VIRIDIAN
ARTISTS
A
CONTEMPORARY
ART
GALLERY
530 WEST 25TH
STREET between 10th & 11th Avenues in
Chelsea
NEW YORK, NY, 10001
TEL
212-414-4040
email:info@viridianartists.com
www.viridianartists
.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Please
List
New Viridian Artists
and
Affiliates
Exhibition
March 22-
April 2,
2011
Reception: Saturday, March 26, 2011
4-7pm
Nancy Treherne Craig
*
John Cullen
*
Young Sam Kim* Vernita
N'Cognita
Sarah Riley * Don
Zurlo
Chelsea, NYC:
Viridian
Artists is pleased to present
new
work by new Viridian Artists & Affiliates. The
exhibition
features a
wide
variety of art by these exciting artists recently represented
by
Viridian
Artists. The exhibit opens Tuesday, March 22nd and
extends
through
Saturday,
April 2nd with a reception Saturday, Saturday, March 26,
4-7 PM.
Each artist in this
exhibit
has been given approximately
10
linear feet of wall space to present a mini solo of their
recent
art. Three
of
these artists, Nancy Treherne Craig, Young Sam Kim and
John
Cullen, deal
with
landscape or cityscape, but all do so with very different
and
unique approaches.
John Cullen and Young
Sam
Kim are both exhibiting
at
Viridian for the first time. John Cullen is a painter
of
abstracted
landscapes,
and in fact calls himself an "abstract impressionist".
His
landscapes
focus on water reflections. When looking at his paintings
on
panels, one sees
clearly
the swirling currents and the splashes of color and texture
that
allude
to
watery realms, unidentifiable in reality but more
clearly
understood
inwardly.
Cullen who received a Masters degree in Art Education from
Pratt
in 1970,
has
since taught on a college level and worked as a
professional
artist.
Young Sam Kim
is
a digital
photographer
who received his B.F.A. in Photography from the School of
Visual
Arts in 2002.
Of
Korean heritage, he has been afflicted since youth with
a
hearing
impairment
and came to the US to study and explore his creative
impulses
here. His art
of
arresting pictograms are created of
urban buildings and scenes overlaid with fragments
of
photographs
of
people, sky, trees and planes, reminding him of dreams
and
memories of
his
youth. These, he has digitally collaged and layered into
city
scapes that
speak
of humans trapped in urban landscapes and forests of
buildings
yearning to
fly
away and to be free.
Nancy Treherne Craig who first had a solo
exhibition
at Viridian in 2008, aspires to paint more than pretty
pictures.
Her
fascination with the natural world is focused on
metaphysical
movement and
our
life journeys. Composition is her most crucial tool when
she
paints, as
she
attempts to minimize gesture & aim for an appearance
of
anonymity. The
work
is intended as a reminder of the paths available to us if
we
will wake up
and
be aware. The artist studied with Elaine de Kooning at the
Pennsylvania State University and received an Award of
Excellence
from the
Kenan
Art Center of Niagra Falls in
2004.
Don
Zurlo, after
study
at Rutgers with Allan Kaprov and exploring a
wide
array of
media
& techniques, has returned to a minimalist approach in
his
painting
in
which ambiguity is presented through simple acrylic
images
resembling the
torn
paper compositions of his student years at
Rutgers. Still as philosophical as he was then, his
paintings
echo his view
of
reality, for he states, “In many ways form is an illusion -
our
interpretation
of an infinite variety of relationships between fields
of
energy".
Sarah
Riley is
the
Chair of the art department at Southeastern
Missouri State University and is finishing a book about
various
approaches
to
printmaking that combines a range of media. Her artwork too
is
an
exploration
and mixture of media and techniques combining drawing,
collage,
printmaking
and
paint. Many of her works contain feminist overtones,
some
alluding
to
autobiography while others, just moments in the life of
an
artist.
Vernita
N'Cognita is
a
mixed media and performance artist who has been working
and
exhibiting in New
York and throughout the world for more
than
twenty years.
She
came from Ohio to NYC in the early days of
feminism,
was part
of
that movement and has continued to explore through her
art
practice, the
trials
and concerns of contemporary women. She is also deeply
involved
with
curating
and creating as well with environmental activism, exhibits
of
art from
recycled
materials (Art from Detritus) and continuing to create
since
2006,
the
"Endless Junkmail
Scroll".
Gallery
hours:
Tuesday through Saturday
12 -
6PM
For
further
information please contact the gallery at 212 414 4040
or
info@viridianartists.com
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