Monday, May 22nd, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The Lockwood group show explores color in painting from a variety of points of view, many of them abstract in composition.
At the same time the discussion, featuring encourages viewers to appreciate the role of color in everyday life, beyond art making. And, even within art, bounces from the theoretical and systematic precepts, such as those of Josef Albers to the more emotionally sourced juxtapositions of Hans Hofmann's 'push and pull' dynamics. Other approaches are also seen in the show.
The panel discussion participants will consist of Artists Talk on Art president Doug Sheer himself an artist featured in the show and three panelist/presenters including Lockwood Gallery director, Alan Goolman and the artists Ginnie Gardiner and Paris-based artist Marc Bernier.
The full complement of artists in the exhibition include: Mark Bernier, Karlos Cårcamo, Marieken Cochius. Cathy Diamond, Carol Diamond, John Donovan,
Gregory Eltringham, Ginnie Gardiner, David Kucera, Barbara Laube, Paul Marrocco, Jim Napierala, Victoria Palermo, Shelley Parriott, Ann Provan, Charles Purvis, Kristen Rego, Lynn McCarty, Susanna Ronner, Anthony Ruscitto, Douglas Sheer, Jack Soloman, David Abselm Turner and Alice Zinnes.
The Zoom broadcast on the 22nd will commence at 7pm EST and last 90-minutes. It will be recorded and posted to the Artists Talk on Art YouTube channel within a week of the event. The Zoom link and password are available by registering for the Zoom at www.atoanyc.org no later than Saturday evening May 20th at midnight. If you already receive ATOA Emails there is no need to re-register.
Doug Sheer
Doug Sheer is the only child of two painters who were WPA artists, Artist Union members and Hans Hofmann students in NYC and Provincetown and he grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. He was educated in NYC including Rhodes School where Pop artist Jim Dine was his art teacher and at Rhode Island School of Design.
A painter, he was a pioneering video artist who ran the Egg Store video facility in Tribeca in the 1970s and served fellow video artists including Nam-June Paik, Charlotte Moorman,Twyla Tharp, Bill Viola, Merce Cunningham, Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono. Some of his recent paintings can be seen at www.douglasisheer.com and background on his art life and the history of Artists Talk on Art can be viewed on the Woodstock Library YouTube channel in a talk delivered on October 29th, 2022. Just visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXisevryJgQ to watch it.
In 1974 he was a co-founder of Artists Talk on Art, www.atoanyc.org the art world's preeminent forum which has featured 8,500 artists in over 1,000 recorded panels and dialogues. He was board chairman and became chairman emeritus in 2019. He currently serves as its president. The ATOA archive resides at Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution of which Sheer was archivist. https://www.aaa.si.edu/search/collections?edan_q=ATOA
He has shown his abstract paintings widely. He has served as a board member of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and currently serves on its exhibition committee. He is also a member of the education committee of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. He created and ran the Byrdcliffe Forum during the pandemic period and was the producer of its Zoom programs including its ten part "Woodstock Masters" series events (found on the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild channel on YouTube) and curated an exhibit of those artists called "Sense of Place" in August and September of 2022.
www.douglasisheer.com
Alan Goolman
IN PURSUIT OF COLOR 2023 COLOR has been and continues to be the most important and transformational element of my professional career. Working in the beauty industry, nine years with Christian Dior and six years with Chanel, led me to color product and development for a number of the world's great beauty brands.
In terms of color, everyone, especially me, wanted to have a better understanding of color; "how it works and why it works.” This was what led me on my personal journey "In Pursuit Of Color.”
My pursuit of color began with Josef Albers and then to Johannes Itten. It was in Itten’s writings, Elements of Color and Interaction Of Color, where I found answers I was looking for. What I needed now was a way to apply his theories and test mine.
Throughout my years with Dior and Chanel, I had the opportunity to work with an estimated 30,000(+/-) of the most extraordinary women. This allowed me to put theory into practice. I endeavored to understand and identify the unique aspects and interrelationships of color; how it works and why it works. This is what led me to an understanding of color I called "Applied Color Theory.” Ultimately I was tapped to write Applied Color Theory manuals for Estee Lauder Interntional, Clarins, and Ulta….
I joined Michael Lockwood, architect and owner of The Lockwood Gallery, as curator in 2019. It was while putting together our second show that I began to see what I believed were similarities in building a show and building beauty brand. This was the first time I employed "Applied Color Theory" to every aspect of a show. The show was the original "IN PURSUIT OF COLOR" 2019.
Marc Bernier
Marc Bernier was born in Paris, France. By his late twenties to thirties he traveled and lived extensively abroad, working as a professional photographer and videographer in the Caribbeans, Africa, Central America to finally settle in the United States, first in Los Angeles then New York City where he graduated from Pratt Institute. Currently he lives and works in East Fishkill, NY.
Moving between abstraction and representation, Bernier’s paintings exert a potent
physiological effect. Made up of many fluid layers, these shimmering surfaces subtly shift in color and texture as your gaze moves around them. His paintings, rooted in color theory and visual perception, transcend their strategic and methodical nascence. The viewer is drawn in to the work by the interaction of color, so that the surface tension is maximized to the point at which an actual pulsation or flickering is perceived by the human eye. The work is at the same time calming and hyper-charged.
Bernier has exhibited at institutions and galleries including Musée D’Art Moderne, St Francis College, Chassie Post Gallery, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Ward Nasse Gallery and others, as well as received grants from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Pratt Institute and the Independence Bank Foundation.
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Ginnie Gardiner
Ginnie Gardiner received a B.F.A. from Cornell University in 1974. She is widely known for her practice of creating collages that serve as studies for her paintings.
In 1997 Gardiner curated a collage group exhibition titled The Re-Associated Image at Douglas Flanders Associates in Minneapolis, MN. Her collages and collage-based paintings have been shown in many exhibitions at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, including, And I Quote, 1998, Talking with Tiepolo, Solo Exhibition, 2000, Collage, Signs and Surfaces, 2005, The New Collage, 2006, Daughters of the Revolution: Women & Collage, 2009 and In Translation: Austin, Deem, Gardiner, 2010.
Gardiner’s work was featured in the exhibition, unfoldingobject, curated by Todd Bartel, at the Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA, in 2019. In 2021 she had a Solo Exhibition, 'GINNIE GARDINER: INTERLUSION: Recent Painting and Collage, at the Carrie Chen Gallery in Great Barrington, MA and a Two -Person Exhibition, 'ECHO: Ginnie Gardiner & Amy Talluto, Recent Painting and Collage, at the Albany International Airport Art & Culture Gallery. 2022 exhibitions include Complex Muses, curated by Todd Bartel, at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, May to September, and RADIUS 50, at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, July to September.
http://ginniegardiner.com
https://www.instagram.com/ginniegardiner/