Updates for kickoff Sunday

Gallery January 31, 2015 Pudarkus Leave a comment

A few updates to let you know about for tomorrow’s “SOUK” kickoff:

Chef Brian from Rockland Roots will be joining us with cauldrons of simmering soups.
Chef Kevin from Roost Restaurant will be making his award winning brisket chili.
Bombay Emerald Chutney Company will not be able to make it tomorrow. They will be coming later in the month.

With continued cold temperatures expected tomorrow, our wood stove will be cranking. We have seating near the stove which is a great area to hang out, eat, drink and enjoy. Look forward to seeing y’all.

Joe

Return to “The SOUK”

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Visit the Official Page of ” The SOUK” for weekly updates here.

“The SOUK” Epicurean Farmers’ Upmarket,the taste and buy bazaar of the lower Hudson Valley. Farm fare to fresh baked, traditional to exotic dishes, savory to indulgent snacks; eat by the warmth of the wood stove or take away.

Sundays, 10AM-3PM; Feb. 1-March 29th at the OUTSIDE IN gallery & greenhouse space. Free admission and parking

“The SOUK” Returns February 1st, 2015

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NEW WORK – NEW ARTISTS

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SATURDAY 12.20.14; 7-9PM.

OPEN EVERY DAY TILL THRU 12.24.14, 4PM WITH EVE HOURS TUES TILL 9PM.

New Works

Alan Adler, Mernie Baker, Marlene Krumm-Sanders, Evan Cornish-Keefe, Raye Cooke, Ralph Derven, Beth Goobic, Mike Jacobs, Grace Mitchell, Jorge Posada, Barbara Scott-Fischer, David Soo, Gaia Starr

New Artists

Sandie Butler, Jamie Gaviola, Yoav Liberman, Just Plain Wood, Lori Kaplan Jewelry, Denise Kader, Johanna Krumm, Richard Rose, Lauren Rudolf, Gail Rutigliano, Naomi Shibuya, Terry Stone, Studio 532 Jewelry

Many new works recently made their way into The OUTSIDE IN just in time for the Holidays. On Saturday stop by and peruse the gallery for that special gift that wasn’t even available days ago, guaranteeing that everyone on your list receives something unique. If you can’t make it in Saturday it’s no problem, we will be open everyday until Wednesday and open till 9pm Saturday and Tuesday.

“Convergence”

Gallery November 21, 2014 Pudarkus Leave a comment

Opening Reception: Sunday 11/23/2014; 2-5PM.

RECENT COLLAGE AND SCULPTURE by Cristina Biaggi

Recently I’ve become involved with abstract collage, which I find liberating and satisfying. My method is the following: I create a series of works on paper in a purely expressionistic manner, not thinking about results but using my intuition and involvement with the movements of my hands and eyes. Then I tear or cut up these pieces and compose a completely new work, using interesting emotive sections of the old pieces to create a brand new composition. Sometimes I have a vision of the work I intend to create (the result seldom turns out like my initial vision); sometimes I don’t, which makes it exciting and challenging. The final work is never what I anticipated and that is in itself liberating.

My portraits are created from another place in my creative imagination. I attempt to establish a non-verbal communication with my subject to create not just a likeness but an inspired work.

AN ENCOUNTER WITH DEAD LEAVES By Gianni Biaggi de Blasys

Paintings are open-ended suggestions, I believe, not definitions: let the beholder enrich the work by his own interpretations, as stated by E.H. Gombrich. “The eye must not rest onto the painting right away, but float a bit, before settling on the whole picture.” Thus a form of ambiguity is to me a prerequisite, whether it be achieved through the illusion of informal art, by abstraction and reversible images, or by surrealism where objects are purposely out of context. Even figurative art is an illusion, according to Gombrich, since it can never literally duplicate reality.

I intend to express in a few of my paintings the contrast between live and dead vegetation, or more pointedly, the baroque beauty and power of dead leaves which I collect: twisted, shriveled and curled up things. As I was observing them a few years ago, they appeared riddled with holes opening up to the sky like bits of hope dotting an overcast and closed atmosphere. This idea inspired me and I yearned to portray something beyond ordinary existence – a liberating image. So, a majority of my works intend to show this aspect, often in a surrealistic vein; others go off the road, portraying a Corrida, a waterfall, even the portrait of a French model, a Tondo intended to contrast the other rectangular frames. My main subjects remain, however, landscapes and still life. I particularly care for the painting “a ficus strangler vine strangles a ficus tree”, for you can observe several images at the same time.

