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GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL – 2011
The Lower Hudson Valley’s Premier Arts Festival – Garnerville, New York

Open Artist Studios & Demonstrations – Live Music - Crafts Bazaar Children’s Workshops - Film – Dance - Creekside Sculpture Trail Exhibitions - Delectable Foods – Organic Coffee Bar

For more information, contact: James Tyler, Executive Director 845-548-8918
Robin E. Rosenberg, President 845-947-7108

“This event is like no other art exhibition,” says GAGA President Robin Rosenberg. “Our complex of mill buildings houses 15,000 square feet of gallery space, and is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their art for a living. The public gets a chance to see the open studios and live demonstrations of a variety of artisans, while wandering the back alleys, alcoves and creekside sculpture trail of this historic, Civil War-era textile mill. The Main Gallery at GAGA will feature a major retrospective of one of the great abstract artists, Sari Dienes (see below), along with an indoor crafts bazaar/coffeehouse, the contemporary music of student and professional musicians, dance performances, kids’ art workshops and delicious food. GAGA Arts Festival has become a hot destination, drawing nearly 5000 visitors from the tri-State region including more and more who make the short journey up the Hudson from NYC.

Saturday and Sunday, April 30th and May 1st - 11 AM to 6 PM [rain or shine]
Admission is $7 - children under 14 accompanied by an adult are free.

Additional attractions for 2011:
- Indoor Crafts/Bazaar and Coffeehouse – Twenty talented craft vendors sell their colorful wares while talented singer/songwriters perform in the vast Dye Works Gallery. Enjoy Organic coffees, teas and pastries in the GAGA Coffee Bar
- GAGA Creekside - Nature Walk and Sculpture Trail. Including Ted's Giant Head, the largest Stonehead ever made by nationally recognized 'outsider artist' Ted Ludwiczak
- Singer\Songwriters Showcase. Talented musicians young and old will perform throughout the weekend, including the students of Westchester County’s renowned Lagond Music School*
- Creekside Under the Stars music event (tbd) with ArtsRock *
- Live Demonstrations including glass blowing, jewelry making, ceramics, homemade-instrument building and dog agility! Keep Rockland Beautiful will sponsor a trash can painting demo for an aspiring young artist.
- Children’s Workshops in art and dance sponsored by Arts Alliance of Haverstraw*
- Student Art Show representing student work from 12 schools throughout the region, including the winners of United Way of Rockland County’s Day of Caring t-shirt contest and toddler art displayed by Palisades Association for Young Children
- Dance, dance, and more dance. From butoh to modern: in and around the complex throughout the weekend
- Outdoor Food and Music Tent featuring great food for sale from Jamaican to Japanese, Vegan to Hot Dogs; with live music performances!

Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, 55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West Haverstraw, Rockland County. For directions and additional information, visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or email gaga@garnervillearts.com

This year’s exhibitions include:
Sari Dienes Retrospective

The work of one of the world’s great abstract artists, Sari Dienes, who has been described as “a touch of yeast in the cauldron of the avant-garde movement in America”, will be on display at GAGA Arts Center from April 16 – May 15, 2011. Dienes’s massive body of work – not seen regionally in 25 years - includes assemblage, ceramics, painting, sculpture and printmaking, and stylistically ranges from figure drawing to Abstract Expressionism. Born in 1898 in Debreczen, Hungary, Dienes studied with Fernand Leger and Henry Moore, and exhibited alongside some of the great American masters such as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt and Stuart Davis. Dienes’s ability to stretch the imagination to encompass every bit of the world around her did not gone unnoticed. LIFE Magazine, during its heyday in the 1950s, documented her discoveries in picture and story, turning her into a national celebrity.

In 1980, People Magazine devoted a two-page article to her over a headline that read: "Like Any Other Masterpiece, Sari Dienes Seems to Improve With Age—She's 81 Going on 60." In 1972, the State of New York commissioned two large silk-screens depicting the state's tree (Sugar Maple), flower (Rose), bird (Bluebird), animal (Beaver) and gemstone (Garnet) to hang in a hearing room of the Legislative Building in Albany. A recipient of a gold medal in art from the Academy of Parma (Italy), in 1976 Sari was presented with the International Women's Year Award for her contributions to the world of art. Dienes’s work has appeared in the most prestigious museums and galleries, including the Whitney and Museum of Modern Art. Her work reflects an indomitable spirit, deeply engaged with the world around her.

Portions of foregoing excerpted from Michael Hitzig and www.saridienes.org.

This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Community Arts Grants program of the Arts Council of Rockland and the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Sari Dienes Sidewalk Rubbing 1957

GAGA Arts Festival is sponsored, in part, by Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center and the Town of Haverstraw.

