Gerald Mead and Diane Bond juried the entries and selected the award winners for the national exhibition “10th Anniversary Art of the Book & Paper” currently on view at the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County through October 30.
More on the exhibit here.
The “Hand to Hand” quilt was selected by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the cover of their report to Congress.
Susan Palys work to be featured in juried Western NY Artists Group Exhibition.
Look who made the cover of the latest Stroll Delaware Park magazine – David Cloyd! David is behind the redesign and many new functions of the Buffalo Society of Arts website. (Photo by Michelle Day Photography)
Beth Pedersen, winner of this year’s Spark Award for Unsung Hero, has practiced art for decades. Beth’s work explores nature and pertinent environmental issues through a variety of materials and mediums, from oil painting to print-making, which she expresses through both abstraction and representation. She has exhibited extensively regionally, nationally, and internationally. Once a realist painter, New York City’s art world and the ripple effect at SUNY New Paltz College had a powerful influence on her work. She studied with Ilya Bolotowsky and George Wardlaw and quickly turned “ab-ex.” During the 1970s, when Beth was raising a family, she focused on watercolor, pastel, and pencil drawings. She spent those years examining the present landscape with memories of the Hudson River Valley and the farmlands in…
Lukia Costello’s video projection piece of her “Analogue Flowers in a Digital Age” was shown in Feb. at Squeaky Wheel’s 2009 “PEEPSHOW: A Secret Worth Keeping.”
