The ArtCenter gallery opening attracted a crowd of art lovers and the artists, too.
By Nancy Peckenham
A new gallery in the city of Newburgh held its premier opening on Thursday, featuring the work of 19 area artists in a juried exhibition.
The gallery, CenterArts, is located in the lobby of Kaplan Hall, the newly-completed centerpiece building of the SUNY Orange Newburgh campus.
Artists Joy Galinsky Monte (l) and Barbara Smith Gioia (c) talk with Mindy Ross (r), vice president of SUNY Orange's Newburgh campus.
Arts and arts education will be an important part of the curriculum at the SUNY Newburgh campus, according to the school’s vice president, Mindy Ross, who attended the gallery operning. Ross said that in addition to the Center Arts, there will be a student gallery and student art studios in the Tower Building, which is now being renovated.
“We are looking forward to having gallery talks,” Ross said, referring to how she envisions the future of the CenterArts space, “and we will even more art space when the new building is renovated.”
Four judges chose the work that hangs in the Illuminations show and includes pieces in a a range of mediums and techniques. Artist Carol Flaitz has two pieces in the show that feature striking multi-media landscapes based on bases on microscopic images of silicon chips. Rebecca Darlington’s “Birth” is the torso of a woman created in milky white resin.
Clayton Buchanan's painting, "Hat Boys," took first place in the juried show.
The judges gave out awards as well, with first place going to a six-part pastel portrait called “Hat Boys,” by Clayton Buchanan.
The Illuminations exhibit is open to the public during business hours through May 6.
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