* Lagond Music School, located in Elmsford, NY, has created an innovative, dynamic approach to music education, theory and live performance. Students have taken the skills acquired through Lagond to top conservatories and universities around the country.
ArtsRock is a non-profit organization that seeks to increase access to professional arts and multi-cultural programs for an underserved, diverse audience in and around Rockland County. ArtsRock has the expertise to produce any type of performing arts event in almost any kind of venue, and a desire to utilize the many wonderful performances spaces operating in Rockland.
Arts Alliance of Haverstraw Multicultural Center for the Arts offers fine and performing arts classes and exhibitions for all ages.

Memorial tribute for artist Francesca Greene
A memorial exhibition of the work of Rockland artist Francesca Greene will be held at Garnerville Arts Center (GAGA) December 4-19, 2010. Convocation for friends of the artist will be held Saturday, December 4th at 5:00pm.
Francesca Greene, whose works in paintings and sculpture brought a strikingly personal and abstract approach to a wide range of imagery. She was 85.

After independent study in Mexico, Hawaii and Big Sur in the 60ʼs, Francesca Greene had solo shows in San Francisco. She married in 1966 and with her husband moved toa loft in lower Manhattan where she continued her work in oils and where their son Max was born.
Graphic design, book illustration - she designed the jacket for Tony Hillerman’s People of Darkness - as well as other commercial work would occupy the artist’s time for the next several years - together, of course, with child raising. Then in 1969 she moved to Rockland County with her family and there went to work as assistant to acclaimed graphic designer Cipe Pinelas.
During this period she continued to show her own work in solo and group shows in Rockland County - particularly at the Flywheel Gallery in Piermont - as well as in Kent, Connecticut, Cape Cod, and Soho. She also studied etching and print making with Robert Delamonica and painting and frame-making with Robert Kulicke and taught a basic design course at Rockland Community College. Her work at this time was concentrated on small oils of traditional still-life subject matter -ﬂowers, vegetables and fruit - all with her distinctive approach. These paintings were favorably reviewed in the New York Times.
As for her larger works in oil, many display a symbolism that manages to be not only mysterious and magical but humorous as well. An avid and knowledgeable gardener, builder of brick walks, gourmet cook, seamstress, Greene allowed all these proﬁciencies and interests to inform her imagery as well as her love of animals. A small barking dog appears in some of the artist’s paintings from this period. This was Tilly, an endearing little animal whom she rescued from roadside abandonment and who became her constant companion.

Later a pair of feral cats would be given some of the same care and attention. She named them Boris and Phillipa, and they would wait impatiently at the door of her studio for her daily arrival.
This studio, which she acquired in the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center in 1997, increased her ability to work on larger pieces, and her active participation in the artist open studios during the annual GAGA Arts Festival was the source of much of the interest in her work. This in turn may have drawn her to sculpture for she has several pieces cast in bronze during this period.
In October 2000 the artist traveled to the Four Corners area of Southern Utah and, inspired by the petroglyphs she encountered as well as by the astonishing desert landscape itself, carved into fantastical shapes by wind and water, she created a series of large oils which were later given a show at the Pomona Cultural Center.
In 2006 Greene completed some of her most striking and impressive works - a series of very large black and white charcoal drawings, some inspired by the landforms of Southern Utah.
Of her work on these drawings she wrote, “There is a visual excitement to be found in the negative spaces between lines of a certain dimension; a dazzling effect. The best part is that it happens so quickly. The whole drawing seems to be predestined.”
Besides her husband Arthur E Burgess and son Max, of Buffalo, NY, Francesca Greene is survived by her sister Harriette of Fairfax, California and brother, Felloes of Cemorne, SSW, Australia.

Gallery Hours:

Fridays 4-8 PM Saturdays 2-6 PM and Sundays 12-4PM

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la conexión
Latin American Art Exhibition
October 16 - November 21

Hispanic artists from around the world will exhibit their work this fall in la conexion at GAGA Arts Center. This unique Latin American Arts Exhibition displays the great diversity of cultural voices and disciplines that comprise the current movement in the Hispanic art world. la conexion will also present music and culinary arts - so visitors can eat, drink, dance, and celebrate the arts, while enjoying the scope and influence of Hispanic art on the world and visa versa.

The Artists:
Grimanesa Amoros, Melissa A Calderon, Copie, Nelson Diaz, Narciso Montero, Cuquito Pena,
Eliana Perez, Jorge Posada, Lina Puerta, Alex Pimienta, Olivi Kaufman Rovira, Esmeralda Vazquez,
and Steven Vega

GAGA Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Plus

Festival Latino Art - Music - Food
In lieu of a traditional opening, GAGA Arts Center will hold a one-day cultural festival celebrating the diversity of the art, music, and food of Latin America.

