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GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL - 2008
Art World to Converge on Garnerville, New York
Record crowds from the Tri-state region are expected to attend
this year’s
GAGA Arts Festival at the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center.
Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th
11 AM to 6 PM [ rain or shine]
Admission is $5 - children under 14 accompanied by an adult are
free.
Open Studios - Art Exhibitions
- Children’s Workshops - Short Film Series
Dance - Delectable Foods - Live Music
This year’s exhibitions include:
OUTSIDE IN - 2008 Outsider Art
Expo -Curated by James Tyler
The paintings and sculpture of fifty self-taught ‘outsiders’
and American folk artists will be on display at the GAGA Arts
Center as a part of this year’s GAGA Arts Festival. Exhibition
will include new works by: Matt Sesow, Bob Justin, Mike Conner,
Ed Kirkland, and Ross Brodar.
This is the second year that GAGA will be featuring outsider
art. Over fifteen thousand square of gallery space will be made
available. "It’s just a natural fit for GAGA. People
loved last year's Outside In show, so we are making it even bigger
and better for 2008.”says Executive Director James Tyler.
This year GAGA is being joined by HAI of New York City. The HAI
exhibit will include works by renowned outsiders: RAY HAMILTON,
MERCEDES HAMILTON, ADAM HINES, IRENE PHILLIPS, CARL GREENBERG,
OSCAR BROWN, DAVID KIME, JOE SIMMS, MATHEW ROBERT GOAD X, EVERETT
BALL, DAVID BLAISDELL, JIM BLOOM , JEREMY BURLESSON, JULIUS BUSTAMANTE,
HARPER DEERING HAIR, GAETANA MENNA, FRANCES “LADY SHALIMAR”
MONTAGUE, GILDA LERNER
[ The OUTSIDE IN - 2008 exhibition will continue thru July 13th.
Gallery Hours are Friday 3-7, Saturday 1-6, and Sunday 1-4]
Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center
55 W. Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY, 10923 - www.gagaartscenter.org
- tel. 845-947-7108
Additional attractions for 2008:
- Farmageden - Artist Mike Conner's quirky installation about
the true nature of agri-business.
- Welder's Jamboree - Lee Tribe, Bill Hochhausen, and friends
will present a creative performance in welded steel.
- GAGA Creekside - Grand opening of GAGA's new sculpture park.
- Rivertown Film- short film series and student films.
- Marta Renzi Modern Dance
- Student Art Show.
SOHO Reborn in the Hudson Valley
“This event is like no other art exhibition.” says
GAGA President Robin Rosenberg, “Our complex of buildings
is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their
art for a living. The public gets a chance to see museum quality
art, while wandering the back alleys and alcoves of a historic,
Civil War era textile mill. While considering a possible acquisition
for their art collection, they can enjoy the food music, and live
demonstrations of a variety of artisans. The GAGA Arts Festival
has become a hot destination point drawing nearly 5000 visitors
from the Tri State region including many who make the short journey
up the Hudson from New York City.”
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
GAGA ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL SPRING SHOW
“THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ARTISTIC DIVERSITY:
A CELEBRATION OF 4 YEARS OF THE CRIT GROUP”
March 29 – May 4 2008
Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-5 PM
Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29 5-8 PM
Main Gallery
GAGA ARTS CENTER
55 Railroad Avenue
Garnerville, NY 10920
845-947-7108
The exhibit will feature the diverse works of nine exceptional
local artists whose critiques of one another’s work during
studio visits has resulted in this fascinating and inspirational
show of shared growth and sensibilities. The media ranges from
reverse paintings on glass, to ceramic and paper sculptures, to
works on birch panels. Familiar media images, playful creatures
and works that explore gender and human development and past and
present form the imagery of the exhibit. The artists include Joanne
Howard (Mrs. Jonathan Demme), two GAGA-based artists Pam Marchin
and Chris Randolph (co-curator), Lynn Stein (Exhibition Director,
Rockland Center for the Arts), Joel Carreiro, Polly King, John
Rosis, Jackie Shatz (co-curator) and Laurie Steinhorst (Adjunct
Professor, Westchester Community College). The artists have been
meeting, supporting and critiquing each other’s works for
the past 4 years.
GARNERVILLE,
NY–-
A live public auction of butterfly-themed works of art is scheduled
for Sunday, November 18, at the Garnerville Arts and Industrial
Center,
55
W. Railroad Avenue, Garnerville,
NY,
from 2-5 p.m. Preview, reception, and meet the artists will begin at 2:00 p.m.
The live auction will start at 3:15
p.m. It will be a festive event with music provided by Dick
Voigt & The Big Apple Jazz Band.
The featured vineyard will be the Bouchaine Winery and cheeses
will be donated by Laraia’s Cheese Company. Admission is
$25
To receive an invitation to the auction,
or request a catalogue of the artwork, please contact Toni Mikulka,
at (845) 634-4974
or tmikulka@hospiceofrockland.org.
