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An Evening with Anthony HADEN-GUEST at The Pineapple

January 9, 2017 by Jen Dragon

An Evening with Anthony HADEN-GUEST at The Pineapple

Artist Talk, Animation Screening and Reading of Rhymes

courtesy of Cross Contemporary Art and The Pineapple
1659 Route 212 Saugerties, New York 12477TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE: http://bit.ly/ccaahgevent 10.00 advance, 15.00 at the door REFRESHMENTS INCLUDED

Cross Contemporary Art presents An Evening with Anthony Haden-Guest on Sat. Jan 14, 7pm at The Pineapple, a new boutique venue in Woodstock, NY. An Evening with Anthony Haden-Guest is a multi-media conversation with the artist featuring new animations and a live reading by Haden-Guest from his various poems and essays. In the current show, Word Count, at Cross Contemporary Art, Haden-Guest’s hand-colored ink drawings and blinking neon constructions of historic quotes serve as a wry commentary on celebrity and human hubris. The dialogue continues during this special intimate soiree with the artist at The Pineapple Sat. Jan 14th. Tickets to this event are 10.00 in advance, and 15.00 at the door. Word Count with Anthony Haden-Guest, Shira Toren and Peter Tunney is on extended view at Cross Contemporary Art through Jan 15th.

About Anthony Haden-Guest: Anthony Haden-Guest has had a long career as a journalist, culture critic, writer, poet, cartoonist, animator and artist whose work has been published in the Financial Times, Vanity Fair, The New York Observer, Paris Review, Esquire, GQ (UK) and New York Magazine.

About The Pineapple: The Pineapple is an exciting new venue to stay, play, meet, relax, create, celebrate and gather in a remarkable contemporary space located on the border of Woodstock and Saugerties, NY. The Pineapple features modern art and spacious, elegant interiors in a traditional woodland setting ideal for small gatherings and special events. 1659 Route 212 Saugerties, NY 12477

About “Word Count” at Cross Contemporary Art:
Word Count with Anthony Haden-Guest, Shira Toren and Peter Tunney is a group show of artists who work with the meaning of symbols, letters, and phrases. The playful brushwork of Anthony-Haden-Guest’s hand-colored prints present profound quotations with a slightly ominous whimsy. Peter Tunney’s painted and screened over collages of old book pages create contemporary clarity over layers of cultural memory. And Shira Toren’s graphite numbers evoke the count down at the start of old black and white films as well as the anticipation of what a count down can bring: everything from a rocket launch to an anticipated microwave dinner. All three artists’ consider the impact of symbols, from the meaning of the phrase to the actual shape of letters and numbers as enigmatic compositions of symbols, abstract shapes and evocative phrases.
Word count is currently on view at Cross Contemporary Art through Sunday, Jan 15, 2017
Gallery Hours: Thurs- Mon 12-5pm or by appointment 845-399-9751

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WORD COUNT with Anthony HADEN-GUEST, Peter TUNNEY and Shira TOREN

December 3, 2016 by Jen Dragon

WORD COUNT with
Anthony HADEN-GUEST, Peter TUNNEY and
Shira TOREN
Dec 9-Jan 1, 2017

WORD COUNT with Anthony HADEN-GUEST, Shira TOREN and Peter TUNNEY is a group show of artists who work with the meaning of symbols, letters, and phrases. The playful brushwork of Anthony-Haden-Guest’s hand-colored prints present profound quotations with a slightly ominous whimsy. Peter Tunney’s painted and screened over collages of old book pages create contemporary clarity over layers of cultural memory. And Shira Toren’s graphite numbers evoke the count down at the start of old black and white films as well as the anticipation of what a count down can bring: everything from a rocket launch to an anticipated microwave dinner. All three artists’ consider the impact of symbols, from the meaning of the phrase to the actual shape of letters and numbers as enigmatic compositions of symbols, abstract shapes and evocative phrases

About the Artists

Anthony Haden-Guest: Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, journalist and cartoonist. As a magazine writer he has covered war, crime and the various social orders and disorders of celebrity culture for the Financial Times, Vanity Fair, The New York Observer, Paris Review, Esquire, GQ (UK) and The New Yorker. In the tradition of the great British 18th caricaturists George Cruikshank, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, Anthony Haden-Guest’s ink drawings serve as a wry commentary on celebrity, hubris and tweaked maxims.

