2019 ArtistS of the Month
Friday, DECEMBER 6th, 2019
6-8 PM – Reception & Artist Talk with Resident Artist
KAITLYN RINDLER Kaitlyn shares her process and inspirations in capturing Nyack scenes through photography. MORE PROGRAMS FEATURING OUR RESIDENT ARTIST:
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Friday, NOVEMBER 1st, 2019
6-8 PM – Reception & Artist Talk with Resident Artist
JOYCE BYRNES Joyce Byrnes is a pastel artist living in Rockland County, NY. She enjoys hiking, skiing and sailing and paints landscapes in soft pastels, depicting the light, textures and colors she finds in nature. Joyce is a member of the Nyack Art Collective, the Pastel Society of America, and the National Association of Women Artists. She currently teaches Pastel Painting at the Clarkstown Community Learning Center in Congers, NY. Her work is held in private collections and has been exhibited in New York City, and in the tri-state regions of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. MORE PROGRAMS FEATURING OUR RESIDENT ARTIST:
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Friday, SEPTEMBER 6th, 2019
6-8 PM – Reception & Artist Talk with Resident Artist
CLIFF TISDELL Cliff Tisdell is an artist and lecturer. HIs work has appeared at Ivan Karp’s OK Harris Gallery, the Chautauqua Institution, Eric Fischl’s America Here and Now and Carnegie Hall as well as galleries and universities. He is a regular guest speaker at the Chappaqua, New City and New Canaan libraries. MORE PROGRAMS FEATURING OUR RESIDENT ARTIST:
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Friday, OCTOBER 4th, 2019
6-8 PM – Reception & Artist Talk with Resident Artist
SUZETTE MARIE MARTIN Suzette uses the narrative context of sharing a bed and the unguarded body language of sleep to explore private dynamics of intimacy, vulnerability and estrangement within relationships. Her series, “Early Sunday Morning/Saturday Night is Over,” reflects upon Hopper’s use of isolated figures in interior space, in particular "Excursion Into Philosophy,” a 1959 painting of a partially clothed couple in a stark bedroom. MORE PROGRAMS FEATURING OUR RESIDENT ARTIST:
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Friday, AUGUST 2, 2019
6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month KELLY QUARTIRONI.
Kelly Quartironi has a BFA in Visual Arts and an MA in Art Education. She is the Director of Visual Arts, K-12 for the Nanuet Union Free School District and teaches in the elementary schools. Her work consists of multimedia 2D pieces and ceramic sculptures. Her recent body of work has focused on sea creature and human hybrids. Her fascination with the ocean and the fear of the unknown have inspired this new line of work that is influenced by the human form and her surroundings. 7 PM – Gallery Talk KELLY QUARTIRONI
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Friday, June 7, 2019
6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month SARAH FORKIN
Sarah Forkin currently attends Skidmore College where she studies Studio Art. Having closely studied the life and work of Edward Hopper since 2016, Sarah was a part of the first graduating class of the Edward Hopper House “Nighthawks” Teen Leadership Program in 2018. Her loose, figurative works depict a range of life studies, as well as portraiture reflecting her personal life and the people in it. 7 PM – Gallery Talk : JOSEPH STANTON
Joseph Stanton is a poet and art historian who has written extensively on the works of Edward Hopper. He will be reading and commenting on a selection of his Hopper-inspired poems while showing the paintings on screen. He will provide a list of the poems so audience members can, if they wish, make requests. Many of Stanton’s poems inspired by Hopper works have appeared in literary magazines (including Poetry, Poetry East,Cortland Review, Ekphrasis, Tribeca Poetry Review, and Ekphrasis Review) and in three of his six collections of poems. Books that include Hopper images are Things Seen (Brickroad Poetry Press, 2016), Imaginary Museum: Poems on Art (Time Being Books, 1999). Stanton's next book of poems, Moving Pictures, forthcoming soon from Shanti Arts Publications, will feature a new sequence of Hopper-inspired poems.
