HYGGE

November 11, 2017 by Jen Dragon

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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Peggy Cyphers: Modern Fossils

September 24, 2017 by Jen Dragon

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Peggy Cyphers: MODERN FOSSILS

Peggy Cyphers’ painting continues her long-held interest in the world of naturally occurring opposites: creation and destruction, growth and decay, rebirth and transformation. Cyphers’ use of paint and sand textures transforms the artist’s ephemeral gestures into more permanent Modern Fossils. The mark-making and pigment layers seize the beauty within water, sky and the abiding commonality of all beings. Modern Fossils reflects the constants of chaos and order in the natural world, freezing a fragile moment in time of a complex Darwinian evolutionary dance.In the Brooklyn Rail, Jonathan Goodman writes about Ms. Cyphers: “Cyphers makes it clear that she has opted for a double awareness, in which non-objective insight vies with close scrutiny of the natural world.” New York Times’ Roberta Smith notes that Cyphers paints “in an effortless style…with various ideas in the air: notational, pattern-prone motifs, landscape references and allusions to textiles and fabric.”

About Peggy Cyphers: Peggy Cyphers’ work can be found in many important museum,university and public collections including National Gallery, Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Wash. and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa to name but a few. She is a recipient of many Grants include National Endowment for the Arts, Peter S. Reed Foundation, The Elizabeth Foundation, National Studio Award PS.1. Residency awards include Yaddo, Art Omi, Tong Xian Art Beijing, Santa Fe Art Institute, ISCP, Triangle & Clocktower/P.S.1. Peggy Cyphers is a tenured adjunct professor of Visual Arts at Pratt Institute. More information about the artist can be found:
Video interview: https://vimeo.com/86328765
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cyphers

Peggy Cyphers: MODERN FOSSILS opens on November 4th with an artist’s reception from 5-8pm and will run through November 26th.

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Brian WOOD

August 24, 2017 by Jen Dragon

Brian Wood
Paintings

Opening Reception Friday, August 25th 2017
Cross Contemporary Art
99 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477
on view thru September 24th, 2016

GALLERY HOURS: Thurs- Mon 12-5pm
Full color on-line catalogue with essay by Eleanor Heartney

Brian Wood’s solo exhibition of paintings opens Friday, August 25th with a reception for the artist from 5 – 8 pm at Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties, NY.

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The process of consciousness has always been the source of inquiry for Wood’s work. The boundaries and limits of awareness hold a particular fascination for Wood and it seems likely that the obsessions in his work originate in the earliest phase of life before language and before self – the “chora” in Julia Kristeva’s description. At the beginning of life, instinctual drives, locality, suffering and pleasure, aggression, holding, repulsion, devouring and expelling merge in a timeless non-reflective realm.

Wood is very interested in the way images flash into awareness, fluoresce, and die. He makes a distinction between the images of fantasy (wishing, planning, regretting, wanting) and the very different experience of mental images that seem to arrive from outside of the ego and have the intensity of the real – they light up the nervous system and consciousness with an aliveness that approaches hallucination. It is this level of image and its transformations that he’s interested in discovering and experiencing in his painting – that first flash of image that arrives before the inevitable tip toward language, discursive thought, and narrative fantasy. Importantly, he discovers these pre-linguistic images in the direct process of painting – they could not exist in this form outside of painting. Rather than representations or illustrations of already experienced thought, the manipulation of paint reveals the image in its making.

As Eleanor Heartney describes Wood’s paintings: “They balance on the cusp between abstraction and representation, teasing us with details that seem sharp and tangible but refuse to cohere into any definitive image or narrative. … Wood’s paintings offer us glimpses of possibly recognizable things or places, but “human meaning” as [Wallace] Stevens would style it, remains just out of reach.” And as Holland Cotter recently wrote in the New York Times about Brian Wood: “…[Wood] creates a kind of Symbolist world in which emerging into life and being devoured by it are part of the same inexorable process. …the erotic and the spiritual are of a piece.”

Brian Wood‘s solo show of paintings opens Friday, August 25th and continues through Sun. September 24th.

