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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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Mono-a-Mono: Gregory Amenoff and Richard Bosman Monotypes

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 Mono-a-Mono: Gregory Amenoff and Richard Bosman

 
Mono-A-Mono: Gregory Amenoff and Richard Bosman is an exhibition of monotype prints by two artists and friends. This show is the culmination of weekly sessions at Area 241 print studio in nearby Kingston, NY. For over 30 years, Bosman and Amenoff have separately used printmaking to support their painting process and throughout their careers, have worked with some of the most important ateliers and technicians in the USA and abroad. Mono-A-Mono is the first time these two artists have worked side-by-side, and together with artist/printmaker Stephen Kursh, have produced a body of painterly prints.

     About Gregory Amenoff and Richard Bosman: The careers of both Gregory Amenoff and Richard Bosman began in the early 80’s with their individual transfers to New York City. They are both Guggenheim fellows and their work is in many distinguished museum, university and corporate collections. Although their artistic subjects are quite different as Amenoff paints the drama of telluric forces in landscape and Bosman focuses on open-ended story-telling involving people and habitat, both artists are committed to expressive, gestural brushwork and assertive, dynamic forms. The challenge of the monotype process allows for the transparent mark-making to become apparent as the surface of the paper shines through each individual brush stroke. Mono-a-Mono: Gregory Amenoff and Richard Bosman is the first show for both of these artists that is dedicated to the direct, painterly process of monotype printmaking.

Mono-a-Mono: Gregory Amenoff and Richard Bosman opens Fri. June 30th and continues through Sun. July 23rd, 2017.

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Richard Bosman by Eleanor Heartney

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Richard Bosman: Raw Cuts

Since he first emerged on the art scene in the early 1980s, Richard Bosman has been a master of what he terms the “ambiguous narrative”. In his early days, he was associated with the neo-expressionist movement, and gained attention and notoriety for loosely painted figural tableaux that often featured disturbing and violent scenarios – among them people drowning, brandishing weapons, and graphically perpetrating or suffering carnage. Though critics linked the works to an environment of crime and violence that surrounded New York’s East Village milieu which birthed neo expressionism, in fact, Bosman’s sources were comic books, Kung Fu and other forms of pop culture.

Today, the narratives in his works remain ambiguous, but they are quieter, and more freighted with psychological significance. While he continues to paint, he is also an accomplished printmaker. The works in this show reveal his facility with woodblock and linoleum relief. He notes that for him, painting is an additive process while printmaking is a reductive one, as he cuts away at the block to create his image. The result, as this series reveals, are simple, but potent images that encourage multiple readings. Still drawn to sources in popular culture, which he now gathers not only from films and comic books, but also from the internet, Bosman focuses here on closely cropped scenes full of foreboding, sexual tension, and unexplained anticipation. While there is no clear plot, viewers find themselves linking images to create any number of open-ended storylines. -Eleanor Heartney
Richard Bosman’s “Raw Cuts” a collection of woodcuts printed by the artist himself is on view at Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties through Nov 3, 2014

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