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Updated: March 19, 2008 2:01pm |
Ashawagh Hall Hosts Joint Arts4-BonacTonic Exhibit
By Eileen Casey
Participating artists from both Arts4 and Bonac Tonic joined creative talents for the successful exhibit. Photos by Eileen Casey |
Peter Ngo with his work “Dessert Hoppers”. |
On Feb. 23 and Feb. 24, these two groups held their first collaborative exhibition on the South Fork, also at Ashawagh Hall, and Saturday’s opening represented what both groups believe to be a “new young birth of an artistic movement.”
Amid the works of both seasoned and emerging artists this show reflected a diversity of talented individuals who encompassed “an extensive range of backgrounds, traditions, styles, mediums and disciplines.”
Most of the participating artists were able to exhibit more than one piece and a fortunate few had works sporting little red dots, such as Sag Harbor resident, Oliver Peterson, who “reveres the bucolic nature of the area.” Peterson titles each piece “to grant the viewer a frame of reference from which to decode individual meaning.”
Hunter Herrick with his sculpture “Untitled Box”. |
Given the crowd in attendance and the numerous sponsors of this art exhibition, it was evident that there is a mass appreciation of the talents of these artists, including, but limited to, the delightful “Bottle Cap Boy” and “Bottle Cap Girl” mixed media work of Trish Franey; the interesting and revealing photograph “Bulova Courtyard” by artist Bruce Milne who works in both architectural and photographic arts; the tactile rawness of the sculpture “Untitled Box” by Hunter Herrick; and the imaginary world explored by Peter Ngo in his painting “The Desert Hoppers,” as well as expressive moving thick and thin lines in the human forms drawn by Linda Capello, an inductee of The National Association of Women Artists.
Molly Weiss with her oil canvas “Molly In Red Glasses”. |
Gideon Stein of the Gideon Stein Gallery in Bridgehampton, who opened his gallery in the summer of 2007, and is an accomplished artist and musician, expressed his appreciation “at the warm reception and support young artists are receiving on the East End.”
There appeared to be as many artists in attendance as there were exhibiting in the show, among them David Slater, Gerry Giliberti, and Kris Warrenburg. That is always a compliment to any artist, and compliments should abound to these participating artists and their collaborative efforts.
Justin Smith, Trish Franey and Lisa Weston in front of Franey’s mixed media “Bottle Cap Boy And Bottle Cap Girl”. |
2 comments:
woo! xx
It was a great show. Looking forward to the next one.
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