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Dumplings and Sugar Cookies

Nov 13- Dec 18, 2021

ARTISTS: Erica Hauser, Linda Kamille Schmidt, Amy Morken, James Gallagher, Scott Ackerman, Suzanne Kiggins, Bradley Wood, Linda Colletta, Undine Brod, Stefan Saffer and others.

Our upcoming exhibition,“Dumplings and Sugar Cookies, a jam session” is tapping into the seasonal transitional we are all feeling. As the weather gets colder and winter sets in, we snuggle up with warm drink and enjoy the “season of reflection”. Festivities are filled with family, friends and comfort food, followed by quieter times of contemplation and inward reflection.

Winter can to be the misunderstood season, some feel the grays skies, chill in the air and darkness to be a somber time. On the other hand some people find peace in the stillness of the landscape. Winter gives us an opportunity to slow down and observe what we take for granted.

From abstract compositions to image based story telling, the exhibition, “Dumplings and Sugar Cookies … a jam session”, touches on a diverse group of artists hitting a cord with viewers. It can be the use of strong colors that cover the deep rich gamut or the shapes and gestural forms that create a visual language. Each exists with its own degree of independence from obvious references in the world. Tapping into our everyday life with a painted gesture, communicates a tone of reflection. Or an intent that evades definition. There is space and a time for observation.

Suzanne Kiggins' paintings share an unseen experience showing a tension between order and chaos or internal and external worlds. Erica Hauser arranges shapes guided by an intuitive feeling for their points of connection- subdued and vibrant all at once. Linda Colletta uses loose compositions to explore desire and pleasure, in her work titled, "It's a Cupcake Panic Party”. Scott Ackerman's paintings are celebrated for being honest, raw, and relatable.  Whereas, Bradley Wood’s painting of  "Lounging with Lamborghini” portrays a thoughtfulness that is open-ended. In James Gallagher’s, collage series,  “Life Cuts”, he observes the human condition with layering and puzzling his images. Linda Kamille Schmidt intimate textile works are layered with colorful transparent panels that interact with each other, creating a mix of hues and gestures. Amy Morken overlays images and figures in her drawings telling abstract stories in a stream of consciousness and a spontaneous impulse for the creative process.

Maryann Strandell “Breezeway”

August 2021 (Long-term)

This new installation titled “Breeze Way”combines ink and acrylic drawing in situ with a series of oil paintings and 3D Lenticular media. The overall drawing is a classic 60s interior, a very retro living room with the TV screen centrally placed. The overall subject is one of comfort, a living space, not exotic but accessible. It’s gracious and welcoming and perhaps serves as a backdrop to our societal relationship to states of quarantine, and a place we demarcate as in between -with screen-time and dream-time.

The angles within the room, and the picture plane greatly reference modernist architectural feats, such as Mies“ Barcelona pavilion which was considered an, “ideal zone of tranquility”. Multiple artworks reference screen-tinm as worlds within worlds- a time capsule. In the installation they are comprised of historic architecture references, and other objects relating to the domicile, international trade memes, and travel.

Juxtapose

August 27 - October 10

ArtPort Kingston is happy to present, "Juxtapose” and dialogue between artistic presentations, as a form of conversation to provoke connections and possibilities. This open exchange of ideas leads to new perspectives to uncover. The highlighted installations of Mary Ann Strandell, Jeila Gueramian, Shelley Lake, Farouk Oni, Maxine Leu, Kathleen Vance, Stefan Saffer, Seth David Rubin and KayRock Editions provide a range of messages to explore. As well, the “Juxtapose Wall” is an ongoing signature presentation that has evolved over many years of De Chiara Projects curated exhibitions from Berlin, Miami, Rome, Denmark, Bangkok to back home in New York. This intimate scale installation is an opportunity to explore with a selection of works by artists: Undine Brod, Ernest Joliceour, Katy Schneider, Rodger Stevens, Tine Steen, Karen Jaimes, Roxanne Faber Savage, Dasha Bazanova, Mike Drury, Julia Blume, Melinda Hackett, Jen Dwyer, Becca Van K, Rachel Urkowitz, Maeve McCool, Tine Steen, Peter Weiler, Julie Hedrick, Beth Humphrey, Gabe Brown and others.

