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In October 2019, Kingston Design Connection showcased 17 interior designers together with over 150 Hudson Valley artists, makers & designers to reimagine a historic bed and breakfast in Kingston, NY. Cross Contemporary Art was invited to curate art for some of the designers (HF Designs and Damour Drake Interiors) as well as create a petit gallerie in the 2nd floor vestibule. Thanks to generous loans of artwork from Kathleen Griffith, Jeff Johnson, Wendy Klemperer, Kevin Paulsen, Ann Provan, Kurt Steger and Dion Yannatos, a small difficult space was transformed.

Cross Contemporary Art is supporting the Kickstarter campaign Of Sight and Sound to raise funds to complete a short film.

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Of Sight and Sound is a deep dive into the collaborative process in which painter Ford Crull and musician and composer Brandon Ross fuse music and art in an unexpected way. Ross creates an evolving sound environment in which Crull, blindfolded, paints across a 20-foot surface. Each artist is guided and inspired by the other. Each remains entirely vulnerable to the possibilities of the moment.

This intimate performance was filmed with multiple cameras this past summer at the Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary Art Center in Jersey City, NJ.

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KICKSTARTER LAUNCH
Tues. September 17

HEATHER HUTCHISON :
In Praise Of Shadows

Heather Hutchison: In Praise Of Shadows August 10- September 2, 2019

11 Jane St. Art Center- Saugerties, NY- Gallery South

Guest curated by Jen Dragon of Cross Contemporary Art & Accompanied by an essay by Eleanor Heartney

Opening reception AUGUST 10, 5-8 pm

Open Saturdays and Sundays 12-5 and by appointment. 11 Jane Street- Saugerties, NY 12477

“In Praise of Shadows” is an exhibition of new luminous large scale works by Heather Hutchison debuting in upstate’s new exhibition & performance space: 11 Jane Street Art Center.

CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART at 11 JANE STREET

Gallery Hours: Sat & Sun 12-5pm

Heather Hutchison “In Praise of Shadows” 

by Eleanor Heartney

 

For over thirty years, light has been Heather Hutchinson’s subject and medium. Her works, which exist somewhere between painting and sculpture, use earth bound materials to conjure an intangible luminosity. Over the years she has employed a host of unconventional substances including wax, colored duct tape, plexiglass, paint, concrete and powdered graphite. These are layered, juxtaposed and manipulated within wooden boxes to create translucent bands of horizontal color that shift with changes in the ambient light or the viewer’s position.  The current works mark a departure, as she experiments with mirrors and an acrylic polymer medium to create the illusion of a light that emanates from somewhere inside the box. 

 

Hutchison works within the lineage of artists like Donald Judd, Christopher Wilmarth and James Turrell. She shares with them a stripped down artistic vocabulary and a reliance on industrial materials. But while her works are minimalistic and apparently abstract, they are also rife with associations. These constructed paintings speak of sky, water, earth and air. Titles sometimes contain eco references. Included in this show, for instance are Rising Tide, Inversion and Camp Fire. These are reminders that some of the most ravishing visual effects we experience in the natural world today are rooted in our degradation of our environment. The beauty of fiery red sunsets glowing through toxic air, the hyper-real blues and greens of polluted lakes and the misty haze of ozone laden atmosphere evoked by these works comes at a price. Hutchison enfolds us in an intoxicating beauty but pierces the dream with unsettling allusions to our increasingly imperiled reality. 

AESTIVUS: Summer Group Show 

OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY JULY 6th, 5-8pm

J.J.Newberry

236 Main Street

Saugerties, NY

Gallery Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5pm

or by appointment: 845-399-9751

24/7 on ARTSY 

 

LILY PRINCE: There There

July 13- August 4, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY JULY 20th, 6-9pm

South Gallery at 11 JANE STREET ART CENTER

Saugerties, NY

Gallery Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5pm

or by appointment: 845-399-9751

24/7 on ARTSY

 

 

ANDREW NEUMANN COLIN CHASE   © Colin Chase 2014 Photo credit: Mark Woods Colin Chase is a sculptor who uses a variety of materials and devices to encourage contemplation. Ideas, forms, textures, synergistically juxtaposed and nestled in incongruent combinations which challenge formal spatial logic, as well as quick intellectual responses. He is represented by June Kelly Gallery in New York. Colin Chase’s work has been included in one person and group exhibitions in several galleries including Jamaica Arts Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Neuberger Museum of Art. He is a former resident of the Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum and Longwood Studios. Chase has received public commissions from the Queens Hospital and the Malcolm X Memorial. A recipient of a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant, Colin Chase maintains a studio in Saugerties, NY.   photo © Andrew Neumann Andrew Neumann is an American artist working primarily with time-based media, as well as text-based wall panels, and the combing disparate elements into hybrid sculptural pieces. He is also active as an electro/acoustic improvisor, working with both analog and digital synthesis. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a LEF foundation grant, among other awards. He has three recordings on Sublingual Records, and a new CD forthcoming. Last year he was a resident at A-I-R , Krems Austria. In addition, he has been invited to The MacDowell Colony, YADDO, The Ucross Foundation, i-Park, Djerassi, Experimental Intermedia Foundation amongst others. This project was realized through a New Works Grant from Harvestworks. Neumann has shown at bitforms Gallery, Woodstock Center for Photography, Artist Space, among others. www.adneumann.com  CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART at 11 JANE STREET Gallery Hours: Sat & Sun 12-5pm

 

ISDAY Saugerties: A Village-Wide Sculpture Show

ISDAY Saugerties

Cross Contemporary Art

Saugerties, New York celebrates International Sculpture Day with a month-long series of village and town wide sculpture exhibitions by artists who live or work in Saugerties and environs. International Sculpture Day (ISDay) is a world-wide event celebrated on the last Saturday in April to further the goals of the International Sculpture Center to “advance the creation and understanding of sculpture and its vital, unique contribution to society”. Throughout the month of April, Saugerties will join hundreds of artists, organizations and institutions in over 20 countries in celebrating Sculpture in all of its manifestations. This 2nd annual town-wide celebration will showcase both outdoor sculpture and indoor sculpture in all media: from installation art to ceramics, metalwork to woodwork and traditional statues to contemporary artwork installations.

