Young Artists 2012
March 4 - 11, 2012
Marking its 29th year, the Young Artists exhibition showcases the extraordinary talents of 300 seniors from the Museum’s member high schools in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Dutchess, and Fairfield counties. This annual exhibition of works by seniors from member high schools gives aspiring artists an opportunity to participate in all aspects of a museum exhibition. With the guidance of professionals, the participants organize, publicize, curate, and mount their own exhibition.
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| Winning poster design by Geoff Ward of Fox Lane High School |
Art to the Point: Tri-State Juried Exhibition
January 15 - February 19, 2012
Juried by distinguished painter and printmaker Donald Sultan, Art to the Point features works that demonstrate clarity of purpose and vision. “Today, there are too many crutches for people to hide behind – ideologies, pasting junk together, random installations, words, craft, appropriation, and so on,” wrote Mr. Sultan in his juror’s statement. “Artists have to say what they mean, and say it clearly.” From the 697 pieces that were submitted for consideration by artists from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, 88 were chosen for the exhibition. First prize was awarded to Robert Brush for Golden Diaphragm, second prize to Dana Rosenberg for Meditation, and third prize to Sherry Camhy for Innocence.
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| Photography by Margaret Fox. |
New York, New York! The 20th Century
October 2 - December 31, 2011
Empire City, Gotham, the Big Apple...whatever you call it, New York City has captured millions of hearts, minds, and imaginations. This exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Norton Museum of Art, celebrates the city as artistic muse. The paintings, photographs, and sculptures on display feature some of its most famous landmarks, including Central Park, the Flatiron Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Broadway.
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| George Bellows, Winter Afternoon (Riverside Park, New York City), 1909, Oil on canvas, 30 x 38 in. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Gift of R. H. Norton. |
Storied City: New York in Picture Book Art
October 2 - December 31, 2011
New York has long held special appeal for the illustrators and writers of children’s books, both as a place to live and as a setting for their tales. Storied City displays original art from more than thirty-five picture books that examine iconic structures, diverse neighborhoods, ethnic life, urban transportation, and city parks. The illustrators include seven Caldecott Medal winners, several artists long associated with The New Yorker magazine, and many other leading illustrators from the children’s book world.
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| Amy Schwartz, “And once when I was brand-new,” from A Teeny Tiny Baby [Orchard, 1994], gouache © Amy Schwartz, 1994. |
Stephen Talasnik: Elusive Landscape
June 5 - September 18, 2011
Draftsman and sculptor Stephen Talasnik creates intricate fantastical structures, inspired, in part, by the work of Surrealist artists. Elusive Landscape presents a selection of recent pencil and ink drawings with intensely worked surfaces. A suspended construction in the Museum’s atrium represents the artist’s three-dimensional interpretation of a painted form in Yves Tanguy’s final masterpiece Multiplication of the Arcs, included in the exhibition Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy.
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| Stephen Talasnik, Mooring, from the Afloat Suite, 2009-2011, courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Gallery, New York. |
