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Gold Ruby Emperor Bowl by Randi Solin of Solinglass. Submitted photo.

Community engagement keeps craft show artists coming back

August 10, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“My favorite story about the show at Chautauqua is from a few years ago, when there was a terrific thunderstorm — you know, one of those Chautauqua thunderstorms,” said Pat Sorbini, a book and paper artist.

Sorbini has been coming to the Chautauqua Crafts Alliance Festival on Bestor Plaza for six years now, and she, along with the other participating artists, look forward to this year’s second show with great enthusiasm.

The show is open today and Saturday from 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m., and on Sunday from 12–5:30 p.m. on Bestor Plaza. Sorbini loves the show for its audience, the interactions it gives her and the Craft Alliance’s choreography of the event.

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Matt Rich, “ampersand.” Acrylic on cut paper and linen tape. 54 x 48.5, 2012. Submitted photo.

Abstract artist Rich to show accident and intention in work

August 7, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

When Matt Rich makes his abstract paintings, all the painting has already been done. His colorful geometric works are created by assembling pre-painted strips of paper in a versatile and reactive process.

“The abstract painter is traditionally bold,” Rich said. “You know, the gesture of the individual. I’m trying to make it more accessible.”

Rich will speak about his art, process and studio environment at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hultquist Center, the last of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution’s Visual Arts Lecture Series this season.

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Caitlin Kambic works on an “abstract flying machine” sculpture assembled from individually molded pieces.

Open Studios night showcases art students’ season of work

August 6, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Anyone who missed the Student Exhibition in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center last month has another chance to see the students’ work tonight at School of Art Open Studios. They can see the evolution of the work, talk with the artists about their process and buy the art. The program is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at the School of Art.

The scene at the Art Quad has been hectic for the whole season, but today marks the beginning of “crit week,” when the students get their final feedback from professors.

“We’ve been working really hard for the past seven weeks,” said student Lynda Diane Brody, “and we’re really excited to share what we’ve done. A lot of the work relates to our experiences at Chautauqua.”

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Nathan Trevino hangs art in for the VACI Open Members Exhibition, which opened Sunday in Fowler-Kellogg Art Center. Photo by Adam Birkan.

Open Members Exhibition combines talent, community, philanthropy

August 6, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

As the Student Exhibition comes down in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, another show goes up featuring different artists but with a similar philosophy.

The annual VACI Open Members Exhibition opening reception is today from 3–5 p.m. Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution will highlight local artists and community members, who will show their work and support the School of Art.

Bob Hopper, member of the VACI Partners board, enjoys where the Members Exhibition sits in the Chautauqua art scene.

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Victoria Brunson, 13, and A.J. Shostak, 12, sell their hand-made jewelry at the first Art in the Park on July 15. Photo by Lauren Rock.

Second ‘Art in the Park’ event brings encore artists to Miller Park

August 4, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The forecast for Sunday is a little overcast, but that won’t stop the artists at “Art in the Park” from bringing some sunshine to Miller Park. Last month’s show was likewise threatened with rain before the vendors and buyers drove the clouds away with their enthusiasm and art.

This Sunday’s show, from 12 to 4:30 p.m., sees many of the same vendors from last time, some of whom have been selling at the show for years and some of whom are newcomers, including students from the School of Art.

Among the old hands are painter Sean Huntington and Hope Alcorn, who will show her jewelry. Huntington came to “Art in the Park” for the first time in 2006, an experience that helped to change the course of his life.

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School of Art sculpture students share works inspired by film ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’

August 3, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 black-and-white silent film “The Passion of Joan of Arc” is a cornerstone of cinematic history, an atmospheric portrait of one of the most famous martyrs of all time — and now, the inspiration for a School of Art sculpture show.

From 7–9 p.m. today in the School of Art Quadrangle and drawing studio, eight sculpture students, led by faculty member Terry Adkins, will show their work generated in response to a shared viewing of the film.

“We thought that it would be a good idea to respond to a common experience,” said Adkins, professor of fine arts in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.

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“Untitled,” 1996. Super sculpey. 5½ x 8½ x 3”

The balance in the paradox: Glantzman explores the undefinable

August 2, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

At the center of each piece of art is a paradox, a tension between two opposing forces that simultaneously negate and define each other.

“Yin-yang is a good way to describe it,” said Judy Glantzman, a painter teaching at the School of Art this week. “One thing is a negative space for the other. There’s a perpetual back-and-forth, and in that, there’s a space for meaning.”

Glantzman is speaking at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hultquist Center, giving a talk she has never before given.

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Artist and School of Art faculty member Stanley Lewis paints along the shores of Chautauqua Lake Friday afternoon. Photo by Adam Birkan.

Lewis to explore intricacy of artists’ interconnections, inspiration

July 31, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Stanley Lewis has a big piece of white posterboard covered in artists, their art and thick black lines connecting them. It was the easiest way, he said, to convey the spiderweb of associations in his mind.

“It looks much better on the poster than it does when I’m saying it, because God, it’s a mess,” Lewis said. “When you look at this poster, you really get the idea that there’s a lot of cross-connecting.”

Chautauqua is the stage for Lewis’ explorations into mural-making because of the freedom he finds teaching at the School of Art and the beauty of the setting.

The artists that Lewis will talk about in his lecture at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hultquist Center include José Clemente Orozco, Jackson Pollock, Robert Thompson, Hans Hoffman, Hale Woodruff and Jan Müller. Lewis’ lecture spans multiple countries, exhibitions and time periods, but links all those artists together through their influences on one another.

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