Seth David Rubin “Placements”

Aug 21- Sept 26, 2021

Opening reception Aug 21

“Placements”, a new large photograph exhibition of Seth David Rubin. Rubin cuts glass into pieces and makes elaborate assemblages which he photographs in various locations. His photographs, sometimes reflections of people and places, sometimes pure abstraction are filled with mystery, color and surprise.

Kayrock Screenprinting Editions

Aug 20 - Oct 10, Opening reception Aug 21

ARTISTS: Ben Degan, Hope Gangloff, Michale Zelehoski, Erik Den Breejen, Yuri Masnyj, Carolyn Salas, Taylor McKimens, Aaron Johnson, Karl LaRocca, Ghost of a Dream, Reed Anderson, Chie Fueki, Blok.

Kristen Schiele "Little Devils"

Aug 7- OCT 10, Opening reception Aug 21

"Little Devils" reflects two years of drawing groups of figures as FEMMES TERRIBLES, lone wolves, witches, Goddesses of destiny and death. I draw figures from live models and classic sculptures as well as from books of historical painting and etchings, Meissen porcelain, anything depicting the decorative, feminine ideal. Wearing masks inspired by Japanese animation, clowns, Sci-fi, the women define their own power, cult or rebellion.

Exposed

Curated by Stefan Saffer

July 30- August 15, 2021

Artists: Heather Ariyeh, Hyeju Kim, Shelley Lake, Lamar Robillard, Farouk Oni, Nayven Vignette, Peter Weiler.

** MFA Students of Stefan Saffer, thesis adviser

ArtPort Kingston presents a selection of artworks from the finalists of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in ART Practice Program of the School of Visual Arts in New York. David Ross, the Direct of the Art Practice program says, “we aim to foster an atmosphere of risk-taking and experimentation, and to create a community of clever artists and culture producers.” The Art Practice program offers an interdisciplinary approach to an MFA degree. Artists in the program are not defined or separated by medium or discipline. The students in the program engage in research-based practices and are encouraged to converse and collaborate across subject matters using a combination of traditional and non-traditional media, technologies and techniques.

Blossom Return

Curated by Susan Jennings

June 25- July 25, 2021

Featured ARTISTS : Kwadwo Adae, Betsy Friedman, Sara Jessie Kane, Slink Moss, Katy Schneider, Laura Stein, Rachel Urkowitz and Guy Walker

“Blossom Return,” organized by the artist Susan Jennings at Artport Kingston is an exhibition engaging with the fact that many of us who were fortunate enough to have had access, leaned into nature and gardens during quarantine. While the world shuttered, last summer’s bloom was particularly poignant as something consistent, healthy and healing amidst so much that was not. Nature took no pause in her march of creation. This summer the blossom return greets us both as it always has and also entirely anew. We have been changed by what we just collectively endured and lived in ways we yet to fully understand. For these 8 artist, the practice of blossom as muse delivers for us a powerful reminder that nature and her cycles are not part of “our environment” but are rather the driving forces of an interplaying relationship, along with us, at one with our very being.

The Other Side of the Rainbow

JUNE 26- JuLY 25, 2021

ARTISTS : Howard Schwartzberg, Jen Dwyer, Jon Levy-Warren, Julia Blume, Ruth Rodriguez, Yuko Nishikawa, Isa Wang, Jean Louis Frenk, Suzanne Wright and others.

Often after a storm, comes an amazing rainbow, which can create an inspiring view. Now that everything we have been through in this tumultuous past year is slowly seeming to be in the rearview window, a sense of reflection in our worlds’ has appeared as we are coming “back to life”. Perhaps this awakening and sense of vibrancy is an enhanced awareness. An energy that had been tucked away for safekeeping throughout this period of our “curbed life” is all of a sudden being unleashed with a moment of relief. What happens as the skies open up? We are curious, exploring the spectrum of possibilities, to challenge and wonder. What we are experiencing as a rainbow reminds us of growth, strength, and unexpected. But what comes next? What is on the other side of the rainbow?

Hopeful, awe-struck, reflective, stronger, clearer, unfamiliar, mundane, inspiring, suggestive, appreciative, challenging, seizing the moment, victorious and the list goes on. Through the process of art making each artist creates a dialogue for the viewer to engage with and explore. Increased stimuli of a system activate feedback in such a way as to further increase output. Ones’ experience triggers a response which then leads to further reaction.

