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Assemblage

Reflections

The Romantic & The Exotic

Vistas & Visions

2008 Fall Festival of the Arts

Secret Jews

Driven to Abstraction

LeRoy Neiman

“Peace Through My Eyes”

“My Place in this World”

“Come To Your Senses!”

ALL THAT JAZZ: Romare Bearden & Friends

Paul Sundick: Sports & the Arts

Folk-Artist Harry Lieberman
 

Assemblage is a work of art made from a collection of found objects or materials not usually thought of as art materials assembled together to form a work of art. Assemblage is the new “green”. The five artists featured in this exhibition express their art and their awareness of our environment by transforming unique materials and discards into exquisite works of art. Curator: Vivi Nassim.

Glass sculptor and multi-media artist Jude Amsel layers translucent colored glass to create her fragile yet powerful female torsos.

Ginger Balizer-Hendler, a collage artist, works with paper and found objects to create an imaginary world on canvas.

Colby Lippmann colorful and tactile glass pieces challenge the fine line between art and science.

Howard Levine complex yet harmonic mosaics explore our spiritual universe.

Georgia Vahue collects bits and pieces of detritus and places them with her photographs creating a relationship.

Each artist's process, materials, and medium is different, yet together they create a versatile and enriched exhibit of Assemblage.

“COME TO YOUR SENSES!”

The gallery at the Great Neck Arts Center, a non profit visual and performing arts center presents "Come to Your Senses!” a group exhibition exploring how our five senses connect us to art. Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. These five senses encompass the human experience, enabling us to perceive the world around us and communicate with others. Artworks for this exhibition were selected for their power to stimulate perception through the senses. They are visually displayed to encourage the audience to discover pleasure not only through sight, but through distinct experiences of touch, smell, sound and taste.

Ginger Balizer – Hendler creates work that returns her to a place where she allows herself complete freedom to play, cut, and paste. She combines sequins, glitter, exquisite trims and integrates them into her paintings and collages imbuing them with fanciful imagery, strokes of color and whimsy.

Totem

Fareen Butt is an abstract Nihonga Pointillist artist who has been painting and exhibiting for a decade. Nihonga has been employed for thousands of years by a variety of artisans from Japan to Persia, in which the medium consists of precious and semiprecious stones and metals. Butt's unique technique is a cross between South- and Far- East Asian, as well as European classical methods.

Mirage 400 Triptych

Walter Casaravilla studied at the University of for Applied Arts in Uruguay, his native country. He relocated to New York and had his first exhibit at the Washington Square outdoor show. His latest works lean to the abstract, but his color, his knife work and composition are distinctively his own.

Window Sill with Vase & Fruit

Internationally known and acclaimed artist Wayne Ensrud, known foremost as a painter and printmaker who has had over 60 exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Japan will be exhibiting eclectic mix of his painting. A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, he has studied with such renowned masters as Ben Shahn, Joseph Albers, Jacques Lipchitz and Oskar Kokoschka.

Carol Fischer – Rosenthal is fascinated by the idea of transforming "stuff" from what it used to be to what she wants it to be. For this show Carol has created Be-Jeweled, Be-Decked & Be-Dazzled Bride, an Assemblage of discarded jewelry, clothing, fabric, trim, Styrofoam, sequins, beads, Lucite, lampshade and lace.

Be-Jeweled, Be-Decked

& Be-Dazzled Bride

Grant Haffner was raised in East Hampton, within walking distance from the homes of Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning, and the twisting roads and landscapes of the South Fork that dominate his paintings. His compositions are rendered with a bold color palette, which is cleverly balanced to depict the speed and rhythm of the rural roadways. The slightly exaggerated poles and power-lines are primary to these compositions as they are utilized to exaggerate the depth of field and perspective and the artist's absorption in the fleeting landscape of the East End of Long Island. His works Courtesy of Solar Contemporary Art & Design, East Hampton.

Napeague

Lisa Mee’s collage-paintings offer something new as they refresh and awaken our senses. Lisa Mee has an unerring sense of construction. She discovers the work ‘link by link, stitch by stitch’. The chain of discoveries provides the steps of the creative process. Her paintings have no beginning or end, no differentiation between time and space. We move within the painting, we are surrounded by it, we are inside it. She seems to just tie the brush and scissors to her fingers and let them create the picture – effortlessly.

Herb Williams is one of the only individuals in the world with an account with Crayola. He creates original sculptures out of individual crayons that may require as many as hundreds of thousands. His work “Courtesy of the Artist and RARE Gallery, New York.” 

ALL THAT JAZZ: Romare Bearden & Friends

Romare Bearden (1911 – 1988), a painter, collagist and printmaker who had met Braque and Brancusi in Paris; and who was also a city social worker in Harlem for almost 30 years, relished the ingredients in his own life that defined his art. A number of impressive Bearden works will be exhibited along side Wayne Ensrud’s Jazz musician series, Jazz photography by William P. “Bill” Gottlieb (1917 – 2005) and woodcut collages by Julie Lapping Rivera through April’s “Jazz Month”.

Romare Bearden: Dreams of Exile

(The Green Snake) 1973
 

Julie Lapping Rivera: After Keyta

William Gottlieb: Sinatra 1947

Wayne Ensrud: Lena Horne

Paul Sundick: Sports & the Arts

Paul Sundick is an artist with a wealth of experience as a photographer, illustrator and film & video editor. Sundick’s photographic art incorporates his unique combination of creative skills and quality to provide one-of-a-kind works of art. Viewing Sundick’s art brings to mind a sense of nostalgia, sportsmanship, love of the game and remembrances of what it felt like just to play!

Sundick states “Before digital photography came into its own, the darkroom was where good pictures became great. Now many of us have left the darkrooms, in favor of computer programs that enable us to create much of the same magic.” Visit the Arts Center’s Gallery to view the magic yourself.

Untitled

Folk-Artist Harry Lieberman
 

“Visual Statements”
Paintings & Three-Dimensional Works

Untitled (The Story of Jonah), c.1980,

Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40, (Private Collection)

Harry Lieberman’s paintings have excited attention in the folk-art world almost from the moment he first picked up a paintbrush at the age of seventy-six. Lieberman was included among the vanguard of contemporary folk artists presented in Herbert Hemphill and Julia Weissman’s decisive work, Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists (1974). Lieberman continued painting until 1983, when he died shortly before the age of one hundred and three.

Lieberman’s paintings are represented in such prestigious museum collections as the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and in numerous private collections throughout the world.

Harry Lieberman’s paintings are generally considered both ethnic and religious because they deal primarily with Jewish liturgy, religious literature and Jewish shtetl-life in Poland. They are visual statements based on Leiberman’s own memories, his own background, and his own education. Each of Lieberman's painting tells a story, usually taped on the back of the canvas, and they are frequently reflective.

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