Peter Tunney: Peter Tunney uses billboards and media as one of many vehicles for his optimistic slogans and phrases. In his glorification of the commonplace, Tunney is often compared to the Pop artists of the 60s and 70s. However, Peter Tunney is also a messenger whose use of language both proclaims and commands hope and encouragement and his images incorporating vintage ephemera evoke a sense of collective memory. More about Mr.Tunney: http://www.petertunney.com

Shira Toren: Born in Tel-Aviv, Shira Toren moved to New York City to study fine art and design receiving her BFA from the Pratt Institute and an Associate Degree in Art Therapy from The New School. Ms.Toren is a recipient of The Henry Matisse Estate Scholarship and attended the New York Foundation for the Arts Bootcamp in 2011. Shira Toren maintains studios in New York City and Great Barrington. More about Shira Toren: http://www.shiratoren.com

“Word Count with Anthony Haden-Guest, Shira Toren and Peter Tunney” opens Fri. December 9th and continues through Sun. January 1, 2017

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Josh DORMAN, Brian FEKETE, Christy RUPP & Rodney Allen TRICE TREAD LIGHTLY

October 14, 2016 by Jen Dragon

Josh DORMAN, Brian FEKETE, Christy RUPP & Rodney Allen TRICE
TREAD LIGHTLY

Opening Reception Sat. Oct. 29th
Cross Contemporary Art
81 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477
on view thru Nov. 27th, 2016
GALLERY HOURS: Thurs- Mon 12-5pm

The group show TREAD LIGHTLY with Josh DORMAN, Brian FEKETE, Christy RUPP & Rodney Allen TRICE opens with a reception for the artists on Sat. October 29th, 5-8pm at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY and remains on view through Nov. 27th, 2016

TREAD LIGHTLY with Josh DORMAN, Brian FEKETE, Christy RUPP & Rodney Allen TRICE is a group show of artists who use various original, appropriated and repurposed imagery to tell an open-ended poetic story. The combination of unexpected elements (tires, old prints, machine parts, animals, maps, medical texts, decorative papers) creates unique spatial experiences and artistic commentary. The collaged and recycled sensibility evokes layered memory while creating new and incongruous visions. When seemingly unrelated images and objects are juxtaposed, visual poetry is made and dream-like stories about the past, present and future emerge.
About the Artists:
Josh DORMAN: Josh Dorman’s paintings have a long association with the pre-photographic pictorial images found in textbooks, newspapers, map cases and other antique paper ephemera. These literal elements become abstractions as Dorman creates paintings allowing “fractal forms echo infinitely, from the microscopic to the cosmic.” More information about Josh Dorman: http://bit.ly/ccajdor
Interviews with Josh Dorman: “Bomb Magazine”: http://bit.ly/ccajdint1 and “Too Much Art”: http://bit.ly/ccajdint2
Brian FEKETE: Originally from Detroit, Brian Fekete has been a New York artist since 1997. His use of a wide range of painting media and imagery “as far flung as zoology and theology, body parts and auto parts” creates unexpected associations and spaces. Fekete’s mastery of gouache painting technique-usually associated with textile design-becomes an elevated art form and a convincing story teller. More information about Brian Fekete: http://bit.ly/ccabfek
Christy RUPP: Ms Rupp has long been on the forefront of Eco-Artists living and working in the Lower East Side of New York City since 1977. Her wry humor paired with a biologist’s curiosity explores the Universe and its multi-layered systems. More information about Christy Rupp: http://bit.ly/ccacrupp Interviews with Ms. Rupp for “Hyperallergic”: http://bit.ly/ccacrhyp and “The Daily News”: http://bit.ly/ccacrdn
Rodney Allen TRICE: Mr. Trice is a graphic designer obsessed with repurposing every day objects in unexpected ways. His recycling of actual truck tires into a rocking chair gives new life to mundane objects. More about Rodney Allen Trice: http://bit.ly/ccatrice and on Green Art Digest: http://bit.ly/ccarturban

