BIG, FAT & JUICY
Exuberant
Painting, May 2 – June 28, 2014
Free Opening Reception, Artist Talk and All-Age Art Workshop:
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Friday,
May 2, 6:30-8:00PM
New! Artist Talk: 7PM
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Art
Center is pleased to announce Big, Fat & Juicy, a group show of
large-scale abstraction that pushes the boundaries of the physicality of
paint. Paintings and sculptures by four New York-based artists, Emily
Noelle Lambert, Dorothy Robinson, Josette Urso and Deborah Zlotsky,
combine the deliberate spontaneity found in abstract painting and the
inventive possibilities of paint itself, which appear here in lush and
expressive ways. Big Fat & Juicy will be on view from May 2 – June
28, 2014 with an opening reception, and all-age hands-on workshop on
Friday, May 2 from 6:30-8:00pm. Make sure to arrive on time to hear the
Artist Talk at 7pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
Curated
by Alexi Rutsch-Brock and Elizabeth Saperstein, the title of the show
comes from the exuberant qualities that get people excited about
painting: large scale canvases, spirited brushwork and tactile surfaces
that stimulate all the senses. From a distance, a viewer can discern
geometric shapes and topographies, connected by a bounty of colors. Up
close, it gets even better, and links the physical with the personal.
The three-dimensionality of the paint comes into focus, bumps, clumps
and all, and reveals how each artist handles paint very differently, but
to similar conclusions. Paint moves around the surface as the weather
moves across the earth, which these artists embrace as a metaphor for
the peaks, valleys, storms and myriad barometric terms used to describe
life’s journey.
“The exhibit examines how paint is approached, either as a spontaneous action or something that looks like a mistake, but is actually constructed,” says Alexi-Rutsch Brock, a visual artist and educator, and co-curator of the exhibit. “The works show everything that paint can do.” Dorothy Robinson creates landscapes that are on the verge of imploding or exploding; sky and water merge, the earth cracks
open and the stage is set, invoking the journey to the center of the
earth. Or is the soul? The swirling, shifting of tectonic plates give
way to Josette Urso’s idiosyncratic, acrobatically-infused surfaces that
weave, smear and spin, a kind of visual mountaineering that feels like
you are traveling with the artist’s brush in short, fast leaps of color
and shapes. Deborah Zlotsky’s jewel-like dangling rocks deliver us to
the sedimentary layer of the earth, all chunky cave-crystals or Mexican
salt mines, prehistoric, amorphous – closer to the rock. If the journey
starts with Robinson, perhaps it ends with Emily Noelle Lambert. Here,
among the found wood, objects, detritus, and paint that the artist
intuitively transforms into totemic sculptures and vibrant paintings, is
an extraordinary resting place, absolutely personal, and entirely
hopeful. “Accidents and change are showing in the work, and that is the
evidence of the process and journey,” says Rutsch-Brock of the work
included in the show. “You can’t always tell where it starts and ends,
but all this substance peeking through gives you a sense of a time
before.”
Related Programming
Friday, May 2
6:30-8pm- Opening Reception and All-Age Art Workshop
7pm- Artist talk
About the Artists
EMILY NOELLE LAMBERT
Emily
Noelle Lambert received her MFA from Hunter College, New York and her
BA in Visual Art from Antioch College, Ohio. Lambert has shown
nationally and internationally including past solo exhibitions in New
York, Chicago, and IMART in South Korea. She has also been included in
numerous group shows in New York, Weekend Space in LA, and RH+Gallery in
Istanbul. Emily was born and raised in Pittsburgh and now lives and
works in New York City. She has been a Keyholder Resident artist with
the Lower East Side Printshop and was recently awarded a 2014 residency
with the Dieu Donné Workspace.
DOROTHY ROBINSON
Dorothy Robinson is a Brooklyn-based artist; she has exhibited her work at Slate
Gallery in Williamsburg and Edward Thorp Gallery in Manhattan. She
studied geography as an undergraduate and received an MFA in painting in
1993 from UC Berkeley. She has been awarded residencies at Marie Walsh
Sharpe Art Foundation and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and a grant
from the Pollock Krasner Foundation.
JOSETTE URSO
Josette
Urso received her MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida
and currently works in New York City. Urso has had numerous grants and
residencies, including, a Gottlieb Foundation Award in 2013, Yaddo in
2009 and a second Pollock-Krasner Foundation award and residency at the
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, both in 2008. She traveled to
Taiwan for a residency at STOCK20 in 2006 and to Cambodia with the AIEP
American Artist’s Abroad program in 2004. Other awards include those
from Basil H. Alkazzi, the NEA and Art Matters and she was a participant
in the Bronx Museum for the Arts AIM program. In New York City, she has
shown at the Drawing Center, Storefront, Norte Maar, DFN Gallery,
Markel Fine Arts, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Metaphor Contemporary, and the
New York Public Library.