Proceeds from the auction will support the work of UHR
The butterfly-themed art exhibition, has toured various locations
in Rockland
County.
Twenty artists participated by creating a butterfly-themed work
of art.
Participating artists include: Eric Laxman,
Paul Tappenden, Natasha Rabin, Rosemary Aiello, Deborah Alcala,
Mary Bianco, Peter Ceccon, Jennie Chien, Joanna Dickey, Betsy
Franco Feeney, Marcia Gerardi, Mansheng Wang, Stephanie
Reiter, Carl Rattner, Jene Nickford, Sister Adele Myers, Alan
Levine, Leslie Kenney, Polly King, and Lynne Kalish.
Each of their pieces is a unique and original variation
of the butterfly theme. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture,
pottery, jewelry, stained glass, linoleum block prints, and photography.
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United Hospice of Rockland (UHR), now marking
20 years of service to the community, serves as a resource for
palliative care, bereavement support, and information about end
of life issues. Founded in 1988, United Hospice of Rockland is
accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations and meets the Standards for Charity Accountability
of the Better Business Bureau, Inc. UHR's mission is to enable patients with advanced illnesses
to live in comfort, with dignity, and surrounded by those they
love. UHR provides care, comfort and improved quality of life
to individuals and their families and offers compassionate support
to members of the community who have experienced the loss of a
loved one. For more information, call 845
634-4974, write to United Hospice of Rockland, 11
Stokum Lane, New
City, NY
10956,
visit www.hospiceofrockland.org
or fax to 845 634-7549.
In 1996, pianist Dick Voigt formed
a new band called The Big Apple Jazz Band. The band has featured
such players as Joe Licari, Ed Polcer, Warren Vaché, Tom Artin,
Herb Gardner, Randy Reinhart, Dave Hofstra, Steve Little and many
others. Dick Voigt’s Big Apple Jazz Band is “traditional
jazz at its finest, played by New York-area players who really
know how
it’s
supposed to go!”
Bouchaine
Vineyards’ proprietors, Gerret and Tatiana Copeland celebrate
their 25th anniversary in 2006 as proprietors of Bouchaine
Vineyards. Established in the site of
the oldest continually operated winery in the Carneros, Bouchaine
Vineyards is situated in the southern end of the Napa
Valley.
Located just north of the San
Pablo
and San
Francisco
Bays,
the vineyard is directly influenced by the marine layer that rolls
in each night. The shallow clay loam soils
are perfectly suited to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and Bouchaine
was groundbreaking in the production of these varietals in the
early 80’s. Their estate vines were replanted in 2000 on
a rock and gravel, clay and loam slope that is destined to offer
Pinot with depth and power, grace and elegance.
Laraia's
Cheese Company has been a family owned business since 1979. They
manufacture handmade mozzarella products and also carry a wide
variety of Aritisinal Cheeses. All of their products are handmade
with only the finest whole milk curds available. Laraia's
Cheese products can be found in fabulous restaurants, gourmet
shops and better supermarkets across the country. Laraia’s
Cheese Co is located on 5
Seeger Dr. in Nanuet N.Y. 10954
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Large scale photographic
works are a genre in their own right and the GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville,
NY, with its
6000 square feet of open exhibition space is one of the few
galleries in the northeast large enough to mount a group exhibit of this scope. LOOKING
AT THE BIG PICTURE
is the title of the large-scale group photography exhibit
to open at GAGA this April and the first of this scale to occur
in the region.
The
show, organized by photographer
and curator *Marcia Gerardi, will be exhibiting a broad selection of images from ten accomplished and emerging
photographers, most of whom have not
exhibited in GAGA before. The
exhibit will attest to the visual power and impact a group show
of large scale works will produce. If there is a theme in the curatorial
process it would be in how each photographer sees the “Big Picture”
and uses their camera in expressing their relationship to and
perspective of our modern global environment and exploding popular
culture.
The
artists' diverse interpretations of these issues are expressed
in fundamentally different ways from the down-to-earth functional
(literal) to whimsical leaps of fantasy and total abstraction.
These are not just blow-ups; these images were incepted to be
large; on a cinematic scale, and they convey a common ground here
in their passion and unique perspectives. This is the “Big Picture” and the camera becomes a tool or
perhaps a weapon against the constant onslaught of our mass culture.
Among the ten photographers selected to exhibit will be the newest work
of acclaimed artists *Grace Knowlton and *Michael Zansky
who are extensively exhibited and collected in major museums throughout
the world including, respectively, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art and the Whitney Museum.
In
Gallery “B” noted photographer Ned Harris will
be exhibiting a large installation of his photography including
three-dimensional dioramas. This super-sized production will focus
on the people of New York City against the backdrop of the city
from the 60’s to now titled; New
York Street Theater.
April
1- May 6, 2007
Artists
Reception: Friday April 6, 6-9pm.
