Urban Impressionism "Afternoon Tea" Closing Reception, Sat. 11/16, 12-3pm

Urban Impressionism: Mixed-Media Art + Photography by Carla E. Reyes, Jeremiah Gregory, Robert Lobe, and Erik Savage

On view at Yashar Gallery, November 1- 22, 2013

Closing Reception: 
Saturday, November 16, 12:00pm-3:00pm

Urban Impressionism is a series of abstract, mixed-media works of art created by Brooklyn based artist Carla E. Reyes, exploring the nature and character of specific urban environments through the re-creation of actual surfaces, textures, colors and shapes visually extracted from that environment. These textural “thumbnails” create an impression of the surroundings through a sensory response to the local color, characteristic surfaces - man made or natural, and organic or geometric shapes that are prevalent.

The Impressionists used dabs of paint to represent reflections of light to describe a scene, allowing the viewer to absorb the landscape through the familiar sensations of and responses to light and color. Urban Impressionism seeks to describe the scenery and atmosphere through sensory associations with colors, textures and forms ubiquitous to that environment, in a more abstract and microcosmic way. These textural “snapshots” explore the juxtaposition and interplay of man made and natural surfaces found in modern urban landscapes. When viewed together, these works create a backdrop of color, texture, and form that evoke a particular place and time, and bring the viewer into that environment on a visceral level. Urban Impressionism is also about honing in on the beauty and poetry of seemingly mundane or unrefined aspects of our everyday surroundings.

This exhibition will feature a selection of the mixed-media artwork series created by Carla E. Reyes, a Brooklyn based artist interested in visceral art making that explores the interaction between the natural and the man made, complex textural surfaces, and experimentation with new and unconventional art materials. Carla received her MA in Art Education from City College, and her BFA in Restoration and Fine Arts from FIT, NYC. Carla is also a decorative finisher, scenic/mural artist and art educator. Her complete portfolio can be viewed at: http://www.carlaereyes.com.

Also on view, are images of urban abstraction discovered as ongoing inspiration for the series, created by contemporary photographers. Born in Nashville, TN, Jeremiah Gregory(http://www.jeremiahgregory.com/) received his B.A. in Studio Art from Pitzer College, CA. His photographs run the gamut from moody portraiture to haunting abstractions of interiors and city surfaces, but all have a tongue in cheek message read through a lens catching light playing tricks. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

Robert Lobe (http://www.robertlobephoto.com/) came to color photography in the late 1970’s from a painting tradition. He received his Masters in Art History from Brown University, and studied at the International Center of Photography, as well as in workshops with master printer Jerry Vezzuso. He has had solo exhibitions at the University of Rhode Island, the Soho Photo Gallery, the Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, and was included in the Queens International 2012, Queens Museum of Art, NY. 

Erik Savage is a recent graduate and current intern at Alpha Workshops Studio School’s decorative arts program, NYC. He has worked in magazine publishing as a designer and creative director, most recently at InTouch Weekly. He is partner in an artisan candy company (www.JustCaramelOnline.com), and is a freelance photographer and scenic painter. He has exhibited at Visual AIDS Postcards From The Edge, NYC, as well as at the gallery at Alpha Workshops.

Urban Impressionism will be on view from November 1-22, 2013 at Yashar Gallery. Yashar Gallery is located minutes from Manhattan in the urban art community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Yashar Gallery opened its doors in April 2010, and hosts monthly rotating exhibitions featuring the professional artists at Brooklyn Art Studios in the Greenpoint Industrial Center. Visithttp://www.brooklynartstudiosnyc.blogspot.com for Yashar Gallery’s exhibition schedule and updates, map/directions, and to learn about the artists of Brooklyn Art Studios.

Urban Impressionism: Mixed-Media Art + Photography by Carla E. Reyes, Jeremiah Gregory, Robert Lobe, and Erik Savage

Closing Reception: 

Saturday, November 16, 12:00pm-3:00pm

YASHAR GALLERY @ Brooklyn Art Studios 276 Greenpoint Ave, Bldg 8, Ground Floor, Brooklyn
On view:  November 1- 22, 2013

Viewing Hours: Saturdays 12-3pm

By appointment - 718.801.2809 / brooklynartstudios@gmail.com 

Next at Yashar Gallery...Urban Impressionism

Urban Impressionism: Mixed-Media Art by Carla E. Reyes

Also Featuring Photography by: Jeremiah Gregory, Robert Lobe, and Erik Savage

On view at Yashar Gallery, November 1- 22, 2013

Opening Reception: 
Friday, November 1, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Urban Impressionism is a series of abstract, mixed-media works of art created by Brooklyn based artist Carla E. Reyes, exploring the nature and character of specific urban environments through the re-creation of actual surfaces, textures, colors and shapes visually extracted from that environment. These textural “thumbnails” create an impression of the surroundings through a sensory response to the local color, characteristic surfaces - man made or natural, and organic or geometric shapes that are prevalent.