DEBORAH ZLOTSKY
Deborah Zlotsky is a 2012 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship in painting and is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in
New York. She has exhibited her work in exhibitions across the country,
and her drawings are in the curated flat files of Pierogi Gallery and
The Boston Drawing Project at Joseph Carroll and Sons Gallery, as well
as the online-curated registry at The Drawing Center. A selected list of
public collections includes Nordstrom, Progressive Insurance, Rutgers
University, the Waldorf Astoria, the New York Palace Hotel and the
Albany Institute of History and Art. Over the past 10 years, she has
received residency fellowships at Yaddo, VCCA, Ox-Bow, Millay Colony for
the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, the Weir Farm Art Center and the
Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts.
About the Curators
BIG
FAT & JUICY is organized by Alexi Rutsch-Brock, a visual artist
and art educator, and Elizabeth Saperstein, an independent curator.
Involved with the Art Center since childhood, Rutsch-Brock has served on
the Art Center’s Gallery Advisory Committee and has organized exhibits
throughout the metropolitan area since 1989, most recently “Legitimate
Vagina” at Miranda Fine Arts in Port Chester, NY. She received her MS
from the College of New Rochelle and her BFA from the School of Visual
Arts, and is an art teacher at New Rochelle High School. Saperstein has
served on the Art Center’s Gallery Advisory Committee since 2004, where
she has organized several thematic group exhibits including still life,
landscape, comics and cartography; most recently, she organized “Horizon
Variations,” at the Camera Club of New York. She is a former professor
of multimedia studies at the University of the Arts and program manager
at the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop. She received her MA from Purchase
College and BS from Emerson College.
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Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Avenue Pelham, NY 10803 914-738-2525 info@pelhamartcenter.org
Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 10–5pm; Saturday, 10–4pm
Directions: Located 5 blocks from the Hutchinson Parkway exit 12 and 2 blocks from the Metro North Pelham stop
These
events and programs are made possible, in part, by the ArtsWestchester
with funds from Westchester County Government. Pelham Art Center also
receives funding from: New York State Council on the Arts, A State
Agency; Westchester Jewish Community Services; hibu; Nurses Network of
America; Town of Pelham; New Rochelle Campership Fund; Bistro Rollin;
Robin’s Art+Giving; Nycon; Junior League of Pelham, Prospect Hill
Lunchtime Enrichment; Strypemonde Foundation; Mark Link Insurance;
Broadway Electric, Owen Berkowitz; Members; and Annual Fund Donors.
Center is pleased to announce Big, Fat & Juicy, a group show of
large-scale abstraction that pushes the boundaries of the physicality of
paint. Paintings and sculptures by four New York-based artists, Emily
Noelle Lambert, Dorothy Robinson, Josette Urso and Deborah Zlotsky,
combine the deliberate spontaneity found in abstract painting and the
inventive possibilities of paint itself, which appear here in lush and
expressive ways. Big Fat & Juicy will be on view from May 2 – June
28, 2014 with an opening reception, and all-age hands-on workshop on
Friday, May 2 from 6:30-8:00pm. Make sure to arrive on time to hear the
Artist Talk at 7pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
Curated
by Alexi Rutsch-Brock and Elizabeth Saperstein, the title of the show
comes from the exuberant qualities that get people excited about
painting: large scale canvases, spirited brushwork and tactile surfaces
that stimulate all the senses. From a distance, a viewer can discern
geometric shapes and topographies, connected by a bounty of colors. Up
close, it gets even better, and links the physical with the personal.
The three-dimensionality of the paint comes into focus, bumps, clumps
and all, and reveals how each artist handles paint very differently, but
to similar conclusions. Paint moves around the surface as the weather
moves across the earth, which these artists embrace as a metaphor for
the peaks, valleys, storms and myriad barometric terms used to describe
life’s journey.
“The exhibit examines how paint is approached, either as a spontaneous action or something that looks like a mistake, but is actually constructed,” says Alexi-Rutsch Brock, a visual artist and educator, and co-curator of the exhibit. “The works show everything that paint can do.” Dorothy Robinson creates landscapes that are on the verge of imploding or exploding; sky and water merge, the earth cracks
open and the stage is set, invoking the journey to the center of the
earth. Or is the soul? The swirling, shifting of tectonic plates give
way to Josette Urso’s idiosyncratic, acrobatically-infused surfaces that
weave, smear and spin, a kind of visual mountaineering that feels like
you are traveling with the artist’s brush in short, fast leaps of color
and shapes. Deborah Zlotsky’s jewel-like dangling rocks deliver us to
the sedimentary layer of the earth, all chunky cave-crystals or Mexican
salt mines, prehistoric, amorphous – closer to the rock. If the journey
starts with Robinson, perhaps it ends with Emily Noelle Lambert. Here,
among the found wood, objects, detritus, and paint that the artist
intuitively transforms into totemic sculptures and vibrant paintings, is
an extraordinary resting place, absolutely personal, and entirely
hopeful. “Accidents and change are showing in the work, and that is the
evidence of the process and journey,” says Rutsch-Brock of the work
included in the show. “You can’t always tell where it starts and ends,
but all this substance peeking through gives you a sense of a time
before.”