Saturday, October 16 2-8 PM [FREE]

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Colossus 2

Sculptor James Tyler has begun work on his new monumental clay sculpture in his studio at the GAGA Arts Center in New York. Eleven feet tall, formed with 15,000 pounds of red clay, the sculpture will be among the largest free standing ceramic sculptures ever made.

Work has also begun on his latest Brickhead sculpture. Nine feet tall, the Linden Brickhead was privately commissioned for a new sculpture garden in Indianapolis, Indiana—the sculpture’s name derived from the many Linden Trees growing there.
The poet Elizabeth Browning paid her tribute to the Linden tree, of which she wrote:

'Here a Linden-tree stood, bright'ning
All adown its silver rind;
For, as some trees draw the lightning,
So this tree, unto my mind,
Drew to earth the blessed sunshine
From the sky where it was shrined"
The sculpture is a personification of the beautiful Linden tree—and the hardwood forest environments which they inhabit. Installation is planned for fall 2010.

To follow the progress, log onto: www.gagaartscenter.org
- Or go to the GAGA Arts Center Facebook page.
- For more information about the artist: www.tylersculpture.com

The artist’s studio will be open for viewing by appointment only 845-548-8918.

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Michael Zansky: Paintings

Departure, by Michael Zansky

GAGA Arts Center is excited to host the premier exhibit of Michael Zansky’s new oil paintings. The internationally recognized artist will hang over thirty canvases-- a radical, tour de force departure from his acclaimed multi-media Lens Installations.

“The new paintings are snapshots of an alternate reality; our minds clutch at the jagged cracks of the subliminal cliffs - our grasp of the real fails, and we fall willingly into the curious mind of Michael Zansky.” James Tyler-Curator

EXHIBITION DATES: Friday, March 5th thru Sunday, March 28, 2010

Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM

Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th, 6pm to 9pm

Contact:
James Tyler, Executive Director- 845-548-8918

GAGA Arts Center thanks the Arts Fund of Rockland, a project of the Arts Council of Rockland, for their generous support.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Community Arts Grants program of the Arts Council of Rockland and the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

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F I C T I O N S
Salon des Refuses 2K10

March 5-March 28, 2010

In an age of the all-powerful institutional mega-exhibition, the Gaga Arts Center is pleased to present FICTIONS Salon des Refuses 2K10 (French for “Salon of the Refused’). This experimental and innovative exhibition includes artists whose work has been overlooked by the curators of these exhibitions yet warrants critical attention as the avant-garde. These artists dare to develop new language in all media that doesn’t fit into neat categories and boundaries—simply put, their work breaks rules. The distinguishing element running through all the work in this show is that fiction is more real than fact-analogous to contemporary life.
A brief description of two of the artists in this group show is presented below.
Ezra Talmatch is so New York , so gritty, street smart, east village that you can’t get any closer to street language but with such enormous skill that it creates a tension with the refinement of the Artworks. He has an outrageous amount of artistic energy whether he is simply drawing, creating dry frescos, massive construction material environments, or altering prints and virtual atmospheres. He is constructing and destructing himself at the same time. These works are so raw and yet so refined. His work is frighteningly evocative. You’ve never seen dry-frescos like this before.
Brian Leo is a great colorist and pop-minimalist whose work creates a surrealist’s sense of dramatic humor. His particular way of putting colors together is totally unique. The colors are very unusual, their qualities are irresistibly attractive and beautiful, Brian has a very good command chromatically. These forms have no relationship yet they do relate. If Phillip Guston lives--he lives through this kid.

EXHIBITION DATES: Friday, March 5th thru Sunday, March 28, 2010

Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM

Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th, 6pm to 9pm
Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center , 55 Railroad Avenue , Garnerville , NY 10923 in the Village of West Haverstraw , Rockland County . For directions and additional information, visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or email gaga@garnervillearts.com.

GAGA Arts Center thanks the Arts Fund of Rockland, a project of the Arts Council of Rockland, for their generous support.
This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Community Arts Grants program of the Arts Council of Rockland and the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Tamara Gayer
Everything’s For Sale

December 4, 2009 – January 10, 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, December 4th, 2009
6-9pm

Contact: Ursula Schneider, Gallery B Director 845-429-5636

James Tyler, Executive Director
845-548-8918

A site-specific installation by Tamara Gayer will be on view at the GAGA Arts Center in Garnerville, NY from December 4th to January 10th.

