MARINE PENVERN: Body & Soul: On ViewRepeating Event

Featuring: Ed Cherry – guitar Kyle Koehler – keyboard “To me, jazz represents pure freedom and opportunity, and my artwork is an expression of that freedom” – Marine Penvern From her earliest days as a scenic painter frequenting NYC jazz clubs to paint the artists to her practice as a prêt-à-porter clothing designer, French-born, Hudson-based artist and fashion designer Marine Penvern has been inspired by jazz. Her solo exhibition Body & Soul features paintings, textiles, and clothing design that seek to convey the soul through the expression of the body with the spirit of jazz improvisation and collaboration. On View until April 2nd

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This free virtual program emphasizes conversational Spanish skills in fun and friendly classes for both “Complete Beginners” and “Advanced/Intermediate” learners. To learn more, click here. Space is limited and registration is required. To register, email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org Date/Time: Tuesdays, February 7 – April 11 Complete Beginners class: 5 – 6pm Advanced/Intermediate class: 6 – 7pm

On View: Form UndoneRepeating Event

Susan Eley Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works by Josh Meillier and Carlos Puyol at its Upstate Gallery. Entitled Form Undone, this two-person exhibition will be on view at SEFA Hudson from February 23 through April 9, 2023.

There will be an opening reception to celebrate the artists on Friday, February 24th from 5 to 7PM. 

Before “form” can be “undone,” form has to be mastered—before compositions can be interrupted, before materials can merge, before layers can be unraveled, before color can be exploded, before grids can be fractured, before borders can be broken. The artist must have a mastery of all such aesthetics and techniques in order to move beyond them, to create beyond them. 

In Form Undone, the paintings of Josh Meillier and Carlos Puyol exemplify these skills. The artists have mastered a number of painting approaches—from sewing their works together into canvas amalgamations, to taping the backgrounds of their pieces to obtain precise lines, to appropriating photographic source materials. 

The exhibition at SEFA Hudson will pair the largely monochromatic works of Meillier with the colorful abstractions of Puyol. Both artists can fall into the larger category of “abstraction,” yet their methodologies and influences are unique. Meillier’s often minimalistic black and white geometries will mingle with Puyol’s colorful acrylic paintings that encapsulate every hue of the rainbow. Both artists embrace a mixed-media approach and play with negative spaces within their compositions. 

Form Undone is the first major exhibition at SEFA Hudson with emerging artist Josh Meillier,  who the Gallery initially found through a student submission process for a SEFA NYC show in 2021. Form Undone includes fourteen of Meillier’s recent paintings, as well as a portfolio of drawings. In his works, the artist breaks our ideas of Minimalism and Abstraction. He employs the grid, but disrupts it with highly naturalistic elements, such as photographic transfers on his screen prints. His sources here are sometimes his own pictures or are pulled from online—the ambiguity of the images intended. This tendency for “pulling together while breaking apart” can also be witnessed in Meillier’s use of materials. The artist also uses pumice, glass beads and glass powder.

These are frequently construction materials that produce the “shimmer, a silky grit” we see in the paint of crosswalks, for example. Meillier enjoys the “smoothness and the roughness” that is inherent in this substance. 

The exhibition at SEFA Hudson will feature paintings from three series: “Screens,” “Still Life” and “Site.” Each series shines individually and has been intricately constructed materially. “Screens” have bright flashes of golden pigment amongst black and white backgrounds. They have been built up with transfers of newsprint, totaling at least twenty-five layers in a single work. The “Still Life” series includes Xerox transfers of photographs. Here, Meillier can showcase his interest in plants, in fracturing the grid and in the ambiguity of digital imagery. The works from the “Site” series are the most minimal of the group, as well as the newest, completed in 2022 and 2023. The artist notes that he enjoys “watching the layers build up and how previous layers impact the printing process, preferring things that are not perfectly legible.” 

EXPERIENCERepeating Event

We are very excited to invite you to the very first, Robin Rice Gallery “E X P E R I E N C E” in Hudson NY, at the Hudson Milliner Art Salon, 415 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534.  We will be here through April 28, 2023.

Fridays 2pm to 6pm. Saturdays 10am to 6pm. Sundays 11am to 5pm. Mondays 12am to 5pm. Tuesday closed.  Wednesdays + Thursdays most likely I will be here I live around the corner. Or by Appointment 917 375 6660 or email at robin@robinricegallery.com

Carefully curated works by Rice’s gallery artists, including fine art photography, painting, lighting, and sculpture, that work together seamlessly in her signature Salon style installations. This exhibition, much like her own life, is about more than just looking at art, as she has a knack for organically bringing people together, adding a real social element to their experience.

Robin Rice  + Robin Rice Gallery

“Shortly after I moved to Hudson, NY, in December of 2021, I met Charlotta and Shannon at The Hudson Milliner Art Salon on Warren Street.  That night we spoke about doing a collaboration in their lovely space.

In 1990 she opened the Robin Rice Gallery at 325 West 11th , New York, NY. As a photographer,  Rice is has been shooting photography with her first camera at the age of 11.

“I love the moment when the viewer is first drawn to an image. Sometimes it’s indefinable; a moment when the viewer not only shares but also reconnects to an experience remembered. When that moment comes, I’ll do whatever I can to make it possible for a client to have the art that moves them...” With her expert placement and collaborative work style, the Gallery helps privately owned homes as well as commercial spaces reach their visual potential.

The Hudson Milliner Art Salon is a creative and collaborative art space featuring art and performance as well as the intersection of the two.  In 2013 The Hudson Milliner is the project of Shannon and  Charlotta, two artists from Brooklyn who bought the building in search of an upstate abode they could escape to.

Charlotta Janseen is a painter & restauranteur, who grew up in Iran and Germany. Her paintings on the cusp of black & white and color, explore the past and inform the now. A recent project, inspired by police mug shots of heroic Bus Boycotters and Freedom Riders from the '50's and '60's currently tours the States. Her restaurant Chez Oskar is located in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Shannon  Greer is an advertising and art photographer from New York City, who challenges big waves, plays street basketball and studies jiu jitsu whenever he isn't making photographs or renovating gorgeous buildings.

D’Arcy Simpson Art Works Presents: Why Look? by Xan PetersRepeating Event

In Why Look?, Xan Peters asks the viewer what we can learn about our natural world when it comes to us as an artistic expression, free from the detachment of science.

On View: Unraveling the Journey X 3Repeating Event

New paintings by Chimba (Chiarra Hughes), Itefayo Cobbins, and Virginia Dow. Fridays 2-7 pm Opening: March 18: 6-8 pm To Appear Then Reappear Adapting to the Changes in Our Lives. Transforming into our Being The Development of who we are Noticing the Ties That Bind Us Releasing the Flow Of Imagery of Imagination.That Connects the Dots To Create Our Flow that whispers off the Canvas.  

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