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DOORS & WINDOWS: September 10 – October 28, 2017
ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: September 16th,  6-8pm
CLOSING EVENT: October 28,   2-3pm

Windows and doors are usually just for peering and transversing. In Gallery35 at Community’s newest exhibit, they also function as an inspiration for artwork!

For the gallery’s opening exhibit of the 2017/2018 season—Doors and Windows—member artists have created work related to the theme that is both literal and imaginary.

Yolande Heljnen’s small dramatic paintings of windows were completed during a travel grant in 2016 in France where she worked mostly out of a sketchbook.

Work by (l-r) Yolande Heljnen, Diane Martin, Beth Barry, Lois Ross, Virginia Asman

Making use of her own garden flowers at a time when she was teaching 5 days per week and only had weekends to paint, Diane Martin created Blue Spring Window. She worked each week with a different piece of stem, leaf, or flower observed from life. Since she didn’t know what might be available to use from the garden each week, she simply let “chance” compose the image over time. The architectural pediment at the top derives from memories of Italian 16th century architecture.

Within Beth Barry’s abstract acrylic painting Green Door, perhaps there lies “that secret it’s hiding”!

The adobe wall surrounding many Santa Fe homes usually features an entry door through which visitors must proceed. Using a little imagination—plus original and antique photographs—Virginia Asman’s  series Time Warped Welcome explores the possibility of “characters” of the Old West greeting the viewer. Come visit with Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull and Kateri Tekakwitha (the first Native-American saint)!

Also in the fanciful vein is Lois Ross’s collage Serenade Beneath My Window.

Come see these and the work of other gallery artists including Susan Demmet, Teresa Hommel,
Cari Clare, Ellen Mandelbaum, Patricia Garbarini, Denise Fryburg and Ingrid Sletten.

Our gallery is now officially known as Gallery35 at Community to reflect our relationship with Community Church of New York, Unitarian-Universalist. Gallery35 has been operating as an artist collective since 2004 with member/exhibitors from both the church and the larger community including several artists from Murray Hill, our neighborhood.

We are also presenting a new “unofficial” art show this summer! Although exhibits are normally scheduled from September through June, we have hung a surprise “pop-up” show for the summer months of July and August. To enliven the gallery walls which are usually bare during this time of year, we gathered and hung many of the colorful exhibit posters from the past several years.  Accompanying the posters is an exhibit of art recently shown at the gallery by member artists including Ellen Mandelbaum, Teresa Hommel, Valerie Lynch and John Connors.

We hope visitors and groups meeting at the gallery enjoy our new summer look!

March 19–June 10, 2017
Opening Reception: April 22   6-8pm
Closing Reception: June 10  6-8pm

When 18 artists are asked to interpret “scapes,” you can be assured that there will be at least 18 widely divergent pieces of art hanging in the gallery for our final exhibit of 2016-2017!

Karen Fitzgerald is showing an early tondo piece, Sea Calls To The Sky, gilded with 12k gold in the center, with a wider rim of dyed Dutch gold.  A thin veil of blues sits between the gold and a copper, linear drawing of stylized cloud forms.  The piece is titled from a line in a poem by Mary Oliver, in which the sea and the sky call back and forth to each other.

Nostalgia directs Lois Ross’ painting of a barn in Woodstock, NY nestled on a grassy lawn near a forest.

Pat Garbarini used composites of digital photographs to create her dream worlds—Into Serenity and Dreamscape I.

The scenic southwest is again represented in Virginia Asman’s triptych, Filly Freedom—a fanciful depiction of wild horses roaming on an idyllic New Mexican landscape.

John Devaney’s Summer Park continues an exploration of figures interacting with land- and cityscapes, with both elements defined by their gestures and sense of movement.

Of Denise Fryburg’s Said the Tree, she explains “Many aspects of nature come alive when they pose for the artist! This scene takes place in early summer at the lake in Central Park.”

Ellen Mandelbaum is showing travel water colors. “If I see something beautiful it is my greatest pleasure to try to ‘get it.’  I look hard and try to capture it with paint and paper to make it into art.”

Cari Clare’s most unusual piece—Getting Free—shows a person crawling (an eSCAPE!) with one foot still in a spider web. It is made of hemp twine over metal on board. Don’t miss this one!

Additional artists exhibiting in SCAPES include:  Beth Barry, Ingrid Sletten, John Connors, Kevin H Maxwell, Lorena Pachón, Marilyn Boddewyn, Rick Perez, Susan Harris-Demmet, Teresa Hommel and Valerie Lynch.

l-r: Ellen Mandelbaum, Autumn Vision; Karen Fitzgerald, Sea Calls to the Sky; Beth Barry, Primeval Forest; Pat Garbarini, Into Serenity; Denise Fryburg, Said the Tree; John Devaney, Summer Park

Invitational: January 28-March 18, 2017
Artists’ Reception: February 18   6-8pm
Closing Event: March 18  3-5pm

A very special exhibit has arrived at Gallery35! The outstanding work of our talented artists that normally adorns the gallery walls has been doubled! Thirteen gallery artists have invited 13 guest artists to combine their artwork in this new exhibit fittingly titled Invitational! That’s 26 artists in all!