The show, Everything’s For Sale, is comprised of ‘Skyline,’ a large scale installation that will use the windows in Gallery B at GAGA as a substrate; and ‘Window,’ a lightbox positioned opposite these windows. ‘Skyline’ plays with the image of the skyline of Manhattan, depicting some of the iconic buildings of this vista and outlining the power and aesthetic history of the City. This piece takes this engagement a stage further by altering some of the specifics, toying with our perception of the generic image of the City. The light box ‘Window’ offers the complementary intimate view of the City.

Gayer’s juxtaposition is not only a conversation about the history of New York but a play on light, color and patterns. Gayer uses our basic predisposition to assemble patterns to create undulating landscapes that evoke movement and promote discovery. In this show she will focus on plays of light and shadow both natural and artificial. This show is a continuation of the conversation Gayer seeks to promote about the spaces in which we live and the ongoing changes to our environment.

Tamara Gayer is an artist transfixed by Manhattan. Suspended between the impulses of an image-maker and a builder, she creates work that mutates from drawing to installation to video. Born in NYC, Gayer grew up in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Hunter College. In New York her work has been show at Priska Juschka Fine Art, Foxy Production, and Exit Art among others. She is represented in several prominent collections, including that of the Museum of Modern Art.

Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Closed December 25th through 27th and January 1st through 3rd

Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, 55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West Haverstraw, Rockland County. For directions and additional information, visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or emailgaga@garnervillearts.com

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Pictures From Croatia: Through The Eyes Of Children

SEPTEMBER 11- OCTOBER 4, 2009

Opening Reception:
Friday, September 11th – 6-9PM

Contact: Ken Karlewicz, Curator- 917-578-7297
James Tyler, Executive Director- 845-947-7108

On October 10, 2008 five exemplary photography students ages 10 -17 from Ken Karlewicz's after school photography program , set off for an exciting and intensive nine day photography workshop in Dubrovnik Croatia.
The students, Emma Karlewicz (age 10),Kayla Rudess (age 12), Kim Winkler (age 13), Juan Carlos Fana (age 15), and Wilfry Fana (age 17), were all seasoned photographers from Ken's after school photography program, and had spent the past several years doing street and documentary photography in the historic river village of Haverstraw N.Y.

Shooting 10-12 megapixel digital SLR'S, the students worked much of the time in the historic "Old City" of Dubrovnik as well as the nearby island of Korcula, making environmental portraits,landscape and architectural images as well as street and documentary photographs of everyday life in Croatia.

The resulting exhibition, "Pictures from Croatia: Through the Eyes of Children" will consist of close to 50 images with the opening reception scheduled for Friday, September 11, 2009 at the Gaga Arts Center in Garnerville N.Y. from 6-9PM

The trip was sponsored by former Met Life CEO Robert Benmosche of Wesley Hills N.Y. who graciously hosted the team for their nine day stay at his oceanside villa on the Adriatic Sea in Dubrovnik Croatia.
Additional support was made possible through the generous contributions from Ken's loyal clients at Mr. K's Window Cleaning Service who shared his vision for the project and by the Orange & Rockland Community Investment Program.

Exhibition will open on September 11, 2009 and continue thru October 4, 2009.

Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM

Location and Contact Information:
GAGA is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, 55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West Haverstraw, Rockland County. For directions and additional information, visit: www.gagaartscenter.org; call 845-947-7108, or email gaga@garnervillearts.com

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Now, at the GAGA Coffee Bar (all day). Don’t miss Dutch Video Art Under The Stars, an evening film/video presentation projected on the building facades (at dark).
Gallery Hours - Fri 4to 8, Sat 2 to 6, Sun 1 to 4
FLOTILLA WEEKEND HOURS: Saturday, June 6th 12 noon-8pm; Sunday, June 7th 10am-6pm. DVideo Art Under The Stars commencing at Dark, Sunday, June 7th.
Garnerville, Village of West Haverstraw, Rockland County, NY 10923. Call: 845-947-7108, email: gaga@garnervillearts.com or visit gagaartscenter.org. Gaga Arts Center is speaking to partners to organize al
GAGA by bike, car, and boat.
Directions southbound Palisades Parkway
Exit 13- Turn left and then left again at the first light onto Thie
Then follow directions below.
Directions northbound Palisades Parkway
Exit 13- Turn left onto Thiells-Mt. Ivy Road.
Continue past the golf course to the end and tur
(Suffern Lane becomes Railroad Ave. after 2nd traffic light).
Go 1/10 mile past light. GAGA’s Main entrance is on the righ
Local: 9W to Railroad Avenue, West Haverstraw. West for ¼ mile. GAGA is on the left
Flotilla Weekend - Shuttle Bus and Alternate Parking
AREAS located in Stony Point at the former Stop & Shop on Route 9W and the James W. Farley Middle School on Route 210; and in Haverstraw at the Knights of Columbus Parking Lot on West Broad Street. BUS PASSENGERS WILL BE DROPPED OFF AND PICKED UP AT GAGA ARTS CENTER, THE HAVERSTRAW MARINA AND EACH DESIGNATED PARKING AREA.
*Light on New Netherland has already traveled to the New York State Museum in Albany and to the
Museum of Connecticut History in Hartford. Following its stay at the GAGA Arts Center, Light on Netherland will travel to the Society of Preservation of Long Island Antiques in Cold Spring Harbor, andlater to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum in Hyde Park, Federal Hall in New York Cityand the Historical Society of Delaware in Wilmington, among other destinations.

