Artists and curators are always looking for new avenues of expression and a popular new route has been pop-up galleries and exhibitions. This dynamic new trend has led to a variety of pop-ups around Westchester. Over the last year, the county has seen everything from an arts and music-centric pop up at the Rye House in Port Chester to a pop-up exhibition of fine art curated as part of an open house in Harrison.
Vigorous bands of blue and gold and red practically beg to be touched in the expressionist brushstrokes of Marsden Hartley’s Dogtown from 1934 currently on view in “LandEscape: New Visions of Landscape from the Early 20th and 21st Centuries” at the Katonah Museum of Art.
Food, fun and art mix and mingle at ArtsWestchester’s biggest house party of the year. Top chefs serve tasty dishes paired with spirited cocktails and other super sips from local purveyors – all set against the backdrop of contemporary art. Open artist studios and family activities round out the two-day feast of vibrant cultural life in our County.
Pelham Art Center’s HyperAccumulators exhibition, curated by Alexi Brock and Elizabeth Saperstein, brings together nine artists and more than 60 works that are anchored in the theme of nature, toxicity and regeneration.
ArtsWestchester’s new exhibition Modern Families, on view from March 5 through May 25, explores diverse representations of what “family” means. The show is anchored by the work of noted photographer James Van Der Zee. Westchester resident Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee selected and loaned her husband’s pictures, which provide a framework and context for the exhibition. A leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Van Der Zee documented the lives of the rising African American middle class from all backgrounds and occupations through masterful studio portraits and innovative darkroom techniques.
On March 4, visual storyteller David H. Wells will show his work at the Color Camera Club of Westchester in a travel-themed slideshow presentation called “Making Your Travel Photos Work.” This lecture will focus on key components of travel photography, including tips for proper exposure settings, equipment guidelines and advice for interacting with photo subjects.
In celebration of Black History Month, Neuberger Museum of Art will present a solo exhibition of contemporary African-American artist Nina Chanel Abney. The exhibition, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, surveys the past decade of the artist’s work through approximately 30 mostly-large-scale narrative figurative paintings and collages. Abney’s referential works make…
Through January 27, Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) reinterprets the traditional boundaries of body ornamentation during its exhibition, Outrageous Ornament: Extreme Jewelry in the 21st Century. Curated by the former curator of modern and contemporary design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jane Adlin, the show features 50 provocative pieces by artists, jewelers, architects and designers, all of which defy typical expectations of personal adornment.
The Gordon Parks Foundation presents the work of the Foundation’s Fellows, Deana Lawson and Derrick Adams, in its American Family exhibition through January 25 in Pleasantville. Each artist’s personal approach to their familial subjects lends complexity to the definition of a broader subject at hand – a contemporary look at the daily lives of African Americans.
“ArtsW Voices” is a series of blog posts that are written from a personal perspective by ArtsWestchester staff members. This blog was written by, and represents the views of, ArtsWestchester’s Executive Assistant Megan Thomson Connor. Here at ArtsWestchester, it is not uncommon to find yourself talking with a young person…
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