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These are small works created on NYC subway metro cards to be featured in an annual show created by Michael Kagan and Jean-pierre Roy at the High line stages, opening Sept. 16th at 441 W. 14th St in NYC.
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART & GALLERY POULSEN - GRADUATES 2017 →
It is with great pleasure that we kick off the fall season by introducing ”Graduates 2017” – an annual recurring exhibition concept we have been looking forward to presenting. For the third consecutive year, we have carefully selected and handpicked six razor-sharp, talented graduates from the renowned New York Academy of Art (NYAA). The high demand for the latest and most innovative trends emerging on New York's vibrant art scene is increasing and our collaboration with NYAA gives us the opportunity to announce six promising young artists within our own curatorial framework from which their talent can really blossom.
In close collaboration with Peter Drake (Dean of Academic Affairs) and Wade Schuman (Director of Painting) from NYAA, we have invited Benjamin Craig, Jessica VanDenburg, Jorge Vascano, Lilla Dent, Rebecca Orcutt and Sarah Szabo to conquer the Brown Meatpacking District with well-crafted perspectives, solid color palettes and clever figments. Not only does "Graduates 2017" show an extract of what is trending in New York right now, but also, six different visual realms merge together and unfold before our eyes. A mutual underlying melancholy draws us in as well as urge us to enter seemingly recognizable scenes from everyday life. But underneath the surface, something is smoldering.
Contrasting and polarized relationships are ongoing themes in the exhibition. Particularly naturally occurring contrasts are the main premise of Benjamin Craig's two pieces, where the manual and intellectual, the clear and the dark, predictability and arbitrary arise from a subtle veil, covering a brutish raw story, left for the viewer to decipher.
Jessica VanDenburg and Lilla Dent both operate with a temporal approach, characterized by nostalgia and despair. VanDenburg’s Americana series, created by iconic and symbolic American images, are memories fused with brand name image of an emerging American culture of the time. The working class is no longer seen as a heroic monumental figure, but a struggling social class set against a post war time era. What happened to the American dream?
Dent's magical, nostalgic, even uncanny space, transfers us back to our childhood bedroom - simultaneously of great familiarity and dawning strangeness, as we distance ourselves from the past. But do we ever fully leave it behind?
The focal point of Jorge Vascano's series of portraits is a persistent curiosity and fascination with the beautiful complexity that comprise a human being. Through a variety of expressions, materials and personalities, he explores the ambiguous inner qualities that make us unique. His portraits become personalized channels through which both Vascano and we can find traits of our own reflected in theirs.
Rebecca Orcutt’s five oil paintings depict absurdity and failures of daily life, particularly in the relationships between individuals. In different pathetic situations, these figures seem destined to fail, but they still try to find meaning and therefore sink into a hopeless infinite waiting position.
In Sarah Szabo's canvases we continue to experience people placed in isolated environments. With silky brush strokes, Szabo masters to create a surreal landscape of visualized science, in a color scale that make them appear divinely delicate.
Bid a warm welcome to our six emerging talents from The Big Apple and grab the opportunity to follow them right from the start!
The exhibition consists of 16 dazzling paintings on linen, panel and metal sheathing.
The artists will be present at the opening on Friday August 18th from 5-7pm.
Contact the gallery at info@gallerypoulsen.com or tel. + 45 33 33 93 96 for further information.
Historic Landscape through Modern Eyes Exhibit
Re-envisioning Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill
My work "Sagamore Hill Field", Pastel on paper, is one of the artworks selected to be on display at the Old Orchard Museum. The artwork was selected to correspond to a historical photo of the Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. In part of celebrating the Centennial of the National Park Service
September 23, 2016 - January 15, 2017.
Old Orchard Museum
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
20 Sagamore Hill Road
Oyster Bay, NY
Our Nation’s Splendor: Celebrating the National Park Service Centennial
All Quiet on the Harbor is part of the exhibition featured at the St. Joseph College Board Room Gallery from August 28 – October 7, 2016, as part of a group of works to celebrate the Centennial of the National Park Service.
Curated by Stacey Weir
Adjunct Lecturer, Art Department
Curator, St. Joseph's Board Room Gallery
St. Joseph's College
155 West Roe Blvd.
Patchogue, NY 11772
cell: 516-808-8154
Find Your Park Juried Art Exhibit: Works Selected
On The Way . . . The Great Southbay
Pastel on Paper, 24 x 18 in.
FIND YOUR PARK: NPS Centennial Art Exhibition
Fire Island National Seashore
So pleased to announce that 2 of my works were selected for the upcoming show for the National Park Service Centennial Art Exhibition, highlighting Fire Island National Seashore.
Chasing The Wave
Pastel on paper, 9 x 6 in.
Exhibition Dates: July 31–September 5, 2016
The patchogue-Watch Hill Ferry Terminal,
150 West Ave., Patchogue, NY 11772
Reception: Thursday, August 25, 6–8 pm
Curated by Dawn Lee
The National Park Service turns 100 on August 25, 2016. This exhibition is open to visual artists working in media including: drawing, painting, photography,mixed media, textiles, possibly sculpture and installation work depending on available space and display options. Submitted work should reflect thoughts, perceptions, and/or emotions evoked by experiences with any of our wondrous national parks.