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plumgoneperhapsfar
Works by Joe Fusaro at GAGA Arts Center

JUNE 12- JULY 7, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 2009

Contact: Melissa 845-947-7108

Drawing, painting and mixed-media by Joe Fusaro will be on view at the GAGA Arts Center in Garnerville, NY from June 12- July 5, 2009.

The exhibit, titled "plumgoneperhapsfar", will feature two rooms of Mr. Fusaro's work- one dedicated to figurative drawing and painting, and a second gallery space featuring an installation of "sloped" drawings on scroll paper that reach as high as 15 feet and descend to the floor.

Mr. Fusaro has exhibited on both the east and west coasts, and most recently held exhibits at Kickstart Gallery in New York City, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Manna Gallery and Café in Nyack, New York.

For more information on Joe Fusaro’s work, go to: joefusaro.com

Joe Fusaro is the Visual Arts Chair for the Nyack Public Schools in New York, Senior Education Advisor for the PBS series, Art21: Art in the 21st Century, and a member of the adjunct faculty at New York University.

Exhibition will open on June 12, 2009 and continue thru July 5th.

Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM

GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL - 2009
'Art World to Converge on Garnerville, New York'

SOHO Reborn in the Hudson Valley
“This event is like no other art exhibition.” says GAGA President Robin Rosenberg, “Our complex of buildings is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their art for a living. The public gets a chance to see museum quality art, while wandering the back alleys and alcoves of a historic, Civil War era textile mill. There will be open studios, music, food, and live demonstrations of a variety of artisans. The GAGA Arts Festival has become a hot destination point drawing nearly 5000 visitors from the Tri State region including more and more who make the short journey up the Hudson from New York City.”
Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd - 11 AM to 6 PM [ rain or shine]
Admission is $5 - children under 14 accompanied by an adult are free.

Open Studios - Art Exhibitions - Children’s Workshops
Film - Dance - Delectable Foods - Live Music

This year’s exhibitions include:
59 X 59 Exhibition [PREVIEW]

Ken Karlewitz
Ken Karlewitz and 40 other photographers captured digital images on May 9th [5\9] along Route 59 in Rockland County, New York. The result is a remarkable photographic distillation of a single day in the life of a diverse fifteen mile stretch of America. Exhibition will include over one hundred 16x20 photographs documenting the 24 hour encounter. [Exhibition will continue thru June 6, 2009]
Dye Works Bazaar
Indoor Art Fair \ Coffeehouse featuring the beautiful [and affordable] artworks of over 25 talented outsider artists, craft artists, and artisans. Plus music and seating in the GAGA Coffee Bar, all under one roof in our unique 8000 square foot Dye Works Gallery. Many of the artists will themselves be present at the fair.

CUBEHEAD Interactive Video Installation
Cubehead at GAGA is an interactive video installation created by MIT professor Ed Moriarty and sculptor James Tyler with the participation of a group of secondary school students from the Rockland County, New York, region.

Art and aesthetics meet engineering and technology

Additional attractions for 2008:

- GAGA Creekside - Nature Walk and Sculpture Trail. New trails, new sculptures along the Miniceongo Creek. Including Ted's Giant Head, the largest Stonehead ever made by nationally recognized 'outsider artist' Ted Ludwiczak.
- Indonesian “Monkey Chant” - Costumed Indonesian performers who engage community participation.
- Vagabond Puppets - Life-size puppetry performance.
- Marta Renzi Modern Dance
- Student Art Show.
- Youth Workshops - Musical instrument building, painting and crafts.
- High School Video Art Installation

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BETWEEN THE LINES

The use of line is the central element in this exhibition, which includes drawings, paintings and sculptures by Ursula Schneider, Ann Pachner and Pat Hickman.

Ursula Schneider’s paintings are based on observations of the Hudson River. With a keen eye for formal concerns, the artist translates water and reflections into intercepting bands of color, basing each painting on a specific time and season. The architecture of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant and intrusion of industrial barges on the river’s serenity are common subjects in these contemplations on the interactions between man and nature.