Through different lens each artist explores the narrative landscape using a range of perspectives but all provide a transformation. Julia Blume’s ambiguous forms crossover from “humans” and “nature” with her organic highly processed materials, considering the political implications of this artificial separation. The pastel color palettes and delicate objects of Jen Dwyer’s ceramic pieces engage in gender politics to examine agencies of power. Ruth Rodriguez’s paintings are inspired by personal experience and femininity, exploring female isolation, solitude and the gaze.

Howard Schwartzberg’s Bag Paintings, hold a volume of paint, conceptually playing with the filling of form, mass, movement, emotion and history as the weight of what painting represents. Jean Louis Frenk’s, “biomorphic color interactions” start as containers that take on a life and personality with their formed elements of volume, shape and color. Isa Wang’s work focuses on intersecting identities from the lens of American consumerism, examining the representation of marginalized communities in pop culture. Moods, facial expressions and postures provide peeks into peoples’ worlds in Jon Levy-Warren expressive hand drawn lines in his gestural paintings. Yuko Nishikawa draws inspiration from ideas we tend to think “normal” and investigates to offer alternatives in a joyful way transforming a space with her multitude of mobiles hanging above to create a fantastic encounter.

Form or Function

April 24- June 6, 2021

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

ARTISTS : Chuck von Schmidt, Karen Jaimes, Staveley Kuzmanov, Traci Johnson, Barbara Marks, Ellie Murphy, Courtney Puckett, Jim Osman, Rachel Urkowitz and Gabriele Hamill, Inna Babaeva, Clemens Kois, Sophi Kravitz, Christina Kruse, Jeanne Atkin, Kathleen Vance, Erika DeVries, and Rodger Stevens.

The exhibition “Form or Function” presents works that crosses over media and discipline, exploring the relationship of objects in between contemporary art, design and craft. “Form” and “Function” are often clearly defined, but here is an attempt to blur notions and create dialogue.

One basic principle of “good” design is “form follows function,” which states that the form art takes should be based upon its intent and purpose. If form follows function, the shape of an object should primarily relate to its intended function or purpose.  But what if “form is the function”? The debate between art and design is old and continues to grow. Looking at everyday images, objects, tools and materials, we have very diverse emotional bonds with them. An artist creates a dialogue with their materials, providing intentions. Is it an object’s form, their history, or the story we create that attracts us?

Jim Osman’s wood construction sculptures are based on deceptively simple relationships—piling, bridging, angling. This contemplation of balance implies furniture, architecture, toys, and high modernism. Courtney Puckett’s human-scale, found object and repurposed textile assemblages integrate sculpture and craft practices. Karen Jaimes sculpts clay to address sociopolitical issues and question the systems in place. The trans-historical and transcultural nature of ceramics makes it the perfect material for metaphor. Barbara Marks’ upcycled paper works of disassembled packaging are intimate and personal; perhaps they’re narrative. Christina Kruse's minimalist drawings and sculpture create an association beyond form and engage a sense of balance. The hand knit steel bag of artist/jeweler, Jeanne Atkin assumes a surprisingly soft shape, accentuated by the nestled wooden and glass eggs inside. The photographer Clemens Kois constructs a heightened level of beauty and value in objects with his teetering stacked towers of delicately balanced vertical composition of maybe overlooked objects.

 Interaction can animate the function of an object.  Chuck von Schmidt’s playful “SIT” piece invites viewers to become a part of the sculpture so it takes on a new life. Ellie Murphy’s site-specific intervention with hundreds of hanging strings plays off the existing architecture of the gallery space to create an introspective physical dimension. Stanley Kuzmanov's sculptures combine her repetitive patterned textile designs within three-dimensional geometric structures that float in space. Rachel Urkowitz and Gabrielle Hamill’s tiny couches bring the potential for play into conversation with craft and color.  With the invasion of amorphous, slug-like blobs into mass-produced homegoods, Inna Babeva transforms these objects to give a sense of being overwhelmed by material. Creating a euphoric “safe space” with positive soothing energies is Traci Johnson’s intention with her soft sculptures and carpeted mirrors. All the forms and functions alter intentions creating new meanings.

