CURRENT SHOW

Mindy Best
Treat
New Photographs

September 18 – October 31, 2009

Hours: 11 - 6 Wednesday – Sunday. Mondays by appointment.

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Statement

I have been photographing in color for the past four years. The subjects of my photographs have been places and objects from my childhood that I associated with excitement. And although we all should have grown-out of these obsessions, I am exploiting my status as an adult to indulge in my every whim.

Color is the most important aspect of these photographs. The glossy and saturated color palette provided by candy manufacturers is designed to create desire all on its own without the sense of smell or taste. Striking at the heart of what motivates most of us in life and in looking at art - visual desire.

About the Artist

Mindy Best is currently a New York based commercial photographer. She grew up between South Dakota and Texas, eventually receiving her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin.. She has exhibited nationally. For 2009/2010, Best has been included in a traveling exhibition, I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art, originally curated for the Hudson River Museum.

 

 

UP COMING SHOW

Pat Dennis
Love and Politics
Recent Paintings

November 7 –December 31, 2009
Reception: Saturday, November 7, 6 - 9 pm

Hours: 11 - 6 Wednesday – Sunday. Mondays by appointment.

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Artist’s Statement

Hearts, horses, women, moons, abstract . . . all the same. I am painting the heart/heartbreak, joy/beauty/pain, personal/political in this life we live. Always wanting more and deeper.

About the Artist

In 1975, Pat Dennis began painting in Nyack, New York, the birthplace and boyhood home of American Realist painter, Edward Hopper. She was influenced by her stint as an assistant to Sari Dienes, on “the Land”, an artist’s community in Stony Point, New York. Neighbors Robert Rauchenberg and John Cage would often drop in on Dienes and Dennis for lunch.

Dennis subsequently moved to Taos, New Mexico, where she lived in a tent with her two children. She studied for one year at the Taos School of Fine Arts, until the school closed due to the death of its founder.

Dennis continued to paint and study and was strongly drawn to the powerful work and persona of Georgia O’Keeffe. She also developed a strong working relationship with Randy Lee White, a renowned Native American artist. The Taos community of the 1970’s left its mark on Dennis: the gorgeous light, the high desert, the incredible mountains and sky, the spirit of O’Keeffe, the magnetic people, and the challenges she faced caring for her family continue to dwell today in the artist’s heart and mind.

In 1979, Dennis and her children returned to New York, where she became an active member of the The New York Feminist Art Institute, an international collective of women artists exploring the relationship between art and mainstream culture.

During her involvement with the Institute, Dennis and three others founded the TAI Gallery on 19th Street in New York City. During this period, the artist also exhibited and sold works in Nyack, and in Manhattan at the Nelson Rockefeller Gallery, and Leger de Main Gallery at the Lincoln Center.

Dennis states, “Life on the planet is difficult, as is painting the “truth”, whatever that may be in the moment. The artist continues . . . at present, residing in Baltimore, Maryland. Email: artheart11@yahoo.com

 

 

UPCOMING SHOWS

MINÁS
Jan – Feb 2010

CHRISTINE SAJECKI
Mar – Apr 2010

HAL BOYD
May – June 2010

MINÁS
July – Aug 2010