PRESS FOR “TREAD LIGHTLY”: Roll Magazine Online http://bit.ly/ccatlrm

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NIGHT FALLS with Katherine Bowling, Jared Handelsman, Portia Munson & Paul Mutimear

August 20, 2016 by Jen Dragon

NIGHT FALLS with Katherine Bowling, Jared Handelsman, Portia Munson & Paul Mutimear

Group Exhibition August 27th – Sept. 18, 2016
Artist Reception Sat, August 27th, 5-8pm
Cross Contemporary Art,
81 Partition St Saugerties, New York 12477

Night Falls is a group show featuring drawings and photographs inspired by the night and what can and cannot be seen. When the sun goes down, most of the world goes to sleep but even in the dark, life continues as plants breathe, nocturnal animals search for food and people dream. Jared HANDELSMAN and Paul MUTIMEAR use photographic processes to capture what is visible under sudden illumination. Moths, plants, the light of the moon and car headlights are often the only evidence of life in their otiose worlds. Drawing with vine charcoal, Katherine BOWLING tracks the dark shadows cast by unruly plants. By daylight, these plants take the pleasing form of flowers yet their negative forms cast a sinister opposite on paper. Portia MUNSON explores life’s dark side in her digital scans of deceased birds and flowers and in her sculptural assemblages of bones and cradles. Ms. Munson’s digital prints evoke the Victorian tradition of honoring the beauty of past life while her sculptural assemblage of bones in a baby carriage serves as an ironic “memento mori” of the close proximity of birth and death. Between the percussion of the photographic moment and the elongated study of drawing and arranging and scanning forms, “Night Falls” presents a range of materials and temporal studies of the unconscious life and of the life of the night.

Night Falls with Katherine BOWLING, Jared HANDELSMAN, Portia MUNSON and Paul MUTINEER opens Sat. August 27th and is on view through Sept. 18th

About The ARTISTS:
Katherine BOWLING: Since her emergence in 1980s, Katherine Bowling has been well respected as an American painter and printmaker. Ms. Bowling has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship. Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum and the Fisher Landau Center in New York City, as well as many institutions and museums throughout the United States.
Jared HANDELSMAN: In Night Falls, Jared Handelsman will be showing his large scale landscape photograms. Handelsman has had solo exhibitions at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, The Center for Photography, Woodstock NY, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA., and Rockland County Museum, Nyack, NY., Handelsman has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, The Fine Arts Center in Provincetown and Vassar College.
Portia MUNSON: Portia Munson works in photography, painting, sculpture & installation, a concern for the environment is an overarching theme in her work. She has shown her work in major public and private exhibition spaces since the early 1990s. Munson is represented by PPOW gallery, NYC. Recent public installations include light-boxs at the Bryant Park subway station for the MTA(New York), a permanent MTA installation at Fort Hamilton Parkway station in Brooklyn (“D” line). And a large piece at the Albany International Airport (Albany, N.Y.). Munson has taught at New York University, Yale School of Art, Vassar College and SUNY Purchase.
Paul MUTIMEAR: Paul Mutimear is a multi-dimensional artist who uses many tools to investigate the world. Starting out as a musician (performing as Paul Brittan), Mutimear has been drawn to photography as a means of capturing the sudden and unrehearsed moments as he walks through life. He has worked with Oehme Graphics to produce an edition of photo-etchings on paper as well as digitally printing his own photographs on archival paper.

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Ford Crull Solo Painting Exhibit “Red”

June 25, 2016 by Jen Dragon

Ford Crull Solo Show “Red”

June 25,- July 17th, 2016

“Red” is a survey of contemporary symbolist oil and mixed media works by painter Ford Crull that are united by the color Red. Each work of art is a meditation on the power of this primary color as it supports, weaves, balances and directs the energy and composition of Crull’s art .The exhibit ranges from older works to new paintings, and within a variety of styles from different points in the artist’s career.Ford Crull’s paintings and drawings, the symbolism of the color Red, as well as other basic cultural signs and archetypes, have been obsessions he has explored throughout his career as an artist. According to Crull, Red is an especially provocative and powerful color. Throughout time and through every culture, Red is the pigment of violent forces: war, blood, fire and even Hell. However, Red is also the joyful color of Christmas and of valentines. In Indian cosmology, Red, as the first chakra, represents the life force and foundation for all things. In Ford Crull’s paintings, Red draws upon any and all of these ideas on works covered in open-ended symbols.
These iconographic signs are at once personal and universal such as crosses, hearts, words, numbers and other archetypes found in a range of cultures throughout the centuries. As Jonathan Goodman writes, “Crull has been successful in his combination of the old and the new, demonstrating how an image can call up the past and at the same time be responsive to present conditions in painting. Art like this needs to be taken seriously—not only because of the implications of the image, but also because very few painters are trying to build a bridge across time.”

