Recent exhibition in New York.

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left to right fragments of art: Kim/ Riley/ N'Cognita/ Cullen/ Craig/ Zurlo

New Viridian Artists and Affiliates Exhibition

March 22- April 2, 2011
Reception: Saturday, March 26, 2011   4-7pm

Nancy Treherne Craig * John Cullen * Young Sam Kim* Vernita N'Cognita

Sarah Riley * Don Zurlo

Chelsea, NYC: Viridian Artists is pleased to present new work by new Viridian Artists & Affiliates. The exhibition features a wide variety of art by these exciting artists recently represented by Viridian Artists. The exhibit opens Tuesday, March 22nd and extends through Saturday, April 2nd with a reception Saturday, Saturday, March 26, 4-7 PM.

Each artist in this exhibit has been given approximately 10 linear feet of wall space to present a mini solo of their recent art. Three of these artists, Nancy Treherne Craig, Young Sam Kim and John Cullen, deal with landscape or cityscape, but all do so with very different and unique approaches. 

John Cullen and Young Sam Kim are both exhibiting at Viridian for the first time. John Cullen is a painter of abstracted landscapes, and in fact calls himself an "abstract impressionist". His landscapes focus on water reflections. When looking at his paintings on panels, one sees clearly the swirling currents and the splashes of color and texture that allude to watery realms, unidentifiable in reality but more clearly understood inwardly. Cullen who received a Masters degree in Art Education from Pratt in 1970, has since taught on a college level and worked as a professional artist.

Young Sam Kim is a digital photographer who received his B.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. Of Korean heritage, he has been afflicted since youth with a hearing impairment and came to the US to study and explore his creative impulses here. His art of arresting pictograms are created of urban buildings and scenes overlaid with fragments of photographs of people, sky, trees and planes, reminding him of dreams and memories of his youth. These, he has digitally collaged and layered into city scapes that speak of humans trapped in urban landscapes and forests of buildings yearning to fly away and to be free.   

            Nancy Treherne Craig who first had a solo exhibition at Viridian in 2008, aspires to paint more than pretty pictures. Her fascination with the natural world is focused on metaphysical movement and our life journeys. Composition is her most crucial tool when she paints, as she attempts to minimize gesture & aim for an appearance of anonymity. The work is intended as a reminder of the paths available to us if we will wake up and be aware. The artist studied with Elaine de Kooning at the Pennsylvania State University and received an Award of Excellence from the Kenan Art Center of Niagra Falls in 2004.

Don Zurlo, after study at Rutgers with Allan Kaprov and exploring a wide array of media & techniques, has returned to a minimalist approach in his painting in which ambiguity is presented through simple acrylic images resembling the torn paper compositions of his student years at Rutgers. Still as philosophical as he was then, his paintings echo his view of reality, for he states, “In many ways form is an illusion - our interpretation of an infinite variety of relationships between fields of energy".

Sarah Riley is the Chair of the art department at Southeastern Missouri StateUniversity and is finishing a book about various approaches to printmaking that combines a range of media. Her artwork too is an exploration and mixture of media and techniques combining drawing, collage, printmaking and paint. Many of her works contain feminist overtones, some alluding to autobiography while others, just moments in the life of an artist.

Vernita N'Cognita is a mixed media and performance artist who has been working and exhibiting in New York and throughout the world for more than twenty years. She came from Ohio to NYC in the early days of feminism, was part of that movement and has continued to explore through her art practice, the trials and concerns of contemporary women. She is also deeply involved with curating and creating as well with environmental activism, exhibits of art from recycled materials (Art from Detritus) and continuing to create since 2006, the "Endless Junkmail Scroll".

Meklit

This from the Dance Department at Southeast. Like the way it was edited and the way it was filmed in black and white.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkLxtgdCeNU

Some mixed-media works.

Am publishing some prints done at the same time as the image in the heading at the top of the page. Last summer working at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill I worked out some ideas that I was about to teach in a workshop at that Arts Center. This led to a book contract with A & C Black for a book on Mixed-Media Printmaking.

More tropical trees and one from home.

Am posting some of the work from a recent exhibition. These paintings are from a gold series.

Designed. Makes me think of Emily Booth's design classes.

March 12, 2010

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I found this artist’s work, Patrick Michael Fitzgerald, while looking up some images for Raoul de Keyser. Some of his work more painterly than others. Some more colorful than the toned-down but lovely Irish colors of others. Jazzy tango an inspiration. Roberta Smith recently wrote in the New York Times that painting is too ignored and yet so much of the art being done in the studios and shown in the galleries of Chelsea is painting. Barry Swabsky writes in the Nation Magazine that abstract painting is alive, too ignored.

This is the third in the series of Violet Paget prints. (For the first 2 see below.) In this one I printed the two collograph plates over an India ink and watercolor drawing on a part rag, part synthetic piece of watercolor paper. The first two prints were both printed on Arches Cover.

This is the second in the series of 3 prints, Violet Paget and her Pseudonym. This one has the two collograph plates, chine colle and an etching on copper.

Some new prints

Have been working on some new prints. This one is the first in a series on Violet Paget. It is an intaglio print on 22 x 30" Arches Cover. I've used two collograph plates with viscosity printing and Chine Colle. 

Watercolor on paper: Man with Volcano, 22 x 30".

This watercolor on paper was inspired by Costa Rica. In fact the subject matter is the Papaya tree next to the swimming pool at the Julia and David White Artists Colony near Ciudad Colon. It was created on Strathmore Aquarius II watercolor paper which is a lighter-weight paper, designed with cotton rag and synthetic fibers in order to reduce buckling. It is on a half sheet, 15 x 20". I did it for the Watercolor USA and Japan Watercolor Federation Exchange Exhibition that the Watercolor USA Honor Society is putting together. 

I am posting some of the work I created in Costa Rica at the Julia and David White Artists Colony during a residency in January. These works are on Yupo, a type of polyester watercolor paper. The dark figures were painted onto Duralar and float above.