ISDAY Saugerties is sponsored by:

The Town of Saugerties, The Village of Saugerties, Diamond Mills Tavern, Bella Luna Restaurant, Cross Contemporary Art, Emerge Gallery and Art Space, 11 Jane Street Art, J.J.Newberry and the Kiersted House

 

The sculptors participating in this year’s ISDAY Saugerties exhibition:

Colin Chase

Michael Ciccone

Susan Spencer Crowe

Stuart Farmery

Lorrie Fredette

Adrian Frost

Barbara Gordon

William Greenwood

Jan Harrison

Kenichi Hiratsuka

Alex Kveton

Ian Laughlin

Iain Machell

Susan Mastrangelo

Lowell Miller

Tony Moore

Ze’ev Willy Neumann

Shelley Parriott

Gustav Pedersen

Debra Priestly

David Provan

Christy Rupp

Judy Sigunick

Nadine Slowik

The Estate of Jan Sawka

The Estate of Jeffrey Schiller

Alison Slon

J.C. Stahl

Melissa Stern

Christina Tenaglia

Grace Bakst Wapner

Millicent Young

ISDAY: Saugerties opens Sat. April 7 with a reception for the artists from 5-8pm and has been extended thru May 6, 2018

ISDAY Saugerties is sponsored by:

The Town of Saugerties, The Village of Saugerties, Bella Luna Restaurant, Kylie’s Sweet Shoppe and Gelateria, The Tavern at Diamond Mills, Cross Contemporary Art, Emerge Gallery and Art Space, 11 Jane Street Art and the Kiersted House

When There Were Birds- A Site Specific Installation by Millicent Young at 11 Jane Street

“When There Were Birds” by Millicent Young is the inaugural sculpture installation for the new 11 Jane St gallery. Utilizing her materials of horsehair and wood to capture the vicissitudes of light and shadow, Millicent Young’s artwork alternates between a keen conscious awareness and shifting dream-like forms. Young’s site-specific work fills this elegantly restored performance space with a sensitive meditation on space and being. The installation at 11 Jane Street Art allows the viewer to fully participate in the experience of Millicent Young‘s work as they move through the gallery experiencing the unique light of this restored 125 year old warehouse now transformed into an art and performance space. “When There Were Birds” is curated by Jennifer Hicks of 11 Jane Street and Jen Dragon of Cross Contemporary Art.

“When There Were Birds” opens Saturday, March 30 and runs through Sunday April 28th, 2019. Gallery hours: Sat and Sun, 12-5pm.

About Millicent Young:

Born in New York City, Millicent Young received her MFA from James Madison University and two Professional Fellowship Awards from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibiting widely, her work has been recognized by curators and directors from institutions including DIA, Hirshhorn, New Museum, Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum. Young’s work received a top award at the 2005 Biennale in Florence, Italy. Her most recent solo show, “Of This”, was at Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties and reviewed by Jonathan Goodman for Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Millicent Young currently resides in the Hudson Valley of New York State.

About 11 Jane Street:

 

About ISDay Saugerties:

Saugerties, New York celebrates International Sculpture Day with an invitational sculpture show at 11 Jane Street Art and its affiliate space, J.J. Newberry. International Sculpture Day (ISDay) is a world-wide event celebrated on the last Saturday in April to further the goals of the International Sculpture Center to “advance the creation and understanding of sculpture and its vital, unique contribution to society”. Throughout the month of April, Saugerties will join hundreds of artists, organizations and institutions in over 20 countries in celebrating Sculpture in all of its manifestations. This 3rd annual celebration will showcase both sculpture in all media: from installation art to ceramics, metalwork to woodwork and traditional statues to contemporary artwork constructions.

Suzanne Rees

Suzanne Rees (BFA Parsons, MFA Maryland Institute College of Art) approaches painting as a sculptor in that the illusion of material space is her starting point. Allowing the marks to determine the forms, each painting becomes a study of density and atmosphere, of weight and balance. Ms. Rees says: “I like to keep my work on the edge of representation with regards to space, as well as image. Light is the element that punctuates the work for me. From flat space I like to see moments of dimension materialize. They feel hyper-real. I’m looking for the quality of a dream in which objects, space and people are infused with an emotional meaning, amplified beyond what is experienced in everyday life.”


​EDUCATION

•1985-1990 Parson’s School of Design, BFA

•1991-1993 MICA/ Rinehart School of Sculpture, MFA

• (Recipient Rinehart Sculpture Award)



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WAAM Woodstock, NY           /Group Show Main Gallery

WAAM  Woodstock, NY          /Small Works Group Show  /Recipient Sandra Palmer Shaw Award for Excellence