About Ford Crull:
Mr. Crull’s work can be found in many important museum and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Wash. DC, Dayton Art Institute, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Al), as well as numerous international and national corporate and private collections. Ford Crull lives and works in New York City and Woodstock NY.

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Melinda Stickney-Gibson at Cross Contemporary Art

June 14, 2016 by Jen Dragon

Melinda Stickney-Gibson

at Cross Contemporary Art Sept, 24th-Oct 16th

Melinda Stickney-Gibson
d r a w i n g s

MOMENTS-THINKING © Melinda Stickney-Gibson 2016 glass mixed media steel ledge 72x8x1-½

Opening Reception Sat. Sept. 24th
Cross Contemporary Art
81 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477
on view thru Oct. 23th, 2016

GALLERY HOURS: Thurs- Mon 12-5pm

Melinda Stickney-Gibson’s solo show d r a w i n g s opens with a reception for the artist on Sat. September 24th, 5-8pm at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY.

d r a w i n g s is a survey of works on paper and wire wall sculptures by the painter Melinda Stickney-Gibson. This is the first exhibition dedicated to Stickney-Gibson’s drawings and wire wall sculpture and it offers an insight into the process of the artist’s abstract paintings. Each study is a sensitive meditation on the texture of memory as her lines and forms alternate between awareness and a dream-like state through flickering shadows of consciousness. As a visual poet, Ms. Stickney-Gibson incorporates written words as suggestive notations, while her lines and forms echo the trembling edges of nature. The artist’s drawings and wall pieces reflect her long examination of layered luminosity and direct painting that expresses space and being defined by memory and consciousness.
Art critic Eleanor Heartney observes “We as viewers respond to these works because we recognize in them the ever shifting, often chaotic, and richly layered nature of the reality we all share.”

Melinda Stickney-Gibson’s solo show d r a w i n g s opens Sat. September 24th and continues through Sun. October 23rd, 2016.

About Melinda Stickney-Gibson:
A long-time resident of the Catskill Mountains, Ms. Stickney-Gibson’s work can be found in many public collections including the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, San Francisco Opera Plaza, Tribecca Bridge Tower, Triptych Films, Los Angeles and other corporate and private collections. More information about Melinda Stickney-Gibson can be found at:

Artist’s website: http://bit.ly/ccamsgib
Melinda Stickney-Gibson interviewed by Les Femmes Folles: http://bit.ly/ccamsgff
Selected Essays and reviews about Melinda Stickney-Gibson: http://bit.ly/msgrevues