Related Programming
Friday, May 2
6:30-8pm- Opening Reception and All-Age Art Workshop
7pm- Artist talk
About the Artists
EMILY NOELLE LAMBERT
Emily
Noelle Lambert received her MFA from Hunter College, New York and her
BA in Visual Art from Antioch College, Ohio. Lambert has shown
nationally and internationally including past solo exhibitions in New
York, Chicago, and IMART in South Korea. She has also been included in
numerous group shows in New York, Weekend Space in LA, and RH+Gallery in
Istanbul. Emily was born and raised in Pittsburgh and now lives and
works in New York City. She has been a Keyholder Resident artist with
the Lower East Side Printshop and was recently awarded a 2014 residency
with the Dieu Donné Workspace.
DOROTHY ROBINSON
Dorothy Robinson is a Brooklyn-based artist; she has exhibited her work at Slate
Gallery in Williamsburg and Edward Thorp Gallery in Manhattan. She
studied geography as an undergraduate and received an MFA in painting in
1993 from UC Berkeley. She has been awarded residencies at Marie Walsh
Sharpe Art Foundation and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and a grant
from the Pollock Krasner Foundation.
JOSETTE URSO
Josette
Urso received her MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida
and currently works in New York City. Urso has had numerous grants and
residencies, including, a Gottlieb Foundation Award in 2013, Yaddo in
2009 and a second Pollock-Krasner Foundation award and residency at the
Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, both in 2008. She traveled to
Taiwan for a residency at STOCK20 in 2006 and to Cambodia with the AIEP
American Artist’s Abroad program in 2004. Other awards include those
from Basil H. Alkazzi, the NEA and Art Matters and she was a participant
in the Bronx Museum for the Arts AIM program. In New York City, she has
shown at the Drawing Center, Storefront, Norte Maar, DFN Gallery,
Markel Fine Arts, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Metaphor Contemporary, and the
New York Public Library.
DEBORAH ZLOTSKY
Deborah Zlotsky is a 2012 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship in painting and is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in
New York. She has exhibited her work in exhibitions across the country,
and her drawings are in the curated flat files of Pierogi Gallery and
The Boston Drawing Project at Joseph Carroll and Sons Gallery, as well
as the online-curated registry at The Drawing Center. A selected list of
public collections includes Nordstrom, Progressive Insurance, Rutgers
University, the Waldorf Astoria, the New York Palace Hotel and the
Albany Institute of History and Art. Over the past 10 years, she has
received residency fellowships at Yaddo, VCCA, Ox-Bow, Millay Colony for
the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, the Weir Farm Art Center and the
Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts.
About the Curators
BIG
FAT & JUICY is organized by Alexi Rutsch-Brock, a visual artist
and art educator, and Elizabeth Saperstein, an independent curator.
Involved with the Art Center since childhood, Rutsch-Brock has served on
the Art Center’s Gallery Advisory Committee and has organized exhibits
throughout the metropolitan area since 1989, most recently “Legitimate
Vagina” at Miranda Fine Arts in Port Chester, NY. She received her MS
from the College of New Rochelle and her BFA from the School of Visual
Arts, and is an art teacher at New Rochelle High School. Saperstein has
served on the Art Center’s Gallery Advisory Committee since 2004, where
she has organized several thematic group exhibits including still life,
landscape, comics and cartography; most recently, she organized “Horizon
Variations,” at the Camera Club of New York. She is a former professor
of multimedia studies at the University of the Arts and program manager
at the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop. She received her MA from Purchase
College and BS from Emerson College.
###
Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Avenue Pelham, NY 10803 914-738-2525 info@pelhamartcenter.org
Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 10–5pm; Saturday, 10–4pm
Directions: Located 5 blocks from the Hutchinson Parkway exit 12 and 2 blocks from the Metro North Pelham stop
These
events and programs are made possible, in part, by the ArtsWestchester
with funds from Westchester County Government. Pelham Art Center also
receives funding from: New York State Council on the Arts, A State
Agency; Westchester Jewish Community Services; hibu; Nurses Network of
America; Town of Pelham; New Rochelle Campership Fund; Bistro Rollin;
Robin’s Art+Giving; Nycon; Junior League of Pelham, Prospect Hill
Lunchtime Enrichment; Strypemonde Foundation; Mark Link Insurance;
Broadway Electric, Owen Berkowitz; Members; and Annual Fund Donors.