and techniques with little interest in a consistent aesthetic signature. His consistencies orbit around the notion of making a mark, observing his surroundings and commenting on them accordingly. He has exhibited throughout the northeast including HEREart, The Bronx Museum, Haven Arts, Mushroomarts, the 3rdward, Icebox (in PA), and the Maryland institute of Art. This fall he will be included in an exhibition at the Delaware Museum. His work is on file at the Drawing Center in NYC.
Image: underpressure 2006 4'x4'x4' stainless steel, air-hose, brass gage, pressurized air.
Anne Humanfeld was born in New York City and attended Music & Art High School with regular visits to the Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She studied painting and anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. She has maintained a New York studio since the early 1980s participating in various aspects of the downtown art scene. After moving her studio from Soho to Mott Haven in 2000, the materials of her pictures have shifted from oil and acrylic paint on canvas to the current Transfer Series.
Image: American Falls (2005) 67x47 acrylic transfer on canvas.
Kay Reese is an emerging visual artist/photographer who was born in Columbia, South Carolina and grew up in Bronx, New York. She received her B.F.A. in painting and photography from the College of New Rochelle, NY. Ms. Reese is the inventor of Scanography*, a new medium, performance based, photographic process she invented in 2005, using a digital scanner. She received the Bronx Council of the Arts, BRIO Award in 2000, in drawing, printmaking and artist's book, and has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, Longwood Art Gallery @Hostos College, the Haven Art Gallery, and at The Point CDC Art Gallery in the South Bronx. She has also exhibited at Bellevue Medical Center, NY, the New Century Artists Gallery in Chelsea NY, The Mooney Center Gallery at the College of New Rochelle, Fleet Bank at the Empire State Building, the Great Neck Public Library, NY, and at the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Corporate Library. She has many paintings and works on paper, including monoprints, in numerous private collections in the U.S. Ms. Reese, a former educator, business owner, and college counselor is a career development expert, who has given workshops on "Parenting the Artistic Child", at the Point CDC, and the Bronx River Arts Center and Gallery.
Image: hearing it (2005) 40x60 Scangraph (or K-Scan), Giclee print on canvas *patent pending.
bau - beacon artist union is an artists’ collective gallery on the west end of Main St. in Beacon that serves as a platform for exhibitions, collaborations and inter-disciplinary events. www.beaconartistunion.com
Haven Arts is located in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. In 2004 Barry Kostrinsky founded the locally acclaimed and internationally recognized gallery, which has exhibited over 200 emerging and mid-career artists. Its vision is to develop a dynamic art space that promotes and represents visual art, dance and performance, poetry and other forms of expression in a vibrant format. A haven for the arts. www.havenarts.org
Tony Moore - Three Blind Mice
Franc Palaia - Sweet Tower Tower
Christopher Staples - New Terrain I
Elizabeth Winchester - My Darkness
Timothy Blum - Ode to N
Steven Fishman - underpressure
Anne Humanfeld - American Falls
Kay Reese - hearing it
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