As we mourn the loss of Steve Jobs and marvel at the iPad, iPod and iPhone, we may tend to under value the lowly hammer, wrench and axe. Not so for Eric Wildrick whose sculptures embody a fascination for hand tools, which for early mankind made possible the impossible. Two of his sculptures made of […]
This week, my guest blogger is Judith Weber, a ceramic artist and President of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts. In 1983, Weber co-founded Media Loft, the first Loft established for artists in Westchester County. At my request, Judith reviewed the eARTh exhibition on view at ArtsWestchester’s Peckham Gallery through November 23. Sixty-eight ceramic […]
How is an artist like a salmon? Well, they are both used to swimming upstream. Artists work hard to get their work out there, building a following and an impressive resume so that people get comfortable with their track record. Perhaps the public’s theory is that if an artist is “known,” he/she must be good. […]
An extraordinary thing happened in the 1980s. It seemed to come out of the blue. The East Village gave birth to a rash of galleries in every imaginable nook and cranny…storefronts, apartments, even abandoned buildings. That period in the annals of art history is explored in a new exhibition “Circa 1986” at the Hudson Valley […]
“It’s an idea whose time has come.” That’s Tom Schwarz’s summation of the “coup” he recently pulled off, getting approval for a retirement community on the campus of Purchase College at SUNY. After eight years of banging on doors in Albany, Schwarz has come a step closer to a unique “annuity program” that can fuel […]
Ariel Plantz thinks of herself as a “community artist”…a creative brand I hadn’t heard of before. A community artist is different than, say, a community organizer. We all know he became President. A community artist, if he or she is lucky, may land an exhibition at a museum or alternatively get another gig and then […]
The word “earth” has (ART) within it. I didn’t think about that too deeply when we planned an exhibition called “eARTh” opening on October 5th in our White Plains building. Credit for that title goes to Leigh Taylor Mickelson, the curator, who selected the earth works of 68 artists in the region. She is the […]
Is there any person in the New York metropolitan region who at one time or another has not recoiled from stepping on a used piece of chewing gum? Or worse, found a piece stuck on the bottom of a desk or table? Ugh. Though slightly gross, very annoying and morally disrespectful, it’s a part of […]
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