Spring 2016
Letter from the President
Spring begins with great news for KMAA! On April 8, the
KMAA will receive a 2016 Community Arts Award from
ArtsWestchester. This prestigious countywide award is in
recognition of more than 25 years of service to our
remarkable artist community through exhibitions, programs
and events, as well as constant support for the Katonah
Museum of Art. We hope that many of our more than 300
current members will join us in celebration of this award at a special ArtsWestchester
Luncheon on April 8, 2016 in Tarrytown, NY. Details for signing up can be found at
https://artswestchester.org/events/arts-award-tickets
Other exciting news for this spring season includes our scheduled Mini-Solos Member
Exhibition at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Croton Falls, opening May 15. On April 28, we
present another Creative Minds program, and May 17 a special Meet Me event and tour at
Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ. Details of these events can be found below and in
member eblasts to follow in coming weeks.
Members should also note that the KMAA now has its own Facebook page, which can be
accessed at our weblink at the Katonah Museum website or by Googling the Katonah
Museum Artists Association on Facebook. Members will now be able to receive current
updates for all programs, events, and exhibition opportunities and will be able to post
their personal commentaries, art news, and events. Please take advantage of this and
post your “Likes” to enhance our presence on the web.
Finally, I would like to advise our members that we have begun a promising dialogue with
the KMA administration about potential future exhibition opportunities at the Museum. In
fact, the Museum has already offered our members an opportunity to submit proposals for
inclusion in an “On Site” exhibition at the Museum to be held this summer. An eblast
regarding this was sent to members in mid-March, and the information is posted on our
Facebook page. The deadline for submissions is April 15, so act quickly.
Thanks for your continued support and participation in our thriving organizaion. Bernie Mindich, President
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Honoring Belle Manes
The KMAA Board, of which Belle Manes was an original
member, will miss both Belle and Mike Manes, who will
be moving soon to the Philadelphia area near their
children.
Belle has been a vital member of our
exhibition committee and a strong voice in developing
the organization’s high standards. In her words, “the
excitement of working with such creative and warm
friends will always be with me.” Please read below
our reprinted Interview with Belle from the Spring,
2001 edition of the KMAA newsletter.
“We live with hope and despair, loss and renewal, tragic and comedic masks as an eternal
enigma. I find myself in that time of life when caregiving responsibilities and freedom
reside alongside one another. My work intends to show the humor and frustration we all
endure when caught up in that seeming contradiction. I hope to show us as voyagers on
a journey – comforted by memories and the gift of human relationships.”
These are the words of Belle Manes, a painter who draws upon her passion for color and
form to create works in which figures exist in a glowing relationship with nature. A
member of the Katonah Museum Artists Association Board and Art Place Gallery in
Fairfield, CT, Belle has exhibited paintings nationally and has won many awards,
including first prize in Art of the Northeast, USA and the Medal of Honor from the
Philadelphia Museum.
Belle describes painting as a quest. “Each canvas is a gift and an opportunity to lose
oneself in a place where there are no restrictions. Everything you create frightens you at
first, because you don’t know what’s going to come out, or even if you can do it. Once
there’s paint on the canvas, however, you lose that fear.”
Growing up in an intellectual family in Queens, Belle spent long hours as a young child
watching her uncle paint in his sign shop, listening to Caruso playing on the phonograph,
knowing she would become an artist. Belle graduated from Music and Art High School in
New York at age sixteen, having learned how to think like a painter, with great respect for
the materials of art. At school she was taught to make her own paints and sculpture tools.
She received her B.F.A. in painting from Cooper Union, where she met her husband Mick
Manes, an engineering student. Her daughter Orianne has also pursued art and is a
practicing architect.
Belle praises a woman gallery owner in New York for being “ruthless in pushing me,
teaching me to see myself not just as a painter but also as a creator of ideas.”
Sally Aldrich
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Special Events
Thursday, April 28, 7:30 pm: The Creative Mind Series Dr. Oren Tepper, Director of
Craniofacial Surgery at Montefiore Hospital, will speak about his pioneering work in the
use and impact of 3D printing in reconstructive surgery.
Tuesday, May 17, 10:30 am: Meet ME…at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City. Join us for
a tour of the current exhibitions at 10:30am. Lunch will be followed by visits to architect
Richard Meyer’s Model Museum and to resident artist’s studios. Cost $21. Open to KMAA
members ONLY!
