Following the Phonography reception at Tech Garden I scurried on down to the Delevan Center's Szozda Gallery for their reception for a landscape painting show by Syracuse artists Phil Parsons & Bob Niedzwiecki, fantastic work with all sorts of ideas + solutions to consider. And to see curator Caroline Szozda in an effort to get her interested in showing the Utica Greens Festival mural spring/summer 2013. It worked! Studio visit coming up in October, something I have hoped for since first setting foot in the space last decade.
Please take a minute to visit & bookmark the Szozda Gallery website, which can be found here:
Bob Niedzwiecki
Bob Niedzwiecki
Bob Niedzwiecki
I am a freak, title cards are important and Szozda's always have a spareness about them which I admire. As it is we're re-doing the labels for the Broad Street Gallery in Hamilton over the next few weeks and I'm pushing this as an example of how they could appear, sorta.
Bob Niedzwiecki
Bob Niedzwiecki
Bob Niedzwiecki
Bob Niedzwiecki
Bob Niedzwiecki & Phil Parsons
Phil Parsons
Phil Parsons
Phil Parsons
Phil Parsons. My favorite painting from the show! a sentiment shared by the person who generated that red dot on the title tag. Phil agreed however that the title should have been "Tonka", but the sale generated an additional commission to paint a larger scaled version for a client.
Artiste Maria Rizzo stopped down with some colleagues for a look and I insisted on a picture with painter Bob Niedzwiecki. You can do a lot worse than a picture with Maria Rizzo! so he didn't mind.
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Phil Parsons -- While the picture doesn't exactly capture it we talked about that red siding for a while and how he arrived at it. Phil told me his process starts with on-site sketches, photos and color comparisons. He then takes that information back to the studio and works out the composition, brings the piece to maybe an 80% state of completeness then returns to the site to evaluate accuracy and determine surface texturing. The work is then finalized back in the studio.
Maria Rizzo, Phil Parsons, curator Caroline Szozda and others.
Favorite picture of the set! look at the concentration.
Syracuse based artists Phil Parsons and Maria Rizzo, and yes I am thinking the same thing too: Show their paintings together -- maybe with a couple three of mine -- with trees as a common theme.
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Maria Rizzo, the ladies, and a very dapper Phil Parsons.
Syracuse artist Phil Parsons with his magnificent red barn.
Sigh ... Insisted on a picture on the way out of the very warm gallery & there wasn't time for a re-shoot. Carol had been concerned her eyes were closed. I had been concerned Phil got my bad angle and that a shirt button had popped open ... Ouch.
Pretty cool! and this officially marked the end of the summer 2012 art event season ... Not like we get a break now or something: All sorts of projects lined up for the next couple months. Can't even remember what I was doing a year ago ... Going camping maybe? No ... Shoppingtown gallery? Yeah, that was it. Another lifetime ago almost.
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