| (Updated 07/07/2011)
NOTE: THE CORRECT ADDRESS FOR THE GALLERY IS
22 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY.
This is an updated page on our old (damaged) site, which will be replaced soon with our new site. As of July, 2010, our gallery has moved from Poughkeepsie and Hudson, NY, to two new locations in Rhinebeck, NY. See "Contact Us" page for full information.
Phone: 845-876-7578.
UPCOMING GALLERY EVENTS
Summer 2011 Exhibitions • Through September 11
CHRISTIE SCHEELE
"Fullness of Time"
Celebrating a Twelve-Year
Gallery Partnership
Upstairs Galleries
22 East Market Street, Suite 301, Rhinebeck, NY
Summer River in 3, oil on linen, 12 x 36 inches
(See Additional Images & Info Below)
also showing...
The Annual Summer Salon
LANDSCAPES - GENRE PAINTINGS - CIBACHROMES
 Leslie Bender
In our large shared location at Prudential/SERLS
Prime Properties, across from The Beekman Arms,
6384 Mill Street (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY
Artists Exhibiting include:
Steve Horowitz
Eline Barclay
Steve Ladin
Arnold Levine
Connie Fiedler
Jorge Hernandez
Christie Scheele
Yale Epstein
Kari Feuer
Larry Zingale
Leslie Bender
Robert Trondsen
Olga Poloukhine
Cindy Dill
Gary Fifer
Kim Alderman
Madeleine Segall-Marx
Jeff Johnson
Norman Ernsting
Chris Metze
& Billy Name: The Prints from Arles continues...(see below)
Contact gallery for more information: 845-876-7578 or Contact Us.
David Eddy Arnold Levine Gary Fifer
  
  
Frank Cannas Billy Name Israel Litwak
Next MEET THE ARTIST OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, August 6 : 5–8p.m.
with
HENRIK HAALAND & LENNART AHRSTROM
Additional Exhibition Information
Christie Scheele & Salon
Albert Shahinian Fine Art continues its 13th year as one of the region's premier galleries with concurrent exhibits in its two NEW locations in Rhinebeck, NY. The Annual Summer Salon presents contemporary landscape and genre paintings, mixed media, and photography by both regional and national artists. Drawn from the gallery's extensive holdings, works include historical items of interest to the collector. The exhibit is mounted in our large lovely shared space, ShahinianFineArt at PRUDENTIAL/SERLS Prime Properties, conveniently situated across from the historic inn, The Beekman Arms. Prudential is at 6384 Mill Street (Route 9), just around the corner from our main galleries on East Market Street.
Christie Scheele, August Tidal Creek, oil on linen, 36 x 72 inches
Featured in our intimate UPSTAIRS GALLERIES is a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Christie Scheele. Fullness of Time celebrates the gallery's twelve-year partnership with the artist and recognizes her formal move to the gallery as her regional "home base". Scheele has garnered an impressive reputation as an artist of exceptional craft and insight. Her paintings strive to reduce a scene to its essentials, giving the viewer what is important without the distraction or visual clutter of too much detail. This distillation is aided by using soft, scumbled edges, restricted palettes and strong a compositional focus.
Black Treeline, oil on linen, 36 x 48 inches
Her version of minimalism is about shape and atmospherics - painting not just light but the air itself, exploring how these affect the edges and colors of the scenes depicted. As a non-regional landscape painter, Scheele uses images from all over the world as starting places for her paintings (for most of her work is a melding of the actual with the conceptual – or artist-envisioned creation). The painting as a whole - especially through the exploring of painterly concerns of line, color, shape, surface - is what is signal in her work and gives it emotional and spiritual power. Scheele sees herself as being closer to the color field paintings of Rothko than to traditional or plein air painters.
 
Summer Fog, oil/linen, 20 x 24 inches Shore Lights, oil/linen, 20 x 20 inches
More recent bodies of her work deal not only with different perspectives on what defines beauty and power in the landscape, but, also, with alternative viewpoints on process and presentation - a means to encourage more questions on the part of the viewer. Scheele's multiple panel/image pieces refer to one of her formative artistic areas of joy and comfort – the use of the grid and serial imagery. Her paintings using found objects are "a collaboration between my accumulated skills and the accumulation of history that is manifested in each unique object."
 
Dawn Headlights, oil/linen, 12 x 36 inches Bridge Crossing , oil on
antique child's slate, 8x11in.
Her most recent explorations - the Affinity series, with frayed edges of the linen and graphite gridding - bring the viewer deeper into the inventions of art-making. This, by the creation of a support (grid) that has surface interest and which is not a literal part of the scene depicted. These pieces - conceptually inspired by Agnes Martin, Chuck Close and Louise Nevelson - have their narrative contained and framed by the various frames and grids that help carry the "story" along. These pieces also impart a visual discussion about focal points that goes against the traditional notions of atmospheric perspective in landscape painting.
  
Stormy Sea , o/l , 12 x 12 in. Dusk Shoreline, o/l, 12 x 12 in. Mid-Summer Stream,
o/l, 20 x 16 inches
All of Scheele's work has a sense of being suspended between two breaths. Often, that feeling is palpable during the process of creation. Time is slowed, perhaps even halted for a moment, allowing the viewer to see the world (her world!) in all of its fullness. The following are additional samplings of the paintings on view for Fullness of Time:
Bayglimpse with Golds, oil on linen, 30 x 48 inches
River in Five, oil on linen, 5 -12 x12 inch panels
Affinity - Smokey Sky, oil on distressed linen on board, 18 x 18 inches
River at Magic Hour, oil on linen, 30 x 40 inches
 
Narrow Road, oil on Calm at Dusk (Point Reyes, CA), pastel on paper, 24 x 36 in.
distressed linen mounted
on board, 48 x 12 inches
Winter Brilliance, oil on linen, 40 x 50 inches
 
Summer Haze, o/l, 20x20 in. Plains River, oil on linen, 24 x 48 inches
Black Trees, oil on distressed linen mounted on panel, 30 x 30 inches
Summer Ashokan, oil on linen, 24 x 48 inches
& BILLY NAME exhibit Continues.......
A highlight in our Summer Salon is a continuing exhibition of photographs by Billy Name that were shown recently in the prestigious annual (2010) photography exhibition Recontres D'Arles (held in Arles, France). The prints sample the life and times of Andy Warhol's Silver Factory during its early years, 1964-1967. (The Factory continued to be active through 1970, even after Warhol's death in 1968.) Billy Name was Warhol's primary photodocumentarian. He conceptualized and created the silver interior of the factory - the product of a very significant - truly iconic - installation piece. (Thus, Warhol's First Factory is also known as the Silver Factory.) Photos on view include portraits, screen tests, and groupings of the major personalities - Warhol, The Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick, etc. - active at the Factory.
BILLY NAME:
The Prints from Arles
Photographs c.1964-1967 from Warhol's Silver Factory
Shown at the 2010 Recontres D'Arles (France) Exhibition
Andy Warhol with Brillo Box at the Silver Factory, c.1964.
In addition to twelve photographs from the original Arles show, we are presenting a small series of large-format B&W prints and a selection of large, new, lovely archival quality unframed screen prints in small editions. All works are for sale. Additional prints in various sizes) can be custom ordered through the gallery.
Billy Name continues to be recognized as one of the important chroniclers of the revolutionary New York arts scene - especially in the decade of the 1960s. He is represented in numerous museum collections and his work is selected for exhibitions around the world. Now a Hudson Valley resident, we are honored to call him 'friend' and to have the opportunity to represent his work.
Information: 845-876-7578.
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