Past Exhibition/s for 196 Main Street and

198 Main St. Galleries

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  • 196 Main Street:  October 9 – December 31, 2004

    "The Breakfast Club" – New paintings by six artists who have been an informal artist critique and exhibition group since 2000:  Leslie Bender, Mary Anna Goetz, Pat Horner, Jenny Nelson, Christie Scheele & Joyce Washor.  Winter Salon during December with new small works by the Club and other gallery artists.

  • 198 Main Street:  October 16, 2004– February 13, 2005
    Solo Exhibit, I. Rice Pereira (1902-1971): �Celestial Spirits� – Over 30 works on paper drawn from a large body of gestural figurative paintings by one of the mid-20th Century's important American artists.

  • 196 Main Street:  March 17– July 31, 2005 (EXHIBIT HAS BEEN EXTENDED!)

    • Christie Scheele, "Skyline with Grasses", oil on linen,20 x 20 inches, 2004, POR

      "Ten Years of Discovery" – A major mid-career retrospective of over 60 paintings by one of the region's consummate masters, Christie Scheele.  The show will run through May and includes new oils and pastels in addition to earlier work.  Special free Artist's Forum "Walk & Talk" on Sunday, May 1,2 p.m. at the gallery. (See Calendar)

      A must-see exhibition!
       

  • 198 Main Street:  Through May 15: GALLERY SALON –  An ongoing showing of work from our extensive holdings including paintings by, I.Rice Pereira, Juanita Guccione, Eline Barclay, Robert Trondsen, Frederick Franck, Chris Metze, Gary Fifer, Arnold Levine, Tom Sarrantonio, Adele Ursone, Phil Sigunick, Margaret Crenson, Saul Lambert, Stephen Horowitz & Marilyn Fariman.  Also featured are photographs by Eric Lindbloom, Jim Smith and sculpture/ceramics by Norman Ernsting, James Smith & Tim Rowan.
  • 198 Main Street:  May 19 - June 12 - Seth Nadel - "New Landscapes & Studies for the Poughkeepsie Mural Commissions" - Hudson River and urban scene paintings, figurative studies and other material related to the commissions of two major murals by this prolific and versitile regional painter.  Opening Reception is Saturday, May 21, 4-8pm.

198 Main Street: June 16 - July 31- Work On Paper - Over 60 contemporary creations by six diverse gallery artists:   Chris Metze, Adele Ursone, Sydney Cash, Christoph Zihlmann, Kari Feuer and Juanita Guccione.  Included are etchings, pastels, oils, charcoals and mixed media works

THE BREAKFAST CLUB

New Paintings  •   October 9– December 31, 2004

Leslie Bender

Mary Anna Goetz

Pat Horner

Jenny Nelson

Christie Scheele

Joyce Washor

    

   

Photos:  Top left:  Jenny Nelson, "Interior"; right: Leslie Bender,

"Swimmers"; lower: Christie Scheele, "Magic Sky"

 

BREAKFAST CLUB IS SIX ARTISTS

 

Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Poughkeepsie is the latest venue to feature artwork by The Breakfast Club, a group of six women artists who meet weekly to exchange ideas and provide professional support. The Club originated in 2000 and includes Pat Horner, Leslie Bender, Christie Scheele, Mary Anna Goetz, Joyce Washor and Jenny Nelson.   The exhibit opens at the 196 Main Street gallery October 9 and continues through November 28.    A free opening reception – served as a continental breakfast! – will take place Saturday, October 9 from 5 to 8 p.m.

 

On view will be paintings that cover the spectrum from representational to abstract art.   This diversity of styles and interests adds to the creative and artistic strengths of the group.   All six artists have exhibited widely (some internationally) and are included in numerous private and public collections.   All   (but one) currently live in Ulster County.   Horner, who worked extensively in photography and collage before concentrating on painting in oils, describes the group as "a community of like-minded professional artists".   She added that,   "Along with all of the mentoring and support there is also plenty of cajoling."

 

Pat Horner, "Moons", detail

Bender agrees that the gatherings often provide comic relief. "Exposing yourself to the art world can be a daunting experience. Breakfast Club helps me put things in perspective and see the lighter side of disappointments that plague every artist." She adds, "We laugh a lot!"   Scheele appreciates the blending of personal and artistic styles that characterize club members and their work. "This is especially helpful when one of us is exploring a new approach. The feedback keeps us alive and kicking."

 

In addition to sharing breakfast at local restaurants the group often meets at a member's studio, especially prior to a solo exhibit. "We like to get input from the rest of the group and no one is afraid to speak up," Goetz explained.   "We help each other on all aspects of putting together a show, everything from frame selections to what to include and what to leave out." She added. "Of course that doesn't mean that advice is always taken!"

