First Friday Gallery Night

Here’s what’s on view in downtown Ithaca:

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The Next First Friday Gallery Night will take place on Friday, June 1st

 Downtown Exhibitions:

State of the Art Gallery (120 W. State/MLK St.)

Timelines

Barbara Mink’s solo show at State of the Art in June shows a radical new direction in her work; her painting has evolved into “the spare, the muted and the geometric” on unprimed canvas and linen. She says, “Juxtaposing the large with the small, line with color, square with circle, intuitive with cerebral, I strive to construct a new world of inventive and playful, but always purposeful, content.”

Show dates are Wednesday, May 30-July 1, 2012.

Hours:  Wed. – Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm

Call: 277-1626 or Visit: www.soag.org

Home Green Home (215 E. State/MLK Street)

Inspired by the natural world, Erika Baumgartner Molnar transforms fabric into quilts full of movement and light. Her quilts invite attention to fleeting moments of wonder.

Call 607-319-4159 or visit www.homegreenhome.com

The History Center in Tompkins County (401 E. State/MLK St.)

 Village of Quilts

The History Center in Tompkins County and Village at Ithaca are proud to present Village of Quilts in June.  Village of Quilts is an exhibition of contemporary quilts specially designed to engage and actively involve community members in raising resources to support and sustain the important work of Village at Ithaca.  At the heart of Village of Quilts will be an auction of donated, home-made quilts that will be displayed at The History Center and auctioned off to benefit the programs of Village at Ithaca.

Call 607.273.8284 or visit www.TheHistoryCenter.net

Collegetown Bagels (203 N. Aurora St.)

Anne Marie Dunford

A collection of landscapes, cityscapes and portraits – images from near and far– captured and reimagined by the artist.

Call: 273-2848 or Visit: collegetownbagels.com

The Ink Shop (330 E. State/MLK St.)

Ink Shop Annual Members’ Exhibition 2012

The Ink Shop Printmaking Center’s Annual Members’ Exhibit features work by over 20 Ink Shop artists exploring many varied printmaking techniques. We have shown artists/printmakers from all over the world and been invited to show our work nationally and internationally, as far away as Japan.  Our popular classes, taught by members, include intaglio, etching, lithography, bookbinding, wood cut and screen printing.

On view June – August

Call: 277-3884 or Visit: www.ink-shop.org

Kitchen Theatre Company (417 W. State/MLK St.)

IMPROVISATION ON CANVAS: Paintings by Lynn Taetzsch

The Kitchen Theatre’s gallery will feature IMPROVISATION ON CANVAS: Paintings by Lynn Taetzsch. Taetzsch’s art is about energy, discovery, and improvisation. Her abstracts are organic, with luscious color and beautifully varied use of the painting surface.

Call: 272-0403 or Visit: www.kitchentheatre.org

CAP Artspace (Center Ithaca, 171 The Commons)

A Selection of New Work

Local artist Suzanne Onodera will show a series oil paintings that approach the landscape from an abstracted view partially inspired by changes in weather and climate.

Please come back for her “Artists Talk” on Tuesday, June 19, 6:30pm to 7:30pm.

Gallery Hours: 11am to 5pm, Mon to Sat, noon to 5pm on Sunday.

Call: 273-5072 or Visit: artspartner.org

Tompkins County Public Library (101 E. Green St.)

Join Tompkins County Public Library at an Urban Street Art Paint Off during Gallery Opening Night on Friday June 1 2012.

Thanks to a Sustainable Tompkins Mini-Grant, local graffiti artists Jay Stooks and Jay Potter will be leading community artists in the painting of a 48 ‘ long Urban Street Art mural on wooden boards hung along Creek Walk, just behind the Library, on Friday June 1.  By the time Gallery Night Opens at 5 PM, the mural will be well advanced with plans for completion by 8 PM.  Come and participate in the creation of exciting, community based art. In addition three highly regarded local bands will be present playing folk music during the evening to add to the fun.

Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org

Ten Thousand Villages (171 E. State/MLK St.)

Ten Thousand Villages hosts local artist, Sarah Richards-Desai.

Through the medium of oil painting, the artist implements biomorphic

non-objective elements and color to address themes of interconnection

and identity.

Call 256.0616 or visit www.tenthousandvillages.com

Deeply Devoted Massage (141 State/MLK St., 2nd Floor)

For their inaugural Gallery Night show, Deeply Devoted Massage hosts artists Jennifer Whitaker and David Feaveryear as they present ‘Harmony,’ combining experimental photography and interpretive painting to create work that captures your eye and imagination. In these pieces, the full moon creates unique back lighting for some trees and clouds as they race by overhead, while Jupiter peeks out to watch. Acrylic on canvas and Inkjet print.

Jennifer is a self taught interpretive artist who uses creative colors to capture and create images on a variety of materials.  Her favorite is to find pieces of scrap wood and to see what the grains are hiding inside. David is an experimental photographer who likes to use long exposures and alternative light sources to make his images.

e-mail: www.deeplydevotedmassage.com or call 607.592.3316

Comics for Collectors (207 N. Aurora St.)