The Impressionists used dabs of paint to represent reflections of light to describe a scene, allowing the viewer to absorb the landscape through the familiar sensations of and responses to light and color. Urban Impressionism seeks to describe the scenery and atmosphere through sensory associations with colors, textures and forms ubiquitous to that environment, in a more abstract and microcosmic way. These textural “snapshots” explore the juxtaposition and interplay of man made and natural surfaces found in modern urban landscapes. When viewed together, these works create a backdrop of color, texture, and form that evoke a particular place and time, and bring the viewer into that environment on a visceral level. Urban Impressionism is also about honing in on the beauty and poetry of seemingly mundane or unrefined aspects of our everyday surroundings.

This exhibition will feature a selection of the mixed-media artwork series created by Carla E. Reyes, a Brooklyn based artist interested in visceral art making that explores the interaction between the natural and the man made, complex textural surfaces, and experimentation with new and unconventional art materials. Carla received her MA in Art Education from City College, and her BFA in Restoration and Fine Arts from FIT, NYC. Carla is also a decorative finisher, scenic/mural artist and art educator. Her complete portfolio can be viewed at: http://www.carlaereyes.com.

Also on view, are images of urban abstraction discovered as ongoing inspiration for the series, created by contemporary photographers. Born in Nashville, TN, Jeremiah Gregory (http://www.jeremiahgregory.com/) received his B.A. in Studio Art from Pitzer College, CA. His photographs run the gamut from moody portraiture to haunting abstractions of interiors and city surfaces, but all have a tongue in cheek message read through a lens catching light playing tricks. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

Robert Lobe (http://www.robertlobephoto.com/) came to color photography in the late 1970’s from a painting tradition. He received his Masters in Art History from Brown University, and studied at the International Center of Photography, as well as in workshops with master printer Jerry Vezzuso. He has had solo exhibitions at the University of Rhode Island, the Soho Photo Gallery, the Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, and was included in the Queens International 2012, Queens Museum of Art, NY. 

Erik Savage is a recent graduate and current intern at Alpha Workshops Studio School’s decorative arts program, NYC. He has worked in magazine publishing as a designer and creative director, most recently at InTouch Weekly. He is partner in an artisan candy company (www.JustCaramelOnline.com), and is a freelance photographer and scenic painter. He has exhibited at Visual AIDS Postcards From The Edge, NYC, as well as at the gallery at Alpha Workshops.

Urban Impressionism will be on view from November 1-22, 2013 at Yashar Gallery. Yashar Gallery is located minutes from Manhattan in the urban art community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Yashar Gallery opened its doors in April 2010, and hosts monthly rotating exhibitions featuring the professional artists at Brooklyn Art Studios in the Greenpoint Industrial Center. Visit http://www.brooklynartstudiosnyc.blogspot.com for Yashar Gallery’s exhibition schedule and updates, map/directions, and to learn about the artists of Brooklyn Art Studios.

Urban Impressionism: Mixed-Media Art by Carla E. Reyes

Also Featuring Photography by: Jeremiah Gregory, Robert Lobe, and Erik Savage

Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 6:00pm-9:00pm

YASHAR GALLERY @ Brooklyn Art Studios 276 Greenpoint Ave, Bldg 8, Ground Floor, Brooklyn
On view:  November 1- 22, 2013

Viewing Hours: Saturdays 12-3pm

By appointment - 718.801.2809 / brooklynartstudios@gmail.com

Next at Yashar Gallery...Dean Ebben

Next at Yashar Gallery: George Tsalikis

George Tsalikis             

A PERSONAL GEOGRAPHY     

On view: September 5-25, 2013

Opening Reception: Thursday, Sep 5, 6-8PM

Greenpoint Gallery Night: Friday, Sep 13, 6-9PM



Yashar Gallery @ Brooklyn Art Studios
276 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, Sundays 1-5PM and by appointment
Contact: George Tsalikis at 857-719-7008 or tsalikisstudio@gmail.com

Next at Yashar Gallery: Kenneth Browne

William Keegan - Hello World opens August 8th

Hello World - 2013

Upcoming Exhibition

Opening Aug 8, 2013 7:00 PM

Running thru Aug 22, 2013

Pips Art Space

158 Roebling, Williamsburg

SLIDESHOW

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stelos/sets/72157633290118916/show/

TO SCHEDULE A VIEWING:

email: info@williamkeeganstudio.com

phone: 917-740-3646

Rubin @ Gallery Brooklyn 7/27-8/17

Kiyomi Yamagishi @ AsiaStore Summer Sale Event

Kiyomi Yamagishi

AsiaStore Summer Sale Event

July 3 - August 31

AsiaStore at Asia Society and Museum

725 Park Ave. (at 70th St)

store.asiastore.org

www.kiyomiyamagishi.com

Next at Yashar Gallery...

Closing Party: Thursday, July 25, 6:30-9:30pm

www.jillkirschen.com

Patricia Gaeta: Through the Thicket of Things

Masters & Pelavin is pleased to present Through the Thicket of Things, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In a series of abstract collages, Gaeta uses graph paper as her primary medium and main source of inspiration. Although her geometric constructions are painstakingly hand-cut, carefully layered and precisely ordered within their rectangular formats, the overall compositions have an intriguing energy, depth, and visual complexity.

