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Gallery at Mohegan Manor
Stop by at Mohegan Manor for many great Summer specials from our chefs and Robert Mondavi Wine Tasting! Check our newly decorated outside seating Deck! AND MORE….
And new Art Gallery at Club Sushi and Steaks put together by our gallery curator LindaBigness
Mohegan Manor | 58 Oswego Street | Baldwinsville | NY | 13027
Work on View in May 2012
New work on view at the Nan Miller Gallery in Rochester, NY
- Color Dance in the Main Gallery
New Series of Work Debut
My lastest series of abstract oil paintings “UnWritten Words I” debuts at the Celebration of the Arts opening Tuesday May 8th, 7:30 to 9:30 PM Reception
the Celebration of the Arts 2012
May 8, 2012 Patrons and Artists Opening Reception: 7:30pm 42th Celebration of the Arts May 9-13, 2012
New Show at Nan Miller Gallery
Lastest work of large scale abstracts featured in a group exhibit at the Nan Miller Gallery in Rochester, NY. See the Nan Miller Gallery Web site for more information.
AN EVENING IN NEW BERLIN
Art Travels with Linda Bigness
Well I’m living large, at least pretty large for Central New York, and last night was exceptional. When a girl from the other side of tracks hob nobs around with the famous and want to be famous and can carry on somewhat of a conversation with very learned scholarly people you have to realize how large that actually is. I felt pretty happy last night shaking the hand of Larry Poons, the artist honored last evening with a wonderful exhibit of his work “Velocity”. He was gracious and signed my poster print that I had picked up at the entrance of Golden’s Gallery. I told him “I can see the love in your work”. Now that sounded pretty stupid….but let me explain. As I cruised around the gallery falling into these massive textural pieces using tons of Golden acrylic paint and mediums I could truly feel the intensity and involvement of this artist with his work. I genuinely felt he loved what he was doing and loved the material he was working with. I think I must have been right on as later when I took a break to read Karen Wilkin’s “Larry Poons: Five Decades”, (1) the introduction essay in the show’s accompanying catalog, my feelings were confirmed. She writes “Despite Poons’s many changes in direction over the past five decades powerful constants dominates work. He has always exalted color and always turned a wealth of hues into singular, richly inflected, confrontational expanses. He has always celebrated the physical character of paint – its abitlity to be thick or thin, liquid or resistant. Perhaps the most potent constants in Poons’s approach are his life-long questioning of assumptions about what a painting can be and is implicit faith in the primacy of direct, wordless experience, both in making and responding to works of art. “If we could only make paintings that look as good as the paint,” Poons once said. He has.” Wow, I love the way she writes and talks as I again I had the really nice pleasure of engaging in a conversation with her, not realizing at the time who she really was, but there I was and being me I jumped right in. She too was gracious as I babbled on a little about art, and a little about women artists, you know small talk but she seemed interested in what I was saying as I told her that years and years ago I attended one of her seminars. At one point in our conversation I mentioned my studies of “Women in Art” with Dr. Oppler, in the seventies at Syracuse University, and I hit a chord. Feminism was the operative word here, and Karen Wilkin has a very clear opinion about that. For her and I quite agree or concur, artists are artists and women artists should not be categorized. And it has been a problem that so many artists are categorized by their race, sex, or human condition. Well she moved on to talk to someone else and my blond head was reeling. Of course, it was much later in the evening when I had a chance to read the exhibit’s catalog that I realized I was speaking to a very informed scholarly person. Another WOW moment for me, I sincerely liked her though, she was artfully spunky.
As the evening progressed I spent time talking to many old friends and of course popping my wisdoms to the likes of Steven Kern, Director of the Everson Museum, an art collector or two, and of course Mark Golden. I’ve known Mark for years and remember, as a much younger artist, how I would visit the old Golden factory and buy discounted paint and get my “free” samples. Over the years Golden has played such an important role in our artist community. Many, many stories can be told and I’m sure Mark could tell the best of them.
I think it is important to acknowledge the wonderful people who inhabit our art world and make it a better place for artists, lovers of art, and the children that will someday experience the gifts of art left behind. A really big thank you goes out to the Golden family and their many gifts to the art world.
Wrapping up the evening our little entourage headed out into the rural farmlands of New Berlin, over the rolling hills heading towards another delight La Petite Maison. WOW!
(1) Five Decades c 2011 KarenWilkin This essay was originally published in The Hopkins Review 4.4 (Fall2011)
Collected Works
New work at the Nan Miller Gallery
Celebrating the Arts
Art is Music and Music is Art
First Friday open gallery reception: November 5th 2010 6-9PM
New work opening at the Nan Miller Gallery in Rochester
Nan Miller Gallery
invites you to attend
Celebrating the Arts
3450 Winton Place
Rochester, NY
(585) 292-1430 or info@nanmillergallery.com
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