Here are fifteen reasons (excluding the magnificent Marisol collection) to take a trip to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery & Museum in Buffalo, New York:
2. PAUL GAUGUIN
3. PAUL CEZANNE
4. FRIDA KAHLO
5. AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
6. GIACOMO BALLA
7. GIORGIO DI CHIRICO
8. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
9. FRANZ KLINE
10. JASPER JOHNS
11. SALVADOR DALI
12. PABLO PICASSO
13. ROBERT MOTHERWELL
14. SUSAN ROTHENBERG
15. WILLEM DE KOONING
The Marisol exhibit at the Albright-Knox Gallery, 1285 Elmood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, is a giant WOWZA.
Marisol Escobar bequeathed the entirety of her estate to the museum. She passed away in 2016. She was an American artist by way of Venezuala.
The exhibition is a combo of substantial figurative wood sculptures and crayon drawings and watercolors that have a playful quality. The figures are family members, self-portraits, heads-of-state prominent types and plays on other artists’ works such as a derby toting umbrella man from that famous Magritte painting.
It was a dream come true. I love Marisol.
Monday, 10 am–5 pm
Tuesday, Closed
Wednesday, Closed
Thursday, 10 am–8 pm
Friday, 10 am–8 pm
Saturday, 10 am–5 pm
Sunday, 10 am–5 pm
There are two aspects to Marc Hom’s photography exhibition at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York: inside the museum you’ll see framed portraits and fashion photographs in color and in black and white, and outside, megolithic structures, black and white photographic Stonehenge-type installations overlooking the lake.
Breathtaking, magnificent and so worthy of a beautiful summer day, although, if you visit during a rainstorm, you know, windy type stuff, the structures will spin and that is simply magical!
You’ll be familiar with these beautiful faces – celebrities with intense gazes, perfectly symmetrical eyes. The beautiful people albeit flawed in their own ways, made to be superior, larger than life. Mythical creatures that can leave you breathless in a whirlwind and move you to tears.
The work is on view until September 2, 2024.
Originally from Copenhagen, Hom now resides in New York City and has a residence in Cooperstown. If you sign up at least twenty-four hours in advance, you can “meet” him via a Zoom interface on Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM. Although attendance is free, a donation is preferred.
I wonder if he’ll unleash trade secrets – like how many shots does it take to get “the one” that makes it to the cover of Vogue or whatever. I know that when I have friends help me out with my #ootd pics, there are numerous shots where I think I have some sort of wonky eye situation. If I don’t feel thoroughly relaxed and happy, as well as specifically mindful, I look like crappy-dappy-doo. I can’t say enough about the clarity of these images and the eyes, OMG, so good.
I hope this blog post persuades you to take a day trip to Cooperstown, New York. It is a beautiful place.
Fenimore Art Museum is open from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM every day. There is a fee unless you are a member of the museum (or have a reciprocal membership as I do to the Everson – make sure you bring that membership card).
5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80 (P.O.BOX 800)
COOPERSTOWN, NY 13326
607-547-1400
INFO@FENIMOREART.ORG
Bob Dylan can draw.
Thirty-five years ago he began sketching in charcoal when not performing during a world tour – portraits, landscapes, interiors, buildings – then in 2007 he reworked them, having the drawings enlarged and printed onto heavier-weighted paper then using watercolor and gouche, creating vivid imagery akin to Matisse.
This collection of works, borrowed from a private collector, will be on. display through September 18, 2024 at the Fenimore Art Museum.
5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80 (P.O.BOX 800)
COOPERSTOWN, NY 13326
607-547-1400
INFO@FENIMOREART.ORG
It’s an impressive and cohesive collection. You can find it in the lower level gallery.
The gift shoppe has Bob Dylan merchandise – books, mugs, socks, dolls. The only “thing” missing is Bob Dylan himself. I know he performed a concert recently in Syracuse and I asked the employees if he’d stopped in and they both said no – but wouldn’t that have been so cool?
Because there is a Banksy mini-show at the museum too and I was thinking, could I be standing next to him and not know it? I mean, no one was walking around in a hoodie hiding his face on this glorious sunny summer day, but then, again…so cool…if only….
I hope this blog post persuades you to take a day trip to Cooperstown, New York. It is a beautiful place.
Fenimore Art Museum is open from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM every day. There is a fee unless you are a member of the museum (or have a reciprocal membership as I do to the Everson – make sure you bring that membership card).