About Brian Wood:
Brian Wood, a Guggenheim Fellow, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and is held in many other distinguished public and private collections. More about the artist: http://bit.ly/ccawood

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

June 20, 2017 by Jen Dragon

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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GAMUT: A Group Show about Color

May 28, 2017 by Jen Dragon

GAMUT: A Group Show about Color
with Jeffrey Bishop, Jeanette Fintz, Matthew Langley and David Provan

Opening Receptions: Fri & Sat. June 2 and 3rd, 5-8pm

Cross Contemporary Art

NEW LOCATION
99 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477
on view thru June 25
GALLERY HOURS: Thurs- Mon 12-5pm

GAMUT: A Group Show about Color features paintings and drawings by Jeffrey Bishop, Jeanette Fintz and Matthew Langley and the sculpture of David Provan.
The exhibition presents contemporary expressions of color and line through 2 and 3 dimensional space. The term “Gamut” is used in color theory to express the means by which the entire range of color can be represented. In this show, Bishop, Fintz, Langley and Provan explore the power and vibrations of colors as they interact with one another using line, form and gesture.

About the Artists:

Jeffrey Bishop: Jeffrey Bishop has shown his work nationally and internationally for many years including solo shows at the Seattle Art Museum, Miami University (Ohio), the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham, MA and San Diego State University as well as numerous solo gallery and group shows. He taught for many years at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA but now makes his home and studio in Brooklyn, NY. He most recently completed a residency in Berlin. More about Jeffrey Bishop: http://jeffreybishop.com

Jeanette Fintz: Jeanette Fintz is a painter, art educator, art writer and independent curator who is the recipient of many grants, travel stipends, artist residencies and awards. Her abstract paintings have a geometric substructure that supports vibrant color expressions. Carter Ratcliff writes: “…we might well imagine that she (Jeanette Fintz) is the traveller, reflecting on experiences that are of course individual not universal.Yet she travels confidently in the realm of universals”. More about Jeanette Fintz and her work: http://jeanettefintz.com

Matthew Langley: Matthew Langley’s prolific works on paper are studies about brushwork and gesture as well as color vibrations and their interactions. Stripping art down to the visual essentials and creating multiple paintings on minimalist themes, Langley, according to Kriston Capps, “proves to be more recidivist than redux”. Mr. Langley has shown extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in many public, private and corporate collections. More about Matthew Langley: http://matthewlangley.com

David Provan: David Provan explores color and form to create sculptural diagrams of spiritual experience. The chromatic brilliance of the powder coat surface on steel structures make an unambiguous statement about presence. Mr. Provan has been the recipient of a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant and his work is in many private and public collections including the MTA Arts in the Subways Permanent Collection and in the Yale University Art Gallery. More about David Provan: http://davidprovan.com

GAMUT: A Group Show about Color opens with two artists’ receptions on Friday, June 2 at 5-8pm and on Saturday, June 3, 5-8pm and runs through June 25, 2017.

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Mike Cockrill

April 12, 2017 by Jen Dragon

Mike Cockrill
In Retrospect

The War Between the States: The Confederacy vs. Arnold Palmer © Mike Cockrill 2016

Opening Reception Sat. May 6th
Cross Contemporary Art
99 Partition St. Saugerties, New York 12477
on view thru May.28, 2017

GALLERY HOURS: Thurs- Mon 12-5pm

Cross Contemporary Art inaugurates its new 1,000-square-foot space at 99 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY, with a survey of paintings, works on paper and iron sculpture by Mike Cockrill.

The exhibition will include over 40 drawings that trace the artist’s evolution over the past 20 years from his gun-wielding clown-killer girls of the ‘90s to his recent modernist drawings and collages of fragmented female figures.

One of the most frequent themes of Cockrill’s drawings is the relationship between artists and their subjects; they are explorations of the moments of creation. In several drawings, girls stand at easels and draw clowns while in other drawings the girls themselves become the studio models for clowns and as well as baboons and chimpanzees who sit at easels with poised brushes studying their human subjects. His large new painting, “New Mom,” (2014), continues this theme in a monumental scale.

Cockrill’s never-before-seen sculptures, “Iron Men,” relate to his Existential Man series of paintings; cast in iron from styrofoam constructions and given a rich patina, Cockrill’s sculptures seem to rise and crumble at the same time.

Blending both the playful and the serious, Cockrill’s challenging art continues to foster compelling conversations about social values and artistic expression.

Mike Cockrill has had over 20 solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His paintings were included in the 2016 Outlaw Bible of American Art, published by Last Gasp.

MIKE COCKRILL: In Retrospect opens with a reception for the artist on Saturday, May 6, 5-8pm and runs through May 28, 2017.

