“By abstracting from the surrounding landscape, it is my intent to create dynamic imitations that will hopefully encourage viewers to examine the countryside with a fresh perspective”, says Frederick.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Jeff Long
"Fire Fly Gate" 72"x36"
Oil on Canvas
Jeff Long has been refining his art through a process of distillation. His paintings, which were inflected with a meditative and sensuous tone have now been pared down to essentials. Yet their power and beauty remain.
The change began when Long marked the turn of the new century by breaking with the past and redirecting his artistic career. After working in San Francisco for twenty-five years, he returned to his East-Coast roots and established a studio in New York City where he painted from 1998 to 2001.
Long said that he made the move "to get a little distance, to infuse a new note in my work - to add something vivid, of the present, of a more optimistic moment."
In his distinguished career, Long's body of work reflected his passion for exploration and took a broad sweep. It evolved from narrative realism, through a distilled figuration that drew upon Asian art, to works inflected with traces of Cubism, and eventually to a compelling form of abstraction that referenced traditions of votive offerings.
Relocation enabled Long to reconnect with his early influences.
In Manhattan they included the Museum of Natural History, MOMA, the Met, the Frick, the Flatiron Building, the old Mercantile Exchange. It also gave him the opportunity to revisit the dense woods, rolling fields and upriver ponds where he grew up.
Returning to New York was a way to assess the painter's progress in a new light; a time to test the elasticity and resilience of his approach to making paintings. It was a chance to see how the physical context of Manhattan would impact an artist whose paintings always mediated between imagination and the surrounding visible world.
Being in the East allowed Long to push his elegiac paintings of the mid 1990s (notably, his Prayer Wall series, which had as a subtext a sense of mortality sharpened by the ubiquity of AIDS) to a new, more formal blend of abstract elements.
The poet Neeli Cherkovski observed that in Long's paintings from the nineties, 'passages of light find their way through darkness.' Long, in his New York paintings, permits the light to expand, breaking up and softening the shadowy atmosphere. This freed the darker solids to drift into a geometrical order that is separated by swathes of territory bathed in luminosity.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
James Hoyle
"MonkeyPod" Hand Pulled Serigraph 30"x40" 1987
"Gold Tree" Hand Pulled Serigraph 40"x30" 1987
These are the serigraphs that where created in 1987 for James Hoyle
The tedious process took six months, each image was etched on a metal plate, the image then was embossed on rag paper to get the relief, finally (40) separate silkscreen passes where applied to create the final work.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Melanie Parke and Richard Kooyman 12th annual
Richard Kooyman & Melanie Parke 12th Annual Old Art Building ExhibitionMore Info
Artists Melanie Parke and Richard Kooyman will host their 12th Annual Summer Exhibition at the historic Old Art Building in Leland, Michigan August 5, 6, and 7.
Melanie Parke and Richard Kooyman live and work in Northwest Michigan and Chicago, Illinois and continue to exhibited their work nationally. The two artists, look to their annual summer exhibition as a showcase of new work which they have been focused on throughout the year.
The Old Art Building is a unique historic building and home for the Leelanau Community Cultural Center whose mission is to promote cultural enrichment programs and events.
You are cordially invited to attend.
Opening Reception- Friday August 5, 5-8pm
Saturday and Sunday 10-5pm
110 Main Street, Leland, Michigan
Richard Kooyman 
Melanie Park
Artists Melanie Parke and Richard Kooyman will host their 12th Annual Summer Exhibition at the historic Old Art Building in Leland, Michigan August 5, 6, and 7.
Melanie Parke and Richard Kooyman live and work in Northwest Michigan and Chicago, Illinois and continue to exhibited their work nationally. The two artists, look to their annual summer exhibition as a showcase of new work which they have been focused on throughout the year.
The Old Art Building is a unique historic building and home for the Leelanau Community Cultural Center whose mission is to promote cultural enrichment programs and events.
You are cordially invited to attend.
Opening Reception- Friday August 5, 5-8pm
Saturday and Sunday 10-5pm
110 Main Street, Leland, Michigan
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
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