 

Leslie Bender, a versatile artist and gifted muralist currently working in oil, pastel and acrylics has long been a favorite of collectors in the Hudson Valley with her caf�, beach and circus scenes.

 

Mary Anna Goetz, known throughout the Hudson Valley for her luminous landscapes, will include recent paintings of New York. Author of Painting Landscapes in Oils , Goetz's Glimpse of the Season exhibit was recently featured at The James Cox Gallery in Woodstock.  

 

Pat Horner will be showing her abstract and semi-abstract oils.   A departure from the collage work she is well known for, these canvases explore the use of circles, lines and splashes as compositional tools.   "I have always liked to challenge myself, to push myself to new areas."

 

Christie Scheele is represented by numerous galleries throughout the Northeast, including 5 years with the Shahinian Gallery, and is known for her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes.  

 

Joyce Washor creates small, painterly still lifes, landscapes and portraits. Her 3x2 inch portraits of each of the Breakfast Club members will be featured on the exhibition card for this show. Recently featured in American Artist Magazine , Washor's paintings were also included in an exhibit of miniature paintings at the Smithsonian Institute in June.

 

Joyce Washor, "Landscape"

Jenny Nelson's abstract paintings combine color, light and composition with painterly elegance. Her palette of blues, greens, ochres and ivories, have a brightness and original touch which has sparked the interest of a growing number of Hudson River galleries and private collectors. Nelson has recently exhibited at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson and the Coffey Gallery in Kingston.

 

I. Rice Pereira (1902-1971)

C E L E S T I A L  S P I R I T S

Figurative Drawings and Paintings on Paper from 1950-1970

October 16 - December 31, 2004

I.Rice Pereira, "Stars in My Hair", white on black paper, 1961

Two solo exhibitions and sales of work by the late siblings Juanita Guccione and I. Rice Pereira ran concurrently through December 31, 2004, at Albert Shahinian Fine Art and its Poughkeepsie Art Museum (PAM) galleries.   � Voyage's End–Surrealist Paintings 1930s–1970s: Futuristic Visions of a World Ruled By Women� – mounted at PAM – presented 55 paintings and works on paper by New York artist, Juanita Guccione (1904–1999).   Housed in Shahinian's   smaller 198 Main Street solo gallery were over 30 works on paper – many done as morning meditations before the artist went to her studio to work – by I. Rice Pereira (1902-1971).  Drawn from a long-time series – loosely titled, �Celestial Beings� – these intimate works explore mythic, spiritual and contemplative themes and were not publicly shown or sold through galleries during the artist's lifetime.

NARRATIVE:

Irene Rice Pereira, 1902–71, was born in Chelsea, Mass. In 1935, Pereira helped found the Federal Art Project Design Laboratory and taught there for several years. Her mature painting style is characterized by the play of light and space through open, frame-like forms juxtaposed against bands or lines in mazelike patterns. These suspended forms and ambiguous spaces are conscious efforts to express in abstract art the idea of fourth-dimensional space. Pereira experimented with glass, parchment, plastics, and other materials. A representative work is Oblique Progression (Whitney Museum, New York City). She was the author of several books including The Nature of Space (1956) and The Transcendental Formal Logic of the Infinite (1966).

 

Born Irene Rice, she took the name of her first husband, the commercial artist Umberto Pereira. She adopted the name I. Rice Pereira because then as now discrimination beset women in the arts. By the time World War II began Irene had divorced Pereira and married George Wellington Brown, a marine engineer from a prominent Boston family. Brown was an ingenious experimenter with materials, and he encouraged his petite new wife in their mutual passion for experimentation. Pereira in the 1930s was drawn to ships, not only because of George Brown, but because of their intricate machinery, their functional beauty.     Pereira visited Morocco briefly in the mid-1930s. The desert changed her life, filling her mind with pure light and purer forms, and had a crucial impact on her work when she returned to the United States to help found the Works Progress Administration Design Laboratory. The interactions of light and shadow among the dunes, playing in and around the intrinsically Cubist architecture of the desert, instilled in her a lifelong concern with optics, the way the mind perceives light and interacts with paintings.    Pereira was a lovely, fragile being whose presence was hushed. She spoke almost in a whisper and listened far more than she spoke. She was a prodigious autodidact and a spellbinding lecturer. The main body of her metaphysical library today resides in the Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her papers and the manuscript for her still unpublished book, Eastward Journey, are available to scholars in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.     Pereira won recognition for her abstract geometric work, particularly her jewel-like works on fluted and coruscated layers of glass, throughout the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1953 the Whitney Museum, then in Greenwich Village, gave her a retrospective exhibition with Loren MacIver, and that same year Life magazine published a centerfold photo feature on her work.     By the late 1950s Abstract Expressionism had swept Manhattan, flattening Geometric Abstraction and similar movements. Such artists as Stuart Davis, Stanton MacDonald Wright, George L.K. Morris, George Ault, Jan Matulka, Richard Leahy, Philip Guston and many others were eclipsed. Pereira believed that a European angst, brought to our shores in the wake of the Holocaust, had introduced a cynicism and a profoundly anti-female sensibility that boded ill for art in America. Rightly she pointed out that even when the works of women were acquired by museums they were rarely shown, a disgrace that persists to this day. The women who did achieve success, she said, were often collaborators with more famous male artists and tastemakers.     Pereira died in 1971 in Marbella, Spain, ill and broken-hearted. She had been evicted from the Fifteenth Street studio in Chelsea where she had painted for more than thirty years. Suffering from severe emphysema, she could barely negotiate a few stairs.      But by the 1980s a new generation of women scholars and curators had begun to resurrect her stature. A considerable following has formed to honor a pioneer artist who cared about other artists and willingly paid the price to denounce what others feared in silence. Indeed when Pereira sold a painting she had two immediate impulses: 1) buy a new hat, and 2) give the money to an artist friend in trouble. She loved hats but loved to help fellow artists even more.

