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Exhibiting in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery
March 25 through April 15
Reception: Sunday April 2, 2pm to 4pm
The exhibit in the news! Read all about it:
Review by Charles A Riley II of Hamptons Art Hub: http://hamptonsarthub.com/2017/04/03/reviews-art-review-abstraction-acro…
The review is getting noticed far and wide: The Hamptons Art Hub Review was also picked up on the April 4 posting on Walk In Art Center’s site at http://walkinartcenter.org/art_world_news/
http://theislandnow.com/dining_entertainment-105/island-today-local-abst…
http://www.danspapers.com/2017/03/sag-harbors-frank-wimberley-featured-i…
http://easthamptonstar.com/Arts/2017330/Art-Scene-033017
The Art League of Long Island presents the abstract artwork of four notable local artists in the Art League of Long Island’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery. Participating artists are Peter Galasso and Laura Powers-Swiggett and nonagenarians Stan Brodsky and Frank Wimberley. “Long Island Abstraction: 2 Generations” will be on view March 25 through April 15. The artists’ reception takes place Sunday, April 2 from 2pm to 4pm.
Stan Brodsky, a life-long resident of the New York metro area was born in Brooklyn in 1926, lived in Greenwich Village and NYC until moving to Huntington in 1965. After serving in WWII, he was fortunate to be able to study art in Missouri and Iowa before returning to NYC to earn his doctorate in art education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. He was a professor of art at C.W. Post for 31 years, influencing a generation (or two!) of artists. His influence on succeeding generations of artists also extends to the artists he mentors at the Art League of Long Island, Peter Galasso and Laura Powers-Swiggett among them. About his work, Stan says “I have been an exhibiting artist in New York City for more than 50 years – and my passion for painting is as strong now as ever. I have traveled extensively absorbing the colors and textures of new landscapes”. Brodsky’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Guild Hall, Parrish Museum of Art, the Long Island Museum, the Heckscher Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts (St.Petersburg, FL), Dayton Art Institute (Ohio), among many others. The “Stan Brodsky papers” a collection of his notes and sketches from 1951-2004 can be found at the Smithsonian Institute.
Peter Galasso is a painter of large gestural abstracts. His current work is an exploration of feeling, memory and a unique vision laid out on canvas in a style which is both original and inviting and offers a fresh, new look at color and form. He is especially drawn to American Abstract Expressionism made popular in the 1950’s here on Long Island by such luminaries as de Kooning, Pollock, Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell. Peter has won awards at numerous juried exhibitions throughout Long Island. New York Times art critic, Phyllis Braff, awarded Peter “Best in Show” at an international juried exhibition, Abstraction 2003. He has shown his work twice at the Nassau County Museum of Art. Other recent exhibits include the Heckscher Museum’s 48th Long Island Artist’s Exhibition and several solo exhibitions at the Alfred Van Loen Gallery in South Huntington, New York and Ripe Art Gallery in Huntington. Peter was born in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides on Strong’s Neck, Long Island. He formerly studied the figure for five years with renowned Long Island artist, Betty Holliday. He went on to study abstract art with Stan Brodsky at the Art League of Long Island.
Laura Powers-Swiggett has lived and painted on Long Island for most of her life. She works in a variety of media, including acrylic, oil and gouache, and draws on direct observation, memory and intuition as part of her painting process.
Laura’s landscape-based abstractions explore spatial and color relationships between land, sea and sky, and the possibilities they suggest for dividing the picture plane. Intuitive explorations of light, color and paint, they are rooted in the natural world, yet hint at mysteries beyond the scope of vision. They are about physical and emotional sensations in addition to visual ones. Laura hopes to convey her feelings about people, places and things that excite her senses. Her paintings are meditations on nature, the elusiveness of perception and the fragility of life – an attempt to capture things that are fleeting and perhaps unknowable.
Born in Pleasantville, New Jersey in 1926, Frank Wimberely now lives and works in New York City and Sag Harbor. He studied with James Porter, Lois Mailou Jones and James Wells at Howard University and was awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Grant for 1998. Wimberley’s works are in the collections of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC; The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; The John Hoskins Estate, Atlanta University, GA; Time Warner, NYC; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT among others. Wimberely describes his approach to his art: “The abstract painter can commence his drawing or canvas generally with only a preconceived notion, reflection or emotion. The end result, whether finished or still seeking a conclusion is then determined by tools, paint, the colors or tones employed, and the size of the work as well as the mood of the moment. He has far less guarantees than perhaps the realist painter or photographer that the finished expression will extend from calculated reason or logic. This for me provides the excitement of taking the theme or feeling from the very first stroke, and following it to its own particular conclusion. It is very much like creating the controlled accident.”