Rockland Center for the Arts

Sheila Hicks

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RED IS EVERYWHERE ::
October 9 - December 4, 2005

Curator :: Ned Harris

The color red is the thematic of this fall's exhibition
RoCA's longtime exhibition chairman and board member Ned Harris presents his homage to the color red entitled RED IS EVERYWHERE . "The intent of the exhibition is to see the color red as an artery that helps connect the viewer to art ranging from the utilitarian and recognizable to the abstract experimental," says Harris

The participating artists are ::
Lionel Aurelien, Suzanne Benton, Cynthia Coulter, Jim Dine, Simon Draper, Ceca Georgieva, Ginger Andro & Chuck Glicksman, Sandra Golbert, Allen Hart, Sheila Hicks, Paul Hammer-Hultberg, Khader Humied, Art Kane, Masakazu Kobayashi, Nancy Koenigsberg, Carmen Kolodzey, Anthony Krauss, Eric Laxman, Walter LeCroy, Paula Madawick, John Maggiotto, Ruth Malinowski, Mary Merkel-Hess, Hugh Mesibov, Eleanor Miller, Robert Motherwell, Jorge Noche, Luis Perelman, Judith Plotner, Richard Pousette-Dart, Eugene Powell, Armand Rumayor, Bill Sayles, Nat Shapiro, E. Sky, Paul Tappenden, Lenore Tawney, James Tyler, Jerry Vis, Lydia Viscardi, Wendy Wahl, Katherine Westphal, Maryellen Mcgrath, Sonja Wagner.

We have selected the following artists for web representation ::
Cynthia Coulter
Sheila Hicks
Allen Hart
Judith Plotner

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Cynthia Coulter :: Found Objects

Cynthia Coulter's is an accomplished artist whose work with Found Objects has been widely exhibited and acclaimed throughout the United States. Influenced by American folk art objects her intention is to explore materials with "past lives" as in the Indian Canoe Skins she flattens-out and paints creating large horizontal or vertical "scrolls" often embellished with the color red. Her origins in Oklahoma and living in New York's Chinatown and Hong Kong have been her sources of inspiration. Coulter has exhibited widely throughout the United States and has been reviewed by the New York Times and other major publications. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Eben Demarest Trust and the Pollock-Kresner Foundation to name a few and has received many awards including the New York Foundation for the Arts-Featured Artist and the 2000 Artist of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Juried Exhibition.

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Sheila Hicks :: Fiber Artist

Sheila Hicks is one of the most acclaimed fiber artists in the world who has utilized Red at every stage of her long career. She has been one of the prime movers for elevating the field of Craft to the level of a major art form confirmed by her being included in the collections of the world's major museums. She received her BFA and MFA degrees from Yale University and received a Fullbright Fellowship to Chile. She is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Prague, to name a few. Additionally she has received awards internationally including the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, the Medal of Fine Art, French Academy of Architects and decorated by the French Government.

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Allen Hart :: Painter

Allen Hart, born in 1925, is a prolific and extraordinary figurative expressionist painter with a life long body of work so rich in color and emotion that the color red seems to be the lifeblood pulsing throughout his work. In a review of his February 2000 Retrospective at the Atelier A/E in Chelsea , NYC, Review magazine described the use of Red in Hart's work, "Fire-house red is a color that repeatedly reoccurs throughout Hart's oeuvre. Sometimes it's blood-red cadmium or a deepened scarlet, but the life-affirming and violent intimations can never be ignored" Listed in the "Who's Who in American Art" Hart's work is in permanent collections of the University of Massachusetts, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio and the Slater Memorial Museum of Art in Norwich, Connecticut, and has been acclaimed by the art critics John Gruen and John Canaday. A documentary video on Hart was released by the Herbert Mark Newman Theater of The Rosenthal YM-YWHA of Northern Westchester, sponsored by UJA.

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Judith Plotner :: Quilter

Incorporating her love of fabric and training as a painter and printmaker, Judith Plotner's journey as artist and explorer of textures, shapes and colors has made her an acclaimed Quilt artist with awards, grants and extensive exhibits throughout the United States and Canada. The scope of her work includes representational and abstract subject matter. The artist takes the themes of the elements, and interprets them with her own vision, incorporating the color red as inspiration for many of her major pieces. Her awards include the Steers Prize and the Ward medal. She has most recently exhibited at the Arts Center Gallery at the Saratoga Arts Council and the Whistler House Museum of Art. She is the recipient of two Individual Artists Grants from the New York State Council on Arts and one Special Opportunity Stipend from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Rensselear County Council For the Arts.

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