My paintings are mostly acrylic on canvas, sometimes mixed with gouache, or combining photo collages, or still originating directly from a photo, like the painting “Ambiguity”. Up to now, general composition, shapes and colors have been my main concerns, more than painting techniques. I use mostly paintbrushes, but I see more and more the potential of using palette knives, since they are more capable of producing transparencies and gleaming colors. Finally, some of my paintings will be accompanied with poems evoking their subjects.

“A Taste of the Lower Valley”

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11/16/14 , from 10am-3pm

Bistros, Trattorias, Food Trucks, Catering Establishments, Delis & Pubs create Mediterranean, French, Italian, Caribbean & New American Dishes that complement Fresh Fruit & Veggies, Bagels, Mustards, Jams, Farm Roasted Coffee, Ice Cream & French Patisserie exhibited alongside Functional Pottery, Fine Art, Mugs, Trays, Bowls, Paintings Letterpress Notecards & 100 Clay Hearts ALL to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

Sample over 31 Regional Dishes From:

14 & Hudson ♦ A & B American Style Pepper Sauce ♦ Alain’s French Bistro ♦ Anarchy in a Jar ♦ Aunt Mia’s Sweets ♦ Biddy’s O’Malleys ♦ Bob’s Thin Crust Pizza ♦ Cafe Portofino ♦ Canzona’s market ♦ Confetti ♦ Dagwood Signature Sandwich Shop ♦ D’Amicos Fruit & Flower Farm ♦ Del’Arte ♦ D’Vine Bar ♦ Fleur D’Orange ♦ Giostra♦ Il Fresco ♦ Il Portico ♦ Irving Farm Coffee Roasters ♦ Isabella’s ♦ La Talaye Catering ♦ Little Scoops Ice Cream ♦ Mimi’s Plate ♦ NYC Bagel Cafe ♦ O’lar ♦ Pier 701 ♦ Piermont Pizza ♦ Rockland Roots Food Truck ♦ Roost♦ Sidewalk Bistro ♦ Tequila Sal y Limon ♦ The ’76 House ♦ The Barn ♦ The Market/Filling Station ♦ & More…

Functional Pottery & Art From:

Beth Goobic ♦ D’Alma ♦ Denise Khader ♦ Don Bradford ♦ Dorothy Brady ♦ Eleanor Grace Miller ♦ Five Clays ♦ Jamie Gaviola ♦ Jane CoCo Cowles ♦ Jennie Chien ♦ John Bendzak ♦ Jorge Posada ♦ Kathy Sykes ♦ Kim Waldhauer ♦ Lauren Randolph ♦ Leslie Green Guilbault ♦ Marilyn Price Ceramics ♦ Pottery Peace ♦ Paul Kostabi ♦ Rosie Reilly ♦ Sandie Lee Butler ♦ Terry Straus ♦Lisa Wheeler

Get Special Menu Items & Certificates From:

Cafe Portofino ♦ Hogan’s Family Diner ♦ Jamie Surya Yoga Studio ♦ Pamaya Red ♦ Sidewalk Bistro

Additional Sponsors to the event:

AB Artisans ♦ Abaigail, Rose & Lily Too ♦ Abercorn Place ♦ Baer & McIntosh ♦ Beth Dubas: Baer & McIntosh ♦ Buttercup & Friends ♦ By the Bottle ♦ Carber Travel ♦ Cornetta’s ♦ Diane Smith ♦ Elements Spa ♦ Get Rx Help ♦ Grape D’Vine ♦ Happy Dog Gallery ♦ Hoshitori ♦ Naomi Vargas of Kennedy & Kennedy Real Estate ♦ La Fontanella ♦ Lizzie’s ♦ Madeleine’s Petit Paris ♦ Ned Kelly & Co. ♦ Orangetown Family Dentistry ♦ Organica Natural Foods ♦ Piermont Bicycle Connection ♦ Piermont Community Market ♦ Piermont Straus ♦ Plaza Pet World ♦ Presence of Piermont ♦ Renaissance Fine Art Gallery ♦ Sparkill Steakhouse ♦ Stokes Farm ♦ Tess Delia Studio ♦ The Art Students League Residency at VYT ♦ The Yoga House ♦ Union Arts Center

Please Support JDRF and the sponsors to this event. Websites are alphabetically listed below.

The OUTSIDE IN showcases a bounty of local dishes in “A Taste of the Lower Valley.” Chefs, artisans & food purveyors bring signature dishes to the gallery throughout the day from bistros, trattorias, food trucks, catering establishments, delis & pubs in and around Piermont, Sparkill, Tappan, Orangeburg, North Bergen & NYC donated as examples of simple, wholesome, quality food choices to help raise awareness of Type 1 Diabetes and to the benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

Visitors can sample from a range of signature dishes and culinary styles including Mediterranean, French, Italian, & Caribbean alongside Hudson Valley roasted coffees, hand-made ice creams, small batch jams, artisan mustards, and a no sugar pepper sauce made from organic NYC rooftop peppers or authentic miniature French Patisseries.

