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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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Mark Thomas Kanter “Creation Myths”

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Mark Thomas Kanter “Creation Myths”

Mark Thomas Kanter’s solo show “Creation Myths” opens with an Artist’s Reception on Saturday, October 3, 6-8pm at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY.

        Mark Thomas Kanter’s ambitious oil paintings and ink drawings reference the whole of art history culminating in a 21st century expression of ancient themes. Emerging like the flickering forms from Plato’s cave, Kanter’s work meditates on the tonal variations of the Renaissance, the spacial solidity of Classical Art, the gestural brushwork of Expressionism and melds these traditions in the crucible of the planar manipulations of Modern Art. By invoking the continuum of Art’s history, Kanter reaches for heroic themes that underly all human experience and manifests itself in Myth. However this progress through time and these tales that explain phenomenon are not the goal of Mark Kanter’s painting. Instead it is his painting process that reveals an image which is neither abstract nor figurative. Kanter calls his paintings “configurations” as he weaves historic visual traditions with contemporary improvisational discoveries into a symphony of space and time.
“Creation Myths” opens October 3rd and continues through October 25th.

About Mark Thomas Kanter: 
A recipient of a Helena Rubinstein Foundation grant and a participant in the New York Foundation for the Arts Mark project, Mark Thomas Kanter is well respected as an American painter and instructor. Mr. Kanter has taught in Italy at the International School of Art in Umbria and in the United States at Columbia University, Parson’s School of Design, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, Purchase College, and American University. He has also been a visiting artist at Dartmouth College, Illinois State University and NYC’s “Studio in a School” program. In 2010, Mr. Kanter curated the exhibit “North of New York: The New York School Generation in the The Hudson Valley Region” for the Kleinert-James Art Center in Woodstock, NY. Mark Thomas Kanter maintains a studio and home in Woodstock together with his wife, artist Heather Hutchison and their son, Dante.

More information about Mark Thomas Kanter: 

Artist’s website:  http://markthomaskanter.com
Roll Magazine Interview (together with Heather Hutchison):http://bit.ly/ccamkrm
Hudson Valley Times Review: http://bit.ly/ccamkhvt

Cross Contemporary Art opens

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Cross Contemporary Art is open! Located in the same space as the recently closed Imogen Holloway Gallery, Cross Contemporary Art will continue to show paintings, sculptures, performances and installations with an emphasis on artists who work in the Hudson Valley and Catskills region. The first exhibit “Collection” is an “installation about one art collector’s aesthetic environment and the creation of the personal museum”.  Currently on view are works by various artists that include: David Chambard, Gregory Crewdson, Ford Crull, Albrecht Dürer, Antonio Frasconi, Adrian Frost, Sir Terry Frost, Brenda Goodman, Heather Hutchison, Mark Thomas Kanter, Robert Mangold, Garry Nichols, Judy Pfaff, Fionn Reilly, Rebecca Purdum, Melinda Stickney-Gibson. August hours are daily 12-7pm.  Please phone 845-399-9751 for more information. 

Curator’s Essay for “Collection”

“Collection: An Exhibition of a Personal Art Installation”
As we live, we collect and what we collect becomes our totems-reliquaries of our hopes and poignant representatives of who we are and want to be. The private art collection is an installation that becomes a personal environment. Each collector acquires objects made by others and creates a private museum.
Life events such as death or divorce can force the dismantling of a collection. The objects are no longer relevant to a lost marriage or possible in a downsized location or of interest to heirs. The attempt to connect to timelessness through art acquisition is heroic. To seek connectivity through disparate elements is an art in itself. The dispersion of a collection is natural to its life cycle as paintings and sculptures scatter again across the world to be recombined in another space and time. And a new installation is born.

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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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