“Beacon Teen Reflections” @ RiverWinds Gallery, Jan 14 – Feb 6, 2012
Aviv Tchernichoviski - Hand Study
Artist Reception: Saturday January 14, 3 – 7pm
Gallery Hours: Wed – Monday 12 – 6pm, Second Saturday 12 – 9pm
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RiverWinds Gallery at 172 Main Street in Beacon is celebrating its eighth annual show by the art students at Beacon High School, Beacon, New York. This year the young art students have created paintings, photographs, ceramics, digital art and more. The works demonstrate an amazing use of color, composition, imagination, and skill with the various medium. The opening reception for the show is January 14, 2012, (Beacon 2nd Saturday) 3 – 7pm. The show will run through Feb. 6, 2012.
“We are lucky to be art teachers in a community that supports the arts.” says Claudine Farley-Davis, coordinator of the Beacon High School Art Department for four years. ” RiverWinds Gallery has supported the art department with shows from their beginning days in 2004. They treat the students as professional artists, plus Linda T Hubbard mats and frames all the work. The Beacon Arts Community Association (BACA) helps promote the show and has also included our students in Electric Windows, the Art Guitars and other activities. The whole Beacon arts community has helped our students become the artist they want to be. I feel it is time to give a big thanks to the beacon art community!”
The ceramics in the show are from the Ceramics I class taught by Claudine Farley-Davis and Jennie Duke. The students have created combinations of wall tiles inspired by Portuguese and Picasso designs. Other students have created functional candle lanterns.
Digital art works from Jennie Duke’s Digital Art class are micrograph pieces using text to describe the image. Architectural pieces use a graphic table to draw directly on the computer.
Students in the Drawing and Painting classes created monochromatic paintings using limited color to mix, blend and create all the tints and shades needed for a full range of color. The self-portrait drawings are a long-standing way for the artist to study the human face.
The photographs in the exhibition are from Photography One students taught by Mark Lyons. They include cyanotypes made from natural objects with a focus on developing compositional skill. Students also created non-traditional portraits using double-sided magazine pages as a starting point. In the darkroom light passes through both sides of the magazine page and creates a new image on photographic paper. Students also worked with long shutter speeds to “paint” fluid lines with flashlights. The resulting photographs are an abstract representation of movement captured over 15 seconds.
Samantha Glusker - “Explore” digital artwork
The landscape images were created in Mark Lyon’s Digital Art One class. Students created a digital composite from sections of 20 or more existing images. A hand study by a student in the AP Art class used the computer as a painting tool.
In addition to the special Teen Reflections show, RiverWinds Gallery features more than 35 of the finest Hudson Valley artists. There are traditional fine art and contemporary crafts including ceramics, paintings, photography, jewelry, cards, yarn, scarves and home decor.
Gallery hours are Wednesday – Monday 12 – 6pm and 9pm on Second Saturday.
Directions: Route 84 exit 11, take Route 9D South, turn left at Main Street. The Gallery is on the left, a block and half East on Main Street.
For further information: RiverWinds Gallery, 172 Main St, Beacon, NY 12582 845-838-2880 http://www.riverwindsgallery.com/. Or Contact MaryAnn Glass 845-632-2174 or Linda Hubbard 845-221-3662.
Jasmin Santana - Black & White photo painting with light
