State of the Art Gallery

120 West State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850

607-277-1626

21st Annual Photo Show Exhibitor Agreement March 3-28, 2010

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Exhibition Agreement

1. The exhibitor agrees to pay a $30.00 non-refundable fee upon submission of work.

2. The artist/exhibitor agrees to deliver their work(s) to the Gallery at the published date. and time. The exhibitor will abide by the rules of the gallery regarding presentation and suitability for hanging as stated in the Call for Entries. Final approval of the criteria is the responsibility of the Gallery Board of Directors.

3. The Gallery will provide an exhibition opening/reception for the artists with refreshments and an Award Ceremony. Exhibition announcements will be provided by the Gallery and mailed to the Gallery mailing list. Additional cards will be available for the personal use of the exhibitor, but the cost of mailing these additional cards is the responsibility of the exhibitor.

4. While the State of the Art Gallery, its members and agents, will make reasonable efforts to protect the work(s) of an exhibitor, the Gallery cannot indemnify the work(s) against loss or damage. In submitting and agreeing to exhibit the work(s) in the Gallery the exhibitor agrees that the State of the Art Gallery, its members, Board of Directors, or agents will not be held liable and will be held harmless should there be damage or loss of work(s).

5. The exhibitor agrees that the work(s) of the exhibitor may be reproduced for the purpose of advertising the exhibition for a period not to exceed five years.

6. It is agreed that the exhibitor may conduct sale of the work(s) from the exhibition. The Gallery will act as facilitator through it’s members who staff the Gallery during regular gallery hours. For the service, the Gallery receives a 30% commission on the sale of all displayed work.

7. The show ends Sunday, March 28. Work must be picked up between noon and 6 pm that day.

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STEPHAN R.R. PHILLIPS

210 East Lincoln Street

Ithaca, New York 14850

Phone (607) 273-6434 • E-mail ssbluehouse@gmail.com

EDUCATION

1994 – 1998 Cornish College of the Arts Seattle, Washington

B.F.A. (Major – Painting, Sculpture: Minor – Printmaking)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

ONE AND TWO PERSON SHOWS

2009 Corners Gallery, A Ritual Setting Ithaca, NY

State of the Art Gallery, Counterpoint Cafe Ithaca, NY

2007 BoxHeart Gallery, Held in the Mind Pittsburgh, PA

2004 Clinton House Art Space, Stories of the Christian Dharma Ithaca, NY

GROUP SHOWS

2010 Longyear Gallery, Artists Choose Artists Margaretville, NY

2009 Allied Artists of America, Annual Juried Exhibition New York, NY

Houghton Gallery, SOAG Celebrates 20 Years Corning, NY

State of the Art Gallery, Members Show Ithaca, NY

Prince Street Gallery, 3rd National Juried Exhibition New York, NY

Delavan Gallery, Stone Canoe Art Exhibit Syracuse, NY

2006 BoxHeart Gallery, Sacred Art Exhibition Pittsburgh, PA

2005 Roberts Wesleyan College, Rest in a Time of Unrest Rochester, NY

2003 The Painting Center, Small Immensities New York, NY

The Barrett Art Center, New Directions Poughkeepsie, NY

PUBLICATIONS

Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, No. 3, 2009. University College of Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

AWARDS

2009 Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, Lenore Segan Arts Award New York,NY

Artist’s Bio

Stephan Phillips was born in 1970 in Rochester New York. He began his studies at Syracuse University and received his BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle Washington. Stephan now lives in Ithaca New York where he is a member of the State of the Art Gallery.

Frank Robinson, the director of the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell University, has described his work as possessing “a quiet integrity and strength” and “an evocative mysteriousness”. Phillips’ work was represented in the 2009 edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, published by Syracuse University. In 2009 he also received second place in the Lenore Segan Arts Awards given by the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation. Stephan’s work has been shown at galleries throughout New York State as well as in New York City, Pittsburgh and Seattle.

In the past Stephan’s work was figural and narrative drawn purely from imagination. The subjects were drawn from events in the lives of Christian saints or from Biblical events. His new still life painting continues to search for spiritual experience but looks now to the commonplace world and the universal experience of objects at hand.