Follow the Line

March 6- April 11, 2021

Featured ARTISTS : Joe Mangrum, Ellen Weider, Kathleen Vance, Erika DeVries, Phil Rabovsky, Jicky Schnee, Helen Prior, Stacy Seiler, Stefan Saffer, Kristen Schiele, Rachel Urkowitz, Rodger Stevens, Maeve McCool and others.

“ The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don’t go down, and I don’t go up. I believe in living above the line. ....And I don’t go down below the line for anything.” Agnes Martin quote from “ Between the Lines”

“Follow the Line" explores a wide field of artistic use and reflection about the line. A line has length, width, tone, and texture. It may divide space, define a form, describe contour, or suggest direction. You can find a line in every type of art. From line art drawings to the most abstract painting line is used as a foundation. The line can control a viewer's eye, describe edges, indicate form as well as movement, value and a light source in drawing. In terms of art, line is considered to be a moving dot. It has an endless number of uses in the creation of art suggest shape, pattern, form, structure, growth, depth, distance, rhythm, movement and a range of emotions. Lines can be moving in video animation, or reflect the complex world of something so simple, stringing together images, gestures or thoughts.

Drawing is just an intuitive process in art, directly from the thought through to the hand. Often times there is a more spontaneity in drawing for artists the idea of chance. For example the ephemeral sand painting of Joe Mangrum are site specific reflecting the moment of making, through the palm of my hand to releasing the sand is a mediative process that follows the line of movement. The simple gestural stroke on Phil Rabovsky's oil on canvas works communicate depth in an everyday moment. Maeve McCool detailed drawings on reclaimed linens recall something intimate in the rural decay considered with memory and regrowth. Rodger Steven’s, wire sculptures are articulations of abstracted composition tell story narratives with the line, like a language of glyphs.

The line inspired almost every artist and its complex meanings are infinitive. The illuminated neon handwritten texts of Erika DeVries are uplifting open ended string of words to offered to the viewer to interpret. Stacy Seiler captures lost elements of the industrial landscape in hand cut paper collage layered between plexi. Kathleen Vance brings nature inside with her flowing ecosystem sculpture that reflects the the creek outside and her created world. Jicky Schnee's sliced and stitched oil paintings use line to cut and mend feelings and memories. The curiousity of where a line brings us, is endless, so much of what we know in our constructed modern world starts with a line.

From Now to Then

February 6- 28, 2021

Featured ARTISTS : Samuel Beckett, Jesper Just, Anna Anders, Beth Humphrey, Mary Tooley Parker, Sarah Lutz, Carlos Pinto, Maxine Leu, Stuart Farmery, Ernest Jolicoeur, Rodger Stevens, Becca Van K, Bradley Wood, Jen Kelly, Celeste Fichter, and Seth David Rubin

Sometimes we have to look back to push forward, we need to lose ourselves to find ourselves. Living here and now does not always give us an opportunity to quietly reflect. The exhibition “From Now to Then” looks at transitions, comparisons to establish dialogues from one situation to the next. We are taking time to pause, to observe and to view things in a different light.

On view, is a selection of moving images, video and film, to discover a time, a sense of place for reflection.

Jesper Just tells us a story of social despair and loneliness mixed with joy and exhilaration in the mix of society. Anna Anders creates a perspective as “outsider” with “INTRUDERS” crawling into a private space, welcomed or not, a reflection on the global issue of refugees trying to escape and enter.

Contrast or comparison offers a deeper look into what is presented, as in Goethe’s, famous novel “Elective Affinities” there are new pairings of works in our exhibition to create new dialogues. Comparatively the works by painter, Ernest Jolicouer open up new worlds of space to explore on canvas. Paired with delicate architectural wire sculptures by Rodger Stevens that play with light and shadow in a perfect composition of strengthened fragility. Debating reality with the use of photography are Seth Rubin’s distorted images and Celeste Fichtner play with objects as other. Beth Humphrey and Sarah Lutz’s abstract works dialogue side by side with joyful compositions of color and shape. The group of Stuart Farmery sculptures join together as a governing body holding court in the center space and engaging with a new character to chat with.