 

These works on paper were not exhibited during the artist's lifetime.  This is a rare opportunity to view and purchase these beautiful personal pieces.  Any unsold paintings will be available at the gallery for review and purchase.  Please Contact Us for prices and additioinal information.

 

  Christie Scheele, "Urban Repose", oil on linen, 14 x 50 inches, 2005, $3800

 

Christie Scheele

A Decade of Discovery

New & Earlier Paintings  •   March 17– May 31, 2005

                                                     (Extended through July, 2005)

A Mid-Career

Retrospective

by one of

the Region's

Consummate

Master Painters

  Christie Scheele, "Baygrasses", oil on linen, 40 x 70 inches, $6000

   

CHRISTIE SCHEELE

A DECADE OF DISCOVERY

 


Christie Scheele, "Cyclone in 5"

oil on linen, 5 ten inch panels & black box, 2005, $4000


Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Poughkeepsie is proud to present over 60 new and earlier paintings by one of the region's consummate master painters, Christie Scheele.  The exhibit will run from March 17 through May 8 at our 196 Main Street Gallery.  The Artist Opening Reception will take place during Third Saturdays Pougkeepsie ArtHop Saturday, March 19, 5-8p.m.

Christie Scheele, "Sky at Magic Hour"

oil on linen, 32 x 50 inches, 2004, POR



Christie Scheele, "Spring Hillside", oil on linen, 22 x 27inches, 2001, POR



Christie Scheele, "Lifting Clouds", oil on linen, 38 x 50inches, 2004, POR

Christie Scheele is represented by numerous galleries throughout the Northeast, including 5 years with the Shahinian Gallery, and is known for her atmospheric, sometimes minimalist landscapes.  She bridges both abstraction and contemporary representation to produce work of exceptional emotional depth and insight.





Christie Scheele, "From the Lighthouse",

oil on linen, 20 x 20 inches, 2004, $1800

Christie Scheele, "Black Twister", oil on linen, 24 x 48 inches, $2800

Albert Shahinian Fine Art is located at 196 and 198 Main Street in Poughkeepsie. Gallery hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12 to 6 p.m., Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For more information call the gallery at 845-454-0522.


Christie Scheele, "Stately Trees",

pastel on paper, 18 x 18 inches, $1800


ARTIST STATEMENT


The interface between the actual landscape and the artist-created landscape is my source for endless interpretation. The world provides both visual joy and a wealth of information, but the artist gets to--and must--choose how to use it. These choices could be framed as a series of questions. Which landscape? What color scheme? Manmade objects, or not? Serene, joyful, or threatening?  And then... how? How to distill the landscape into a powerful new reality? How to paint a cow, different from ant other cow? How to reduce detail so that the viewer feels that the impact of the color/shape/surface is huge, but doesn’t feel that anything is missing?



Christie Scheele, "Goethals Blues", oil on linen, 14 x 20 inches, POR



Finally, we reach: why? Why do I swoon for tornadoes? Why does too much detail feel like knats that need to be swatted away? Why does brushing a rich, saturated color over an almost black feel like a universe is creating itself under the brush? Why does light---flat and grey, pink and orange, slanting sideways---make the most dismal industrial scene look so beautiful?


These questions are, of course, only a small sampling. Those that refer to choices must be answered, one painting at a time. The hows are more often visceral and come from experience, and the whys just echo out into the world, more interesting as questions than as answers.

