On Saturday August 3rd there is a benefit event with live auction at the Golden Foundation for the Arts at their AIR Barn. Ticketing information and a live online auction link can be found here. Best of luck to all involved, bid early and often!
Friday, August 2, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Open Studios @ The Golden Foundation May 16 2024 + Paintings by Henry Drexler @ Earlville Opera House
The Golden Foundation for the Arts
237 Bell Rd. New Berlin NY 13411
First stop was the historic Earlville Opera House in Earlville NY where painter Henry Drexler was exhibiting works - Had not been able to catch the opening but was determined to see! And my fondest thanks to the gentleman in attendance who allowed an off-hours look. Be sure to visit their gallery pages below for information on upcoming exhibits & event hours.
Earlville Opera House
18 East Main St. Earlville NY 13332
Henry Drexler, Earlville Opera House
Henry's website: https://www.drexlerart.com/
Henry Drexler, Earlville Opera House
Henry Drexler, Earlville Opera House
Top: "Parhelia Sunset - View from County Road 10"
Bottom: "Sailboat Race on Cazenovia Lake", both acrylics.
Henry Drexler, Earlville Opera House
"Child's Play", acrylics. And my vintage space toy collecting eye saw "Vintage Junk Drawer Lot on eBay: Toys Ephemera Books You Name It - Free Shipping US Buyers!" Any space figures in there?? Plastic rockets? Maybe a little wind-up tank?? Gimmie gimmie!
Henry Drexler, Earlville Opera House
"The First Chenango County Fair", acrylics.
Excellent. Mom would like the combination of gowns and cows.
Hey! Good time to show up, all three artists doing media with Emma G. Will admit to showing up in a "mood" that day: I needed to see more painting like Henry's, with a focus on figurative subjects with identity. And content. I wanted to see content, pictures telling stories and infused with meaning via startling use of materials and experimental solutions for painting surfaces. I needed to see exactly the art these three had produced during their residencies.
Thank You!!
Amra's website: http://amrakhan.com/
Instagram: @khanamra
bAmra Fatima Khan
Oh my. Yes, this was what I needed to see.
Amra Fatima Khan
"What's up with the fishes?" he unknowingly asked. First clue is their color, which matches the outfit the (artist) in the chair. No he is not feeding a multitude, he is making conquests, regarding women as things to consume and/or toss aside. He is a metaphor for the artist's native phallocentric culture practicing the routine oppression of women. He is also unfinished, more detailing needs to be done, though I was impressed by the similarity between his coloring and a certain sewage texture from one of the video games I used to play. Am pretty sure that's the idea.
Amra Fatima Khan
A self portrait reacting to the guy with the fishes. She has had enough and looks it. You have me at the folds of her sari, unfished as the work may be. Powerful direct and the color makes it epic.
Amra Fatima Khan
Moss experiments using the miraculous GAC. I was envious of how they are still green.
Amra Fatima Khan
Amra Fatima Khan
More artwork that made me think of vintage toys.
Amra Fatima Khan, and I want that.
Amra Fatima Khan
Amra Fatima Khan
Amra Fatima Khan
Counter-Alterpiece? With pomegranate as Forbidden Fruit, and men playing with their snakes.
Out of my league here and I know it - Please go visit her website to learn more.
Instagram @khanamra
Preetika's website: https://prajgariah.com/
Instagram: @prajgariah
Preetika Rajgariah
Surface is yoga mats, overall size on the order of 60x80 inches. I looked at it and thought about a breeze blowing through. Air moves through those forms, which are strikingly formed with both acrylics and pastel. The choice of colors is almost sculptural, and the artists' identity as LGBTQ woman is celebrated with forceful conviction.
Preetika Rajgariah
Study work. I love study works.
Preetika Rajgariah
Work is unfinished, the figurative element still blending with the underpainting. Am fascinated by her thrown shadows motif, the figure almost serving as a collage overlay defying the rigid space the shadows suggest.
Yoga mats. Just making sure! I'm terrible, have to peer at everything, snitch all the good ideas. In this case the idea of what to paint on and why. Preetika's choice of yoga mats is deliberate and it wasn't just because she ran out of canvas. Has to do with what yoga mats are for & who uses them.
