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April 9th - May 23rd

Opening reception- Friday, April 9th 6-9 PM
Christopher Baker
http://www.christopherbaker.net/

daniel Baltzer
http://www.dbaltzer.com/

R. Justin Stewart
http://www.rjustin.com/

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Michael Zansky - New Paintings

March 5-March 28, 2010

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

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

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

Dye Works Gallery:

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

March 5 - April 18, 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.

Gallery Hours: Fridays- 4-8PM, Saturdays 2-6PM and Sundays 12-4PM
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th, 6pm to 9pm

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.

October 23, 2009 thru February 21, 2010

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GAGA 2010
Student Art Exhibition - Jan. 29 to Feb. 21, 2010

GALLERY B

GAGA Arts Center is please to announce its first juried Student Art Exhibition. Eleven students will be invited back as “Featured Artists” at a special student exhibit to be held in Gallery B @ GAGA in 2010, and will be invited to work with professional artists in hanging the exhibit.

The selected student artists are:

Nina Leonard A. - MacArthur Barr Middle School

Sooyoung Jean - Nanuet Senior High School
Julie Lee - Nanuet Senior High School

Angelina Torreano - Rockland Country Day School

Christine Trizzino Clarkstown High School North

Emily Couch - Nyack High School

Lauren Beltramo - Nyack High School

Chloe Miller - Green Meadow Waldorf School

Ji Sun Kim - Clarkstown High School South
David O’Neill - Clarkstown High School South

Aliya Mejias - Suffern High School

This exhibition is funded by: Orange & Rockland Community Investment Program.

Tamara Gayer
Everything’s For Sale

December 4, 2009 – January 10, 2010

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

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.

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

This exhibition is funded by: Orange & Rockland Community Investment Program.

Saturday June 27th 2009 1pm-5pm
Eseohe Arhebamen/Edoheart presents Fire Butoh 3
an experimental dance performance with sound and video projections
Duration: 25 minutes

Praise for "Fire Butoh 3":
"Arhebamen’s performances are very powerful ritual, which goes far beyond the modern feminine materiality bimboculture and represents more… creative power."
-Siram, SIRP, Estonia

"Flexible body and a strong gesture... a professional who was worth the attention... bright background music, her gestures and expressions of joy, full of light... Suddenly, the sound of thunder and the rain continues, meditative folk music of the drums changed to Africa, she also moves..."
-musical1501@naver.com , KoPAS, Seoul, Korea

Double-Dutch Exhibition Artists: Jim Sullivan, Dienke Nauta, Amy Morse, Brian Leo, Dax van Aalten, Ezra Talmatch, Boyce Cummings, Hal Hirschorn, Jon Lewis, Todd Fisher, Harry Hancock, Allegra Pacheco, Zach Zahringer, Eric Cahan, Brett Doar, Sebastian Mlynarski, Henry Jones, Gretchen Krauss, Janusz Erdely, Suzanne Riggio, Jordan Eagles, John Landino, Joyce Van Dongen, Brooke Larsen

Dear Friends,
You are cordially invited to join us on Saturday, June 27th for the First Artists and Collectors Summer Art Party at GAGA in a forest on the banks of the Minisceongo Creek. Cocktails and Lunch All Day. We have the Crozier Fine Arts Shuttle leaving Manhattan at 12 noon and returning at 6pm if you would like a ride with us, RSVP to jsgalleryinfo@gmail.com or call 646 821 7095. There is space for 25 in the shuttle.
The Crozier Fine Arts Shuttle will leave at 12pm and return at 6pm from 14th St at 8th Ave. The shuttle is on the street in front of the A C E and L trains and one block from the 1 and 9 trains.

"The exhibition, Double Dutch, curated by Jonathan Shorr, is a large and interesting international group show in one of the 8000 square foot galleries at this art center. There are 50 works of art by 20 artists and Dutch Video Artists' Projections with ten additional multimedia artists. The curator also presents Brian Leo's solo exhibition of new paintings, Color Glow, in a second gallery and a salon exhibition in a third space. These shows are scattered in several beautiful buildings in the arts center. There are also a handful of great artists studios that will be open on Saturday."

"Don't miss this hot new arts destination--Garnerville Arts Center-- a remarkable 19th century former textile mill in the hamlet of Garnerville NY, complete with a waterfall and creek maze running through its 25 Dickensian-like buildings. Before, during or after a turn around the galleries, art spaces, and sculpture gardens, look out for spontaneous performances in the alleyways and alcoves in this gem of the Hudson."

Eseohe Arhebamen / Edoheart
http://edoheart.org
info@edoheart.org
tel: 646.330.0772
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ewaBAMIJO Festival 2009
North American Co-ordination and Fundraising
http://ewabamijo.blogspot.com/
http://edoheart.org/events/ewa-bamijo

Vangeline Theatre

DOUBLE DUTCH thru July 5

Pictures From Croatia: Through The Eyes Of Children

SEPTEMBER 11- OCTOBER 4, 2009

GALLERY B

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.

This exhibition is funded by: 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

NEW WORKS - Joe Fusaro
June 12 to July 5, 2009 -

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Curated by Ken Karlewicz
Ken Karlewicz and 30 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 fifty large scale photographs documenting the 24 hour encounter.

May 9 to June 6, 2009

Gallery hours: Friday 5 to 8 PM - Saturday 2 to 6 PM -Sunday 12 to 4 PM

- Artists Reception: Saturday, May 9th - 6 to 9 PM

March 13 to April 4, 2009 - [Main Gallery]
IN BETWEEN THE LINES
Ursula Schneider, Ann Pachner, and Pat Hickman

LAND OF THE LOST - Andrea Stanislav

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.

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.

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.

Diane Churchill and Francesca Greene
Two painters. Artistic visions intersect inside building 18 of the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Complex.

Dianne Churchill...............................................................................Fransesca Greene

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ARTISTIC DIVERSITY:

Joanne Howard - Pam Marchin - Chris Randolph - Lynn Stein - Joel Carreiro - Polly King

John Rosis - Jackie Shatz - Laurie Steinhorst March 29 – May 4 2008

Polly King Joel Carreiro

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.

OUTSIDE IN Outsider Art Show- 2007

Curated by James Tyler and Dean Lozow

The paintings and sculpture of twenty five 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.