Christie Scheele
3/9/05



Christie Scheele, "Green Fields", oil on linen, 50 x 50 inches, $6500

BIO

 


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:


2005 RETROSPECTIVE - "A DECADE OF DISCOVERY" - Albert Shahinian Fine Art
2004 SOLO SHOW - Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2004 THREE-PERSON SHOW: "Exploring the Landscape" - Art Forms, Woodstock, NY
2004 "SKIES & SCAPES" - DFN Gallery, New York, New York
2003 THREE-PERSON SHOW -"The American Landscape"- Art Forms, Red Bank, NJ
2003 SOLO SHOW - "MANMADE" - Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York
2002 "ART OF THE 20th CENTURY" at the Armory, Craven Gallery, New York, NY
2002 SOLO SHOW - "WORKING THE EDGE" - Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
2002 SOLO SHOW - Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2001 SOLO SHOW - "AHEAD OF THE STORM" - Upstate Art, Phoenicia, NY
2001 "THE BREAKFAST CLUB" - Fletcher Gallery - Woodstock, NY
2000 SOLO SHOW - "EXPANDING THE VIEW" - Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2000 SOLO SHOW - "IRISH IDYLLS" - Donskoj & Co., Kingston, NY
1999 TWO-PERSON SHOW - Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
1999 THREE-PERSON SHOW - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1999 SOLO SHOW - "SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS" - Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
1998 THREE-PERSON SHOW - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998 SOLO SHOW - "CHASING THE VIEW" - Woodstock Artisits Association
1996 SOLO SHOW - “THE MAGIC HOUR” - James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1995 SOLO SHOW - Halstead Property Co. Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "UP RIVER/DOWN RIVER" - James Cox Gallery at the Hudson River Club, New York, NY
1994 SOLO SHOW - "IMAGES OF ENCOUNTER" -James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1992 "BRIGHT PATHS AND DARK CONTOURS" - James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1991 "SPRING FORWARD" - James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1988 SOLO SHOW - Lawrence Gallery, New York, NY
1988 SOLO SHOW - Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
1988 SOLO SHOW - Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1986 TWO-PERSON SHOW - Sixth Sense Gallery, New York, NY
1986 THREE-PERSON SHOW - Jadite Galleries, New York, NY
1979 SOLO SHOW - Club Financiero Genova, Madrid, Spain

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:


Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
Astoria Savings Bank, Queens, NY
Sandra Eu, New York, NY
Keihin Hotels-Executive Group, Takanawa, Japan
JSO Art Associates, Westport, Conn.
American Airlines, New York, NY
Club Financiero Genova, Madrid, Spain
Jim Starlin, Woodstock, NY
Dr. Diane Georgeson, Bend, Oregon
Waterford Crystal, New York, NY
Bessener Trust Co., New York, NY
Jeanne-Marie Champagne, New York, NY
Julio Mendoza-Sanchez, Madrid, Spain
Bessemer Trust Co., San Francisco, CA
Nikkei Nihon Keizai Shimbun America, New York, NY
Albert Shahinian, Rhinebeck, NY
Kelsey Grammer, Malibu. CA
Elizabeth Einfeld, San Francisco, CA

PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS:


ART OF THE HUDSON VALLEY / 2004 & 2005 Calendars - Hudson Park Press, New York, NY
THE CHRONOGRAM - COVER - 11/02
ANTIQUES AND THE ARTS WEEKLY-11/8/02 & 11/04
NEW ART INTERNATIONAL-2001 Edition
WOODSTOCK TIMES-5/91 & 6/94 & 11/96 & 3/98 & 5/00 & 7/00 & 4/01 & 5/01 &10/04 &11/04
DAILY FREEMAN- KINGSTON, NY -5/91 & 5/95 & 3/98 & 5/01 & 11/02 & 12/04
POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL -8/95 & 11/02 &11/04
"WEEKEND" TACONIC NEWS -9/95
THE PROVINCETOWN ADVOCATE -7/86
AHORA EN NUEVA YORK, CH. 41 -8/86
ARTSPEAK -7/86

EDUCATION:


School of Art and Design of the NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY--BFA Painting, 1980
Alfred University-BA Spanish, Summa cum laude, 1980
University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain,1978-79
Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain, 19778-79
University of Tomas Frias, Potosi, Bolivia, 1973-74

Christie Scheele's work can be viewed at : Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Poughkeepsie, NY; Chace-Rndall Gallery in Andes, NY; Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, MA; Art Forms in Red Bank, NJ; DFN Gallery in New York City; and at The Craven Gallery in Martha's Vineyard.

Please contact the gallery for information on purchases, the artist, or related topics.  845-454-0522 or Contact Us.