 

A BENEFIT EXHIBIT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY

Ithaca sculptor explores gay and interracial marriage debates

In January 2010 Eva M. Capobianco will present “What Makes a Marriage?” at State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, NY. The show will be a benefit for Marriage Equality New York and the Ithaca Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender Task Force (ILGBTTF). Fifty percent of the profits from all sales at the show will be shared equally by these two organizations.

The exhibit dates are January 6-31, 2010. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, January 8th, from 5-8pm. Harpist Myra Kovary has generously agreed to perform at the reception free of charge in support of the fundraiser. State of the Art Gallery is located at 120 W. State Street, Ithaca, NY. Hours are Wed. –Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. The gallery is ADA accessible, free and open to the public. The artist will be present at the gallery from 12-5pm each Saturday during the exhibit.

The work for this exhibit began during the general election in November, 2004. Ms. Capobianco states: “I found myself deeply upset by how the issue of gay marriage had been used by conservatives as a wedge issue to mobilize their base.” Feeling discouraged, she began to explore ways to use her art to compare today’s struggle for gay marriage equality with the fight for legal interracial marriage that culminated in the historic Loving v. Virginia case in 1967. Reading and researching these two issues has lead to some fascinating comparisons. The artist has incorporated quotes and ideas from these parallel debates into her sculptures in ways that she hopes will foster a healthy discussion about them.

Gay marriage has now become legal in several states, but it has also seen major setbacks in recent months and years. Capobianco says “My partner and I have been together for 27 years. Right now we COULD choose to get married in Canada or Iowa or several other states and that marriage would probably be recognized by our home state of New York. But it would not be recognized by the federal government. That would leave us without most of the benefits and protections that straight couples enjoy. It is important to support organizations that are working to educate the public about the fundamental unfairness of our current system.”

This exhibit is also part of the Light in Winter Festival, www.lightinwinter.com. There will be a second reception during the festival, on Friday, January 22nd, from 5-7pm.

Video of show

The winners of SOAG’s biennial Regional Juried Art Exhibition have been announced:

Best of Show
Linda Andrei   “Conversation”

2nd Place
Allen Crittenden Smith   “Yellow Gray”

3rd Place
Paul McMillan   “Moonlight Over Cornstalks”

Honorable Mentions

John Whiting   “To and Fro”
Barbara Page   “Wind Drift Eight #2″
Edmond Caputo   “Brown Fish”
Gunilla Feigenbaum  ”Chinese Red #2″
Ileen Kaplan    ”Cafe Days”

Fifty works of art were chosen,  representing thirty-seven artists.  Included in the show are paintings, watercolors, drawings, mixed media, prints, assemblage and sculptures in clay, paper and metal.

Lin Price, a faculty member in the Department of Art at Ithaca College announced the prize-winning works at the reception for the artists Gallery Night, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009.

On November 6 SOAG opens a new solo show by Barbara Mink. “Event Horizons” features mainly large-scale abstracts in acrylics and oils.

Mink says this body of work is the culmination of her thinking about connections between painting and science.

“Ten years ago I founded an annual winter festival which features performers in both the  arts and sciences, so thinking about creative synergies is often on my mind. Painting has always been a part of my life, but this past year I tried an experiment: framing my work with concepts in physics and math.

At first I veered strongly toward rather literal connections but I soon became uncomfortable with the self consciously didactic results. I ended up naming the works in “Event Horizons” more playfully, so the titles touch only lightly on the paintings.

With a nod to the Romantics and Abstract Expressionism, my work rests on the energy of the gesture, the visible trace of the process, and the coherence of carefully controlled elements, with textures and densities ranging from thickly layered to ephemeral.”

State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street in Ithaca.  Hours are Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.  The gallery is ADA accessible and there is curbside parking available.  Contact information for the gallery is 607-277-1626 and www.soag.org.

Closeups of Paintings

Opening Night of Events Horizon

State of the Art Gallery will feature an exhibition of Greater Ithaca Art Trail artists during October, the same month as the Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studio weekends.   Beginning on September 30, approximately 40 of the 56 artists on the Art Trail will exhibit one piece each in the main gallery.  In the Salon, the newly renovated and re-named Members’ Gallery, an exhibition of work by gallery artists will be on display.  A reception for all artists will be held Friday, October 2 from 5-8pm and the show runs through November 1.