Sunday, May 15 – June 26: Mini-Solos Member Juried Exhibition at the Schoolhouse
Gallery. This unique event will feature the work of 17 artists displayed as a series of
mini-solo shows. Join us for the opening reception on May 15, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm.
Member News
Beverly Shipko will have an Open Studio for the RiverArts 2016 on
April 16 and 17, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. She will show her latest food
paintings and ask for participation in the Oreo Cookie Contest. You
take a bite of an Oreo and if your cookie is selected the resulting
painting will be named after you as a “unique portrait”. This is a
family-friendly event and will feature her new vending machine
paintings, as well as panel paintings from her latest project, 30
Paintings in 30 Days.
Beverly Shipko, America’s
Favorite Vending Candy, Oil
on canvas
The Katonah Arts Center Gallery will have a solo show featuring the
work of Tracy Burtz, May 4 to 21, with opening reception May 6, 5:00
-8:00 pm.
Victoria Kovalenchikova is participating in the Affordable Art Fair,
NYC from March 30 to April 3, with the VK Gallery - booth #1.52.
Victoria Kovalenchikova
Arnold Kastenbaum will have 14 images in a themed show at Soho
Photo Gallery, NYC. The show runs April 6 to April 30, with an
opening reception April 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Two of Connie Freid's paintings were juried into the 8th Annual
Yonkers Artist Showcase. The show runs April 9 to May 28 at the
Yonkers Riverfront Gallery, Yonkers Riverfront Library. The opening
reception is April 9, 3:00 - 5:00 pm. Connie won an Award of
Excellence from Manhattan Arts International for her entry, Frida Two Views, in the on-line exhibit Her Story 2016, which runs March
20 to April 20.
Connie Freid
Bow Tie, Acrylic
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Member News Continued
Christine Barth is participating in 12th Annual Juried Small Works
Show, Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Larchmont, March 31 to April 23,
with reception April 9, 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
Heidi Lewis Coleman is currently exhibiting her acrylic & cut paper
piece, Lavendaer, in the Greenwich Art Society's 99th Annual Juried
Exhibition from March 11 to April 7 at the Bendheim Gallery of the
Greenwich Arts Center. She will be exhibiting 3 of her assemblage
pieces in the Spectrum Gallery, Centerbrook, CT., curated regional
exhibition Text Messages, March 25 to May 15.
Christine Barth, Celeste
Venue #2, Collage
The publication Brut Force http://brutforce.com/paper_wings/
profiles the career and work of Laurene Krasny Brown in their online publication (and gallery) Brut Force.
Alan Jacobson will have a solo exhibition of his paintings at the
Harrison Public Library, Harrison, NY, April 3 to 29, with opening
reception April 9, 2:00 – 4:00 pm. The show includes 20 paintings
rendered in oil, presenting the range of his work depicting imagined
people and landscapes.
Heidi Lewis Coleman,
Lavendaer,
Acrylic and Cut Paper
Larchmont Art, Larchmont, NY will host a solo show for Ellen Lazarus
April 5 to April 30, with opening reception April 10, 2:00 - 4:00 pm.
The show will feature monotypes, mixed media work, and altered/
hand-made books.
Deborah Beck will once again perform in The Retiree Monologues,
written and performed by retired teachers, about the joys,
tribulations, and challenges of retirement. This free performance will
be held on April 10 at 3:00 pm in the Ellington Room at Manhattan
Plaza, NYC.
Annette Lieblin was juried into the Greenwich Art Society's 99th
Annual Juried Show, Bendheim Gallery, and the 12th Annual Juried
Small Works Show at the Mamaroneck Artist Guild. She received an
Honorable Mention at the 98th Annual American Society of
Contemporary Artists Show, NYC.
Laurene Krasny Brown,
Paper Migrant with
Wings, Mixed Media
Sally Aldrich has a clay sculpture Venus Vase and watercolor Leaves
Shining Through at the Ridgefield Guild, Ridgefield, CT through May 15.
Marty Kremer (Kremer Glass Studio) will have his April studio sale.
Email him if you would like an invitation to the sale.
([email protected]).
Alan Jacobson, Veiled Look,
Oil on Plywood
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Member News Continued
Jill Parry had her work juried into the 99th Annual Juried Exhibition
at Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich Arts Center on view through April 7.
Her work can also be seen in New Works on Paper at JCC of
Midwestchester.
Martin Ries has three paintings in Big Ideas in Small Packages at the
Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, from March 11 to April 23, with reception
March 11, from 2:00 – 5:00 pm.
