State of the Art will host its first Members’ Show of 2012 during May.  The show will include paintings, watercolors, drawings, collage, photographs, prints, sculpture and other three-dimensional work by the gallery’s artists. A reception for the artists will be held Friday, May 4 from 5-8pm. Show dates are Thursday May 3 through Sunday, May 27, 2012.

When you come to our May reception, you will walk on our brand new, beautiful floor and our art will be illuminated by our new, energy-efficient lighting!

State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street.  Hours:  Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.  The gallery is ADA accessible and there is curbside parking.

607-277-1626 , www.soag.org

Lesley Williamson, director of the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, awarded the following prizes in the State of the Art 23rd Annual Photo Show:

$100 / Ray Helmke / Train to Nowhere

$100 / Jari Poulin / Peter

$100 / Sarah Carman / The American Home

$100 / Fernando Llosa & Werner Sun / The Physicist’s Cow

$50 / Angela Possemato / Forest Fire

$50 / Mark Larsen / Cluster of Trees, Chenango County

$50 / Randi Millman-Brown / Thingvellir, Iceland

Ninety photographs by seventy-five photographers filled both galleries at State of the Art for its 23rd Annual Juried Photo Show.

The show will close Sunday, April 1, 2012.Gallery Hours:  Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street, Ithaca.  The gallery is ADA accessible with curbside parking.  Contact information:  607-277-1626 andwww.soag.org

Exhibit Dates: Wednesday, February 29 through Sunday, April 1, 2012

Up to $600 may be awarded at the discretion of the prize judge.

Submission Deadline: Friday, February 10, 2012, by 5p.m.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

• Each entrant may submit up to two (2) works.

• All work should be reasonably current and original.

• If accepted into the show, the work must be delivered ready to hang (matted, framed with glass or plexiglass in front and with a wire or suitable hardware for hanging in the back).

• A photographic process must have been used in the production of the work. (Scanned work is acceptable, digital art that did not originate from a photographic process-is not).

• The work should not have been submitted to SOAG in the past.

• Current SOAG members and their immediate families are not eligible to exhibit in this show.

• The Entry Fee of $35.00 is non-refundable and does not guarantee that your work will be accepted into the show.

• The Entry Fee can be paid by PayPal

Or payment may be made by check and made out to:  State of the Art Gallery , postmarked by February 10 and mailed to:

David Watkins Jr.

201 Hillview Place

Ithaca, New York 14850

Work will not be accepted after the stated deadlines.

SUBMISSION OF WORK

Please email your entries to: David Watkins Jr. at:   dow1@cornell.edu

• List the Artist Name, Address, phone numbers, e-mail and website (if applicable) in the body of the e-mail.

• Images of up to two (2) works can be submitted.  They must be jpegs at 300 dpi, between 800 and 1200 pixels on the long side and labeled with the artist’s name, followed by the image number 01 or 02. (example: d.watkins01.jpg, d.watkins02.jpg)

• An image list (Filename, Title, Size, Medium, Price) must also be submitted with all entries.

• If submitting by e-mail is problematic, please send a CD with your fee and all information as outlined above.  CD’s cannot be returned. Do not send prints.

ACCEPTED WORK: Deadline and Notifications

All entries must be received by 5pm Friday, February 10, 2012 and will be jury-reviewed by Friday, February 17, 2012.  E-mail notification of results will be sent Feb. 18-20, 2012.

The exhibit will be curated by members of the gallery. After installation a Judge from outside      the gallery will determine prizes and how the prize money will be distributed.  Winners may be notified privately prior to the opening reception so that they may plan to attend the award ceremony.  The awards will be presented at 6:30pm during the opening reception Friday, March 2^nd 2012.

DELIVERY of ACCEPTED WORK to THE GALERY

The work, ready for hanging, must be delivered to the gallery in person or by a designated substitute on:

Sunday, February 26 between noon and 5 pm; or

Monday, February 27 between 1 and 5pm.

• Work cannot be accepted after 5pm Monday as installation of the show begins at that time.

• NO SHIPPING OR MAILING.

• The gallery retains the right to deny access to the show if the images delivered are substantially different from those submitted to the jury.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Submissions to the SOAG 23^rd Annual Juried Photography Show shall imply an agreement on the part of the artists to all conditions of this prospectus. Permission for SOAG to photograph accepted works for publicity, education, and reference purposes is assumed.

SALES

Sale of the work is encouraged. Work will be offered for sale with the understanding that there is a 30% commission for each sale. Artists will be responsible for reporting and paying the sales tax. Sold artwork remains in the exhibit for the duration of the show.

INSURANCE

While the State of the Art Gallery, its members and agents will make every effort to protect your work, we cannot indemnify you against loss or damage to your work. In submitting to the show you agree that the State of the Art Gallery is not liable and must be held harmless if your work is damaged or lost.