After finding countless boxes of old graph paper in a trash bin, Gaeta began using it for her drawings. Soon, however, she discovered that cutting the paper along it’s gridded lines with an X-Acto blade and removing small sections of the graph was a process that opened up new artistic possibilities. Although occasionally her work looks as though the paper may have been machine cut, a closer look reveals her precise, labor-intensive process, with spontaneous, hand-made imperfections evident in the highly detailed work.

By its very nature, graph paper contains at least two perpendicular sets of lines forming a square grid, inviting activities such as three-dimensional drafting. Using this flat-surfaced grid as the jumping off point, Gaeta builds the illusion of depth with minimalist paper squares and cubes that have been glued flat against the graph paper. At the same time, she creates literal depth by building up layers of paper upon various shapes, raising and precariously overlapping them, adding height and volume to the geometric configurations. The boldness of these vivid, colorful designs, coupled with the delicate, tessellated nature of the thinly cut paper, create striking sculptural patterns that evoke a range of crafts, such as crochet, weavings, mosaics and architectural renderings.

Much of the work in this show was, in fact, inspired by architecture, particularly the empty, dilapidated buildings near Gaeta’s hometown of Niagra Falls, New York. Recalling the broken factory windows and rusting exteriors, many of the small collages in this show evoke a sense of uninhabited space and industrial decline, while her larger pieces tend toward proliferation and renewal. Her use of graph paper and the strict, systematic nature of architectural drafting it elicits are juxtaposed with worn, broken down materials such as ragged-edged paper, perforated vellum, wood veneers and flaking paint in luscious hues, suggesting an elegant and ordered decay. 

As Gaeta herself explains, “The use of graph paper is less common today as computer software has taken over many of the paper’s former uses. I want to go back to those humble uses, to a hand-made, craft-based art that eventually breaks down and deteriorates, but is ultimately more tactile, engaging and visually pleasurable.” 

A recent graduate of SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Art & Design, Gaeta currently lives and works in New York City.

Patricia Gaeta Through the Thicket of Things

June 13 – July 27
Reception: Thurs, June 13, from 6-8 pm

13 Jay Street
New York, NY 10013
646.926.2787
gallery@masterspelavin.com

Carey Sveen: To Keep Away Ghostly Intruders

Carey Sveen, To Keep Away Ghostly Intruders - Masks and Flags to ward off Fears and Nightmares, on view May 10-29. 
 
Additional special events: 
Norwegian Flag Day - May 17, 8- 10pm
Closing Reception - May 29, 8-10pm
 
Yashar Gallery 276 Greenpoint Avenue, Bldg 8, Ground Floor, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 

Contact:
www.careysveen.com
carey@careysveen.com 
917.686.6798 

Greenpoint Gallery Night - Friday 5/10

Yashar Gallery at Brooklyn Art Studios will be participating in Greenpoint Gallery Night on Friday, May 10, 6-9pm. 

Join us that evening for the opening reception of Carey Sveen, To Keep Away Ghostly Intruders - Masks and Flags to ward off Fears and Nightmares, on view May 10-29. 

Additional special events: 
Norwegian Flag Day - May 17, 8- 10pm
Closing Reception - May 29, 8-10pm

www.greenpointgalleries.org

Art by Carla E. Reyes on View

Celebrate Spring with local artists! Nature themed artwork by Ian Montgomery and Brooklyn Art Studios' own Carla E. Reyes. Musical guests at the opening reception event on Saturday, May 4th, 4-8pm. Exhibition on view through May 25th. More about Carla's "Flower Power" series here: FLOWER POWER Floral Art by Carla E. Reyes

NURTURING NATURE
Nature Inspired Art by Carla E. Reyes and Ian Montgomery 
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4th, 4-8pmOn view: May 4- 25

Theceeflat Gallery988 Manhattan Avenue, 2nd floor, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint stop on the G train, between India and Huron

Next at Yashar Gallery...

In Conversation: Carly Bodnar and P. Ryan-Kleid

In Conversation: Carly Bodnar and P. Ryan-Kleid

A joint exhibition.

 


Opening Reception:  
March 22, 7pm - 9:30pm

 
On View:  
March 22 - April 7, 2013


 

Yashar Gallery       
276 Greenpoint Ave, Bldg. 8, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11222

Contact info:  
carly.bodnar@gmail.com
www.carlybodnar.com
646-579-3737

http://pryankleid.wordpress.com/

pryankleid@gmail.com 

Senaspace presents...

Senaspace is pleased to announce the March guest artist(s) featuring our very first guest curators!

I AND YOU have skillfully planned the March show entitled "li_e" to feature three talented artists:
 

 

Riitta Ikonen

Carlos Little

Fanny Allié

"li_e" will open with a live concert playing on March 7 and end with a special performance on March 31st.

More information about each artist can be found here:

http://www.riittaikonen.com/
http://carloslittle.tumblr.com/
http://fannyallie.com/


 

“li_e”
March 7^th-March 31^st


229 Centre Street
NY NY 10013
(212) 966-5151

Gallery hours:
Tuesday-Sunday
12pm-8pm