Rockland Center for the Arts

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SEVEN :: An Exhibition Featuring Local Artists
January 11 - Febuary 21, 2004

Opening Reception
Sunday, January 11th, 1 pm - 4 pm

Painting is alive and thriving in Rockland County. Rockland Center for the Arts will present "7", an exhibition featuring seven outstanding local painters.

The exhibit opens on Sunday, January 11, with an artist's reception from 1 - 4 pm. This exhibit will bring together both established and emerging painters from Rockland and Westchester.

"Its an opportunity for the art center to showcase the best local artists without the confines of a theme. The diversity of styles and scale will give the exhibition its own unique energy" says Lynn Stein, co curator with Daly Flanagan.

The exhibit present a collections of painters who work sensitively and masterfully with the medium of paint. Featured will be Paul Bochner's dramatic, large-scaled portraits that pry into his subject's psyches, Tricia Wrights stunning graphic paintings, Grace Mitchell's sensitive atmospheric renderings and Ed Kirkland's self taught, multi-media collage paintings. Also included are Mark Weiss, Lotte Petricone and Polly King.

ARTIST'S BIOS ::

Paul Bochner :: Passage (detail)
Oil on linen 56" x 192"

Paul Bochner's (Valley Cottage) series of multi-part paintings, many in the twelve-to-sixteen-foot range, integrate his passion for scale and elemental paint handling. "It brings the viewer into a more intimate range of another person than it is possible to be, in actual breathing life, as if we are focusing from a quarter inch away" says Bochner.

He is also screenwriter and has won several international awards for his short films and in 1997 received a Guggenheim fellowship in painting.

Polly King :: Untitled
Oil on wood 25" x 21"

Polly King (Nyack) is a painter who uses paint and ink on a variety of paper surfaces and wood that create intimate organic images that live between the worlds of painting and drawing. Polly shows regularly in Nantucket, Mass; Rotterdam, Holland and has exhibited at the Hopper House and Old Church in Demarest NJ. She teaches painting and drawing at RoCA.

Ed Kirkland :: Roots
61 3/4" X 32" mixed media

Ed Kirkland (Nyack) is self taught artist who was born in Harlem and incorporates his influences of jazz, poetry, and world music directly into his multi layered collages.He experiments with text, paint, masonite, metal and digital images. Ed's work has been seen at the Hopper House and Demain Sinclair Gallery of Nyack.

Grace Mitchell :: Abend I

Grace Mitchell (Piermont) is an established well know local landscape painter. Mitchell has the ability to paint the spirit of a place by using thin layers of paint, sanding and scraping her wooden surface repeatedly to reveal a luminosity. Grace is represented by the Allan Shepherd Gallery, NY. This is Grace's first time exhibiting at RoCA.

Mark Weiss :: Moment of Reflection
Oil on paper

Mark Weiss (Nyack) creates mystical worlds steeped in allegory and imagery by using thick paint applied and wiped away using palette knives and other spontaneous objects. His world is intense and frighteningly beautiful. Mark has exhibited at the Centro Culturale Ca La Ghironda, Italy and the Flywheel Gallery in Piermont. This is Mark's first time exhibiting at RoCA.

Lotte Petricone :: Joan Snyder II
Softground etching with chincolle
5" x 15 1/2"

Lotte Petricone is a painter/printmaker who has recently moved to Nyack. She will be showing her soft ground etchings that use a multiple of acid baths to etch the images and words into the plate.

The prints use a chincolle technique to create a collage feeling combining richly textured paper with found images. This Lotte's first time exhibiting at RoCA

Tricia Wright ::

Tricia Wright's (Westchester) strikingly bold paintings have a silkscreen feel that combined with masterfully poured paint produce sexy paintings tinged with sadistic overtones. Tricia moved to Westchester from England in 1999 and is represented by Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn.

A selection of Tricia's exhibitions include 2001: Art Transplant, British Artist in New York; Breaking the Rule at the Katonah Museum; LBI Art Foundation National Juried Show '01 at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris.

She has been featured in November 2003 Art News and Art in America 2001.This is Tricia's first time exhibiting at RoCA.

Gallery Information ::

Gallery Hours are weekdays from 10:00am to 4:00pm and weekends from 1:00 to 4:00pm. The gallery is closed holidays. Admission is free or by suggested donation.