Melange:
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CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY PRESENTS MELANGE
OCT.16 - NOV.23
Carrie Haddad Gallery presents "MELANGE", a mixed bag of
contemporary art" with artists Craig
Johns, Joe Wheaton, Bill Wilson, Steven Poser, John Huszar, and Gail
Gilbert. The six specific artists in this show are allowed
the freedom to be unique, even eccentric, in a non-combative,
un-themed harmony. The exhibit includes painting, sculpture and
photographs and runs from October 16th to November 23rd with a
reception for the artists on Saturday, October 18th from 6-8pm. An
artist talk is scheduled for Sunday, October 19th at 1:30pm Those
interested in attending the artist talk should call for
reservations since space is limited.
Craig Johns was born in Philadelphia
into a family of artists. Johns has studied painting at the Hans
Hoffman School in Provicetown, MA, and earned his BA degree from
Columbia University. New York Times critic John Canaday calls
Craig Johns' landscapes and still life paintings "very
agreeable....a careful, deliberate intelligence and a good hand
and eye are obviously at work here."
Painter Steven Poser is a student of
both primitive art and psychoanalysis, each influencing his work
greatly. Poser received his PH.D. in philosophy from the
University of Calgary in Alberta Canada.
All of Posers' images are fundamentally a kind of self-portrait
projected onto a mythological stage. Technically, he is
self-taught and experiments continuously with both traditional and
unorthodox ways of handling paint, color, drawing, and
composition.
Brooklyn resident Gail Gilbert, an
acclaimed dancer and choreographer, as well as an accomplished
visual artist, first began exhibiting her artwork in 1996 at
Thread Waxing Space in New York City. The influence of her
training as a dancer and performer is evident in her simple,
direct, yet expressive lines. Both her paintings and theatrical
works feature characters with bizarre and poignant agendas.
Riddled with wit and intriguing metaphors, her work demonstrates a
unique use of brilliant color that stimulates and challenges the
imagination.
Those who have followed Bill Wilson's
career as an artist have come to expect a change of direction
almost every time he exhibits. This time around Wilson shows his
technical virtuoso with carved wood sculptures which give way to
tools - wrenches, and wire snips seem to emerge as though caught
in the act of birth from a tree trunk or branch. Wilson is a
former professor at the State University of New York at Albany,
and served a chairman of the Fine Arts department from 1985 to
1991. He holds a bachelors degree from William and Mary College,
Virginia, and a master's degree in Fine Arts with a concentration
in painting, from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.
Joe Wheaton returns for yet another
exhibit of metal sculpture at Carrie Haddad Gallery. Wheaton lives
in Beckett, MA and studied fine art at Alfred University, NY. He
is a self-taught welder and works with brass, steel, bronze and
stone. His sculpture is inspired by minimalists and modernist
sculptors such as Giacometti, Brancusi, and Serra. Wheaton also
finds inspiration for his work in nature, ancient Japanese,
primitive, and African art. His work is in many private and public
collections and on exhibit at Segreto Contemporary Art in Sante
Fe, Image Gallery in Lenox, and Canyon Ranch.
The Carrie Haddad Gallery is located at 622 Warren Street in
Hudson, NY.
Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday 11-5pm. You can call the
gallery at (518) 828-1915 for more information or directions.
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