The Lepidopterist Show
Showcasing new work by emerging artists from the recently formed collective.
Adam Dewhirst, Nadine Mahoney, Lisa Swarna Khanna, Luke Kendall, Oliver Campbell, James Crosthwaite.
The collective
Lepidopterist is a group of young artists working to produce work of a beautiful and contemporary nature. Formed in January 2007, the umbrella that ties the artists together is their name. Lepidopterists carefully collect and study Lepidoptera which are delicate creatures such as moths and butterflies. Inspiration for the title originated from the idea that each artist creates, stores and develops their own personal interpretation of Lepidoptera. Artists are natural collectors. They surround themselves with objects of inspiration which range from objects and unresolved paintings, to books, broken sculptures and stolen quotes scribbled on walls. It is this anthology that forms the basis of the work. The show is, in essence, a collection of collections. We are the Lepidoptera and Lepidopterist in one.
The artists
Currently with 6 members the collective includes sculptors, painters and new media artists. Having met at art school in London they now live and work in Bristol, Barcelona as well as London. Visually works are at a far remove from one another but at closer observation there is a deeper connection to the practices, a touch of ephemeral and a sense of nostalgia. Lepidopterist is a group of young artists dedicated to their cause and motivated to make it happen. They understand that there is no point producing art that no one sees. After sourcing the venues and raising the funds, they actively direct one another as a group, producing, organizing and curating each exhibition.
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White Room Green Room
Watercolors, Mixed Media and Assemblage
A series of objects and images by Elisa Pritzker and Staats Fasoldt exploring the quiet center of our busy lives. This show was conceived through conversations between Elisa and Staats, about Zen and it’s influence on art. Not that they practice Zen in the formal sense, but as artists they recognize its simple direct influence.
Staats Fasoldt
Staats, a well known Hudson Valley, is the Vice President of the Woodstock School of Art’s Board of Directors and an active member of the Woodstock Artist’s Association. He moved to Ulster County from Albany with his wife Eileen in 1976 to attend the MFA program at SUNY New Paltz. and after graduating in 1978, began teaching Watercolor Painting at the Woodstock School of Art. His popular Hudson River Painting Workshop’s continues to attract artists to Woodstock each year. They climb the heights of majestic Katterskill Falls and tramp the fields of Olana in search of sublime views of the Valley. Staats’ paintings are interpretations of nature that stress spontaneity as method.
Elisa Pritzker Elisa Pritzker has exhibited in the United States, South America, Spain, Italy, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, London and Greece. She has curated exhibits in New York City, Washington DC, the Hudson Valley, Albany, Spain and Italy. Her lifetime work is available for study through a permanent file kept at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, DC, at MoLAA —Museum of Latin American Art's Artist Registry in Long Beach, CA and at the Museo del Barrio in NYC. In 2003/2004, she has been selected as the US Artist representative to participate in THE PYRAMIDS OF NAXOS project in Greece in relation to the Olympic Games. She has received two grants from the Puffin Foundation LTD. Some 2005 art activities included: solo exhibit at the Franklin 54 Gallery in NYC in May. A group exhibit at the Dorsky Museum of Contemporary Art, in New Paltz NY in July, participation at the Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston NY from July through October and an exhibit at Galeria del Angel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Highlights exhibits for 2006 were at Franklin 54 Gallery,New York NY; Go North Gallery, Beacon NY; Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx NY; New York ArtExpo, New York NY; James Cox Gallery, Woodstock NY; and Art Gotham Gallery, New York NY. 2007 Highlights: Affordable Art Fair in NYC and a current exhibit/installation at Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon NY. Her work is collected nationally and internationally. She is represented by the Franklin 54 Gallery in NYC.(www.pritzkerstudio.com)
Donskoj & Company Gallery owned and operated by Yourij and Nancy Donskoj, has been a Rondout fixture for the past twenty years. Using their building at 93 Broadway as a stained glass studio it soon became apparent the vacuum it filled when in the fall of 1987 a local artist requested the use of the storefront. The show was such a success drawing both art buyers and artists asking for a show that a full schedule of exhibitions were planned for the following year. Twenty years and approximately 200 shows later Donskoj & Company is still doing what they love to do – bringing art to the art loving public.
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From Cave to Canvas
Secret Aboriginal cave paintings come to London
Mamaa : The Untouchable Ones,  an exhibition of Ngarinyin cave rock art
The exhibition comprises 40 works by 30 painters, from eighteen to 80 years old and has toured internationally since 2004. For the first time in London [??] it charts the development of the ancient Gwion and Wanjina art previously kept secret in caves in the North West Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The origins of the exhibition lie in a 1997 visit to the Cro-Magnon Lascaux caves, in the south of France, by Ngarinyin elders Paddy Neowarra and David Mowaljarlai. As living custodians of ancient caves in their own country, they were using their own rock art to explain to French audiences the meaning of “wungud”, which means “where we come from''.
Ngarinyin Chairman Paddy Neowarra said when he entered the Lascaux Caves that it was like “….going into the belly of the snake, it was their Wungud country…their beliefs…. I could see the ancestor’s way of life and belief from these paintings……but it made me feel sad….they did not have the story really of these caves…no old people left to know the story.” Unlike Lascaux, the Ngarinyin caves are directly linked to the living clan estates of the Ngarinyin people. “We know the meaning of it and we are passing this down to the younger people. The Wanjina is our God, before in old times nobody showed anyone- sometimes not even their own people they showed the painting. It’s our birthright story.” ... [ read more ] »
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