New Mom © Mike Cockrill 2014 oil on canvas

Artist and Model (Monkey Shoes) © Mike Cockrill graphite, ink, charcoal on paper

Iron Men © Mike Cockrill 2016 cast iron, wire, patina

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Deborah FREEDMAN & Jen HICKS

April 3, 2017 by Jen Dragon

Nature/Nurture

Paintings by Deborah Freedman and Jennifer Hicks

Nature/Nurture: Paintings by Deborah Freedman and Jennifer Hicks April 1- 30, 2017

Deborah Freedman‘s art is committed to exploring the rhythm of nature and capturing the fluctuations of its constantly changing space. Her paintings, drawings and printmaking find both the large cosmic patterns as well as the ephemeral fleeting moments with commanding brushwork and profound color. Ms. Freedman’s landscape work is described by Stewart Waltzer, an analyst of Impressionist auctions for ARTnet, as “… as an anatomy lesson …conflated with human form. Landscape which holds the promise of physical pleasure. The abstraction holds the emotional content. If it sounds simplistic, imagine trying to organize a coherent vision of something that does not exist. It mixes the personal with the impersonal, landscape in the guise of familiarity.”. Ms. Freedman’s work is in many important collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, Rutgers University, The Department of State, the Library of Congress, IPCNY,The Hess Collection, CITI, Morgan Guarantee Trust, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital.

Jennifer Hicks has a distinctive career as a movement, performance and installation artist as well as being a painter. Her painting is as informed by her work in dance as it is by her direct experience with pigments, paper and canvas. Her paintings reflect the mysterious presences that emerge from the forest as the evening transcends into dusk. Ms. Hicks’ versatility in different media is determined by the needs of her artwork and she is comfortable being at once the object, subject and conduit for this expression. A long-time member of Mobius Artist Group, Jennifer Hicks has received her MFA from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance, her BFA from Tufts University and Degree in Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. Jennifer won the prestigious Traveling Scholars Award from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, participated as a guest artist at Artisterium VI in Tbilisi, Georgia and is an alumna of Franklin Furnace in NYC. Her latest project is the establishment of 11 Jane, an art studio, workshop, gallery and performance space in Saugerties,NY.

Deborah Freedman

Jennifer Hicks

International Sculpture Day Saugerties

Sculpture Installation at 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.
International Sculpture Day (ISDay) is a celebration event held worldwide on or around April 24th to further the ISC’s (International Sculpture Center) mission of advancing the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society. It is a day to create a unified community supporting 3-dimentional art. Throughout the month of April, Saugerties will join hundreds of artists, organizations and institutions in over 20 countries in celebrating the Sculpture in all of its manifestations. This inaugural town-wide celebration will be the first of what will be an ever-growing annual event in Saugerties. The Saugerties Sculpture Show is supported by the Town and Village of Saugerties, local businesses and galleries and showcases some of the many sculptors that live or work in Saugerties. For more information about International Sculpture Day, visit; http://www.sculpture.org/isday/

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GALLERIES
Cross Contemporary Art
99 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY 12477

11Jane
11 Jane Street, Saugerties, NY 12477

OUTDOOR VENUES

Bella Luna Restaurant Courtyard
124 Partition St Saugerties, NY
Cantine Field
Saugerties, NY

VARIOUS SAUGERTIES BUSINESSES
feature sculptures throughout
participating shops and restaurants throughout the village.

This Event is made possible by the support of the Village and Town of Saugerties, Bella Luna Restaurant and the Art Galleries: Cross Contemporary Art, Emerge Gallery and 11 Jane

Cross Contemporary Art

Cross Contemporary Art exhibits the work of Colin Chase, Stuart Farmery, William Greenwood, Alex Kveton, Debra Priestly, Christy Rupp, Nadine Slowik and the Estate of Jeffrey Schiller, at its new location on 99 Partition Street.

11Jane

11Jane is the newest gallery in Saugerties featuring a raw 19th century industrial warehouse with brick walls, original floorboards and high ceilings.
11Jane exhibits the work of Colin Chase, Adrian Frost, Stuart Farmery, Susan Mastrangelo and the Estate of Jeffrey Schiller.

Bella Luna Restaurant Courtyard features sculpture by Jeffrey Schiller, Alex Kveton and Stuart Farmery

Photo: Metropolis No.2 © Alex Kveton 7′ X 5′ x 2′