This is not the first time that I’ve seen an art show devoted to the visual representation of the emotional journey facing an artist with a parent in declining health (see this). But it is still a good show.
David Edward Johnson’s art exhibition is currently on view in the Member’s Gallery at the Everson Museum of Art. He has created large scale collage works incorporating street signs, rubber tires, old family photographs, and stencils that create disjointed memories.
The photographs I took are details from these pieces, which I think further enhances the whole upside-down and backwards, past-present-future mash-up that depicts a failing mind slide into dementia.
I really love how my compositions have become new compositions. I gravitated to the stencils and noticed that letters had been repeated. A western theme dominates, a kind of masculine Americana. In this way, I feel like I’m piecing together a puzzle that, when put back together, will satisfy my sense of who Johnson’s father is. Is that cheating?
Finding meaning in art is the ultimate existential quest. The question is always: do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? Or do you want to luxuriate in that space between the two, the space that contains dreams and altered realities, etc.
David Edward Johnson: No Roses in December continues through March 31, 2024. Click here for more information or call (315) 474-6064.
New Winter Hours through March 31:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11:00am – 4:00pm (Pay-What-You-Wish)
Thursday: 11:00am – 8:00pm (Third Thursdays are Pay-What-You-Wish)
Friday: 11:00am – 4:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am – 4:00pm
David Edward Johnson: No Roses in December is part of the Everson CNY Artist Initiative, an exhibition program that celebrates the multi-faceted talents of regional artists. The CNY Artist Initiative is made possible with support from Terry and Bill Delavan.
If you need another reason to visit the Everson Museum of Art, Mara Baldwin’s work is there. But hurry, because the exhibition ends on August, 6th, 2023.
Mara Baldwin is an educator, artist and historian, studying the artwork of local female artists like Adelaide Robineau. Baldwin pays attention to the detail and intricacies of Robineau’s carvings and replicates the essence into fiber art that hovers the walls and leaps off into three-dimensional space in this tiny tucked-away-in-the-way-back gallery on the museum’s first floor.
The exhibit is part of a local artist initiative, which is a good thing, but really – why not put the museum store in that space? Tucked away would not be an issue because shoppers can sniff out a store. Everybody knows that.
It would be a shame if visitors missed this show. Mara Baldwin tackles personal and historical conundrums about life and the pursuit of goals, happiness and freedoms while weaving herself into the fiber of that history with modern aplomb.
We are all a part of that collective fabric. Just don’t blink and miss it.
Of all the art exhibits I have ever viewed, this one is the one I think my students would like the most. It is so easy to understand the complex clarity of this man as he visualizes it all on the page.
Frank Buffalo Hyde was born in 1974. His artwork reflects a Native American heritage with the modern twist of American popular culture imagery to include the ever-evolving role of modern technology as it relates to his 1980s childhood.
Primary colors, bold brushstrokes juxtaposed with more nuanced ones, figures emerging from the canvases as if they’ve been removed from a photo album of memories and planted here – all offering a sense of pride and joy.
I don’t see social (in)justice, like in the work of Jaune “Quick-to-See” Smith. Her retrospective exhibition is currently on view at the Whitney in New York City. For an art lesson, I used her paintings as reference to create mixed-media paintings using collage to link images of horses with personal message text.
Instead, Frank Buffalo Hyde’s work is autobiographical. The paintings are personal and yet, we can identify with them. I admire him for this – that he can tell this intimate story through a visual language that me and eighth graders can understand. I mean, I think we can. There is always that bit of mystery in everyone.
I want to be like Frank.
Native Americana is currently on view in galleries A and B at The Everson Museum of Art. You have plenty of time to see it. The show is up until September 10th, 2023.
401 Harrison Street
Syracuse, NY 13202
(315) 474 6064
Museum Hours
Monday:Â Closed
Tuesday:Â Closed
Wednesday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday: 11:00am – 8:00pm
Friday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
The Partridge Family’s debut was in 1970 on Fridays on ABC. That was about the time I first visited The Everson Museum of Art. We’ve had topsy-turvy weather so far this summer in Syracuse, New York – some air quality issues due to Canadian wildfires then rainy days followed by ninety-three degree heat-wavy stuff.
