December 2009 Regional Juried Art Exhibit

Open to all media with the exception of still photography, video, or

any digital art which derives from recorded or scanned Imagery

State of the Art Gallery, 120 W State St, Ithaca NY 14850 (607) 277-1626

$600 in prizes awarded

Please email entry submissions to Jay Hart at jhart@lightlink.com, with all requested items as listed below. Entry fee of $35 must be paid in check form to the State of the Art Gallery and mailed postmark by 5 November 2009 to Jay Hart, 336 Penn Ave., Trumansburg NY 14886. If email submission of entry material is problematic, please include a content CD or DVD with your mailed fee.

All electronic entries must be received by November 5, 2009, and will be jury-reviewed by November 16, 2009. Email notification of results will be sent that day.

Submissions will consist of

* artist(s) address, phone numbers, email, website in the body of the email
* up to two works less than two years old, each under 40” wide
* jpeg/tiff sized between 800 and 1200 pixels on long edge named as artistname01 and artistname02
* an image list (artistnamelist.doc) of: Filename, Title, Size (HxWxD), Medium and Price

Accepted work must be brought to the Gallery on November 29 2009 between 12:00-5:00pm or November 30, 2009 between 1:00-5:00pm (no shipping allowed). No work will be accepted after 5:00pm November 30.

The Gallery will sell works on a 30% commission rate, and the artist will be responsible for settling the sales tax with NYS. Sold artwork will remain in the exhibit for the duration of the show, unless a sale is to visitors who are leaving the area, and insist on taking it with them. The work will be handled with great care, but insurance coverage cannot be provided at the venue, and the State of the Art Gallery cannot be held responsible for theft or damage to consigned works. Each artist will sign a statement agreeing to this when dropping off works.

The exhibit will be curated/juried by members of the gallery, but after installation a guest judge Lin Price, faculty at the Department of Art at Ithaca College, will determine awards from a prize pool of $600. The winners will be announced at the Opening Reception on Friday December 4 2009.

All works must be retrieved personally by artists or designated associates on either January 3 or 4 2010 between 3:00-5:00 pm. Please understand that the Gallery has no facility to store your work, and will reserve the right to dispose of abandoned works at their discretion after a period of 30 days.

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:

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.”

	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.

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.