The mission of the Michael Nelson Gallery is to generate and conduct a flow of creative energy for Hudson River Valley artists, through hosting forums, workshops, concerts, and studio space. At present, a forum is being assembled of imaginative minds who desire collaboration on common artistic and greater goals. The gallery is open to the public Fridays through Sundays, 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
For immediate release:
Art Exhibition: “Holiday Show” at Michael Nelson Gallery
Where: 115 Partition St., Saugerties
Show Runs: Friday, Dec. 5, thru Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009
Opening Party: Sunday, Dec. 7, 4 – 7pm
Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12 –5pm
FMI: 845- 534-4563
To celebrate the Holiday season the Michael Nelson Gallery at 115 Partition St., in Saugerties, will be hosting a Holiday Show featuring works from sixteen of the area’s best loved artists. The opening of the exhibition will coincide with the Saugerties HOLIDAY IN THE VILLAGE – Annual Fun 2-Day December Event, Dec 6th & 7th, when there will be concerts, Santa Claus, Fireman’s Parade of Lights and many other entertainments in the village.
Artists exhibiting at the Nelson Gallery will be Loel Barr, Bobby Blitzer, Allen Bryan, Jean Campbell, Staats Fasoldt, Susan Fink, Adrian Frost, Brunie Kandora, Kate McGloughlin, Michael Nelson, Joy Moore, Prudence See, Patricia Seminara, Angie Gaffney-Smith, Ellie Steffen and Rebecca Darlington Townsend. They will display work of widely ranging style, medium and subject matter, but all pieces will be limited in size and very reasonably priced, providing great gifts for the Holiday season.
Loel Barr
Allen Bryan
Rebecca Darlington Townsend
Angela Gaffney-Smith
Prudence See
Michael Nelson
Bobby Blitzer
Brunie Kandora
Patricia Seminara
Joy Moore
Kate McGloughlin
Sue Silverman Fink
Staats Fasoldt
The Michael Nelson Gallery is known for fine photography. Michael himself is a photographer who has been photographing in the New York City area for over 30 years, working on assignments from across the country while keeping a firm hand on personal projects in the Hudson Valley. Photographers Allen Bryan and Joy Moore will be exhibiting their photographs alongside Michael’s. Allen is a commercial photographer who, since 1995, has been exhibiting prints involving the landscape and the effect of people upon it. Joy is an active member of the Woodstock Artists Association. Her images reflect nature’s sculptural, emotional, and sensual integrity.
Staats Fasoldt teaches at the Woodstock School of Art and is known for his luminous watercolors of the region, as is Angie Gaffney Smith, who will be showing work inspired by local hikes and kayak adventures on the Hudson River. Bobby Blitzer also works in watercolor as well as acrylic. Her work explores paths of evolution and spiritual mystery. Also exploring in her current work, the boundaries between past and present, and conscious and unconscious states of mind, Loel Barr combines painting (usually oils) with a variety of mixed media – collage, encaustic, digital, transfers, found objects and ceramics.
Kate McGloughlin is well known as a painter of local landscapes as well as an instructor of printmaking at the Woodstock School of Art. The small, mixed media works on paper that she will be showing are composites sketches from her daily “family walks”. Prudence See will also be showing landscapes, with the Saugerties lighthouse always a favorite subject. Susan Fink uses oils, acrylic and pastels, to explore still lives and landscapes, as well as animal imagery. Also known for her fine animal pieces as well as her figurative ones, Ellie Steffen’s bold, acrylic paintings embody her belief in “the power of paint to translate my feelings”.
Adrian Frost, is known for his large wood sculpture pieces and his use of writing and poetry in his work. For this exhibition he brings small, intimate, word work.
Contemporary folk artist Jean Campbell will enliven the exhibition with her edgy but sweet, brightly colored pieces. She will be showing paintings and pottery as well as her intriguing voodoo Santa dolls. Also decorative and charming are Patricia Seminara’s hand colored woodcut prints, while printmaker Brunie Kandora will exhibit her much admired sugar lift aquatint prints. Her motivation and inspiration for her prints “stem mostly from life around her and from nature and the abundance of its vegetation.”
Perhaps painter Rebecca Darlington Townsend embodies the Holiday season most clearly in her work - as she says: “Fresh from two months at an art residency in Champagne, France, my ‘Kiss’ paintings series are a simple reminder of the season’s best gift to give. Baisers a tous!” (Kisses for all!)
The exhibition can be viewed beginning Friday, Dec 5, 12 – 5pm – and we encourage you to come early to select your favorite Holiday art. The Opening will officially be celebrated on Sunday, Dec 7th, from 4 – 7pm, with a Festive Holiday Party. There will be wine and cookies, voodoo Santas and, of course, “Baisers a Tous!”
For more information call 845-534-4563
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