The event will include a “BLUE” Exhibit of functional pottery and fine art that will be sold to benefit the cause. The event occurs on Sunday; 11/16/14 from 10-3 at the OUTSIDE IN, street parking for this event is permitted. Donations Recommended. Follow us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or periodically visit this page for details and most recent updates.

5+3=1

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Five Artists / Three Galleries / One Space

Sunday 10/05/14: 2 – 5pm

Green Room Grace Knowlton and Sebastian Irigaray:

(Artist names are links to their websites)

The OUTSIDE IN closes Grace Knowlton’s recent exhibit of photographs on aluminum with a selection of works from the Corner Series accompanied by ART T-shirts designed and printed by artist Sebastian Irigaray. Irigaray will also be exhibiting his own graphic images silkscreened on linen and canvas.

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Main Gallery:
Ray Lagstein: Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Paintings:

Textured surfaces, rich with color and gestural lines are highlighted by strong accents and vigorous brush strokes, often with the use of rags and knives. Lagstein’s improvisational music has evolved into painting; a process of experimentation marked by intuitive perception. The compositions are not methodical or premeditated. Instead, they are approached with “no intent, no excitement or inspiration other than having never done it”.

Lagstein has studied with with Eleanor Grace Miller at RoCA for many years, as well as Gale Bennett in Giverney, France and Nigel Konstam at the Verrocchio Art Center In Tuscany. Recent exhibits have been at the Union Art Center in Sparkill, NY, the Amis Gallery in Nyack, NY, and various venues in connection with the Nyack Art Collective, of which he is one of the founding members. He currently performs in the jazz harmony group, High 5 Vocalworks.

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Greenhouse Gallery:
Lisa Wheeler & Claudio Stalling: R/Evolve – Glass & Wood Sculpture

Lisa Wheeler develops innovative methods of combining glass with found and antique objects to create kinetic hanging sculptures full of light, movement and sound. Wheeler couples time worn metals and unique wood findings with brilliantly saturated pieces of colored glass, merging discarded fragments forward into vibrant new forms.

Claudio Stalling’s turned wood sculptures reflect a deep reverence for the natural world with a passion for discovering the elegance inherent within each tree. Stalling exalts the flaws and peculiarities time bestows upon natural objects, dangerously balancing and turning local wood on his lathe in Ulster County.

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Grace Knowlton

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Grace Knowlton: Original never-before-exhibited photographic work from the architectural Corner Series printed on anodized aluminum. Reception: Sunday, 06/15/14; 2-5PM. Runs through August 2014. The OUTSIDE IN, Piermont NY; Wednesday-Saturday 11-6, Sunday 12-5, or by appointment.

These architectural photographs from the Corner Series by Grace Knowlton are a unique and original collection of never-before-exhibited works printed on anodized aluminum. The process of sub-surface printing on anodized aluminum infuses and seals dyes directly into specially coated aluminum sheets, creating long-lasting, durable images that are virtually impervious to abrasion, chemicals, moisture and humidity. This process made its art world debut in 1986 with Rauschenberg’s Art Car, a BMW 635 CSi, the 6th in BMW’s collection of Art Cars and the first to have its bodywork decorated with photographic material. Knowlton was invited by Northern Engraving, a Wisconsin Company specializing in faux interiors for automobiles, to experiment with this process using images from the Corner Series.

Grace Knowlton’s Corner Series were photographed at her home in Sneden’s Landing, NY, a converted barn on old farmland. Knowlton began photographing during graduate study at Columbia University in the early eighties pointing a large format camera at white interior corners, “preferably with cracks and irregularities”, if not white they were painted. The artist compares her photographic work to spare, abstract drawings; realism viewed abstractly. These dynamic views of architectural space are intended to create a mood of quiet meditation. They present the viewer with shifting realities and uncertain depths resulting in a transcendent visual experience from an often overlooked and ordinary reality.

Knowlton received her Master of Arts in Art Education at Columbia University Teacher’s College in New York after earning a Bachelor of Arts at Smith College in Massachusetts and has taught at the Art Students League among other teaching posts. Internationally known, Ms. Knowlton has been widely exhibited, and is represented in many public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City. Knowlton has been featured in Art in America, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Arts Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine and Vogue.

Artist webpage (here).