Annual Call For Artists

2004 Exhibition Schedule 

Mike Glier                              Nick Zammuto              Alison Moritsugu      

Mary-Louise Geering          Abigail Rubenstein             Richard Linke

Artists Choose Artists. January 24 – February 27.  Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24 from 4 - 6 pm. Annual group exhibition featuring six artists.  Three artists who have exhibited at the Courthouse Gallery in the past are each invited to choose an artist they admire. Mike Glier chooses Nick Zammuto, Richard Linke chooses Abigail Rubenstein, Alison Moritsugu chooses Mary-Louise Geering. 

 Paintings by Marc Sapir.  March 27 - April 30, 2004.  Opening Reception: Saturday, March 27, 4 - 6 pm.  Sapir’s paintings represent a tension between logos—text, science, digital technology—and the artist’s intuitive aesthetic manipulation (coloring, layering, recombining) of original found images. His paintings explore contemporary notions of language and communication by reconfiguring texts and data, often downloaded from the internet. These texts--religious manuscripts, scientific illustrations, or even Hindu astrological writings--are hand painted onto rich, brightly colored wood panels.  Smaller panels layer paper printed with illustrations from academic physics journals combined with poetic and other writings on saints, religious relics, and spirituality. Holes punched through the paper, derived from the repetitive patterns from the digital data, reveal vibrant colors underneath. 

Read The Metroland review of Marc Sapir exhibition at http://www.metroland.net/back_issues/vol_27_no15/art.html

Russell DeYoung	Joannne Murphy	Deb Martin

Paintings by Russell DeYoung, Joanne Murphy, and Deb Martin. May 16 - June 18, 2004.  Opening Reception: Sunday, May 16, 4 - 6 pm. This exhibition features three regional artists using the fluidity of paint to express the lushness of nature.  Images of the natural world range from expansive views of the landscape to in-depth examinations of various plant forms.  Deborah Martin’s small, intimate oil on wood panels refer to the format of botanical illustration. Going beyond scientific description, the rich surface and painterly brushwork imbues isolated plant forms with a vivacious spirit. Russell De Young finds inspiration in small community farms practicing sustainable agriculture. His recent landscape paintings portray and pay homage to these places, often painted on site, showing little evidence of human activity. Joanne Murphy’s recent series of paintings were created this winter as she observed the plant and bird activity outside her studio window.  What she once thought of as “hardly a spectacular view” transformed each day while she experimented with different drawing and painting mediums. Many of the paintings focus on a particular sumac tree.

This exhibition is underwritten by the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Foundation, “Dedicated to improving the quality of life for year-round residents of the Adirondack Park.”

Hiroshi Kumagai	Heeseung Lee	Pamela Marks

Paintings by Hiroshi Kumagai and Pamela Marks, ceramics by Heeseung Lee. July 10 - August 27, 2004.  Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 4 - 6 pm. This show examines the work of three artists whose works function as portals to a much larger universe where pattern suggests a potential for infinity.  The airy atmosphere of Kumagai’s paintings holds forms and patterns that shift and mutate beyond the edges of the painting.  Heeseung Lee’s ceramic vessels are influenced by stylized Korean screen paintings and Japanese lacquer ware.  Lee's highly finished surfaces incorporate layered organic and geometric patterns.  The explosion of organic forms in Pamela Mark’s paintings leave the viewer feeling enveloped, possibly invaded by the intertwining density of the surface. 

Mixed media work by Alexandra Sax, Lisa Collado, and Karen Koziol. September 26 - October 29, 2004.  Opening Reception: Sunday, September 26, 4 - 6 pm. The artists in the this show use a mix of mediums and found objects to mine the conventions of road maps, museum displays, and nostalgic kitsch to create metaphors for human experience.  Lisa Collado’s collages create intricate pathways that juxtapose both personal and common experience.  Mounted on architectural pedestals, Alexandra Sax’s enigmatic figures of animals are sometimes scruffy, sometimes elegant, and sometimes sentimental.  With an undercurrent of humor, Karen Koziol’s assemblages recycle familiar artifacts into new narratives.

This exhibition is partially underwritten by     

          Sky Pape

           Jill Odegaard       

Paintings by Sky Pape and mixed media by Jill Odegaard. November 19 - December 17, 2004.   Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 5 - 7 pm. The theme of this show is systems, either spontaneous or deliberate, in work that implies a set of rules, unfathomable, but rules nonetheless.  Sky Pape’s drawings surface gradually from many slow and deliberate marks.  The irregularities of her hand movements evolve into flowing forms that resemble fingerprints, coursing water, or aerial maps. Odegaard’s gridded works refer to the structure and format of board games, yet maintain a tactile sensibility.  Using cast paper, fabric and thread, she explores the “relationship between parts and the placement of the object”.

This exhibition is partially underwritten by

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