Ann Pachner’s sculptures and drawings are based on her experience of sitting in meditation and on her observations of nature. In the drawings, a rainstorm appears as a great cord of water flowing from an infinite source. Hair becomes a ritual mirroring of what is outside and what is inside. Her sculptures, carved of wood, resemble seedpods on which the artist scribes small repetitive sinuous lines, creating a sense of movement and delicate vibration.

Pat Hickman works with flexible linear elements, manipulating them into a structure and its skin. Whether drawing with thread or working with animal membrane, Hickman’s marks explore the passage of time and the power of memory, allowing for the possible disintegration and change of material. Using weathered metal and useless scraps of paper, the artist transforms these found objects, giving them new life.

[This Garnerville Gallery Exhibition was given as the first prize by Gde Arsa Artha to Ursula Schneider in 2006.

The exhibition will run from March13 to April 4
-Gallery hours: Fridays 5 to 8 PM and Saturdays 2 to 6 PM.The opening reception will be on Friday, arch 13th, from 6 to 9 PM.

Call 845-947-7108 for more information.

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LAND OF THE LOST - Andrea Stanislav

November 7th- December 7th (Fridays 5-8PM; Saturdays 2-6PM)

Opening Reception: November 7th 6-9PM

Andréa Stanislav's new solo exhibition -- Land of the Lost -- is a site- specific multimedia installation created for the Main Gallery at GAGA. The installation is a dystopic “encampment” consisting of a sculptural formation of silver military tents. Each tent has its own sonic and lighting element that creates a rhythmic pattern of light and sound emanating from within each sculpture.

There is a large scale video projection of a spectacular explosion of sculpture that the artist staged in the Great Salt Flats at the Bonneville Speedway in Utah -- creating a fireball that rose hundreds of feet above the salt desert. (See Image Below)

About the Artist

Andréa Stanislav is multimedia artist who lives and works in Minneapolis and New York City . Stanislav's body of work is inspired by the language of film, architecture and pop culture, and includes installation, sculpture, video, photography and sound.

Her installations create experiential environments exploring worlds we can see and worlds we can’t—but know intuitively are real. Stanislav’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including Shenyang , China ; Iksan , Korea ; Belfast , Ireland ; London , England ; San Diego , Miami , Minneapolis and New York City .

In Gallery B, Brooklyn- based, emerging artist Gail Heidel presents her installation -- Converge.

Converge is a two-part installation composed of 1123 modular bricks. The work references the contemporary condition of interconnectivity, the reliance on systems and the dualities found within these ideas through the metaphor of the cityscape.

The opening reception will be on Friday, November 7th, from 6 to 9PM,

with a special live performance by Gamelan Son of Lion

Gamelan Son of Lion is a new music repertory ensemble based in downtown New York City specializing in contemporary pieces written for the instruments of the Javanese gamelan. Gamelan Son of Lion's instruments were built in village style by Barbara Benary using steel keys, cans for resonators, hubcaps for kempul, etc. There are about one hundred active gamelan ensembles in the United States at the current time. Gamelan Son of Lion now rates among the oldest of these, having performed continuously since 1976. It is also one of the few in this country which operate independently of institutions as a professional music ensemble.

For more information or directions, call: 845-947-7108,
or go to: www.gagaartscenter.org

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GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL - 2008
Art World to Converge on Garnerville, New York
Record crowds from the Tri-state region are expected to attend this year’s
GAGA Arts Festival at the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center.

Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th

11 AM to 6 PM [ rain or shine]

Admission is $5 - children under 14 accompanied by an adult are free.

Open Studios - Art Exhibitions - Children’s Workshops - Short Film Series
Dance - Delectable Foods - Live Music

This year’s exhibitions include:

OUTSIDE IN - 2008 Outsider Art Expo -Curated by James Tyler
The paintings and sculpture of fifty self-taught ‘outsiders’ and American folk artists will be on display at the GAGA Arts Center as a part of this year’s GAGA Arts Festival. Exhibition will include new works by: Matt Sesow, Bob Justin, Mike Conner, Ed Kirkland, and Ross Brodar.

This is the second year that GAGA will be featuring outsider art. Over fifteen thousand square of gallery space will be made available. "It’s just a natural fit for GAGA. People loved last year's Outside In show, so we are making it even bigger and better for 2008.”says Executive Director James Tyler.