PICK-UP of ART at the END of the SHOW

All works must be retrieved personally by artists or designated associates on:

Sunday, April 1^st from 1pm-5pm.

Please understand that the gallery has no facility to store your work, and will reserve the right to dispose of abandoned works at our discretion.

CALENDAR

February 10, 2012  Deadline for all entries.

February 18-20, 2012  Notification of acceptance/rejection.

February 26, 2012  Delivery of works 12-5 pm

February 27, 2012  Delivery of works 1-5 pm

February 29, 2012  Exhibit opens

March 2, 2012  Opening Reception 5-8 pm

March 2, 2012  Awards ceremony 6:30 pm

April 1, 2012  Exhibit closes

April 1, 2012  Pick up work 1-5 pm

PHOTO SHOW FAQ

Sixty-seven works of art by sixty-seven artists will be exhibited in the State of the Art December 2011 Juried Exhibition. This biennial show opens November 30 and will include watercolors, pastels, oil and acrylic paintings, woodcuts, sculpture, pottery and giclee prints.  At a reception for the artists, former Johnson Art Museum Director Frank Robinson awarded the following prizes:

$100 / Jessica Warner (title, Encompass)

$100 / Matthew McLean (title, Gold Mountain Hi-Way)

$100 / Barbara Page (title, Out Of Bounds)

$100 / Ji Eun Kim (title, Oneness)

$50 / Vickie Mike (title, Circling Abstraction)

$50 / Milly Acharya (title, Fushsia)

$50 / Liese Bronfenbrenner (title, Forest Spring)

$50 / Hope Zaccagni (title, Salt Mine with Yellow Train Car)

The show closes Dec. 24, 2011.

Gallery hours:  Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.  The gallery will be closed Dec. 25-Jan. 3, 2012.  State of the Art is ADA accessible with curbside parking.  Contact information:  607-277-1626 and www.soag.org

The State of the Art Gallery features artists from the Ithaca Art trail October 5-30th.  Preview the Art Trail members’ work in one place before choosing which studios to visit.  Seeing the actual work often has a greater impact than just viewing it on a computer screen, and every year many people do  their “Art Trail research” at the gallery.

Location: 120 W. State St., Ithaca, NY

Opening Reception:  Friday, October 7, 5-8pm

Gallery hours:  W-F, 12-6pm, Sa & Su 12-5pm

Art trail weekends are October 8/9 and 15/16, 11:am-5:00pm each day.

PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, PRINTS, WATERCOLORS, SCULPTURE, CERAMICS AND MORE will be shown by STATE OF THE ART MEMBERS in their second group show of 2011.  Show dates are August 31 through October 2, 2100. Reception for the artists, Friday, September 2, 5-8pm with a wine tasting compliments of Standing Stone Vineyards of Hector, NY.

Also in September:

SOAG to sponsor nationally known artist Jim Mott’s Itinerant Artist Project

Jim Mott first conceived of his Itinerant Artist Project (IAP) in the late 1990s, while visiting Ithaca. This summer Mott returns to the Ithaca area at the invitation of State of the Art Gallery, for an IAP residency and exhibit.

Mott and his project have received national attention, including features on the “Today” show (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22472628/ <http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22472628/> ) and in American Artist.
For one month out of the year, Mott makes a road trip somewhere in the United States, staying with voluntary hosts for two to five days and painting small location paintings, one of which is offered in exchange for the hospitality provided.

Mott will be in Ithaca from August 25-September 7, 2011.  He is still looking for a host or two for his “painting stops” (contact him at jhmott@juno.com or State of the Art at 607-277-1626).

Paintings he makes during this residency will be exhibited at State of the Art in September as part of one the gallery’s two yearly members’ shows.  This exhibition opens Friday, September 2, Gallery Night in downtown Ithaca.

On Sept. 7 at 7pm, he will give a gallery talk about his art and experiences. In addition, he will hold a painting workshop which, he says, will be a double feature that combines his two most popular topics:  “Simple and Direct:  Small Panel Painting for Artists on the Go” and “The Shadow Landscape: Painting Dusk and Night”. It will be held from 5:30-8:30pm on August 31 at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market.  The cost is $35 plus a nominal materials fee for gesso panels.

An interview with Mott on “Out of Bounds” will air Thursday, Sept. 15, at 7pm on WEOS-FM and Sunday, Sept 18, at 11:30am on WSKG-FM.  For more information on Jim Mott and the Itinerant Artist Project, please go to his web site:  http://www.jimmott.com/

About the IAP, Mott says:  “It has been pivotal for my development as an artist. Besides giving me new ways to think about my role as a painter, and as a mediator between art and place and public, the touring has stimulated unexpected productivity, and the resulting artwork has drawn local and national attention.”

Over the past twenty years, artist/photographer Stan Bowman has explored the computer and digital software as tools for creating art.  “Abstract Discoveries,” the most current evidence of his efforts and explorations will be on display during June to visitors of State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca.  Bowman’s work in this exhibition is in the form of giclee prints:  most are printed on canvas and a few on metallic paper.