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2010 Diane Thodos; “Laughing and Growling in Paint”; NeotericART Magazine
2009 Eleanor Heartney; “Melinda Stickney-Gibson”; catalogue essay;
Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Robert Ayers; “Melinda Stickney-Gibson”; ARTnews
2007 Paul Smart; “Stickney-Gibson Paints Her Life”; The Woodstock Times
2004 Paul Smart; “Diary in the Abstract”; The Woodstock Times
2004 D. Dominick Lombardi; “Woodstock Heritage on Display”; The New York
Times
2004 Victor Cassidy; “A Painters Painter”; Artnet.com
2003 Benjamin Genocchio; “An Ethereal World, Explored Breath by Breath”;
Neuberger Museum of Art; The New York Times
2000 Douglas Maxwell; “Girl Life Series”; Kouros Gallery; REVIEW Magazine
1998 Daniel Cohen, Mark “Melinda Stickney-Gibson: Secrets and OtherWorks”;
REVIEW Magazine
1998 “Secrets and Other Works at E. Peterson Gallery”, Art Now Gallery Guide
1997 Henry Gerrit, “Powers Boothe, Ron Ehlich, Melinda Stickney-Gibson”,
ARTnews
1997 Nahas, Dominique, “Semaphor, Placing the Mark”, catalogue essay
1997 Hayduk, Danielle, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson Interview”, Suffolk
Woman Watch
1997 Lindberg, Ted, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson”, Preview of the Visual Arts
1997 Dorsey, John, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson at Grimaldis Gallery
The Baltimore Sun
1996 Schacter, Dr. Daniel L., “Searching for Memory”. Harvard
University. Harper Collins Publishers pgs. 192-195
1996 Bell, J. Bower, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson”, REVIEW Magazine
1996 Harris, Susan, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson”, catalogue essay; Kouros Gallery, NY
1996 Schwabsky, Barry, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson”, catalogue essay; Kouros Gallery
NY, NY
1993 Hunroon, Siri, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson: Paintings”, catalogue essay
1991 “From Wreckage, A Reckoning”, Woodstock Times
1990 Benetti, David, “S.F. Galleries Into New Artists Treads Familiar Ground
With Few Exceptions”, The San Fransico Examiner
1989 Kopan, Steve, “Lively Hybrids in Lexington”, Woodstock Times
1989 MacAdam, Alfred, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson” ARTnews
1988 Dorsey, John, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson/Fabio Salvitori”, The Baltimore Sun
1988 Loughery, John, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson at Littlejohn Smith” ARTS
Magazine
1987 Abell, Jeff, “Melinda Stickney-Gibson”, New Art Examiner
1986 Artner, Alan, G., Standouts Emerge on New Horizons”, The ChicagoArt Tribune

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

AT&T, Chicago, IL
Ameritech Publishing of Illinois Inc.
Amdahl Corporation
Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL
Citicorp Services Inc.
Ceco Corporation
Chicago Steel and Tinplate
Cincinnati Bell Information Systems
Dean Witter Reynolds, Chicago, IL
Deloitte and Touche, Chicago, IL
EMI Records, New York
Gerding Edlen Development
Hollister Inc.
J. McBreen Associates
McDonalds Corp
Metromail
Neuberger Art Museum, Purchase, NY
Price Waterhouse
Sagamore Hotel, Miami, FL
Sears Merchandising Group, Chicago
Sex and the City Productions
Sheperd, Beuschel & Provost
Siam Commercial Bank
Starwood Urban, Washington, DC
The Private Bank
Triptych Films, Los Angeles, CA
United Airlines
Wildman, Harold, Allen & Dixon
Winston & Strawn
SELECTED COMMISSIONS:

1998 Tribecca Bridge Tower, Battery Park City Authority; New York, NY
1998 Donald J. Reynolds Foundation; Las Vegas, Nevada
1994 San Francisco Opera Plaza; San Francisco, CA
1991 The Centremark Building; Los Angeles, CA
1984 Illinois State Teachers Union; Illinois

GRANTS:
2012 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant

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Gregory Crane Solo Show July 30- August 24th

June 14, 2016 by Jen Dragon

Gregory Crane: Watercolors and Works on Paper

Cross Contemporary Art
81 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477
on view thru August 21, 2016

Saugerties, NY- Gregory Crane’s solo show of watercolors and works on paper opens with an Artist’s Reception on Saturday July 30th, 5-8pm at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY.

“Gregory Crane: Watercolors and Works on Paper” is a survey of drawings, paintings and prints from Mr. Crane’s long and distinguished career as an artist and educator. Constructions, either man-made or natural, are this artist’s obsession. Out-buildings, garden walls, distant houses, growing plants, trees and undergrowth become articulate meditations on growth and form. Gregory Crane is a master of classical visual arts techniques: india ink, conte crayon, charcoal, watercolor and traditional printing on paper. With these age-old materials, Crane clarifies the gradual process of art-making that study the unity of natural space. This exhibit of small watercolors and works on paper is being shown for the first time as they served as the artist’s private studies for finished oil paintings. Ranging from older sketches to newer works on paper, Gregory Crane dissects his process not just from within his creative vision but throughout the decades-long practice of realizing that vision. According to Crane: “drawing is the heart and soul, the anatomy of what might become a painting”.