This year GAGA is being joined by HAI of New York City. The HAI exhibit will include works by renowned outsiders: RAY HAMILTON, MERCEDES HAMILTON, ADAM HINES, IRENE PHILLIPS, CARL GREENBERG, OSCAR BROWN, DAVID KIME, JOE SIMMS, MATHEW ROBERT GOAD X, EVERETT BALL, DAVID BLAISDELL, JIM BLOOM , JEREMY BURLESSON, JULIUS BUSTAMANTE,
HARPER DEERING HAIR, GAETANA MENNA, FRANCES “LADY SHALIMAR” MONTAGUE, GILDA LERNER

[ The OUTSIDE IN - 2008 exhibition will continue thru July 13th.
Gallery Hours are Friday 3-7, Saturday 1-6, and Sunday 1-4]

Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center
55 W. Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY, 10923 - www.gagaartscenter.org - tel. 845-947-7108

Additional attractions for 2008:
- Farmageden - Artist Mike Conner's quirky installation about the true nature of agri-business.
- Welder's Jamboree - Lee Tribe, Bill Hochhausen, and friends will present a creative performance in welded steel.
- GAGA Creekside - Grand opening of GAGA's new sculpture park.
- Rivertown Film- short film series and student films.
- Marta Renzi Modern Dance
- Student Art Show.

SOHO Reborn in the Hudson Valley
“This event is like no other art exhibition.” says GAGA President Robin Rosenberg, “Our complex of buildings is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their art for a living. The public gets a chance to see museum quality art, while wandering the back alleys and alcoves of a historic, Civil War era textile mill. While considering a possible acquisition for their art collection, they can enjoy the food music, and live demonstrations of a variety of artisans. The GAGA Arts Festival has become a hot destination point drawing nearly 5000 visitors from the Tri State region including many who make the short journey up the Hudson from New York City.”
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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
GAGA ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL SPRING SHOW
“THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ARTISTIC DIVERSITY: A CELEBRATION OF 4 YEARS OF THE CRIT GROUP”
March 29 – May 4 2008
Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-5 PM
Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29 5-8 PM

Main Gallery
GAGA ARTS CENTER
55 Railroad Avenue
Garnerville, NY 10920
845-947-7108

The exhibit will feature the diverse works of nine exceptional local artists whose critiques of one another’s work during studio visits has resulted in this fascinating and inspirational show of shared growth and sensibilities. The media ranges from reverse paintings on glass, to ceramic and paper sculptures, to works on birch panels. Familiar media images, playful creatures and works that explore gender and human development and past and present form the imagery of the exhibit. The artists include Joanne Howard (Mrs. Jonathan Demme), two GAGA-based artists Pam Marchin and Chris Randolph (co-curator), Lynn Stein (Exhibition Director, Rockland Center for the Arts), Joel Carreiro, Polly King, John Rosis, Jackie Shatz (co-curator) and Laurie Steinhorst (Adjunct Professor, Westchester Community College). The artists have been meeting, supporting and critiquing each other’s works for the past 4 years.

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 2/25/2007

Contact:

Marcia Gerardi @ 845-641-5836

Robin Rosenberg @ 845-947-7108

GAGA TO EXHIBIT LARGE SCALE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE

A Group Exhibition of Large Scale Photographic Works

Large scale photographic works are a genre in their own right and the GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville, NY, with its 6000 square feet of open exhibition space is one of the few galleries in the northeast large enough to mount a group exhibit of this scope. LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE is the title of the large-scale group photography exhibit to open at GAGA this April and the first of this scale to occur in the region.

The show, organized by photographer and curator *Marcia Gerardi, will be exhibiting a broad selection of images from ten accomplished and emerging photographers, most of whom have not exhibited in GAGA before. The exhibit will attest to the visual power and impact a group show of large scale works will produce. If there is a theme in the curatorial process it would be in how each photographer sees the “Big Picture” and uses their camera in expressing their relationship to and perspective of our modern global environment and exploding popular culture.

The artists' diverse interpretations of these issues are expressed in fundamentally different ways from the down-to-earth functional (literal) to whimsical leaps of fantasy and total abstraction. These are not just blow-ups; these images were incepted to be large; on a cinematic scale, and they convey a common ground here in their passion and unique perspectives. This is the “Big Picture” and the camera becomes a tool or perhaps a weapon against the constant onslaught of our mass culture.

Among the ten photographers selected to exhibit will be the newest work of acclaimed artists *Grace Knowlton and *Michael Zansky who are extensively exhibited and collected in major museums throughout the world including, respectively, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum.

In Gallery “B” noted photographer Ned Harris will be exhibiting a large installation of his photography including three-dimensional dioramas. This super-sized production will focus on the people of New York City against the backdrop of the city from the 60’s to now titled; New York Street Theater.

April 1- May 6, 2007

Artists Reception: Friday April 6, 6-9pm. Featuring award winning musician Joe Delia and the Joe Delia Jazz Trio

Gallery Hours: Call or go on-line at www.gagaartscenter.org

Location and Contact Information

GAGA is located at 55 Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923 in the Village of West Haverstraw. For directions and additional information, visit our website at www.gagaartscenter.org, call 845-947-7108, or email GAGA@garnervillearts.com.

