2018 Exhibitions​

Claudia Alvarez: Boy in a Room

June 8 – September 2, 2018
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ART TALK: July 21, 2pm - The Nyack Library
Claudia Alvarez interviewed by curator Jill DeVonyar 
Claudia Alvarez creates ceramic sculptural installations of child-sized figures imbued with adult-like characteristics. The work engages in diverse and timeless subjects such as immigration, violence, youth/aging, and power struggles.  The incongruity of these youthful figures placed in unexpected situations suggests a dreamlike state that challenges our perceptions of reality and emotional clarity.   

For this exhibition Alvarez, will create childlike figures in the image of Edward Hopper as a way of thinking about Hopper reflecting back at himself from childhood to adulthood. The sculpture will suggest Hopper at different stages of his life, some will have an older face with a small body, or childlike body.
Special thanks to the sponsors of this exhibition: 

Sean Scully: No Words

March 9 - May 27, 2018
Members opening March 8, 6:30-8:30 PM
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Sean Scully is renowned for his paintings featuring multiple layered stripes of thickly applied oil paint.  Though abstract, his imagery is derived from the natural world and serves as a metaphor that relates to things outside the painting.  The works to be shown in this exhibition are from the "Doric" series.  Scully has said that the series is a love letter to Greece: “I wanted to celebrate what Greece had given us, to humanity, and tried to make an architectural metaphor, in which I tried to include, in a sense, the history of romantic painting. For the Doric paintings I tried to show something that was based on order and classicism.”  While the series pays homage to Greece and its classical architecture, many of the works were created in Scully’s studio in Tappan, New York—not far from the Nyack of Edward Hopper’s formative years—and it is the local environment and his emotions on a given day that Scully responds to when creating the paintings. 

Born in Dublin in 1945, Scully moved to London as a child and studied art at the Central School of Art and Croydon College of Art before receiving his BA from Newcastle University in 1972. Scully moved to United States in 1975 and currently lives and works New York and Munich, Germany.
This exhibition is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.  Additional support has been provided by Regina Rodwell-Bell and Jake Bell and O’D’s Tavern.

Carrie Mae Weems: Beacon

​November 10, 2017 - February 25, 2018

Carrie Mae Weems is the 2017 recipient of  the Edward Hopper Citation of Merit for Visual Artists, presented by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Council on the Arts in recognition of her significant artistic contributions to the state of New York.  For this series of photographs, Carrie Mae Weems documented the changing landscape and culture of Beacon, NY, over the course of her three-year artist residency there beginning in 2002.  Weems places herself as the subject in the Beacon photographs, always pictured standing with her back to the camera, observing and “bearing witness, confronting something, [serving] as a guide to the viewer standing with me.” 
 
Considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists, Weems is celebrated for her photography, films, and videos that address social themes focusing on race, gender, and class.   She has exhibited at major institutions throughout the world, and she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the MacArthur “Genius” grant, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Prix de Roma, and many more.  ​She lives and works in Syracuse, NY.

Organized by Carole Perry with Pamela Vander Zwan.

Annual Members Exhibition

January 21 - March 11, 12-4 pm
Opening Reception January 21, 4-6 pm

NEW LOCATION! at UNION ARTS CENTER
2 Union Avenue, Sparkill, NY 10976

Artist Members of the Edward Hopper House are featured in this annual show.