New Voices: Rockland\u2019s Next Art Generation
\nFebruary 19 \u2013 April 1, 2023
\nOpening Reception: Sunday, February 19, 2pm \u2013 5pm
\nFree to the Public
\nPlease join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland\u2019s Next Art Generation, opening Sunday, February 19th from 2-5pm.\u00a0 During RoCA\u2019s 75th Anniversary, in 2022, it presented Rockland\u2019s Women of South Mountain Road.\u00a0 These women had achieved national and international notoriety in their various fields.\u00a0 We are excited to start off our 76th exhibition year by presenting some of the younger talent in Rockland, as part of the next art generation.\u00a0 Artists are Nina Berlingeri, Joel Blenz, Matt Casanova, Danielle McDonald, Alice Mizrachi, and Nate Singer.
\nNina Berlingeri has solidly planted roots in Rockland\u2019s art scene through a 2014 artist residency at the Arts Students League of New York\u2019s Vaclav Vytlacil studios.\u00a0 She was then awarded the first Edward Hopper House Fellow of Creative Community Outreach for a 2018 artist residency.\u00a0 Further developing her public youth arts programs, \u201cThe Nighthawks\u201d connecting local high school students with artworks, and artists with ways to develop and refine their own creative practice.\u00a0 Berlingeri was awarded the Emeritus Award for Historic Site Stewardship from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2018 on behalf of the museum.\u00a0 Berlingeri\u2019s bold figurative work mirrors her life and the ongoing resonance between her experiences and environment. The deconstruction, distortion, and reinstitution of the figure is regularly evolved through creating a series of multiples- each derived directly from the previous.\u00a0 This\u00a0enables the distortion of the form to remain malleable and retain its immediacy.\u00a0 Her current work has maintained the focus of the figure, most recently through the lens of reflective self-portraits.
\nJoel Blenz\u2019s abstract, mixed media artworks play with perception.\u00a0 His work is an examination of the subcultural and natural decayed outdoor surfaces, recreating beautiful textured and blended surfaces into his paintings.\u00a0 He retains the grime, grit, and detritus of a street aesthetic through his manipulation of surfaces.\u00a0 A studio practice has allowed for an exploration of an endless amount of layering and drying time in his painting process.\u00a0 Each piece provides an interactive experience for the viewer.\u00a0 When walking back and forth in front of the work, colors shift and fade creating an illusion that confounds the viewer.\u00a0 He is intrigued with the power of messages in public spaces and how advertising has an impact on our psyche.\u00a0 He consciously makes an effort to create more positivity in this visual landscape by focusing his public art on uplifting and positive messages for the community.\u00a0 His current work is an ongoing exploration of the ambiguous space that graffiti now occupies as both an outsider art form and a legitimate player in the contemporary world.\u00a0 Blenz\u2019s current work has been featured in exhibitions for Pop Up MoMA, New York, Gallery Guichard in Chicago, IL, Scope Art Fair and Graffiti Gardens in Miami FL during Art Basel.
\nMatt Casanovas\u2019 main focus is on the narrative \u2013 collecting from folklore, sentimental memories, and present day stories to create a timelessness through unbounded mediums in painting and printmaking.\u00a0 He pulls the emphatic expressions of both body and sentiment from vintage film promotions as well as stories, and applies them to a contemporary vantage point using materials and techniques of the old masters.\u00a0 Casanovas has exhibited his work at the Garnerville Art Center, Garnerville, NY, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL and Siragusa Gallery, Chicago, IL
\nDanielle McDonald uses a process of illustration, a system of collecting, deconstructing and reassembling images or fragments of moments preserved and composed in the mind.\u00a0 These images are concrete, symbolic and abstracts parts of life.\u00a0 She plays with scale and perspective to visually imagine the way we prioritize and compose moments in the mind.\u00a0 Parts of stories and images are weaved together, consciously and subconsciously, helping us to make sense of relating and connecting to others.\u00a0 McDonald is a public school teacher and community worker.\u00a0 She has collaborated with schools, shelters, cultural institutions, universities, facilities for incarcerated teens, Groundswell and designed mural walls throughout Philadelphia and New York City, designed sets for Opera Delaware and small independent films.
\nAlice Mizrachi is a mixed media muralist, fine artist, educator, and curator.\u00a0 Grounded in deep compassion for the human experience across borders, Mizrachi explores both the spiritual and physical dimensions of being human, and in particular, female.\u00a0 Mizrachi\u2019s intentions include the empowerment of self and others through artistic expression, as well as advocacy for women, youth, and the environment.\u00a0 Family, community, and tribe are also recurring themes and are approached as active spaces of shared engagement through her mural making.\u00a0 Her studio practice has developed into a testing ground for explorations in assemblage, sculpture, and installation that has transformed both her painting practice and her work as a muralist.\u00a0 Her spontaneous approach to line, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of figurative elements in her assemblage and ceramic sculpture, reveal a human hand in the making of her work, an intentional maneuver in an increasingly technological age.\u00a0 Mizrachi\u2019s work has been featured in the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Albright-Knox Museum.
\nNate Singer is a mixed media artists working in ink, paint, sculpture and film.\u00a0 His interest in organic matter led to an intimate understanding of the underlying systems of embedded geometrics within organic matter. At once energetic and poised, Singer\u2019s abstract paintings and ink drawings use saturated,\u00a0 hard-edged shaped and intuitive calligraphic marks to create compositions that resemble organic growth while reveling in technical orchestration.\u00a0 He has exhibited at Garnerville Art Center, Saratoga Arts Center, and Union College with an art residency at Salem Art Works.\u00a0 He has been awarded a Hilda A. Colish Sculpture Award and a NY6 Think Tank Grant.
\nPlease join Rockland Center for the Arts for New Voices: Rockland\u2019s Next Art Generation.\u00a0 The exhibit opens with an artist reception on Sunday, Feb. 19th, 2:00pm \u2013 5:00pm.\u00a0 The exhibit will be on view through April 1st, open Mondays \u2013 Saturdays 11am \u2013 4pm, (closed Sundays).\u00a0 Free to the Public (masks encouraged).\u00a0 Also on view in Gallery One, Window into Color: Works by Art Gunther, works inspired by the light of the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center and by the realist painter himself.\u00a0 Art-ifacts: Works by William Rauschenberg on view in Gallery Two.\u00a0 Rauschenberg uses the lost art of sand casting to create three dimensional puzzle like pieces.\u00a0 For more information call (845) 358-0877 or visit www.rocklandartcenter.org.
\n\u00a0RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Rea Charitable Trust, ArtsWestchester, Sarah and Stephen Thomas, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Walter Cain & Paulo Ribeiro, Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting Services Inc.,, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Art Services Group, RoCA members, donors and business members.
\nRoCA\u2019s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County of Rockland.
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