Preetika Rajgariah
More toys! I'd not even seen them before babbling to the artist about how I'd been painting on boxes and she gestured thusly. And spoke of how we are drawn to blocks as a connection to childhood, and how we will inevitably play with them and build things. They also reminded me of lunch boxes, another collectible bit of ephemera that I'm not allowed to even look at eBay for - Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox with thermos, $650. Not Allowed, though the idea of painting my own had never dawned before. And that's why you go to these things.
Preetika Rajgariah
Her motif! I like how it defines space and gives little working patches to manage rather than a splayed out single surface to finesse all at once. Also looks like a Piet Mondrian lunchbox.
Preetika Rajgariah
Preetika Rajgariah
Preetika Rajgariah
LOL WHAT ... ???
LOL WHAT ... ???
Preetika Rajgariah
Am thinking these serve as a sketchpad? Forgot to ask. Go to her webs and find out more.
Instagram: @prajgariah
The artist and others, most artists as well. We go to learn and encounter unexpected use of materials that we'd never though of on our own. Thank You!!
David's website: https://davidnajibkasir.com/
Instagram: @davidnajibkasir
David's work was overwhelming and it took me almost two weeks to figure out what to say: The content is powerful beyond words and the level of finesse on display a marvel to behold. The surfaces are plyboard which he cuts to shape, then` paints the figures + latticework simultaneously, producing a push/pull effect that is beguiling. It is exquisite artwork straddling the divide between content and form with perfect calculation. My fondest wish is that viewers of the news programming which some of the images seem drawn from get to witness David's work in person and be confronted by its humanity.
David Najib Kasir
David Najib Kasir
David Najib Kasir
David Najib Kasir
David Najib Kasir
Stencils for the gridwork patterns. Guy is a genius.
I always look for the footsteps that show the artist's journey while undergoing their residency experiences. Did not aksk, but am presuming that's the mass of tape from the stenciling sessions. We show it not to reveal the magician's tricks, but to better understand the precision of the painting and the planning which takes place. Which reminded me of stained glass window construction, an art form I've always been fascinated by.
David Najib Kasir
David Najib Kasir
Instagram: @davidnajibkasir
Next Open Studios Thursday June 20th 5pm to 7pm!
To find out more about the program including how to apply for your turn on the swings go to
Caz
Hey! It's Henry's painting!
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Made in Paint XI @ SAG Gallery, Golden Artist Colors, through June 21 2024
The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery
Golden Artist Colors
188 Bell Rd New Berlin NY
Below be a virtual stream of consciousness Mind-Meld of the show using a minute from the event & the images seen below. My apologies to any artists whose work I missed: Place was packed! and that ruled. My first art event since October, delighted to have been able to be present.
Be sure to watch, that's a good one. Runs four minutes.
Carol Prusa, and yes I did in fact come all the way from Syracuse to make sure this thing was as awesome in person as it looked online. Reminded me of the surface designs from ALIEN (1979) crossed with Aubrey Beardley caligraphic drawings. Seriously.
VERDICT: It looked even better in person. Show runs through June 21st.
GO.
Carol Prusa portrait by Susan Hoffer.
Jemele Wright Sr. portrait by Susan Hoffer.
Jamele Wright, Sr.
Emily Gherard
Laura Columb, and my brain delighted at being lost in there for a few minutes.
Laura Columb
Debra Weisberg
I believe it is (or based on) a garment? possibly intended to be worn.
Jan Dickey.
My mind read them as sculptural forms which just happen to be flat.
Haoyun Erin Zhao
The term Sky Saw came to mind. A saw with which one cuts the sky.
Dina Abdulkarim
Genna Howard
Excellent.
Natasha Campbell
Perky Edgerton
Yes!
Deborah Zlotsky
Lynne McDaniel, love the proportions.
Miguel Arzabe
iFone apologizes to the Artist & Curator for the odd angles here and on other pix: Both works are perfectly rectangular and the show hung with exceptional care.
Emma Roche, and yes it's Senor Beavis.
That's pretty cool, heheh. And I'm outta here.
Next Open Studios session for the AIR program 5pm-7pm on Thursday May 16th!
On the way home & finally found the nerve to stop and get a picture of my favorite Madison County barn. Just outside of Earlville on Rt.62 by the Chenango River crossing.
That blue rectangle just under the 62. Next time there's folks outside I'll stop and ask some questions. And beg that they never re-paint it.
That's a study in red. Syracuse area painter Phil Parsons comes to mind:
Is that the same barn he paints? or one of them?
Caz