Featuring award winning musician Joe Delia and the Joe Delia Jazz
Trio
Gallery
Hours: Call or go on-line at www.gagaartscenter.org
Location and Contact Information
GAGA is located at 55
Railroad Avenue, Garnerville,
NY 10923
in the Village of West
Haverstraw. For directions and additional
information, visit our website at www.gagaartscenter.org, call 845-947-7108,
or email GAGA@garnervillearts.com.
Selected Bios
Grace
Knowlton is an award-winning artist who has traveled freely
through various art forms, methods and materials. Her work includes
photographs, drawings, paintings and sculpture made from both
natural and synthetic materials. She has exhibited extensively
and her work is represented in many public collections, including
the Smith College
Museum, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the
Newark Museum,
the Victoria and
Albert Museum
and others.
Michael
Zansky, a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, exhibits worldwide,
most recently at Fieldgate Gallery
in London, Konsthall in Stockholm, Art Basel in Basel and ARCO in Madrid. He is represented
in the collections of The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum
of Art, The Berkeley Museum of Art and Prudential Life New York, among others. Zansky’s numerous
exhibitions include: White Columns, Universal Concepts Unlimited,
The Norton Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Drawing
Center and SooBac Gallery,Minneapolis.
Ned
Harris is well-known
in Rockland County for his skills as a photographer and as a curator for fine art exhibitions.
His passion for photographing the dynamics of social change reflected
in the streets of the New York City, as well as the contrasting natural scenes of rural
Rockland over the past 40 years has resulted in the creation
of an immense body of work which led to the commission of an award-winning
book, Form and Texture,
published by Van Nostrand-Reinhold.
Harris was long time Chairman of Exhibitions for the Rockland Center for the Arts and while there established the Center
for Photography. He has lectured and taught photography at the
Visual Art Center, the Art Directors Club and Parsons School of Design
in NYC. His photos are collected and exhibited widely including
galleries in New
York City
as well the Corcoran in Washington and most recently at Yale University.
*About
The Curator
Marcia
Gerardi is an accomplished commercial and fine art photographer.
Establishing a studio in the Chelsea District of Manhattan, Gerardi
created images for many Fortune 500 accounts such as Revlon, Avon and Warner Communications. Her work has appeared in Vogue,
Architectural Digest, W., Elle, House and Garden, National Geographic
and more. She was instrumental in the formation of the Garnerville
Arts and Industrial Exchange and continues to help promote and
organize the annual GAGA arts festivals. She has also worked as
a photojournalist for Gannett Publications. Gerardi’s work is in private collections and has been in
numerous solo and group shows including The Museum of Modern Art.
Gerardi’s curatorial experience includes group exhibitions
for Rockland Center for the Arts, West
Nyack, NY, Imaging
Arts Photography Gallery, Tappan, NY and GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville, NY.
www.gagaartscenter.org,
call 845-947-7108, or email GAGA@garnervillearts.com.
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Amistad Exhibition
and Artifacts at GAGA October 2006
Event Date: 10/1/2006
End Date: 10/31/2006
Location: GAGA @ Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center
The Freedom Schooner Amistad will be at the Haverstraw Marina
in West Haverstraw on October 7th - 10th and again on October
22nd and 23rd. In conjuction with the docking of the Amistad,
its accompanying exhibit which documents the history of the historic
slave ship will be shown at GAGA along with African masks, baskets,
quilt replicas including symbols of the underground railroad,
and other artifacts. Call 845-947-7108 for more information.
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GAGA is pleased to
present "Petroglyphs of Rapanui" the first comprehensive
collection of petroglyph rubbings to be exhibited in the "outside"
world...
Event Date: 3/9/2006
End Date: 10/1/2006
Location: Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, Bldg. 19
The only known comprehensive collection of petroglyph
rubbings from Easter Island, the civilation that created the monolithic
stone statues, the Moai, in on exhibit for the first in GAGA.
The exhibit will remain open through September by appointment.
Please call 845-947-7108 or 845-371-2100.
Santi and Susan Hitorangi made these rubbings while
filming a documentary for National Geographic on Rapanui, Easter
Island. The images carved into bedrock tell the story of past
generations. The rubbings of these images include extinct dolphins,
cosmic images, various fish, birds and boats, a goddess of the
sea and other anthroponorphic representations. Rapanui means the
"navel of the world." Viewing the images has been said
to connect us with the umbilical cord of the world.
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Annual GAGA Arts Festival
to be held on June 10th & 11th, 2006 will feature "Once
A Tree", a juried fine wood furniture and sculpture show
sponsored by Sutherland Welles, Ltd. and the Garnerville
Arts and Industrial Center. On display in the Dye Works Gallery,
"Once A Tree" will feature the work of some of the finest
woodworkers in the Northeast. Visitors can appreciate the craftsmanship
of country tables to Adirondack furnishings to wood sculpture
to old English style cabinetry. Festival-goers can also watch
wood finishing demonstrations and observe the raw tree planks
from which the furniture is made.
For jurying and application information, please
go to "News and Events" on this website.
For more information about GAGA Arts Festival 2006,
please go to "News and Events" on this website.
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