“These current images are for me a celebration of my interest in abstraction,” Bowman says.  “I am an abstract artist by inclination. Even when I began as a photographer in the 1950s my black and white images of subjects were organized with overall abstract patterns in mind. Places were important but so was the way the picture was organized in the frame. This attention to the abstract nature of imagery probably came originally from my years spent as an architect with its strong design emphasis, and my very intense interest in modernism with its focus on simplicity of form, shape and texture.”

Sharp Outline, one of the giclee prints in the exhibition, demonstrates Bowman’s use of abstract patterns and the ways he builds and manipulates them on the computer.  Although not black and white, he has organized his subject–colored shapes, which look like they were formed from a thick painting medium textured by a trowel–in layers of various colors and stages of enlargement.  There is an action caught–as if it were being captured through the viewfinder of a camera—of opaque shapes rising upward and leaving below trailings of what they once were.

Bowman has created this abstract imagery using programs like Adobe Photoshop.  “I am now pushing forward into new exciting territories,” he says, “I zoom in and feature pixels as the building block for abstract patterns, altering them using the powerful manipulation and transformation tools of Photoshop.  For me, discovery is the name of the game.”

“Abstract Discoveries” will be on exhibit June 3-28, 2009, with a reception for the artist Friday, June 5 from 5-8pm at the gallery.  State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street in downtown Ithaca.  There is curbside parking and the gallery is ADA accessible.  Hours are:  Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm, Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.  Contact information:  607-277-1626, www.soag.org//and www.http://Stanbowman.com//

January, 2009

Landscapes & Labyrinths
Frances Fawcett and Margaret Nelson

Wednesday, January 7, through Sunday, February 1, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, January 9, 5:00-8:00 pm
Second reception: Friday, January 23, 5:00-8:00 pm (Gallery Night)

“Landscapes & Labyrinths”, a two-person exhibition of new work by Margaret Nelson and Frances Fawcett, will be the first show of 2009 at the State of the Art Gallery. Because January is a month for a number of art-related events in Ithaca, there will be two receptions for the artists. The first will be Friday, January 9, 5:00-8:00 pm and two weeks later, in conjunction with Ithaca’s Light in Winter Festival, a second reception will take place on Friday, Jan 25, 5:00-8:00 pm. This is also Gallery Night in downtown Ithaca. Both receptions are at the gallery, free and open to the public.

Heart of Gold

Some of Margy Nelson’s art reflects the subject matter and precision she brings to her “day job” as a biological illustrator. The rest is her escape from precision into free association, in watercolor and “digital paint.” Here is what she has to say:
“Though normally an articulate person, I find myself to be inarticulate about my art. The meditative process of creation does not translate easily into words… Art, after all, is a visual, not a verbal, medium. So take a look at my images and decide for yourself what I am about. Whatever that may be, its exploration gives me great pleasure. I hope it will give you some pleasure too” (more images)

	Yellowstone Grasses

Acrylic landscape paintings — large and small, expansive and intimate — make up Frances Fawcett’s share of the show. One of her interests is capturing the gestures of line in grasses, wood and water. She likes to paint environments that invite the viewer in, or that the viewer can imagine inhabiting were they a different creature altogether — a small mammal or an insect — or that call attention to the interest and beauty of often overlooked places in the landscape. (more images)

This is not the first time these two artists and friends have collaborated on an exhibition. They are both members of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and this past summer, they organized an exhibit of sixty-five pieces of scientific illustration to hang at Cornell’s Hartell Gallery. Nelson says submissions came from all over the world and it was a very impressive collection.

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This exhibit is funded in part by a grant from the New York
State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program.

Wednesday, November 5 through Sunday, November 30, 2008
Opening reception: Friday, November 7, 5:00-8:00 pm
(The gallery will be closed Thanksgiving day, November 27.)

Paintings of urban life, trees, explorations of color and texture and collages of gods and goddesses which personify the planets will fill the front gallery at State of the Art during November. The work is by four new gallery members: painters Leslie Brill, Erica Pollock and Ethel Vrana and collagist Andrea King. The four artists will be present at a reception for their exhibition Friday, November 7, from 5:00-8:00 pm at the gallery.

This exhibition opens Wednesday, November 5, and runs through Sunday, November 30. In addition, other gallery members will exhibit paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and assemblage in the Members’ Gallery.

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This exhibit is funded in part by a grant from the New York
State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program.

February, 2009

Jan Kather
Water Preserves

Wednesday, February 4, through Sunday, March 1, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, February 6, 5:00-8:00 pm

“Water Preserves” explores our complex and sometimes precarious relationship with water by visually and aurally examining its beauty, magic, terror, and poetry. The photo/video installation includes a special invitational collaborative piece created from the work of ten international video artists: