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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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Conversation: Katherine Bowling & Suzannah Lessard

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Conversation Between Katherine Bowling & Suzannah Lessard

On Saturday Sept. 26th at 7pm, writer Suzannah Lessard speaks with Katherine Bowling on the union of memory and the landscape in Ms. Bowling’s current show “The Presence of Leaves” at Cross Contemporary Art. Katherine Bowling’s passion for contemplative landscape spaces has long been an essential trait of her paintings and prints. Inspired by the woodlands of the Hudson Valley and Catskills region, Ms. Bowling’s recent artwork captures the luminosity of golden dappled forests and the quiet shadows of moonlit nights. Writer Suzannah Lessard will steer a lively conversation with the artist about her intentions and techniques and the symbolism of the landscape in Ms. Bowling’s artwork.
About Katherine Bowling’s Solo Show “The Presence of Leaves”
Katherine Bowling’s imagery uses the landscape to create intimate spaces. Inspired by the environment of upstate New York, her woodlands are illuminated by dappled light sparkling through a leafy ceiling. Often Ms. Bowling’s paintings compel the viewer to enter this shimmering forest realm down a pathway away from civilization. Other images introduce the contrast between the decay of manmade structures and the grand, renewable cycle of the surrounding trees. And like Albert Pinkham Ryder before her, Katherine Bowling sometimes boldly paints a portrait of the moon with a silvery light that is in elegant contrast to the habitual golds of her sunlit forests. Although Ms. Bowling’s paintings and prints are in the tradition of the Hudson River School, her expressive technique, quiet symbolism and masterful spatial illusions take the idea of landscape painting into the 21st century. Katherine Bowling’s “The Presence of Leaves” closes Sunday, September 26th.
About 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, the Orlando Museum of Contemporary Art and the Norton Museum of Art in Florida as well as the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois and St. John’s University in Santa Fe, New Mexico

More information about the artist can be found:
Artist’s website:  http://katherinebowling.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Bowling
NYTimes Art Review: http://bit.ly/ccakbnyt
About Suzannah Lessard:
Suzannah Lessard is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family (1996). Ms. Lessard has taught at Columbia School of the Arts, Wesleyan University, The New School, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Goucher College MFA in Creative Non-fiction.  She was one of the first editors of the Washington Monthly and a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine. She has also published in New York Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Wilson Quarterly and Harvard Design. Suzannah Lessard is the recipient of the Whiting Award and the Mark Lynton History Prize as well as a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship at George Washington University. Her latest book, T”he View From a Small Mountain: Reading the American Landscape in the Twenty-First Century” is scheduled to be published in 2016.

Katherine Bowling: The Presence of Leaves

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Katherine Bowling: The Presence of Leaves

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 Katherine Bowling’s imagery uses the landscape to create intimate spaces. Inspired by the environment of upstate New York, her woodlands are illuminated by dappled light sparkling through a leafy ceiling. Often Ms. Bowling’s paintings compel the viewer to enter this shimmering forest realm down a pathway away from civilization. Other images introduce the contrast between the decay of manmade structures and the grand, renewable cycle of the surrounding trees. And like Albert Pinkham Ryder before her, Katherine Bowling sometimes boldly paints a portrait of the moon with a silvery light that is in elegant contrast to the habitual golds of her sunlit forests. Although Ms. Bowling’s paintings and prints are in the tradition of the Hudson River School, her expressive technique, quiet symbolism and masterful spatial illusions take the idea of landscape painting into the 21st century.
About 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, the Orlando Museum of Contemporary Art and the Norton Museum of Art in Florida as well as the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois and St. John’s University in Santa Fe, New MexicoMore information about the artist can be found:
Artist’s website:  http://katherinebowling.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Bowling
NYTimes Art Review: http://bit.ly/ccakbnyt
Almanac Weekly: http://bit.ly/ccakbaw

Peggy Cyphers & Catherine Howe

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Peggy  Cyphers  and  Catherine  Howe:  Prints  and  Paintings

Cross Contemporary Art is please to present its first Two Person show of the prints and paintings of Peggy Cyphers and Catherine Howe curated by Ford Crull. Both of these New York City based painters have distinguished careers as fine artists and have received numerous awards and fellowships. Opening November 8th, this exhibit showcases the modern expressionist technique grounded in classical tradition of these artists and their individual gestural use of various materials such as sand, metal leaf,ink and oil paint on canvas. Both Cyphers and Howe are inspired by outside world and impassioned brush marks dominate their work. However, the similarities end there as Peggy Cyphers responds to the multi-dimensional experience of the landscape from various points of view (animal and human) and Catherine Howe looks to art history and its exuberant, fleshy subject matter as her starting point.
     In the Brooklyn Rail, Peggy Cyphers art is described by Jonathan Goodman:

“Peggy Cyphers’ painted characters and landscapes vibrate in dialogues of rhythm and repetition that influence sensory perception. Her surfaces recall color field, where abstract forms operate in a psychological dialogue of association – congestion and vast span, hyper-speed and recognizable icons. Cyphers’ painting is automatic writing – a stream of consciousness between geological, primordial and cultural time.”

G. Roger Denson writes about Catherine Howe‘s work:

“Howe especially lingers over exquisite portrayals of beautiful objects, both man-made and organic, envisioned by the Dutch and Flemish masters to convey the transience of life on earth. In this respect Howe disregards the severe and blunt vanitas paintings of skulls and decay in favor of over-ripe and peeled fruit, liquors languishing in food- and lipstick-smudged glassware, and the blooms of flowers showing the first signs of their demise to come.”
Exhibition curator, Ford Crull, has chosen these artists to show together because their personal, emotional engagement in painting is an inspiration to his own career as a painter.
“Both Peggy and Catherine represent what is exciting about gestural and expressionistic art making in the 21st century. They are painter’s painters. The way they both handle the brushstroke and  composition can only be achieved through painstaking time and effort, and continually willing to push the limits. They continue to redefine what can be, and exemplify the continued relevance of painting in our contemporary art forum.This first rate work by these two New York painters is truly art that matters. Its great to curate this two-person exhibit and bring it to a new gallery in the Hudson Valley region where we all derive so much inspiration for what we do.”
 
   Peggy Cyphers & Catherine Howe Two-Person show runs November 7th through December 1st. For more information, please contact Jen Dragon, Director, Cross Contemporary Art 81 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY 12477 845-399-9751