Stanton has also written about Winslow Homer, Edward Gorey, children’s picture books, the flora and fauna of Hawaii, and baseball history. Stanton is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. |
Friday, MAY 3, 2019
6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month
CHRIS RANDOLPH Chris Randolph, ATR-BC, LCAT, is an artist and art therapist. She is the director of the Rockland Living Museum at Rockland Psychiatric Center, an open art studio for adults with psychiatric illness. Chris has exhibited her paintings at the Queens Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Hopper House, ROCA, Pomona Cultural Center. She is passionate about the intersection of physical well-being, psychology, creativity, and spirituality. 7 PM – Gallery Talk
Chris Randolph, and Lisa Dominick MS, OTR, CHT will be exploring the idea that even physical injury and recovery involves the emotions and that art is a natural and healing outlet for any kind of recovery. Art Therapist Chris Randolph and Lisa Dominick give their perspective on what Chris’s drawings express and represent. |
Friday, April 5, 2019
6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month
PETER CHENEY Peter Cheney is a painter, sculptor and performance artist who lives and works in Nyack New York. His work is primarily representational and he often works with found objects. Much of his work is ephemeral, and some, (stone carvings) are much longer lived. He has exhibited at a number of local galleries and the Rockland center for the arts. His paintings are mostly imaginary landscapes, though loosely based on Hudson River vistas.* Painted on panels of wood and found canvases, they are layered with latex paint and glazes. 7 PM – Gallery Talk
TONY HOWARTH Join us in celebrating Poetry Month with a special reading by Tony Howarth. Sharing in the celebration will also be Patterson Library, hosting an art history presentation on Hopper with Tony's poetry worked in on Wednesday, April 10. Playwright, director, former journalist, and teacher (Woodlands High School, Westchester), Tony Howarth began writing poetry in 2009 after a visit to William Wordworth’s Dove Cottage in England’s Lake District. Much of his poetry focuses on the pleasures and perplexities of growing old. Howarth's poems have been published in Tiger's Eye, The Naugatuck River Review, Chronogram, Drown in My Own Fears, Prompt Literary Magazine, and Chantrelle's Notebook. His poetry has also been published in the British magazine, Obsessed with Pipework. His chapbook (small paper pamphlet) As the Glider Glides, was published in 2013 by The Last Automat Press. SOLITUDE after Edward Hopper I want to buy that house coat of paint if it needs it, patch the roof let it linger wild and unaffected serenity, a sanctuary for an old man with arthritic fingers best of all grass growing the way it wants no neighbor with a neatly-squared sod lawn knocking on the door when you going to civilize that hayfield? step outside with grapes, a cup of tea sit on a stump hidden in the grass listen to birds celebrate another day they tell each other I’m listening serenade me, scold me, welcome me dusty road passing by bending out of sight no traffic lights, no one-way arrows only occasional cars willing to journey nowhere, down a dead-end road Copyright © 2019 by Tony Howarth |
Friday, March 1, 2019
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6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month
ARTHUR H. GUNTHER III Art Gunther is a retired editor of the Editorial Pages, columnist and staff photographer of the original Journal-News in Rockland County, New York, where he served with the newspaper for 42 years. He began his career in 1964, first in the mailroom and then in the 53 Hudson St., Nyack, newsroom, eventually working his way through various positions. Gunther wrote more than 6,000 pieces for the newspaper, including about 2,500 weekly columns. In 2006, a collection of those essays was published by The Historical Society of Rockland under the title, “The Column Rule.” As a newspaper photographer, he took more than 8,000 pictures. In retirement, he produces and exhibits abstract/primitive paintings at various galleries and art centers. He also publishes a weekly essay at thecolumnrule.com. A third-generation Rocklander, he was named literary and visual artist of the year in Rockland, 2005 and 2010, respectively. Gunther is a former trustee of the Edward Hopper House in Nyack and serves on the Rockland County Historic Preservation Board as well as in the volunteer Rockland Breakfast Program as Tuesday chief cook. 7 PM – Gallery Talk AN ARTIST'S MODES JOURNEY 2005 and 2010 Rockland Literary and Visual Artist of the year honoree Art Gunther references the influences of Hopper and his home within his vibrantly recognizable body of work: "Hopper's fascination for light and his understanding of stillness in people, object and place drive my soul:" |
Friday, February 1, 2019
6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month SALLY SAVAGE
Photographer Sally Savage is best known in Rockland County for the photo-journalism to capture the passing of time in her own small village of Piermont on the river in the Hudson Valley, recording changes since the late 1960s. Savage has exhibited, published and taught photography widely throughout the tri-state area. Savage was awarded the Rockland County Executive Arts Award: Visual Artist in 2001, and her work has twice been selected by the Rockland County Art in Public Places program. She was trained at London’s School of Printing and Graphic Arts in England, and most of her adult life has been spent in Piermont, N.Y. where she raised three children and developed her photography business. |
7-8 PM - GALLERY TALK
Spoken Word with Marcus John and the Nighthawks Join poet and musician Marcus John, along with Edward Hopper House Nighthawks in a performance of poetry in the gallery, welcoming guests to partake in this spoken word, open-mic event following select readings from Marcus John. Marcus C. John is an American born Poet/Singer/Songwriter and Hip Hop artist of Grenadian descent. Born and raised in Yonkers, NY, the youngest of seven, Marcus has always shown an interest in creative arts. Marcus started writing at the age of eight and began professionally performing at the age of sixteen. He remains a Teaching Artist and balances life as a fitness and Yoga instructor as well. A proud advocate for the LGBT community and Urban communities of America, Marcus writes to heal audiences while confronting conformity and all forms of oppression. |
Friday, January 4, 2019
6 PM – Reception for Artist of the Month
LYDA J. CRAIG Born in Arizona, Lyda was a member of the Ocean County Artists Guild and exhibited her work both there and at other venues in New Jersey. The format and content of her work was influenced by her decade of work in the natural sciences, where she often worked with very small archeological artifacts and fossils. Much of her work centers around the human figure, and in her words, “...the spatial and temporal overlap in human experience...how to define humanness and motion”. |