The Great Neck Arts Center presents exhibitions of art works by accomplished New York, National and International contemporary artists, as well as special exhibits originating from the collections of notable galleries and museums worldwide. Our mission is to present art that reflects the diversity of tastes, backgrounds and cultures that contribute to its remarkable richness of life.

“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.” 

Meet the Artist Reception
 Thursday, January 21, 2010
6:30 - 9PM

For more information Contact Georgia Vahue: georgia@greatneckarts.org

Receptions are free and open to the public.