Expect to see a great variety of subjects rendered in a full range of artistic media. Of special interest is the visionary culture work of one of our guests, Jeremy Leggend, whose art is inspired by geometry, the cosmos and nature, mixed with certain aspects of graffiti.

Gallery35 Exhibiting Artists: Beth Barry, Marilyn Boddewyn, Cari Clare, John Connors, Susan Harris-Demmet, Karen Fitzgerald, Denise Fryburg, Teresa Hommel, Valerie Lynch, Ellen Mandelbaum, Rick Perez, Lois Ross, Ingrid Sletten

Invited Exhibiting Artists: Carol Summar, Dan Jay, Florina Sbircea, Geoffrey Gneuhs, Jeremy Leggend, Kara Peer, Laura Abella, Lorena Pachón, Malcolm Varon, Stephen C. Charles, Susan Aranoff, Yanka Cantor, Wendy Moss

There will be two opportunities to see the art and meet all of the artists: at a formal artists’ reception on February 18th and at a closing event on March 18. Come and enjoy refreshments at either or both! You may also contact the gallery (gallery35ny@gmail.com) to make an appointment for a private showing.

Works On Paper: Dec 4, 2016 – Jan 28, 2017
Artists’ Reception: December 10th, 6-8pm

Imagine artwork created using many different media and involving widely diverse subjects but all rendered on one surface—paper! Such is the work of fourteen artists featured in Gallery35’s third exhibit of the 2016-2017 season, Works on Paper.

For this exhibit, Teresa Hommel has chosen to show photographs—some depicting still life containing fruit and others dramatically detailing NYC architecture.

Karen Fitzgerald’s pieces are both gilded with copper grounds.  This gorgeous metal offers a distinctive energy and coloration unlike any other precious metal.  She used oil paint in thin washes to create imagery that is often abstract, but always evocative.

Phyllis Malinow, combining multicolored woodcuts with pastels and chine colle, has printed one of her pieces on Japanese Kochi paper.

Using a slightly different technique which includes original drawings, Virginia Asman is still exhibiting work inspired by her current abode in the southwest—a new series entitled Horses on the Rocks!

All this—plus the creativity of nine additional artists, using such media as oil, ink, guache, acrylics, graphite, watercolor and hand stitching—promises to make for a exciting exhibit to warm the winter months!

Exhibiting Artists: Cari Clare, Denise Fryburg, Ingrid Sletten, Jody Leight, Karen Fitzgerald, Marilyn Boddewyn, Pat Gericke, Phylis Malinow, Rick Perez, Teresa Hommel, Valerie Lynch and Virginia Asman

Meet the artists at our reception on December 10th from 6-8pm.
Appointments to see the show at other times may be made by contacting gallery35ny@gmail.com.

Glass & Gold: October 23 – Dec 3, 2016
Opening Reception: Oct 29th,  3:00-5:30 pm
Demonstration & Public Talk: Nov 13th,  3:30-5:30 pm
Closing Reception: Dec 3rd, 3-5 pm

Continuing its 2016/2017 season, Gallery35 presents Glass & Gold—a two-person exhibit of the work of Ellen Mandelbaum and Karen Fitzgerald.

Both recognized artists, each bring a focus on light to their oeuvres. Mandelbaum began her career as a painter, but switched to working with glass. Her work appears in many public spaces; she has been commissioned to create glass-based work across the United States. Fitzgerald has exhibited across the US as well. Her work utilizes gilded grounds and is done on tondo forms. She has been working exclusively with the round form for nearly 30 years. Both artists often work with watercolor as a point of inspiration.

All events are free and open to the public.
Outside of these public hours, the gallery is open by appointment only.

For inquiries and additional information, please contact

Karen Fitzgerald
646.369.7184 or Karen@FitzgeraldArt.com

or Ellen Mandelbaum
917.324.3292 or ellen@ellenmandelbaum.com

Each artist is represented by their respective websites:
http://ellenmandelbaum.com/
http://fitzgeraldart.com/

This exhibition is part of Gallery35, a committee of The Community Church of New York.

Expressions of the Self:  September 10–October 23, 2016
Artists’ Reception:  September 17  6-8pm
Closing Event:  October 23  12:30-1:30pm

Gallery35 is opening its 2016/2017 season with Expressions of the Self—a themed exhibit that is a big departure from recent shows. Thirteen member artists have risen to the challenge of creating work that define “how they see themselves” using a variety of media including painting, photography and collage.

In portraying themselves, the artists have employed realism, abstraction, caricature, metaphor and interactivity. Closely examine the Expressions of the Self graphic for a sneak peak! 

To enhance the experience of our visitors, the artists have prepared statements to help viewers better understand the thought and creative processes behind their self-portraits.

The exhibit features self-portraits by:

Cari Clare, Denise Fryburg, Ingrid Sletten, John Connors, John Devaney, Kevin H Maxwell, Lois Ross, Marilyn Boddeyn, Rick Perez, Susan Harris-Demmet, Teresa Hommel, Valerie Lynch, and Virginia G Asman.

Gallery35 hopes that this compelling exhibit will inspire everyone who sees it to contemplate what would be their own “expression of the self”!