Selected Bios

Grace Knowlton is an award-winning artist who has traveled freely through various art forms, methods and materials. Her work includes photographs, drawings, paintings and sculpture made from both natural and synthetic materials. She has exhibited extensively and her work is represented in many public collections, including the Smith College Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Newark Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and others.

Michael Zansky, a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, exhibits worldwide, most recently at Fieldgate Gallery in London, Konsthall in Stockholm, Art Basel in Basel and ARCO in Madrid. He is represented in the collections of The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Berkeley Museum of Art and Prudential Life New York, among others. Zansky’s numerous exhibitions include: White Columns, Universal Concepts Unlimited, The Norton Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Drawing Center and SooBac Gallery,Minneapolis.

Ned Harris is well-known in Rockland County for his skills as a photographer and as a curator for fine art exhibitions. His passion for photographing the dynamics of social change reflected in the streets of the New York City, as well as the contrasting natural scenes of rural Rockland over the past 40 years has resulted in the creation of an immense body of work which led to the commission of an award-winning book, Form and Texture, published by Van Nostrand-Reinhold. Harris was long time Chairman of Exhibitions for the Rockland Center for the Arts and while there established the Center for Photography. He has lectured and taught photography at the Visual Art Center, the Art Directors Club and Parsons School of Design in NYC. His photos are collected and exhibited widely including galleries in New York City as well the Corcoran in Washington and most recently at Yale University.

*About The Curator

Marcia Gerardi is an accomplished commercial and fine art photographer. Establishing a studio in the Chelsea District of Manhattan, Gerardi created images for many Fortune 500 accounts such as Revlon, Avon and Warner Communications. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Architectural Digest, W., Elle, House and Garden, National Geographic and more. She was instrumental in the formation of the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Exchange and continues to help promote and organize the annual GAGA arts festivals. She has also worked as a photojournalist for Gannett Publications. Gerardi’s work is in private collections and has been in numerous solo and group shows including The Museum of Modern Art. Gerardi’s curatorial experience includes group exhibitions for Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, Imaging Arts Photography Gallery, Tappan, NY and GAGA Arts Center, Garnerville, NY.

www.gagaartscenter.org, call 845-947-7108, or email GAGA@garnervillearts.com.

Contact: Marcia Gerardi @ 845-641-5836, Robin Rosenberg @ 845-947-7108

PRESS RELEASE

Amistad Exhibition and Artifacts at GAGA October 2006

Event Date: 10/1/2006
End Date: 10/31/2006
Location: GAGA @ Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center

The Freedom Schooner Amistad will be at the Haverstraw Marina in West Haverstraw on October 7th - 10th and again on October 22nd and 23rd. In conjuction with the docking of the Amistad, its accompanying exhibit which documents the history of the historic slave ship will be shown at GAGA along with African masks, baskets, quilt replicas including symbols of the underground railroad, and other artifacts. Call 845-947-7108 for more information.

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GAGA is pleased to present "Petroglyphs of Rapanui" the first comprehensive collection of petroglyph rubbings to be exhibited in the "outside" world...

Event Date: 3/9/2006
End Date: 10/1/2006
Location: Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, Bldg. 19

The only known comprehensive collection of petroglyph rubbings from Easter Island, the civilation that created the monolithic stone statues, the Moai, in on exhibit for the first in GAGA. The exhibit will remain open through September by appointment. Please call 845-947-7108 or 845-371-2100.

Santi and Susan Hitorangi made these rubbings while filming a documentary for National Geographic on Rapanui, Easter Island. The images carved into bedrock tell the story of past generations. The rubbings of these images include extinct dolphins, cosmic images, various fish, birds and boats, a goddess of the sea and other anthroponorphic representations. Rapanui means the "navel of the world." Viewing the images has been said to connect us with the umbilical cord of the world.

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Annual GAGA Arts Festival to be held on June 10th & 11th, 2006 will feature "Once A Tree", a juried fine wood furniture and sculpture show

sponsored by Sutherland Welles, Ltd. and the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center. On display in the Dye Works Gallery, "Once A Tree" will feature the work of some of the finest woodworkers in the Northeast. Visitors can appreciate the craftsmanship of country tables to Adirondack furnishings to wood sculpture to old English style cabinetry. Festival-goers can also watch wood finishing demonstrations and observe the raw tree planks from which the furniture is made.

For jurying and application information, please go to "News and Events" on this website.

For more information about GAGA Arts Festival 2006, please go to "News and Events" on this website.

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