The Greater Ithaca Art Trail represents the wide spectrum of talented and versatile artists who call Tompkins County their home.  Visitors to the Gallery AND to the Art Trail will not only find painters working in all media, but also sculptors, printmakers, fiber artists, ceramists, jewelers, makers of fine furniture, collage artists, glass artists, mixed media artists, digital artists, a blacksmith and creators of decorative functional art.

Gallery visitors can preview Art Trail artists’ work in one location before embarking on the trail itself, a two weekend self-guided tour of 53 studios spread throughout Tompkins County. All studios are open from 11am to 5pm on October 10, 11 and October 17, 18.  Art Trail brochures with maps to the artists’ studios are available at the gallery.

State of the Art is located at 120 W. State Street in Ithaca.  Hours are Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm.  The gallery is ADA accessible and there is curbside parking available.  Contact information for the gallery is 607-277-1626 and www.soag.org and for more on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail, visit www.arttrail.com or call 607-273-5072, ext.20.  The brochure can also be downloaded from the Art Trail web site.

September marks the second Members’ Show of the year.  Eighteen of the gallery’s twenty-five artists will show paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and sculpture in our newly renovated space.  A reception for the show will be Friday, September 4, 5pm-8pm.  Show dates are September 2-27.  Our small gallery is now the Salon and it is where members will show their work ten months of the year; in March we host our Annual Photography Show and in December, we alternate between our Invitational and our Juried Competition.  Through October 2009, the Salon will also show the fourteen pieces of art donated by gallery artists for our first-ever raffle.  These pieces are also shown on our web site, www.soag.org and raffle tickets may be purchased from all members and at the gallery for $10 each. The drawing of the winning raffle tickets will be Friday, October 30.  Don’t miss this chance to own a piece of fine art for a fraction of its selling price!

State of the Art is holding its first-ever raffle;  works in the raffle will be on view at the gallery through October.  On Friday October 30th we will hold a special Halloween reception (costumes encouraged!) from 6-8 pm , with the  raffle drawing at 7pm.

Tickets are $10 each and can be put towards specific pieces in the raffle, numbered below and on the images.  Just contact a member to buy or come into the gallery for a closer viewing.  Participating artists (and their numbers) include:

1. Watkins  2. Van Soest  3. Brill  4. Mink  5. Sinkow  6. Capobianco  7. Pollock  8. Schuler  9. Porter   10. Kather  11. Nelson  12. Vrana  13. Hart  14. Gross-Marks

Downloadable list of paintings

Please join us for this special event!

Gas prices are high, disposable income is low. Can’t get away for a vacation? Escape through the expressive paintings—abstract and realistic—of  Marian VanSoest and Patty L. Porter at State of the Art Gallery during August.

There are times when a person just needs to escape from the moment, but often the means or the time for this escape are not available. That’s where a connection with a painting can be very useful. Whether you want to go to a foreign land or just retreat into the depth of color and abstract form, a painting can facilitate this need.

Van Soest and Porter are two artists who have created paintings with just this in mind. They have painted together, traveled together and ruminated about art together for the past fifteen years. “Painted Escapes” exhibits paintings from their travels—both together and separately.

Van Soest says that she has taken a vacation from realism to revel in memory and painterly fun. Of her abstract works in the show, some evoke places seen from an airplane or by a bird out to catch fish. Some recall fields of roses or bluebells glanced from a car window. A few realistic figure paintings are included to show traveling painting companions at work and play. To Van Soest, these paintings—watercolor sketches—probably say it best: painting with friends on a summer day is one of life’s special joys.

Porter’s more realistic images of the hill towns and fields in Umbria, Italy, give the viewer a sense of the ambience of being in a foreign country while actually traveling only in your mind. For her, the idea of moving through the narrow antiquated passages of Orvieto and Spello suggest more possibilities of escape by considering what lies beyond the turn in the wall: the possibilities for escape are endless—hopeful, exciting, treacherous and tranquil.

A reception for the artists will be held Friday, August 7, from 5-8pm at the gallery, 120 W. State Street in Ithaca. Porter will be present at the gallery on Aug. 22, 12-5pm and Aug. 29, 12-5; VanS oest will be present on Aug. 9, 12-5pm and Aug. 15, 12-5pm. This is an opportunity for viewers to talk about the paintings with the artists. “Painted Escapes” runs from August 5 – 30, 2009. There is curbside parking and the gallery is ADA accessible. Hours: Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm, Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. Contact information: 607-277-1626, www.soag.org