Incoming Tide Entertainment LLC presents A Spring Art Show at Media Loft Gallery Preview May 14 5pm-9pm, Reception May 15 4pm-8pm Gallery Hours: May 21, 22, 23 Fri 6pm-8pm, Sat 4pm-8pm, Sun 1pm-4pm Art work is available for sale by PayPal (see below)
Featured Artists
Ford Weisberg
B. A. D'Alessandro
Hank Rondina
Patrick Fagan
Featured Artists
Jesse Sanchez
Gina Kingsley
Lisa Post
Gina Giambalvo
Curator Eric Woodlin and installed by Nancy Egol Nikkal
Artist Bio
Ford Weisberg...All my life I have been an artist. Music was my first love, and I've played and performed on wind instruments and guitar since childhood.
Drawing led to photography, and then to photo-based artwork incorporating drawing in the computer. Now, I create full-fledged Digital Art and Digital Painting, using a tablet with a pressure-sensitive stylus, and computer software to make it all possible. My latest work is Digital Art and Digital Painting (earlier work was photography, photo-collage and photo-based art). This latest work is Computer Art, dependent upon computer software and the use of a tablet with a pressure-sensitive stylus. I create organically inspired imaginary forms, real in the sense of tangible, but non-existent.
Encounter
Jesse Sanchez...is originally from New Rochelle, NY. He is a graduate of The Cooper Union where he earned a BFA in Graphic Design and Fine Arts. He has worked as an Art Director and Designer since graduating in 1985. He has numerous achievements including four first place awards and three second place awards for excellence in book design from the New York Bookbinder's Guild. Many of the covers he has designed have become New York Times bestsellers. His clients include Random House, Warner Books, Simon and Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Penguin USA, M.E. Sharpe, and Sheridan House. Jesse was an Assistant Art Director at St. Martin's Press from 1992 to 1996, and a Senior Designer at Warner Books in 2000. He is currently the Art Director at M.E. Sharpe Publishers in Armonk, NY.
I Love Art
B. A. D'Alessandro...has created sculptures in a variety of materials, but has been concentrating on steel pieces for the last twelve years. Steel lends itself well to straight lines, angles and curves; the influence of geometric shapes is apparent in her sculptures. Taking “pre-formed” stock pieces of steel, the artist arranges and organizes them to create strong, balanced structures. Painting them black gives each its own elegance.
B.A. studied welding techniques at Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan with David Boyajian and followed him to his own studio at The Sculpture Barn in New Fairfield. Presently, she is working with Bob Perucci at Silvermine.
An award-winning sculptor exhibiting throughout Westchester and Fairfield County, (The Katonah Museum of Art, The Carriage Barn, The Flinn Gallery and The Sculpture Barn), she has been a member of the Mamaroneck Artist Guild for three years and is currently a Board Member of the New Rochelle Art Association. Other organizations include the Greenwich Art Society, the Art Society of Old Greenwich, and the New Canaan Society of Art.
OB
Hank Rondina...Grounded in abstract expressionism, my work joins the visual pleasure of painting with the audio impact of music. My palette is the keyboard, and each of the twelve hues in Johannes Itten’s Color Wheel corresponds to a musical note or jazz progression within a major or minor key.
The juxtaposition of color, line, and shape affect the perception of the painted image, just as notes, progressions, and chords come together in a jazz composition. My hope is that you will hear a sound or a vibration as you look.
Hank is represented by the Montserrat Gallery, Chelsea, New York and has exhibited at the Broome Street Gallery, New York City, Berkeley College Gallery, White Plains, New York, Bronxville, Scarsdale, Eastchester and Greenwich, Connecticut. He is a member of the American Society of Contemporary Artists, Artists Equity, New York City, an associate member of the American Watercolor Society, a member of the New Rochelle Art Association, The Art Society of Old Greenwich and past President of the Scarsdale Art Association.
E Flat ii-v-i Chords
Patrick Fagan...For as long as I can remember art has been my escape to a world that is much simpler than the one we live in today. Having possessed a vivid imagination, I began drawing surrealistic and imaginary scenes at a very young age. Among many favorite artists, some of them stand out to me. Artists such as Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp intrigued and inspired me to create out of the box images. I soon tried to break out of the norm of “flat” paintings towards something more dynamic. This is how I began painting my multi layered plexi-glass paintings. After experimenting with many different techniques each piece remains unique in the number of layers varying from 4- 15 sheet of plexi glass all individually painted.
Treehouses
Gina Kingsley...It all started when I was a kid and I would spend, what seemed like hours, watching the flame worker on the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ, performing magic as he spun the glass into poodles and sailboats. The true color appearing as the glass cooled. How could I not be infatuated by this brilliance.
Fast forward to the teenage me and experiments with borosilicate rods and a propane torch. Clueless as to what I was doing, or what I needed to do, I was a complete failure. Glass receded into the deepest pockets in my mind, and life went on. Fortunately, the pockets had no holes, and many years later I was able to pursue glass, still (and I fear now, also) on a part time basis. But, I am so drawn to glass as an artistic medium because of the challenge it presents to create something beautiful and (sometimes) meaningful out of a material that can be both exquisite and unpredictable at the same time. I love dealing with the technical and quirky aspects of glass almost as much as the creative.
My powdered frit faces and my masks began with the desire to capture a specific feeling. It’s amazing to me that the slightest, most discreet movement of a facial muscle can transform it’s mien from elation to disappointment, fear to longing, and so on. And so it is with glass. Sometimes the slightest adjustment can turn pouting lips into a sinister sneer, or soulful eyes into an angry stare.
Sage
Gina Giambalvo...Recent BFA graduate of Pace University with four student gallery shows at Pace University’s campus. Resident of Yonkers, NY, she is fascinated by the urban condition and the women who live in it. In her words, "I find that the female form is the most beautiful subject for my paintings!"
Gina creates with a variety of mediums; painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and photography. As a photographer, Gina views garbage on the streets of Yonkers to be beautiful subjects for her photography. Gina quotes, "I see more garbage than flowers or clean streets so it has become one of my favorite objects to capture."
Gina's Desk
Lisa Post...is a graduate of the NY Institute of Technology with a BFA in Design Graphics. She worked as a designer for Ogilvy & Mather before becoming a freelancer. She is an award winning graphic designer and for the past eight years has become an exhibiting artist working in several mediums, photographer and digital artist. Artwork of hers is hanging in the City Hall Office of the Mayor of New Rochelle, a digital art piece was published in the 2008 calendar for the city, and a photo published in the county-wide 2009 Westchester Town Planner calendar. She recently finished a commission by the City of Yonkers for its Waterfront Revitalization project, has two photos in the International Library of Photography, and was a participant in the Tree Project of the International Fiber Collaborative which is on permanent display in the Earlyworks Children's Museum in Alabama
Butterfly Emerging
Past exhibits...A Winter Art Show Jan 29 - Feb 7, 2010 - Featured Alvin Clayton, Meghan Oare, and Gina Giambalvo