Gregory Crane’s solo show “Watercolors and Works on Paper”opens July 30th and continues through August 21st, 2016.

About Gregory Crane:
Gregory Crane’s work can be found in many important museum and public collections including the M. I. T. List Visual Art Center, Museum of the City of New York and the Orlando Museum as well as numerous international and national corporate and private collections. Mr. Crane teaches at the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in New York City and Redhook,NY. More information about Gregory Crane can be found at:

Artist’s website: http://bit.ly/gregorycraneart
Essays about the Artist:
Gregory Crane: The Four Seasons by April Gornick: http://bit.ly/ccagcag
Gregory Crane interviewed by Simon Lane for Bomb Magazine: http://bit.ly/ccagcsl

Artist’s Statement

One of the most important elements in making a painting is orchestrating the parts toward a greater effect. To quote Max Beckman, “You can only understand or get to the invisible by a thorough study of the visible.”

The process of turning an observation into a painting begins to get more and more abstract as I translate what I see onto canvas. This translation, or distillation, is the “basic anatomy” of a painting. I’m attracted to nature more for what I imagine it to be.

I’m trying to get to an essential reality, an archetype. The painting will start to suggest certain things to me; there is always a building process that consists, in part, of my “notes”, which have become a visual shorthand that I “read” carefully. The slightest gesture of nuance of a stroke will help me to proceed. The unreal elements become real through the painting. And that involves much more than mood, it involves an essential light, form, color… I often use parts of the landscape as an index, you could almost refer to it as a a “catalogue of events.” It doesn’t have to be a particular place, or a particular time. Nature can spawn an image that becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

Metaphor becomes the driving force behind the painting, making it more vivid, more alive. I want the painting to be more than just what it looks like. The abstract process of putting what I have seen onto the surface of a painting is the very thing that becomes most real to me. It is a form of “realism” that is based on, or relies on, the abstract.

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Ellen Kozak “Periodical”

May 25, 2016 by Jen Dragon

Ellen Kozak Solo Show “Periodical” at Cross Contemporary Art

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Ellen Kozak’s solo show “Periodical” opens with an Artist’s Reception on Saturday, May 28th, 5-8pm at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY.

Ellen Kozak’s solo exhibition “Periodical” exhibits new oil paintings that are on the cusp between representation and abstraction. Along with her latest oil paintings, Ms. Kozak presents a single-channel video, ”Notations on A River,” a work commissioned by the Katonah Museum of Art. Working on-site beside the Hudson River, Ellen Kozak’s paintings and video explore equivalences in the behavior of her subject and her materials. In her paintings, thinly painted on wood panels that have been prepared with a hand-made dry gesso, luminous waves of shimmering color evoke movement and vibration of light on water. Kozak’s work in video investigates the degree to which photographic images can be perceived as line, abstract marks, strokes, and calligraphic motifs. As the art critic Dore Ashton observed about Ellen Kozak’s work, “Her task is to distance, and at the same time bring close, all that she sees, but also all that she feels, as her eye sweeps over the great river…”
Ms. Kozak has long-standing interests in working from perception, paying close attention to visual phenomena, and incorporating ideas of mimesis. She allows the physical properties of her materials and tools to play a primary inventive role. Her video work, “Notations on A River” is on 24-hour display in the storefront gallery window.

Ellen Kozak’s solo show “Periodical” opens May 28th and continues through June 22nd, 2016.

About Ellen Kozak:
Ms. Kozak’s work can be found in many important museum and public collections throughout the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan, as well as in institutional collections at Harvard and Yale. Ellen Kozak has a master’s degree from M.I.T, Center for Advanced Visual Studies and is a professor of light, color and design at Pratt Institute. Ms. Kozak lives and works in New York City and New Baltimore, NY

More information about Ellen Kozak:

Artist’s website: http://ellenkozak.com
Ellen Kozak’s Video Work on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/ccakozvid
Ellen J. Keiter for the Katonah Museum of Art: http://bit.ly/ccakozkat
Robert G. Edelman for Art in America: http://bit.ly/ccakozaia
Laura Vookles for the Hudson River Museum: http://bit.ly/ccakozhrm
Dore Ashton Forward for Ellen Kozak’s Artist Book, Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes: Notations on a Landscape: http://bit.ly/ccakozdash

