Dear Friend of the Art Center,
We are very excited about our next two exhibitions:
In the Balter Gallery--Therefore I Am is a video show that includes 8 artists, curated by multimedia artist Greg Slick.
In the Gillette Gallery we will feature sculpture and painting by the distinguished American artist David Hayes. (Scroll down to see the man himself)
We hope you will join us on Friday, February 10, from 6 to 8 for a reception to meet the artists. We first met David Hayes a few years ago when his work was included in CURRENT, Garrison Art Center’s summer sculpture exhibition at Boscobel. Hayes has been working in steel for more that 50 years and is best known for his timeless and majestic metal sculptures, but his two dimensional work is equally commanding. His exhibition at the Art Center includes a number of small sculptures with partnering paintings on paper completed during the past decade or so. Also included are two new large scale pieces on our Sidewalk Sculpture Gallery created specifically for this show plus a large polychrome piece. Many of you will recall seeing the beautiful Hayes piece that is at the water's edge here on the Landing.
Hayes, who was born in Connecticut and still lives and works there, received his education at the University of Notre Dame and from Indiana University where he studied with David Smith. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright Scholarship and a Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship. The still prolific Hayes has established a national, as well as international, reputation for his contribution to the history of American sculpture and has had more than 300 exhibitions worldwide. His work is included in more that 100 institutional collections, including those of the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. We are honored to offer an exhibition of this caliber right here in our own backyard.
Greg Slick is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in Beacon, NY. He is the founder and co-director of The Artist’s Statement Picture Show, a project that screens work by emerging and established artists operating in the mediums of film, video art, and new media. Slick has also curated exhibitions at various venues, including the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY, and was the co-owner and co-director of the gallery GO NORTH: A Space for Contemporary Art, in Beacon, NY.
The seven featured films and videos explore a variety of subject matter—identity, obsessions, personal demons, family, friends -- and spans a range of genres, including experimental narrative, non-narrative, performance video, and home movies. Participating artists include: Brian Doyle, Richard Kroehling, Marko Mäetamm, Mollie McKinley, Therese McPherson and Athena Torri, Brian Stinemetz and August Ventimiglia.
Both shows will run from February 4 through February 26. The public is invited to a reception for the artists on Friday, February 10, from 6 to 8pm. If you're not able to join us for the reception, we hope you will make time to stop by. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm. For more information about these exhibitions and other Art Center programs call 845.424.3960 or visit www.garrisonartcenter.org.
Sincerely,
Carinda Swann
Executive Director
Garrison Art Center
23 Depot Square on Garrison’s Landing, P.O. Box 4
Garrison, NY 10524
845.424.3960
Garrison Art Center programs
are made possible by the
New York State Council on
the Arts with the support of
Governor Andrew Cuomo and
the New York State Legislature.
