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HYGGE

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HYGGE: Small Art Holiday Show

HYGGE: Small Art Holiday Show Dec. 1-31, 2017

The word HYGGE is a Danish term that is not found in English. HYGGE (pron. HOO-geh) describes a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. As an untranslatable word, HYGGE is demonstrated by over 100 drawings, sculpture and paintings by the 50+ artists who have exhibited or supported Cross Contemporary Art and is celebrated with the community during the Holiday Season. The opening reception is Sat. Dec 2, 5-8pm and the gallery will serve traditional Danish Glug (mulled wine) every Sat. and Sun. afternoon until the end of the show on Dec 31.

Participating artists include:

Gregory Amenoff, Jeffrey Bishop, Richard Bosman, Katherine Bowling, Colin Chase, Mike Cockrill, Gregory Crane, Ford Crull, Peggy Cyphers, Carol Diamond, Josh Dorman, Richard Edelman, Mary Anne Erickson, Stuart Farmery, Brian Fekete, Jeanette Fintz, Deborah Freedman, Ginnie Gardiner, Ashley Garrett, Barry Gerson, Kathy Goodell, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Brenda Goodman, William Greenwood, Anthony Haden-Guest, Jared Handelsman, Jan Harrison, Laura Hexner, Jennifer Hicks, Jim Holl, David Hornung, Roshan Houshmand, Catherine Howe, Heather Hutchison, Mark Thomas Kanter, Ellen Kozak, Alex Kveton, Matthew Langley, Ian Laughlin, Linda Levit, Lucinda Abra, Tom Luciano, Iain Machell, Dorothea Marcus, Susan Mastrangelo, Claudia McNulty, Portia Munson, Paul Mutimear, Garry Nichols, Tina Piccolo, Debra Priestly, Lily Prince, Ann Provan, David Provan, Suzanne Rees, Christy Rupp, Christopher Skura, Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Nadine Slowik, Lawre Stone, Jack Solomon, Shira Toren, Marianne Van Lent, Marie Vickerilla, Grace Wapner, Ruth Wetzel, Susan Wides, Brian Wood, Dion Yannatos and more!

HYGGE: Small Art Holiday Show Opening Reception: Dec 2, 5-8pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DURING HYGGE: Small Art Holiday Show

Sun. Dec 3, 4pm: Reading by Larry Littany Litt of his recent book Mad Monk: Modern Parables at Cross Contemporary Art

Sun. Dec 3,12-5pm Holiday in the Village sponsored by the Saugerties Chamber of Commerce featuring a toy raffle, horse and wagon rides and a petting zoo

Sat. Dec 9, Home for the Holidays 3pm-8pm The Village of Saugerties celebrates the holidays with events, gift basket raffle, caroling, contests and special refreshments!

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Heather Hutchison EXTENDED thru Jan 25

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Heather Hutchison: Here Now

Heather Hutchison’s latest exhibit will continue through Sunday, January 25th at Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties, NY. Ms. Hutchison’s work explores the visual ratio of changing light over time, utilizing various transparent materials, color and form. Making the gallery walls part of her canvas, natural light forms ever-changing “paintings” as it travels though bent plexiglas forms, creating fluctuating colors and shadows. The ephemeral subject matter of all the pieces, the passage of time, is bound by one constant: light. To underline this, the artist has also created two video installations: one presented as a traditionally framed Hudson River School painting capturing sunset and moonrise at Saugerties Beach, compressing several hours into minutes, and the other utilizing the reflection of glowing embers to illuminate the gallery’s storefront window. Cindy Moore writes: “Hutchison’s paintings are impossible to experience thorough reproductions. No matter how skilled the photographer, they cannot be captured in a fixed moment. The work is responsive in a way that is alien to traditional painting: as the light shifts, so does the hue”. Maia Damianovic, describing the experience of Hutchison’s work, says: “Our gaze has no privileged or natural access, only fleeting opportunities that may be seized, in Blake’s words, “to catch joy as it flies”. And Eleanor Heartney writes in Art News: “Hutchison demonstrates that Minimalism and metaphor do not make such an odd couple after all.”

Cross Contemporary Art is open Thurs thru Mon, 12-6pm and Tues and Wed by chance or appointment.

About Heather Hutchison: Ms. Hutchison’s work can be found in many museum and public collections including The Smithsonian Institution, The Hammer Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Harvard Business School as well as Reader’s Digest, Brooklyn Union Gas and Cantor-Fitzgerald art collections. A recipient of both Pollock-Krasner and Gottlieb Foundation Awards, the artist has shown at numerous institutions including The Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial, Montclair Art Museum and The Brooklyn Museum. She currently lives and works in Saugerties, NY.

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Heather Hutchison: Here Now

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Heather Hutchison exhibits her latest work into the inquiry of light and transparency at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY with an opening reception for the artist Sat Dec 6, 6-8pm. Utilizing bent Plexiglas, video installations or paint on transparent paper, Ms. Hutchison captures the flickering moments of natural light. Cindy Moore writes:  “Hutchison’s paintings are impossible to experience through reproductions. No matter how skilled the photographer, they cannot be captured in a fixed moment.  The work is responsive in a way alien to traditional painting: as the light shifts so does the hue.”  
Relocated from NYC to the Hudson Valley, Heather Hutchison has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants  (Pollock-Krasner, Gottleib Foundation),and her work is in many prestigious collections including the The Brooklyn Museum, Hammer Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. 
More information about the artist can be found:

Exhibition Essay, “boxed light bodies” by George Quasha http://bit.ly/hhcca4
video interview: http://bit.ly/hhutcca1
Artist’s website:  http://heatherhutchison.com

Sleepy Golden
Non-Specific Pacific
More Like the Sky on A Cloudy Day
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Another Circle

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Another Circle

“Another Circle”, an art exhibition by area artists will be on view Fri, Sat & Sun 11-6 from June 4 thru June 27th at the Emerson Resort, Mount Tremper, NY.   “Another Circle” derives its theme from a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end /Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth,that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning”

Exhibition Artists:
Adrian Frost
Ben La Rocco
Claude Carone
Fionn Reilly
Garry Nichols
Heather Hutchison
Ian Laughlin
Jeff Leonard
John Stalling
Mark Kanter
Nadja Petrov
Ric Dragon
Robert The

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