Leslie Bender Joins be Gallery
Filed under About the Artists
| Comment now »ABOUT THE NEW SEASON
Not only is this mask new to be Gallery, but this piece by Duarté has been done especially for be Gallery.
While we have had Octavio’s work in the gallery before, he began doing masks only this past year, and the ones we have were created for us. This mask is one of a kind, hand carved, painted and laquered.
We have three wonderful pieces from reknown Oxacan painter Juan Carlos Breceda. Yes, that is a fantastic square bull! Breceda’s pieces are so charming they make one smile, yet so masterful in design and use of color they are works to return to again and again to find new passages of light and space. These works are acrylic and pastel – an unusual combination – that combines the texture of pastel with the depth of color of the acrylic for a unique visual experience. Each measures 29″ x 22 ” and is $1200 unframed. Contact the gallery to discuss framing options.
Also in the gallery are works by Ronaldo Glaubitz. Glaubitz is one of the border artists; his father an anglo from the states, his mother Mexican from Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. I’ve been following and collecting Ronaldo’s work since the late 80’s when he did mostly portraits of local denizens of Rosarito and his family and friends. He’s currently painting urban scapes, configurations of figures, buildings, and energy with a very edgy, contemporary visual vocabulary. But the pieces are densely patterned and bring to mind not only his life in the highly populated cities of Tijuana and San Diego, but the intricate lacquered boxes and tapestries of Mexican artisans that are also part of his heritage. Ronaldo’s pieces are 13″ x 15″ framed and are $275.
Filed under Blogroll, About the Artists
| Comment now »Morpheus ascending
Show of dream-inspired artworks by Ilka List & Lynne Friedman at High Falls’ be Gallery
by Paul Smart, ulsterpublishing.com
Barbara Esmark’s quiet be Gallery in High Falls is always full of elegant surprises, but few as sweetly redolent as the new “Drawing on Dreams” two-person exhibition of surreal bronze and terra cotta dream scenes by Ilka List and lyrical new pen-and-ink drawings by longtime Kingston artist Lynne Friedman, inspired by a recent residency at an Irish artists’ retreat. Together, the new works serve as a starting point for a deep exploration of the various landscapes of mind, spirit and tangible world that we inhabit.
“Dreams are portraits of the self painted in the nonverbal depths of the unconscious,” says List of her latest. “They are the deepest reflections of our energy patterns and our hidden needs and thoughts. If we study them, we find they tell us about our lives and suggest our significant individual destinies. We can each discover our own true direction from their intimate secrets.” The result is a list of characters, known and new, ranging from turtles, wolves and dogs to one Blind Beth Chip: a personal iconography lent added weight and stolidity by the artist’s current media.
Friedman, meanwhile, found that her recent sojourn at the Guthrie Center in County Monahan allowed her to shift from a usually colorful palette to “find inspiration in the indomitable cycles of the natural world. The impulse that transforms experience and idea into visual form is the acknowledgment of transience and the possibility of renewal.” The two artists’ works, seen together, lift each other like a classic pas de deux, playing off the exhilaration of new discoveries and the inner journeys that we all need and take these quieter months of the year.
The new show opens Sunday afternoon, December 7 from 1 to 3 p.m. and stays up into mid-January. Be Gallery is located at 11 Mohonk Road, just beyond the High Falls hamlet center. For further information visit www.begallery.com or call (845) 687-0660.