The BeanRunner Café, Peekskill, presented On the Shoulders of
Women by Marcy B. Freedman, a collaborative work in which
Freedman embodied the 19th century activist Sarah G. Bagley, (one of
the Lowell Mill Girls who helped women fight for their rights). She
presented You Are What You Wear at the ArtsWestchester Gallery,
with a repeat performance April 16, 12:00 – 6:00 pm. Her related
installation is on view in SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity through
June 25. Marcy has a multi-media program Madness & Nudity: Women
in Art, May 7, 5:00 – 6:00 pm at the Hudson Valley Center for
Contemporary Art, Peekskill.
Inez Andrucyk will be exhibiting at the BWAC Gallery, along the East
River in Brooklyn, for the Wide Open Art Show, May 7 to June 10,
opening reception May 7, 1:00 - 6:00 pm. Her mixed media work will
be at the Silvermine School of Art Annual Faculty Exhibition April 17
to May 13, opening reception April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 pm. She will be
showing at Westchester Community College Gallery June 2 to July
29 as part of the Peekskill Open Studios program. The reception is
June 2, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. The Open Studios will be held for two full
days on June 4 and 5.
Jill Parry, Dominique and
the Fly, Oil
Martin Ries, Mystic
Landscape: The Mercy of
Eternity, Acrylic, Glitter on
Panel
Frances Ashforth had a monotype in the show, Shift: Environmentally
Responsible Print Practice Exhibition at MacMaster Museum of Art,
Ontario, CA. The Center for Contemporary Printmaking chose two of
her prints to travel with its International exhibition Horizons which
showed in Ireland and continues to Denmark in June. Frances was also
awarded an artist residency at PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR, in October.
Poetry in Nature at the Brooklyn Heights Branch Library presents the
paintings by Hilda Green Demsky. The show runs April 4 to May 2,
with opening reception April 4, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Marcy B. Freedman
Hilda Demsky, Oil
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Member News Continued
Lea Weinberg received the American Society of Contemporary Artists
honorable mention Award for her wire mesh sculpture, Inseperable,
displayed in February at Ceres Gallery, Chelsea. She is in a two-women
exhibition, SHE@ White Plains Public Library through May 21. Her
current project, a public sculpture commission for the new Holocaust
Memorial Garden in Oceanside, Long Island, opening May 4.
Wide Open 7- at BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition) will
feature the work of Barbara Korman from May 7 to June 12. The juror
for this show is Beth Saunders, Curatorial Assistant at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Barbara will also be showing in On the Port Morris
Side, a pop up gallery in the Bronx, May 14 and 15.
Lea Weinberg, Inseparable,
Wire mesh/mixed media
Natalya Aikens’ work has been juried into Breakout: Quilt Visions
2016, the 14th international juried exhibition produced by the Visions
Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts + Textiles (VAM) in San Diego,
CA. The show runs October 15 to January 8, 2017, with opening
reception October 15, 5:00 -7:00 pm.
The Photo Review’s Competition Issue 2015 includes Gina Randazzo’s
photograph Shopping #2. The competition winners were selected by
Laurence Miller, Director, Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC.
Gina Randazzo
Shopping #2, Photo
Spring 2016 – New Works, Avenue Gallery, Norwalk, CT will show the
work of Betty Ball April 7 to May 5, with opening reception April 7,
5:00 – 9:00 pm. Her monotypes with be shown at The Center for
Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT from April 3 to May 22,
opening reception April 3, 2:00 – 5:00 pm. She will also show at the
Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, from April 14 to May 19. Cynthia McCusker completed her art residency at CAMAC, France,
and had multiple exhibits in Paris, Naples, and NYC. Her work is
currently exhibiting in Arizona, New Jersey, Westchester, and NYC.
Upcoming receptions include Montserrat Gallery, Chelsea, April 7, 6:00 –
8:00pm, and Beacon Open Studios from 12:00 to 6:00 pm May 21 and 22.
Betty Ball, Watch Hill
Summer #7, Monotype
Sheryl Intrator’s work is on view at the Belskie Museum, Closter, NJ
through April 4, The Riverside Art Gallery, Hackensack, NJ for the month
of April, and at the Waltuch Gallery, Tenafly, NJ for the month of June.
Cynthia Mccosker,
Journey, acrylic
Editor, Sally Aldrich
Graphics Production, GG Kopilak
Member News, Janet McDermott
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