MIKE BRUTVAN at Comics For Collectors Gallery Night

Mike Brutvan has been making art of all kinds since childhood. He has produced works in many media, ranging from prose to cartooning to music to sculpture to graphic design and more. Video and other optical performance art has proven to be the most rewarding creative outlets that he has explored.

Call 607.272.3007 or visit www.comicsforcollectors.com

Benjamin Peters (120 the Commons)

The myths of Gulliver – The second chapter

The show description is – The myths of Gulliver is part of a larger series that encompasses many years of works from the past decade. This body of work revolves around the notion or feeling of confinement, trapped, or out of place. The inspiration for the work is from Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”.

The work is something that has been stirred from deep within that hasn’t spoken in a while. It embodies a form that lay dormant for what seemed like ages, and has been awoken. From its new found life shall breath upon its surroundings and speak.

Call: 273-1371 Visit: www.benjaminpeters.com

Multifaceted Minerals (218 the Commons)

Jonathan Paul Bennett

A nationally exhibited and collected Paleo glass artist, Jon Paul’s current body of work is unique and progressive and reflects his fascination with paleontology and the evolution of primordial life on the earth. Bennett has studied with glass pioneer’s such as Suellen Fowler at the Corning Museum of Glass and Alex Gabriel Bernstein at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood,Wa. Inspired early by the work of the Blanschkas from the Czech Republic,Jon has experimented for 10 yrs with glass combining lampworking,casting, and fused metal. He recently had a exhibition at the Museum of the Earth, A Paleontological Research Institution form Ithaca,Ny.

And, On view through June, Multifaceted Minerals presents a collection of paintings by Hallie Lee. Lee’s work often expresses an organic feel, as she tends to use various plants to create pattern and detail in her paintings. The repetition and pattern in her work was greatly influenced by both Picasso and

Braque, whose geometric, overlapping shapes were anything but monotonous. She later began using less earth tones and more candy-like colors to pay homage to Andy Warhol.

Call 319-5499 or visit: www.multifacetedminerals.com

TITUS GALLERY (222 State/MLK St. )

THE LIGHT OF SUMMER

Brian Keeler will show a group of oil paintings in the current show at the Titus Gallery.

His landscapes are devoted to portraying the warmth of summer light and other subjects.

Show opens Gallery Night June 1 and continues until June 30

Call: 277-2649 or Visit: www.titusgallery.com

CSMA (330 E. State/MLK St.)

Crecemos Creando: Arte y Palabras

Crecemos Creando: Arte y Palabras is an exhibit created and curated by GIAC’s 2nd and 3rd grade students. During the school year, students have been learning about various Latin American countries, customs, languages and history. The ‘obras’ displayed include Frida Kahlo’s “Frida y Diego Rivera” deconstructed, Paraguayan Clay Chickens, Metepec Clay Suns, and Brazilian Paper Mache’ Carnaval Masks.

Call: 272-1774 or Visit: csma-ithaca.org

Decorum – too (215 N. Cayuga St. Dewitt Mall)

Journey and Destination

Paintings by Terry Plater

The landscape paintings on display in this exhibit were developed through both observation and imagination.  They represent not just places we contemplate as travelers but also spaces where people live and work. Ideally, they ask the viewer to consider the close relationship that links the host and the guest, the traveler and the journey.

Call 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-Too.com

Ithacamade (430 W. State/MLK St.)

“What is it that makes Ithaca so special? Join us at Ithacamade for EccentrIthaca, Local Artists Celebrating Ithaca!”

Call: 272-1396 or Visit: www.ithacamade.com

Sola Gallery (215 N. Cayuga St.)

UKIYO-E COLLECTION OF WOODBLOCK PRINTS, 2012

From June 1st through summer

The new collection includes 18th century paintings on silk, fisherwomen by Utamaro, Kuniyoshi samurai, and a Child-Hero riding a sea bream.

Call: 272-6552 or Visit: solagallery.com

Events and Happenings:

Finger Lakes Wine Center (237 S. Cayuga St.)

Please join us for a wonderful evening of multimedia collaboration of yoga dance, live music and abstract nature photography projected on a large screen

Helena Cooper will also be exhibiting her abstract nature photography

Friday, June 1st at 8:30pm (show will run approximately 1 hour)

With:

Tandemonium Yoga and Music Collective–yogadance

Karen Purcell and Alison Simione

www.TandemoniumYoga.com

Helena Cooper–abstract nature photography

www.helenacooperart.com

Joe Smellow and friends–live music

Call 607.882.9663 or visit www.fingerlakeswinecenter.org

Outside of Downtown:

Fire on the Water Studios (317 Taughannock Blvd)

Works by Nicholas Scott Daniluk

In recent years, Nicholas Scott Daniluk’s work has been a series of thematically scattered pieces which are unified only by the idea of exploration. At times he explores an idea, and at other times he seeks to explore the medium. This newer body of work is the result of the artist’s return to Ithaca and the establishment of his life in its downtown environment, specifically the social behavior of the collegiate youth that fills this city’s nightlife.

Visit www.fireonthewaterstudios.com or e-mail info@fireonthewaterstudios.com