Dion YANNATOS

May 25, 2016 by Jen Dragon

Dion YANNATOS at Cross Contemporary Art

Dion Yannatos continues his investigation into the effects of light through the glazes of painterly mark making. Known for his large-scale canvases of woodlands, streams and rocks, Yannatos balances between reality and abstraction. As water receives its shape by the container it is in, Yannatos’ shimmering subject matter is tentatively bound by the reality of its form- but just barely. From a distance, the precise details of moss, rocks, streams and soil are distinct and clear but on close inspection, this illusion dissipates and the marks scatter into shimmering discrete brush strokes held together by the memory of the original narrative.

Art writer Raymond Steiner notes: “That (Yannatos) is sensitive to the mysterious energy of illusion inherent in the impact of light on the retina — that trick of nature to present vibrant atoms to our eyes as “trees,” “leaves,” or “earth” — is evident not only in the almost spasmodic handling of the brush, but also in the odd melding of color that he so successfully weaves into — not just a visual impression — but also a tactile one that is “felt” in one’s viscera.”

Dion Yannatos Solo Show on view from Apr 30, 6-8pm thru May 22, 2016

About Dion Yannnatos: Dion Yannatos has shown nationally in New York, New England and on the west coast including shows at the Bellevue Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Bellingham Museum of Art, and at the Boise State Visual Arts Center as well as many galleries and exhibition venues. A recipient of the Jacob K. Javitts Fellowship as well as a W.W. Stout Fellowship and Gonzales Scholarship, Yannatos recieved his MFA from the University of Washington (’94) after a year at the Ecole Marchutz in Aix-en-Provence in France.

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Structure/Nature

April 8, 2016 by Jen Dragon

Structure/Nature : Paintings by Claire Lambe, Laura Hexner and Mary Anne Erickson

The ever-growing need for mankind to manage resources for living leads to the building of heroic structures. Human survival demands water, food and housing, and scaffolding, highways and dams are constructions that enable large populations to flourish. At odds with these systems are the destruction of rivers, vistas and natural habitats by concrete pillars, asphalt highways and ill-conceived housing projects. These structures are physically built to dominate and harness nature as well as facilitate the transit of natural resources. However, it is nature’s relentless superpower, entropy, that will ultimately dismantle and destroy all massive efforts to control and re-contour the environment. Dams will run dry, deserts will overtake farmlands and jungles will devour the metal I-beams of empty condominiums.
Artists Claire Lambe, Laura Hexner and Mary Anne Erickson each consider the Pyrrhic victory of human constructions within the backdrop of an immense, relentlessly eroding and infinitely patient natural landscape.

Structure/Nature: Claire LAMB, Laura HEXNER and Mary Anne ERICKSON is on view through April 24, 2016

About the Artists:

Claire Lambe: Born in Ireland, Claire Lambe has a peripatetic artistic focus that reflects her extensive travels and intellectual obsessions. Lately Lambe’s work is concerned with the battle for resources and the lottery that decides who wins a game where one side increasingly holds the majority of tickets.

Laura Hexner: Laura Hexner has been meticulously painting and drawing the often overlooked subjects of everyday life: bridges, dams, telephone poles and highways. Her technical elegance with seemingly mundane subjects creates an abstract drama characteristic of her work.

Mary Anne Erickson: Mary Anne Erickson has long been fascinated by the deterioration and decay of vintage roadside American culture. Her color saturated photo-realist paintings capture the faded bucolic optimism of the Post-War years against the backdrop of a vast and empty western landscape

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June 25,- July 17th, 2016

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Gregory Crane: Watercolors and Works on Paper

Cross Contemporary Art 81 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477 on view thru August 21, 2016

Artist’s Statement

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Ellen Kozak Solo Show “Periodical” at Cross Contemporary Art

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Dion YANNATOS at Cross Contemporary Art

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Structure/Nature : Paintings by Claire Lambe, Laura Hexner and Mary Anne Erickson

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Cross Contemporary Art
81 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477
on view thru August 21, 2016