Currently, Amazon Prime has The Partridge Family series in its entirety available to stream. The weather made me do it. I’ve been inside watching it and now I am at the tail end of it. Some episodes are very memorable, like the one with the Albuquerque runaway, and others not so much (part of the 4th season with a four-year-old guest singer is pretty excruciating). But I am sticking with it. The jokes are so much funnier from my adult perspective. In some respects, the show is dated, specifically as they are handling issues such as women’s rights and race relations. But in other ways, such as Danny’s behavior issues – wow! And the maxi skirt for day looks worn by Shirley and Laurie are timeless perfection. Nostalgia timey-wimey at its finest.
The Everson has offered me something similar. Many of the paintings hanging in the Off the Rack exhibition housed in galleries C and D were hanging on the museum’s walls in the 1970s.
Now the old are juxtaposed with newer pieces, all harmonizing well via color and proportion just as the set decoration and costumes worn by the Partridges had a mix and matchy thing. Although, truth-be-told, David Cassidy and Shirley Jones were the only harmonious singers of the flock. The rest were just posers.
There is no reason to harvest a collection of visual valuables if you don’t take the time to look at them. The Everson Museum of Art has created this salon style cacophony of artwork to solve a storage issue. They are renovating the storage space. Off the Rack is a walk-in closet posing as an art show. But so what? It’s still pretty great!
And what do you know? It’s Friday, it’s cloudy and the museum is open until 5:00pm. It’s a timeless time-traveler’s dream.
You can find Coming Home, a photography collection by Doug Muir, in the Robineau Gallery (first floor) at the Everson Museum of Art. Muir passed away in 2016 just as the San Francisco Museum had aquired several dozens of his work for their permanent collection.
Muir grew up in Syracuse but spent his adult life in California. The photographs depict images taken on both coasts, some of family and others not, but all articulating the American slice-of-life experience through the decades.
His daughter helped curate this show, sorting through journals documenting the artist’s journey, some of which are displayed alongside images from newspaper clippings and baseball-style trading cards (showcasing photographers), and other paraphernalia that helps us discover the inner dialogue of this new-to-me photographer.
His nephew took this iPhone photo of me, because these days we are all photographers. Doug Muir’s equipment was more the Brownie ilk.
Doug Muir – Coming Home will be on display through September 3, 2023. Visit the Everson’s web-site for more information including hours of operation.
https://www.localsyr.com/community/the-conversation/the-conversation-david-and-heather-muir/
They spelled his name wrong on the wall – I just can’t wrap my head around that. Is it the negative in Positive, Negative, Shallow and Deep? This is the title of part of the dual exhibition by artist Tyrone Johnson-Neuland at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, New York. The other show is at the Cayuga Museum (also in Auburn).
I am not a fan of using positive and negative space to describe two-dimensional activity. The negative is supposed to be the voids in and around a three-dimensional sculpture. Figure and ground is my art language to describe visual depth in a painting.
Question: Shallow vs. deep – are these your emotional extremes?
Question: How do you feel about this name flub? Or was it intentionally the negative?
We can ask him the answers to these and all questions regarding this series of abstract paintings on Friday, April 7, 2023 at 5:30 pm. There is a First Friday soiree at the Schweinfurth that evening.
Tyron/Tyrone’s artwork will be on display through May 28, 2023.
(From SMAC website)
Artist’s Statement
My paintings follow very much in the long-established tradition of the Expressionists, using an intensity of color and gestural brushstrokes to portray the strength of feeling and emotion. The subject matters vary from figurative to abstract but always with an exploration of spatial, social, or self-awareness. I will use any paint medium that is at my disposal and thrive on what can be unexpected results. The process is always a battle of the chaotic vs the introspective. We all have different coping skills and those influence how we think and react to our daily trials and tribulations. My art allows me the opportunity to challenge and question myself while searching for clarity in my existence in today’s world.
About the Artist
Oswego-based artist Tyrone Johnson-Neuland has been creating art for 35-plus years. Johnson-Neuland received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University in 1990 and a Master of Arts from SUNY Oswego in 1999. He is currently the Assistant Director of Instructional Technologies at SUNY Oswego. His work has been exhibited throughout New York, as well as in national shows in Philadelphia and Chicago. Johnson-Neuland’s expressionistic paintings are developed from personal and emotional feelings that are sparked by the day-to-day experiences of a father, husband, employee, son, and general spectator of the modern world.
